Zoe, which went viral with its Covid-reporting app, raises $30M to track nutrition and health • TechCrunch

Zoe, which went viral with its Covid-reporting app, raises $30M to track nutrition and health • ProWellTech

Zoe, a startup founded by doctors and researchers out of London and Boston, made its name during the pandemic with a popular — dare we say viral? — self-reporting Covid-19 app. Embraced both by consumers and researchers, it provided early data into how Covid-19 spread and the symptoms associated with the initial infection and its…

Was Sam Bankman-Fried's appearance a performance? • TechCrunch

Was Sam Bankman-Fried’s appearance a performance? • ProWellTech

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried talked from an undisclosed location in the Bahamas today with reporter Andrew Ross Sorkin for a DealBook event, a discussion that his legal team “very much” did not approve of, he told Sorkin with a boyish grin. Hedge fund billionaire Bill Ackman tweeted afterward that he felt “SBF” was “telling the truth.”…

Smartphone re-commerce startup Badili raises $2.1M pre-seed funding • TechCrunch

Smartphone re-commerce startup Badili raises $2.1M pre-seed funding • ProWellTech

Badili, a Kenya-based smartphone re-commerce startup, has raised $2.1 million pre-seed funding to scale its operations within Africa; one of the fastest-growing mobile phone market in the world. The Venture Catalysts, V&R Africa, Grenfell holdings, and SOSV, participated in the round, as did family offices and angel investors from Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa and India….

SBF regrets declaring FTX bankrupt • TechCrunch

SBF claims massive ignorance on obvious conflicts in FTX downfall • ProWellTech

“I didn’t ever try to commit fraud on anyone, I was shocked by what happened this month,” Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), the founder and former chief executive of the fallen FTX, said at The New York Times’ annual DealBook summit in an interview with Andrew Ross Sorkin. One of the biggest questions around this debacle is…

Music fans revisit their year in music with Spotify Wrapped 2022 • TechCrunch

Music fans revisit their year in music with Spotify Wrapped 2022 • ProWellTech

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Dolly Parton sings with others outside in Dolly Parton’s Mountain Magic Christmas.

Where to watch Dolly Parton’s Mountain Magic Christmas for free

It wouldn’t be Christmas without Dolly Parton. The popular country singer and 9 to 5 actress had put her stamp on the holiday long before a certain “elusive chanteuse” pop singer proclaimed herself the “Queen of Christmas.” With movies like Christmas at Dollywood, Coat of Many Colorsand last year’s Emmy-nominated Netflix hit Dolly Parton’s Christmas…

Musk at Twitter has 'huge work' ahead to comply with EU rules, warns bloc • TechCrunch

Musk at Twitter has ‘huge work’ ahead to comply with EU rules, warns bloc • ProWellTech

European Union regulators have fired another warning shot at Elon Musk over his erratic piloting of Twitter since his takeover last month — saying he has “huge work” ahead if the social media site is to avoid falling foul of major new governance rules for digital services which entered into force earlier this month. Reminder:…

StartupOS launches what it hopes will be the operating system for early-stage startups • TechCrunch

StartupOS launches what it hopes will be the operating system for early-stage startups • ProWellTech

Running a startup can be a chaotic time; a million things need to be built, done, tracked, analyzed, considered, reported and validated. Keeping an overview of it all can be hard, and there’s always a threat of something (maybe something important?!) slipping through the cracks. StartupOS today launched a platform to bring some sanity to…