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Back Market raises $335M for its refurbished device marketplace, now valued at $3.2B

TechCrunch

At a time when mobile phone makers are seeing declines in sales due to slower renewal cycles, and incrementally fewer features added into newer models, Back Market provides another alternative to people who don’t want to pay full price for a device that might still be in good condition and new to the user, if not altogether new itself.

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Apping Out Illegal Waste: Free Download to Target Illegal Dumps

Tech Soup

The above is the analysis of Jozef Vodicka, a Slovakian geek and entrepreneur, whose team has developed a multi-mobile-platform (iOS, Android, Windows Phone) application for documenting illegal dumping and, not incidentally, for mobilizing environmental consciousness and fostering citizen engagement.

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How European startups are aiding Ukrainian refugees

TechCrunch

The company is also incentivizing drivers in Poland and Slovakia to accept rides on the Ukrainian border to help transport refugees. However, readers are advised to proceed with caution as few sites have come up with a verified way of checking the identities of accommodation hosts. Tech jobs for Ukrainians. What’s still needed?

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Elon Musk’s Twitter (now X): Everything you need to know, from layoffs to verification

TechCrunch

However, you probably don’t have that already saved to your phone. Now if a user sees a blue check mark and clicks on it, the label reads: “This account is verified because they are subscribed to Twitter Blue and verified their phone number.” It also redirects users to the eToro site where they can engage in trading.

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The Pixel 9a launches on April 10 in the US

Engadget

In an update to a Pixel 9a support page (via 9to5Google ) on Friday, Google wrote that the phone will arrive on April 10 in the US, Canada and the UK. Sam Rutherford for Engadget Pre-announcement reports suggested the phone would arrive on March 26, but Google said on the day of its unveiling that it was delayed into April.

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