Happy Thursday! The government will soon release a tool to help consumers fight manipulative ‘dark patterns’ used by websites. This and more in today’s ETtech Morning Dispatch.Also in the letter:■ Digit Insurance IPO details■ Uber buses in Delhi■ ETtech Done DealsGovernment readies app to protect consumers from deceptive tactics of internet firms 110161454The government will soon crack down on deceptive techniques, also known as dark patterns, used by internet companies, with a mobile...
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James “Jim” Simons, a renowned mathematician and pioneering investor who built a fortune on Wall Street and then became one of the nation’s biggest philanthropists, has died at age 86
Jim Simons, the billionaire investor, mathematician and philanthropist, died on Friday in New York City, according to his foundation, the Simons Foundation. Simons was 86 years old. Simons, the founder of the hedge fund Renaissance Technologies, helped to pioneer quantitative investing, a market strategy that relies on mathematical and statistical models to identify investing opportunities. Later in life, Simons became a political donor and philanthropist. Simons had a love for math and numbers...
Scarcely five months after its founding, hard tech startup Layup Parts has landed a $9 million round of financing led by Founders Fund to transform composites manufacturing. Lux Capital and Haystack also participated. The breakneck pace is more than a subtle indication that investors’ appetite for tech-focused solutions to the woes of the American industrial base […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Sung Kook ‘Bill’ Hwang charged with racketeering conspiracy, fraud and market manipulation for alleged stock scheme in 2021Sung Kook “Bill” Hwang arrived in court on Wednesday for the start of his criminal racketeering trial over the collapse of Archegos Capital Management, facing charges that he and a deputy broke the law in a stock scheme that unraveled in just days in 2021.Hwang appeared in a dark suit and purple tie in the Manhattan federal courtroom for the first day of screening potential...
The Delhi Police has told a court here that NewsClick founder and editor-in-chief Prabir Purkayastha infused funds from China into India to stoke and sustain the 2020 Delhi riots and carry out a disinformation campaign on Covid-19.
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The privacy-focused AI platform leverages blockchain technology to offer permissionless payments and end-to-end encryption.
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Eva Ho plans to step away from her position as general partner at Fika Ventures, the Los Angeles-based seed firm she co-founded in 2016. Fika told LPs of Ho’s intention to step back after Fund III, the firm’s current fund, in an email, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter. Fika confirmed the transition […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.