“I suggest reaching out right before Labor Day to set up a meeting in September or wait and start your outreach altogether next month.” from...
Thursday, August 31, 2023
Lawsuit alleges no due diligence in Amazon’s Project Kuiper launch contracts to Blue Origin, ULA
Prospero Silvério
August 31, 2023
An institutional investor is suing Amazon and its board, including founder and executive chairman Jeff Bezos, over hefty launch contracts th...
Fisker confirms Foxconn will build its $29,900 Pear EV, but questions remain
Prospero Silvério
August 31, 2023
EV startup Fisker revealed more details about its $29,900 Pear electric urban lifestyle crossover vehicle Thursday at the company’s Product ...
Open banking — where traditional banks open their data up with APIs to build new financial services for their customers — has the potential ...
Elon Musk-owned X, formerly Twitter, is now rolling out a feature for paid users to let them hide their likes. This comes after rival social...
Wednesday, August 30, 2023
Garena is relaunching Free Fire in India, a year and a half after the popular mobile title was banned in the South Asian market over nationa...
French startup Teale has secured a funding round of $11 million earlier this summer (€10 million). The company provides a mental health plat...
Google’s AI-powered search expands outside U.S. to India and Japan
Prospero Silvério
August 30, 2023
Google is bringing its generative AI search experience to the first countries outside the U.S., the company announced today, starting with e...
"I feel like if we know Elon Musk’s name in a hundred years, that's a very, very bad sign." from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/iPf...
Venmo lets you gift money to your loved ones with special Hallmark greeting cards
Prospero Silvério
August 30, 2023
Venmo is partnering with greeting card manufacturer Hallmark to let you send a physical gift card loaded with money. Hallmark said that this...
Longevity loving Fairphone 5 unwrapped, with pledge of 8+ years software support
Prospero Silvério
August 30, 2023
Ethical electronics startup, Fairphone, has taken the recycled wrapping off a new flagship smartphone, the Fairphone 5, which will start shi...
Hyperproof, a compliance and risk management startup, raises $40M
Prospero Silvério
August 30, 2023
Hyperproof, a software-as-a-service risk and compliance management company, today announced that it raised $40 million in a funding round le...
With Beijing’s greenlight, mobility unicorns Zeekr and WeRide inch closer to US IPOs
Prospero Silvério
August 30, 2023
Six months ago, China’s securities authority announced a set of new rules to facilitate overseas IPOs of Chinese companies, allowing Beijing...
PhonePe dives into stock and mutual fund arena
Prospero Silvério
August 30, 2023
India’s PhonePe is getting into stock and mutual fund investment, the latest in a series of expansion by Walmart-backed payments app as it l...
Tuesday, August 29, 2023
General Motors has found a new way to get in on the generative AI buzz. The automaker is now using Google Cloud’s conversational chatbot, du...
WordPress is now selling 100-year domains
Prospero Silvério
August 29, 2023
WordPress, a company that has been around for 20 years, is now selling domains with a 100-year registration length. That means your blog or ...
Monday, August 28, 2023
Lightspeed backs Markato, a marketplace that helps independent brands break into Asia
Prospero Silvério
August 28, 2023
During the pandemic, almost all retailers in Asia established an e-commerce presence and adopted digital payments. But one thing that didn’t...
SEC settles first NFT enforcement case, fines LA media company $6M
Prospero Silvério
August 28, 2023
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is suing a non-fungible token project, marking the first time the authority has taken enforcemen...
MFast get backing from Wavemaker Partners to increase financial services access in Vietnam
Prospero Silvério
August 28, 2023
The majority of Vietnam’s population live in rural areas and often lack access to financial services because banks and other institutions op...
Cruise, the self-driving subsidiary of General Motors, said Monday it has begun manual data collection in Seattle and Washington, DC, the fi...
Content creation is work, but in such a rapidly shifting social media landscape, creators face an uphill battle fighting for fair pay and ow...
Reliance’s financial services unit to offer insurance, merchant lending
Prospero Silvério
August 28, 2023
Jio Financial Services, the financial services unit of Mukesh Ambani-run Indian conglomerate Reliance Industries, plans to expand to merchan...
Bluesky introduced a bunch of updates on Friday to its mobile apps and website including a new tab to see your own likes, notification suppo...
Sunday, August 27, 2023
Tesla’s China rival Xpeng buys ride hailing giant Didi’s smart EV assets for $744M
Prospero Silvério
August 27, 2023
Chinese electric vehicle upstart Xpeng is acquiring the smart EV assets of ride hailing giant Didi for $744 million, marking another signifi...
The battery business is booming and Zeekr kicks off it IPO roadshow
Prospero Silvério
August 27, 2023
The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive the newslett...
When investors look at a startup slide deck, they are looking for something very specific. Yes, they want to know if the team is great and t...
Looking for your next book? These 9 authors have reading recommendations for you
Prospero Silvério
August 27, 2023
What’s the hardest part of reading? More often than not, it’s picking a good book. “L’embarras du choix,” as we say in French: Presented wit...
Better.com’s public market debut was Miserable.com
Prospero Silvério
August 27, 2023
Welcome back to The Interchange, where we take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. Better.com finally went public las...
Saturday, August 26, 2023
A Brazilian phone spyware was hacked and victims’ stolen device data ‘deleted’
Prospero Silvério
August 26, 2023
A Portuguese-language spyware called WebDetetive has been used to compromise more than 76,000 Android phones in recent years across South Am...
Yes, in my backyard
Prospero Silvério
August 26, 2023
W elcome to the TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s inspired by the daily TechCrunch+ column where it gets...
The scoop on Gen-Z and how they are rewriting the rules of the Internet
Prospero Silvério
August 26, 2023
Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts . Hello and welcome back to Equity , a podcast about the business of startups, where we un...
Friday, August 25, 2023
Byju’s, the edtech giant and India’s most valuable startup , has fixed a server-side misconfiguration that was exposing the sensitive data o...
Luxury Presence, which builds marketing tools for realtors, raises $19.2M
Prospero Silvério
August 25, 2023
Real estate marketing is no walk in the park. Not only do realtors have to weather market volatility, but they need to meet buyers where the...
All hail the new EU law that lets social media users quiet quit the algorithm
Prospero Silvério
August 25, 2023
Internet users in the European Union are logging on to a quiet revolution on mainstream social networks today: The ability to say ‘no thanks...
Zepto becomes India’s first 2023 unicorn with $200 million fresh funding
Prospero Silvério
August 25, 2023
Instant grocery delivery startup Zepto has raised $200 million in a new funding round at a valuation of $1.4 billion, it said Friday, at a t...