The VCs who long ran GGV Capital, the 24-year-old cross-border firm that helped serve as a bridge between the U.S. and China, have settled o...
Sunday, March 31, 2024
AWS and Google Cloud rarely back an open-source fork together. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCru...
As a number of factors come into play, like the reality of a multi-cloud world and a stricter regulatory environment, companies are beginnin...
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 Robinhood’s new Gold Card, challenges in the BaaS spac...
Saturday, March 30, 2024
Iron Sheepdog credits its ability to gain traction with truck brokers because it got the truckers themselves to sign on first. © 2024 TechC...
To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight, TechCrunch is launching a series of...
Security researcher told TechCrunch that leaked AT&T customer data contained encrypted account passcodes that can be easily unscrambled....
Keeping up with an industry as fast-moving as AI is a tall order. So until an AI can do it for you, here’s a handy roundup of recent stories...
Thursday, March 28, 2024
X.ai, Elon Musk’s AI startup, has revealed its latest generative AI model, Grok-1.5. Set to power social network X’s Grok chatbot in the not...
The bigger concern for Bumble is user fatigue. People aren't downloading dating apps as enthusiastically as they once were, which means ...
Nearly everything else that's being built on or enabled by blockchains replaces something that's already being done fairly well. © ...
A week after finding itself at the business end of a landmark lawsuit from the United States Department of Justice, Apple is staunchly denyi...
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
StealthMole, an AI-powered dark web intelligence startup that specializes in monitoring cyber threats and detecting cybercrime, announced Th...
By any benchmark, Accel is among the top venture firms in India. With nearly two dozen Indian unicorn startups, including several category l...
Amazon invested a further $2.75 billion in growing AI power Anthropic on Wednesday, following through on the option it left open last Septem...
When Marissa Mayer co-founded a startup six years ago in Palo Alto, Ca., expectations were sky high for the former Yahoo CEO and early Googl...
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
PayPal Ventures’ latest investment is in an Indonesian startup that provides personal insurance products covering a variety of risks, includ...
Following Elon Musk’s xAI’s move to open source its Grok large language model earlier in March, the X owner on Tuesday said that the company...
Telegram has introduced a controversial new feature that grants users a free premium membership in exchange for allowing the instant messagi...
Monday, March 25, 2024
Uzum, an e-commerce startup offering online shopping, fintech and food deliveries to millions of customers in Uzbekistan, has raised $114 mi...
Here’s the harsh truth behind personal care products: you’re mostly buying water and plastics. The main ingredient in a bottle of shampoo or...
What’s the collective noun for investigations on Big Tech? Because the European Union has just announced a pile of probes on gatekeepers des...
In a market that no longer favors growth at all costs, GoStudent's €3 billion valuation and global expansion may belong to the past. How...
Spotify has carved out a business for itself in music streaming, podcast entertainment and audiobooks. Now, in its ongoing efforts to get it...
Sunday, March 24, 2024
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The question is whether Nvidia can sustain that growth to become a long-term revenue powerhouse like AWS has become for Amazon. © 2024 Tech...
Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech (formerly The Interchange)! This week, we’re looking at some hot fintech startups in Africa, how Mint’s closur...
Saturday, March 23, 2024
Some of the new venture-backed beverage startups are hoping to upend the industry by creating new drink categories. © 2024 TechCrunch. All ...
Every week seems to bring with it a new AI model, and the technology has unfortunately outpaced anyone’s ability to evaluate it comprehensiv...
Friday, March 22, 2024
Stability AI founder and chief executive Emad Mostaque has stepped down from the top role and the unicorn startup‘s board, the buzzy firm sa...
The company has faced two main issues related to communications and the spacecraft rotation rate — and it’s largely solved both those proble...
Thursday, March 21, 2024
WhatsApp announced Thursday that users can now pin up to three messages in a chat to access them easily. Until now, users could pin only one...
After a three-year fund-raise, World Fund has finally closed a €300 million first fund, €50 million short of it’s target in 2021, but still ...
Exactly how much Microsoft is paying all the investors of Inflection AI as part its oddly structured deal to abscond with the co-founders, m...
Crafting the perfect venture capital pitch is so simple that there’s an industry of consultants to help founders get their decks in order. T...
Wednesday, March 20, 2024
Social network X (formerly Twitter) launched new top-up packs for its developer API program on Tuesday. These paid upgrades will allow devel...
The carbon accounting startup targets SMBs to help them assess the carbon footprint of their operations and products. © 2024 TechCrunch. Al...
Reddit priced its stock on Wednesday at $34 a share, the top of the anticipated range, a signal that investors are excited about the company...
OTB Ventures' new $185 million fund for deep tech in Europe will mostly be deployed at the Series A stage; but up to 10% could be alloca...
Tuesday, March 19, 2024
The number of startups in India’s electric two-wheeler market has surged to over 150 from 54 in 2021, driven by government incentives to pro...
Rather than grimly assembling data about cancer deaths to predict outcomes in treatment, the founders of Cure51 had another idea. They decid...
The field of insurance technology has had a rough time. About 7 years ago, early insurtech companies promised to disrupt the insurance indus...
Cowboy is better known for its sleek electric bikes that you can see in many major cities across Europe. And if you look at the persons ridi...
Monday, March 18, 2024
Caller ID app Truecaller today blocks between 38 and 40 billion spam calls annually for its 374 million+ users. Now, in hopes of getting mor...
Monday's keynote was, in a way, a return to the company's original mission. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal us...
The Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association (LACERA) voted to decrease its allocation range to venture capital at a March 13 mee...
Documentation startup Mintlify says dozens of customers had GitHub tokens exposed in a data breach at the start of the month and publicly di...
Apple is looking to team up with Google for a mega-deal to leverage the Gemini AI model for features on iPhone, Bloomberg reported. This wil...
Sunday, March 17, 2024
Poseidona is a Barcelona-based developer of sustainable food technology. It takes invasive seaweed and algal side-streams to make proteins. ...
Elon Musk’s xAI has open-sourced the base code of Grok AI model, but without any training code. The company described it as the “314 billion...
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Arjun Sethi speaks with the confidence of someone who knows more than other people, or else who knows that sounding highly confident can sha...
Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech (formerly The Interchange)! I’m filling in for Mary Ann, who is on a much deserved break. This week, we look a...
Saturday, March 16, 2024
The content management industry is shifting from pure management to AI and workflow automation to put the content to work. © 2024 TechCrunc...
Keeping up with an industry as fast-moving as AI is a tall order. So until an AI can do it for you, here’s a handy roundup of recent stories...
Friday, March 15, 2024
Gumroad, an e-commerce company for creators, updated its rules to more strictly limit NSFW content, citing restrictions from payment process...
Pilot season has officially begun for the world of humanoid robotics. Last year, Amazon began testing Agility’s Digit robots in select fulfi...
India will lower import taxes on certain electric vehicles for companies committing to invest at least $500 million and setting up a local m...
Abu Dhabi’s sovereign wealth fund ADIA is in talks to back Pocket FM in a large new round of funding, two sources familiar with the matter t...
Thursday, March 14, 2024
Apple has added another AI startup to its acquisition list with Canada-based DarwinAI, which specializes in vision-based tech to observe com...
Amazon launched generative AI-powered features last year to help sellers quickly create listings by entering just a few words about the prod...
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
Elaia's third deep tech seed fund, DTS3, is double the size of the two previous funds, and signals the momentum that is forming around a...
The Irish government fixed a vulnerability two years ago in its national COVID-19 vaccination portal that exposed the vaccination records of...
One undeniable trend from this year’s Modex conference: suddenly everyone is into truck unloading. The past couple of years have gone from a...
Stashpad, a developer-focused “DM to yourself”-styled notebook app, is now pivoting to a docs app that you can use without logging in. The c...
Spotify is adding music videos to its mobile and desktop apps in some markets. They are tightly integrated with the company’s music library ...
Tuesday, March 12, 2024
Kolet is a new French startup created by four experienced co-founders in the French tech ecosystem that wants to make it easier to stay conn...
Monday, March 11, 2024
Barcelona-based cleantech startup SolarMente recently added Leonardo DiCaprio to its cap table, hence becoming the actor's and activist...
Even as quick commerce is slowly fading in many markets and several heavily-funded startups have folded in the past two years, India is emer...
Perhaps a few years from now, the halls of the Georgia World Congress Center will be peppered with humanoid robots the week of Modex. In 202...
Cyberattacks, regional conflict, weapons of mass destruction, terrorism, commercial spyware, AI, misinformation, disinformation, deepfakes a...
In the last 12 months, reader apps have adopted AI to change how users consume news. Instagram co-founders’ now discontinued Artifact introd...
Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI will open-source Grok, its chatbot rivaling ChatGPT, this week, he said, days after suing OpenAI and complaining ...
Sunday, March 10, 2024
Founded by former Silicon Valley engineers, UK-based Griffin Bank bills itself as an API-driven ‘Banking as a Service’ platform. After raisi...
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Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech (formerly The Interchange)! This week, we’re looking at the piping hot global payroll space, neobank Dave’s fi...
To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight, TechCrunch is launching a series of...
Looking to leave your mark at TechCrunch Early Stage 2024? Our Side Events initiative offers a prime opportunity to connect with Boston’s vi...
Saturday, March 9, 2024
TikTok faces an uncertain fate in the U.S. once again. After a surprise flurry of activity in the House this week, TikTok is the target of a...
To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight, TechCrunch is launching a series of...
A cyberattack at U.S. health tech giant Change Healthcare has ground much of the U.S. healthcare system to a halt for the second week in a r...
Friday, March 8, 2024
Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, has a seat at the table — or board, rather — once again. OpenAI today announced that Altman will be rejoining...
The fate of the Advancing Cities programs—and some of the around 20 people who work at Techstars in this program—is up in the air. © 2024 T...
Thursday, March 7, 2024
India’s smartwatch market has transformed, seemingly overnight. For years, it has been dominated by its homegrown players, while global gian...
India’s federal election commission has fixed flaws on its website that exposed data related to citizens’ requests for information related t...
Think quick — how much does a top-of-the-line iPhone 15 Pro Max cost? If you said around $1,600, you’d be right, but only if you’re based in...
Wednesday, March 6, 2024
Telegram founder Pavel Durov announced Wednesday that users on the chat app with personal accounts can now convert them into business accoun...
The Indian e-commerce giant Flipkart is planning to enter the quick-commerce business, aimed at providing customers with the convenience of ...
While many entrepreneurs are currently facing the harsh reality of a VC funding crunch, Qonto isn’t one of them. The Paris-based business ba...
Ocean intelligence company Saildrone has just put the first of a new generation of Surveyor autonomous vessels in the water: an aluminum ver...
Tuesday, March 5, 2024
It was only a few years ago — in 2021 — that Windows 11 gained official support for Android apps thanks to a Microsoft-maintained VM called ...
Last month, Amazon announced that it’d launch a new AI-powered chatbot, Rufus, inside the Amazon Shopping app for Android and iOS. After a f...
Monday, March 4, 2024
In his quest to turn a simple and functioning Twitter app into X, the everything app that doesn’t do anything very well, Elon Musk launched ...
Consumer lapel mics are one of the more interesting consumer electronics trends of recent years. Prior to this, lavalier microphones and the...
Another day, another lawsuit involving Elon Musk. Four former Twitter executives, including ex-CEO Parag Agrawal, sued Musk on Monday, alleg...
Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch Space. SpaceX is launching its Transporter-10 rideshare mission today. These are always really fun to t...
The problem here is that the company has given up more than two-thirds of its equity to raise $3.3 million. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights r...
Sunday, March 3, 2024
Wagely, a fintech out of Indonesia, made a name for itself with earned wage access: a way for workers in Southeast Asian countries to get ad...
India has waded into global AI debate by issuing an advisory that requires tech firms to get government permission before launching new mode...
Camshaft disclosed in court filings this week that some $533 million it managed for Byju’s Alpha, a U.S. unit of Indian edtech group Byju’s,...
Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech (formerly The Interchange)! Apologies for being out last week — a cold got the best of me, but I’m back and he...
TechCrunch has launched a series of interviews focusing on remarkable women who’ve contributed to the AI revolution. © 2024 TechCrunch. All...
Saturday, March 2, 2024
We are thrilled to collaborate with some of the most influential players in the startup ecosystem to craft an exceptional experience at TC E...
Last night, for an evening hosted by StrictlyVC, this editor sat down with Trae Stephens, a former government intelligence analyst turned ea...
Friday, March 1, 2024
Waymo received approval Friday afternoon from the California Public Utilities Commission to operate a commercial robotaxi service in Los Ang...
Rabbit co-founder and CEO Jesse Lyu isn’t afraid of death… the death of the company, at least. He told TechCrunch that the company is a star...
