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PayPal is still reportedly negotiating a potential sale to Stripe and private equity firm Advent, as the fintech firm’s new CEO attempts to turn the company around…

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In Brief Posted: 3:12 PM PDT · August 13, 2026 Image Credits:MICHAEL TRAN/AFP / Getty Images Singer and actress Selena Gomez and her mother are being sued over their mental health startup, Wondermind. The plaintiffs in the lawsuit say they invested nearly $1.2 million in the startup, and are accusing Gomez of securities fraud and…

There’s a funny kind of game that the latest of late-stage startups must play when raising money. They often have to sell more shares than they want or risk offending some of their existing VCs. This scenario recently played out with AI big-data company Databricks and its latest $5 billion raise announced Thursday, co-founder and…

If this was opt-in, nobody would opt in,” Twitch CPO Mike Minton said on a livestream responding to user feedback. “That’s honestly the answer…

Darko Pavic, Founder & CEO of Fiscal Solutions, Retail Technology & Global Fiscalization Expert with 28+ Years of Experience. getty​Retailers still tend to treat culture as a marketing layer, something that helps decorate a campaign after product, price, channel and supply chain have already been decided. K-beauty, for example, shows why that view is increasingly…

River AI, an AI startup founded by xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin, has secured $1.1 billion in funding in a seed/Series A round led by General Catalyst and AMP PBC, with participation from Nvidia, AMD Ventures, Y Combinator, and Temasek.  (AMP PBC is an AI-focused investment firm founded in 2026 by former Andreessen Horowitz general partner Anjney…

“CMS’s proposal would encourage one thing above all else: investing less in improving existing medicines,” says health expert Sally Pipes. “That’s a costly tradeoff for patients—and one Medicare shouldn’t make.”Getty ImagesThe Trump administration says it wants to accelerate medical innovation. Yet one new proposal from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services could do just…

Image Credits:Sila 8:22 AM PDT · August 10, 2026 Sila has landed a $1.4 billion loan from the U.S. Department of Defense to help the U.S.-based startup expand production of its silicon-carbon battery material.  The loan, which was announced Friday, arrives as U.S. battery buyers, from automotive companies to defense contractors, struggle to procure battery…

Newly revealed security research found that until recently, marketing tech giant Klaviyo was inadvertently sharing the sign-up information of its new customers, including their passwords, with outside advertisers. Sam Jadali, a security researcher and co-founder of cybersecurity startup Melurna, told TechCrunch that the web form on Klaviyo’s sign-up page was misconfigured between at least February…