Sarah Emmott and Holly Chen, ex-Slack, Squarespace, provide a comprehensive framework for startups to understand and balance brand and performance marketing.
New funding in Europe: Purple Ventures; MiddleGame Ventures; Italian Founders Fund; JuneX Evergreen Fund; Varsity VC; 14Peaks Capital; Isomer Capital.
Character.AI, leading player in the virtual character market, has unveiled a new calls feature, enabling users to engage in voice conversations with their AI characters.
Meta's pay or consent model is under scrutiny for potentially violating EU tech regulations. EU antitrust regulators charged Meta for breaching tech rules with its new pay-or-consent advertising model.
According to Backlinko, the average American in 2023 spent 82 minutes a day consuming short videos in TikTok. Twitter, now known as X, is the primary social network for news.
Senate Bill 1327, passed by the state Senate, will tax companies like Amazon, Meta, and Google for the data they collect from users to support the news industry by taxing big tech companies.
Nvidia has reached a significant milestone, hitting a market capitalization of $3 trillion and briefly becoming the world's most valuable company, surpassing Microsoft.
Notion released new tools to make it easier for startups, individuals, and corporations to publish content on the web. Previously, users edited it in Notion, then copied and pasted it into a CMS or other platform for publishing.
Seth Godin calls Perplexity “your smart search partner.” The world's top marketer recently asserted that Perplexity surpasses Google, mentioning that he hasn’t performed a Google search in months.
Vsquared closes second fund of €214m. Italy’s new €50m VC fund has 100 founder backers. Paradigm's Third Сrypto Fund is an $850M venture fund. New Amazon AI fund has a $230 million commitment for startups.