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Bing’s API is down, taking Microsoft Copilot, DuckDuckGo and ChatGPT’s web search feature down too
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Bing, Microsoft’s search engine, isn’t working properly right now. At first, we noticed it wasn’t possible to perform a web search at all. Now it seems search results are loading properly.
But this outage also appears to still be affecting Bing’s application programming interface (API), which means that other services...
Embedded finance is still trendy as accounting automation startup Ember partners with HSBC UK
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A few years ago, you couldn’t go to a fintech meetup without ending up in a conversation about embedded finance. In 2020, we even wrote that embedded finance might represent fintech’s future.
The distribution strategy lets fintech companies integrate their services into other products and services, which in turn...
Lydia, the French payments app with 8 million users, launches mobile banking app Sumeria
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If you live in the U.S., chances are you use apps like Venmo and Cash App to pay back your friends or split the bills with your roommates. Lydia is a French startup that also turned payments into a mobile consumer app and service.
Now, after reaching 8 million users,...
Apple just updated its two high-end tablets: the iPad Air and the iPad Pro. While the entry-level iPad didn’t receive an update, the company lowered its price, too. And of course, yes, the iPad mini is still around.
So we thought it would be a good opportunity to look at...
Electricity Maps calculates the carbon intensity of electricity consumption to optimize usage at scale
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If you’re an electricity nerd, chances are you’ve already spent quite a few hours looking at Electricity Maps and its mesmerizing export flow animations. This open-source data visualization project has been around since 2016. But companies like Google and Samsung are increasingly relying on this rich data set to...
Carbonfact is a carbon management platform designed specifically for the fashion industry
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French startup Carbonfact believes that the best carbon accounting solutions will focus on one vertical. That’s why the company has decided to provide a carbon management and reporting tool for the fashion industry exclusively.
And Carbonfact recently raised a $15 million funding round led by Alven, the French VC firm...
With Easel, ex-Snap researchers are building the next-generation Bitmoji thanks to AI
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Easel is a new startup that sits at the intersection of the generative AI and social trends, founded by two former employees at Snap. The company has been working on an app that lets you create images of yourself and your friends doing cool things directly from your favorite...
Retro, an actually good photo-sharing app for BFFs, launches collaborative journals
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As big social apps are optimizing for maximum engagement using algorithmic feeds and personalized content recommendations, Retro wants to go in the opposite direction: The company is launching a new feature called journals. It’s a flexible way to share photos with your favorite people and create visual records of...
Business planning startup Pigment raises $145 million round in rare French tech megaround
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Paris-based startup Pigment has raised a $145 million funding round just five years after its inception. The enterprise software company offers a business planning platform so that large companies can visualize their past financial performance and forecast upcoming quarters.
This funding round comes as a bit of a surprise as...
Cowboy launches all-road electric bike to attract riders beyond European city centers
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Cowboy is better known for its sleek electric bikes that you can see in many major cities across Europe. And if you look at the persons riding those Cowboy bikes, most of the time, you’ll see a young adult heading to an office with a laptop in a backpack.
That’s...