Alex Wilhelm
Nearly every tech company seems to be working on AI tooling, and everyone is at least talking about using it. But how the heck are companies going to charge for it?
There’s little clarity on the business model front, which contrasts with the clear optimism on the part of...
UK-based neobank Monzo has had quite the bittersweet year. The company’s full-year financial results for 2022 paint a picture of a business that’s growing rapidly, though at the cost of sticky, large losses.
However, it’s not all bad news: Monzo has been cash-flow positive since October 2022, and it...
Skyflow, a data-privacy startup, announced Friday that it has expanded the number of markets where it offers data residency support for companies that need to keep certain information inside defined borders. In today’s market, you probably can’t keep EU customer data in, say, South America and vice versa,...
Earlier this month, we noticed that several popular American fintech companies were seeing rapid revenue growth thanks to high interest rates. Basically, interest-driven revenue was helping offset declines in consumer trading activity at Coinbase and Robinhood as people pulled back from active trading when the economy soured.
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On the back of pretty strong earnings reports and valuations, public cybersecurity companies are outperforming the broader technology segment. Yet, funding for cybersecurity startups has flatlined.
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Have you ever eaten at Cava? I have not, but fans of the fast-casual restaurant chain that serves Mediterranean food were quick to explain the company on Twitter after it filed a Form S-1 for its IPO recently.
“It’s chipotle for 30+ people who feel like they should eat...
It’s impossible to escape AI chatter as the largest tech companies race to build or partner with new large language models, and integrate them into their software and search services. The underlying technology is advancing quickly enough that we have seen calls for the work to pause, and...
Should early-stage startups pursue a single-cloud, multicloud or on-prem strategy when just starting out?
Well, the simple answer to that question is just one cloud, but in the wake of the Silicon Valley Bank collapse, redundancy has become sexy again: Who wants to be dependent on a single provider...
The spotlight of hype has lit up many areas since autonomous driving had its own time in the sun, but progress in the technology is chugging along. It’s clear that the dream of not having to drive ourselves around is not dead, given the rising tallies of miles...
News from Google’s AI-soaked developer event this week makes it plain that we’re on the cusp of a new era of search.
Following Microsoft’s moulding of OpenAI’s tech into Bing, Google is experimenting with its own AI tech and opening up new ways to use search. It’s clear that...
