technology

Mmotion is a new friendship app that combines elements of location sharing with social discovery features to find nearby users with shared interests. Source link

Amazon Music now lets users in Canada create and join groups based on their favorite genres and artists. Source link

The newly independent 359 Capital is halfway through investing from $181 million second fund. Source link

Vay, a German startup offering remote-controlled rental cars, will get an investment of up to $410M from Singaporean super-app company Grab. Source link

Government surveillance vendors want us to believe their spyware products are only used in limited and targeted operations against terrorists and serious criminals. That claim is increasingly difficult to justify, given the broad range of victims — journalists, activists, and now political consultants — that have come forward. Source link

Scribe Optimize is the startup’s next major offering to help organizations identify where AI will be most useful. Source link

Amanda Kahlow has quietly been back in sales and marketing tech for about a year with agentic startup 1mind. Source link

Lenskart’s public listing stirred debate over the nearly $8 billion valuation set in its IPO. Source link

It’s an important launch for Jeff Bezos’ space company, which is trying to prove its rockets can be re-used while delivering its first commercial payloads. Source link

Slow Ventures hosted a three-hour “Etiquette Finishing School” this week, covering topics like the perfect handshake, public speaking, and office decorum. Source link