Apple has been fined again in the Netherlands over an antitrust order related to dating apps. The order requires it to allow local dating apps to be able to use third-party payment technologies if their developers wish, rather than being locked to only being able to use Apple’s in-app payment API for iOS. Since January,
This week, Nvidia, a company best known for its high-powered graphic processing units (GPUs) debuted a platform for the development of AI-powered medical devices. The device, called Clara Holoscan MGX, provides computing power allowing medical sensors to process multiple data streams in parallel, train AI algorithms, and visualize biology in real time. Clara Holoscan MGX,
Say what you will — Nothing knows how to tease a teaser. In the hardware startup’s defense, it noted that this morning’s event would be a “roadmap” reveal, specifically referring to another device coming to its lineup, without offering much in the way of information on said product. The company has, however, confirmed the much-rumored
Tome co-founders Keith Peiris and Henri Liriani, former Instagram and Facebook product leads, are applying their creative spins to the dreaded slide deck. It’s true that the slide deck hasn’t been improved upon so much in the past 30 years, though many startups have given it a-go over the years, including 9Slides, Swipe, and more
Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. We had an illness on the team, so instead of recording our usual Wednesday deep-dive, we reached into our recent archives and pulled the audio from a Twitter space we did the other
Instagram is expanding product tagging to everyone in the United States over the next few months, the company announced on Tuesday. Prior to the expansion, only creators on Instagram could tag products from businesses in their posts. Now, all U.S. users will be able to tag products from businesses that are set up for Instagram
We’ve been shipping things across the oceans for centuries, and the world’s supply chains increasingly rely on diesel-powered megaships big enough to block entire channels by themselves. How do you decarbonize this monolithic industry? FleetZero thinks it can with electric vessels making short hops all the way around the Pacific, while relying on smaller ports
Scratchpad began life as an easy way to add information to Salesforce by acting as a layer that sits on top of the popular CRM application, but the startup’s founders knew it needed to be more than sales utility, and today it announced a new capability that makes Scratchpad a central workspace for sales people
A lot of the startups you tend to hear about in the world of fintech are building solutions for consumers and businesses. Today, a startup that’s aiming to serve the biggest financial services users of them all — the big banks themselves and how they move money — is announcing a big round of funding
Mining is one of the oldest industries out there, but it has increasingly embraced high-tech methods as demand has increased. Plotlogic uses hyperspectral imaging, a technique generally found in labs and satellites, to add a new layer of data and automation to these crucial but often dated operations. Hyperspectral imagery is basically a photo that
FedEx has been working on a new feature for its consumer mobile app that would seemingly allow it to better compete with the popular Shop app by Shopify. One of the bigger selling points for Shopify’s Shop is how it allows users to track their purchases and shipments from across services, including not only Shopify,
As the use of aircraft like drones, electric vertical take-off and landing vehicles and uncrewed aerial vehicles take off, Japanese startup Terra Drone wants to make sure trafficking the skies doesn’t get overlooked. “Our airspace is going to get more crowded than ever, but most companies today are concentrating only on hardware development,” said Terra
At the end of “Planet of the Apes” (1968), the human protagonist realizes that the alien world he crash-landed upon is actually post-apocalyptic Earth. For many first-time founders in fundraising mode, the current market correction for publicly-traded tech companies has been similarly jarring. Once investors started shaving value from high-flying stocks, it changed the game
Twitch is updating its appeals and reporting processes, following through on product updates the company promised late last year. The biggest change is the introduction of a new portal where users facing account suspensions can appeal those rulings and monitor the progress of their requests. While Twitch deals with its fair share of users with
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A picture’s worth a thousand words, but this image of Zoom’s newest feature can be summed up in just one: what? Zoom is introducing a feature today that lets you show up to your work meetings as a bunny rabbit (or a dog, a fox, a panda, a horse — you get the point). The
In a formalization of an earlier Twitter-led push to try to exert influence over fast-forming European digital regulations, the social media firm has used its Twitter Spaces platform to host the official kick-off of a policy advocacy lobby group that’s being branded the Open Internet Alliance (OIA). Alongside Twitter, video streaming platform Vimeo; Automattic, the
Smartphone cameras have gotten quite good, but it’s getting harder and harder to improve them because we’ve pretty much reached the limit of what’s possible in the space of a cubic centimeter. Glass is a startup looking to fundamentally change how the camera works, using a much bigger sensor and an optical trick from the
D-ID, the Israeli company leveraging artificial intelligence to create unique, viral experiences like “Deep Nostalgia,” which animates the faces of long-lost relatives in your old photos, announced today the raise of a $25 million Series B round of funding led by Macquarie Capital. The additional funds shortly follow D-ID’s recent launch of its Deep Nostalgia
Microsoft Corporate Vice President Jared Spataro joins Emily Chang to talk about the company’s survey which shows more employees are considering quitting their jobs now than in 2021, and that more than half of younger workers are mulling a job change within the next year.
Box CEO Aaron Levie joins Emily Chang after Box’s Investor Day wraps for an exclusive interview to discuss their financial outlook and a new share repurchase program, as well as the pandemic’s impact on the company and the war for talent.
Galaxy Digital founder and CEO Michael Novogratz sees growing demand for cryptocurrencies and says there is “zero chance” Russia can use crypto to circumvent sanctions. Novogratz also maintains his $500,000 forecast for Bitcoin five years out. He speaks with Bloomberg’s Matt Miller, Kailey Leinz and Sonali Basak on “Bloomberg Crypto.”
Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse joins Emily Chang to discuss his “victory” after a court ruled in the favor of his company’s defense against the SEC alleging they had unlawfully sold their XRP tokens. He also weighs in on the role of crypto in the war in Ukraine, and Biden’s crypto executive order.
Cruise CEO and founder Kyle Vogt joins Emily Chang to talk about launching their autonomous cars in San Francisco, where they’re looking to expand next, and how they compare with the competition such as Waymo, Tesla and Zoox.
May.20 — Imran Khan, Verishop chief executive officer and former Snap chief strategy officer, discusses the evolution of e-commerce, how Verishop plans to take on Amazon.com Inc. and the tech IPO landscape with Bloomberg’s Emily Chang on “Bloomberg Technology.”
ClassPass Founder Payal Kadakia speaks with Emily Chang about her new book “LifePass,” her journey as a female entrepreneur and businesswoman, and connected fitness trends in a post-pandemic world.
Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor joins Emily Chang after the company gave a forecast for quarterly and annual revenue that exceeded analysts’ estimates, as the leader in customer relations software further integrates Slack and expands its product line.
On the latest episode of Bloomberg Studio 1.0., Emily Chang speaks with Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger on the heels of his one year anniversary, about Intel’s bold bets to bring semiconductor manufacturing back to the United States, and his vision to reshape the competitive landscape of the $500 billion chip industry. ——– Like this video?
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger discusses the company’s plans to spend $20 billion on a chipmaking hub on the outskirts of Columbus, Ohio, and the efforts to alleviate the supply-chain issues in the semiconductor industry. He speaks on “Bloomberg Markets: The Close.”
Student Jack Sweeney joins Emily Chang to talk about his tracking Russian tycoons. After drawing the ire of Elon Musk with his viral Twitter account “Elon’s Jet,” Sweeney is now tracking the planes of some of Russia’s richest people, as they come under increasing international pressure over the country’s invasion of Ukraine.