Link-in-bio startup Linktree introduced new features today including a featured layout to highlight links better, the ability to fetch the latest posts from Instagram, and support for a […]
Empathy closes $47M for AI to help with the practical and emotional bereavement process
Death, as the famous saying goes, is one of the inevitable certainties of life. But that doesn’t make coping with it any easier — not least because while […]
Sea’s Free Fire India relaunch in limbo six months on
Sea is “still making changes” and has yet to launch its popular mobile game Free Fire in India, more than six months after announcing plans to do so. […]
Locker organizes your shopping links into virtual wish lists and collages
After years of copying and pasting shopping links into spreadsheets and taking screenshots of products to share with her friends and family, Kristine Locker finally decided to launch […]
What to know before buying something from TikTok Shop
As TikTok encourages more buying opportunities on the app, sellers are taking advantage of deal-seeking buyers. Here’s what you should know before buying from the social media platform.
Fidelity cuts Meta-backed Meesho valuation to $3.5 billion
Fidelity has cut the value of its holding in Meesho by 33.6% since the original investment, giving the Indian social commerce startup a valuation of $3.5 billion, adjusted […]
Meesho GMV tops $5B; app grows faster than Flipkart, Amazon India
India’s Meesho is rapidly gaining user traction, challenging entrenched leaders Flipkart and Amazon. The Bengaluru-headquartered startup, which operates a social commerce platform, is currently at a GMV run […]
TikTok usage is starting to slow — is TikTok Shop to blame?
TikTok may have been the world’s top app by downloads and consumer spending in 2023, but it was not the top by actual usage. Last year, Facebook again […]
Two of Africa’s largest B2B e-commerce platforms MaxAB and Wasoko in merger talks
Egyptian B2B e-commerce startup MaxAB and Wasoko, a Kenya-based e-commerce player that operates in Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Uganda and Zambia, are in talks to merge operations, TechCrunch has […]