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Wastream TV: The Startup Rethinking How African Content Makes Money In a digital landscape dominated by global models that often fail to reflect local realities, one platform is working to reshape how African content is distributed and monetized. Wastream TV, headquartered in San Francisco, is positioning itself as a bold alternative for streaming Afro-centric content worldwide. At the center of this vision is Youssef Ouattara , an Ivorian entrepreneur and founder of the plat

Meta is laying off several hundred employees across multiple teams, including sales, recruiting, and the Reality Labs division, as reported by The Information and Bloomberg . The cuts will impact employees in the U.S. and other international markets. Some of those employees will be offered other jobs or the opportunity to relocate to remain with the company, Bloomberg reported. “Teams across Meta regularly restructure or implement changes to ensure they’re in the best positi

You can now transfer your chats and personal information from other chatbots directly into Gemini When it comes to AI chatbots, there’s currently a war on for consumer attention. All the big chatbot providers are looking to increase their user count and, in a minor coup for itself, Google just made it significantly easier for users of those other chatbots to defect to Gemini. On Thursday, the company announced what it calls “switching tools,” new widgets that are designed to

Investors have flocked to Y Combinator’s Demo Days for years to get their hands on promising startups building cool tech. After all, the accelerator has produced some of the biggest tech companies in the world, from Airbnb and Reddit to Dropbox, Zapier and Stripe. That’s why we make it a point to keep an eye on the event to spot the most interesting companies from each batch. As I’ve been doing nearly every quarter now that the accelerator has moved to four cohorts a year, I