X, formerly known as Twitter, looks like a pretty bad investment right about now. As readers might recall, Elon Musk borrowed $13 billion from Morgan Stanley, Bank of America and five other major banks to help finance its $44 billion acquisition. According to the WSJ, the deal has since become the worst merger-finance deal for…
SleekFlow, a Singapore- and Hong Kong-headquartered social commerce platform that has built a conversational AI suite for customer engagement targeted to Asian markets, said Wednesday it had secured a further $7 million in funding. The money will be used to continue developing its AI, as well as penetrate deeper into Southeast Asia and the Middle…
Zoom raises annual revenue forecast on strong demand for its AI-powered products
A year ago this week, President Vladmir Putin strode onto a stage in the Kursk region to commemorate the 80th anniversary of one of the Soviet army’s proudest moments in World War II.Addressing a rapt audience that included soldiers fresh from fighting in Ukraine, Putin called the decisive victory in the Battle of Kursk “one…
By Ryan Woo, Ethan WangBEIJING (Reuters) -Rising unemployment in China is pushing millions of college graduates into a tough bargain, with some forced to accept low-paying work or even subsist on their parents’ pensions, a plight that has created a new working class of “rotten-tail kids”.The phrase has become a social media buzzword this year,…
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The popular fast-food burger chain is likely to file Chapter 11 bankruptcy to avoid foreclosure after defaulting on debt…
A list of some of the alternative app stores iPhone users in the EU can try today. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only…
Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinApheros co-founders Dr Gaëlle Andreatta and Dr Julia Carpenter Daniel Winkler Fotografie The technology sector has a serious energy problem. Surging demand for data centres, largely caused by the artificial intelligence (AI) boom, is turning a sector that once had a very green profile into a voracious user of…
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