Author: Tech Support

    • Sydney-based Metigy, which helps SMBs automate online ad campaigns, raises ~$14.6M led by Cygnet Capital and says it has 26,000 businesses on board (Catherine Shu/TechCrunch)

    Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: Sydney-based Metigy, which helps SMBs automate online ad campaigns, raises ~$14.6M led by Cygnet Capital and says it has 26,000 businesses on board  —  Metigy, a marketing platform created to help small businesses automate more of the decision making in their online ad campaigns … Sydney-based Metigy, which helps SMBs automate

    Read More
    • AvePoint, which develops cloud governance tools for Microsoft's software, says it will go public via a merger with Apex Technology SPAC in a deal worth ~$2B (Katie Roof/Bloomberg)

    Katie Roof / Bloomberg: AvePoint, which develops cloud governance tools for Microsoft’s software, says it will go public via a merger with Apex Technology SPAC in a deal worth ~$2B  —  – Microsoft partner valued at $2 billion in the transaction  — The agreement includes a $140 million private investment AvePoint, which develops cloud governance

    Read More
    • Gatik, which is developing level 4 autonomous short-haul delivery trucks, raises $22.5M Series A and says it has signed a deal with Canadian retailer Loblaw (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

    Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Gatik, which is developing level 4 autonomous short-haul delivery trucks, raises $22.5M Series A and says it has signed a deal with Canadian retailer Loblaw  —  Gatik, a startup developing an autonomous vehicle stack for B2B short-haul logistics, today closed a $22.5 million series A round. Gatik, which is developing level

    Read More
    • Analysis: Facebook and Instagram ads appear to be reaching a saturation point after rising by a ~30% quarterly average since Q3 2015 (Laura Forman/Wall Street Journal)

    Laura Forman / Wall Street Journal: Analysis: Facebook and Instagram ads appear to be reaching a saturation point after rising by a ~30% quarterly average since Q3 2015  —  Spending big money to make big money in the ad business may no longer be on the table inside Facebook’s network  —  Facebook Inc.’s platforms are

    Read More
    • Snap announces Spotlight, a vertically scrollable TikTok-like feed inside Snapchat, and will pay $1M everyday to users who create the top Snaps through 2020 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

    Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Snap announces Spotlight, a vertically scrollable TikTok-like feed inside Snapchat, and will pay $1M everyday to users who create the top Snaps through 2020  —  After taking on TikTok with music-powered features last month, Snapchat this morning is officially launching a dedicated place within … Snap announces Spotlight, a vertically scrollable

    Read More
    • As bots plague everything from Tinder to Twitter, a look at how generative adversarial networks create images and videos of fake people, sold on many websites (New York Times)

    New York Times: As bots plague everything from Tinder to Twitter, a look at how generative adversarial networks create images and videos of fake people, sold on many websites  —  There are now businesses that sell fake people.  On the website Generated.Photos, you can buy a “unique, worry-free” fake person for $2.99, or 1,000 people

    Read More
    • Take advantage of these 10 time saving apps, now during this Black Friday sale

    TLDR: From password managers to schedulers to administrative aids, these 10 time-saving apps can help you get through your day more efficiently. So, look…most of these time-saving apps aren’t exactly gift-giving material. Sure, you could give your brother-in-law a password manager; or your mailman a grammar checker. But the real recipient of these early access

    Read More