Meta rolling out Voice Mode in Horizon Worlds

The feature will allow the Quest 2 VR headset users to choose how they hear people who aren't on the friend's list, including the option not to hear unwanted conversations.

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Twitter users face trouble logging in

Social media is buzzing due to this outage. One of the users asked, "Did twitter have an outage? I kept getting the oops something went wrong page and could not log in."

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SaaS buying platform Spendflo raises $4.4 million in seed funding

The round saw participation from BoldCap and Signal Peak Ventures, along with a bunch of founders.

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Elon Musk to address Twitter employees for first time in Town Hall

Ever since Elon Musk's takeover bid, many Twitter employees have expressed concerns that the billionaire's erratic behavior could destabilize the social media company's business, and hurt it financially.

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Sequoia closes largest India, SEA fund at $2.85B; concerns over proposed IT rules changes

The storied VC firm has now closed this fund, and will invest $2 billion of it in Indian startups and the remaining $800 million across Southeast Asia.

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Newly-minted unicorn PhysicsWallah zeroes in on personal coaching space

The bootstrapped startup raised $100 million last week in its maiden funding round, led by WestBridge Capital and GSV Ventures, making it the latest edtech firm to enter the unicorn club, or those privately held companies with a valuation of $1 billion or more.

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Sequoia Capital closes largest India and SEA dedicated fund at $2.8 billion

This is the first time that Sequoia has demarcated allocations separately for India and Southeast Asia (SEA), a geography where it has been active over the past five-six years with bets like GoTo (the combined entity of GoJek and Tokopedia), One Championship and Zilingo.

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