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7 Days left to apply to pitch your startup at TC Sessions: Mobility | Neesha A. Tambe | 2,022 | 4 | 15 | Calling all mobility founders! The clock is ticking and we’re down to seven days left to at TC Sessions: Mobility taking place on May 18-19 in San Mateo, California, with online analyst commentary on May 20th. We just announced the and, as you can see, you don’t want to miss out on your opportunity to pitch live in... |
‘The Ultimatum’ and social fintech have more in common than you’d think | Natasha Mascarenhas | 2,022 | 4 | 15 | Hello and welcome back to , a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This week was TechCrunch Early Stage, so and got together — in person! — to record the episode for the very first time. Shout out to for somehow helping us figure out a tech setup in... |
Slope brings on new CFO, customers, capital as it rises to offer businesses buy now, pay later | Christine Hall | 2,022 | 4 | 15 | , which provides businesses an easy way to offer buy now, pay later services, has had a busy six months. That’s not much of a surprise, given that the size was valued at $16 billion in 2021 and is poised to grow nearly six times by 2029. Its API technology can approve businesses for the BNPL in seconds so they can be... |
Nurse-assisting robotics firm Diligent raises $30M | Brian Heater | 2,022 | 4 | 12 | Nursing shortages were a problem well before our hospitals were rocked by a pandemic. Two years in and overloaded systems have further contributed to burnout, stress and other factors plaguing the people we rely on for our own well-being. We’ve seen robotics applied to just about every other field of late, so why not n... |
Moot channels $18M for a platform and toolkit to power e-commerce strategies for brands | Ingrid Lunden | 2,022 | 4 | 12 | E-commerce today is played out wherever a consumer sees something and wants it — be it on a company’s site or app, a social media feed, a marketplace, a search or an advert. Today a startup called that’s helping businesses and brands sell through all those channels in a unified way is announcing $18 million in a roun... |
Russian state media is still posting to TikTok a month after the app blocked new content | Taylor Hatmaker | 2,022 | 4 | 12 | TikTok issued an Tuesday on its efforts to stem the flow of misinformation about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, but the company doesn’t appear to be effectively implementing its existing policies around the war. The social network in early March in response to a harsh new law in the country criminalizing “fake news”... |
Swiggy backs bike taxi platform Rapido in $180 million funding | Manish Singh | 2,022 | 4 | 15 | Swiggy has led a $180 million financing round into as the Indian food delivery giant looks to broaden its fleet network across the country, the two firms said on Friday. Rapido’s Series D financing round also saw participation from TVS Motor Company and existing investors Westbridge, Shell Ventures and Nexus Ventures... |
TechCrunch+ roundup: The Kindbody TC-1, Glossier’s mistakes, calculating startup runway | Ram Iyer | 2,022 | 4 | 12 | Historically, people who have difficulty conceiving children have been stigmatized. A 2020 UCLA study found that approximately 15% of couples will have trouble getting pregnant, but , has taken a holistic approach to the issue. With a focus on education that addresses the fragmentation associated with infertility care... |
Daily Crunch: Beating ‘other takeover bidders,’ Bosch acquires autonomous driving startup Five.ai | Christine Hall | 2,022 | 4 | 12 | Welcome to the Daily Crunch for Tuesday, April 12, 2022! This week, the Found team released one of our favorite episodes of the podcast. In it, and . They dug into the journey of how a 20-year-old founder who had the idea to turn design into a multiplayer game built the de facto standard tool for collaborative des... |
Twitter investor sues Elon Musk over delay in disclosure of stake | Rebecca Bellan | 2,022 | 4 | 12 | A Twitter shareholder is suing Tesla CEO Elon Musk in a federal securities class action lawsuit because Musk failed to disclose his 5% stake in the social media company when he was required to do so. The delay allowed Musk to buy more shares of Twitter at a lower price and cheat sellers of Twitter stock out of increase... |
Grain lands $16M led by Tiger Global to turn virtual meetings into ‘libraries’ | Connie Loizos | 2,022 | 4 | 12 | , a four-year-old, fully remote startup that’s finding increasingly elaborate ways to capture video snippets of online meetings to make important moments easy to share, search and save, has raised $16 million in Series A funding led by Tiger Global Management. Other backers in the round include Zoom itself, the Slack F... |
YouTube services worldwide are experiencing issues, company confirms | Sarah Perez | 2,022 | 4 | 12 | YouTube today the site is experiencing a variety of issues that are impacting users worldwide. The company acknowledged the service’s problems after numerous users reported error messages when trying to watch videos or noted various site elements weren’t available — like the sidebar navigation or the Setting menus, f... |
Clubhouse begins testing an in-room gaming feature | Aisha Malik | 2,022 | 4 | 12 | Clubhouse is testing a new in-room gaming feature on both iOS and Android devices, the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Tuesday. As part of the initial launch, the app is rolling out a game called “Wild Cards,” which presents a series of questions that are designed to spur conversation and help people get to know eac... |
Avatar startup Genies hits $1 billion valuation in latest raise | Lucas Matney | 2,022 | 4 | 12 | Only in the current market can one wonder how a celebrity avatar startup that sells NFT accessories took so long to hit a unicorn valuation. Genies, an LA-based digital avatar startup, announced Tuesday that it had raised $150 million in funding from Silver Lake, with participation from Bond, NEA and Tamarack Global. T... |
Cruise expands Walmart autonomous delivery pilot in Arizona | Rebecca Bellan | 2,022 | 4 | 12 | Cruise, the self-driving car unit of General Motors, . The company will now be doing limited deliveries for customers in Chandler, in addition to Scottsdale. The news comes a couple of months after at a public meeting with Arizona state legislators, wherein Carter Stern, Cruise’s senior government affairs manager, s... |
Snapchat’s new feature automatically creates Stories based on select newsrooms’ content | Aisha Malik | 2,022 | 4 | 12 | Snapchat is introducing a new “Dynamic Stories” feature that will allow publishers to automatically create Stories on the app based on news stories they publish online, the company on Tuesday. Early partners include CNN, Bloomberg, ESPN and more. The new feature uses a publisher’s RSS Feed to automatically create and... |
About that Deel ARR number | Alex Wilhelm | 2,022 | 4 | 12 | the clock to February of this year, Deel, a startup that helps customers hire in other countries, announced that it had built . Regardless of your view on the financial intelligence of such a move, TechCrunch covered the news because we’re keeping tabs on Deel. Why? Because the former startup has posted rapid histori... |
Tim Cook uses privacy keynote to attack sideloading | Natasha Lomas | 2,022 | 4 | 12 | Apple CEO Tim Cook has used a speech at the IAPP conference in Washington, D.C. today to frame looming competition reforms which could force the iPhone maker to allow sideloading of apps as a threat to privacy and security. His remarks avoided mentioning any specific pieces of legislation but moves are afoot on both si... |
iMovie on the iPhone and iPad can now automagically generate movies | Romain Dillet | 2,022 | 4 | 12 | Apple is releasing an iMovie update today for iOS and iPadOS. iMovie 3.0 introduces two new major features — storyboards and Magic Movie. It is available as a free download on the App Store for anyone running at least iOS 15.2 or iPadOS 15.2. With the previous version of iMovie, most people started with a blank project... |
Union.ai raises $10M to simplify AI and ML workflow orchestration | Kyle Wiggers | 2,022 | 4 | 12 | , a startup emerging from stealth with a commercial version of the open source AI orchestration platform Flyte, today announced that it raised $10 million in a round contributed by NEA and “select” angel investors. CEO Ketan Umare says that the proceeds will be put toward supporting the Flyte community by “improving th... |
Plex pulls the plug on podcasts and web shows | Lauren Forristal | 2,022 | 4 | 12 | A week after a new universal search and discovery tool, Plex is inconveniencing podcast listeners by removing support for podcasts and web shows this Friday, April 15. As part of our ongoing effort to make sure we’re spending our time and energy in ways that best serve our awesome user community, we’ve made the decis... |
Lucid launches a faster, more expensive version of its flagship EV | Jaclyn Trop | 2,022 | 4 | 12 | Lucid Motors announced Tuesday a high-performance companion to its long-awaited Lucid Air luxury sedan: a 1,050-horsepower grand tourer with a 446-mile range. The $179,000 Lucid Air Grand Touring Performance Model will arrive in June, following customer deliveries of the automaker’s , the 819-horsepower Lucid Air Gran... |
DuckDuckGo launches Mac app in beta | Aliya Chaudhry | 2,022 | 4 | 12 | DuckDuckGo for Mac and is planning an upcoming launch of a Windows version. The new Mac app comes with DuckDuckGo’s search engine, a built-in password manager, tracker blocking and , a tool that accesses the secure, HTTPS version of a webpage (most of the time). DuckDuckGo for Mac protects against cookie pop-ups (cu... |
Figma CEO on Found talks about mentorship and how his leadership style has evolved in the past 10 years | Maggie Stamets | 2,022 | 4 | 12 | On this week’s episode of , the podcast where we hear the stories behind the startups, we talk to the co-founder and CEO of . When he started the company, he was 20 years old when he had no idea if anyone would see the value in making design a multiplayer game let alone that his company become the Google Docs of de... |
VC distributions are down 90% in Q1, says Industry Ventures, an LP in 450 funds | Connie Loizos | 2,022 | 4 | 13 | If you’re trying to get a pulse on what’s happening in the venture market right now, you could do worse than talk with Hans Swildens, founder of the 22-year-old investment firm . Industry Ventures is now managing $5 billion in assets – nearly $1 billion of it raised last year — across numerous strategies and vehicles.... |
Tokyo-based Luup to more than double shared e-scooters, e-bikes | Kate Park | 2,022 | 4 | 13 | delegated parking spots for the startup’s vehicles. The company has a total of 1,100 ports in Japan, but would not share how many ports it is aiming to line up in the coming months. Securing those spaces represents a unique kind of land grab for micromobility companies in Japan. Japan is working on easing e-scooter r... |
Can VinFast make EV battery subscriptions a thing? | Rebecca Bellan | 2,022 | 4 | 13 | At the New York International Auto Show on Wednesday, revealed battery subscription prices for the two electric SUVs it aims to sell in the U.S. market by the end of the year. The company, which recently , also announced a partnership with Electrify America that will give its customers access to a fast-charging natio... |
How social commerce is bridging Southeast Asia’s infrastructure gaps | Amit Anand | 2,022 | 4 | 13 | isn’t new — it has existed in some form ever since people have made recommendations to each other. Today social networks are more powerful than ever, and startups and corporations are innovating new commerce models that leverage the greater reach available to us. It’s important to understand the blurry, yet persistent... |
China’s banking association proposes restrictions on NFTs | Rita Liao | 2,022 | 4 | 13 | The verdict that China’s web3 community has been waiting for months is here: NFTs, or the tokens used to prove the ownership and authenticity of an item, must not be used for securitization or transacted in cryptocurrencies, said China’s banking, securities and internet financial associations in an on Wednesday. Chin... |
TikTok is testing a private dislike button for comments | Aisha Malik | 2,022 | 4 | 13 | TikTok today that it has started testing a way for users to identify comments that they think are irrelevant or inappropriate. Following the announcement, the company confirmed to TechCrunch that users who are part of the test will be able to flag these sorts of comments via a private dislike button. The new feature ... |
Daily Crunch: Brex says DoorDash is ‘first of many’ new enterprise customers to come | Christine Hall | 2,022 | 4 | 13 | Welcome to the Daily Crunch for Wednesday, April 13, 2022! Tomorrow, we are giddy with excitement to be attending Early Stage (if you’re coming, don’t forget to !). If you didn’t get your tix yet, it’s still possible to in San Francisco. On Equity today, the podcast crew argues that , so give that a listen as well!... |
‘Club Penguin Rewritten’ shut down by Disney, website seized by London police | Amanda Silberling | 2,022 | 4 | 13 | “Our world is breaking down around us …” a Reddit user posted this morning in , documenting how the fan-driven, probably illegal remake of Club Penguin was slowly dwindling before their eyes. Rumors swirled among players, conjecturing about a legal conflict with Disney and an investigation by the City of London Police... |
Dallas Cowboys’ partnership with Blockchain.com signals more mainstream crypto exposure | Jacquelyn Melinek | 2,022 | 4 | 13 | time, a crypto exchange is partnering with an NFL team in a long-term, exclusive relationship that could bring further exposure of digital assets to mainstream audiences. The partnership between Blockchain.com and the Dallas Cowboys was announced on Wednesday at the NFL team’s headquarters in Frisco, Texas, by Jerry J... |
Better.com said to be planning third round of layoffs | Mary Ann Azevedo | 2,022 | 4 | 13 | Digital mortgage company Better.com is gearing up for , multiple sources with knowledge of internal happenings at the company have told TechCrunch. This time, the company is believed to be laying off members of the Better Real Estate team and people who work in its refinance department. The latter is hardly a surprise... |
Only 11 tickets left for tomorrow’s TechCrunch Early Stage | Alexandra Ames | 2,022 | 4 | 13 | It’s time to trot out old Saint Expeditus, the patron saint of procrastinators, for an important reminder to those of you who could go pro when it comes to kicking the task-can down the road. takes place tomorrow in San Francisco, and we have just 11 — count ‘em, 11 — tickets left to the ultimate educational resource ... |
Is the SaaS selloff over? | Alex Wilhelm | 2,022 | 4 | 13 | to you in the minutes before I have to pack up my writing and podcasting setups so that I can catch a few planes to . (I’m moderating , including one on scaling ARR, so come hang!) My colleague and frequent collaborator wrote the real Exchange today and . Consider this some sort of bonus. The SaaS selloff may be ... |
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Braid aims to untangle pooling money with friends | Natasha Mascarenhas | 2,022 | 4 | 13 | Entrepreneur has always been “the friend that’s good with money,” whether as the treasurer of her high school at age 16 or today as the founder of , a company that wants to make shared wallets more mainstream among consumers. “People are terrified by money, so I need to lean into it so it will never become scary for ... |
Niantic’s new game Peridot gives you VERY CUTE virtual pets | Amanda Silberling | 2,022 | 4 | 13 | Remember caring for your “ ” on your Nintendo DS? Or maybe you used to bring your to third grade to make sure you could flush its pixelated poop? Pokémon Go creator Niantic is bringing that same energy to its upcoming augmented reality mobile game . Peridots (or Dots for short) are virtual, magical animals that kind... |
WhatsApp permitted to extend payments service to 100 million users in India | Manish Singh | 2,022 | 4 | 13 | The National Payments Corporation of India, the payments body that oversees the widely popular UPI instrument, has given approval to WhatsApp to extend its payments service to 100 million users in the South Asian market, a person familiar with the matter said. WhatsApp was previously allowed to rollout WhatsApp Pay to ... |
‘Always on and watching’: A former Xinjiang prisoner describes life inside China’s detention camps | Zack Whittaker | 2,022 | 4 | 13 | in 2018, Ovalbek Turdakun was a prisoner in one of China’s notorious detention camps, where he was tortured, subject to horrific conditions and under constant surveillance. In a makeshift courtroom inside the detention camp he was being held, Turdakun was not permitted to speak and was made to sign papers he was given... |
Handshake makes its first-ever acquisition with Europe in mind | Natasha Mascarenhas | 2,022 | 4 | 13 | Sometimes you go in for a Handshake, but they refuse to let go and end up buying your entire company. Well, at least that seems to be the case with European virtual and hybrid recruiting platform , which just got acquired by a talent network Handshake. It is ‘s first acquisition to date and f The company recently hi... |
BlueOcean raises $30M for its AI-based brand intelligence platform | Ingrid Lunden | 2,022 | 4 | 13 | The medium is the message more than ever these days, and brands are faced with a challenge — but also opportunity — to capture what consumers think about them and their products if they can harness and better understand those messages, via whichever medium is being used to deliver them. Today, a company called BlueOcea... |
Attending TechCrunch Early Stage? Submit your pitch deck now! | Matt Burns | 2,022 | 4 | 13 | TechCrunch Early Stage starts tomorrow, Thursday April 14, and we’re thrilled to be back in person. This is our first in-person event in two years, and the show’s lineup is spectacular. Join us. There are still tickets available. If you’re attending, please by Emergence Capital’s Lotti Siniscalco. An enticing pitch i... |
Dear Sophie: I didn’t win the H-1B lottery. What are my next steps? | Sophie Alcorn | 2,022 | 4 | 13 | 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... |
Faraday Future demotes founder as management shakeup continues | Kirsten Korosec | 2,022 | 4 | 14 | Faraday Future, the turned publicly traded company, has taken more disciplinary action as part of its now concluded internal investigation, including removing founder and former CEO Yueting Jia as an executive officer. The company said in a that Yueting Jia, or YT, will continue in his position as chief product off... |
Itilite secures $29M to automate corporate expensing workflows | Kyle Wiggers | 2,022 | 4 | 14 | For the bulk of the past two years, the pandemic has put the kibosh on corporate travel of nearly any kind. This has dampened investors’ enthusiasm in travel and expense (T&E) startups, predictably, whose expertise lies in creating software for travel and other forms of expensing. But as the appetite for in-person even... |
Daily Crunch: Elon Musk sets sights on Twitter with unsolicited $43B takeover bid | Christine Hall | 2,022 | 4 | 14 | Welcome to the Daily Crunch for Thursday, April 14, 2022! As we put this together, we are listening to about . There will be many viewpoints on this coming fast and furious. One example is ’s hot take, that we’re a little worried she might need medical attention. For now, all we know is that Musk shared he is “un... |
Peloton is increasing its subscription fees starting June 1 | Aisha Malik | 2,022 | 4 | 14 | Peloton today that it’s increasing the price of its subscription fees in the United States and Canada. Starting June 1, the cost of the company’s all-access plan is increasing from $39 to $44 in the United States and from $49 to $55 in Canada. Peloton notes this is the first time it has increased its subscription fee... |
Elon Musk says he ‘doesn’t care about the economics’ of buying Twitter | Amanda Silberling | 2,022 | 4 | 14 | Elon Musk announced this morning that he for $43 billion. Just last week, he bought for $3 billion, then a board seat. Conveniently enough, the controversial CEO of Tesla and SpaceX was already preparing to speak at the TED2022 conference for a conversation that was in such high demand that TED made the livestrea... |
MLB forays into the future with new tech for the old ball game | Ron Miller | 2,022 | 4 | 14 | may have started in the 19th century and come of age in the 20th, but it is definitely no stranger to technology, whether it’s the cloud for storing and analyzing troves of data or figuring out how to customize and enhance fans’ experience. To do all of that, MLB uses a range of technology from and for advanced st... |
What hostile takeovers are (and why they’re usually doomed) | Kyle Wiggers | 2,022 | 4 | 14 | Thanks to the of a , the phrase “hostile takeover” has been liberally bandied about the media sphere recently. But while it long ago entered the mainstream lexicon, “hostile takeover” carries with it an air of vagueness — and legalese opacity. At a high level, a hostile takeover occurs when a company — or a person... |
Series sea | Brian Heater | 2,022 | 4 | 14 | job even in non-pandemic years (remember those?). Stress, burnout, exhaustion are all words one associates with the gig. I’ve seen a number of surveys conducted over the past year, and while the results differ wildly, the consensus is that a majority of nurses have considered leaving the profession recently. Having wa... |
No signs of a slowdown in Africa’s tech funding, data show | Anna Heim | 2,022 | 4 | 14 | be immune to the ? It sounds like a counterintuitive question to ask. “Africa, being home to several economies largely based on the export of natural resources, has historically been the opposite of immune to global shocks,” Briter Bridges director Dario Giuliani pointed out. And yet, the data are here: African start... |
The Mercedes-Benz EQXX EV demo is the latest flex against Tesla | Jaclyn Trop | 2,022 | 4 | 14 | In a direct and perhaps theoretical challenge to Tesla, Mercedes-Benz brought to the New York International Auto Show on Wednesday its , freshly returned from a European road trip where it traveled 621 miles on a fully charged battery. The long-range demo is the latest flex against Tesla amid its global expansion. Tho... |
EVs dominate 2022 World Car Awards | Jaclyn Trop | 2,022 | 4 | 14 | In a nod to the assured arrival of the battery-electric age, electrified vehicles swept the World Car Awards presented at the New York Auto Show this week. This year marks the first that EVs dominated the annual awards, which are presented at the show every spring. The awards, which are chosen by 102 jurors from 33 cou... |
TuneIn brings its paid subscription service to all Amazon Alexa-enabled devices | Aisha Malik | 2,022 | 4 | 14 | TuneIn today that it’s bringing its TuneIn Premium subscription service to all Amazon Alexa-enabled devices. Users can now access TuneIn Premium content, which includes live sports, commercial-free news and commercial-free music, from their Alexa-enabled devices. You’ll be able to listen to MLB, NHL and college sport... |
If Elon Musk gets his way, Twitter will lose years of progress | Taylor Hatmaker | 2,022 | 4 | 14 | Days after the inexplicably idle mega-billionaire and chief executive of Tesla and SpaceX announced that he had and would join its board, Musk says he wants the whole damn thing. In a tweet, Musk disclosed that he served Twitter an offer to buy its remaining stock at $54 per share, seemingly confirming murmurs that... |
Wrapped in red tape, China’s startups give up their mainland dreams | Rita Liao | 2,022 | 4 | 14 | Chinese who graduated college abroad during the 2010s and aspired to be the next Jack Ma or Pony Ma, Lucas returned to his motherland to build his own internet startup. Two years into running the business, however, his enthusiasm has waned. The regulatory risks and compliance costs affecting his company have become to... |
Watch Elon Musk (probably) wreak havoc at the TED2022 conference | Amanda Silberling | 2,022 | 4 | 14 | Early this morning, Elon Musk dropped the bombshell that he for $43 billion. Just last week, he bought for $3 billion, then a board seat. But Musk isn’t done causing a ruckus on the internet today — he was already slated to speak at the conference, but the organizers at TED turned the paywalled livestream publi... |
Public YouTube videos are now eligible to be ‘remixed’ into YouTube Shorts unless creators opt out | Sarah Perez | 2,022 | 4 | 14 | YouTube’s TikTok competitor known as is today launching a new feature, similar to TikTok’s , that will allow creators to incorporate a short video segment from another user’s YouTube video or Shorts video when creating new Shorts content. The feature is an expansion of “remix” functionality which had previously al... |
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Clubhouse starts rolling out dark mode on iOS and Android | Aisha Malik | 2,022 | 4 | 14 | Clubhouse is rolling out a new dark mode setting on its iOS and Android apps starting today, the company in a blog post this week. The company says dark mode was a highly requested feature and is designed to make it easier for night owls to hang out on its platform at night. Instead of a featuring a completely black ... |
Why Akamai bought Linode | Frederic Lardinois | 2,022 | 4 | 14 | Earlier this year, Akamai announced its plans to acquire , the well-loved cloud hosting service, to build out its own cloud and edge computing portfolio. The $900 million acquisition last month. While Akamai is still mostly known for its content delivery services, the company started building out more compute-centri... |
Kremlin critic Navalny calls for Google and Meta to turn their adtech into an anti-war weapon | Natasha Lomas | 2,022 | 4 | 14 | Jailed Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny has called on tech giants Google and Meta/Facebook to help circumvent Putin’s grip on the media and get information out to ordinary Russians about what’s actually going on in the war in Ukraine by allowing their ad targeting tools and platforms to be selective repurposed to run a na... |
Backbone nabs $14M for supply chain software inspired by mesh networks | Kyle Wiggers | 2,022 | 4 | 14 | Forecasting, also known as demand variability, has long been a hurdle for businesses reliant on the global supply chain. In a conducted long before the pandemic began (in 2015), large companies — those with revenues in the range of $500 to more than $1 billion — pegged variability as the top challenge that they faced... |
Block Head Jack Dorsey tells us what we already knew | Harri Weber | 2,022 | 4 | 22 | Jack Dorsey, the Twitter co-founder and current CEO, is no longer the payments firm’s “chief executive officer.” Instead, the executive is choosing to call himself “Block Head and Chairperson.” It’s an unconventional title, sure, but it is perhaps fitting for the billionaire man, who is for his . A very real regul... |
Alphabet-owned Intrinsic is acquiring fellow robotic software firm Vicarious | Brian Heater | 2,022 | 4 | 22 | Alphabet X-birthed Intrinsic made its . The subsidiary looks to buck its parent company’s somewhat spotty robotics record with a software-first approach. Specifically, the company is looking to make manufacturing robots more intelligent — a concept that no doubt excites many in the space amid pandemic-fueled demand fo... |
15 carbon removal projects score $1M each in climate Xprize milestone | Devin Coldewey | 2,022 | 4 | 22 | A multi-year, for startups trying to remove or reverse carbon emissions has its first crop of big winners. Though the bulk of this Musk money won’t be given away until 2025, these 15 companies are to keep the lights on til then. The Carbon Removal Xprize, funded by the Musk Foundation, aims to reward novel methods ... |
Daily Crunch: Twitter to allow developers to build third-party apps | Christine Hall | 2,022 | 4 | 22 | It’s Earth Day, also known as April 22, 2022, and we are beyond grateful that the sun sets on another week. We love our TechCrunch Live events, but we realize we don’t always fit into everyone’s calendars. Good news: , so you can listen along at your leisure. May your weekend be as energetic as you desire, and full of... |
NLRB rules Activision Blizzard’s first union at Raven Software can vote for recognition | Amanda Silberling | 2,022 | 4 | 22 | The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruled today that the at a major U.S. gaming company can file for a formal union election. In January, the quality assurance (QA) department of Raven Software, a division of Activision Blizzard, formed their historic union. Predictably, the video game giant — which was recentl... |
Report reveals Big Tech’s last minute lobbying to weaken EU rules | Natasha Lomas | 2,022 | 4 | 22 | A new report has peeled back the curtain on big tech’s frenzied lobbying of European Union lawmakers as they finalize a major series of updates to the bloc’s digital rulebook. It reveals some of the arguments used by tech giants including Apple, Amazon, Google, Meta (Facebook) and Spotify to press their interests behin... |
TechCrunch+ roundup: Churn rate basics, BNPL fraud, fundraising IP checklist | Walter Thompson | 2,022 | 4 | 22 | The venture capital market is slowing down, which means early-stage founders are chasing a smaller pool of money. According to Carta, the number of seed deals funded between Q4 2021 and Q1 2022 fell 41%, and dollar volume followed suit, dropping from $2.62 billion to $1.81 billion, a 31% decline. In this environment, t... |
Finally, we know why there’s a rubber chicken on Twitter | Amanda Silberling | 2,022 | 4 | 22 | The internet is full of mysteries. Who really wrote “ ,” and was it supposed to be a satire? Who is behind the group of hackers known as ? And why can’t Elon Musk just ? But a new question arose about two and a half months ago, when writer and reverse engineer Steve Moser found some very silly images in the Twitter ba... |
BeReal: Hype or hit? What to know about the Gen Z photo-sharing app climbing the charts | Sarah Perez | 2,022 | 4 | 22 | An app called , by former GoPro employee along with , launched in December 2019 with its idea of asking users to post an unedited photo once per day after receiving a push notification. Upon receiving the alert, the user has up to 2 minutes to share what they’re up to and can see the photos their friends also pos... |
Can saving trees really turn bitcoin green? | Harri Weber | 2,022 | 4 | 22 | Bitso, a Mexico City-based crypto exchange, is pledging to buy carbon offsets for every bitcoin transaction on its platform to compensate for the cryptocurrency’s environmental toll. It may sound great in theory, but the idea also deserves a heaping dose of skepticism, given the sketchy reputation carbon offset efforts... |
Twitter is testing a ‘CC’ button that will let you turn video captions on or off | Aisha Malik | 2,022 | 4 | 22 | Twitter today that it’s beginning to test a “CC” button that will let users turn video captions on or off. The feature is rolling out to some iOS users and will be coming to Android users soon, Twitter notes. A video posted by the social media shows that the CC button will appear in the top-right corner of a video th... |
A second Staten Island Amazon warehouse is holding a union vote on Monday | Brian Heater | 2,022 | 4 | 22 | Emboldened by the recent results of the nearby JFK8 fulfillment center, workers at Staten Island’s LDJ5 sort center are set to hold their own vote this coming Monday, April 25th. Voting will continue through Friday the 29th, with vote counting set to begin on May 2 — almost exactly a month after . Votes will be cast v... |
Twitter spotted testing a feature that would let users set status updates | Aisha Malik | 2,022 | 4 | 22 | Twitter has been spotted working on a feature that would allow users to set a status on their profiles and tweets. According to reverse engineer , who searches the code of mobile apps to spot features and upcoming changes in development, the social media giant is working on a “set a status” feature that is currently c... |
Lapsus$ hackers targeted T-Mobile source code in latest data breach | Carly Page | 2,022 | 4 | 22 | The has claimed another victim: U.S. telecom giant T-Mobile. T-Mobile’s latest security incident — the seventh data breach in the past four years — was by security journalist Brian Krebs, who obtained a week’s worth of private chat messages between the core members of Lapsus$, a hacking and extortion group that gai... |
Instagram tests a Templates feature, which allows you to copy formats from other Reels | Aliya Chaudhry | 2,022 | 4 | 22 | Instagram is testing Templates, a new feature that will allow Reels creators to use the same format as other videos, The feature is currently only available to a small group of creators and is in beta testing. It’s similar to TikTok’s Templates, which allows users to plug in their own photos into a preset format. “We ... |
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EdgeDB wants to modernize databases for cutting-edge apps | Kyle Wiggers | 2,022 | 4 | 22 | Databases are an essential part of doing business in the digital world, but not every organization is achieving success with them. In a 2019 Vanson Bourne survey, enterprises said that they’ve been held back by legacy database technologies — specifically . Relational databases weren’t designed with newer apps or the c... |
Sennheiser cancels your own wheezing, grunting and panting | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,022 | 4 | 22 | You know what it’s like; you’ve painstakingly strapped on some running shoes, and you’re plodding your way up an endless hill of abject misery, lactic acid and self-loathing. You’re listening to the sweet, dulcet tones of into your ears, and there’s a distracting grunting following you around. Ugh, it’s the worst. Bo... |
10 IP and commercial contract loose ends to tie up before you approach investors | William Wilson | 2,022 | 4 | 22 | investors throwing record amounts of dollars into startups, but recent geopolitical events, an anticipated increase in interest rates and other factors are leading to a slowdown in venture capital financing. Since the pandemic began, intellectual property assets have seen an and are increasingly becoming a focus for... |
Tech companies are still going public in Asia, but not enough to halt the global IPO slowdown | Anna Heim | 2,022 | 4 | 22 | , the world . This was captured by Crunchbase’s , which is dedicated to tracking startups with valuations above $1 billion; the list kept on increasing and currently tallies 1,284 results. One of the reasons that number keeps expanding is that new unicorns are being added to the list much faster than they leave it. I... |
Review: The DJI Mic is too expensive to be this meh | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,022 | 4 | 22 | excited about a couple of weeks ago, and concluded that, at least on paper, it’s the perfect companion for vloggers and on-the-go media creators. As is often the case, once we look beyond the hype things are a tiny bit more complicated than that. Overall, it may very well be a good and elegant solution for the right... |
Ghanaian agtech Farmerline to use new funding to strengthen its infrastructure, help farmers create wealth | Annie Njanja | 2,022 | 4 | 25 | A McKinsey and Co. suggests that while sub-Saharan Africa has the potential to increase (even triple) its agricultural output and overall contribution to the economy, the sector remains untapped largely due to lack of access to quality farm inputs, up to par infrastructure like warehousing and market. This is in an e... |
Daily Crunch: Twitter board OKs Musk’s $44B buyout, describes sale as ‘best path forward’ | Christine Hall | 2,022 | 4 | 25 | The day is April 25, 2022. We spent most of the day keeping a close eye on Elon, but it seems (pending details and regulatory foibles), . The sparky-space-sausage and battery-powered-car guy is now also the lucky owner of a bird-watching app. and put together saga, if you’ve lost track of the Venn diagram inters... |
Jack Dorsey says Elon Musk ‘is the singular solution I trust’ | Catherine Shu | 2,022 | 4 | 25 | Jack Dorsey, the co-founder of Twitter and current , has weighed in on how he feels about Elon Musk buying Twitter. In a that starts out with a link to Radiohead’s “Everything In Its Right Place,” Dorsey said that “in principle, I don’t believe anyone should own or run Twitter. It wants to be a public good at a proto... |
Egyptian MaaS startup Swvl enters Turkish markets with latest acquisition | Rebecca Bellan | 2,022 | 4 | 25 | Swvl, an Egyptian startup that provides shared transportation services for intercity and intracity trips, has expanded into Turkey with its recent acquisition of Volt Lines, a B2B transportation-as-a-service operator. The primarily stock deal, which was valued at around $40 million, gives Swvl access both to Volt Lines... |
null | Manish Singh | 2,022 | 4 | 22 | null |
Max Q: Mapping the moon | Aria Alamalhodaei | 2,022 | 4 | 25 | Hello and welcome back to Max Q. Happy to have you with us and happy belated Earth Day. In this issue: The U.S. will no longer perform direct-ascent anti-satellite missile (ASAT) testing, Vice President Kamala Harris said Monday. The space community nearly universally disapproves of the practice due to its propensity t... |
Pony.ai scores taxi license for autonomous vehicles in Guangzhou | Rebecca Bellan | 2,022 | 4 | 25 | null |
Bring on the Twitter mafia | Natasha Mascarenhas | 2,022 | 4 | 25 | than you think. The company has , compared to other social media platforms like Meta, formerly Facebook, which has nearly 10 times as many employees. It means that a shake as large as we’ve seen today — — has an outsized impact on the company. It also means that each Twitter employee has an outsized impact on how t... |
It’s Elon’s Twitter now, so what’s next? | Ron Miller | 2,022 | 4 | 25 | Twitter, the platform that once helped fuel and is now owned by in the world, and you have to wonder what impact it’s going to have. There are so many open questions about how the company will change under Elon Musk’s leadership. Will he make it better, using his keen intelligence and business savvy to drive chan... |
Will advertisers flee a ‘free speech’ Twitter? | Sarah Perez | 2,022 | 4 | 25 | Incoming has emphasized his belief that “free speech” is critical to Twitter’s future, even noting in the announcing the deal today that “free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy.” But there is one significant complication with running an unmoderated (or only lightly moderated) social platform supporte... |
Alright Elon, don’t fuck it up | Alex Wilhelm | 2,022 | 4 | 25 | Elon Musk’s quest to buy Twitter came to a close today with a win for the technology mogul. Regardless of what we might have thought when Twitter was busy with a poison-pill defense against takeover , and, well, here we are. After more than a decade on Twitter and several hundred thousands tweets to my name — delete... |
Launcher shows off its 3D-printed rocket doing a full-scale burn | Devin Coldewey | 2,022 | 4 | 25 | Rocket engines are tough pieces of hardware to build, but it’s possible that 3D printing them could be the next big thing. Relativity certainly thinks so, and has — now Launcher is ready to accept your money too, after on its 3D-printed E-2 engine. Though they’re still a ways off from getting to orbit, a successful... |
Klaviyo co-founder Ed Hallen’s 3 top pieces of advice for launching a startup | Ed Hallen | 2,022 | 4 | 25 | a (not so well-kept) secret that’s probably not a surprise to any of my former bosses: I wanted to become a founder because it sounded a lot more fun than getting a job and having a boss. I’d previously worked at a fast-growing startup and seen founders up close, but to say I knew little about what really went into bu... |
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