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TechInnovation – TikTok wants you to send video resumes directly to brands to land your next gig (Taylor Hatmaker, TechCrunch)

A new pilot program from TikTok would inject a little LinkedIn into the youthful video-based social network. TikTok wants you to send video resumes directly...

TechInnovation – Navigating ad fraud and consumer privacy abuse in programmatic advertising (Jalal Nasir, TechCrunch)

Programmatic advertising is a $200 billion global marketplace that is rapidly growing and far-reaching, with Connected TV (CTV) serving as its latest accelerant. Unfortunately, however, it’s...

TechInnovation – Kobo Elipsa review: A sized-up e-reading companion with clever note taking (Devin Coldewey, TechCrunch)

Kobo’s Elipsa is the latest in the Amazon rival’s e-reading line, and it’s a big one. The 10.3-inch e-paper display brings it up to iPad...

TechInnovation – DeFi investor platform Zerion raises $8.2 million Series A (Lucas Matney, TechCrunch)

While crypto exchanges have demystified some of the largest cryptocurrencies for retail investors, many of the intricacies of decentralized finance are still lost on...

TechInnovation – Osso VR raises $27 million to turn surgery into a video game (Lucas Matney, TechCrunch)

Virtual reality did not turn into the ultimate office replacement telepresence machine during the pandemic — and it wasn’t for lack of trying —...

TechInnovation – WellSaid attracts $10M A round for higher quality synthetic speech (Devin Coldewey, TechCrunch)

WellSaid Labs, whose tools create synthetic speech that could be mistaken for the real thing, has raised a $10M Series A to grow the...

USA – The single vendor requirement ultimately doomed the DoD’s $10B JEDI cloud contract (Ron Miller, TechCrunch)

When the Pentagon killed the JEDI cloud program yesterday, it was the end of a long and bitter road for a project that never seemed...

TechInnovation – r2c raises $27M to scale its security-focused code analysis service (Alex Wilhelm, TechCrunch)

This morning r2c, a startup building a SaaS service around the Semgrep open-source project, announced that it has closed a $27 million Series B. Felicis led...

USA – How USPTO’s First Emerging Tech Director Is Approaching the Nascent Role (Brandi Vincent, Nextgov)

The United States Patent and Trademark Office is deliberately applying innovative technologies across many complex processes, particularly as its filings and examinations are trending up and reaching...

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