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Twitter ‘acqui-hires’ the team from subscription news app, Brief

TechCrunch

Twitter’s recent acquisition spree continues today as the company announces it has acqui-hired the team from news aggregator and summary app Brief. Explore , of course, is Twitter’s “news” section, where top stories across categories are aggregated alongside trending topics.

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The bright side of fintech funding results

TechCrunch

This will include everything from funding rounds to trends to an analysis of a particular space to hot takes on a particular company or phenomenon. So when you pitch, be sure to point out what makes your company/news stand out. The corporate spend category continues to evolve. Why is it unique? Why would our readers care?

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Eye surgery robotics startup ForSight raises $10M

TechCrunch

Israel-based ForSight Robotics announced today that it has raised $10 million for what it has deemed a “mega-seed round.” The company’s surgical platform is designed specifically for ophthalmological (eye) surgeries — a category requiring a great deal of precision. Some 600-700 companies received funding in 2019.

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Affirm and Klarna ramp up competing efforts to attract US consumers

TechCrunch

As such, companies that offer that technology to merchants are unsurprisingly growing more competitive with each other. This past week, San Francisco–based Affirm announced it was making its buy now, pay later technology available to U.S. Also this past week, Sweden’s Klarna announced a new partnership of its own. Case in point.

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What’s Stripe’s deal?

TechCrunch

This will include everything from funding rounds to trends to an analysis of a particular space to hot takes on a particular company or phenomenon. The news, as first reported by the Wall Street Journal, came as a surprise considering the rather dry public market activity in the tech world.

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7 Ways AI-Native Companies Can Improve Retention

Andreessen Horowitz

To attract repeat users, companies can’t just fill a product with the latest and greatest tech — they must intentionally craft each product feature to ensure their users come back again and again and again. Here are the 7 most effective ways for AI-native consumer companies to improve their retention.

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Applied XL raises $1.5M to build ‘editorial algorithms’ that track real-time data

TechCrunch

AppliedXL , a startup creating machine learning tools with what it describes as a journalistic lens, is announcing that it has raised $1.5 Emerging from the Newlab Venture Studio last year , the company is led by CEO Francesco Marconi (previously R&D chief at The Wall Street Journal) and CTO Erin Riglin (former WSJ automation editor).

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