Meta is trying to distance itself from news media-related regulations and payment complexities as it is planning to remove the news tab on F...
Thursday, February 29, 2024
Google said on Friday it will start removing apps from its Play Store in India if developers fail to comply with its payment policy, taking ...
Intuitive Machines’ first lunar lander officially lost power today after spending seven days on the moon. The lander made history for being ...
The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged bankrupt Lordstown Motors with misleading investors about the sales prospects of its Endu...
Wednesday, February 28, 2024
Once Lai Ching-te is inaugurated as Taiwan’s president in May, his administration will mark an unprecedented three terms of Democratic Progr...
Elon Musk’s crusade against the extremism research organization the Center for Countering Digital Hate will have its day in court on Thursda...
An internal congressional memo viewed by TechCrunch casts strong doubt on Rocket Lab’s claim that its Neutron rocket will be ready for launc...
If it wasn’t clear before that Google’s Gemini chatbot was rushed out the door, it is now. Gemini’s since-removed image generator put people...
Thrasio, the U.S. start-up that raised billions of dollars and popularized the concept of e-commerce aggregation — buying up and restructuri...
Tuesday, February 27, 2024
Media startup Dailyhunt is in advanced stages of talks to acquire the Bengaluru-headquartered social network Koo, two sources familiar with ...
A number of major AI services performed poorly in a test of their ability to address questions and concerns about voting and elections. The ...
Monday, February 26, 2024
Everyone has a story in them, as someone famous once said. A startup called Inkitt believes that it can use AI to turn the strongest of thes...
Once upon a time, gadgets knew what they were truly for. Toaster? Brown thy bread. Smartphone? Connect thy user. But the Ring Car Camera? Ev...
Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch Space. My stomach is still in knots from the Intuitive Machines landing livestream. I think it’s fair t...
Caller identity company Truecaller has launched its call recording and transcription for paid users in India, the company’s biggest market. ...
Sunday, February 25, 2024
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As humans spend increasing amounts of time indoors, we lose access to the sun’s natural benefits. Recognition of season affective disorder h...
The back of your phone is useless. There. I said it. Sure, the cameras are back that, but what about all of that blank real estate monopoliz...
While North American VCs can see the potential value in backing European startups, it hasn't been easy for firms to launch strategies. ...
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Saturday, February 24, 2024
Byju Raveendran, the founder of eponymous edtech group Byju’s, told employees on Saturday that he continues to remain the chief executive of...
Friday, February 23, 2024
Intuitive Machines‘ spacecraft touched down yesterday on the lunar surface . . . sideways. CEO Steve Altemus confirmed during a press confer...
Well-known accelerator group Techstars announced a slew of changes to its operations this week, including the shuttering of some of its city...
Earlier this week, accelerator group Techstars announced changes to its operations. But what was planned internally to be an exciting new ch...
Thursday, February 22, 2024
Some cryptocurrency exchanges in Nigeria faced accessibility issues for users, prompting speculation of imposed restrictions on crypto sites...
Intuitive Machines has landed a spacecraft on the lunar surface, in a historic first for a private company. Flight controllers confirmed the...
Reddit’s prospects as it barrels toward a stock market listing have a lot more to do with relationships with AI vendors such as OpenAI than ...
Wednesday, February 21, 2024
Samsung is bringing its Galaxy AI features to more devices through a new One UL 6.1 update coming in late March, the company announced today...
The tech-wide reckoning that began in 2022 and ran throughout into 2023 has continued into this year. And while 2024’s losses are not at tha...
U.S. healthcare technology giant Change Healthcare has confirmed a cyberattack on its systems. In a brief statement, the company said it was...
Tuesday, February 20, 2024
Byju’s says its recently launched $200 million rights issue has been fully-subscribed, but the startup’s founder urged some of its major inv...
It’s 2024. All smartwatches should offer multiple days of battery life, full stop. As things stand now, there’s a jaw-droppingly wide range ...
The House of Representatives has founded a Task Force on artificial intelligence that will “ensure America continues leading in this strateg...
Welcome back to Found, where we get the stories behind the startups. This week Becca and Dom are joined by Shan-Lyn Ma, the co-founder and C...
A coalition of international law enforcement agencies, including the FBI and the U.K.’s National Crime Agency, have disrupted the operations...
Monday, February 19, 2024
If you’ve ever traveled in rural areas in France, you may have realized a French peculiarity. Even in the seemingly less populated towns, th...
In a role reversal, Xalts, a Singapore fintech startup founded 18 months ago, has acquired Contour Network, a digital trade platform set up ...
TechTaka, a South Korean online shopping fulfillment startup that provides third-party logistics services for e-commerce sellers, has raised...
Partech has closed its second Africa fund, Partech Africa II, at €280 million ($300 million+), just one year after reaching its first close....
Over 150 investors, including Singapore’s sovereign fund Temasek and Malaysia’s Khazanah, gathered at Mumbai’s five-star Trident Oberoi hote...
Sunday, February 18, 2024
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With Twilio under pressure from activist investors, it's looking at whether to sell Segment, the company it bought in 2020 for $3.2 bill...
To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight, TechCrunch is launching a series of...
Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech (formerly The Interchange)! This week, we’re looking at a new finance-based dating app, Robinhood’s earnings r...
Saturday, February 17, 2024
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For many organizations and startups, 2023 was a rough year financially, with companies struggling to raise money and others making cuts to s...
Friday, February 16, 2024
Almost a year ago, Alphabet’s growth stage venture arm, CapitalG, named partner Laela Sturdy as its new head, just as the unit’s founder, Da...
Amazon alleged in a legal filing published Friday morning that the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is unconstitutional. SpaceX and Tra...
Thursday, February 15, 2024
Over the past few decades, extreme weather events have not only become more severe, but are also occurring more frequently. Neara is focused...
Rocket Lab is exploring possible applications for a satellite constellation that they would build, launch and operate in-house, similar to S...
OpenAI’s new — and first! — video-generating model, Sora, can pull off some genuinely impressive cinematographic feats. But the model’s even...
Spurred by the growing threat of deepfakes, the FTC is seeking to modify an existing rule that bans the impersonation of businesses or gover...
Wednesday, February 14, 2024
GM is expanding access to Super Cruise with plans to let drivers use the hands-free advanced driver assistance system on about 750,000 miles...
Researchers at Amazon have trained the largest ever text-to-speech model yet, which they claim exhibits “emergent” qualities improving its a...
Tuesday, February 13, 2024
ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm. What started as a tool to hyper-charge productivity through writ...
Intuitive Machines is looking to succeed where past ventures have failed with its inaugural lunar lander mission, which would mark the first...
In November, Airbnb acquired a stealth AI firm launched by Siri’s co-founder, called GamePlanner.AI. The deal valued the secretive startup a...
Monday, February 12, 2024
Macquarie dramatically cut its 12-month price target on One97 Communications Ltd., the parent company of digital payments firm Paytm, citing...
President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign has finally set up shop on TikTok. Despite controversy in Congress over the app, TikTok is an indi...
Welcome to Elon Musk’s Twitter (now X), where the rules are made up and the check marks don’t matter. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO announced his...
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Ilara Health, a Kenya-based health-tech enabling private clinics to access diagnostic devices and pharmaceutical products, has secured $4.2 ...
Sunday, February 11, 2024
Peak XV, the venture capital firm that split from Sequoia Capital last year, is taking its portfolio companies from India, Southeast Asia an...
If you needed more evidence that GenAI is prone to making stuff up, Google’s Gemini chatbot, formerly Bard, thinks that the 2024 Super Bowl ...
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To understand what’s happening with seed rounds in 2024, TechCrunch+ spoke with three seasoned investors who offered advice for founders loo...
Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech (formerly The Interchange)! We’re back after a brief hiatus, and I can tell you that judging by the volume of ...
Friday, February 9, 2024
In March 2008, a roboticist in winter wear gave Big Dog a big kick fhttps://youtu.be/W1czBcnX1Ww?si=3-qFm7oneOOZG4xc&t=34or the came...
Every company or organization putting out an AI model has to make a decision on what, if any, boundaries to set on what it will and won’t di...
The startup that develops the phone app for casino resort giant WinStar has secured an exposed database that was spilling customers’ private...
Thursday, February 8, 2024
An Indian parliamentary panel has urged the government to support the growth of domestic fintech players that can provide alternatives to th...
Could 2024 be the year for fintech IPOs? Quite possibly, according to F-Prime Capital’s State of Fintech 2024 report. F-Prime — a VC firm wi...
Not so long ago, things were looking bleak for SoftBank, the investment holding company headed by eclectic — and controversial — tech mogul ...
Since Apple launched the Vision Pro last Friday, I’ve been hammering home the importance of immersive content. This isn’t a radical suggesti...
Wednesday, February 7, 2024
Pakistan has temporarily suspended mobile phone network and internet services across the country to combat any “possible threats,” a top min...
Attentive.ai, a startup building vertical software for landscaping and construction services in the U.S., has raised $7 million in a new fun...
Under scrutiny from activists — and parents — OpenAI has formed a new team to study ways to prevent its AI tools from being misused or abuse...
Tuesday, February 6, 2024
Ex-Tesla and Ford Advanced EV development boss Alan Clarke is leading a Ford skunkworks project to develop a low-cost electric vehicle, Tech...
Electric motorcycle company Cake held talks with Harley-Davidson and other automakers in 2023 as it fought to stay alive, founder and CEO St...
Onfido, an early mover in the world of identity verification using computer vision and other AI tools, is getting acquired, TechCrunch has l...
Monday, February 5, 2024
Sidewalk delivery robot services appear to be stalling left and right, but a pioneer in the concept says it is profitable and has now raised...
Happy Valentine’s Day, space fans: Intuitive Machines, SpaceX target moon mission lift off on Feb 14
Intuitive Machines is ready to go to the moon. The company announced Monday that its first lunar lander has completed all final integration ...
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Samsung Electronics executive chairman Jay Y. Lee has been declared not guilty on the charge of stock price manipulation and accounting frau...
Sunday, February 4, 2024
Felicis, the 16-year-old Bay Area-based early-stage venture firm, has a reputation for investing globally. Indeed, firm founder Aydin Senkut...
Naboo, a French company that was created just a couple of years ago, is trying to create a modern online experience for company seminar plan...
Shares of Paytm plunged 10% on Monday, the third consecutive session of declines, touching an all-time low of 438.35 Indian rupees (or $5.28...
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A survey of TechCrunch readers reveals that while the spot ETFs may boost bitcoin's price, they may not be attracting many people who do...
Saturday, February 3, 2024
As AI’s presence in our lives increases, so does the number of diverse founders leveraging it to develop positive, socially impactful servic...
In 2000, Paradox Press published “Reinventing Comics: How Imagination and Technology Are Revolutionizing an Art Form.” The book was Scott Mc...
Friday, February 2, 2024
The makers of two phone surveillance services appear to have shuttered after the owner agreed to settle state accusations of illegally promo...
Thursday, February 1, 2024
Well, that was fast. A settlement has been reached just two days after District Attorneys from 25 California counties filed a lawsuit agains...
The U.K. government is taking too “narrow” a view of AI safety and risks falling behind in the AI goldrush, according to a report released t...
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has added his voice to those criticizing Apple’s compliance with the EU’s new Digital Markets Act (DMA) regulation,...
