Connectly, now backed by Alibaba, taps AI to personalize text messages to customers

Stefanos Loukakos, formerly a director at Meta’s business-focused Messenger division and, briefly, the tech giant’s blockchain org, noticed several years ago that online retailers were struggling to connect with potential shoppers. The…

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Google loses appeal against EU’s $2.7B Shopping antitrust case, as bloc also wins $15B Apple state aid appeal

Google has once again lost in its bid to overturn a 2017 antitrust decision by the European Commission. The bloc found its shopping comparison service had broken competition rules —…

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Miami-based AI bookkeeping startup Finally has raised another big round: $200M in equity and debt

The SMB-focused bookkeeping, accounting and finance startup Finally has raised $50 million in a Series B round of funding and secured a $150 million credit line, TechCrunch is the first…

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