Saturday, July 24, 2021

How to Use Automated Captions for Voice Tweets on Twitter

Voice tweets were introduced last year whereas auto-captions for voice tweets debuted just a few days ago. If you record a voice tweet, captions will automatically generate and appear. To view the... https://ift.tt/2WhU0cR

Lev, which wants to automate commercial real estate financing, raises $30M Series A at a $130M valuation, after raising a $10M seed round four months ago (Christine Hall/TechCrunch)

Christine Hall / TechCrunch:
Lev, which wants to automate commercial real estate financing, raises $30M Series A at a $130M valuation, after raising a $10M seed round four months ago  —  Commercial real estate has been slow to embrace technology; though it has an addressable financing market of more than $40 billion …



A look at the presence of crypto in hip-hop culture, beginning as early as 2013, including meme songs, rapper Nas's Coinbase investment, and illicit ICOs (Ashwin Rodrigues/VICE)

Ashwin Rodrigues / VICE:
A look at the presence of crypto in hip-hop culture, beginning as early as 2013, including meme songs, rapper Nas's Coinbase investment, and illicit ICOs  —  Nas made a fortune with his Coinbase investment.  Soulja Boy claims to be the first to make a song about Bitcoin.  Big Sean is sending your girl Doge.



Data from Venture Intelligence shows Indian social commerce startups have raised $554M so far this year, up 7x from all of 2020 (Apoorva Mittal/The Economic Times)

Apoorva Mittal / The Economic Times:
Data from Venture Intelligence shows Indian social commerce startups have raised $554M so far this year, up 7x from all of 2020  —  The amount is the highest since 2015 and seven times what these companies made a year ago  —  Social commerce startups have raked in $554 million this year as of July 16 …



WhatsApp CEO says they had recorded an attack against 1,400 users over a two-week period in 2019, casting doubts on NSO defenses in a Pegasus investigation (Stephanie Kirchgaessner/The Guardian)

Stephanie Kirchgaessner / The Guardian:
WhatsApp CEO says they had recorded an attack against 1,400 users over a two-week period in 2019, casting doubts on NSO defenses in a Pegasus investigation  —  Will Cathcart claims government officials around the world among 1,400 WhatsApp users targeted in 2019



Sendlane, which helps e-commerce companies automate email and SMS marketing, raises $20M Series A; CEO says Sendlane, which is seeing $7M+ in ARR, is profitable (Christine Hall/TechCrunch)

Christine Hall / TechCrunch:
Sendlane, which helps e-commerce companies automate email and SMS marketing, raises $20M Series A; CEO says Sendlane, which is seeing $7M+ in ARR, is profitable  —  Sendlane, a San Diego-based multichannel marketing automation platform, announced Thursday it raised $20 million in Series A funding.



Sources: the US State Department ordered embassies to push back against foreign influence campaigns, as officials worry anti-US views are taking root worldwide (New York Times)

New York Times : Sources: the US State Department ordered embassies to push back against foreign influence campaigns, as officials worry ...