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Apple TV+’s ‘For All Mankind’ season three trailer drops, teasing a space race to Mars | Lauren Forristal | 2,022 | 5 | 16 | Apple TV+ released the trailer for season three of “For All Mankind,” which returns to the service on Friday, June 10, featuring 10 weekly episodes. By altering historical events, the drama imagines a global space race occurring after the 1969 moon landing. In an epic pursuit for resources on the red planet, the third ... |
Google faces fresh class action-style suit in UK over DeepMind NHS patient data scandal | Natasha Lomas | 2,022 | 5 | 16 | Google is facing a new class-action style lawsuit in the U.K. in relation to a health data scandal that , when it emerged that its AI division, DeepMind, had been passed data on more than a million patients as part of an app development project by the Royal Free NHS Trust in London — without the patients’ knowledge or... |
Sony confirms its new PlayStation Plus tiers will launch on June 13, reveals list of games | Aisha Malik | 2,022 | 5 | 16 | Sony that its revamped subscription tiers will launch in the United States on June 13th. The new PlayStation Plus tiers offer similar benefits to Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass, which gives users access to a library of rotating games for a monthly fee. Sony has also released a list of games that will be available during... |
Yes! More tickets released for TechCrunch’s Annual Summer Party next month | Lauren Simonds | 2,022 | 5 | 16 | Plus if you are an early stage startup and want to maximize your exposure to Menlo Park’s investors, you can for the evening! Sign up for our newsletter on the Summer Party event page,
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Samsung reportedly cutting smartphone production by 30M | Brian Heater | 2,022 | 5 | 28 | All is not well in smartphone land. The industry was headed for a slowdown well before SARS-CoV-2 entered the picture. The glory days of expanding markets and bi-annual upgrades are seemingly at an end, and things have only been exacerbated by two years of financial hardships and supply chain constraints. For all these... |
Hydrogen startup ZeroAvia has a zero-emission vision, but its next plane is a hybrid | Mark Harris | 2,022 | 5 | 28 | ZeroAvia has raised $115 million from United Airlines, Alaska Airlines, British Airways and Amazon on a promise to fly a zero-emission hydrogen fuel cell regional passenger plane as soon as next year. Now the startup has set itself a slightly less high-flying goal: building a hybrid aircraft. This new experimental plan... |
The week Jack stepped back | Greg Kumparak | 2,022 | 5 | 28 | Hey all. Welcome back to Week in Review, the where we recap some of the top stories to cross TC’s front page over the last 7 days. The most read story on our site this week was about Flowcarbon — a new company and “blockchain-based redemption story” (as Anita put it) launched by WeWork founder Adam Neumann. The goal,... |
Footnotes on Sequoia’s startup memo | Natasha Mascarenhas | 2,022 | 5 | 28 | Sequoia takes things seriously. The storied venture firm is known to react to macro-economic events with grand memos aimed at portfolio companies, and sometimes the entrepreneurship scene at large. Most recently, Sequoia created a 52-slide deck, first reported by The Information, titled Adapting to Endure; the document... |
This Week in Apps: Mobile gaming’s market share hit, web3 app growth, Niantic’s new AR tools | Sarah Perez | 2,022 | 5 | 28 | 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... |
The TechCrunch Podcast: Why do people keep giving Adam Neumann money? | Darrell Etherington | 2,022 | 5 | 28 | Welcome to the second episode of The TechCrunch Podcast, our weekly news show bringing you all the top stories in tech. This week, we sat down with TC writers Natasha Mascarenhas, Anita Ramaswamy and Devin Coldewey to talk about the continued, troubling trend of layoffs in tech; Adam Neumann’s new crypto carbon credit ... |
Cannabis, sex tech and psychedelics startups deserve more than stigma | Anna Heim | 2,022 | 5 | 28 | Cannabis, sex tech and psychedelics are often lumped together under the “vice” category — a characterization that prevents many VCs from investing in these spaces. But does that make sense? Let’s explore. — Isn’t cannabis actually similar to coffee, wine and spirits? That’s the argument Emily Paxhia made on a Twitter ... |
Why Convoy’s Dan Lewis expects digital freight to go mainstream within the year | Rebecca Bellan | 2,022 | 5 | 28 | and CEO of digital freight company , didn’t start his company because he had a deep and abiding passion for trucking. At least, not at first. The executive has a background in strategy and management consulting that progressed into a career in product development for top tech companies like Google and Amazon. But whe... |
Coinbase is testing a real-time employee feedback system. It sounds rough | Amanda Silberling | 2,022 | 5 | 28 | The crypto exchange Coinbase is testing a real-time workplace feedback tool called , created by hedge fund billionaire Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater Associates. Slack your colleague to say hello? Perhaps you’ll be rated as being off-task. Babbling too much in a meeting? You’ll get a low rating in efficiency. Tired... |
Sequoia is the latest VC firm telling you to take the downturn seriously | Natasha Mascarenhas | 2,022 | 5 | 28 | seriously. The storied venture firm is known to react to macroeconomic events with grand memos aimed at portfolio companies and sometimes the entrepreneurship scene at large. Most recently, Sequoia created a 52-slide deck, , titled “Adapting to Endure.” The document reads like a follow-up course to its infamously ill... |
Can Andreessen Horowitz prevent the next crypto winter? | Lucas Matney | 2,022 | 5 | 28 | Hey everyone, and welcome back to Last week, we talked about the rough road ahead for Coinbase. This week, we’re talking a bit about Andreessen Horowitz’s multibillion-dollar bet on web3’s continued viability. Read on to check out the latest episode of the as well. To get this in your inbox every Thursday afternoon, ... |
CyberConnect raises $15M Series A to put data back in the hands of users | Rita Liao | 2,022 | 5 | 17 | One of the promises made by web3 entrepreneurs is putting data back in the hands of owners through decentralization. Palo Alto-based CyberConnect is among a handful of blockchain startups working to fulfill this vision, and it has recently closed a Series A financing round totaling $15 million. The lead co-investor of ... |
ZMO.ai secures $8M led by Hillhouse to create AI generated fashion models | Rita Liao | 2,022 | 5 | 17 | With breakthroughs in machine learning, it’s no longer uncommon to see algorithmically generated bodies that can move and talk authentically like real humans. The question is now down to whether startups offering such products can achieve a sustainable business model. Some of them have demonstrated that potential and a... |
Starting up remotely? Keep these labor laws and tax guidelines in mind | Ardy Esmaeili | 2,022 | 5 | 17 | to remote employment, employees and employers both face a plethora of benefits and pitfalls. While the cultural pros and cons have been covered, considerations from a setup and maintenance standpoint largely haven’t been addressed. There are important legal and tax implications to keep in mind when it comes to a remot... |
Jungle Ventures closes a $600M fund, bringing its total assets under management to over $1B | Catherine Shu | 2,022 | 5 | 17 | Singapore-based venture firm is digging deeper into Southeast Asia and India with the close of its fourth fund. Fund IV totals $600 million, with $450 million for new investments and $150 million earmarked for follow-up investments in its portfolio companies. The fund’s close brings Jungle Ventures’ total assets unde... |
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Legl, a SaaS for law firm workflows, tops up with $18M | Natasha Lomas | 2,022 | 5 | 17 | While valuations of public software-as-a-service businesses have been as amid a wider, post-pandemic tech stock sell-off, SaaS startups still need to raise funding to scale their budding businesses — or, well, they hope they’ll be able to do so on reasonable terms despite these wider market bumps. Today, London-base... |
At the first UFO hearing in 50 years, the Pentagon says unexplained reports are way up | Taylor Hatmaker | 2,022 | 5 | 17 | An unusual hearing in Congress posed unusual questions to government officials Tuesday, marking the first congressional hearing on UFOs — now called UAPs or “unidentified aerial phenomena” — in half a century. The House Intelligence Subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence and Counterproliferation held the... |
Facebook and Twitter still can’t contain the Buffalo shooting video | Amanda Silberling | 2,022 | 5 | 17 | Ten people were murdered this weekend in on a Buffalo, New York supermarket. The eighteen-year-old white supremacist shooter livestreamed his attack on Twitch, the Amazon-owned video game streaming platform. Even though Twitch removed the video two minutes after the violence began, it was still too late — now, grueso... |
Daily Crunch: Musk pauses Twitter buy until platform proves less than 5% of users are spambots | Christine Hall | 2,022 | 5 | 17 | / Getty Images |
Coinbase backtracks on its hiring plans, citing crypto market turmoil | Anita Ramaswamy | 2,022 | 5 | 17 | Coinbase, the by volume, has changed its tune on hiring amid a market downturn. “Heading into this year, we planned to triple the size of the company. Given current market conditions, we feel it’s prudent to slow hiring and reassess our headcount needs against our highest-priority business goals,” Emilie Choi, Coinba... |
Candle Media, the new media company co-backed by former Disney execs, acquires Gen Z-focused ATTN: for $100M | Sarah Perez | 2,022 | 5 | 17 | Candle Media, the new media company headed by former Disney execs, Kevin Mayer and Tom Staggs, has made another acquisition — this time with an eye on social storytelling and reaching a Gen Z to millennial audience. The company announced today it will become the new owner of , a media company that uses entertainment t... |
Electric Mercedes G-Class will go the distance with Sila’s energy-dense silicon anodes | Tim De Chant | 2,022 | 5 | 17 | Mercedes-Benz announced today that Sila’s energy-dense silicon anode is slated for an extended-range version of the electric G-Class that’s due out in 2025. Sila said that its silicon anode material can boost energy density by 20% to 40% over existing cells, enabling a longer range from battery packs that occupy the sa... |
Netflix lays off 150 staffers, citing slowing revenue growth | Lauren Forristal | 2,022 | 5 | 17 | Netflix confirmed it’s laid off approximately 150 primarily U.S.-based staffers as it works to rein in costs as its top-line growth has slowed down. A Netflix representative wrote in an emailed statement, “As we explained on earnings, our slowing revenue growth means we are also having to slow our cost growth as a comp... |
Fable funds quest for accessibility-inclusive development with $10M A round | Devin Coldewey | 2,022 | 5 | 17 | The importance of designing accessibility in software from the ground up has only been emphasized by the pandemic, and as a consequence Fable’s on-demand accessibility experts have proven their value many times over. The company has raised $10.5 million to scale up and pursue its goal to “make Inclusive Product Develop... |
Three senior Twitter employees leave amid potential Musk takeover | Amanda Silberling | 2,022 | 5 | 17 | As Elon Musk tweets at Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, it appears that some of the platform’s executives are ready to move on. According to a Bloomberg , three senior employees are voluntarily leaving the company: Ilya Brown, a VP of product management for health, conversation and growth; Katrina Lane, VP of Twitter Se... |
TechCrunch+ roundup: DTC data strategy, starting up solo, insuretech growth versus risk | Walter Thompson | 2,022 | 5 | 17 | Because solo founders don’t have to run decisions past anyone, they exert near-total control over their startup’s mission. But you’ve got to pay the cost to be the boss: A shot-caller must be comfortable with making decisions under pressure and needs to be adept at fundraising, recruiting, onboarding, managing … well, ... |
YouTube Music for Wear OS now lets users stream content over Wi-Fi and LTE | Aisha Malik | 2,022 | 5 | 17 | Google today that the YouTube Music app on Wear OS is rolling out the ability for users to stream music over LTE or WiFi. The new feature will let users discover new music without having to download content beforehand. In a community about the new feature, the company positions it as a way to “listen to your favori... |
Tusk Venture Partners just closed its third fund with $140M, double its predecessor fund | Connie Loizos | 2,022 | 5 | 17 | Tusk Venture Partners, the now six-year-old, New York-based early-stage venture firm co-founded by longtime political strategist Bradley Tusk and former Blackstone director Jordan Nof, has closed its third fund with $140 million in capital commitments. That’s double the that the outfit raised for its second flagship ... |
Founders should be honest about their failures according to Forage CEO | Maggie Stamets | 2,022 | 5 | 17 | Welcome back to Found, the weekly TechCrunch podcast where we get the stories behind the startups. This week and talked with Justin Intal from Forage on Found Live. He talks about how profound struggles in her personal life motivated him to create a way for online grocers to accept EBT and SNAP benefits. He also ta... |
Koyeb is a serverless platform that integrates with your GitHub repository | Romain Dillet | 2,022 | 5 | 17 | has evolved quite a lot since I first the startup. The company is still focused on serverless infrastructure. But it now offers a general purpose serverless platform that you can configure through a simple “git push” command or by using Docker containers. The company’s serverless platform is now with a free tier t... |
Robinhood lets users manage their own crypto wallets in push to spur trading | Anita Ramaswamy | 2,022 | 5 | 17 | After a difficult first quarter, investing app Robinhood is , particularly in its crypto unit, in hopes they will help buoy the business. CEO Vlad Tenev announced the company’s plans to roll out non-custodial crypto wallets at the Permissionless DeFi conference in Florida today, starting with . The market environment... |
Egypt’s Mylerz raises $9.6M for its e-commerce fulfillment service, eyes Africa-wide growth | Annie Njanja | 2,022 | 5 | 10 | , a Cairo-based e-commerce fulfillment startup, plans to enter three new markets in North Africa and expand over the next three months against the backdrop of the $9.6 million funding it has just secured. The startup also has its eyes on the growing e-commerce market in East Africa, with the long-term goal of growing... |
Crypto forensics startup Chainalysis raises $170M at $8.6B valuation | Rita Liao | 2,022 | 5 | 10 | Chainalysis, a startup that provides crypto investigation and compliance services, has secured $170 million in a Series F funding round led by GIC, a sovereign wealth fund of Singapore. The company, which is known for helping law enforcement nab illicit crypto activities, saw its valuation double to $8.6 billion from i... |
Berlin’s GetHenry breaks into last-mile delivery e-bike scene with $17.4M seed | Rebecca Bellan | 2,022 | 5 | 10 | Berlin-based , a startup that provides electric last-mile delivery bikes to couriers and logistics companies, has raised a $17.4 million (€16.5 million) seed round to expand its business across Europe. The startup currently operates in Germany, Austria, Italy and France, but plans to use its latest funding to move int... |
Xos shows off two new EVs as diesel-guzzling fleets inch toward electrification | Harri Weber | 2,022 | 5 | 10 | , an EV company that specializes in commercial trucks, took the wraps off two new vehicles this evening as it looks to become a leading provider and “operating system” for battery-powered fleets. On top of its existing battery-electric stepvan and powertrain, Xos expanded its offering on Tuesday with a new heavy-duty t... |
Coinbase CEO says India central bank’s ‘informal pressure’ prompted trading halt | Manish Singh | 2,022 | 5 | 10 | Coinbase halted trading service in India because of “informal pressure” from the Reserve Bank of India, the crypto exchange’s chief executive said on Tuesday, addressing the notable Indian episode for the first time in a month. The Nasdaq-listed firm to much fanfare on April 7. The app allowed users in the world’s se... |
Canoo warns it may not have enough funds to bring EVs to market | Rebecca Bellan | 2,022 | 5 | 10 | Canoo’s first-quarter earnings shows a company burning through cash, no near-term revenue and a warning that it may not have enough money to stay in business. Shares of Canoo, which were down 5% Tuesday, fell another 17.5% in after-market trading following the release of its earnings. It has since recovered and is now ... |
European micromobility startup Reby acquired by PE player House of Lithium for $100M | Mike Butcher | 2,022 | 5 | 10 | Founded in 2018, European micromobility startup took an interesting path. It deployed e-scooters in the city of Zaragoza (Spain), during the COVID-19 pandemic, but also created a SaaS-oriented “MaaS” (mobility-as-a-service) platform. It then won 18 agreements with public administrations for e-mobility across Italy an... |
Tiger Global, hit by $17B in hedge fund losses, has nearly depleted its latest VC fund | Connie Loizos | 2,022 | 5 | 10 | Tiger Global is having a year. According to a new report from Financial Times, the low-flying-yet-seemingly-ubiquitous 21-year-old outfit has seen during this year’s tech stock sell-off. FT notes that’s one of the biggest dollar declines for a hedge fund in history. As shocking, per FT, according to the calculations o... |
VW aims to launch Scout, an EV off-roading brand | Kirsten Korosec | 2,022 | 5 | 10 | precipice of launching a new dedicated EV company in the United States called Scout that will produce an all-electric pickup and a rugged off-roading SUV geared toward the American consumer. The company’s supervisory board, which is chaired by Hans Dieter Pötsch, is expected to vote and approve a proposal to create th... |
Daily Crunch: Peloton CEO to shareholders: ‘Turnarounds are hard work’ | Christine Hall | 2,022 | 5 | 10 | It is Tuesday the 10th of May, and the end of an era as after a 20-year run of swinging our tushes, white earbuds dangling against brightly colored backgrounds. – and It’s a hardware feast this news cycle on Ye Olde TechCrunch: . Remarkable raised at a unicorn valuation, and to further develop its Eureka cont... |
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Musk talks Tesla demand, EV startups and scooters in expansive interview | Jaclyn Trop | 2,022 | 5 | 10 | Elon Musk weighed in on Tesla, SpaceX and his multitude of other companies — including that social media business he’s trying to purchase — during a wide-reaching 80-minute interview Tuesday that covered demand for EVs, the need for raw materials, the problem with hydrogen and the most promising EV startups. While much... |
a16z, Coatue, USV invest in $725M developer fund for Dapper’s Flow blockchain | Lucas Matney | 2,022 | 5 | 10 | The web3 world is continuing to discover that it’s a lot harder to build a developer ecosystem than it is to build a platform. The Flow blockchain launched by NBA Top Shot creator Dapper Labs is looking to onboard more crypto developers and it’s built up a dedicated ecosystem fund to coax more builders onboard. The fun... |
EV startup Canoo sues major investor over sketchy share sales | Rebecca Bellan | 2,022 | 5 | 10 | Electric vehicle startup Canoo has filed suit against one of its largest shareholders, demanding that the firm pay back more than $61 million in “short-swing profits.” The short-swing profit rule states that company insiders, like large shareholders, must return profits realized from buying and selling securities withi... |
Catching up with Indiegogo’s new CEO | Brian Heater | 2,022 | 5 | 10 | announced a new CEO. Becky Center — formerly of Healthjoy and Groupon — following quiet exit in late-2021. From the outside, at least, the crowdfunding service looks to be on more solid ground than when Yang took the reigns amid layoffs two years ago. Indiegogo appears to have largely weathered the crowdfunding cy... |
Robinhood aims to court users by offering attractive 1% interest rate on cash | Anita Ramaswamy | 2,022 | 5 | 10 | Investing app Robinhood is on a roll with announcing new features as it looks to appeal to more customers amid dwindling transaction revenue. Less than a week after , the company announced that it has introduced a “revamped” brokerage cash sweep program that will be rolled out to customers today. What that means is th... |
AboveBoard’s $6 million seed will help place underrepresented folks in executive roles | Natasha Mascarenhas | 2,022 | 5 | 10 | CEO and founder of , knows that she’s not the first to try to disrupt hiring pipelines in order to better position diverse candidates. But, the seasoned entrepreneur is optimistic that the angle her company is taking will make a difference, anyways. The traditional executive hiring world is built in two main strategi... |
Carvana to cut 2,500 staff as it struggles with overcapacity | Alex Wilhelm | 2,022 | 5 | 10 | Carvana, a used-car retailer in the United States that raised at least while private before going public, announced 2,500 layoffs today. The staffing cuts, with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, are part of the company’s “previously announced plans to better align staffing and expense levels with sales vo... |
Move over Picasso, watching this robot paint a car is mesmerizing | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,022 | 5 | 10 | I come across “neat tricks” performed by industrial robots all the time, and many of them are about as interesting as watching paint dry. ABB Robotics’ newest trick is literally that, and somehow it is mesmerizing beyond words. The industry giant released a video of its robot painting an art car. It’s a flex for the pr... |
US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen pushes for stablecoin regulation by end of year | Jacquelyn Melinek | 2,022 | 5 | 10 | Stablecoins have been a hot topic both on and off Capitol Hill. Earlier today, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen pushed for regulation during an annual testimony in front of the Senate Banking Committee, at a time where Terra’s algorithmic stablecoin . “New products and technology may present opportunities to promo... |
TechCrunch+ roundup: Drive growth with Q5 data, BNPL investor survey, calculating CAC/LTV | Walter Thompson | 2,022 | 5 | 10 | Consumers in every country are getting squeezed on all sides. Globally, sluggish wage growth and rising inflation has encouraged shoppers to defer payments on everything from groceries to durable goods. Affirm, Afterpay and Klarna own 75% of the sector in the U.S., which leaves little room for startups hoping to join t... |
Swyft Cities is the winner of the TechCrunch Sessions: Mobility 2022 pitch-off! | Matt Burns | 2,022 | 5 | 19 | TechCrunch is excited to announce won the TechCrunch Sessions: Mobility 2022 pitch-off and is fast-tracked into the Battlefield 200 at TechCrunch Disrupt in October. Beyond Aero is runner-up. The Mountain View-based company is committed to improving transportation through the use of autonomous, lightweight, fixed-cab... |
AI’s role is poised to change monumentally in 2022 and beyond | Shashank Srivastava | 2,022 | 5 | 19 | in technology make it clear that we are on the precipice of a monumental shift in how artificial intelligence (AI) is employed in our lives and businesses. First, let me address the misconception that AI is synonymous with algorithms and automation. This misconception exists because of marketing. Think about it: When ... |
Daily Crunch: ‘Things don’t look good’: Y Combinator sends founders a 10-point survival strategy | Christine Hall | 2,022 | 5 | 19 | Thursday May 19, 2022, and it’s the last day of our in-person Mobility event. Tomorrow we take the journey to the mean streets of the world wide web, and ! — and The team at Y Combinator just waded in and told its founders to strap in and prepare for the worst. “If your plan is to raise money in the next 6–12 month... |
Arrival unveils prototype of dedicated ride-hail vehicle at TC Sessions: Mobility | Rebecca Bellan | 2,022 | 5 | 19 | Arrival, the U.K.-founded commercial electric vehicle company, unveiled the first prototype of its purpose-built electric vehicle for ride-hailing on the stage on Thursday. The company, which is perhaps best known for its potentially revolutionary goal of building multiple automated microfactories to produce vehicles... |
God of War: Ragnarök sets a strong example for next-gen gaming accessibility options | Devin Coldewey | 2,022 | 5 | 19 | Sony and Microsoft have been rivals in gaming for decades, but one positive aspect that has come out of that recently is a renewed focus on accessibility that has seen both companies pushing the boundaries of how games can be played and by whom. It looks like God of War: Ragnarök , and that’s saying something. I don’t... |
A round, acquisition and revenue later, Bravado’s sales network wants you to know it’s #growing | Natasha Mascarenhas | 2,022 | 5 | 19 | , a sales guy, doesn’t want his industry to be defined by sales guys. The founder began in 2017 to see what happens when you bring together sales professionals into an online community for trading notes, horror stories and secrets. It took the startup four years to hit 10,000 users, and then quickly hit 200,000 membe... |
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Snapchat’s parental control features spotted in development | Sarah Perez | 2,022 | 5 | 19 | Snapchat is preparing to introduce a new parental control feature dubbed “Family Center,” which will allow parents to see who their teen is friends with on the app as well as who they’ve been messaging with over the past seven days, and more. Snap’s CEO Evan Spiegel first teased the planned offering , where he explaine... |
3 things to remember when diversifying your startup’s cap table | Oriana Papin-Zoghbi | 2,022 | 5 | 19 | on diversity and inclusion in the workplace goes beyond simply building your team. As a minority female entrepreneur and co-founder of a women’s health startup, ensuring diversity within our cap table has been a must — and has proven instrumental to our success. Breaking down your cap table to diversify your investors... |
Pokémon GO trainers who use Amazon Prime can snag some bonus items | Amanda Silberling | 2,022 | 5 | 19 | Let’s say we have a Venn diagram with two circles: Pokémon GO players and Amazon Prime members. If you fall in the middle, congrats! Here’s . Niantic’s flagship Pokémon GO app has with Prime Gaming and Prime Student to release bonus item bundles every two weeks. Starting today, Amazon Prime subscribers can visit Pri... |
Second-largest crypto exchange FTX expands its empire with launch of stock trading feature | Anita Ramaswamy | 2,022 | 5 | 19 | Cryptocurrency exchange FTX is launching stock trading capabilities for its customers through its U.S. division. The company, helmed by co-founder and billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried, that its launch will start in private beta mode for a select group of customers chosen from a waitlist before a full rollout in late 202... |
Belong secures $80M to take the pain out of rental property management | Mary Ann Azevedo | 2,022 | 5 | 19 | Historically, the relationship between landlords and tenants can be a contentious one. At the same time, the experiences of managing a property, and renting one, are not always smooth. , a startup that aims to address both these issues while giving renters a way to save toward home ownership, has just raised $50 millio... |
The lowdown on the slowdown | Brian Heater | 2,022 | 5 | 19 | this week with some data culled by the folks over at Crunchbase that’s very much in line with what we’ve been saying on Actuator all along. The past couple of years have been genuinely transformational for robotics. Since the beginning of the pandemic, the conversations I’ve been having with startups and VCs about an ... |
Class buys tech from its own founder’s first edtech company for $210 million | Natasha Mascarenhas | 2,022 | 5 | 19 | , a Zoom-friendly virtual instruction tool, Michael Chasen was the founder of Blackboard, one of the first cloud solutions for education on the market. While Class has some nods toward Chasen’s previous gig — such as the ability to integrate CMS systems right into the classroom tool — today it is announcing a much clos... |
Twitter will hide false tweets from high-profile accounts during times of crisis | Amanda Silberling | 2,022 | 5 | 19 | In its ongoing effort to combat misinformation about breaking news, Twitter is rolling out a to ensure that it doesn’t amplify falsehoods during times of widespread strife. To determine whether a tweet is misleading, Twitter will require verification from credible, public sources, including conflict monitoring groups... |
North American and European insurtechs are recalibrating after a blockbuster 2021 | Alex Wilhelm | 2,022 | 5 | 19 | a year makes. In April 2021, TechCrunch published a venture capitalist’s take that “ .” At the time, the perspective made some sense. After all, just last June, this column explored the rapid-fire fundraising in the insurance technology startup market, declaring that “ .” At the time, WeFox had recently a $650 milli... |
Netflix continues accessibility push with badges for audio and subtitle descriptions | Devin Coldewey | 2,022 | 5 | 19 | Netflix is expanding its audio descriptions, subtitles and dubbing in dozens of languages, doubling down on an effort that has been both helpful and successful. Shows will now also feature badges so that users can easily see whether those options are available without drilling down into the options. I chatted with Netf... |
A blockchain billionaire’s big bet | Anita Ramaswamy | 2,022 | 5 | 19 | Hello and welcome back to the podcast, where we unpack and explain the latest crypto news, drama and trends, breaking it down block by block for the crypto curious. Although we’re in a crypto market pullback, (SBF) managed to scrounge up over $600 million to buy 7.6% of trading platform Robinhood. Anita and Lucas ta... |
TikTok is gearing up for games, including interactive minigames for TikTok LIVE | Sarah Perez | 2,022 | 5 | 19 | TikTok is already one of the social media platforms, where it’s even on watch time in select markets and sports . Now, the company is looking to expand the range of activities its users can do when they tire of flipping through short videos. A report from today indicates the company is further investing in HTML5... |
WhatsApp ramps up revenue with global launch of Cloud API and soon, a paid tier for its Business App | Sarah Perez | 2,022 | 5 | 19 | WhatsApp is continuing its push into the business market with today’s news it’s launching the WhatsApp Cloud API to all businesses worldwide. last November, the new developer tool is a cloud-based version of the WhatsApp Business API — WhatsApp’s — but hosted on parent company Meta’s infrastructure. The company had... |
Announcing the early-stage startups exhibiting at TC Sessions: Climate 2022 | Lauren Simonds | 2,022 | 5 | 19 | Examining the role that technology and startups play in fighting climate change is the raison d’être for (featuring the Extreme Tech Challenge 2022 Global Finals), which takes place on June 14 at UC Berkeley (with an online day June 16). , and you’ll save $200. Prices go up at the door. One of our favorite aspects of... |
Report: Substack, the highly hyped newsletter platform, has ditched plans for a Series C | Connie Loizos | 2,022 | 5 | 26 | , the five-year-old newsletter platform that has aggressively positioned itself as a disruptive force in media, has abandoned efforts to raise a Series C round, The New York Times is . According to its sources, Substack held discussions with potential investors in recent months about raising $75 million to $100 millio... |
FlexID gets Algorand funding to offer self-sovereign IDs to Africa’s unbanked | Tage Kene-Okafor | 2,022 | 5 | 26 | Much of the world’s attention around blockchain is on the highs and lows of cryptocurrency values. Startups like remind us that distributed ledger technology has the potential to play other roles, including without the need for a centralized authority. One of the startups working toward this vision is Zimbabwe’s Fl... |
After buying Bungie, Sony goes all in on live service games | Taylor Hatmaker | 2,022 | 5 | 26 | After buying Bungie earlier this year, Sony is moving fast to integrate the company’s expertise into its broader vision. In an Thursday, Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO Jim Ryan outlined a near future for the company that focuses heavily on continually updated online games inspired by Destiny, Bungie’s long-runnin... |
Canon takes another stab at the mirrorless market, with R7 and R10 | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,022 | 5 | 26 | Camera giant Canon has had an impressive SLR camera lineup since the mid-’70s and has made a successful transition from film-based SLR cameras to the digital realm. The company has been less successful in the mirrorless space but recently picked up the sales numbers. The company claims that it took the top spot for mar... |
Foursquare founder banks funding for mystery 3D social network startup | Lucas Matney | 2,022 | 5 | 26 | The excitement around web3 and the metaverse have pulled plenty of entrepreneurs who defined the first generation of native mobile apps to begin questioning what’s next. Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley is on the co-founding team of a new startup called , alongside Matt Miesnieks, who sold his most recent startup 6D.... |
Meta and Google’s Gradient back LatAm startup OlaClick | Manish Singh | 2,022 | 5 | 26 | More than 80% of food delivery orders in Latin America are still made over phone calls and settled with cash. OlaClick, a young startup that is helping these restaurants sell online and collect money digitally, announced on Thursday it has received backing from scores of investors, including Gradient, Meta and Delivery... |
Daily Crunch: In one of the largest tech deals ever struck, Broadcom will buy VMware for $61B | Christine Hall | 2,022 | 5 | 26 | It’s Thursday, May 26, 2022, and we have a busy day of news on the site today. Here are the gems sparkling in the spotlight of our journalistic gaze. For later in the year, we’re pretty excited about this panel at TechCrunch Disrupt, when you’re not at one of the major tech hubs. We’re , so you can get your ticket a... |
A look at the nine teams that just presented at Pear’s latest demo day | Connie Loizos | 2,022 | 5 | 26 | TechCrunch has been covering the demo days of the seed-stage venture firm since . (There we are in the front row in , surrounded by investors, typing away.) A few things have remained true since that time. There are typically 10 or so companies that present and not many more. A lot of top firms show up, including f... |
Longtime Bitcoiner Dan Held says this ‘crypto winter’ won’t be as harsh as others | Jacquelyn Melinek | 2,022 | 5 | 26 | over its 52-week lows as the cryptocurrency markets continue their bearish posture. But some longtime market participants, like , director of growth marketing at crypto exchange Kraken, aren’t worried. Held got into Bitcoin in 2012, which is about 100 years ago in crypto time (because time moves so quickly but also f... |
Making room at the cap table: A new plan for promoting diversity in tech | Heather Fernandez | 2,022 | 5 | 26 | that the tech world struggles with diversity. Women, African Americans and Latinos respectively comprise 33%, 8% and 7% of the total tech workforce and just 20%, 5% and 5% of its leadership, despite between diversity and success. As an industry, tech has succeeded in normalizing the topic of workforce diversity, and... |
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Disney+ releases trailer and premiere date for latest ‘Star Wars’ series ‘Andor,’ starring ‘Rogue One’ rebel hero | Lauren Forristal | 2,022 | 5 | 26 | Disney+ released its first trailer for the upcoming series “Andor,” a prequel to “Rogue One.” It will premiere on the service on August 31 with two episodes to start. In total, the series will have 12 episodes, which was confirmed by Lucasfilm at today’s Star Wars Celebration at the Anaheim Convention Center. Diego Lun... |
Twitter investors sue Elon Musk over acquisition shenanigans | Taylor Hatmaker | 2,022 | 5 | 26 | The isn’t above trying to get a discount, apparently. In a , Twitter shareholders are suing Elon Musk, alleging that he manipulated the price of the company’s stock for his own benefit in the . The lawsuit represents a group of Twitter investors but would allow any shareholders to receive financial compensation. Th... |
Does WeWork’s Adam Neumann really deserve his second chance? | Lucas Matney | 2,022 | 5 | 26 | TechCrunch Plenty of entrepreneurs have used the crypto boom to plot the next step of their Silicon Valley character arcs, but few of them have an active television series chronicling their misdeeds. This week, Adam Neumann made his post-WeWork debut, co-founding a blockchain-based carbon credits market, and — more im... |
Instagram is currently down for some users | Aisha Malik | 2,022 | 5 | 26 | If you’re having problems accessing Instagram today, you’re not alone. The social media giant is currently experiencing some problems, according to reports on third-party web monitoring service . The website indicates that issues began at around 12:30 p.m. EDT. NetBlocks, which tracks global internet usage and disrupti... |
Lab, crab and robotic rehab | Brian Heater | 2,022 | 5 | 26 | of a number of projects I hope to share with you in the newsletter soon, but one that really caught my eye was , which was just announced as part of the latest ROS (robot operating system) rollout. Beyond a punny name that is simultaneously a reference to the cloud element (fog/cloud — not to mention the fact that th... |
To fully embrace product-led growth, build a strong product ops team | Todd Olson | 2,022 | 5 | 26 | economy, you can tell a lot about a company by looking at how well they leverage their product. If you’re a forward-thinking business, your product can’t only be the means by which you deliver services and value to customers (although it certainly has to be that). With the rise of the product-led movement, your produc... |
Pitch Deck Teardown: Lumigo’s $29M Series A deck | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,022 | 5 | 26 | year, wrote about ‘s led by Redline Capital. The company makes a cloud-native application monitoring and debugging platform and has raised a total of $38 million since its launch in 2019. In the most recent installment of my Pitch Deck Teardown series, I am beyond excited to share the deck it used when it raised ... |
VCs will discuss how to find funding when you’re not in a major tech hub at TC Disrupt | Lauren Simonds | 2,022 | 5 | 26 | Silicon Valley — it’s synonymous with tech startups. Other big cities, such as Beijing, Berlin, London and New York City to name a few, built their own growing startup ecosystems. For years, conventional wisdom said startup success required relocating to a traditional, big-city innovation hub with extensive networks of... |
Memorial Day sale: Save 50% on TechCrunch+ | Alex Wilhelm | 2,022 | 5 | 26 | Hello, TechCrunch community! I’m writing with some good news: We are doubling down on this year, staffing up ( , , , , with more to come) and publishing more than ever before. This means that you might’ve hit the paywall a bit more frequently than in the past. To help ameliorate the matter, from today until May 30... |
OnlyFans founder makes crypto debut selling influencer trading cards | Anita Ramaswamy | 2,022 | 5 | 26 | OnlyFans founder Tim Stokely with a new NFT startup, , launching this summer. On Zoop, people can buy, sell, and trade 3D NFT “playing cards” of their favorite influencers and celebrities. The limited-edition digital cards on Zoop will be officially licensed, according to the company, though it wasn’t clear whether ... |
YC’s letter to founders, Apple’s folding device and the DOJ’s new stance on hackers | Greg Kumparak | 2,022 | 5 | 21 | Hi all! Welcome back to Week in Review, our where we wrap up many of the top stories to hit TechCrunch over the last seven days. The this week, based on what people were reading most, were the details of a memo sent from Y Combinator to its portfolio founders. As the markets continue to slide,YC is telling its port... |
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