TECH

TikTok’s Instagram rival, Whee, has no traction
- By IOWA DIGITAL NEWS
- . June 26, 2024
TikTok earlier this month launched a new social app called Whee, an Instagram-like service for taking photos to share with friends. Like Instagram, Whee also

Sir Jack A Lot returns with a startup for retail traders
- By IOWA DIGITAL NEWS
- . June 22, 2024
When former YouTube product manager Kevin Xu, known as “Sir Jack A Lot” on Reddit, turned $35,000 into $8 million trading stocks between 2020 and

Meet Seen, a new app for friends to record reactions to TikToks and other content
- By IOWA DIGITAL NEWS
- . June 18, 2024
We all know the feeling when we send a funny TikTok video, anticipating a response from a friend, only to receive a basic laughing emoji

Arc now features a live calendar button to help you stay punctual for meetings
- By IOWA DIGITAL NEWS
- . June 14, 2024
The Browser Company’s Arc, a web browser that aims to have a less cluttered user interface, launched a “Live Calendar” feature to ensure you never

Mandiant says hackers stole a ‘significant volume of data’ from Snowflake customers
- By IOWA DIGITAL NEWS
- . June 10, 2024
Security researchers say they believe financially motivated cybercriminals have stolen a “significant volume of data” from hundreds of customers hosting their vast banks of data

Revel’s latest pivot: Ditching all-employee ride-hail in favor of gig worker model
- By IOWA DIGITAL NEWS
- . June 6, 2024
New York-based Revel has made a lot of pivots since initially launching in 2018 as a dockless e-moped sharing service. The BlackRock-backed startup briefly stepped

Trump takes off on TikTok
- By IOWA DIGITAL NEWS
- . June 2, 2024
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump now has an account on the short-form video app that he once tried to ban. Trump’s TikTok account, which

The Cadillac Optiq is an entry-level luxury EV designed to hook young buyers
- By IOWA DIGITAL NEWS
- . May 29, 2024
Cadillac may seem a bit too traditional to hang its driving cap on EVs. And yet, that hasn’t stopped the GM brand from rolling out

Intel and others commit to building open generative AI tools for the enterprise
- By IOWA DIGITAL NEWS
- . April 16, 2024
Can generative AI designed for the enterprise (e.g. AI that autocompletes reports, spreadsheet formulas and so on) ever be interoperable? Along with a coterie of

Startups Weekly: So are we all working from home now?
- By IOWA DIGITAL NEWS
- . April 12, 2024
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