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Fuse raises $6.6M to fix a payment problem for companies expanding to MENA

Expanding into the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) remains a costly and complex challenge for global businesses, thanks to

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Truecaller now has over 450M monthly active users

Caller ID app Truecaller said on Thursday that it crossed the 450 million user mark earlier this week. The company

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Patreon signs podcast partnerships with Sony and Wondery

Patreon, a subscription platform for online creators, has signed podcasting partnerships with Sony Music Entertainment and Amazon’s Wondery, the company

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Y Combinator neobank Djamo raises $17M with 1M users across Francophone Africa

Djamo is one of several digital banking startups targeting Africa’s underbanked. But unlike many that focus on large markets like

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Parasail says its fleet of on-demand GPUs is larger than Oracle’s entire cloud

Cloud infrastructure is dominated by several large industry players: AWS, Microsoft’s Azure, and Google Cloud. While to some it may

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Anthropic launches an AI chatbot plan for colleges and universities

Anthropic announced on Wednesday that it’s launching a new Claude for Education tier, an answer to OpenAI’s ChatGPT Edu plan.

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A new security fund opens up to help protect the fediverse

The fediverse, also known as the open social web that includes Mastodon, Meta’s Threads, Pixelfed, and other apps, is ramping

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Redwood Materials preps for expansion spree with new R&D center in San Francisco

Redwood Materials has been on an expansion tear in recent years — growth that has extended the lithium-ion battery recycling

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Amazon reportedly submits last-minute bid to acquire TikTok

Amazon has submitted a bid to acquire all of TikTok, according to a new report from The New York Times.

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Epic Games acquires Loci to introduce automated 3D tagging

Epic Games announced on Wednesday the acquisition of Loci, an AI platform for automated tagging 3D assets. The deal will