eBay’s new acquisition could make it easy to buy a car from anywhere

The Verge eBay has “signed a definitive agreement” to buy online automotive transaction platform provider Caramel to help make buying and selling vehicles on the auction site “more simple than ever.” Caramel has a site and app that helps private parties and independent dealers sell cars by handling the paperwork, ownership transfer, financing, shipping, insurance, … Read more

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are slamming Meta over its fact-checking policy

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have joined the ranks of those displeased with Meta’s changes to fact-checking and have released a statement saying that the changes “directly underminds free speech.”  “Meta’s changes to its ‘Hateful Content Policies’ do not protect free expression but instead foster an environment where abuse and hate speech silence and threaten … Read more

Top New York VC Ben Lerer says more mid-sized VC firms are heading for failure

Ben Lerer, managing partner of one of New York’s most prestigious seed-stage venture firms, Lerer Hippeau, shared some predictions with Fortune’s Leo Schwartz. He believes venture firms will continue to see a bifurcation as money pours mostly into top funds like Thrive and a16z, as well as into smaller more bespoke funds.  “Where you go … Read more

Chainalysis Buys Israeli Fraud Detection Startup Alterya for $150M

Blockchain analytics company Chainalysis said Monday it had acquired fraud detection startup Alterya. The deal carried a price tag of $150 million, according to Business Insider. Chainalysis, the largest company tracing illicit crypto flows on behalf of financial institutions and governments, plans to bolster its scam-stopping capabilities with Alterya, CEO Jonathan Levin told CoinDesk. The … Read more

Free Our Feeds wants to build a social media ecosystem ‘resistant to billionaire influence’

Image: Free Our Feeds Technology advocates and celebrities are backing the launch of Free Our Feeds, a campaign designed to “save social media from billionaire capture.” The project aims to raise $30 million over three years to support the development of a social media ecosystem powered by the AT Protocol, or the decentralized network powering … Read more

Tether Group to Establish Headquarters in El Salvador in Emerging Markets Push

Tether, the crypto behemoth behind the $137 billion stablecoin USDT, is establishing headquarters for the group in bitcoin-friendly nation state El Salvador, the company said on Monday. The firm said the development came after acquiring all the necessary licensing as a stablecoin issuer in the country. The move will see Tether relocate incorporated subsidiaries to … Read more

How BQA streamlines education quality reporting using Amazon Bedrock

Given the value of data today, organizations across various industries are working with vast amounts of data across multiple formats. Manually reviewing and processing this information can be a challenging and time-consuming task, with a margin for potential errors. This is where intelligent document processing (IDP), coupled with the power of generative AI, emerges as … Read more

Boosting team innovation, productivity, and knowledge sharing with Amazon Q Business – Web experience

Amazon Q Business can increase productivity across diverse teams, including developers, architects, site reliability engineers (SREs), and product managers. Amazon Q Business as a web experience makes AWS best practices readily accessible, providing cloud-centered recommendations quickly and making it straightforward to access AWS service functions, limits, and implementations. These elements are brought together in a … Read more