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South African startup Qwili gets $1.2M to scale its app and low-cost NFC-enabled smartphone

TechCrunch

The company’s hardware is a low-cost NFC-enabled smartphone called Qwili Pula that allows merchants to send and receive payments. Its business-to-business model has picked up steam, too, as 500 micro and small merchants use the hybrid platform (about half use Qwili’s NFC-enabled smartphones).

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ThoughtFull gets $1.1M seed to make mental health support more accessible in Southeast Asia

TechCrunch

In Southeast Asia, for example, a growing list of startups is increasing access to mental healthcare and support. The startup’s app for mental health professionals, called ThoughtFullCare Pro, enables them to manage and scale their online practices. One of them, ThoughtFull , announced today it has raised $1.1

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Insight launches a customizable iOS browser with support for extensions

TechCrunch

Others let you do things like enable dark mode experiences on sites that don’t offer the feature, check for bias in news via Media Bias Fact Check , or watch videos in picture-in-picture mode on YouTube and other video sites. It’s dependent on what extensions you have installed and enabled, and how they’re configured.

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Inflection AI’s $1.3 Billion Funding Round Propels Personal AI Forward

American Entrepreneurship

This huge amount of funding supports Inflection’s ambitious goal of building a highly sophisticated large language model that enables people to engage with Pi as their personal assistant. Mobile: download Pi, your personal AI for iPhone or iPad. Based in Palo Alto, California the AI startup just raised $1.3

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GEN New Zealand releases manifesto to encourage greater entrepreneurship

NZ Entrepreneur

Over the last three years, GEN has grown its New Zealand network to more than 200 people representing more than 140 organisations, including entrepreneurs, incubators and accelerators, entrepreneur support organisations, central and local government, academia, investors and NGOs.

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Fini: Empowering Wellness Creators and Transforming Lives

Jason Malki

Enabling individuals to lead healthier lives while supporting creators’ success is truly invigorating. Follow us on the web getfini.app and download the fini app to join the community! Fini is more than a platform; it’s a community fostering well-being. The journey is demanding, but the impact you create makes it worthwhile.

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OpenAI connects ChatGPT to the internet

TechCrunch

As a piece in The New Yorker notes, Google’s algorithm prioritizes websites that use modern web technologies like encryption, mobile support, and schema markup. They also aren’t necessarily representative of the totality of the web. Many websites with otherwise quality content get lost in the shuffle as a result.