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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…
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…
Job hunting can be daunting, especially for those who are not immigrants to the U.S. Not only do you have to compete on the strength of your resume, but you also have to comb through hundreds of job offers to find the few that will sponsor your work visa, and if you lose your job, you only have 60 days to find another one before you have to leave the country. The lottery (the H-1B program, which randomly selects skilled foreigners to work in the US) is notoriously difficult to win. According to official data, the US Citizenship and Immigration…
Boeing subsidiary WiskAero has acquired Velocell, a software verification and validation company that has been serving the aerospace industry for 25 years. Wisk is taking an autonomy-first approach to electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft: The company's sixth-generation aircraft, which is set to begin aerial testing later this year, is designed for human oversight but will not be physically piloted by humans. This means that Wisk, more than any other company building eVTOL vehicles, needs to ensure that its software is up to par. “There's a ton of high-integrity software in the aircraft and everywhere on the ground that…
It seems likely that not a week will go by in 2024 without a media organization, author group, or artist suing a generative AI company for using their work to train models without their permission. The problem, of course, is that there is as yet no clear framework for what constitutes copyright infringement in the context of GenAI training. While these lawsuits are sure to keep copyright lawyers busy, a new company, Created by Humans, which emerged from stealth on Tuesday, aims to avoid costly legal battles by offering a marketplace where creators can license their intellectual property directly to…
Developers often write, build, and test code in their local environment (i.e., on their laptop) before sending it to a cloud service for integration and deployment. There's nothing wrong with this approach. But local development can introduce challenges, such as conflicts between development environments or, worse, security vulnerabilities. The usability issue of local development environments is one of the reasons why cloud development environments (CDEs), which offer a range of remotely hosted software development tools, have become increasingly influential in recent years. Gartner predicts that by 2026, 60% of cloud workloads will be built and deployed using CDEs. One of…