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9 suitcase-friendly gifts for frequent flyers | Brian Heater | 2,022 | 11 | 30 | Once upon a time, I used to write . It was a fun story to piece together, and I was more than happy to do the honors — and play around with some fun gadgets in the process. We hit the big red pause button on the roundup during the 2020 holiday season, for what ought to be obvious reasons. Instead, I pivoted to a . La... |
Proptech in Review: 3 investors explain why they’re bullish on tech that makes buildings greener | Tim De Chant | 2,022 | 11 | 30 | is responsible for nearly 40% of carbon emissions worldwide, to the International Energy Agency. While a portion of that is from the energy and materials required to construct buildings, the lion’s share — nearly 90% on an annual basis — comes from their use. Decarbonizing the grid could go a long way to address tha... |
T-minus 72 hours left to save on passes to TC Sessions: Space | Lauren Simonds | 2,022 | 11 | 30 | We’re getting ready to launch a price hike, but you still have time — 72 hours to be precise — to attend on December 6 in Los Angeles for $199. Will you be in the room? Space tech may come with a jaw-dropping price tag, but this space conference doesn’t. Buy your pass before — prices go up to $495 at midnight. Why... |
Frequent conflict is a new requirement for startup leaders | Natasha Mascarenhas | 2,022 | 11 | 30 | problem. Karla Monterroso — a longtime leadership coach, racial equity advocate and the founder of Brava Leaders — to talk about how that issue was complicated by a bull cycle that saw power in visionary pitches — something now tested by a bear market in which talent is constantly turning over and founders have to m... |
GM’s Cruise pursuing permit to test its custom-built ‘Origin’ robotaxi in San Francisco | Kirsten Korosec | 2,022 | 11 | 30 | Cruise, GM’s self-driving technology subsidiary, has started the long and winding regulatory process to test its next-generation “Origin” robotaxi on public roads in San Francisco. The company has applied for a permit with the California Department of Motor Vehicles to test its custom-built driverless vehicle on public... |
Apple’s iOS 16.1.2 update just dropped with security fixes and crash detection improvements | Amanda Silberling | 2,022 | 11 | 30 | Apple rolled out iOS 16.1.2 on Wednesday, citing updates involving user security. Apple hasn’t yet detailed the nature of the , as the company doesn’t disclose security issues until after they’ve been investigated or patched. The update also includes improved compatibility with wireless carriers, as well as crash dete... |
Californians vote ‘No’ on Lyft-backed Prop 30, a plan to tax the rich and fund EVs | Rebecca Bellan | 2,022 | 11 | 8 | Californians have voted against a proposal on the midterm election ballot that would have taxed the wealthiest Californians to help pay for electric vehicle tax incentives and EV charging infrastructure in the state. Proposition 30 lost 59.1% to 40.9%, according to . California is already a leader in promoting a shift... |
Bumble rolls out ‘Compliments,’ a new message-before-match feature | Lauren Forristal | 2,022 | 11 | 30 | Bumble has experimented with many ways to help its users engage with each other beyond tapping and swiping on miscellaneous profiles. Today, Bumble launched a message-before-match feature, “Compliments,” allowing users to send a note before they decide to connect. Users can send one Compliment per day, and there’s a 15... |
Here’s everything AWS announced in its re:Invent data keynote | Frederic Lardinois | 2,022 | 11 | 30 | today announced a lot of feature updates — and little else — during its and machine learning-focused keynote (though there wasn’t a lot of machine learning there). Nothing here rose to the level where we felt we should write a full story, so in the interest of time, here’s everything the company announced today in e... |
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Instagram is updating its web interface to take advantage of large screens | Ivan Mehta | 2,022 | 11 | 8 | If you have used Instagram on your desktop system, you know that it looks like a badly made copy of its mobile website. The company is now introducing a refreshed design that takes advantage of large screens. Instagram’s head Adam Mosseri made this announcement through a post on Tuesday along with . “We know a lot of ... |
Kuda takes digital banking play to the UK with its remittance product | Tage Kene-Okafor | 2,022 | 11 | 8 | From an administrative point of view, Kuda’s U.K. move is straightforward. The startup, founded by Babs Ogundeyi and Musty Mustapha, is a U.K.-based fintech that offers financial services to Africans (starting with Nigerians) within and outside Africa. As such, s Babs Ogundeyi (Kuda CEO). Kuda |
Tiger Global taps TCV partner Rohit Iragavarapu | Manish Singh | 2,022 | 11 | 8 | Tiger Global is adding Rohit Iragavarapu — the partner at TCV Capital involved in deals such as GitLab, Attentive, Toast, LegalZoom and Avetta — to its investment team, two sources familiar with the matter said. Before joining TCV in 2019, Iragavarapu worked at TPG Global and Morgan Stanley, according to his Linkedin p... |
Beekeeper, which helps companies engage with their ‘deskless’ frontline workforce, raises $50M | Paul Sawers | 2,022 | 11 | 8 | , a platform for businesses to engage with frontline workers, has raised $50 million in a Series C round of funding. Founded out of Switzerland in 2011, Beekeeper targets the estimated of the global “deskless” workforce who don’t work from a fixed office-based location, spanning hospitality, retail, manufacturing, lo... |
Crypto giant Binance agrees to buy rival FTX amid ‘liquidity crunch’ | Manish Singh | 2,022 | 11 | 8 | Binance said Tuesday it has signed a letter of intent to acquire its most formidable rival FTX, delivering a surprising twist to days-long between the world’s two largest crypto exchanges that contributed to several digital tokens taking a tumble Tuesday. The deal follows Binance founder Changpeng Zhao and FTX founder... |
Electric Era wants to put an EV charger in convenience store parking lot near you | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,022 | 11 | 8 | Before starting , Quincy Lee was one of the chief mechanical engineers at Space X. He got bored of doing space stuff when the climate crisis was happening down here on Earth and decided to do something about one of the biggest challenges with the adoption of electric vehicles: Distributed high-speed charging infrastru... |
Elon Musk sells 19.5 million Tesla shares worth almost $4 billion | Rebecca Bellan | 2,022 | 11 | 8 | Tesla CEO Elon Musk is selling millions of Tesla shares again. The celebrity executive disposed of 19.5 million shares Tuesday, which is worth about $3.95 billion, according to three filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Musk did not take to Twitter to explain why he sold shares, but it’s possible t... |
Why watch a movie when you can watch your corporate all-hands meeting? | Amanda Silberling | 2,022 | 11 | 8 | Movie theater attendance is , largely thanks to the pandemic, but chains like AMC still need to make money. If aren’t a reliable business plan, why not find another use for a giant room with a huge screen and lots of seats? In partnership with Zoom, AMC Theatres will launch a product called next year. Basically, y... |
Twitter will add an ‘official’ badge to high-profile accounts in lieu of verification | Amanda Silberling | 2,022 | 11 | 8 | Twitter is turning the famous blue check mark into a symbol that denotes , rather than one that identifies public figures. But of course, if anyone with a spare $8 and a fragile ego can get verified, then the symbol is rendered meaningless, for trolls to go hard on impersonation gags. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO learne... |
Skyroot wants to kickstart private spaceflight in India with first rocket launch next week | Aria Alamalhodaei | 2,022 | 11 | 8 | Spaceflight startup wants to make history by launching India’s first privately developed rocket, and it’s aiming to do so as early as next week. The company said Tuesday that the first launch of the Vikram-S suborbital rocket could occur as early as November 12, with a launch window that extends until November 16. Th... |
Daily Crunch: Binance says it will buy FTX after smaller rival stumbles through ‘liquidity crunch’ | Christine Hall | 2,022 | 11 | 8 | Today, we’ve been learning about what the hell a Mastodon even is, so the timing of ’s piece is all sorts of perfect. Give it a read, and come find us on Mastodon after. If you can — that’s another challenge. We have faith in your cyberstalking skills, but here’s a hint: Both of us are on Mastodon.Social. — and .... |
Sweden’s EQT Ventures closes its third fund at €1.1B to double down on European and early-stage startups | Ingrid Lunden | 2,022 | 11 | 8 | Startups might be in a funding midwinter, but the ray of sun shining on some VCs speaks of a different trend. , the venture fund arm of Sweden’s investment giant EQT making early-stage bets on startups primarily in Europe, has closed its latest fund and filled its coffers with €1 billion (and $1.1 billion in total com... |
Gmail will no longer allow users to revert to its old design | Aisha Malik | 2,022 | 11 | 8 | Google today that it’s making the new Gmail interface the standard experience for users. The company first released the new interface earlier this year but allowed users to go back to the original view. Starting this month, users will no longer have the option to revert to the old interface. “The integrated view with... |
Humble keeps excess inventory out of the Philippines’ landfills | Catherine Shu | 2,022 | 11 | 8 | Excess inventory, including returned items, from e-commerce, logistics and retail companies often ends up being disposed. Manila-based is a circular economy startup that wants to keep it out of the Philippines’ landfills. Since its launch, it has processed more than 150,000 items like clothing, consumer electronics a... |
Salesforce confirms it has laid off hundreds of employees | Ron Miller | 2,022 | 11 | 8 | laid off hundreds of people this week as the onslaught of tech cutbacks continued unabated. The company would not share an exact number, but said it was less than a thousand, and the people involved were informed yesterday, according to a person close to the company. Protocol ( While it was not on the scale of , it ... |
Laid off from your tech job? Day One wants to give you $100,000 to start a company | Natasha Mascarenhas | 2,022 | 11 | 8 | , a venture firm launched in 2018 with a pitch to combine venture capital acumen with marketing and communications support, has launched a program aimed explicitly at those impacted by this year. The program, titled “ ” will write $100,000 checks into 20 startup teams by the end of the year. Top businesses from the c... |
Disney+ reaches 164.2M subscribers as it prepares for ad-supported tier launch | Lauren Forristal | 2,022 | 11 | 8 | Disney results for the final quarter of its 2022 fiscal year today, revealing a total of 164.2 million Disney+ global subscribers, an increase of 12 million subs from 152.1 million in . The flagship streaming service was only expected to gain 9.35 million subs. Across Disney’s streaming services, Disney+, Hulu and E... |
Binance’s plan to acquire FTX is ‘real-life Game of Thrones’ as crypto winter winds blow | Jacquelyn Melinek | 2,022 | 11 | 8 | largest crypto exchange by volume, , FTX, making huge waves in the crypto community after the putative billionaire CEOs of the exchanges engaged in a multiday public dispute on Twitter. “It’s like real-life ‘Game of Thrones,’” Alex Taub, founder and CEO of DAO-focused platform Upstream, said to TechCrunch in a messag... |
Elizabeth Holmes is denied new trial, will be sentenced on Nov. 18 | Amanda Silberling | 2,022 | 11 | 8 | The disgraced founder of Theranos, Elizabeth Holmes will be sentenced on November 18 after she was found on four counts of defrauding investors in January. Once the youngest self-made female billionaire, Holmes could face up to 20 years in prison for each of the four counts of fraud. Holmes had delayed sentencing by ... |
One of Canada’s biggest climate tech backers pulls back | Harri Weber | 2,022 | 11 | 1 | A prolific investor in climate tech companies in Canada is back with a second fund for “low-carbon technologies” — only this time the firm plans to pump less money into the scene, over a longer period of time. The Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) came out with a new, $400 million climate tech fund on Wednesday... |
Blackbird’s latest $1B AUD fund signals maturation of Australian, New Zealand venture scene | Rebecca Bellan | 2,022 | 11 | 1 | The Australian and New Zealand startup community will see a boost in funding this year. based in the two south Pacific countries, on Wednesday closed a fund at over AUD $1 billion (about USD $640 million), which the firm says is Australia’s largest fund to date. This is Blackbird’s fifth fund, and it’s double the siz... |
Twitter CMO is the latest to leave in a string of exec departures | Natasha Mascarenhas | 2,022 | 11 | 1 | Twitter CMO is the latest executive leaving the social network, just days into its Elon Musk era, and the report. Citing unnamed sources, Bloomberg also writes that Jean-Philippe Maheu, the Vice President of Global Client Solutions, is leaving the company. Berland hasn’t said anything publicly about the job change... |
They’re not going to ban TikTok (but…) | Devin Coldewey | 2,022 | 11 | 1 | We’ve been hearing for years how TikTok hoovers up data globally and presents it to its parent company in China, and potentially thence to the powers that be. But despite renewed calls today from FCC commissioner Brendan Carr, the popular app is very unlikely to be outright banned. That doesn’t mean it will be allowed ... |
‘CZ’ Zhao on why Binance bet big on Twitter despite Musk’s machinations | Connie Loizos | 2,022 | 11 | 1 | It’s hard to imagine committing to invest $500 million in someone’s vision for a company only to watch that individual almost immediately try to distance himself from it. But Changpeng “CZ” Zhao told an audience tonight at Web Summit in Lisbon that he wasn’t bothered when, after committing to invest $500 million in Elo... |
Daily Crunch: Amazon expands music catalog from 2M to 100M songs for Prime subscribers | Christine Hall | 2,022 | 11 | 1 | The discussion is in the newsroom as to whether folks are eager to pay between $8 and $20 per month for their blue checks on Twitter. Alex’s take was particularly sharp… “ ,” indeed. — and TouchBistro, an iPad-based restaurant management platform, from Francisco Partners to accelerate its growth, expand its prod... |
Lockheed Martin increases its bet on satellite manufacturer Terran Orbital with $100 million investment | Aria Alamalhodaei | 2,022 | 11 | 1 | Aerospace giant Lockheed Martin is deepening its investment in satellite manufacturer with a $100 million investment and a cooperation agreement for the development and sale of smallsats through 2035. Terran also announced that it will now build its massive, $300 million space vehicle manufacturing facility in Irvine... |
Twitch opens Guest Star up so anyone can run their own talk show now | Taylor Hatmaker | 2,022 | 11 | 1 | With its biggest product launch in years, Twitch is betting on a near future of the platform that features more dynamic conversations, expanding its current focus beyond mostly solo streamers. Through a new tool called Guest Star, which launched in a , streamers can now easily pull other creators and fans into their s... |
Unicorns face 5-1 odds as they wait for public markets to warm | Alex Wilhelm | 2,022 | 11 | 1 | Exchange changing investor sentiment regarding growth and profitability. A looking at cloud and software companies from Battery Ventures ran the math on how investors are rewarding faster growth from less unprofitable companies — dare we say, companies? — with the data indicating that, at least for now, growth i... |
Everything is stupid and bad right now; maybe this $200 portable turntable will fix it | Brian Heater | 2,022 | 11 | 1 | Yeah, yeah. I know. Buying a record player isn’t going to fix everything that’s broken. But it was a nice thought, however fleeting. Long before the iPod, this strange mutant existed. Too weird to live, too strange to die, as someone once famously put it. The — as it has affectionately come to be known — has also fel... |
Facebook expands its professional mode profile setting to all creators globally | Aisha Malik | 2,022 | 11 | 1 | Meta has of its professional mode profile setting on Facebook to all creators. Professional mode is designed to be used by creators looking to monetize their followings on the social network. Facebook professional mode with select creators in December 2021 and is now offering it to anyone on its platform. Professio... |
Bitcoin miners struggle as energy prices rise and hash prices fall | Jacquelyn Melinek | 2,022 | 11 | 1 | continued to hold near $20,000 this past week, but some miners are crumbling as spiking energy prices and historically low hash prices cut into profits. Even though bitcoin’s price has been down for a while and has fallen about 56% year to date, the dominoes just began to fall for . What’s driving the implosion? “The... |
Ford, VW seeking buyer for Argo AI’s lidar unit | Kirsten Korosec | 2,022 | 11 | 1 | Ford and Volkswagen are trying to squeeze any remaining value out of Argo AI, the autonomous vehicle startup the two automakers invested billons in before last week. One of the primary items on the block: Argo Lidar, an 80-person team and the lidar tech they developed, according to sources familiar with the unwinding... |
Samsara Eco raises $54M AUD for its ‘infinite plastic recycling’ tech | Catherine Shu | 2,022 | 11 | 1 | , an Australian startup that uses enzyme-based technology to break down plastic into its core molecules, announced today it has raised $54 million AUD (about $34.7 million USD) in Series A funding. The company is planning to build its first plastic recycling facility in Melbourne later this year, with the target of ful... |
Elon Musk floats $8 Twitter subscription that includes verification, long-form video and audio posting and fewer ads | Ivan Mehta | 2,022 | 11 | 1 | After much uncertainty around Twitter Blue’s revamp, Elon Musk laid out the company’s approach. He said that the new paid plan will cost $8 per month — something that he mentioned in a reply to Stephen King’s tweet. Plus, the price will be adjusted according to purchasing power parity of the country, hinting toward a g... |
Google puts an end to Google Hangouts once and for all | Lauren Forristal | 2,022 | 11 | 1 | Google Hangouts, a text, video and voice chat app built into Gmail, is finally being today. As earlier this year, Google is switching Hangouts users over to Google Chat, the company’s Slack-like instant messaging app for businesses. Starting today, November 1, the Google Hangouts web app is no longer available. Thi... |
Connect with Hedera, Wilson Sonsini and MetaJuice at TC Sessions: Crypto | Lauren Simonds | 2,022 | 11 | 1 | , Head of Business and Development, MetaJuice; , Strategic Partner Success Manager, ImmutableX; and , Director, Republic Crypto, will address these and other challenges to building an inclusive, secure and sustainable metaverse.
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Upstart lays off 7% staff amid weakening demand for loans | Jagmeet Singh | 2,022 | 11 | 1 | has laid off about 140 employees — or 7% of its total workforce — who help process loan applications, sources told TechCrunch. The cloud-based AI lending platform notified its affected employees about the layoff on Tuesday. Upstart had about 2,000 employees, according to the company, which confirmed the layoffs. “Give... |
TechCrunch+ roundup: 2022 R&D tax prep, social media for founders, managing remote teams | Walter Thompson | 2,022 | 11 | 1 | As director of Techstars’ startup pipeline, Saba Karim spends much of his time touting the ways entrepreneurs can benefit by joining an accelerator. But is it the right choice for every founder? After he posted a thread on Twitter offering several rationales explaining why some should definitely avoid them, I invited h... |
Metrist raises $5.5M to provide better cloud service outage data | Frederic Lardinois | 2,022 | 11 | 1 | , a startup that helps IT teams stay on top of outages among the many cloud services they use to run their own applications, today announced that it has raised a $5.5 million seed round from the likes of , and PagerDuty co-founder Alex Solomon and StatusPage co-founders Scott and Steve Klein. The overall idea behind... |
Amazon introduces a $7.3 annual Prime Video subscription tier in India | Manish Singh | 2,022 | 11 | 6 | Amazon has introduced a new price tier for Prime Video in India, making the on-demand video streaming service even more affordable as it races to court customers in the South Asian market where it competes with giants including Disney’s Hotstar, Netflix and Times Internet-backed MX Player. The e-commerce group is offer... |
Apple warns of lower iPhone 14 Pro models shipment due to COVID-19 restrictions | Manish Singh | 2,022 | 11 | 6 | Apple warned investors and customers on Sunday that it expects to ship fewer iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max units as the world’s most valuable tech firm grapples with the ongoing COVID-19 lockdown in China. The company said it continues to see strong demand for the , but the lockdown restriction has prompted it t... |
Twitter to delay verification check mark rollout until after US midterm elections | Manish Singh | 2,022 | 11 | 6 | Twitter is reportedly delaying the rollout of verification check marks to subscribers as the social network attempts to steer clear of possible impact to Tuesday’s midterm elections. The Elon Musk-owned social media company had planned to roll out the service, Twitter Blue, on Monday. The firm started , according to... |
How ButcherBox bootstrapped to $600M in revenue | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,022 | 11 | 6 | best companies only come about because they found a problem worth solving. For Mike Salguero, CEO and co-founder at , the problem and opportunity in the extraordinarily broken space of meat production and distribution simply could not be ignored. Armed with an idea for how to do things differently, the company ran ... |
Netflix is bringing back Stranger Things: Puzzle Tales with new gameplay | Ivan Mehta | 2,022 | 11 | 6 | Netflix is bringing to its platform with new gameplay based on the content from Season 4 of the show. Users will be able to play as new characters features in Season 4 in this no-ads game as the company continues its push toward gaming. Users have to solve puzzles in this game to beat enemies like Demogorgons and oth... |
Cloudflare reaches $1B run rate, promises $5B in 5 years. Investors? Not impressed | Alex Wilhelm | 2,022 | 11 | 6 | infrastructure and security company, reported earnings on Thursday, reaching a significant milestone. With almost $254 million in revenue, the company is on a run rate of over $1 billion for the first time. Revenue, which was up 47% over the previous year, also beat the street’s estimate of $250.6 million. That win wa... |
The fintech layoffs just keep on coming | Mary Ann Azevedo | 2,022 | 11 | 6 | Wow, I take off one week and come back to all hell breaking loose in the fintech world. Sadly, it felt like we got news of layoff after layoff. I’ll attempt to round up as many of them as I can here: I wrote this newsletter on November 3 because I’m leaving on a trip to celebrate my 20th wedding anniversary, so it’s po... |
Twitter Blue subscription with verification may launch in India in ‘less than a month’ | Manish Singh | 2,022 | 11 | 6 | Twitter may extend its subscription service to India in “ ,” its owner and chief executive Elon Musk said, offering a glimpse at just how aggressively he plans to roll out Twitter Blue to the larger world. Twitter in four markets — the U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand — last year. The Elon Musk-owned firm plan... |
Musk says Twitter will offer ‘amnesty’ to suspended accounts | Rebecca Bellan | 2,022 | 11 | 24 | Elon Musk said Thursday Twitter will grant “a general amnesty” to accounts that had been suspended from the platform beginning next week. The CEO posted a the day earlier over whether the platform should restore affected accounts. The news comes within a week of from the platform after running a similar poll. aft... |
WeWork China’s former tech head introduces on-demand work pods for mental health | Rita Liao | 2,022 | 11 | 24 | At a time when China’s zero-COVID policy continues to interrupt offline work and face-to-face interactions, Dominic Penaloza, the former head of innovation and technology at WeWork China, is introducing a bold idea — on-demand work booths placed in public locations — and has managed to quickly raise capital for the bus... |
Twitter layoffs trigger oversight risk warning from Brussels | Natasha Lomas | 2,022 | 11 | 24 | In another move that’s being frowned upon by European Union regulators, Elon Musk-owned Twitter has closed its Brussels office per a report in the — citing sources with knowledge of the departures. Staffers in the office were focused on European Union digital policy, working in close proximity to the seat of power of... |
Stellantis to restructure European dealer network in July 2023 | Rebecca Bellan | 2,022 | 11 | 24 | Stellantis, the parent company to brands like Jeep, Dodge, Fiat, Maserati and Peugeot, said Thursday it would reorganize its European dealer networks in July 2023 in an effort to cut costs and support its investment into electrification. Starting next summer, Stellantis said it would end all current sales and services ... |
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Bessemer, Playground, Root and Seraphim VCs will judge the TC Sessions: Space Pitch-off | Lauren Simonds | 2,022 | 11 | 24 | Watching outstanding early-stage founders square off in a pitch competition is not only an essential part of TechCrunch conferences, but it’s also an attendee favorite. Seriously, who doesn’t love a pitch-off? And the Space Pitch-off is just one more compelling reason to go to on December 6 in Los Angeles. Let’s take... |
Can FTX’s bankruptcy bring order to its chaos? | Jacquelyn Melinek | 2,022 | 11 | 24 | Welcome back to Last week on the podcast, we talked about the , which is still ongoing. This week, we’re taking a break from our news episode for Thanksgiving, but we had on the TechCrunch website, including some from our crypto event in Miami last week. Before we get into the nitty gritty, Anita wanted to... |
3 views: How wrong were our 2022 startup predictions? | Natasha Mascarenhas | 2,022 | 11 | 24 | this year has been. While prediction pieces always come with a large asterisk because no one knows literally anything about what may play out in the future — such as — our perspectives about 2022 have aged … interestingly. Last year, Natasha Mascarenhas, Alex Wilhelm and Anna Heim spotlighted Now, we’re fact-checki... |
Automating the income gap | Brian Heater | 2,022 | 11 | 24 | to be another one of those “let’s ask ourselves some difficult questions” newsletter introductions, so if you’re in the U.S., I certainly won’t blame you for not giving Actuator your full attention until after the holiday. I generally approach these conversations through the same basic lens: a majority of technologies... |
India’s AIIMS hit by outages after cyberattack | Jagmeet Singh | 2,022 | 11 | 24 | India’s leading public medical institute, All India Institute of Medical Services, or AIIMS, is experiencing outages following a cyberattack. The outages are affecting hundreds of patients and doctors accessing primary healthcare services, including patient admission, discharge and billing systems. Established in 1956,... |
Netflix is working on ‘brand-new AAA PC game,’ according to job listings | Romain Dillet | 2,022 | 11 | 24 | Netflix has put up more than on its website for Netflix Games Studio’s Los Angeles office, as spotted by . These listings give us a few hints about the company’s plans for the new studio. In particular, Netflix is hiring a game director to work on “a brand-new AAA PC game.” at TechCrunch Disrupt, Netflix VP of Gami... |
Surveillance powers in UK’s Online Safety Bill are risk to E2EE, warns legal expert | Natasha Lomas | 2,022 | 11 | 24 | Independent legal analysis of a controversial U.K. government proposal to regulate online speech under a safety-focused framework — aka the — says the draft bill contains some of the broadest mass surveillance powers over citizens ever proposed in a Western democracy, which it also warns pose a risk to the integrity ... |
Tesla extends FSD access to ‘anyone in North America who requests it’ | Rebecca Bellan | 2,022 | 11 | 24 | Tesla is extending its “full self-driving” (FSD) beta software “to anyone in North America who requests it from the car screen,” according to CEO Elon Musk who out the news late Wednesday evening. The rollout of FSD across the continent comes as Tesla is potentially facing a from the U.S. Department of Justice over... |
LinkedIn now lets you schedule posts for later | Paul Sawers | 2,022 | 11 | 24 | LinkedIn is rolling out a new feature that allows users to schedule posts to send at a later time. The social network has seemingly been testing the new feature internally for several months already, according back in August from web developer and app researcher Nima Owji, but it seems that LinkedIn is now readying... |
Anne Hathaway backs Pact, an all-women led VC for mission-driven startups, from West to East | Mike Butcher | 2,022 | 11 | 24 | How many VC funds can you name where the three partners all had babies whilst raising the fund, have deep connections in Asia as well as Europe and the U.S. and include actress Anne Hathaway as an LP? Not many I’d hazard. But that’s the profile of , a new seed VC fund launched with a £30 million ($36 million) pot of c... |
US authorities seize iSpoof, a call spoofing site that stole millions | Carly Page | 2,022 | 11 | 24 | An international police operation has dismantled an online spoofing service that allowed cybercriminals to impersonate trusted corporations to steal more than $120 million from victims. iSpoof, which now stating that it has been seized by the FBI and the U.S. Secret Service, offered “spoofing” services that enabled p... |
Pivo powers up Nigerian freight carriers with a bespoke digital bank, gets $2M seed funding | Tage Kene-Okafor | 2,022 | 11 | 24 | Most small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in supply chains across different sectors in Africa execute orders in days but receive invoices after several weeks and sometimes months. It’s such an inefficient way of doing business that ultimately leads to cash-flow problems — and on top of that are fragmented payment collec... |
Atoa helps UK merchants cut down on card processing fees | Catherine Shu | 2,022 | 11 | 24 | Visa and Mastercard payments are convenient for customers but can cost merchants high processing fees. wants to provide a cheaper alternative that is still easy for customers to use. The London-based fintech announced today that it has raised $2.2 million in pre-seed funding. The round was led by Leo Capital and Pass... |
Female Invest acquires sustainability-focused investment platform Gaia Investments | Rebecca Szkutak | 2,022 | 11 | 23 | When launched in 2019, it did so with the goal of creating a community where women who wanted to invest in the stock market, but weren’t sure where to start, could gain the knowledge and confidence to take the plunge. Now, its users will be able to do so all within the Female Invest platform. The Copenhagen-based sta... |
Consumer finance app Djamo eyes Francophone Africa expansion, backed by new $14M round | Tage Kene-Okafor | 2,022 | 11 | 23 | Last February, announced that it got , the first from Ivory Coast. Months later, the two-year-old fintech has raised $14 million in funding from the famed accelerator, as well as from three lead investors — Enza Capital, Oikocredit and Partech Africa — and other participating investors, including Janngo Capital, P1 ... |
Amazon to shut down its online learning platform in India | Manish Singh | 2,022 | 11 | 23 | Amazon will be shutting down Amazon Academy, an online learning platform it launched in India for high school students last year, the company said Thursday. The retailer says it will wind down the edtech service in the country in a phased manner starting August 2023. Those who signed up for the current academic batch w... |
Amazon is working on a TV series about FTX drama with Russo Brothers | Ivan Mehta | 2,022 | 11 | 23 | The FTX drama is not over yet — and Amazon wants a piece of it. The company is partnering with the Russo Brothers, best known for Marvel movies, to make a show on the spectacular collapse of the giant cryptocurrency empire. Amazon has partnered with the duo’s production house AGBO to make the show, which will go into p... |
Google Cloud partners with Indian startup SuperGaming to offer gaming engine to developers | Jagmeet Singh | 2,022 | 11 | 23 | Google Cloud has partnered with to offer the Indian gaming startup’s proprietary gaming engine, SuperPlatform, to developers worldwide, the latest in a series of recent steps from the Android-maker to expand focus into the gaming industry. The cloud arm of the search giant said Thursday that as part of its partnershi... |
What it would mean for Tesla to buy back shares | Rebecca Bellan | 2,022 | 11 | 23 | Tesla investors are begging CEO Elon Musk and the board of Tesla to consider buying back shares as the company’s stock price slumps to a two-year low. Tesla stock was trading at $183.20 after hours on Wednesday, and its market capitalization has plunged by almost $700 billion since its peak a year ago. Musk said during... |
Obrizum uses AI to build employee training modules out of existing content | Kyle Wiggers | 2,022 | 11 | 23 | The market for corporate training, which Allied Market Research is worth over $400 billion, has grown substantially in recent years as companies realize the cost savings in upskilling their workers. One PwC found that teaching employees additional skills can save a company between 43% and 66% of layoff costs alone,... |
Dat Bike gets another $8M to put more e-bikes on Vietnam’s roads | Catherine Shu | 2,022 | 11 | 23 | is on a mission to put more electric bikes on Vietnam’s roads. The startup said today it has raised $8 million led by returning investor Singapore-based firm Jungle Ventures, just . GSR Ventures and Delivery Hero Ventures also participated in this round, along with Wavemaker Partners and Innoven Capital. The new roun... |
It’s time to talk about killer robots | Brian Heater | 2,022 | 11 | 23 | dinner table conversation that isn’t politics or professional sports? Okay, let’s talk about killer robots. It’s a concept that long ago leapt from the pages of science fiction to reality, depending on how loose a definition you use for “robot.” Military drones abandoned — “A robot may not injure a human being or, t... |
Daily Crunch: Vulnerable component in IoT devices poses ‘supply chain risk,’ Microsoft says | Christine Hall | 2,022 | 11 | 23 | / Getty Images Three more from the TC+ team: |
Here’s what NASA’s Orion spacecraft is doing over Thanksgiving weekend | Aria Alamalhodaei | 2,022 | 11 | 23 | Since taking off aboard the Space Launch System rocket , NASA’s Orion spacecraft has had a remarkably smooth journey. But it’s far from over. While millions of Americans prepare for a long weekend with family and friends, Orion will continue its 25-day mission, including conducting a crucial burn on Friday to enter a ... |
Bitcoin believers maintain view it could find institutional buy-in despite FTX chaos | Jacquelyn Melinek | 2,022 | 11 | 23 | that bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies were flirting with all-time highs about a year ago. Today’s scenery is less exuberant; bitcoin’s price has below and maintained its current price range since mid-June. Going forward, crypto participants should ask now how they can better understand the market, James Butterfi... |
Early Light Ventures plots a second, $15M fund for software ‘underdogs’ | Harri Weber | 2,022 | 11 | 23 | With a stated mission to “back the underdogs that traditional VC has overlooked,” early-stage investor has secured at least $10.6 million toward its next fund, TechCrunch has learned. Based in Baltimore, Early Light is still somewhat new to VC land with about four years and four exits under its belt, per . It largel... |
South Korean financial regulator confirms it is reviewing Apple Pay service for launch | Kate Park | 2,022 | 11 | 23 | Apple is poised to launch its Apple Pay service in South Korea, one of the fastest-growing countries in the world for cashless services, yet as of right now untapped by both Apple and the other major smartphone platform player, Google. South Korea’s financial regulator is currently reviewing the Apple Pay service lau... |
NASA selects Rocket Lab to launch TROPICS satellites | Aria Alamalhodaei | 2,022 | 11 | 23 | NASA has found a new launch provider for its extreme weather observation satellites. The agency announced Wednesday that it has selected Rocket Lab to launch its Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats (TROPICS) satellites across two launches in late s... |
Electric motorbike-maker Zapp Electric Vehicles to go public via SPAC | Rebecca Bellan | 2,022 | 11 | 23 | U.K.-based electric two-wheeler manufacturer is merging with a blank-check company to become publicly traded on the Nasdaq at a post-money valuation of $573 million. Zapp says it will use the proceeds from the merger to bring its long-awaited i300 high-performance, seated city scooter to market. The i300 was initiall... |
Lyft, Redwood Materials partner to recycle shared e-bike and e-scooter batteries | Rebecca Bellan | 2,022 | 11 | 23 | Lyft is partnering with Redwood Materials, a battery recycling company founded by ex-Tesla co-founder JB Straubel, to ensure the batteries from its fleets of shared electric bikes and scooters don’t end up in a landfill at their end of life. The news, reported by , comes the same week that , citing the desire to pursu... |
#MyTechFrenemy | Dominic-Madori Davis | 2,022 | 11 | 23 | academy have always been a little suspicious of the program and its founder, Mary Awodele. Since its founding in 2020, a whisper network murmured that many of the materials taught by the academy were plagiarized from various other online programs, such as those from Google or Salesforce. Founded by Awodele in 2020, ... |
College social app Fizz is growing fast — maybe too fast | Amanda Silberling | 2,022 | 11 | 23 | Things are bleak in the tech sphere as we close out a year defined by , persistent and a for companies. Yet Stanford dropout Teddy Solomon’s story of co-founding is so reminiscent of Facebook that he was introduced to his investor and now-CEO Rakesh Mathur as “the next Mark Zuckerberg.” So, is it a good time t... |
NASA’s Space Launch System makes inaugural journey in historic launch | Aria Alamalhodaei | 2,022 | 11 | 15 | After years of preparation and two false starts, NASA’s heavy-lift Space Launch System has finally taken off and entered orbit. It’s a big win for the space agency — even as it . Some pre-launch jitters threatened to scrub the launch, but a “red crew” went out to the hot pad to tighten something, and a bad Ethernet sw... |
Valar Ventures leads $20M round in online brokerage platform baraka | Tage Kene-Okafor | 2,022 | 11 | 15 | baraka |
FTX’s failure could be a stress test for corporate credit card startups | Natasha Mascarenhas | 2,022 | 11 | 23 | sent a message to crypto companies using its corporate card services saying that it is significantly lowering spending limits and mandating new requirements. Some users were temporarily suspended from spending altogether. “In light of recent unprecedented events in the cryptocurrency, blockchain, NFT and DeFi ecosyste... |
Tiger Global-backed Algorithmiq to collaborate with IBM over drug discovery using Quantum | Mike Butcher | 2,022 | 11 | 15 | , a Helsinki-based quantum computing startup, has pulled in a deal with IBM to super-charge its exploration of quantum algorithms applied to the life sciences. The collaboration will attempt to dramatically cut the time and cost of drug discovery and development. The widely accepted maxim is that it takes around a deca... |
Thailand’s Beam simplifies checkout for social commerce | Catherine Shu | 2,022 | 11 | 15 | The social commerce market in Southeast Asia, but the checkout process is filled with friction. Many sellers don’t have online storefronts and instead use social media and messaging apps, which means payment is made by switching to banking apps or wallets. This means low conversion rates, say the founders of . The T... |
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