Spotify’s next frontier: fitness content

Spotify’s next frontier: fitness content

After expanding into podcasts, audiobooks, video, and even physical books, Spotify on Monday announced its next big category: fitness content. The company is building on its reputation as a hub for energizing playlists for your workout to actually become the home to your workout itself. To do so, Spotify has partnered with a number of…

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Building Healthcare Apps That Handle Patient Data Properly

Building Healthcare Apps That Handle Patient Data Properly

Healthcare application development looks like software development from the outside. The tools overlap, the patterns are familiar, and the code isn’t obviously different. Behind that surface, it operates under a different set of obligations that shape every architectural decision you make, from how you store a phone number to how you log a database query….

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Truecaller faces mounting pressures as its growth matures

Truecaller faces mounting pressures as its growth matures

Truecaller is one of the world’s most widely used caller identification platforms, with more than 500 million users. Now it’s entering a more challenging phase as growth slows in its largest market and competition intensifies across telecom networks and smartphone platforms. Much of Truecaller’s growth has been driven by India, which accounts for over 350…

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What Tim Cook built | TechCrunch

What Tim Cook built | TechCrunch

After 15 years as Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook will be stepping down from the role in September.  On the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Kirsten Korosec, Sean O’Kane, and I discussed Apple’s big announcement. We reflected on how Apple has changed since Cook took over from Steve Jobs in 2011, and what challenges incoming…

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Two college kids raise a .1 million pre-seed to build an AI social network in iMessage

Two college kids raise a $5.1 million pre-seed to build an AI social network in iMessage

Series, a social networking app, announced that it raised a $5.1 million pre-seed round, with investors including Venmo co-founder Iqram Magdon-Ismail, Pear VC, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman, and GPTZero founder Edward Tian. The company was founded early last year by Yale students Nathaneo Johnson and Sean Hargrow, both still seniors at the university.  Series considers…

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