BUSINESS

TikTok’s Instagram rival, Whee, has no traction
- By Neclink.com
- . June 26, 2024
TikTok earlier this month launched a new social app called Whee, an Instagram-like service for taking photos to share with friends. Like Instagram, Whee also

Threads users can now share to the open social web, aka the fediverse
- By Neclink.com
- . June 25, 2024
Instagram’s Twitter/X rival Threads is furthering its expansion into the fediverse — the interconnected social network that includes apps like Mastodon, PeerTube, and others running

OpenAI buys a remote collaboration platform
- By Neclink.com
- . June 24, 2024
OpenAI is on an M&A tear. Days after acquiring database tech firm Rockset, OpenAI has purchased Multi (previously Remotion), a startup developing a enterprise-focused, video-first

Silicon Valley leaders are once again declaring ‘DEI’ bad and ‘meritocracy’ good — but they’re wrong
- By Neclink.com
- . June 23, 2024
Who’s afraid of the Big Bad DEI? The acronym is near-poisonous now — a word that creates almost instant tension between those who embrace it

Sir Jack A Lot returns with a startup for retail traders
- By Neclink.com
- . June 22, 2024
When former YouTube product manager Kevin Xu, known as “Sir Jack A Lot” on Reddit, turned $35,000 into $8 million trading stocks between 2020 and

Sample Seed pitch deck: Feel Therapeutics’s $3.5M deck
- By Neclink.com
- . June 21, 2024
Feel Therapeutics is working to make mental health care more science-forward. The company makes wearable devices, mobile apps and clinician dashboards to gather physiological, digital

EU Member States remain divided on controversial CSAM-scanning plan — but for how long?
- By Neclink.com
- . June 20, 2024
A key body of European Union lawmakers remains stalled over a controversial legislative proposal that could see millions of users of messaging apps forced to

In spite of hype, many companies are moving cautiously when it comes to generative AI
- By Neclink.com
- . June 19, 2024
Vendors would have you believe that we are in the midst of an AI revolution, one that is changing the very nature of how we

Meet Seen, a new app for friends to record reactions to TikToks and other content
- By Neclink.com
- . June 18, 2024
We all know the feeling when we send a funny TikTok video, anticipating a response from a friend, only to receive a basic laughing emoji

Perplexity now displays results for temperature, currency conversion and simple math, so you don’t have to use Google
- By Neclink.com
- . June 17, 2024
Amid ongoing controversy about handling of media articles and original reporting, AI-powered search startup Perplexity now displays results for factual queries such as weather and