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Google Play to pilot third-party billing option, starting with Spotify | Sarah Perez | 2,022 | 3 | 23 | Amid increasing global regulations over app stores and their commission structures, Google today the launch of a pilot program designed to explore what it calls “user billing choice.” The program will allow a small number of participating developers, starting with Spotify, to offer an additional third-party billing o... |
3 factors to consider when building an early-stage cloud sales team | Andy Stinnes | 2,022 | 3 | 23 | in a classic Series A venture capital firm, I have the pleasure of regularly speaking to cloud software company founders. At this early stage, a lot of company building has yet to be done, which includes the development of a professional sales team. Let me set the scene: The founders have been at it for about two year... |
Twitter might start charging for TweetDeck through Twitter Blue | Aisha Malik | 2,022 | 3 | 23 | Twitter has been spotted working on making TweetDeck a premium feature through its Twitter Blue subscription service. According to reverse engineer , who searches the code of mobile apps to spot features and upcoming changes in development, the social media giant is currently working on the addition to Twitter’s premi... |
The product-led growth playbook | Vidya Raman | 2,022 | 3 | 23 | and a recent product manager, I have encountered many companies that failed and some that succeeded at their product-led growth (PLG) efforts. The PLG journey is never easy, but it can be a powerful path to enduring success. I have distilled my experience into a short but essential list of prerequisites that I believe... |
Google Cloud now lets you suspend and resume VMs | Frederic Lardinois | 2,022 | 3 | 23 | Google Cloud today its Suspend/Resume feature for virtual machines into general availability. Before it launched this feature as an alpha a couple of years ago, the only option developers had were to stop and start instances. With , the experience is more akin to closing and opening the lid on your laptop, Google ar... |
Despite declines, the value of crypto assets in DeFi protocols is up 3x from a year ago | Jacquelyn Melinek | 2,022 | 3 | 23 | have you believe it’s a down market for decentralized finance (DeFi) chains, with total value locked across all decentralized finance (DeFi) chains down from all time highs, but that hasn’t been true for most of the major protocols over the past week. Of the top 100 chains, only 18 have lost value over the past seven ... |
Dear Sophie: How long does it take to get International Entrepreneur Parole? | Sophie Alcorn | 2,022 | 3 | 23 | 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... |
Nvidia’s Clara Holoscan MGX means to bring high-powered AI to the doctor’s office | Emma Betuel | 2,022 | 3 | 23 | This week, Nvidia, a company best known for its high-powered graphic processing units (GPUs) debuted a platform for the development of AI-powered medical devices. The device, called , provides computing power allowing medical sensors to process multiple data streams in parallel, train AI algorithms and visualize biolo... |
What Yuga Labs wants to build after raising $450M | Alex Wilhelm | 2,022 | 3 | 23 | investor deck from February is a , bringing together gaming, a new currency, and an ever-growing pool of digital assets that can be bought and sold by fans of Yuga’s well-known NFT project Bored Ape Yacht Club. I ran through the deck last night and again this morning to get a better grip on the company’s financials, ... |
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Arizona becomes first state to offer driver’s license and state ID in Apple Wallet | Sarah Perez | 2,022 | 3 | 23 | Apple today that Arizona will become the first U.S. state to offer residents the ability to their driver’s license or state ID in Apple’s Wallet app. The company had already it had secured the state to be among the first to offer the new feature. With the launch, Apple device owners will be able to tap their iPho... |
Google is moving the ‘Movies & TV’ tab from the Play Store to Google TV | Aisha Malik | 2,022 | 3 | 23 | Google is removing the “Movies & TV” section from the Play Store and moving it to the Google TV app, the company announced in a . The upcoming change will go into effect starting in May. Google says the Google TV app will become the place for users to buy, rent and watch movies and tv shows on their Android mobile dev... |
Microsoft confirms Lapsus$ breach after hackers publish Bing, Cortana source code | Carly Page | 2,022 | 3 | 23 | Microsoft has confirmed that it was breached by the Lapsus$ hacking group. In — published hours after Lapsus$ posted a torrent file containing partial source code from Bing, Bing Maps and Cortana — Microsoft revealed that a single employee’s account was compromised by the hacking group, granting the attackers “limite... |
Kenya-based fintech 4G Capital to scale lending after raising $18.5M from Lightrock | Annie Njanja | 2,022 | 3 | 15 | Kenya-based fintech company , which provides unsecured credit to micro enterprises, has raised $18.5 million in Series C funding from global private equity firm . The equity funding comes as the fintech plans to roll out a series of new products and services, including new loans that will increase the credit limit fr... |
Remote work platform Multiplier raises $60M Series B at $400M valuation | Catherine Shu | 2,022 | 3 | 15 | , a startup that enables companies to hire and pay remote workers while complying with local laws, announced today that it has raised a $60 million Series B at a valuation of $400 million. The round was co-led by Tiger Global and Sequoia Capital India, and brings Multiplier total investment since it was founded in 2020... |
Talent.com raises $120M to take on Indeed and ZipRecruiter in mass-market job search | Ingrid Lunden | 2,022 | 3 | 15 | Online recruitment was one of the early and big hits of the first dot-com boom. But with more and more business processes moving online, online job search is the gift that keeps on giving, and so today comes news of another portal raising a big round to take on the incumbents in the space with more innovative and accur... |
Indonesian earned wage access platform Wagely raises $8.3M as it expands into Bangladesh | Catherine Shu | 2,022 | 3 | 15 | , an earned wage access (EWA) platform based in Jakarta and Dhaka, has raised $8.3 million in pre-Series A funding, just seven months after announcing . The new funds will be used to fuel Wagely’s expansion in Bangladesh, where it recently launched, and build other features to become a “holistic financial wellness pla... |
Well…Facebook has a TikTok now | Sarah Perez | 2,022 | 3 | 15 | What’s Facebook doing on TikTok? Scoping out the competition? DM’ing Charli? Recruiting beta testers? Buying ads? We’ll know soon enough, because the social networking company has set up , where it’s already amassed some 15,100 followers, as of the time of writing, despite not having posted any public videos. The acco... |
Hyundai’s solar car roof isn’t as dumb as it sounds | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,022 | 3 | 23 | The new hybrid Hyundai Sonata has . After baking in the sun all day, the car can add 3-4 miles to its range. That might sound underwhelming, but my EV discharges far more than 3-4 miles per day just sitting parked and doing whatever a Tesla does when it’s not being driven around. I can only assume that, given its powe... |
Mercedes-Benz shows off the interior of the 2023 EQS SUV | Igor Bonifacic | 2,022 | 3 | 15 | Ahead of its official debut on April 19, Mercedes-Benz has at the interior of the 2023 EQS SUV. As you can see from the photos the automaker provided, Mercedes didn’t reinvent its interior design language. As before, the most eye-catching feature is the optional 56-inch that spans across the entire front cabin of t... |
Mark Zuckerberg says NFTs are coming to Instagram soon | Taylor Hatmaker | 2,022 | 3 | 15 | Meta wants you to mint in the metaverse. In a conversation at SXSW, Mark Zuckerberg announced that his company plans to introduce NFTs into Instagram in the “near term.” While the Meta CEO and founder didn’t offer a ton of detail, he characterized the integration of non-fungible tokens into the company’s photo and vide... |
Cadillac will offer two new features to select Super Cruise drivers this summer | Andrew Tarantola | 2,022 | 3 | 15 | will learn two new tricks this summer. GM announced on Tuesday that the driver assist system will offer Automatic Lane Change and Trailering capabilities for eligible owners. Owners of the will have the opportunity to purchase Automatic Lane Change capabilities, while 2021 Escalade owners will be given the Trailerin... |
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Beat the early-bird deadline to save $300 at TC Sessions: Mobility 2022 | Alexandra Ames | 2,022 | 3 | 15 | Not much else matches the fast, evolving pace of mobility technology. It’s revolutionizing the way we move people, as well as parcels both big and small, and it’s simultaneously reshaping the present and future of industries, cities and towns around the world. If you want to keep your fingers on mobility’s driving puls... |
Daily Crunch: Former Metamates go from zero to unicorn with $200M crypto investment led by a16z | Alex Wilhelm | 2,022 | 3 | 15 | Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for Tuesday, March 15, 2022! Well, we’ve done it. We made it through earnings season and nearly all of Q1. Now it’s just the final two weeks until we rock into the second real period of 2022. Time flies, but the fact that we’re toward the end of March means that Early Stage is coming u... |
Bird’s Q4 revenues beat expectations, but investors don’t love its conservative 2022 growth forecast | Rebecca Bellan | 2,022 | 3 | 15 | Shared micromobility company Bird 2021 fourth quarter and full year earnings on Tuesday after the bell. The report was the company’s second public earnings release after finalizing its SPAC deal in November. Since its combination, the company’s value has fallen, mirroring declines seen in other SPAC combinations. Sti... |
Startup banking service Mercury jumps into debt lending to take on Silicon Valley Bank | Connie Loizos | 2,022 | 3 | 15 | , a , three-year-old startup that offers a host of banking services to startups, is today rolling out a new offering for its customers: venture debt. The idea is to loan out $200 million this year and up to $1 billion next year to startups that have already raised $2 million in funding from at least one institutional ... |
Infrastructure bill could promote lean construction via data capture | Meirav Oren | 2,022 | 3 | 15 | to be significant for the construction industry and the technology that empowers its workforce. Data capture and measurement hold much promise this year thanks to $550 billion in funding allocated to infrastructure projects as part of President Biden’s Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. The bill also includes $10... |
Google unveils ‘Immersive Stream for Games,’ its service that lets companies use Stadia’s tech | Aisha Malik | 2,022 | 3 | 15 | At its , Google today unveiled Stadia’s B2B offering called “Immersive Stream for Games.” The offering, which was created in partnership with Google Cloud, will allow companies to take advantage of Stadia’s underlying platform technology and deliver games directly to players. With this offering, Google is branching ou... |
Bear Robotics targets restaurant staffing shortages with another $81M raise | Brian Heater | 2,022 | 3 | 15 | One of the most interesting things about following food robotics startups over the past couple of years is tracking all of the different tasks companies are looking to automate, from prep to delivery. Bay Area-based Bear isn’t the only firm attempting to bring robots out in front of the the counter, but in recent years... |
Russia’s App Store lost nearly 7K apps since its invasion of Ukraine, but some Big Tech apps remain | Sarah Perez | 2,022 | 3 | 15 | The Russian App Store has lost 6,982 mobile apps since the start of the Ukraine invasion, as numerous companies have now pulled their apps and games from Apple’s iPhone and iPad App Stores in the country, according to data shared with TechCrunch by app intelligence firm . To date, those apps had been downloaded around... |
Apple’s Studio Display fills an obvious gap in the monitor market | Owen Williams | 2,022 | 3 | 15 | At Apple’s March event, the company , a new, 27-inch external monitor that starts at $1,599 — a huge step down in price from the company’s only other monitor, the Pro Display XDR, . The announcement of the Studio Display is big news for many who have been waiting for Apple to offer a replacement for its popular Thund... |
Ukraine’s Mykhailo Fedorov talks about corporate sanctions and running a government during wartime | Romain Dillet | 2,022 | 3 | 15 | started invading Ukraine three weeks ago. And the conflict has been multifaceted from day one. In addition to the ground war, the Ukrainian government quickly reacted on the digital front. Representatives asked for , called out tech companies so that they would sales and services in Russia and organized a digital r... |
How the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is set to shake up BNPL in 2022 | Yaacov Martin | 2,022 | 3 | 15 | behind on for fintechs, which is unsettling considering the number of U.S. citizens in serious debt. As of the third quarter of 2021, American citizens owed , nearing the highest level in the nation’s history. Buy now, pay later (BNPL) services offer customers accessibility and flexibility for payments, but mean ... |
TechCrunch+ roundup: Crypto tax prep, no-code survey, 4 VCs discuss how to pitch them | Walter Thompson | 2,022 | 3 | 15 | Fundraising is a highly specialized skill: unless you’ve started a business, worked in a non-profit, or perhaps defrauded someone, you won’t have much practical experience when it comes to convincing strangers to give you their money. But startup-land is different: before a founding team can breathe life into their gre... |
This Week in Apps: War and the app economy, Google’s Messages update, Telegram ‘TV’ | Sarah Perez | 2,022 | 3 | 12 | Welcome back to This Week in Apps, that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with number of downloads and consumer spending across both the iOS and Google Play stores combined in 2021, according to the year-end . Global spending... |
Tiger’s stamp of approval is coming for the early stage | Natasha Mascarenhas | 2,022 | 3 | 12 | For my full take on this topic, check out my TechCrunch+ column, “ ” In the rest of this newsletter, we’ll talk about an inclusive and disruptive LatAm startup, community beyond capitalism and why SPACs are in the news again. As always, you can support me by sharing this newsletter, or I want to give a shout-out t... |
Casey Neistat’s David Dobrik documentary explores what happens when creators cross the line | Amanda Silberling | 2,022 | 3 | 12 | things that make up a vlog,” David Dobrik, then a rising YouTube star, explained to Casey Neistat, a veteran YouTuber and filmmaker. Neistat’s camera pans to show a swimming pool, where a member of Dobrik’s ensemble, the Vlog Squad, balances on a jet ski, attempting to toss a basketball from half-court distance over h... |
Flipkart founder’s Navi files for $440 million IPO | Manish Singh | 2,022 | 3 | 12 | Sachin Bansal’s Navi Technologies, a fintech startup that offers customers insurance and loan products, has filed for a $440 million IPO as the 40-year-old entrepreneur who made his money by kick-starting the e-commerce wave in India once again makes a bold choice. Navi Technologies’ initial public offering will consis... |
Holoride’s in-car VR tech is coming to Audi this summer | Jaclyn Trop | 2,022 | 3 | 12 | Virtual reality is about to launch in series production cars this summer, starting with Audi sedans and SUVs. Holoride announced Saturday at the SXSW tech, music and film conference in Austin that its headset-based will debut in June in certain Audi models with the latest MIB 3 software. The announcement is a milesto... |
The Mini Cooper SE is a fun EV with some catching up to do | Alex Kalogiannis | 2,022 | 3 | 12 | Electrifying a car like the two-door Mini Cooper seems like a brilliant, forehead-slapping, “why didn’t we think of this before” kind of concept, and Mini certainly agrees. The brand has been toying with the concept since 2009, with the limited run of the Mini E, a program designed to field test the viability and attra... |
AngelList Venture has a new look | Natasha Mascarenhas | 2,022 | 3 | 12 | Venture closed its first tranche of institutional funding since spinning out The $100 million round was led by Tiger Global and Accomplice, It wasn’t necessarily expected. The round comes just weeks after the organization’s CEO, Avlok Kohli, told me that the company didn’t need venture money, a stance that AngelLis... |
The startup growth paradox | Alex Wilhelm | 2,022 | 3 | 12 | Friends! Welcome to the weekend. I hope you are resting and recharging. Our work today is pretty relaxed, so pour another coffee and let’s get into it. This week, The Exchange spent a good amount of time . To summarize, the value of tech companies is being re-drafted by investors, and it appears that some of the specu... |
Byju’s founder took loan to invest $400 million in edtech giant | Manish Singh | 2,022 | 3 | 13 | Byju Raveendran, founder and chief executive of the eponymous edtech giant, has financed his recent $400 million investment in Byju’s through a debt he raised from multiple international banks, two sources familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. On Friday, the startup announced it has raised $800 million in a new fin... |
Augmented reality’s half-decade of stagnation | Lucas Matney | 2,022 | 3 | 13 | Hello readers, and welcome back to ! Last week, I talked about the future of this newsletter and what’s coming next. The short of which is that in the coming weeks I will be winding down my time authoring the newsletter as I start sending out a brand new newsletter for TechCrunch called focused exclusively on cryp... |
Alexis Ohanian on his plan to back more emerging managers | Connie Loizos | 2,022 | 3 | 13 | Alexis Ohanian, Reddit co-founder, venture capitalist, and enthusiastic , quietly announced a new initiative last week out of his venture firm, (776): the 776 Titans Fund. The new fund, as the firm describes it, plans to “focus on emerging managers, each with their own influential distribution channels and unique op... |
Founders: Connect with influential movers and shippers at TC Sessions: Mobility 2022 | Alexandra Ames | 2,022 | 3 | 13 | If you’re itching to get your game-changing product out of the garage, onto the streets or into customers’ driveways, we not-so-humbly suggest that you do whatever it takes to attend in San Mateo, California on May 18-19. It’s your chance to meet, mingle and network with mobility’s movers, shakers, shippers and unico... |
Kirsten Green on selling to consumers in the metaverse: brands should ‘get in there’ | Connie Loizos | 2,022 | 3 | 14 | When Forerunner Ventures was founded in 2012, traditional brands still reigned supreme, and most of us shopped in physical spaces. Firm founder Kirsten Green, who was earlier an equity research analyst at Banc of America Securities, was maybe more aware than most that this picture was about to dramatically change; over... |
Fintech Roundup: Due diligence makes a comeback and a former Better.com employee speaks out | Mary Ann Azevedo | 2,022 | 3 | 13 | Note: After I wrote all of the above, I came across from a Better.com employee who on March 11 was asked to resign a week early after publishing an internal communication from the company on social media. Senior product designer publicly pushed his employer — including directly communicating with CEO Vishal Garg a... |
India’s Licious raises $150 million for its fresh animal protein e-commerce platform | Manish Singh | 2,022 | 3 | 14 | Licious, a Bengaluru-based startup that sells fresh meat, seafood and other fresh animal protein online and which became the , said on Tuesday it has raised an additional $150 million from a set of late-stage investors in a move that appears to be a precursor to startup’s initial public offering. The round was led by ... |
Google Cloud gets more expensive | Frederic Lardinois | 2,022 | 3 | 14 | Renting cloud infrastructure typically gets cheaper over time, but Google Cloud is bucking this trend today with across a number of core services. These increases, which Google announced under the guise of wanting to provide “more flexible pricing models and options,” will go into effect on October 1, 2022. Most deve... |
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Bazaar raises $70 million from Tiger Global and Dragoneer to digitize Pakistan’s retail | Manish Singh | 2,022 | 3 | 14 | Dragoneer Investment Group and Tiger Global are backing Bazaar, a startup that is attempting to , they said today, joining a growing list of high-profile investors making large bets in the South Asian market. The two investors are leading Bazaar’s $70 million Series B funding. Existing backers including Indus Valley C... |
Motto to launch a new electric bike subscription service in Paris | Romain Dillet | 2,022 | 3 | 14 | Meet , a new French startup that plans to offer electric bikes in Paris. Instead of buying those bikes, Motto customers will be able to rent them for a fixed price of €75 per month (around $82 at today’s exchange rate). Customers get Motto-branded electric bikes with a motor in the rear wheel that helps you pedal up t... |
Amazon accuses estranged Indian partner Future and Reliance of fraud in newspaper ads | Manish Singh | 2,022 | 3 | 14 | Amazon’s two-year effort to between its estranged partner Future Group and Reliance Retail took a new turn on Tuesday as tens of millions of Indians woke up to find the U.S. e-commerce giant airing its grievances in several newspapers. Amazon has accused Future Group (which runs the nation’s second-largest retail cha... |
Ireland’s privacy watchdog sued for inaction over ‘massive Google data breach’ | Natasha Lomas | 2,022 | 3 | 14 | Ireland’s evasive response to a major security complaint filed against Google’s adtech the year the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into application is the target of a new lawsuit that accuses the Data Protection Commission (DPC) of years of inaction over what the complainants assert is ... |
inFeedo gets $12M to help employers find out how their workforce really feels | Catherine Shu | 2,022 | 3 | 14 | Employee sentiment can be hard to gauge, even at smaller businesses. This can lead to burnout and attrition when managers least expect it. To solve that problem, wants to act as a bridge between workers and their managers, with surveys performed through a chatbot called Amber, which inFeedo refers to as a “chief list... |
The Station: A final rule for AVs and Cruise’s Kyle Vogt on why he’s ready to be CEO again | Kirsten Korosec | 2,022 | 3 | 14 | Hello readers: Welcome to The Station, your central hub for all past, present, and future means of moving people and packages from Point A to Point B. It was a busy week of “future of transportation” news, and lucky for us, we have a new reporter here at TechCrunch ready to dig into the beat. Reporter Jaclyn Trop has h... |
Daily Crunch: African mobility fintech Moove raises $105M in Series A2 | Alex Wilhelm | 2,022 | 3 | 14 | Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for Monday, March 14, 2022! This week I am writing to you from New Orleans, where I am busy – when not writing – eating everything in sight. I bring that up as getting around is something that many of us are now doing a bit more of. Which means we’re once again. And that’s a great se... |
Vira Health gets $12M to dial up personalized menopause support | Natasha Lomas | 2,022 | 3 | 14 | , a U.K. startup that offers personalized digital therapeutics for women going through menopause, has closed a second round of funding — taking $12 million from lead investor Octopus Ventures, along with participation from U.S.-based VC firm Optum Ventures, as it gears up to hop over the pond. Existing investors in the... |
NASA’s mega expensive moon rocket will make its public debut Thursday | Aria Alamalhodaei | 2,022 | 3 | 14 | Twelve years after it was first announced, NASA’s massive Space Launch System will finally make its public debut. The super heavy-lift rocket and Orion spacecraft will begin the rollout to the launch pad at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center on Thursday, a much-anticipated development for a launch system that’s been beset ... |
Microsoft’s PeopleLens project helps blind kids learn social cues in conversation | Devin Coldewey | 2,022 | 3 | 14 | Among the challenges of growing up with a visual impairment is learning and participating in the social and conversational body language used by sighted people. is a research project at Microsoft that helps the user stay aware of the locations and identities of the people around them, promoting richer and more sponta... |
Lyft, Uber add surcharge due to high gas prices | Rebecca Bellan | 2,022 | 3 | 14 | Lyft and Uber are adding temporary fuel surcharges to fares for ride-hail and deliveries as fuel prices around the country rise. The rising prices are due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which has resulted in a mountain of economic sanctions from the west against Russia, and the U.K.’s promise to ease its dependency ... |
SoftBank turns fund for diverse entrepreneurs into an ‘evergreen’ opportunity | Natasha Mascarenhas | 2,022 | 3 | 14 | SoftBank, a Japanese conglomerate, that it has an uncapped, evergreen fund made explicitly to back Black, Latinx and Native American entrepreneurs within the United States. The commitment is a continuation of SoftBank’s $100 million Opportunity Growth Fund for underrepresented founders, which first launched in June 2... |
Ukrainian hackers say HackerOne is blocking their bug bounty payouts | Zack Whittaker | 2,022 | 3 | 14 | Ukrainian hackers and security researchers say bug bounty platform HackerOne is withholding their bug bounty rewards, in some cases thousands of dollars, and refusing to let hackers withdraw their earnings. Several hackers and researchers with affected HackerOne accounts said in tweets that HackerOne is blocking payout... |
Mask unlock is finally live on iPhone as iOS 15.4 arrives | Brian Heater | 2,022 | 3 | 14 | Just under a week , the company dropped the latest version of a trio of operating systems: iOS/iPadOS 15.4 and macOS 12.3 are now live. For those who don’t live , that means a bunch of key features, including using Face ID with a mask unlock and , which offers even more seamless integration between an iPad and Mac. ... |
The inevitable codification of Silicon Valley’s relationships | Natasha Mascarenhas | 2,022 | 3 | 14 | Hello and welcome back to , a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This week, is running the show, which means we’re returning to our private market focus and, for the fun of it, reminding you all that This is going to be a busy week for the team, so e... |
IRS FUD: What you need to know about crypto taxes | Pam Krueger | 2,022 | 3 | 14 | of the millions of Americans who jumped on the Bitcoin bandwagon in 2021. Or perhaps you’ve become an active crypto trader. Or maybe digital currency bonuses have become part of your compensation package at work. You might have even used some of it to buy something or pay someone else for their services. Perhaps you’v... |
Max Q: Russian invasion reverberates through space industry | Aria Alamalhodaei | 2,022 | 3 | 14 | This week, Max Q again puts the focus on the ongoing invasion of Ukraine by Russia, and the resulting halo effects that’s having on the international space industry. Neither private companies, like OneWeb, nor national space programs have been spared from ongoing shockwaves from the conflict. Perhaps most significantly... |
Japan’s Terra Drone lands $70M Series B funding to accelerate global expansion | Kate Park | 2,022 | 3 | 22 | As the use of aircraft like drones, electric vertical take-off and landing vehicles and uncrewed aerial vehicles take off, Japanese startup wants to make sure trafficking the skies doesn’t get overlooked. When asked about its next plan after Series B, Seki told TechCrunch that Terra Drone considers going public. The c... |
Daily Crunch: Identity-as-a-service platform Okta says it ‘contained’ network breach in January | Alex Wilhelm | 2,022 | 3 | 22 | Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for Tuesday, March 22, 2022! Excited to announce that we’re bringing in a few other folks to help bring this newsletter for you. helped write the Big Tech and Startups sections today, for example. will also be rotating in this week. Give them a follow! Before we start, , so if tha... |
Former Cruise CEO Dan Ammann joins ExxonMobil | Rebecca Bellan | 2,022 | 3 | 22 | Dan Ammann, the New Zealand native who served as CEO of autonomous vehicle company Cruise since 2019, has moved on to ExxonMobil, where he will be leading a new business focused on commercializing low-emission business opportunities in carbon capture and storage, hydrogen and low-emission fuels, according to a . Amman... |
It’s time to hold investors accountable and abolish pro-rata | Vijay Chattha | 2,022 | 3 | 22 | a lot since I was pounding the pavement on Sand Hill Road as a young entrepreneur in the late ’90s. Capital was hard to come by, and founders had to practically beg VCs to back their company. Our options for funding were limited to a handful of blue-chip firms and networks of successful angels. Two decades later, ther... |
Alphabet just spun out out its quantum tech group, launching it as an independent company | Connie Loizos | 2,022 | 3 | 22 | Quantum tech may be having its moment at long last. Consider that earlier this month, one of the few “pure play” quantum tech companies in the world, Rigetti Computing, by merging with a special purpose acquisition company or SPAC. It only narrowly missed becoming the first publicly traded company to expressly focus ... |
Web3 digital identity startup Unstoppable Domains said to seek funding at $1 billion valuation | Manish Singh | 2,022 | 3 | 22 | Unstoppable Domains, a popular blockchain naming system provider, is putting together a funding round at a valuation of $1 billion, three people familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. The startup is in talks with a number of new and existing investors including Draper Associates, Coinbase Ventures, Protocol Labs and... |
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You can now make GIFs in Twitter’s iOS app | Amanda Silberling | 2,022 | 3 | 22 | If you ever wanted to make a GIF from your iOS camera while using the Twitter app, today’s your lucky day. Twitter that now, we can do just that. When you compose a new tweet on iOS, click the camera button. Then, you have the option to choose between a photo, a video and an animated GIF. Your GIF recording can’t be ... |
Bored Apes NFT startup Yuga Labs raises seed round at monster $4B valuation | Lucas Matney | 2,022 | 3 | 22 | , maker of the multimillion dollar monkey JPEGs that plenty of NFT skeptics love to hate, just raised a $450 million round from Andreessen Horowitz at a $4 billion valuation, the company announced Tuesday. The Miami-based NFT firm behind Bored Apes Yacht Club has not previously raised funding, though the startup has lo... |
US regulators say someone really needs to monitor Elon Musk’s tweets | Rebecca Bellan | 2,022 | 3 | 22 | U.S. securities regulators on Tuesday said they have authority to subpoena Tesla CEO Elon Musk about his tweets and urged a federal judge not to let the executive get away with tweeting with abandon. Musk has called the actions of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, which in 2018 required Musk to get pre-appro... |
Kickstarter’s CEO stepping down in April | Brian Heater | 2,022 | 3 | 22 | In a today titled “Moving Forward, With Gratitude,” Kickstarter CEO Aziz Hasan announced that he is stepping down from his leadership role at the crowdfunding platform. After three years, April 4 will be his final day as chief executive. In his stead, the company’s COO Sean Leow will fill the role as interim CEO as th... |
Eko expands algorithmic heart problem detection and lands $30M Series C extension | Emma Betuel | 2,022 | 3 | 22 | The stethoscope has come a long way from its humble beginnings in the 19th century. The regular acoustic type is still used every day, but it’s been joined by a panoply of digital options that can amplify or convert heart sounds into electrical signals. Eko, a company founded in 2013, has focused on bringing applied AI... |
Following a16z departure, Katie Haun debuts Haun Ventures with $1.5B in capital to back crypto startups | Lucas Matney | 2,022 | 3 | 22 | Katie Haun, who co-led Andreessen Horowitz’s crypto arm before announcing her departure this past December, is ready to take the wraps off her new organization, which she’s calling . The venture capital firm is devoted to backing crypto startups and is launching with $1.5 billion in capital across two funds — a $500 m... |
Builders and VCs explore the impact of air mobility on urban planning at TC Sessions: Mobility 2022 | Kirsten Korosec | 2,022 | 3 | 22 | Simi is Joby Aviation’s head of air operations and people. Prior to joining the team at Joby, she served at JetBlue where she not only founded and led JetBlue Technology Ventures, but also held several operational and strategic roles within the company including airports, customer support, flight operations and system ... |
Twitter leads call for EU lawmakers to ‘think beyond Big Tech’ | Natasha Lomas | 2,022 | 3 | 22 | In a formalization of an Twitter-led push to try to exert influence over fast-forming European digital regulations, the social media firm has used its Twitter Spaces platform to host the official kick-off of a policy advocacy lobby group that’s being branded the (OIA). Alongside Twitter, video streaming platform Vi... |
TechCrunch+ roundup: Startup survival tips, content as a service, leading with transparency | Walter Thompson | 2,022 | 3 | 22 | of “Planet of the Apes” (1968), the human protagonist realizes that the alien world he crash-landed upon is actually post-apocalyptic Earth. For many first-time founders in fundraising mode, the current market correction for publicly-traded tech companies has been similarly jarring. Once investors started shaving valu... |
New Twitch appeals portal lets users monitor and object to account bans | Taylor Hatmaker | 2,022 | 3 | 22 | Twitch is updating its appeals and reporting processes, following through on product updates the company promised late last year. The biggest change is the introduction of a new portal where users facing account suspensions can appeal those rulings and monitor the progress of their requests. While Twitch deals with its... |
Fresh off dramatic majority shareholder exit, Firefly could be headed for a SPAC | Mark Harris | 2,022 | 3 | 22 | Firefly Aerospace’s roller coaster ride could soon send the rocket startup to the public market via a merger with a special purpose acquisition company, a recent suggests. Aerospace private equity firm AE Industrial Partners (AEI) announced last month that it had reached an agreement to acquire a “significant stake” ... |
Glass rethinks the smartphone camera through an old-school cinema lens | Devin Coldewey | 2,022 | 3 | 22 | gotten quite good, but it’s getting harder and harder to improve them because we’ve pretty much reached the limit of what’s possible in the space of a cubic centimeter. Glass is a startup looking to fundamentally change how the camera works, using a much bigger sensor and an optical trick from the depths of filmmaking... |
Nvidia launched a mapping product for the autonomous vehicle industry | Rebecca Bellan | 2,022 | 3 | 22 | Nvidia has launched a new mapping platform that will provide the autonomous vehicle industry with ground truth mapping coverage of over 300,000 miles of roadway in North America, Europe and Asia by 2024, The platform, dubbed Drive Map, is geared toward enabling high levels of autonomous driving. Drive Map isn’t only o... |
Cloud providers’ default retention policies are not enough: You better back your SaaS up | Brian Spanswick | 2,022 | 3 | 22 | thing that recent earnings reports from Microsoft, Google and Amazon made clear, it’s that their cloud businesses are booming. While the shift to the cloud is well underway, many companies aren’t paying attention to a critical aspect of this growth: the dramatic increase in data generated by SaaS that is not adequatel... |
Spotify will suspend its services in Russia in light of free speech crackdown | Taylor Hatmaker | 2,022 | 3 | 25 | Spotify will discontinue access to its streaming services in Russia in light of the country’s dramatic new restrictions on free speech. In early March, the Russian parliament that criminalizes sharing what the government deems to be “false information” about Russia’s operations in Ukraine. The new restrictions also p... |
Daily Crunch: EU, US reach ‘agreement in principle’ on trans-Atlantic data flows | Alex Wilhelm | 2,022 | 3 | 25 | Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for Friday, March 25, 2022! This is one of the last Daily Crunch intros that I will write for you. I will miss our daily chats and hellos. But there’s no time on a Friday for relaxing. We have work to do! Let’s go! – The creator economy is :chart-up-and-to-the-right: like there’s no t... |
Counting for Amazon’s Alabama and Staten Island union votes begins next week | Brian Heater | 2,022 | 3 | 25 | It’s been a predictably wild ride for unionization efforts at Amazon’s Bessemer, Alabama fulfillment center. After , the retail giant emerged victorious last April. While workers had received support from representatives on the political spectrum ranging from Bernie Sanders to Marco Rubio, it was a lop-sided victory — ... |
IT can play a major role in driving sustainability | Jeff Kukowski | 2,022 | 3 | 25 | alone consuming around , IT departments have substantial influence on their organization’s sustainability goals. Significantly reducing the amount of energy used to run workloads and business processes, however, requires intelligent automation, deep visibility, reducing shadow IT and optimizing CI/CD pipelines. The ... |
SpaceX, Northrop Grumman to resupply the ISS through 2026 | Aria Alamalhodaei | 2,022 | 3 | 25 | NASA just placed another order with SpaceX. The agency said Wednesday it had ordered six additional resupply missions from the company under its Commercial Resupply Services-2 (CRS-2) contract. NASA also placed an order for six more missions with aerospace prime Northrop Grumman, another major provider of resupply serv... |
US charges four Russian spies for hacking Saudi oil facility and US nuclear power plant | Carly Page | 2,022 | 3 | 25 | The U.S. Department of Justice has against four Russian government employees for a years-long hacking campaign targeting critical infrastructure, including a U.S. nuclear power operator and a Saudi petrochemical facility. The first indictment, from June 2021, charges Evgeny Viktorovich Gladkikh, 36, a computer progra... |
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How Europe has expanded its bid to disrupt Big Tech | Natasha Lomas | 2,022 | 3 | 25 | co-legislators reached political agreement on a major reform of digital competition rules , which will introduce up-front obligations and restrictions (literally a list of “dos and don’ts”) on the most powerful internet giants — enforced by the threat of substantial fines and other types of penalties if they fail to ... |
TechCrunch+ roundup: PLG handbook, hiring early-stage sales teams, abolishing pro-rata | Walter Thompson | 2,022 | 3 | 25 | In a previous era, startups that gained influence with CIOs could skate through the procurement process and start planning seminars for new customers as soon as contracts were finalized. Today, a decade or more into the End User Era, consumers have become the tail that wags the dog. Product-led growth models have been ... |
Spotify confirms it’s testing a new ‘Car Mode’ interface with some users | Aisha Malik | 2,022 | 3 | 25 | Spotify has started testing a new “Car Mode” interface with some users, the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Friday. The test comes a few months after Spotify that it was retiring its simplified automotive interface called “Car View,” which displayed playback controls and your current track when driving. At the tim... |
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