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Apple readies its next iPhone, Joe Rogan interviews Zuck, and Twitter purportedly pauses plans to compete with OnlyFans | Greg Kumparak | 2,022 | 9 | 3 | Hello again! Welcome back to , the newsletter where we quickly recap the last week’s worth of TechCrunch’s most read posts. Want it in your inbox every Saturday morning? Ready? Let’s just dive right in. : Apple events tend to suck all the air out of the room in the days leading up to them because…well, no one wants t... |
This Week in Apps: Twitter’s edit button, BeReal clones, Trump’s Truth Social gets blocked | Sarah Perez | 2,022 | 9 | 3 | Welcome back to This Week in Apps, that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. Global in the first half of 2022, up only slightly from the $64.4 billion during the same period in 2021, as hypergrowth fueled by the pandemic has decreased. But overall, the app economy is... |
It’s not just you: The freemium bar is shifting | Anna Heim | 2,022 | 9 | 3 | TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s inspired by the where it gets its name. Oh, how things have changed. You are already used to reading this on The Exchange, whether we are talking about public markets, venture capital or macroeconomic indicators. But now there’s another sign of the... |
Aston Martin is finally upgrading its stale infotainment system | Jaclyn Trop | 2,022 | 9 | 3 | When it comes to touchscreens and in-car entertainment, Aston Martin has not only lagged behind ultra-luxury rivals such as Lamborghini and Bentley, it has trailed lower priced tech-forward models as well. Now, the automaker is preparing to catch up with a modern infotainment system that will be rolled out across its p... |
Y Creator, Y Competition | Natasha Mascarenhas | 2,022 | 9 | 3 | YC had its biggest news in years this week: Garry Tan will be the new president and CEO of the organization, starting January 2023. Tan co-founded and helped scale Initialized Capital to a venture firm that now manages over $3.2 billion in assets. All the while, he’s always had roots in YC, both as a former partner at ... |
Yes, your 5-year financial projections are going to be wrong. You need them anyway | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,022 | 9 | 3 | an early-stage founder, I bristled at the idea of making a five- or even three-year financial projection of my business. I can promise you one thing: It will be wrong. But as part of your fundraising, you need to make them anyway, and there are a couple of great reasons for that. VCs understand as well as you do tha... |
Docquity, a community for healthcare professionals, raises $44M Series C | Catherine Shu | 2,022 | 9 | 4 | A call between doctors can save lives. That’s what co-founder Indranil Roychowdhury learned when his father was hospitalized with a life-threatening condition in India. An emergency room doctor initially told him that there was no chance of survival, but then another doctor called one of his peers in the United State... |
Indian agency searches fintech Paytm, Razorpay and Cashfree offices in Chinese loan apps probe | Manish Singh | 2,022 | 9 | 3 | India’s financial crime fighting agency searched the offices of fintech unicorns Paytm and Razorpay as well as Cashfree on Friday as part of an ongoing investigation into fraudulent Chinese loan apps, it said Saturday, the latest in a series of probes in recent months. The Enforcement Directorate said its searches at h... |
SkorLife gives control of credit data back to Indonesian consumers | Catherine Shu | 2,022 | 9 | 4 | Indonesia’s credit bureaus currently have about 92 million credit records, but the founders of say many people have trouble accessing their own data. That’s why they built the app, which not only lets people see their credit histories for free but also gives personalized advice on how to improve data. The Jakarta-ba... |
LG Electronics launches NFT platform that lets users buy and sell digital artwork | Kate Park | 2,022 | 9 | 4 | LG Electronics said today it has released its non-fungible token (NFT) platform , which lets users discover, buy, sell and trade NFTs on LG’s smart TVs. The announcement comes roughly eight months after LG Electronics that it into its smart TV. The platform is now available in the U.S. only to those with LG TV run... |
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These are the top 3 most important slides in your pitch deck | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,022 | 9 | 4 | accepted wisdom that you need between 10 and 20 slides to tell the story of your startup. A lot of founders don’t seem to realize that not all slides are the same, however. Some slides carry more weight than others — and three of them are absolutely crucial. Today, I’m taking you through why those three slides are so ... |
Solar-powered carmaker Lightyear raises $81M and gears up for production | Paul Sawers | 2,022 | 9 | 5 | , a Dutch startup developing a long-range hybrid solar-powered car, today announced that it has raised €81 million ($81 million) as it prepares to begin production of its first vehicle in the coming months. While recent history is of prototype , the burgeoning electric car movement has so far been mostly limited to ... |
Less than 3 days left for 2-for-1 sale on TC Sessions: Crypto passes! | Lauren Simonds | 2,022 | 9 | 4 | What’s better than saving some coin in your wallet? Saving coin AND getting something for free! One general admission Launch pass typically costs $199, but our Labor Day sale gets you ! : Buy your pass now because this offer won’t last long. ! What’s in store for you once you take advantage of this amazing offer? Exp... |
Brex’s departing CRO explains his decision to join Founders Fund | Mary Ann Azevedo | 2,022 | 9 | 4 | Interchange! If you received this in your inbox, thank you for signing up and your vote of confidence. If you’re reading this as a post on our site, sign up so you can receive it directly in the future. Every week, I’ll take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. This will include everything from f... |
Binance to stop supporting USDC, the second largest stablecoin | Manish Singh | 2,022 | 9 | 5 | Binance, the issuer of the world’s third-largest stablecoin, said on Monday it will convert customers’ holdings in three rival stablecoins USD Coin (USDC), Pax Dollar (USDP) and True USD (TUSD) into its own stablecoin (BUSD) on September 29 to “enhance liquidity and capital-efficiency for users” in a move that has baff... |
How the upcoming Ethereum Merge could change crypto’s rewards, costs and reputation | Anita Ramaswamy | 2,022 | 9 | 4 | blockchain by market cap, is about to undergo a massive transformation known to the crypto community as “the Merge.” It’s a long-awaited systemwide upgrade that experts say will reduce the blockchain’s energy consumption by about 99% by switching its transaction verification system away from “proof-of-work,” which rel... |
Y Combinator, Global Brain back Tailor, a Japanese headless ERP startup | Kate Park | 2,022 | 9 | 5 | , a Japan-based back-end enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform, said today it has raised $4.3 million in seed funding from Y Combinator and . Founded in 2021 by Yo Shibata and Misato Takahashi, Tailor provides a headless ERP platform, meaning an ERP without a front end, instead delivering data from back-office s... |
3 views: Meetings are bad, yo. Choose emails | Alex Wilhelm | 2,022 | 9 | 5 | weekend here in the United States, meaning office workers, at least, get a three-day break from the dreaded meeting. We wanted to take this time to offer up an impassioned defense of … email. Hear us out. It’s conventional wisdom that meetings are killers of productivity and morale and happy work environments. So why ... |
Solar Foods wants to replace industrial animal farming with a high-tech protein harvest | Natasha Lomas | 2,022 | 9 | 5 | Fermentation has a long, rich history in food production, from beer and wine to yogurt and cheese, leavened bread and coffee, miso and tempeh, sauerkraut and kimchi, to name just a few of the tasty things we can consume thanks to a chemical process thought to date back to the Neolithic period. But if this 2017-founded ... |
Agritech company Cropin launches its cloud platform to digitize the agricultural industry | Catherine Shu | 2,022 | 9 | 5 | Backed by investors including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and CDC Group, is set on digitizing the agricultural industry. Today, the company announced the launch of Cropin Cloud, a cloud platform with integrated apps. Founded in 2010, Cropin’s other products are live in 92 countries, it is partnered with ove... |
Have you marked down your portfolio yet? You are running out of time to hide | Rebecca Szkutak | 2,022 | 9 | 5 | your portfolio or not mark down your portfolio? That is a question many venture capitalists are grappling with right now. But first, what does that mean? VCs keep a running tab of the value of each fund and entire portfolio based on the prior valuations each company raised at. The value of each company generally only ... |
Cultivated Biosciences wants to make plant-based dairy ‘feel’ more like the real McCoy | Paul Sawers | 2,022 | 9 | 5 | The vegan food market was pegged as a , a figure that’s expected to more than double within a decade. This hasn’t gone unnoticed by the major food and beverage incumbents such as Nestlé, which under the Wunda brand last year, while rival Unilever on its vegan offerings. But any company looking to develop successfu... |
Max Q: Disrupt | Aria Alamalhodaei | 2,022 | 9 | 5 | Hello and welcome back to Max Q. Happy Labor Day! Due to the scheduling of the newsletter, I’ll have finished writing this by the time NASA makes the second launch attempt of the Artemis I mission. By now, you probably already know how it all went down anyway! In this issue: … finally returns — live and in person — t... |
Mode Designs’ Sonnet 65 feels almost too luxurious to type on | Frederic Lardinois | 2,022 | 9 | 5 | I have yet to type on a keyboard that feels as good as . There have definitely been a few days in the last few weeks since the company sent me a prototype unit to test where getting to type on the Sonnet was one of my main motivators to start writing. With prices starting at $299 without switches and keycaps, it’s not... |
Instagram fined €405M in EU over children’s privacy | Natasha Lomas | 2,022 | 9 | 5 | A fat fine — of €405 million — is headed Instagram’s way after European Union privacy regulators came to a decision on a long-running complaint related to how the social media platform handles children’s data. The penalty is for a breach of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Meta was contacted for comm... |
India approves PayU’s $4.7 billion acquisition of BillDesk | Manish Singh | 2,022 | 9 | 5 | India’s antitrust watchdog has approved PayU’s proposed acquisition of payments gateway BillDesk, the second largest M&A deal in the South Asian market’s consumer internet space, more than a year after the two firms . The Competition Commission of India said in a tweet that the deal, which will allow the Prosus Ventur... |
Metaverse Magna raises $3.2M at a $30M valuation to build Africa’s largest gaming DAO | Tage Kene-Okafor | 2,022 | 9 | 5 | This February, Africa and emerging market-focused raised a pre-seed round to build, operate and invest in its web3 applications, including crypto content platform Breach Club and gaming guild (MVM). Nine months after its launch last December, the latter has completed a seed sale token round of $3.2 million at a $30... |
India summons Wikipedia officials over edits to cricketer’s page | Manish Singh | 2,022 | 9 | 5 | India has summoned executives of Wikipedia after a cricketer’s page on the online encyclopedia was edited with links to a separatist movement. The country’s IT ministry made the order on Monday to seek clarification from Wikipedia executives over the incident. A key IT minister publicly expressed his concern about the ... |
Google lets the Parler app back into the Play Store | Taylor Hatmaker | 2,022 | 9 | 2 | Truth Social isn’t , but another ostensibly anything-goes social network in the same orbit just made a comeback there. , a social app designed to appeal to pro-Trump social media users turned off of mainstream platforms, has returned to the Google Play Store more than a year after getting the boot. Google in Januar... |
Inside Tencent’s ambition to create a Triple A console game | Rita Liao | 2,022 | 9 | 5 | Tencent, the biggest social networking and video games company in China, hasn’t really managed to scale its popular products in the Western mainstream. The behemoth’s international expansion for the most part has been achieved by investing in companies outside China, but now it’s upping its on-the-ground presence abroa... |
Mobility SPACs seek cash and your guide to the new EV tax credit | Kirsten Korosec | 2,022 | 9 | 5 | Happy Labor Day weekend to all my U.S. and Canada-based readers! If you’re using the three-day weekend to take a road trip, travel safe. For those in California, you may be asked to curb your energy use this holiday weekend. Particularly, if you own an EV. California’s power grid manager is calling on EV owners to (4... |
California EV owners asked to curb charging ahead of travel holiday | Harri Weber | 2,022 | 9 | 2 | As a brutal cooks the West in the run-up to Labor Day, California’s power grid manager is calling on electric vehicle owners to avoid charging at peak times. The request is part of a broader effort to keep the state’s grid up and running, while locals crank their air conditioners to outlast a streak of blazing-hot da... |
Tracking cybersecurity investment during the venture downturn | Alex Wilhelm | 2,022 | 9 | 2 | rout was ; some companies and technology sectors fared better than others. The same can be said about tech sectors in 2022 more generally. For example, the that we track was off 45% year to date before the open today, while cybersecurity index funds ($IHAK, $CIBR, etc.) are off around 20% apiece, a far smaller decl... |
In leaked memo, Aurora CEO weighs spinouts, layoffs and acquisitions against sale to big tech | Kirsten Korosec | 2,022 | 9 | 2 | of autonomous vehicle developer Aurora Innovation presented a swath of cost-cutting and cash-generating options to its board, ranging from a hiring freeze and spinning out assets to a small capital raise, going private and even selling itself to high-profile tech companies Apple and Microsoft. The ideas, all aimed at ... |
AI is getting better at generating porn. We might not be prepared for the consequences. | Kyle Wiggers | 2,022 | 9 | 2 | stands on the moon, her face obscured. Her naked body looks like it belongs on a poster you’d find on a hormonal teenager’s bedroom wall — that is, until you reach her torso, where three arms spit out of her shoulders. AI-powered systems like , which translate text prompts into pictures, have been used by brands and ... |
This startup wants to scale anonymous mental health support – starting with founders | Natasha Mascarenhas | 2,022 | 9 | 2 | first went to , an international program dedicated to helping people recover from alcoholism with a 12-step program, in the heart of the COVID-19 pandemic. He didn’t show his face or share his story, but says that being in the presence of vulnerability was immensely impactful. Following the recommended level of frequ... |
Daily Crunch: Nvidia chips become collateral damage in new US sanctions targeting China | Christine Hall | 2,022 | 9 | 2 | Happy Friday! For those of you excited to see us in your inbox for your daily dose of tech news, unfortunately, you will have to wait until Tuesday to hear from us again because Monday is Labor Day in the U.S. We will be out grilling, wearing white for the last time this year and snoozing in hammocks. We wish you a saf... |
This Gen Z founder is pitching hundreds of investors… via Venmo | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,022 | 9 | 2 | My phone buzzes as I get a text from a friend who’s a partner at a VC firm. It’s a screenshot of a Venmo notification that just came in. “My 2 cents on why you should invest in my company,” reads the message she received, along with a $0.02 transfer. I tracked down and emailed the founder who sent the transfer to figur... |
Going back to school? The Switch is your destination for RPG-powered procrastination | Devin Coldewey | 2,022 | 9 | 2 | As the new school year starts, a fresh cohort of students will soon be hard at work finding ways to avoid writing papers and watching lectures they slept through, and just generally finding ways to waste the hours as effectively as possible. Fortunately the Switch is currently an absolute treasure trove of time sinks o... |
India’s central bank gives lenders November-end ultimatum to comply with new digital loan rules | Jagmeet Singh | 2,022 | 9 | 2 | The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has given lenders until the end of November to implement adequate systems and processes to ensure that new and existing loans comply with its issued last month. The RBI’s move follows several reports of customers facing torture and abuse from agents of digital loan apps in the countr... |
TechCrunch+ roundup: Fighting fundraising fears, XaaS CS strategy, the ‘collapse’ of VC | Walter Thompson | 2,022 | 9 | 2 | Ever traveled on a cruise ship? Pre-COVID, most journeys started with a shipwide safety drill where passengers assembled, donned life vests and learned what to do in an emergency. The ocean has an average depth of 2.3 miles, yet these rehearsals were always a calm affair. You’re starting a vacation; what could go wro... |
A complete guide to the new EV tax credit | Kirsten Korosec | 2,022 | 9 | 2 | massive that was signed into law in August is a complex set of requirements around which EVs and other clean vehicles . Tl;dr not all new EVs or other clean vehicles (and even used ones) are created equally in the eyes of Congress and President Biden, who signed the bill into law. The (IRA) covers a lot, includin... |
The weakest link: Charting supply chain risk in an era of globalization | Jag Lamba | 2,022 | 9 | 2 | a feeling: risk across the geopolitical spectrum has been higher than usual in recent years. For businesses with supply chain operations across the world, these risks are hard to avoid. Issues of resiliency and avoiding sanctions are top of mind when it comes to planning out the coming months and years. Working with s... |
Netflix’s cheaper ad tier could arrive earlier than expected | Lauren Forristal | 2,022 | 9 | 2 | Although to the world in July that it is in early 2023, the streamer could be changing its plans. As reported by on Wednesday, Netflix execs told ad buyers the launch date would now be November 1, 2022. If this ends up being the case, Netflix could be launching its lower-priced ad tier a month ahead of its compet... |
Samsung says customer data stolen in July data breach | Zack Whittaker | 2,022 | 9 | 2 | Electronics giant has confirmed a data breach affecting customers’ personal information. In , Samsung said it discovered the security incident in late-July and that an “unauthorized third party acquired information from some of Samsung’s U.S. systems.” The company said it determined customer data was compromised on ... |
Later Cam brings the nostalgia of analog photography to your smartphone | Ivan Mehta | 2,022 | 9 | 2 | Photo-sharing app brought back the nostalgia of an analog camera by letting people see the images they snap a day later. Now, a new company called wants to create similar magic by not just offering an analog-like photo-taking experience, but also by delivering prints of those one-take photos. The idea is simple: Us... |
Disdain for NFTs in video games is part of a slow green revolution | Karan Bhasin | 2,022 | 9 | 2 | against NFTs in video games since they first started popping up. In general, both gamers as well as industry professionals have disapproved blockchain implementations in video games, mostly over concerns over the environmental impact that the technology has. But NFTs aside, the video game industry is often left out ... |
Early-bird pricing returns for a Disrupt Labor Day flash sale | Lauren Simonds | 2,022 | 9 | 2 | We might be rolling toward the start of autumn, but we’re rolling back prices to the summer early-bird level. Yup, in honor of the long Labor Day weekend, we’re holding a flash sale on passes to , which takes place on October 18–20 in San Francisco, with an online day October 21. Right now and , you can and pocket ... |
India plans to speed up testing and safety approvals for electronic devices | Jagmeet Singh | 2,022 | 9 | 2 | India is planning to speed up testing and safety approvals of electronic devices, including smartphones and earbuds, to reduce their time to market. Currently, it can take as long as 20 weeks to for consumer electronics to pass safety tests — but the new approvals could bring that down to as little as three days. The B... |
Tesla hiring ‘high-volume’ recruiters in Quebec | Jaclyn Trop | 2,022 | 9 | 2 | Tesla is looking to hire recruiters in Quebec for a “high-volume” effort, indicating the automaker’s plans to grow in Canada. A by the global battery-electric brand seeks “an extraordinary recruiter” with “strong business acumen, a passion for their craft, and a genuine commitment to providing an unforgettable candid... |
Immortal Game is building a web3 chess platform | Romain Dillet | 2,022 | 9 | 20 | Meet , a startup that wants to turn chess into a web3 game with NFTs, play-to-earn rewards, quests, a marketplace and more. Online chess has never been so popular and Immortal Game wants to take advantage of that trend to modernize the game. The company has raised $15.5 million across two rounds, including a $12 milli... |
Twitch responds to gambling scam drama by banning some betting sites | Taylor Hatmaker | 2,022 | 9 | 20 | is cracking down on some gambling sites after a streamer scammed his peers out of tens of thousands of dollars to fuel a betting habit, kicking off a firestorm about how the platform should handle games of chance in the process. Over the weekend, , a U.K.-based streamer who gained some popularity back in 2019 after ... |
Loctax is a collaborative platform for global tax teams | Romain Dillet | 2,022 | 9 | 20 | Meet , a company that wants to change how tax teams work in multinational companies. There are still many departments that rely on outdated tools and processes to get something done. According to this startup founded in 2020, tax reporting is currently a fragmented and error-prone process that could benefit from a sof... |
Synthetic speech startup Murf lends a voice to content creators of all sizes | Catherine Shu | 2,022 | 9 | 20 | Synthetic speech tech startup gives a voice, literally, to content creators of all sizes. Murf, which now has a library of more than 120 human-parity AI voices across 20 languages, announced today it has raised $10 million Series A funding led by Matrix Founded in October 2020 by IIT-Kharagpur school friends Sneha R... |
Bookending the blitz, Chamath Palihapitiya begins unwinding two SPACs | Connie Loizos | 2,022 | 9 | 20 | Nearly three years ago, a special purpose acquisition vehicle (SPAC) spearheaded by investor Chamath Palihapitiya took the space tourism company Virgin Galactic public. It was the first human spaceflight company to trade on the NYSE — or any exchange, for that matter — and it was so successful that it almost immediatel... |
Amazon’s latest challenger is China’s online dollar store Pinduoduo | Rita Liao | 2,022 | 9 | 20 | The race to bring China-made goods to Western consumers via online stores is heating up. Pinduoduo, the Chinese e-commerce giant known for offering hard-to-believe deals, has quickly gained momentum for its first international endeavor in the U.S. The company’s overseas shopping app, called , briefly claimed the top s... |
Daily Crunch: Revolut advises users to take caution after hacker breach triggers phishing campaign | Christine Hall | 2,022 | 9 | 20 | Hey there, you deep-fried morsels of delight. Deep fried, because that’s the thing that made you crunchy. No? Because this is the Daily Crunch? The TechCrunch team got so competitive in this season of the Great Tech Bake-off, cooking up an incredible amount of scrumptious news over the past 24 hours, that it has taken ... |
Building control startup PassiveLogic inks partnership with Nvidia, secures $15M | Kyle Wiggers | 2,022 | 9 | 20 | About five months after raising $15 million, , which provides a platform to autonomously control building systems, has secured an additional $15 million in an “off-round” strategic investment from Nvidia’s venture arm, nVentures. The new cash brings PassiveLogic’s total raised to over $80 million, and CEO Troy Harvey ... |
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PG&E says Tesla battery was source of power storage site fire | Harri Weber | 2,022 | 9 | 20 | In the early hours on Monday, a Tesla Megapack battery caught fire at a key California power storage facility, the state’s largest utility said in a statement to TechCrunch. According to PG&E, the utility “became aware of a fire in one at its Elkhorn Battery Storage facility” at around 1:30 a.m. in Moss Landing, whic... |
Leoparda Electric is bringing battery swapping for two-wheelers to LatAm | Rebecca Bellan | 2,022 | 9 | 20 | Leoparda Electric, a São Paolo–based startup, wants to be the of Latin America. In other words, it’s looking to build out a network of battery swapping stations that should help spread adoption of electric two-wheelers in the region. While LatAm is the second largest two-wheeler market after Southeast Asia, electrifi... |
33% of US TikTok users say they regularly get their news on the app, up from 22% in 2020 | Sarah Perez | 2,022 | 9 | 20 | Earlier this summer, a Google exec admitted that , particularly among younger users. But that’s not all TikTok is now being used for, indicates. According to the findings from a report that examined Americans’ use of social media for news consumption, 33% of TikTok users now say they regularly get their news on the ... |
SpinLaunch wraps up new round to fling payloads to space | Aria Alamalhodaei | 2,022 | 9 | 20 | ’s technique for sending payload to orbit, which uses centrifugal force to fling mass to space, has solicited its fair share of skeptics. But at least some of those skeptics are likely a little quieter today, as the company announced a notable new funding round to accelerate the commercialization of its kinetic launch ... |
Razor’s Edge Ventures closes $340M fund as it looks to invest in defense startups | Kyle Wiggers | 2,022 | 9 | 20 | In a sign that national security tech is a safe bet even during troubled economic times, defense- and security-focused VC firm today announced the closing of its third startup investment fund at just under $340 million. It exceeded the initial target of $250 million, the firm notes, and will target companies developi... |
Amid volatile markets, VCs and startups must embrace transparency | Rebecca Szkutak | 2,022 | 9 | 20 | startup industries have long had a problem with transparency. Theranos could have likely saved itself from a future fraud trial if it was honest about the shortcomings of its blood testing device. Nikola founder Trevor Milton probably wouldn’t be on trial if he hadn’t allegedly lied to investors in a 2017 video that... |
Tinder finds a better use by adding adoptable dogs to its app in celebration of National Dog Week | Lauren Forristal | 2,022 | 9 | 20 | Tinder today that it is partnering with dog rescue shelters across the U.S. to celebrate National Dog Week and give Tinder users the ability to add a shelter dog to their profile photo. Unfortunately, this new addition is only around for a short time, however. National Dog Week is over on September 24, but Tinder’s u... |
Hertz will order up to 175,000 EVs from General Motors, including BrightDrop vans | Rebecca Bellan | 2,022 | 9 | 20 | Eco-conscious vehicle renters can soon expect to see EVs from GM brands Buick, Chevrolet, Cadillac, GMC and even commercial delivery unit BrightDrop at Hertz rental locations. The car rental giant said Tuesday it plans to order up to 175,000 electric vehicles from General Motors over the next five years, with first del... |
Disney+ makes it through its first livestreamed TV show, ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ without major crashes | Lauren Forristal | 2,022 | 9 | 20 | As you can tell from the Mickey Mouse-shaped disco ball in the photo above, Season 31 of “Dancing with the Stars” (DWTS) premiered on Disney+ last night. This marked the first time the streaming service livestreamed a TV show. With instances of across the sports streaming space (looking at you DirecTV!), it’s fair to... |
SoftBank Robotics Europe is now Aldebaran (again) | Brian Heater | 2,022 | 9 | 20 | Its 2015 acquisition of Aldebaran didn’t go as smoothly as SoftBank hoped. At the time, the French robotics startup was best known for its Nao, which had become a fairly ubiquitous presence in research facilities across the globe. The small humanoid robot formed the foundation for the rebranded SoftBank Robotics’ best-... |
Arcadia wants to bring carbon transparency to ESG claims with Salesforce partnership | Tim De Chant | 2,022 | 9 | 20 | what you can’t measure. For many companies, carbon emissions are something of a black box. Energy goes in, products and emissions come out. The first two are simple enough to monitor and understand, but without an expert on hand, the emissions profile is harder to pin down. That’s where is hoping to come in. The r... |
This Mac app makes it easy to create your own AI images with Stable Diffusion | Darrell Etherington | 2,022 | 9 | 18 | Everyone wants to get in on the AI image generation action, but if you’ve been intimidated by the existing options out there based on , including the Midjourney Discord bot, you’re in luck: that gives you everything you need to generate your own images from text prompt using the open source AI image generation frame... |
Facebook adds new Pages features to help creators connect with fans and get discovered | Aisha Malik | 2,022 | 9 | 20 | Facebook is introducing new Pages features that are designed to help creators get discovered and connect with their followers, the company on Tuesday. Most notably, the social network is rolling out a new setting for creators that makes content exclusively available to top fans and subscribers. Creators can select th... |
Stop spending so much time on your product when pitching to investors | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,022 | 9 | 18 | deal about a great number of things when considering an investment: How big is the market? How good is the founder-market fit? Is it venture-scale? It’s natural for founders to live and breathe for their customers and product, but the dirty little secret of fundraising is that your investors are extraordinarily unlike... |
YC’s Michael Seibel clarifies some misconceptions about the accelerator | Natasha Mascarenhas | 2,022 | 9 | 18 | with Y Combinator’s growth over the past decade. He has opinions on , a , competition, the power of venture capital and why startup founders should be prioritizing more than just a check after Demo Day. spoke to , co-hosted by and , about He sees the institution, which has backed thousands of entrepreneurs — s... |
Varo’s bank charter milestone, more corporate cards and BNPL under a microscope | Mary Ann Azevedo | 2,022 | 9 | 18 | First off, I have to say that this past week was one of the busiest fintech news weeks I have experienced in a long while. Whoa. So.much.going.on. While I couldn’t obviously cover it all, I attempted to fit as much of it as I could into this newsletter. Before we get into the various news items from the past week, let’... |
Stockly raises another $12 million to sell out-of-stock items via other retailers | Romain Dillet | 2,022 | 9 | 27 | French startup is raising a $12 million Series A round (€12 million) from Eurazeo, Daphni and several business angels. The company pools together the inventory of several e-commerce websites. When a retailer is out-of-stock on a popular item, they can still accept the order and process the order through a different r... |
Massive GTA 6 gameplay video leak depicts male and female playable characters | Darrell Etherington | 2,022 | 9 | 18 | Rockstar’s next installment in its Grand Theft Auto series could be one of the most anticipated video games in existence, and a new purported leak could offer us our best look yet at GTA 6. The trove of data, which via a post by the alleged hacker themselves, contains some 90 videos of clips from the game, with deb... |
Daily Crunch: NASA sings ‘I don’t want to miss a thing’ as DART spacecraft strikes asteroid | Christine Hall | 2,022 | 9 | 27 | At TechCrunch, we love being a conduit for everything that happens in the startup ecosystem. This year, there’s been a lot of layoffs, and we got to thinking, how can we help those who are struggling get back into the saddle? Our events team had a great idea: , no strings attached. Come along, stay on the pulse of wha... |
BMW’s most powerful SUV is a plug-in hybrid | Jaclyn Trop | 2,022 | 9 | 27 | BMW raised the curtain Tuesday on a high-performance plug-in hybrid SUV meant to lure buyers from the ultra-luxury segment’s Lamborghini Urus and Aston Martin DBX. The BMW XM full-size SUV is the first electrified model from the brand’s race track-ready M badge. Starting just below $160,000, the 644-horsepower crossove... |
Former MoviePass execs are being sued by the SEC for lying to customers | Lauren Forristal | 2,022 | 9 | 27 | Ahead of the official of subscription-based movie ticketing service MoviePass, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed a complaint against three of its former executives, claiming they lied to investors and the public. The SEC filing targeted former MoviePass CEO Mitch Lowe and Ted Farnsworth, the former C... |
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Announcing the agenda for TechCrunch Sessions: Crypto 2022 | Lucas Matney | 2,022 | 9 | 27 | The crypto industry seemed to age several decades over the past bull run, maturing in some places while barreling ahead in ambitious new pursuits, including DeFi, NFTs and web3. And while scams continued to proliferate and hacker heists became a weekly occurrence, the space onboarded an onslaught of retail investors an... |
China’s Nio joins the race for lithium, buys 12% of Australia’s Greenwing Resources | Rita Liao | 2,022 | 9 | 27 | China’s electric vehicle upstart Nio has joined in sourcing raw materials directly from mines rather than its own battery suppliers as soaring prices of lithium, a critical component of EV batteries, hurt manufacturers’ supply chain stability and bottom lines. Lithium carbonate prices in China , tripling the number ... |
No, Tumblr is not bringing back porn | Amanda Silberling | 2,022 | 9 | 27 | Tumblr announced a “ ” feature this week that will make it easier for bloggers to filter out sensitive content that they may not want to see. Now users can tag posts with labels pertaining to drug and alcohol addiction, violence and sexual content. Tumblr pornography in 2018 after the Tumblr app was temporarily bec... |
Firehawk’s rocket engines and 3D-printed fuel hit testing milestones ahead of first launch | Devin Coldewey | 2,022 | 9 | 27 | Although today’s rocket engines are advanced and powerful, they tend to rely on traditional — and naturally volatile — fuels. has a safer and more stable new solid fuel, new engines, and millions in new funding to take it through the next round of tests to its first in-atmosphere demonstration launch. Firehawk appear... |
Click to install: Kopperfield’s $5M seed round seeks to speed EV charger adoption | Tim De Chant | 2,022 | 9 | 27 | U.S. has finally committed to electrifying cars and trucks, there’s been a lot of handwringing over where they’ll charge. The Biden administration just approved all 50 states’ plans for where to install DC fast chargers, and while those plans will help fill massive infrastructure gaps, those chargers won’t be nearly e... |
Europe’s inaugural Women in VC Summit is the first step in a long climb toward equity | Dominic-Madori Davis | 2,022 | 9 | 27 | most prominent women in venture capital descended upon Paris this week for the first The event, organized by investors and , brought together top minds to discuss creating a more inclusive and equitable venture landscape. The conference was open only to those identifying as women, and panels included topics such as... |
Can crypto make the world a better place? | Lucas Matney | 2,022 | 9 | 27 | TechCrunch The crypto world has never shied away from making big promises, but as the industry matures and its audience widens, now’s a good time to take a step back and look at how the space is delivering on its vision. Welcome to , where we unpack and explain the latest in crypto news, drama and trends, breaking th... |
Apple’s latest iPadOS 16 beta expands Stage Manager to older iPad Pro models | Aisha Malik | 2,022 | 9 | 27 | Apple’s latest iPadOS 16 developer beta brings Stage Manager to older iPad Pro models, as an M1 chip is no longer required. , which offers easier multitasking and switching between apps, was previously only compatible with the M1-powered iPad Air and the 11-inch and 12.9-inch iPad Pro models released last year. Now, t... |
Parker Conrad — Silicon Valley’s comeback kid — talks rebuilding at Disrupt | Lauren Simonds | 2,022 | 9 | 27 | If you love a great comeback story, you’ll be hard-pressed to find a more dramatic one than Parker Conrad, the former CEO of Zenefits. A legendary Silicon Valley serial entrepreneur, Conrad took Zenefits on a meteoric rise to a valuation just three years after launching the company in 2013. But there is rarely gain w... |
YouTube Shorts adds narration voiceovers, a popular TikTok feature | Amanda Silberling | 2,022 | 9 | 27 | YouTube Shorts continues to compete with TikTok by adding loads of new features that are popular on the other app. Today, the Google-owned platform is rolling out a on iOS, a tool that is already often used on TikTok. Creators use narration to add commentary on top of already recorded videos. Such content might inclu... |
Cloudflare takes aim at AWS with promise of $1.25 billion to startups that use its own platform | Connie Loizos | 2,022 | 9 | 27 | , the security, performance and reliability company that went public three years ago, said this morning that it will help connect startups that use its to dozens of venture firms that have collectively offered to invest up to $1.25 billion in the companies out of their existing funds. It’s a smart, splashy incentive ... |
Cardano founder claims Ethereum community in for a ‘rough time’ following the Merge | Jacquelyn Melinek | 2,022 | 9 | 27 | upgrade known as the Merge was executed about two weeks ago, and while things have been running smoothly, not everyone is impressed by the upgrade. Cardano founder and CEO Charles Hoskinson is among them, telling TechCrunch he didn’t expect Ethereum’s design of proof-of-stake (PoS) to be “as rough as it is.” Prior to ... |
Netflix launches game handles for users of its iOS and Android mobile games | Sarah Perez | 2,022 | 9 | 27 | Netflix today it’s introducing a new feature to its games service that will allow its members to create game handles when they’re playing its exclusive titles. TechCrunch had the feature was in development and had been quietly tested on select titles, including Into The Breach, Bowling Ballers, Mahjong Solitaire an... |
Netflix shares trailer for Spotify series ‘The Playlist’ | Lauren Forristal | 2,022 | 9 | 27 | Netflix released the for “The Playlist” today, an upcoming limited series that loosely tells the story of how Spotify was created. The six-episode show will premiere on October 13. “The Playlist” will center around Spotify founder and CEO , played by “Vikings” star Edvin Endre, and how the company became one of the t... |
FCC solicits feedback from the public on rules to stop robotexts | Kyle Wiggers | 2,022 | 9 | 27 | The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today new rules to fight back against so-called “robotext” campaigns — the barrages of scam texts sent by malicious actors and large criminal organizations. In a press release, the agency said it would solicit ideas to apply caller ID technologies to text messaging and... |
TechCrunch+ roundup: Dot-com crash lessons, reducing CAC, product-led sales | Walter Thompson | 2,022 | 9 | 27 | During a recent Twitter Space, in search of lessons operators can use to avoid missteps founders have made in past downturns. In our chat, Barber spoke about how founders can better align with investors and employees while managing uncertainty, the dangers of growing too quickly and the economic, social and emotional... |
Pan-African ‘gender equal investor’ Janngo Capital hits first close of €60M fund | Tage Kene-Okafor | 2,022 | 9 | 11 | After stints at Jumia as its former managing director at its Nigerian office and founding CEO of its Ivorian office, , a veteran of the African tech space, that her firm was raising a €60 million fund (~$63 million) in 2019. The firm, looking to “invest 50% of its proceeds in companies founded, co-founded, or benef... |
The tech industry needs a labor movement | Ed Zitron | 2,022 | 9 | 11 | at Apple. It’s April 2022. You’re being told by the higher-ups that you’ve got to come back to the office — by which I mean you’ve read a Slack message on your laptop. You continue your workday, pissed that your bosses don’t seem to understand that you can do this job remotely. Then somebody sends you a YouTube link t... |
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