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Instagram adds scheduling and ‘practice mode’ features for Live creators Oct 14, 2021

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Instagram today announced the launch of a couple of new tools aimed at addressing the needs of Live creators. Now, creators will be able to build up buzz for their upcoming Live by scheduling it up to 90 days in advance, then share the news across Instagram to alert their fans.

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Global Processing Services raises $300M its API-based payments and embedded finance platform Oct 13, 2021

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Embedded finance continues to be a major theme in the world of fintech, with a wide swathe of new financial services companies tapping APIs built by others to power payments and other financial transactions, and more.

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Twitter will now let you remove followers without blocking them Oct 13, 2021

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After testing last month, Twitter is rolling out a feature to all web users that will let them remove followers without blocking them.

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Google and Temasek back Indian neobank Open in $100 million fundraise Oct 12, 2021

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Google has invested in Bangalore-based Open, becoming the latest high-profile investor to back a neobanking platform. Open said on Tuesday it has raised $100 million in a Series C financing round.

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Facebook’s Oversight Board will meet with the Facebook whistleblower Oct 12, 2021

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Facebook’s external policy review board will meet with Frances Haugen, a former Facebook employee who went public with her concerns about the company last week. Facebook’s Oversight Board announced Monday that it would meet with Haugen “in the coming weeks” after the whistleblower accepted the board’s invitation to speak.

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Gogoro launches battery swapping stations in China Oct 11, 2021

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Five months after announcing a deal with two of China’s biggest two-wheel vehicle makers, Gogoro officially launched there today, opening 45 battery swapping stations in Hangzhou.

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The mystery of Elon Musk’s missing gas Oct 11, 2021

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Experts say an environmental document that needs U.S. Federal Aviation Administration approval before SpaceX can begin testing the world’s largest rockets is missing key details about where its fuel will come from.

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Elon Musk announces Tesla to move headquarters to Austin Oct 08, 2021

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the company would be moving its headquarters from Palo Alto, California to Austin, Texas, a city that has recently seen a flood of tech companies and remote workers.

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RoboTire raises $7.5M to automate tire replacement Oct 08, 2021

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RoboTire crossed our radar in February of last year, just before much of the world was brought to a complete standstill courtesy of the pandemic. Things were still fairly early stages for the Detroit-based startup, which was founded by former Spark Robotics CEO Victor Darolfi.

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Indian cloud kitchen startup Rebel Foods valued at $1.4 billion in $175 million fundraise Oct 07, 2021

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Rebel Foods, which operates a large network of dark kitchens in nearly a dozen markets, is the latest Indian startup to attain the unicorn status. The Bangalore-based startup said on Thursday it has raised $175 million in its Series F financing round that valued it at $1.4 billion, up from about $800 million last year.

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