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[The Daily Crunch logo]( By [Christine Hall]( Monday, May 22, 2023 To get a roundup of TechCrunchâs biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, [subscribe here](. Today, we look at Metaâs giant fine from the European Union, which startups are flush with cash and what Amazon is doing with your palm. I hope you had a good weekend and are ready to jump into some news, because this is your Daily Crunch for Monday. â [Christine]( Meta is most likely smarting from a whopping $1.3 billion fine (â¬1.2 billion) handed down from the European Data Protection Board related to Facebook data flows. Just to hammer that home more, âthe Board confirmed it is the largest fine ever issued under the blocâs General Data Protection Regulation.â [Weâve got all the juice thatâs fit to squeeze on this](. Show of digital hands: How many of you have created a great social media post only to hit âpostâ and find a typo? The only options used to be âdeleteâ and try again, or pay for the privilege of editing. Well, today youâre in luck because WhatsApp has your back in the editing department. [Find out more](. Telemedicine continues to gain ground, but digital healthcare startup Patient21 thinks it has a unique business model going where there is proprietary software for managing patients, who are then steered toward one of the companyâs 50-plus outpatient clinics across Germany. [See how this model is paying off](. Ebb and Flow: Romaniaâs FlowX.ai is now flush with $35 million for its AI-based approach to application integration. [Get the scoop](. Banned!: China launched a probe into American chip manufacturer Micron over national security risks and has now banned some of Micronâs products. [Read more](. Hello? Is someone there?: General Atlantic gave a whopping $100 million to this India-based fintech that processes online transactions. [Find out who it is](. [ image] Meanwhile, Amazon One found something fun to do with its palm-scanning payment technology. Iâll give you a hint: It involves age verification services and cold beverages. [Find out where this is being used](. Machines break down all the time, which costs companies time and money until they are up and running again. What if you could predict this happening before it happens? [See who Tiger Global backed to solve this problem](. Financial technology is often developed for the wealthiest individuals or those with low income. Onyx Private believes affluent professionals â those in the middle that make a decent living and arenât wealthy yet â deserve some bank love, too. [Read about what Onyx developed for them](. The kids are all right: Venmo is going after some new demographics. The intro gives it away, but you can still [find out more](. New job alert: We have the scoop on where Melonee Wise landed after selling Fetch Robotics in 2021. [Read more](. Startups need a plan, too: Financial planning might not typically be a subject you associate with startups, but trying to predict the future sure is. See how Firmbase is [modernizing financial planning for startups](. The wheels on the bus are now digital: Indiaâs Chalo raised $45 million in fresh funding to [digitize bus commutes](. Shut up and drive: If you like your SUV with a place to plug it in, youâll want to check out the new offering by Cadillac. [Read more](. Donât forget these: [Volition wants to be DigiKey for industrial parts](. [Discord is testing parental controls that allow for monitoring of friends and servers](. [Dish says ransomware gang stole almost 300,000 employee records](. [LinkedIn brings its verification tools to job posts]( [Opentrons aims to democratize lab access with its Flex robot](. [ image] Image Credits: Amazon [CRO: Why startups should prioritize conversion rate optimization early]( Landing pages are the first places most startups go to experiment and refine messaging, but unless you’re using a solid framework and constantly iterating, you’re leaving money on the table. In his latest column, growth marketing expert Jonathan Martinez identifies several conversion rate optimization (CRO) experiments and explains how “to streamline efforts so you can stack-rank tests and have a consistent measuring methodology.” “CRO is so vital early on for startups,” Martinez noted on Twitter. “It’s when you can most easily find those 10-20% wins in conversion rates across the funnel.” Four more from the TC+ team: Grab-and-go: [Will startups have a shot in the enterprise AI race?]( Brrr, itâs cold in here: [How to write the perfect cold email to investors](. ESGee whiz: [Executives say theyâre committed to ESG, but data shows otherwise](. 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