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TechCrunch Adobe is making its tools available in Slack

Users will be able to access Express, Premiere, and Acrobat in Slack

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TechCrunch Norway considers ban on camera-enabled wearable ‘pervert glasses’

The Nordic country says wearable camera headsets need to be regulated given their privacy risks.

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TechCrunch Adobe acquires Indian market intelligence startup Rilo

This is Adobe's second acquisition out of India after Rephrase.ai in 2023

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TechCrunch PSA: Amazon’s shopping AI can now tell you if that message is a scam

Amazon is adding a scam-detection feature to Alexa for Shopping that can verify whether suspicious emails, texts, and other messag...

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TechCrunch HiddenLayer nabs $100M as enterprises rush to secure their AI deployments

Security companies are scrambling to build products that can monitor not just agents but also the tools and add-ons they use.

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TechCabal Ride-hailing giant Uber to stop operating in Nigeria, ending a 12-year run

Uber’s exit ends a 12-year run in Nigeria, one of its earliest markets, where it launched in 2014. The company helped build the co...

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TechCabal Why an Imperial PhD candidate trusts herds of cattle more than satellites

In 2021, Kayode Adeniyi built a data collection app for Nigeria’s Ministry of Education to gather information on libraries across...

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TechCabal South Africa’s startup funding is recovering, but founders still struggle to find fit

That sounds like a contradiction in a country where startup funding is recovering. According to Disrupt Africa, South African star...

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TechCabal Alan acquires Senegal’s Tanel in rare Francophone healthtech exit

Alan, the French health insurance company, has acquired Tanel, a Dakar-based digital health startup operating in Senegal and Côte...

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TechCabal MTN Nigeria is making more money but earning less from each customer

MTN Nigeria is making more money than ever. But its average customer is contributing less to that growth.

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TechCabal Cascador selects 10 Nigerian businesses for growth-stage accelerator

This marks Cascador’s latest effort to build a pipeline of Nigerian businesses ready to scale but still require capital and leader...

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TechCabal 👨🏿‍🚀TechCabal Daily – Shoprite, pay right

In today's edition: MTN Nigeria has a new growth problem || WIOCC raised $300 million || Shoprite finalises R&A Cellular acquisiti...

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TechCrunch Larry Page’s flying car company Pivotal loses its CEO

The company told TechCrunch he is "pursuing new endeavors." Karklin will be replaced on an interim basis by Mike Ross, an aviation...

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TechCrunch Apple follows Google in adopting Trump’s ‘Lake America’ name

Apple Maps is following President Trump's executive order to change the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America.

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TechCrunch Reliance’s JioHotstar takes its streaming empire global — without sports

JioHotstar will only have entertainment content when it launches in the UK, Canada, and Singapore.

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TechCrunch OpenAI’s Astra model is on the way — and very good at breaking into computer systems

OpenAI previewed the precautions it is taking as it prepares to release Astra, its newest, cyber-critical LLM.

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TechCrunch AfterQuery reportedly becomes Y Combinator’s fastest-ever unicorn, now valued at $3.2B

AI model-training startup AfterQuery has reportedly raised a round that valued it at $3.2 billion, just five months after announci...

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TechCrunch John Ternus hypes ‘huge launch next week’ in first memo as Apple CEO

Apple is hosting its iPhone release event next week, which is rumored to feature the first-ever foldable iPhone.

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TechCrunch X says attackers are targeting user accounts after the launch of X Money

X is investigating a wave of unsolicited password reset emails that it believes may be tied to the rollout of its new payments ser...

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TechCrunch Who is John Ternus, the new Apple CEO?

Starting on September 1, Ternus will lead one of the world's most valuable companies, but if you're not a dedicated Apple enthusia...

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TechCrunch Anthropic’s new Fable release is cheaper, less restrictive

Fable 5.1 includes changes meant to reduce token cost and false-positive restrictions from the model's safeguards.

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TechCrunch Google’s Android update tackles motion sickness, accessibility, and more

While some of the features see Google playing catch-up to Apple, which already offers similar features for iPhone users, others sp...

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TechCrunch Thrive’s Kushner defends involvement in FIFA mess, hires Elon’s go-to lawyer

New York's prestigious-yet-secretive venture firm Thrive Capital finally speaks out about its involvement in the messy drama upend...

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TechCrunch Microsoft 365 outage drags on, but things are improving

Microsoft 365 and Outlook are still seeing service degradations on Tuesday, the company's status page indicates.

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