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Alexa now notifies you when items in your Amazon cart or wishlist are about to go on sale | Aisha Malik | 2,022 | 3 | 31 | Amazon is introducing a new Alexa feature that will notify you if an item on your wishlist or in your shopping cart is about to go on sale, the company on Thursday. Alexa will now notify users up to 24 hours in advance of a deal going live and then order it on your behalf if you ask it to do so. The feature will also... |
Everything you need to know about YC Demo Day Winter 2022, part 2 | Alex Wilhelm | 2,022 | 3 | 30 | The second day of Demo Day is now behind us, and the TechCrunch team is from watching hundreds of pitches in quick succession. Every accelerator demo day is a marathon, but the U.S. group has worked with more startups over time, making its pitch sessions a veritable deluge of new companies and founders. Recall that... |
Tier Mobility’s buy of Fantasmo brings camera positioning tech in-house | Rebecca Bellan | 2,022 | 3 | 30 | Shared micromobility company Tier Mobility said on Wednesday it has acquired , a U.S.-based computer vision-powered e-scooter parking startup whose tech Tier had been trialing in multiple cities in Europe. Tier will bring on all of Fantasmo’s 15 staff members and continue to invest in and develop what will now be an i... |
Gumi Cryptos Capital closes $110M second fund to back blockchain startups | Kate Park | 2,022 | 3 | 30 | San Francisco- and Tokyo-headquartered gumi Cryptos Capital (gCC), a venture capital firm that focuses on blockchain startups, said it has launched a new $110 million early-stage fund. The venture capital firm’s second fund aims to back approximately 50 blockchain companies in the early stage from pre-seed to seed, man... |
8 open source companies from YC Demo Day Winter ’22 | Amanda Silberling | 2,022 | 3 | 30 | Wicked fast VPNs, data organization tools, auto-generated videos to spice up your company’s Instagram stories … Y Combinator’s Winter 2022 open source founders have some interesting ideas up their sleeves. And since they’re open source, some of these companies will let you join in on the fun of collaboration too. Here ... |
Daily Crunch: ‘Strategic finance platform’ Mosaic raises $25M Series B | Christine Hall | 2,022 | 3 | 30 | Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for Wednesday, March 30, 2022! It’s day two of Y Combinator’s Demo Day, which means that the TechCrunch team has been looking at more than 400 startups over two days. If you’ll forgive us, our brains are dripping out of our ears as we stare vacantly in the middle distance after some in... |
Our favorite startups from YC’s Winter 2022 Demo Day, part 2 | Alex Wilhelm | 2,022 | 3 | 30 | two in the books! TechCrunch once again spent much of the day watching a parade of startups present as part of Y Combinator’s Winter 2022 cohort, Demo Day . Yeah, that’s a mouthful. But we did learn quite a lot. You can find all our coverage , but what matters is that themes are emerging from the YC milieu. Southeas... |
Dear Sophie: What can we do to help employees who are Ukrainian citizens? | Sophie Alcorn | 2,022 | 3 | 30 | of “Dear Sophie,” the advice column that answers immigration-related questions about working at technology companies. “Your questions are vital to the spread of knowledge that allows people all over the world to rise above borders and pursue their dreams,” says , a Silicon Valley immigration attorney. “Whether you’re... |
Apploi raises $25M to address the healthcare hiring crunch | Kyle Wiggers | 2,022 | 3 | 30 | Healthcare has a hiring crises. Nearly 20% of medical workers have quit their jobs during the pandemic, according to a recent Morning Consult . Some studies the healthcare system’s burnout cost at about $4.6 billion a year before the spread of COVID-19, a number that has likely risen. Organizations have increasingly... |
Who knew you could magically finger copy stuff from iPhone to iPad? Not us. | Amanda Silberling | 2,022 | 3 | 30 | iOS picks up more and more features with each major release, which unfortunately means some of them aren’t exactly … obvious, making for great fodder for “things you didn’t know about your iPhone” TikTok. Example #4123131, this video: with @partyshirt I am way too late to this party 😅 You probably know abou... |
The best logos of YC’s Winter ’22 cohort | Devin Coldewey | 2,022 | 3 | 30 | Hundreds of companies presented at , and I looked at pretty much all their logos. There’s a lot of solid ones, a few clunkers and a handful of really nice ones. Here’s a list of the latter for your pleasure and edification. I haven’t put these in any order — in fact the order they appeared in when I put the images in ... |
Tumblr expands its tip jar feature to enable blog-level tipping | Aisha Malik | 2,022 | 3 | 30 | Tumblr is expanding its tip jar feature by introducing blog-level tipping for its iOS and web applications, the company on Wednesday. The company rolled out its tip jar feature allowing users to leave tips on posts. Today’s expansion will allow users to leave tips on blogs. Tumblr says the expansion will benefit cr... |
OpenStack launches Yoga, its 25th release | Frederic Lardinois | 2,022 | 3 | 30 | , the massive open source infrastructure-as-a-service project that allows enterprises and public hosting services to run their own on-premise clouds, today released version 25 of its software, . Like all large open source projects, OpenStack has gone through its ups and downs, but as the , the organization behind Ope... |
Apple to now allow ‘reader’ apps to use external links, if approved | Sarah Perez | 2,022 | 3 | 30 | Apple today it will begin to allow a subset of applications sold on its App Store to link to an external website where users can create or manage their accounts with the app developer. The change to Apple’s App Store Review guidelines only applies to what Apple calls “reader” apps — meaning, apps designed primarily t... |
Mojo Vision takes another step toward AR contact lenses with new prototype | Brian Heater | 2,022 | 3 | 30 | We’ve known Mojo Vision’s journey to market was going to be a long and deliberate one since we saw an early prototype in Las Vegas . You can multiply all of the talk of hardware being hard a few times over when attempting to execute something novel and tiny that’s designed to be worn on one of the more vulnerable part... |
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YouTube may be getting a dedicated podcasts homepage | Sarah Perez | 2,022 | 3 | 30 | There were already several hints that YouTube was getting more serious about podcasts, after reports indicated the company , Kai Chuk, to lead its efforts in the space and had to popular podcasters to film their shows. Now, a leaked document has unveiled more about YouTube’s plans in this area, pointing to a future ... |
Why Nigeria leads the way in YC’s participation in Africa | Tage Kene-Okafor | 2,022 | 3 | 30 | that TechCrunch has covered more African startups in the last year than any period in our history. Many of those companies are Nigerian, and when we look at venture capital data, we can see why. The country had an incredible 2021 as the most active venture capital scene in Africa, collecting more than $1.8 billion, or... |
Are plastic bag bans backfiring? | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,022 | 3 | 30 | Plastic bags are bad. Ban them from supermarkets, and the problem is solved, right? Right? Turns out, as is often the case, there may be a little bit more to that story. Researchers at the University of Georgia suggest that banning the sale of plastic bags may come with a side-dish of unintended consequences. The new... |
Legendary hackers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek talk cybersecurity and autonomous vehicles at TC Sessions: Mobility 2022 | Kirsten Korosec | 2,022 | 3 | 30 | |
Quantum Machines acquires QDevil to build out its full-stack quantum orchestration platform | Frederic Lardinois | 2,022 | 3 | 30 | , the well-funded Israeli startup that specializes in building control systems for quantum computers, today that it has acquired , a well-known Danish company that specializes in building control hardware for quantum systems. The two companies did not disclose the financial details of the transaction and, according ... |
For China bulls like Jim Breyer, Russia ties present ‘geopolitical challenges and questions’ | Connie Loizos | 2,022 | 3 | 8 | China has emerged as one of the most powerful countries in the world. Now, its close ties with Russia — against which the rest of the world has swiftly united since its invasion of Ukraine — have put the world’s most populous country in a precarious position. It’s not so comfortable for foreign proponents of China, eit... |
E-bike subscription service Dance adds new cities and mopeds | Romain Dillet | 2,022 | 3 | 8 | After raising a few months ago, Berlin-based startup is expanding its electric bike subscription service to a handful of new cities. In addition to Berlin, people living in Hamburg, Munich, Vienna and Paris will be able to rent an e-bike for a fixed monthly price. Dance isn’t just another e-bike manufacturer; the c... |
Indian food delivery giant Swiggy eyes $1 billion IPO | Manish Singh | 2,022 | 3 | 8 | Indian food delivery giant Swiggy has hired bankers as it gears up for an initial public offering next year, a source familiar with the matter said. The startup, which was in January this year, is looking to raise as much as $1 billion in the IPO, which it plans to file as early as the first half of next year, the so... |
TechCrunch+ roundup: Box unfolds a surprise, robotics pitch tips, BNPL growing pains | Walter Thompson | 2,022 | 3 | 8 | Swedish fintech giant Klarna was doing well before the pandemic, but today, it’s a mega-unicorn: In June 2021, it reached a $45.6 billion valuation after raising $639 million. Much of this growth was fueled by U.S. consumers, which makes sense, considering that most of us still can’t cover a $1,000 emergency expense. T... |
Even an expensive new Mac couldn’t save Apple’s stock today | Alex Wilhelm | 2,022 | 3 | 8 | It is TechCrunch tradition to look at Apple’s stock price during and after its . Why? Because we enjoy it, and we’re always curious what impact the company’s news has on its actual financial worth. The answer is usually very, little. This may surprise you. After all, Apple details its new hardware and software at it... |
Pony.ai to issue recall of autonomous driving software | Rebecca Bellan | 2,022 | 3 | 8 | Autonomous vehicle startup Pony.ai will issue a recall for three vehicles following an October crash in California, according to the National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration (NHTSA). The agency said on Tuesday that this was the first recall of an automated driving system, . “Whether the vehicle is operated b... |
Twitter rolls out a new tool for creators to manage their earnings on the platform | Aisha Malik | 2,022 | 3 | 8 | Twitter is introducing a new tool for creators called the “Creator Dashboard,” the company on Tuesday. The social media giant says the new tool is designed to help creators analyze how they make money on Twitter and how much they’re earning from monetization features, such as and . Creators can also use the dashboa... |
Daily Crunch: Discord and Spotify resuming service after widespread outage | Alex Wilhelm | 2,022 | 3 | 8 | Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for Tuesday, March 8, 2022! Today was an Apple event day, which means that the larger tech industry ground to a halt to sit ‘round and see what Cupertino cooked up. We have full notes in case you are behind, yeah? And a lot of startup news to boot, so let’s get to work! – The TechCrun... |
Instagram warns users who share Russian state media, hides following lists in Russia and Ukraine | Taylor Hatmaker | 2,022 | 3 | 8 | Instagram announced Tuesday that it would implement steps to dampen Russian government propaganda and protect the privacy of users across Ukraine and Russia. The company will begin from Russian state-affiliated media, placing any stories from those outlets below other content from other sources. Users who go to share... |
Meta’s NPE Team launches a new tasks app, Move, for group organization and to-dos | Sarah Perez | 2,022 | 3 | 8 | Meta’s internal R&D group known as NPE Team just launched a new social app, , designed for both personal and group to-do lists. The app allows people, including individuals or groups organizing around a project, to create to-do lists and send out nudges and reminders for items that still need to be completed. However,... |
Apple’s brand new 27-inch Studio Display is basically a bodiless iMac | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,022 | 3 | 8 | Apple today launched a $1,599 display that packs a processor, high-quality speakers, a microphone array, a high-quality camera, three USB-C ports and 96 watts of power delivery over Thunderbolt. Oh, and it has a screen, too. The Cupertino company has had a curious and checkered history with displays, launching and then... |
Here’s everything Apple announced at today’s ‘Peek Performance’ event | Greg Kumparak | 2,022 | 3 | 8 | It’s Apple event day! Apple / Apple Apple’s more wallet-friendly iPhone, the iPhone SE, is getting an upgrade: it’ll now run A15 Bionic (the same chip as the iPhone 13), which means it can handle things like live text (copying real-world text from your camera view). It now offers up 5G support, and promises “better” b... |
Apple TV+ to stream weekly Major League Baseball games in its first live sports deal | Sarah Perez | 2,022 | 3 | 8 | Following that Apple was on an “aggressive hunt” for new sports deals for its Apple TV+ streaming service, Apple today announced it was bringing a number of Major League Baseball games exclusively to Apple TV+. The company said fans will be able to tune into two games on Friday night during the regular season, which ... |
Spotify bounces back as Discord hobbles back online after outage | Jordan Crook | 2,022 | 3 | 8 | Spotify and Discord both appear to be down. TechCrunchers and the Twittersphere alike are experiencing difficulty logging in to Spotify. Folks are reporting on Twitter that opening the Spotify app on mobile leads to a login flow, but even the correct username and password results in a failed attempt to in fact log in. ... |
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Apple launches the M1 Ultra | Frederic Lardinois | 2,022 | 3 | 8 | Apple today announced the launch of its new M1 chip at its “ ” event: the M1 Ultra. This chip, Apple said, is the last one in the M1 family, which previously included the M1, M1 Pro and M1 Max. The Ultra is based on two M1 Max dies that use an existing, but apparently dormant, connection on the existing M1 Max chip. Th... |
Apple releases iPad Air 5 with M1 processor, positioning it as a laptop replacement | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,022 | 3 | 8 | At Apple’s event today, the company released a shiny new iPad Air. It packs the M1 Apple Silicon chip into the iPad Air form factor we know and love. Apple’s choice of using the M1 processor, rather than its A15 chips, shows that the iPad has aspirations as a laptop replacement, rather than just being an overgrown iPho... |
TechCrunch reacts to the new iPhone SE with glee | Alex Wilhelm | 2,022 | 3 | 8 | While the TechCrunch team is hunkered down , we’re taking a short break from our more serious coverage to share our real-time reactions to . After Tim “Apple” Cook announced the new piece of hardware, our Slack room for the event had an immediate, and immediately positive, reaction. So, if you wanted to know what Tec... |
Apple introduces a brand new Mac, the Mac Studio | Romain Dillet | 2,022 | 3 | 8 | Apple announced a handful of new products in a pre-recorded online event. And the company announced a brand new desktop computer called the Mac Studio. It’s a small tower computer that looks a bit like two Mac Mini computers stacked on top of each other. It has an SD card slot and two Thunderbolt 4 ports at the front. ... |
The iPhone SE returns for $429 | Brian Heater | 2,022 | 3 | 8 | Two years after reviving the line, Apple’s bringing the SE back for another go. The iPhone’s little sibling won support when it was unveiled in 2018 as a low-cost alternative to the flagship smartphone. The line is a way of keeping the iOS software fresh, while maintaining lower price points through older designs and s... |
AngelList Venture takes on rare capital at a $4 billion valuation | Natasha Mascarenhas | 2,022 | 3 | 8 | After seven years since its last financing round, AngelList Venture has raised new capital, according to sources familiar with the matter. The company announced in a that it has raised a $100 million Series B led by Tiger and Accomplice at a $4 billion valuation. TechCrunch has reached out for further comment. Angel... |
Accel announces new $650 million fund to back Indian startups | Manish Singh | 2,022 | 3 | 1 | Accel has announced its seventh India fund, with $650 million to invest as the storied venture investor looks to double down on its bet on the world’s second-largest internet market and also be more aggressive in the Southeast Asia region, two partners told TechCrunch in an interview. The unveiling of the new fund, who... |
Gopuff officially launches its instant delivery service in France | Romain Dillet | 2,022 | 3 | 1 | After launching its service in the U.K. , Gopuff is officially expanding to Europe starting with France. In addition to the Paris area, the instant grocery delivery service is now live in Marseille, Lille and Toulouse. There are more European countries on the company’s road map, such as Spain. For today’s market launc... |
BharatPe founder Ashneer Grover siphoned off money, Indian startup says | Manish Singh | 2,022 | 3 | 1 | BharatPe co-founder Ashneer Grover and his relatives engaged in “extensive misappropriation of company funds” and “siphoned [off] money,” the Indian fintech startup said, citing a review by independent advisers, the latest in a series of strange turns and public drama at one of the fastest-growing firms in the country.... |
Source makes greenhouses smarter to secure the future of food supply | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,022 | 3 | 1 | Agtech startup today announced it harvested a $10 million investment to make greenhouses smarter. The founders have set their eyes on a horizon where, driven by climate change and a rapid increase in global food demand as population continues to increase, more crops are being forced indoors to secure greater crop yie... |
Electric Capital closes $1 billion in funds to back crypto startups, buy tokens | Lucas Matney | 2,022 | 3 | 1 | The fervor surrounding opportunities in the crypto space has seemed to upend the venture world over the past couple of years, with major players shaking up how their firms are fundamentally organized in order to compete with so-called crypto-native investment firms. While a plethora of breakout web3 funds popped up in ... |
Struggling EV startup Lordstown Motors loses GM as investor | Rebecca Bellan | 2,022 | 3 | 1 | General Motors sold its stake in Lordstown Motors, an electric vehicle startup that has struggled to get its first vehicle, the electric pickup truck Endurance, to production, reports the . GM’s 7.5 million shares of common stock, which was less than 5% of the company, had an initial equity value of $75 million. The a... |
Mercury restricted a number of accounts linked to African startups and didn’t exactly say why | Tage Kene-Okafor | 2,022 | 3 | 1 | This is not a good look. I have a list of over 20+ African startups whose bank accounts were mass-blocked at around the same time by yesterday. I love Mercury a lot but they can’t just do this to an entire continent. It is not right & we need to all speak up. — Moe is mourning her crocs (@Mochievous) Mercury restri... |
Nexon founder Jung-ju Jay Kim has passed away at age 54 | Kate Park | 2,022 | 3 | 1 | null |
Biden will address social media’s mental health impact at State of the Union | Amanda Silberling | 2,022 | 3 | 1 | In advance of President Biden’s first State of the Union address, the White House announced plans to address the nation’s , specifically calling out social media’s impact on kids and teens. This issue has been top-of-mind for some members of Congress, especially after whistleblower leaked a trove of from Facebook ... |
Daily Crunch: Drone service Wing completes 200K commercial deliveries, partners with supermarket chain | Alex Wilhelm | 2,022 | 3 | 1 |
Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for Tuesday, March 1, 2022. Akin to how it takes nation-states a little time to get sanctions up and running, tech companies don’t roll out responses to geopolitical changes in a moment. But today we have notes on what tech companies doing in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine... |
One decade in, Homebrew says it’s becoming self-funded | Natasha Mascarenhas | 2,022 | 3 | 1 | has a new cup of tea (or coffee, or beer, or beverage of your choosing). The venture capital firm roots — and its traditional venture structure — and pursuing a more stage-agnostic evergreen model that is funded solely by and , Homebrew’s general partners. “When we sat down together in 2021 to plan for Homebrew’s... |
Waabi’s Raquel Urtasun on the importance of differentiating your startup | Rebecca Bellan | 2,022 | 3 | 1 | , founder and CEO of autonomous vehicle technology company Waabi, , a time when it seemed like the AV industry was consolidating. Urtasun and her team of 40 in Toronto and California came out the gate swinging with an $83.5 million raise from a series of high-profile investors, including Uber, Aurora and Khosla Ventur... |
Rivian raises price on R1T electric truck, R1S SUV ahead of new dual-motor versions | Kirsten Korosec | 2,022 | 3 | 1 | Rivian has raised the price of its all-electric R1T pickup by 17% and R1S SUV by about 20% as the newly public automaker tries to adjust to inflationary pressure, increases in the cost of raw materials and parts as well as a prolonged chip shortage. The price change, which was Tuesday afternoon, is part of Rivian’s b... |
Nextdoor beats expectations in first earnings report since going public last year | Alex Wilhelm | 2,022 | 3 | 1 | Today after the bell, locally focused social network Nextdoor reported . The company combined with a SPAC , making today its first quarterly report since going public. In good news for both Nextdoor investors and the general SPAC market, the company managed to best revenue expectations, leading to modest share-price ... |
Apple pulls Russian state-owned media outlets RT and Sputnik from global App Stores | Sarah Perez | 2,022 | 3 | 1 | After days of mounting on tech companies to take further action against Russia in the wake of its invasion into Ukraine, Apple today it will remove the Kremlin-based media outlets Russia Today (RT News) and Sputnik News from the App Store in all markets outside Russia itself. The changes taken against these two s... |
How Stellantis plans to double revenue, electrify lineup, by 2030 | Rebecca Bellan | 2,022 | 3 | 1 | Stellantis, the automaker that owns Fiat, Chrysler, Dodge, Ram, Jeep, Peugeot, Maserati and more, is rolling out a new plan that will help it become carbon net zero by 2038, with 50% reduction by 2030. At the same time, the automaker plans to double net revenues to $335 billion a year by 2030 and maintain double-digit ... |
What US startup founders need to know about the R&D tax credit | Ardy Esmaeili | 2,022 | 3 | 1 | you to learn the government — federal and many states — is on your side when it comes to innovation? Yes, the very government that loves to collect taxes from you may be willing to give some of that money back through a particular credit that encourages innovation. The Research and Development (R&D) tax credit lets bu... |
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Apple halts product sales in Russia following Ukraine invasion | Brian Heater | 2,022 | 3 | 1 | Apple today confirmed that it has halted product sales in Russia following last week’s invasion of neighboring Ukraine. The news comes days after the hardware giant pulled Sputnik and RT News from the App Store and . Today’s news also finds its disabling certain Apple Maps features, following . A spokesperson for the... |
Reddit quarantines r/Russia due to ‘high volume’ of misinformation | Taylor Hatmaker | 2,022 | 3 | 1 | As major social platforms grapple with an influx of misinformation around the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Reddit is having its own reckoning. On Tuesday, Reddit added the subreddit r/Russia to its quarantine list, restricting the community from popping up in search results and marking it with warning messages. The int... |
Ali Partovi has a new accelerator promising to connect founders with star engineers | Connie Loizos | 2,022 | 3 | 1 | Ali Partovi prides himself on the many relationships he has built throughout Silicon Valley as a highly successful entrepreneur and investor. For example, two years ago, Partovi launched a program through his nearly five-year-old networking organization and associated firm, , wherein he connects computer engineering... |
Sequoia Capital India, STV back Dubai-based BNPL provider tabby in $54M extension round | Tage Kene-Okafor | 2,022 | 3 | 6 | null |
Indian carrier Airtel launches credit card | Manish Singh | 2,022 | 3 | 6 | Airtel said on Monday it is launching a credit card, the latest attempt from the Google-backed Indian telecom operator to make inroads with financial services as it looks to expand its offerings in the world’s second-largest internet market. The network, managed by billionaire Sunil Mittal, said it has inked a strategi... |
India’s Captain Fresh more than doubles valuation to $500 million in three months | Manish Singh | 2,022 | 3 | 6 | Captain Fresh, a farm-to-retail platform for animal protein, has more than doubled its valuation to $500 million in three months as the Indian startup deepens its footprints in the local market and begins to expand overseas. Existing backers Prosus Ventures and Tiger Global have co-led the startup’s $50 million Series ... |
Samsung suspends product shipments to Russia | Kate Park | 2,022 | 3 | 6 | Samsung Electronics has suspended shipments of all products to Russia “due to the current geopolitical developments,” the company said on Saturday. “We continue to actively monitor this complex situation to determine our next steps,” the company said. Samsung declined to comment on whether it plans to cease services in... |
Aston Martin to develop battery cell technology with Britishvolt | Rebecca Bellan | 2,022 | 3 | 6 | British luxury carmaker Aston Martin has signed a memorandum of understanding with lithium-ion battery cell technologies company Britishvolt. The companies will work together toward developing battery cell technology designed for high-performance cars. Aston Martin plans to launch its first battery-electric vehicle in ... |
Fintech Roundup: Fintechs and banks are getting cozier | Mary Ann Azevedo | 2,022 | 3 | 6 | weekly fintech-focused column. I’ll be publishing this every Sunday, so in between posts, be sure to listen to the Tenderly Forage. Left to right: Justin Intal (CEO), Ofek Lavian (COO) and Victor Fimbres (CTO) Kin Insurance. Co-founders Lucas Ward and Sean Harper |
Tracking the future of crypto controversy | Lucas Matney | 2,022 | 3 | 6 | Hello readers, and welcome back to ! Last week, I talked about the environmental impacts of crypto with Kimbal Musk, early Tesla investor and brother of Elon. This week, I’m talking a bit about myself, this newsletter and the future of the web. If someone forwarded you this message, you can get this in your inbox from... |
TikTok suspends content in Russia in response to ‘fake news’ law | Rebecca Bellan | 2,022 | 3 | 6 | TikTok is suspending livestreaming and new content to its video service in response to Russia’s new “fake news” law, the company said on Sunday. The law, which the lower chamber of Russia’s parliament approved on Friday, threatens prison time for anyone who publishes what the Kremlin deems to be false information about... |
Indian fintech CredAvenue turns unicorn with fresh $137 million funding | Manish Singh | 2,022 | 3 | 6 | Debt marketplace CredAvenue, which helps businesses and enterprises secure debt from lenders, has become the fastest Indian fintech startup to join the unicorn club, it said on Sunday. The two-year-old startup has raised a $137 million Series B financing round led by Insight Partners, B Capital Group and Dragoneer, it ... |
Colabs gets $3 million seed to expand across Pakistan, launch back-office SaaS solution | Annie Njanja | 2,022 | 3 | 24 | Lahore-based coworking space startup is set to roll out a SaaS product to enable businesses to meet back-office needs including company registration, talent sourcing and management, payroll processing, and legal and tax compliance. It also plans to hire more staff, which will include increasing the product team for i... |
Europe says yes to messaging interoperability as it agrees on major new regime for Big Tech | Natasha Lomas | 2,022 | 3 | 24 | The European Union late Thursday secured agreement on the detail of a major competition reform that will see the most powerful, intermediating tech platforms subject to a set of up-front rules on how they can and cannot operate — with the threat of fines of up to 10% of global annual turnover should they breach require... |
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Google-backed Glance acquires gaming platform Gambit in NFT push | Manish Singh | 2,022 | 3 | 24 | Glance has acquired India’s Gambit as the Google-backed firm looks to supercharge its mobile games offerings and introduce NFTs to its Gen-Z users, TechCrunch has confirmed. Piyush Shah, co-founder of InMobi Group and COO of Glance, confirmed the acquisition but declined to share the financial terms of the deal. In an ... |
Too much email? Try Gated, which asks unknown senders to make a donation first | Connie Loizos | 2,022 | 3 | 24 | If you aren’t drowning in email these days, you either don’t have an email account or you are a very young person who marketers haven’t discovered quite yet (they will!). To push back against the assault, a 10-month-old, Bay Area-based startup called has emerged with an approach to help both overwhelmed email recipie... |
Daily Crunch: Wearable health tracker Oura has sold more than a million rings | Alex Wilhelm | 2,022 | 3 | 24 | Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for Thursday, March 24, 2022! I am happy to report that is taking on the day’s startups section, as he will be sharing the Daily Crunch writing load starting next week (along with )! A big thanks to the two of them for jumping in and taking on this lovely letter. Before we start the... |
Former TikTok content moderators file lawsuit over ‘psychological trauma’ | Taylor Hatmaker | 2,022 | 3 | 24 | A pair of former TikTok content reviewers is suing the company, alleging that it failed to adequately support them as they engaged in the deeply disturbing work of removing objectionable videos from the social network. NPR , which was . Plaintiffs Ashley Velez and Reece Young both did moderation work for TikTok on co... |
Such great heights | Brian Heater | 2,022 | 3 | 24 | inbox is overflowing with agtech pitches, and frankly I only have myself to blame after bringing it up the last two newsletters (damn, just did it again, didn’t?). As for where this whole thing started? I blame the fact that spring officially sprung at precisely 11:33 AM ET in my home hemisphere. Flowers are blooming,... |
Ola to acquire fintech Avail Finance | Manish Singh | 2,022 | 3 | 24 | Ola said on Thursday evening it has reached an agreement to acquire Avail Finance, a financial services startup that serves the blue-collar workforce, as the ride-hailing giant looks to expand its financial services offerings. The two startups did not disclose the terms of the deal. Avail Finance had raised about $38.5... |
Netflix adds two more games, will release its first first-person shooter title soon | Aisha Malik | 2,022 | 3 | 24 | Streaming service Netflix is once again with the launch of two more titles, which went live on Tuesday. The new games are called “Shatter Remastered” and “This Is A True Story.” The two new titles are now available for iOS and Android users. Netflix also teased its first upcoming first-person shooter title called “In... |
TechCrunch debuts ‘Chain Reaction,’ a new podcast about the wild world of web3 | Lucas Matney | 2,022 | 3 | 24 | are more confusing or intimidating than crypto. The industry has attracted trillions in investment, but it can still be tough to even buy tokens or NFTs, let alone understand what these things actually do. As a result, crypto has courted a fairly controversial reputation among consumers, who are struggling to reconcil... |
Uber will list NYC taxis to combat driver shortage and high fares | Amanda Silberling | 2,022 | 3 | 24 | If you can’t disrupt them, join them? Once poised to render the taxi system obsolete, Uber to list all New York City taxis on its app. Later this spring, New York City riders will be able to hail a cab right from their Uber apps, helping the company combat its driver shortage and rising fares. “Our partnerships with ... |
Data obscures positive trends in VC dollars reaching women-founded startups | Mimi Aboubaker | 2,022 | 3 | 24 | billion in venture capital was deployed, and only 2% of that number went to companies founded only by women and 15.6% to teams with both women and men on their founding teams, . In my view, the correct statistic is about 18%, not 2% — as we should take into account deals that had mixed-gender founding teams. Eighteen... |
Using data to solve key pain points for today’s banking customers | Uday Akkaraju | 2,022 | 3 | 24 | reaction; the more you have, the more you can earn. But it can have an exponentially adverse effect if you don’t have it. This holds true for data as well. Vast amounts of information improve banks’ ability to support customers, but financial institutions must know how to use it. Today’s banking customer is in serious... |
Polestar’s long range single motor Polestar 2 arrives in the US | Andrew Tarantola | 2,022 | 3 | 24 | Following the release of its dual-motor variant late last year, Polestar announced on Wednesday that the 270-mile long range, single-motor version of its is now available for sale in the US. Starting at $45,900 — — the single-motor Polestar 2 is $4,000 less expensive than its AWD sibling ( ) and provides 16 extra m... |
UK police arrest 7 people in connection with Lapsus$ hacks | Carly Page | 2,022 | 3 | 24 | Police in the United Kingdom have arrested seven people over suspected connections to the Lapsus$ hacking group, which has in recent weeks targeted tech giants including , , and . In a statement given to TechCrunch, Detective Inspector Michael O’Sullivan from the City of London Police said: “The City of London Pol... |
Reddit weighs new video feature with ‘reactions’ for use in its online discussions | Sarah Perez | 2,022 | 3 | 24 | Reddit is exploring the idea of bringing more user-generated video content to its online discussion forums, the company has confirmed. Not much has yet been determined about this potential new video feature — which hasn’t been launched into testing, we should note. But we understand it may involve the use of TikTok-lik... |
Grab your early-bird founder pass to TechCrunch Early Stage before prices increase | Alexandra Ames | 2,022 | 3 | 24 | |
HBO Max adds a new shuffle button for select TV shows on its platform | Aisha Malik | 2,022 | 3 | 24 | is introducing a new “shuffle” button for select TV shows on its platform, the company announced this week. The new button started rolling out globally on Tuesday and is only available on the desktop version of the streaming service. The new feature shuffles episodes from a specific TV show. For example, if you want t... |
Captain’s contractor lending tool aims to speed up home repairs after natural disasters | Christine Hall | 2,022 | 3 | 24 | Repairing a home that’s been destroyed in a hurricane, tornado, flood or fire can take quite a while, displacing homeowners during that time. founder and CEO Demetrius Gray noted that following storms, like the Katrina and Sandy hurricanes, the average primary recovery period was 14 months. Smaller storms can still ta... |
Mozilla launches paid subscriptions to its Developer Network | Frederic Lardinois | 2,022 | 3 | 24 | Mozilla today , a paid subscription product on top of the existing (and ) Mozilla Developer Network (MDN), one of the web’s most popular destinations for finding documentation and code samples related to web technologies like CSS, HTML and JavaScript. The new subscription offering will introduce features like , ... |
Digital lenders in Kenya must disclose source of funds as new law takes effect | Annie Njanja | 2,022 | 3 | 23 | Digital credit providers (DCPs) in Kenya will have to disclose their sources of funds and provide evidence of the same after a law meant to regulate the sector came into effect. The new regulations Monday by the country’s financial regulator, the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK), also require digital lenders to get a lice... |
LG Energy increases battery production in the US with $1.4B investment | Kate Park | 2,022 | 3 | 23 | South Korea’s LG Energy Solution, which supplies electric vehicle batteries to Tesla, Lucid Motors, General Motors and Proterra, said on Thursday it is investing $1.4 billion (1.7 trillion KRW) to build a cylindrical battery plant in Queen Creek, Arizona. The move is a clear indication that LG Energy is increasing its ... |
The Web Foundation is taking on deceptive design | Natasha Lomas | 2,022 | 3 | 23 | The ‘s is working on an interesting-looking project to — aka dark patterns* — with the goal of producing a portfolio of UX and UI prototypes which it hopes to persuade tech companies to adopt and policymakers to be inspired by as they fashion rules to make the online experience less exploitative of web users. The ... |
Daily Crunch: YouTube will let US users stream full seasons of nearly 4,000 TV shows (with ads) | Alex Wilhelm | 2,022 | 3 | 23 | Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for Wednesday, March 23, 2022! Lots to talk about today, including bushels of news from both startups and Big Tech alike. But as we are entering , a reminder that , and . – Before we get into discrete funding events and startup product launches, a word about pro rata. Pro rata righ... |
NASA is looking for a second company to develop a human moon lander alongside SpaceX | Aria Alamalhodaei | 2,022 | 3 | 23 | NASA will be giving another company a chance to send a lander to the moon, nearly a year after the agency announced that SpaceX beat out competitors including Blue Origin and Boeing for the opportunity. Under the new plan, the agency will be opening up a second competition for a lander system for all American companies... |
Okta says hundreds of companies impacted by security breach | Zack Whittaker | 2,022 | 3 | 23 | Okta says 366 corporate customers, or about 2.5% of its customer base, were impacted by a security breach that allowed hackers to access the company’s internal network. The authentication giant after the Lapsus$ hacking and extortion group posted screenshots of Okta’s apps and systems on Monday, some two months after... |
Skyline scores $6.5M to wash windows with robot arms | Brian Heater | 2,022 | 3 | 23 | I would put window washing fairly high (so to speak) on the list of jobs it makes sense to automate. Certainly the gig qualifies as both dirty and dangerous — and surprisingly, doesn’t come with all that much in the way of hazard pay. That’s something you would think might come standard with a job that requires you to ... |
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