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Online payment methods can be expensive for merchants, who have to pay between 2% and 8% of every sale to debit and credit card, ewallet and BNPL facilitators. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

You’ve got to hand it to Miso — the company knows how to sell the sizzle, as they say in the meat-cooking business. The robotics firm has been striking high-profile deals with some of the U.S.’s biggest fast food chains, from White Castle to Panera Bread. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Reliance Industries “cannot implement” its $3.4 billion deal to acquire several parts of retail chain Future Group after secured creditors rejected the offer earlier this week, India’s most valuable firm said in a stock exchange filing on Saturday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As unlikely as it may have once seemed, reports indicate Elon Musk may actually end up the owner of a newly-private Twitter after all. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Months after cutting half its staff, edtech startup Flockjay has landed on a new vision for how to disrupt tech sales: start from the inside, out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Snap released its first quarter financial results for 2022 today, affirming that it’s growing faster than its fellow US-based competitors Facebook (now Meta) and Twitter. Meta reported its first loss in daily active users (DAUs) last quarter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Immigrants to a new country can often be cash-rich. The problem is, is that they have no credit history in their new country. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Drones can be dangerous, and we’ve seen consumer-grade drones used for all sorts of nefarious purposes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It’s been a wild few years for the home fitness industry. Few consumer technologies were better positioned to ride the pandemic to new heights. There’s been some leveling off of late, of course. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After months of teasers and a slow drip of information, BMW today announced its new i7 xDrive60, the first all-electric version of its full-size luxury sedan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Last April, Facebook announced a suite of new audio products, including new support for podcasts and a Clubhouse live audio competitor, which was an indication that it was taking the threat from other audio platforms more seriously. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A European music streamer, Deezer is going public via a SPAC deal, valuing the Spotify competitor at $1.1 billion. Deezer will merge with the “blank-check” company I2PO, which is headed by former WarnerMedia executive Iris Knobloch. Founded in 2007, the company previously tried to IPO in 2015, only to reverse course and raise Series E […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/...

TeamSnap, a web service for managing recreational and competitive sports teams and groups, announced the launch of its all-in-one multi-program management system for youth sports organizations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The parent company of Dungeons & Dragons publisher Wizards of the Coast will buy D&D Beyond, the role-playing game’s popular digital suite of tools. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Peloton announced today that it’s increasing the price of its subscription fees in the United States and Canada. Starting June 1, the cost of the company’s all-access plan fee is increasing from $39 to $44 in the United States and from $49 to $55 in Canada. Â Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Swiggy has led a $180 million financing round into bike taxi startup Rapido as the Indian food delivery giant looks to broaden its fleet network across the country, the two firms said on Friday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As we found during the pandemic, food and beverage distribution is critical, but most food wholesalers’ sales remain manually operated. Post-covid, food wholesalers are fast digitizing their operations, but many still rely on legacy backend systems. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tinder today is launching a new feature called Festival Mode designed to help users connect ahead of their plans to attend concerts or larger music festivals, like The Governors Ball, Bonnaroo, Stagecoach, EDC Las Vegas, and others. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

E-commerce today is played out wherever a consumer sees something and wants it — be it on a company’s site or app, a social media feed, a marketplace, a search, or an advert. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Nursing shortages were a problem well before our hospitals were rocked by a pandemic. Two years in and overloaded systems have further contributed to burnout, stress and other factors plaguing the people we rely on for our own well-being. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Prelude, a Washington D.C-based startup that helps organizations harden their cyber defenses through the use of autonomous red-teaming, has secured $24 million in Series A funding. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Miso made a name for itself with the hamburger-cooking robot, Flippy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Elon Musk is not joining Twitter’s board, the social network’s chief executive Parag Agrawal said, in a surprising reversal following last week’s announcement that the Tesla and SpaceX chief executive had been appointed to the panel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Perforce Software has been building developer tools since 1995, a long time in the tech world. The company was acquired by Clearlake Capital in 2018, and over the last several years has been modernizing and expanding its reach through acquisition. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sure you can run machines to decarbonize the air, but where’s the fun in that when you can invite mother nature to do the work for you? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices