Columbus, OH

Mercately is a B2B software that builds the infrastructure brands need to sell directly on WhatsApp. The company integrates with platforms like Stripe and HubSpot and uses AI agents to help brands communicate with customers, check inventory, take payments and create purchase orders without the customer having to leave WhatsApp.

How Techstars, Meta helped profitable LatAm startup Mercately raise a $2.6M seed

Interview: Proximus Group CEO Guillaume Boutin (pictured) pitched the company as a prime example of how telecoms operators can use diversification to bolster their balance sheets, telling Mobile World Live its affiliate companies are opening new doors while it maintains its incumbent business in home market, Belgium. During a briefing...

Proximus chief Boutin fuels global shift with software, APIs

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They can’t believe the employee’s response. An attempt at reviewing desserts from Crumbl Cookies took an awkward turn for two TikTokers who weren’t happy with the Oreo cheesecake.

‘They’re doing something wrong’: Crumbl customers ask for a refund after ordering Oreo cheesecake.

Melbourne, FL

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A Burger King location in Melbourne, Florida, has been temporarily shut down for the third time following since 2023 after a recent state inspection that identified multiple health violations. This incident underscores ongoing concerns regarding the restaurant's adherence to health and safety standards.

A dead lizard, dead roaches, rodent droppings - Florida fast food restaurant closed again

"They accidentally gave us 2 washers and a dryer when we only ordered 1 of each". Last month, Lowe’s experienced a glitch that lowered the price of its $2,300 Midea jumbo capacity refrigerator to just $169.

‘Lowe’s messed up’: Shopper says they got $2,300 fridge at Lowe’s for just $169

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Winston-salem, NC

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A North Carolina restaurant serves fried chicken in a “spicy, savory” sauce — and fans can’t get enough. So much so, the restaurant now ranks as the state’s No. 1 place to eat fried chicken.

Best fried chicken in North Carolina is at this restaurant, Yelp says. Why it’s No. 1

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As funding to startups stagnates, tech investors are putting fewer points on the board, making it harder to get promoted.

For young, promising venture capitalists, the path to partner has suddenly become much steeper

Plans call for integrating Robust Intelligence's AI security platform with Cisco Security Cloud to streamline threat protection for AI applications and models and increase visibility into AI traffic. Cisco today announced plans to acquire Robust Intelligence, a security startup with a platform designed to protect AI models and data throughout...

Cisco snaps up AI security player Robust Intelligence

One of X’s employees, Chris Park, posted last week that the company had its first internal conference through the tool. Park claimed that initial feedback from the team was strong, and the company will likely work on features like the ability to pin speakers and better notification to indicate people joining or leaving.

X is testing a video conferencing tool

Savvy Games Group and Xsolla have partnered together in order to launch a game development academy in Saudi Arabia. Efforts are being made in order to "create economic opportunities" for Middle Eastern game developers. By extension, the new deal puts Xsolla in bed with the country's state-owned Public Investment Fund.

Savvy Games Group, Xsolla Partner to Open New Job Opportunities in Saudi Arabia's Game Industry

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This year’s area of low oxygen in the Gulf of Mexico is larger than average, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced on Thursday. The “dead zone” is approximately 6,705 square miles , as measured last week. Within NOAA’s 38 years of measuring the dead zone, this year’s assessment marks the 12th-largest area of low to no oxygen, which can kill fish and marine life.

Gulf ‘dead zone’ larger than average, larger than expected for 2024, scientists announce

StorMagic expanded its executive leadership team with the appointment of Susan Odle as chief growth officer (CGO). This nomination comes as the company marks its entry into the full-stack, hyperconverged market. “I’m excited to join StorMagic, as the company is establishing itself in this new market segment,” said Odle. “I...

StorMagic Announces Chief Growth Officer

Terms of the deal are not being disclosed, but we understand that the deal involves a mix of cash and shares in GrubMarket. FreshGoGo had raised around $15 million from individual investors, according to GrubMarket. FreshGoGo founder Jianbing Duan will stay with the company and continue running the business. The...

Food delivery is seeing more consolidation: GrubMarket snaps up FreshGoGo

Customer data should be able to help marketers better hone their strategies, but many brands struggle to actually use the information they have gathered effectively. In fact, just 14% of respondents in a recent survey of 100 senior marketers and executives at top B2C brands by BlueConic and WBR Insights felt their organization was highly effective at acting on customer data. One-quarter believed their work was only moderately effective and 30% saw it as somewhat ineffective.

Data-Rich, Action-Poor: Survey Says Few Brands Feel Effective When Acting on Customer Data

Salem, OH

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Every day, 8-year-old Emma sits in a small garden outside her grandmother’s home in Salem, Ohio, writing letters to her mom and sometimes singing songs her mother used to sing to her.

Thousands of parents die of overdoses; advocates say their kids need more help

The investment was one of the largest in GV’s 15-year history, Cribl claims. As a part of the deal, GV general partner Michael McBride will join Cribl’s board of directors. Cribl’s software helps to analyze, collect, process and route IT and security data to various systems, databases and...

Data infrastructure startup Cribl raises $319M at a $3.5B valuation

Connect with more than 10,000 attendees of Disrupt 2024, as well as your network and the dynamic Bay Area tech community. You have the flexibility to host events that reflect your brand, including industry meetups, office hours, workshops, fun runs, cocktail parties, and happy hours — the options are limitless.

Elevate your brand’s impact: Host a Side Event at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024

Kayvon Thibodeaux is among a growing number of NFL players who are considering life beyond the field. Sportico reported that the New York Giants defensive end has invested in real estate, beverage, hospitality, and restaurant industries. He also has a stake in Meatpacking District’s Meduza Mediterrania. “It’s about alignment...

Kayvon Thibodeaux Becomes A Venture Partner In The Collectiv, Which Aims To Raise $20M Over The Next 6 Months

A good example of the latter is nOps. Like countless other vendors, nOps sells software designed to “optimize” the budgets that businesses allocate to cloud products and services. But the firm has managed to expand faster — and bigger — than many of its rivals, perhaps in part because it serves AWS customers exclusively.

nOps lands $30M to optimize AWS customers’ cloud spend

In a post on the YC website, the startup outlined a vision to build low-cost cruise missiles that will be compatible with existing launch platforms, saying it will “deliver the capabilities that the [Department of Defense] wants in a form factor that’s 10x smaller and 10x cheaper.”. Ares...

Y Combinator backs its first defense startup, Ares Industries

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African B2B e-commerce startups Wasoko and MaxAB complete merger: Interview with co-CEO Daniel Yu

Talks of a merger between Kenya-based Wasoko and Egypt-based MaxAB began last December. This merger, the first of its scale on the continent, involved integrating 16...

African B2B e-commerce startups Wasoko and MaxAB complete merger: Interview with co-CEO Daniel Yu

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