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Americana’s chip turns physical objects into NFTs May 03, 2022

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NFTs are being used for far more than just proving you own a JPEG on the internet.

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USV quietly announces $625M in fresh funding for ‘both Web2 and Web3’ teams May 03, 2022

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Union Square Ventures (USV), the 19-year-old, New York-based venture firm,Â hasÂ raised $275 millionÂ for its eighth early-stage fund and $350 million for its fourth opportunity fund, the firm announced in aÂ blog postÂ yesterday.

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Okra Solar is bringing renewable energy to underserved markets May 02, 2022

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Okra Solar walked away with the trophy and a giant check at our 2019 Shenzhen Hardware Battlefield event. It’s a moment happily eternalized in a new press release announcing the renewable energy startup’s $2.1 million new round (it’s a nice photo. I used it on this post, too).

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Airbnb commits to fully remote workplace: ‘Live and work anywhere’ May 02, 2022

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Airbnb is going all in on the “live anywhere, work anywhere” philosophy that much of the business world has been forced to adopt, committing to full-time remote work for most employees and a handful of perks like 90 days of international work/travel.

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More TradFi in DeFi as Sienna Network launches SiennaLend, a private crypto lending platform Apr 29, 2022

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It was last year that we covered the $11.2M fundraise for Sienna Network, the ‘privacy decentralized’ startup.

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CommandBar lands $19M to inject in-app searches with smarts Apr 29, 2022

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Thanks to the explosion of low- and no-code development tools, building web apps from scratch has become easier — and cheaper — than it once was. But sophisticated search and navigation functions can complicate the process.

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Smallstep takes big step toward authenticating machine-to-machine communications Apr 28, 2022

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Smallstep founder and CEO Mike Malone calls big, distributed systems his happy place, but these systems involve a lot of machine-to-machine communications, an area identity vendors haven’t been able to solve.

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Apple opens Self Service Repair to US iPhone users Apr 28, 2022

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I’ve been covering Apple in various capacities for a long time now. Over the years, I don’t know that I’ve seen an announcement from the company as unexpected and warmly received as Self Service Repair.

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GM expects to spend $2B on Cruise in 2022 Apr 27, 2022

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General Motors expects full-year 2022 expenses at Cruise, the automaker’s autonomous driving subsidiary, to be approximately $2 billion, according to GM’s chief financial officer Paul Jacobson.

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In the wake of Fast’s collapse, Volume thinks it can crack the payment checkout conundrum Apr 27, 2022

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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.

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