It’s easy to forget how fragile internet memory is, but last month, members of the Something Awful forums got a gross reminder. Ubiquitous image host Imgur announced that starting in mid-May it would be removing nudity and pornography, along with “old, unused and inactive content” not associated with an account. The wording was so vague … Read more
Nintendo Live 2023 will be a free event and there are two ways to get tickets. You can register for a randomly selected drawing on the Nintendo website sometime between May 31 and June 22, where you can get a day pass for a group of up to six people. Children under the age of … Read more
Invesco, which led Swiggy’s previous round, has downgraded the Indian food delivery giant’s valuation of its stake to about $5.5 billion, according to a filing. This revised valuation, as of January 31, 2023, represents a striking 48.6% drop from the $10.7 billion valuation Invesco previously attributed to the startup in a funding round the Atlanta-headquartered … Read more
Partners of 3one4 Capital, a venture capital firm in India, recently went on a roadshow to raise a new fund. Within two and a half months, at the height of the deteriorating global economy, they had raised $200 million. It is the fourth major fund for the Bengaluru-headquartered fund whose portfolio includes four unicorn startups. … Read more
Are you a seed stage founder building a unicorn? NFX Founding Partner James Currier wants to save you some time: startups that grow into billion-dollar companies have three basic forms of resilience. Network Effects: Your product becomes more valuable as more people use it. Embedding: Integrate your services so deeply that customers can’t take them … Read more
Welcome to The Switch! If you received this in your inbox, thank you for signing up and your trust. If you read this as a post on our site, please subscribe here so that you can receive it immediately in the future. Each week we look at the latest fintech news from the past week. … Read more
Happy Saturday dear readers! In case you didn’t know, Mother’s Day is this coming weekend, which means you have about a week to pick up a gift if you intended to. We’ve collected a wide variety of choices in our Mother’s Day Gift Guide, but if you want a quick suggestion, Apple’s third-generation AirPods are … Read more
Frontline is latest startup to grab VC dollars with $6.4M seed round Wildfires, and the damage they cause is a growing problem. There were more than 66,000 wildfires in the U.S. alone in 2022, and while many believe these natural disasters are largely a California problem, they are burning across the country, causing millions of … Read more
A race to reserve usernames is starting on Discord. Starting in the coming weeks, millions of Discord users will be forced to say goodbye to their old four-digit names. Discord requires everyone to pick up a new common platform-wide handle. For Discord, it’s a step toward mainstream social networking conventions. However, for some users it … Read more
In a sense, this is understandable. The thing is still in beta. The team is small and actively juggles moderation as it tries to ship features. I’m not sure who was invited, but… something led to today’s announcement. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is already there, as are Senator Brian Schatz and Senator Ron Wyden. There are … Read more