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Pinterest is revamping its app for the TikTok era: Answering to Gen Z's demands for video-centric features, the company announced Tuesday it will let users create short videos from their curated Pinterest boards and share them on social media. The new feature was inspired by the video sharing activity already taking place on apps like TikTok. For example, in 2022, Pinterest introduced a new collage-making app called Shuffles, which quickly became popular among TikTok's Gen Z creators. The app, which was still invite-only at the time, went viral after Pinterest users published so-called “aesthetic” collages and mood boards set to…

Stability AI, the embattled generative AI startup behind Stable Diffusion, has raised new funding, though the amount has not been disclosed. Greycroft, Coatue Management, Sound Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, O'Shaughnessy Ventures, angel investor Prem Akkaraju, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Robert Nelsen and Napster founder and former Facebook executive Sean Parker have infused new capital into Stability, the company revealed Tuesday morning. Parker will become chairman of Stability AI's board of directors and join Greycroft managing partner Dana Settle, Coatue Management COO Colin Bryant and Akkaraju, who has been appointed CEO of Stability. “Stability AI has impacted the world by…

Joseph Phillips and William Corbella are both entrepreneurs and have been friends for over a decade. Corvera is the co-founder of RevoPay, a payment processing platform that was acquired by payment solutions company OSG in 2022. Meanwhile, Phillips led the national sales team at Seamless before heading up sales at ServiceTitan, a web-based management tool for construction contractors. In 2020, Phillips and Corbera, who have both worked in payments for many years, decided to join forces to found a payments-focused venture called Payabli, which will build an infrastructure to enable businesses, especially software companies, to embed and facilitate payments through…

Popular productivity tool Notion has long offered users the ability to publish their pages however they like, and now the company is expanding on this with the release of Notion Sites, which adds several new features to its existing publishing tools. Most are pretty straightforward, but together they make for a more polished publishing experience. A lot of content-centric work is already done in Notion, like organizing a publishing calendar or working on actual documents. Over the years, Notion users have come up with different ways to turn pages into websites; there's even a startup founded solely on that idea.…

As an investor, you know you need to keep your pipeline primed, and one of the best places to find early-stage startups with promising portfolio potential is, you guessed it, TechCrunch Disrupt. TechCrunch is here to help: Let’s take a look at all the ways Disrupt can boost your pipeline and keep deals coming after the conference ends. Investor Opportunities at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 Let's start here: Buy an Investor Pass and save $600. Not only will you get in, you'll also get a ticket to an invitation-only reception, and a list of all the Startup Battlefield 200 companies for…

Patreon, the paid membership platform for creators, on Tuesday announced the release of new features designed to help creators monetize their free followers and unlock new revenue streams, including the ability to sell individual posts, a gifting feature that lets creators give fans limited-time subscriptions, and promotional tools for sharing clips on social media. The new features reflect Patreon's efforts to expand beyond its role as a monetization platform. Last year, Patreon launched a free membership option, allowing fans to follow their favorite influencers without committing to a monthly subscription. The company revealed in a blog post today that the…

Google is introducing a new Gemini AI side panel to Gmail that helps you compose emails and summarize email threads. The company is also adding the Gemini side panel to Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive. The release of the new features comes on the heels of Google's announcements at its I/O developer conference last month, which focused on new AI products from the tech giant. With the new integration, you can use Gemini in Gmail to get help drafting emails, receive suggested replies to your emails, and even ask questions or search for specific information from emails in your inbox…

iPhone mirroring, one of the hot features coming to Apple's next operating system, is now available to developers testing beta versions of iOS 18 and macOS Sequoia. The latest beta release includes support for mirroring your iPhone directly to your Mac, allowing you to use your phone on your computer, including opening and running iPhone apps and moving files between your Mac and iPhone. First announced at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in early June, iPhone Mirroring makes it easy for consumers to use Mac and iPhone apps side-by-side. For example, a demo at the event showed how a video…

Tengo uses AI to find, evaluate and respond to public tenders. It is a software-as-a-service tool that helps companies handle large public tenders. It is a bit like Govly in the US. Originally created within startup studio Hexa, the startup has raised a funding round of €3 million ($3.2 million at current exchange rates) led by Point Nine. For most companies, public tenders are a huge untapped market because they require huge resources: in France alone there are more than 200 platforms hosting public tenders, and even if you find an opportunity, putting together a strong application takes a lot…

Goodreads co-founder Otis Chandler is back to build the next big app community, except this time the focus isn't on books, but on content you can find online, including news articles, blog posts, social media posts, podcasts, and more. Smashing, an AI- and community-powered content recommendation app currently released in invite-only beta, aims to connect users with their interests by surfacing the internet's hidden gems. The launch of the service comes at a time when many news consumers are still mourning the loss of Artifact, the AI ​​news reader from an Instagram co-founder that was recently sold to TechCrunch parent…