In this edition of Week in Review, we cover Tinder's pricey new subscription, Amazon's investment in Anthropic and the features of A...
Saturday, September 30, 2023
As tech companies begin to monetize generative AI, the creators on whose work it is trained are asking for their fair share. But so far no o...
Anduril is symbolic of a trend in which defense tech and venture capital dollars are no longer antithetic. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/zc...
You’d better believe that Humane is going to milk the media hype cycle for all it’s worth. After all, the company’s been buzzy since it firs...
Friday, September 29, 2023
Streamers are leaving Kick en masse in protest of the platform’s lack of safety guidelines, after a prominent creator streamed an encounter ...
The liquidators behind Three Arrows Capital (3AC), the now-defunct crypto hedge fund, shared that the firm’s co-founder Su Zhu was arrested ...
Discord is currently down for many users, the instant messaging service confirmed on Friday morning. The company says the outage is due to t...
After issuing updates to iOS, iPadOS, and macOS in the past few weeks, Apple has rolled out a redesigned iCloud.com website with more functi...
Thursday, September 28, 2023
SpaceX won its first contract for Starshield, the defense-focused version of its Starlink satellite internet service, from the U.S. Space Fo...
Adobe officially launched Photoshop for the web on Wednesday for all users with paid plans. The web version, which was in beta for almost tw...
Almost eight years after former Opera CEO Jon von Tetzchner launched a new browser for desktop users, his company named Vivaldi has introduc...
Wednesday, September 27, 2023
Four years after the release of the Raspberry Pi 4, the Raspberry Pi team is back with a new small-but-mighty computer — the Raspberry Pi 5....
According to X CEO Linda Yaccarino, the company formerly known as Twitter will be profitable by early 2024. “Now that I have immersed myself...
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters union is urging U.S. auto safety regulators to deny a petition by General Motors to grant an exem...
Meta announced a host of new AI-powered bots, features and products to be released across its messaging apps, the Meta Quest 3 and the futur...
The payment landscape in Africa is still fragmented, with several payment operators providing different payment options to customers as well...
Some 76% of the top 500 VC-backed UK startups have done nothing to either measure or offset their carbon emissions, according to new researc...
Google has announced the launch of its earthquake alert system for Android devices in India. The system uses smartphone sensors such as acce...
Tuesday, September 26, 2023
After almost five months, the Writers Guild of America (WGA) has reached an agreement with Hollywood studios to end the writers strike. Star...
The goal of Atlassian's CTO, Rajeev Rajan, and that of the two CEOs is to create one of the top tech companies at the world. from TechCr...
Palo Alto Networks’ stock price has been on the rise on the back of strong earnings and growing demand for cybersecurity services, and now t...
P1 Ventures has reached the first close of its second fund at $25 million. It expects to reach a final close early next year. from TechCrunc...
GIC is in talks to invest in the Indian startup Vegrow, which runs a business-to-business marketplace for fruits, two sources familiar with ...
Another day, another Google product goes to the graveyard. The company is sunsetting Gmail’s basic HTML view, which allows users to look at ...
Monday, September 25, 2023
Telegram, the popular messenger with 800 million monthly active users worldwide, is inching closer to adopting an ecosystem strategy that is...
Blue Origin CEO Bob Smith is retiring at the end of the year and his replacement is coming from Jeff Bezos’ other company. Dave Limp, an Ama...
The SEC requires companies to report both material cybersecurity incidents and cybersecurity risk management processes in a standardized way...
ChatGPT is evolving into much more than a text-based search engine, with OpenAI announcing today that it’s adding new voice and image-based ...
Amazon said Monday it has agreed to invest up to $4 billion in AI startup Anthropic as the e-commerce group steps up rivalry against Microso...
Sunday, September 24, 2023
The generative AI boom has put a spring in the step of Correcto, a Madrid-based language writing tool startup focused on Spanish speakers th...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill Friday that would have required a human safety operator to be present any time a self-driving tru...
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Building an equitable cap table allows startups to bring on experts they wouldn't be able to hire while making VC more diverse. from Tec...
Welcome back to The Interchange, where we take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. If you want to receive The Interchan...
Saturday, September 23, 2023
Welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular newsletter covering the past few days in tech. The TC crew — including this reporter —...
"Accessibility is a human right," reads a sticker from the Howe Innovation Center. And for sure, it is great to see startups help ...
PhonePe launched the Indus AppStore Developer Platform on Saturday, promising zero platform fee and no commission on in-app purchases as the...
Friday, September 22, 2023
Software spending is now the third-biggest expense for organizations, right after employee and office costs. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/...
Thursday, September 21, 2023
People with diabetes have to monitor their blood sugar levels regularly by pricking their skin. Many glucose-monitoring device makers worldw...
What is a Surface event without a Panos Panay? Microsoft answered the existential question today during a New York City Windows event. The c...
TikTok is testing a new feature that integrates Google Search into its own in-app search results. The test, spotted by app researcher Radu O...
Nearly two years ago, Katie Haun left Andreessen Horowitz and raised two crypto funds totaling $1.5 billion. And then… a crypto market crisi...
As Microsoft marches toward a new deadline for its planned acquisition of Activision, the company stumbled into an unexpected setback of its...
During the last three days 20 startups participated in the incredibly competitive Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt. These 20 compan...
Kinhub, a B2B SaaS platform powered by AI, seeks to democratize access to coaching and wellness support for employees. from TechCrunch https...
In 2020, Kauffman Fellows (KF), a prominent venture education program renowned for its extensive and well-established network of VCs, made a...
OpenAI is facing another investigation into whether its generative AI chatbot, ChatGPT, complies with European Union privacy laws. Last mont...
Indian health and wellness startup HealthifyMe has introduced an AI-powered feature that recognizes Indian food from images for calorie inta...
Autonomous trucking startup Waabi is committing billions of miles of driverless capacity to the Uber Freight network as part of a 10-year st...
Wednesday, September 20, 2023
During the last two days, 20 startups pitched their companies as part of TechCrunch Startup Battlefield at Disrupt 2023. These 20 companies ...
Concerns while building Libra weren't limited to China, though. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/bpozC59
Cruise is planning to build a winterized version of the Origin, the company’s autonomous vehicle model that is purpose-built without a steer...
GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke considers AI and software development to now be inextricably linked, powered by assistive tools such as Copilot and...
Tuesday, September 19, 2023
Babbel, the popular subscription-based language learning service, today announced that it has acquired Toucan, the well-funded language lear...
As more creators turn to AI for their artistic expression, there’s also a broader push for transparency around when AI was involved in conte...
ANKA, an Ivorian SaaS e-commerce platform for African businesses, has raised $5 million. The pre-Series A extension round is a mix of equity...
Plan A, a carbon accounting and ESG (environmental, social, and governance) reporting platform for corporations, has raised $27 million in a...
Catch+Release, a startup that lets brands license creator content, said it has launched an AI-powered search that lets users look for user-g...
Monday, September 18, 2023
European Union (EU) lawmakers this month announced plans to reduce waste and increase recycling across the bloc, with proposals to collect a...
French startup Stoïk offers a cyber insurance product to small and medium companies — a bit like Coalition in the U.S. And things have been ...
The United Auto Workers’ strike against General Motors, Ford and Stellantis is well into its fourth day, with no deal in sight. The strike c...
Apple’s long-awaited iOS 17 update for iPhones lands today with a number of new and improved security features. Much of the new features are...
I love a good pivot story. It’s something most startups will confront at some point or other, if they’re going to make it long term. In a ca...
Back in 2014, Stan Garber and Alex Yakubovich set out to reinvent the request for proposals (RFP) process with the launch of Scout RFP, whic...
Dragos, a company building software to secure the control systems for manufacturing and industrial equipment, has raised $74 million in a Se...
Kenya-based EV startup Roam has unveiled a new shuttle bus model dubbed Move, coming as the East African country continues to push for the a...
Sunday, September 17, 2023
Bob van Dijk, the chief executive of Dutch e-commerce investor Prosus and its controlling shareholder Naspers, has unexpectedly resigned fro...
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The future of mopeds and motorcycles is electric, Erik Buell says. He sees mopeds and motorcycles playing a greater role in transportation. ...
Once valued at over $2 billion, rent-to-own startup Divvy Homes conducted its third round of layoffs in a year's time. from TechCrunch h...
Saturday, September 16, 2023
Hey, friendly people, and welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular newsletter that aggregates the top tech news over the past f...
French battery maker Verkor secured more than €2 billion (around $2.1 billion) to build its Dunkirk gigafactory, which is set to be operatio...
Bold creates personalized exercise programs for seniors to reduce injury. It's one of the latest companies expanding the eldertech secto...
Friday, September 15, 2023
Koo, India’s alternative to Twitter, is looking to find a partner with a “distribution strength” as it enters its “next phase,” its co-found...
X, formerly Twitter, has launched government ID-based account verification for paid users to prevent impersonation and give them benefits su...
Thursday, September 14, 2023
Meta on Friday disputed a media report that claimed the social giant was exploring bringing ads on the popular messaging app WhatsApp. Finan...
The market for car sales has been on rocky ground in the last several years as consumers, facing tougher economic conditions, get presented ...
California state Assembly has voted in favor of a right to repair legislation that increases consumer ability to fix devices at home. After ...
Seeing as how 700 is the largest number known to humankind, Bose has shifted into Ultra mode for its top of the line QuietComfort wireless h...
General Motors said Thursday it boosted its contract offer to a 20% wage hike for U.S. autoworkers, including 10% in the first year, in a mo...
Honor is a top five smartphone maker in its native China. Now the company is returning to India with the Honor 90, its first new device for ...
Europe has far too few VCs created by former founders, or “Operators” as the industry often likes to call them. Yes, Atomico has Niklas Zenn...
Wednesday, September 13, 2023
From Tableau and Looker, to PowerBI and beyond, there are no shortage of business intelligence (BI) tools designed to help companies unlock ...
San Francisco has formally requested state regulators redo an August hearing that expanded robotaxi permits for Cruise and Waymo, giving bot...
Every year for the past seven years, Generation Investment Management, the sustainability-focused public and private equity firm co-founded ...
Apple spent some time focusing on games during Tuesday’s iPhone 15 launch event, and while we got the usual mobile devs talking about the im...
A year ago, Stability AI, the London-based startup behind the open source image-generating AI model Stable Diffusion, quietly released Dance...
Just a few hours after Apple unveiled the iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Pro, France’s radiation watchdog (ANFR) released a public statement announ...
Telegram, the popular chat app with 800 million monthly active users, is rolling out a self-custodial crypto wallet. The move is set to soli...
Tuesday, September 12, 2023
Apple has extended support for NavIC to some of the new iPhone 15 models, seemingly complying with New Delhi’s push to adopt India’s home-gr...
One of the buzziest post-Twitter apps hit a big milestone on Tuesday. Rose Wang, who works on strategy and operations for Bluesky, shared a ...
Mighty Buildings, a startup building tech for prefabricated, ostensibly environmentally-friendly homes, today announced that it raised $52 m...
After months of testing, TikTok has finally launched its e-commerce product, TikTok Shop, in the U.S — where it has more than 150 million us...
Here are two interesting tidbits of news about Dance, the German startup that offers electric bikes and mopeds via subscription packages. Fi...
Monday, September 11, 2023
Like in many industries, there’s an acute shortage of security guards. This means guards still on the job have to pull extra hours and are m...
Indian consumers, traditionally seen as price-conscious, are showing a growing appetite for premium items across a range of sectors, from re...
FunNow, the Taiwan-based app that lets users book activities on-demand in five Asian countries, is growing its reach in Southeast Asia throu...
India will explore the possibility of allowing local firms to list on the London Stock Exchange, ministers from both the nations said Monday...
Sunday, September 10, 2023
Perfios, an Indian fintech that provides real-time credit underwriting solutions to banks and non-banking financial institutions, has raised...
Coinbase plans to cease all exchange services for users in India, it has warned some customers in email, over a year after the company’s deb...
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Parker Conrad may be best known as the founder of both Zenefits and Rippling, but he is also arguably the best-known founder to have gone th...
LexisNexis has always been a go-to source for lawyers, but the company is adding AI to make it easier to draft briefs and do research from T...
Welcome back to the Interchange! While we would love for all startups to succeed, the reality is that the vast majority fail. It’s not somet...
Saturday, September 9, 2023
Not all who wonder are lust. Some of us will be forming an orderly queue in the holding room at One Apple Park Way on Tuesday morning. At 10...
Hey, lovely people — it’s that time of week again: Week in Review (WiR) time. For those unfamiliar, WiR is TechCrunch’s regular newsletter t...
Some fintech companies are weathering the storm better than others and seeing an end in sight. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/gZlp6o2
It's not surprising Victory Park Capital can't find a buyer for its stake in Perch; this market is tough for Amazon aggregator start...
The fintech business models that wooed consumers look increasingly tenuous. It’s only a matter of time until the house of cards collapses. f...
Friday, September 8, 2023
At its annual developer’s conference, Roblox detailed its near-future plans to expand beyond its identity as a game platform for kids. The c...
Michael Kim of Cendana Capital is often a first call for emerging seed-stage fund managers. Cendana has invested in many VC teams that have ...
Set your coordinates for the Space Stage on September 19, Day 1 promptly at 0800 hours of TechCrunch Disrupt 2023. You’ll find sessions feat...
While a medical student at UC San Francisco, Dereck Paul grew concerned that innovation in medical software was lagging behind other sectors...
Fintech giant Square says its services are coming back online after a day-long outage left small business owners unable to process payments....
The two founders of Rario, the cricket NFT startup in which India’s Dream11 led a $120 million funding round last year, are leaving the firm...
Thursday, September 7, 2023
The United Kingdom (U.K.) is set to rejoin the European Union’s (EU) preeminent science R&D funding program, after a prolonged hiatus re...
Powered by OpenAI’s ChatGPT, the AI browser Aria launched on Opera in May to give users an easier way to search on the web, ask questions an...
Nestcoin, a development company housing modern finance project Onboard, has secured $1.9 million in a strategic funding round. Hashed Emerge...
Wednesday, September 6, 2023
Instagram users have been complaining for a while about the impersonal nature of the social network largely due to its algorithmic feed. The...
Venture-backed defense giant Anduril Industries is acquiring Blue Force Technologies, the advanced design and engineering firm behind the “F...
A year ago, a Massachusetts court ruled to throw out a 2022 proposed ballot measure that sought to define gig workers as independent contrac...
China has made a massive move of barring central government officials from using iPhones at work, part of its grand plan to restrict foreign...
In early 2022, ex-Andela and Flutterwave co-founder Iyinoluwa Aboyeji, in an interview with TechCrunch, discussed a moonshot project he was ...
While Apple’s famed Vision Pro headset is not available for purchase, the company is making sure that users get plenty of apps to use when t...
Tuesday, September 5, 2023
Josys, a startup offering a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform to automate corporate IT software application management, has raised a $93...
Automakers around the world have been making an appearance this week at IAA Mobility 2023 in Munich, the largest auto show in Europe. One of...
Firefly Aerospace inked a new launch agreement with defense prime L3Harris Technologies for three launches on the Alpha rocket in 2026. Each...
Monday, September 4, 2023
Of the many lofty promises of cryptocurrency, one of the most commendable ones is its potential to bring financial inclusion to underserved ...
Envisics, a UK-based holographics company building in-car technology that projects navigation, safety alerts and other data onto the inside ...
Protestors gathered Monday outside Cruise’s headquarters in San Francisco after reports of one of its robotaxis blocking an ambulance with a...
Money sent home by migrant workers not only helps their families, but also enables entire economies to develop. But transferring money comes...
In the newest uproar you might have missed, Elon Musk says X, formerly Twitter, will file a defamation lawsuit against the Anti-Defamation L...
Taste is something that continues to be a challenge for plant-based protein companies. If it tastes more like meat, it's a winner, accor...
Anchor, a Nigerian banking-as-a-service (BaaS) provider, has raised $2.4 million in seed investment. Justin Kan’s Goat Capital led the finan...
Sunday, September 3, 2023
People have a habit of using messaging apps to send things to themselves. So much so that chat apps like WhatsApp, Signal, and Telegram have...
Bladder health isn’t the sexiest subject in the world so it probably won’t surprise you there are so few startups focused on the area. Only ...
If you’ve been following the onslaught of gadget news out of Berlin this week, you’ve no doubt heard Qi2 pop up more than once. Notably, Ank...
We’re out-of-this-world excited to announce the complete Space Stage agenda at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023. We’re joining forces with the Aerosp...
Just a couple more weeks until 20 of the world’s top early-stage startups take to the Disrupt Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 to compete fo...
At this point, it seems the only thing that could shake up the seemingly never-ending decline in venture interest in crypto would be a drast...
While VCs may have dodged a bullet regarding what fund disclosure rules the SEC did pass, they shouldn't overlook them. from TechCrunch ...
Welcome back to The Interchange, where we take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. As we head into a long holiday weeke...
Saturday, September 2, 2023
A version of this story original appeared in TechCrunch’s weekly robotics newsletter, Actuator. Subscribe here. A big and often unremarked ...
Managing returns efficiently is a necessity for online sellers; to keep their customers happy to retain them, but also because reducing thei...
Economic headwinds have scattered many of the gains that fintech companies made during the tech funding boom of 2021. Case in point — global...
Would you eat lab-grown meat? Would you give the same answer if someone asked you to use a beauty product that had lab-grown collagen as an ...
A company that makes a chastity device for people with a penis that can be controlled by a partner over the internet exposed users’ email ad...
India has successfully launched its first space-based solar observatory mission — just 10 days after the landing of its spacecraft Chandraya...
Friday, September 1, 2023
A new startup, Inalife, has created a digital legacy platform that aims to help families preserve their precious memories, create an interac...
Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack t...
Supermarket giant Lidl has issued a recall of Paw Patrol snacks after the website listed on the products’ packaging began displaying explici...
In July last year, Naver, maker of the search engine known as the “Google of South Korea,” opened its new second headquarters, Naver 1784. T...
A global law enforcement operation this week took down and dismantled the notorious Qakbot botnet, touted as the largest U.S.-led financial ...
Google has removed a popular but controversial live video chat app Chamet from the Play Store. The company confirmed the move to TechCrunch ...
