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Spotify Technology SA (NYSE:SPOT) agreed to acquire Sonantic. Sonantic is a dynamic AI voice platform that creates compelling, nuanced, and stunningly realistic voices from the text.  The financial terms of the transaction remain undisclosed. Sonantic technology helped bring Val Kilmer’s voice to life in Tom Cruise’s blockbuster Top Gun: Maverick, the TechCrunch reports. Kilmer was…

Meta Platforms, Inc (NASDAQ:META) is scaling back its plans to release a series of augmented reality glasses over the next several years, the Information reports.  The move marks its second product suspension for the week as it battled the current revenue slowdown. Meta aimed to trim heavy investments in its Reality Labs hardware…

Mass adoption of blockchain technology and digital assets will happen sooner rather than later, as per Mastercard Inc (NYSE:MA) VP Harold Bossé, the TechCrunch reports. "Think about the advent of the internet; no one was thinking that Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN) could even be a concept — you need the internet for Amazon to work," he…

WeWork Inc (NYSE:WE) cofounder Adam Neumann raised $70 million from venture capitalists and others for his co-founded carbon-credit startup Flowcarbon, Bloomberg reports. The startup raised traditional funding from backers like Andreessen Horowitz’s crypto arm, General Catalyst, and Samsung Next. Flowcarbon also raised money by selling its token, called the Goddess Nature Token. Neumann,…

Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) YouTube pitched itself to advertisers at the YouTube Brandcast event as a better place for their TV ad dollars, TechCrunch reports. YouTube teased upcoming features that it claimed would make it easier for viewers to discover and buy from brands. YouTube touted its forthcoming tools to offer advertisers…

Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ:MSFT) launched a new offering called Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability to improve its carbon footprint. Salesforce, Inc (NYSE:CRM), Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google, and International Business Machines Corp (NYSE:IBM) made similar endeavors, the TechCrunch reports. Microsoft's solution looks to use a set of measuring devices to collect the data and exploit Microsoft's cloud-based data collection services to…

German automaker Volkswagen AG (OTC: VWAGY) is leaving no stones unturned in gaining a foothold into the lucrative U.S. electric vehicle market.

Like an iPod according to this concept prototype shared by Tony Fadell, the "father" of Apple's hit music player.

As India hits the 100 unicorn startups mark, the country is turning out to be a lucrative deal for investors worldwide.