Sat.Jan 21, 2023

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Tech forgot its umbrella

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Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week’s startup news and trends by Senior Reporter and Equity co-host Natasha Mascarenhas. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. It kind of feels like tech forgot its umbrella. Like, it remembered to pack its water bottle, wear the right shoes and layer up, but when it came time to officially go outside — and say, face the year ahead — it realized that a waterproof hoodie wasn’t enough.

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Who should I meet in Chennai and Bengaluru?

Derek Sivers

February 13 through 21, 2023 , I'll be in Chennai and Bengaluru, India. My sole purpose for this trip is to meet a few smart, talented, ambitious people there, so I can get to know them well and perhaps help their work. I’m an “ Overseas Citizen of India ” and my son is half-Indian (Tamil). I will always have ties to India. I want to deepen those ties and make friends.

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Alphabet makes cuts, Twitter bans third-party clients, and Netflix’s Reed Hastings steps down

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Howdy, folks! Happy Friday. While our fearless Week in Review leader Greg enjoys parental leave, I’m filling in, curating the latest on the tech news front. It was a roller coaster of a week once again as economic headwinds took a brutal, demoralizing toll, and as chaos reigned at Elon Musk’s Twitter. Somewhere in the midst of all that, Boston Dynamics demoed an improved bipedal robot, Wikipedia launched a redesign and major universities banned TikTok from their campus networks.

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Termination Shock (Book Review)

Continuations

Over vacation I read Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson. Unlike many other recent books tackling the climate crisis , it is entirely focused on the controversial issue of geoengineering through solar radiation modification (SMR). The basic idea of SMR is to let slightly less sunlight into the Earth’s lower atmosphere where it can heat things up.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Protect me from what I want

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W elcome to the TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s inspired by the daily TechCrunch+ column where it gets its name. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. Buy now, pay later is an alluring option for consumers, perhaps even more so in a recession. But with rising debt and inflation, perhaps the focus should be on companies that help protect borrowers from digging themselves into a hole. — Anna The enduring appeal of buy now, pay later I thought that

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