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WhatsApp Status, the feature that was introduced in 2017 as the company’s take on Snapchat Stories, has received a number of updates to make it more attractive and appealing to users. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In October last year, Sendy, a Kenyan logistics scale-up, wound up its supplies service, which enabled retailers to purchase FMCGs directly from manufacturers, saying it was directing all its focus on its end-to-end fulfillment offering. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Simple HealthKit provides at-home and in-clinic diagnostics, performs its own testing and telehealth services and works with pharmacy partners for treatment and follow-up care. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Cyber-criminals are actively exploiting a two-year-old VMware vulnerability as part of a ransomware campaign targeting thousands of organizations worldwide. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Apple had a rare quarter where it missed its revenue target due to problems in the supply chain and manufacturing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Given our general reliance on something called “food” you’d think the issue of pollination – and its general decline – might be higher up the world’s agenda. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Twitter will discontinue offering free access to the Twitter API starting February 9 and will make a paid version available, the Elon Musk-owned microblogging website said as it looks for more avenues to monetize the platform. Â Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Snapchat has more than 2 million paid subscribers on its Snapchat+ program, the company said during its latest earnings report. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Twitter announced Tuesday that it is discontinuing CoTweeting, a feature that let two users co-author a tweet. The company said that the feature will immediately cease to exist. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Showing that there’s real investor enthusiasm for identity management platforms, Saviynt, which enables companies to secure apps, data and infrastructure in a single platform, today announced that it raised $205 million in debt from AB Private Credit Investors’ Tech Capital Solutions group. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Groupon has laid off another 500 employees in a measure to cut costs, the company said in an SEC filing last week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Founded by two insurance industry veterans, Eazy Digital wants to give small insurance companies in Southeast Asia the same advantage as their larger competitors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The enormous Space Launch System passed its first test with flying colors, NASA’s preliminary analysis concludes, and the rocket and Orion capsule are good to go for their next mission. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Walmart recently introduced a new way to shop: via text. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Chrome is rolling out an update for Android users that lets them lock their incognito sessions with a password code or biometric info when they exit the app. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hawk AI, a German company developing anti-money laundering (AML) and tangential fraud prevention smarts for financial institutions, has raised $17 million in a Series B round of funding. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Code-hosting platform GitHub has announced that 100 million developers are now using the platform. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

When Shutterstock and OpenAI announced a partnership to help develop OpenAI’s Dall-E 2 artificial intelligence image-generating platform with Shutterstock libraries to train and feed the algorithm, the stock photo and media giant also hinted that it would soon be bringing its own generative AI tools to users. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In another flip-flop move, Twitter says that it will now remember the feed — the algorithmic “For You” or chronological “Following” — its users have chosen on the web. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Real estate marketplace Zillow has introduced an instant tour booking feature for renters on its platform. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Digital twins — virtual representations of actual systems — have become an important component in how engineers and analysts build, visualize and operate AI projects, network security, and other complicated architectures. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Luis Rubén Chávez, founder and CEO of Zenfi: "If Credit Karma, SoFi, Marcus and Copilot Money had a kid, it would be us.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Music streaming service Spotify has announced that it will be conducting a round of layoffs that will impact around 6% of its global workforce. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In an industry obsessed with making everything huge (at least here in the U.S.), you may not’ve expected GM to show interest in an electric baby pickup, but here we are. GM is considering a pickup design that’s “smaller than the Ford Maverick and the Hyundai Santa Cruz,” with a “low roofline” and a 4 […]GM, please build the baby EV pickup of my dreams by Harri Weber originally published on TechCru...

Music streaming platforms all claim to use both artificial intelligence and manual curation to find new songs from emerging artists. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices