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5 tips for scaling your green startup during a funding drought | Priyanka Srinivas | 2,022 | 8 | 1 | , it pours. The dampened outlook for startup funding at the start of 2022 thanks to the pandemic’s lingering uncertainties has only worsened following a global market downturn and the war in Ukraine. forecasts a roughly 20% drop in total VC investments from Q1 to Q2, leaving ambitious young companies to fight for sc... |
Disney+ delays ‘Andor’ to give the Star Wars series the largest live-action premiere ever on the service | Lauren Forristal | 2,022 | 8 | 1 | Today, Disney+ released a for the Star Wars series “Andor,” while also revealing that the premiere will be postponed to September 21 to accommodate a three-episode premiere. So not only will the series be the longest live-action Disney+ season with 12 episodes, it will also be the first time Disney+ has had a live-ac... |
Hackers stole passwords for accessing 140,000 payment terminals | Zack Whittaker | 2,022 | 8 | 1 | Hackers had access to dashboards used to remotely manage and control thousands of credit card payment terminals manufactured by digital payments giant Wiseasy, a cybersecurity startup told TechCrunch. Wiseasy is a brand you might not have heard of, but it’s a popular Android-based payment terminal maker used in restaur... |
Amazon Prime Video launches localized services for top three markets in Southeast Asia | Lauren Forristal | 2,022 | 8 | 1 | Amazon Prime Video today launched localized versions of its streaming service in Southeast Asia’s biggest markets — Indonesia, Thailand and The Philippines. The company is attempting to boost its subscriber base in the three markets by increasing its investment in local production, releasing original slates for each te... |
Pinterest debuts a new app, Shuffles, for collage-making and moodboards | Sarah Perez | 2,022 | 8 | 1 | Pinterest may be best known for shopping inspiration and design ideas, but the company’s newest product wants to inspire its users to tap into their own creativity. The company has quietly launched a new iOS app called for putting together collages using photos, image cutouts and other animated effects. The app is cu... |
This Week in Apps: French developers sue Apple, time spent in apps grows, Instagram adds NFTs | Sarah Perez | 2,022 | 8 | 6 | 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 slowed down. But overall, the app economy ... |
Venture investors to founders: Turn down for what? | Natasha Mascarenhas | 2,022 | 8 | 6 | Gumroad’s Sahil Lavingia broke into the venture world as one of the early testers of the rolling fund, an AngelList product that allows investors to raise capital on a subscription-like basis. That was in 2020. Fast-forward to 2022 and a lot has changed. One of those changes? The number of pitches from founders looking... |
Amazon buys Roomba’s maker, Bolt vanishes, and YC slims down | Greg Kumparak | 2,022 | 8 | 6 | Hello again! Welcome back to Week in Review, the newsletter where we quickly recap the top stories to cross TechCrunch dot-com over the past seven days. Want it in your inbox? The this week is kind of a wild one: Bolt Mobility, an on-demand bike/scooter rental company co-founded by Usain Bolt, kinda just…vanished. “... |
Who you gonna call? Good question | Anna Heim | 2,022 | 8 | 6 | TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s inspired by the where it gets its name. “Customer complaints handling at scale is broken at most tech companies,” author and engineer Gergely Orosz in a blog post. Like many tech employees, Orosz learned of customer service struggles firsthand wh... |
New Red Hat CEO looks to keep things steady while putting own mark on company | Ron Miller | 2,022 | 8 | 6 | when it promoted 16-year veteran Matt Hicks, who’s been on the job for several weeks now. His predecessor, stepped down to move into the chairman role. It’s never easy making a transition like this, but Hicks has Cormier, his longtime mentor, to lean on as he takes the reins. In his new role, Hicks has to walk t... |
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Investors prepare for a founder downturn. Or influx. Wait, what? | Natasha Mascarenhas | 2,022 | 8 | 6 | broke into the venture world as one of the early testers of the rolling fund, an AngelList product that allows investors to raise capital on a subscription-like basis. That was in 2020. Fast-forward to 2022 and a lot has changed. One of those changes? The number of pitches from founders looking to raise. “Since March,... |
Binance and WazirX disagree over ownership two years after announcing deal | Manish Singh | 2,022 | 8 | 6 | Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange by trading volume, said on Friday it doesn’t own India-based platform WazirX despite disclosing the acquisition two and a half years ago in a move that has baffled industry players, including the Indian firm that insists the purchase did take place. Changpeng Zhao, founder a... |
Privado is ‘Grammarly for code privacy issues’ | Catherine Shu | 2,022 | 8 | 24 | Privacy breaches are not only bad for users, but also costly for tech companies. For example, GDPR fines now , and earlier this year Twitter for misrepresenting the security and privacy of user data. Based in Pune, India and Delaware, wants to make it easier for developers to keep user data under wraps. The compan... |
Thirdweb raises $24M at a $160M valuation from Haun Ventures, Shopify and Coinbase for its web3 development kit | Ingrid Lunden | 2,022 | 8 | 24 | There’s been a lot of hype about “web3”, but the reality is that it’s still a largely nascent and fragmented concept, and that has led to web3 startups building platforms to engage with it more easily getting a lot of attention. In the latest development, a startup called — which has created a development toolkit to ... |
SoftBank-backed Tridge, a Korean platform that matches food agriculture buyers and sellers, bags $37.2M Series D at a $2.7B valuation | Kate Park | 2,022 | 8 | 24 | Supply chain disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine is driving increased costs of goods and services, affecting not only the industrial sector (e.g., semiconductors), but also the agriculture industry. Global food prices have dropped for three consecutive months but still remain relatively hi... |
Worldcoin co-founder in talks with Multicoin, Variant for ‘Blackrock for new economy’ venture | Manish Singh | 2,022 | 8 | 24 | Max Novendstern, co-founder and former chief executive of Worldcoin, is working on a new venture, according to sources and regulatory filings and an investor deck obtained by TechCrunch. A spokesperson confirmed that Novendstern left the firm last year, something which hasn’t been previously reported, but continues t... |
Google Play Games for PC is now available to all players in five countries | Ivan Mehta | 2,022 | 8 | 24 | Google announced today that , a program that lets users play Android games on Windows, is now available to all users under an open beta in South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand and Australia. The company introduced with interested players getting to try out the platform through a waitlist. With the new announceme... |
Astrobotic’s CubeRover will try to survive the lunar night | Aria Alamalhodaei | 2,022 | 8 | 24 | Pittsburgh-based will be sending its CubeRover platform to the moon under a new award from NASA. The company will use CubeRover to test technologies for surviving the lunar night and communicating across greater distances on the moon’s surface. Lunar night survival is trickier than one might think. Nights on the moon... |
Musk claps back at customer criticism of Tesla FSD beta | Rebecca Bellan | 2,022 | 8 | 24 | Elon Musk hasn’t taken kindly to recent criticism of Tesla FSD beta software — the soon-to-be $15,000 upgraded version of its advanced driver assistance system that the CEO promises one day will deliver full autonomous driving capabilities. When a Tesla owner publicly criticized the latest update of the FSD beta softwa... |
Daily Crunch: 4chan users exploit AI image generator’s ability to create realistic nude deepfakes | Christine Hall | 2,022 | 8 | 24 | Didya know that we’ve got all sorts of really awesome newsletters on TechCrunch? Robotics, transportation, fintech, crypto, space and much more. You can . Just, er, please don’t unsubscribe from the Daily Crunch, yes? We do ever so enjoy your company every weekday! — and We published a really fascinating piece writ... |
Wordle is now integrated in The New York Times Crossword app | Andrew Mendez | 2,022 | 8 | 24 | The New York Times |
Tesla’s bid to dismiss racial bias suit denied in tentative ruling | Rebecca Bellan | 2,022 | 8 | 24 | Tesla won’t be able to shake itself from California’s Department of Civil Rights lawsuit for racial bias and harassment just yet. A California judge Tuesday evening issued a tentative ruling denying Tesla’s motion to dismiss the case. Tesla had argued that DCR did not follow proper protocol in its investigations into t... |
Canada’s seed market set a record in Q2. Why is the US starting to retract? | Rebecca Szkutak | 2,022 | 8 | 24 | of venture investing are the most insulated from macroeconomic conditions. When the public market dislocation started causing a broad venture funding pullback, it appeared seed investing would be safe for a while. Data indicates that that is bearing out as expected. But checking in halfway through the year, some marke... |
Samsung Galaxy Buds 2 Pro review | Brian Heater | 2,022 | 8 | 24 | the longtime workhorse of Samsung’s premium line. Perhaps the fact that they’re nearly always launched as a kind of afterthought to flashier phablets and foldables. Maybe it’s the fact that they’ve always kind of been quietly good and therefore not deserving of an overhaul like, say, the Pixel Buds. You can’t blame th... |
Mad Realities’ Devin Lewtan is onboarding crypto users through reality television | Anita Ramaswamy | 2,022 | 8 | 24 | Web3 doesn’t have the most inclusive reputation, yet so many crypto founders talk about onboarding the next 100 million users into the space. Statistically speaking, the next 100 million can’t be comprised entirely of a homogenous group of white men who spend most of their waking hours coding and/or day trading (no s... |
An experimental new attack can steal data from air-gapped computers using a phone’s gyroscope | Carly Page | 2,022 | 8 | 24 | A security researcher known for from computers that are disconnected from the internet has found a new exploit able to exfiltrate data to a nearby smartphone. Air-gapped systems are physically segregated and incapable of connecting wirelessly or physically with other computers or network devices. You’ll find them in ... |
Check out the official Disrupt 2022 roundtables | Lauren Simonds | 2,022 | 8 | 24 | I tell you what, folks. The roundtable discussions at — coming to you live and in person on October 18-20 in San Francisco — will be off the hook. Disrupt attendees love roundtables — 30-minute, expert-led discussions designed for up to 20 attendees who share an interest in a particular subject. The format allows for... |
SiriusXM digs into subscription-based podcast market with Stitcher Premium bundle | Andrew Mendez | 2,022 | 8 | 24 | null |
Ron DeSantis’ proposed ban on ESG investments would be another blow for diverse fund managers | Dominic-Madori Davis | 2,022 | 8 | 24 | DeSantis is taking aim at ESG investing as part of his ongoing war on things he considers “woke.” While the Florida executive is popular with his base, his work to discredit ESG investing could prove detrimental to the startup investing landscape, especially for diverse founders and fund managers. In late July, DeSant... |
India lifts ban on American Express | Manish Singh | 2,022 | 8 | 24 | India has lifted business restrictions on American Express, once again permitting the U.S. giant to onboard new customers in the South Asian market after the firm demonstrated “satisfactory compliance” with local data storage rules, the local central bank said Wednesday. In a series of moves last year, the Reserve Bank... |
Shuffles, Pinterest’s invite-only collage-making app, is blowing up on TikTok — here’s how to get in | Sarah Perez | 2,022 | 8 | 24 | Collage-style video “mood boards” are going viral on — and so is the app making them possible. Pinterest’s recently soft-launched has been climbing up the App Store’s Top Charts thanks to demand from Gen Z users who are leveraging the new creative expression tool to , and . These “ ” are then and posted... |
Amazon’s adding voice-powered gaming to big name games with Alexa Game Control | Lauren Forristal | 2,022 | 8 | 24 | Amazon the launch of , allowing gamers to play games by using their voice. “Dead Island 2” will be the first game to be compatible with Alexa Game Control, with other games to follow. Gamers can yell at zombies now! Alexa Game Control gives users an accessible, hands-free option that allows for easier gaming. Plus, ... |
Apple, Samsung partner Servify raises $65 million for its devices’ after-sales and management platform | Jagmeet Singh | 2,022 | 8 | 23 | Servify, a startup that including Apple and Samsung in many markets, has raised $65 million as it eyes becoming a public company in two years. Singularity Growth Opportunity Fund led the Mumbai-headquartered startup’s Series D funding. AmTrust and family offices including Pidilite and existing investors Iron Pillar, ... |
Asia’s richest man to buy majority stake in news organization in hostile takeover | Manish Singh | 2,022 | 8 | 23 | Adani Group, run by Asia’s richest man Gautam Adani, has launched a hostile bid to take over the influential news broadcaster in a move to establish footing in the South Asian nation’s media landscape. AMG Media Networks, a unit of Adani Group, has indirectly taken control of about 29.18% stake in New Delhi Television ... |
Legendary investor Julian Robertson has passed away — but leaves behind many powerful mentees | Connie Loizos | 2,022 | 8 | 23 | Julian Robertson’s hedge fund investors didn’t want to listen to him when, in 1999, he questioned the sanity of the prices being paid for shares in nascent internet companies. So months after being berated for 15 minutes at an annual shareholders meeting at the Plaza Hotel in New York in October 1999, he began the proc... |
Scalenut’s AI copywriter also helps content make a dent in search engine results | Catherine Shu | 2,022 | 8 | 23 | AI copywriters . A couple that have recently raised funding include and . Now is entering the arena with a $3.1 million funding round led by Saama Capital and Amit Singhal, formerly a senior vice president at Google and head of Google Search. Launched earlier this year by Mayank Jain, Gaurav Goyal and Saurabh Wadh... |
Code suggests iOS 16.1 will let users delete the Apple Wallet app | Ivan Mehta | 2,022 | 8 | 23 | Apple rolled out the seventh, and probably final, iOS 16 developer beta on Tuesday. While there weren’t any notable feature additions, the beta’s code suggested that the company might allow you to uninstall the Apple Wallet app in a future update. The code spotted by and suggested that Apple will make the Wallet ap... |
Daily Crunch: Former Apple employee pleads guilty to stealing autonomous vehicle design details | Christine Hall | 2,022 | 8 | 23 | Goood [time of day] dear [name]. You know what we’re psyched about? , and it’s going to be an absolute corker of an event. Aaaah. Check out what’s happening on our four (Count ’em! Four!) stages, and check out the incredible lineup of speakers. Then get your tickets and book your flights — it’s gonna be awesome. See y... |
TechCrunch+ roundup: Shame-free down rounds, checkout flow tune-up, SaaS tsunami | Walter Thompson | 2,022 | 8 | 23 | Turning one-time customers into repeat buyers takes on heightened importance during a downturn. Acquiring one new user can be a heavy lift, but finding ways to reduce friction during shopping and checkout is a proven method for boosting the lifetime value of existing customers. An important note: One study found that p... |
Unpluq locks your phone distractions so you can get shiz done | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,022 | 8 | 23 | You have your work in front of you, a cup of coffee on your desk, some gentle tunes without words playing on the stereo and you’re ready to do some work. Your phone buzzes, and 90 minutes later you look up filled with self-loathing and regret. Your coffee is cold, the cursor on your Word document is blinking at you moc... |
WhatsApp confirms some users have access to its new group discussions feature, WhatsApp Communities | Sarah Perez | 2,022 | 8 | 23 | , the messaging app’s anticipated expansion aimed at supporting larger discussion groups, has now rolled out to additional users as it nears a public launch. The company declined to share specific details as to how many users or which countries were seeing the new feature as testing expands, but confirmed that more use... |
Call it venture farming season, because seed rounds are kicking butt | Alex Wilhelm | 2,022 | 8 | 23 | yesterday using recent to explore how the largest startup rounds are changing. Catching up those who missed the piece: We are seeing late-stage startup rounds shrink rapidly, even if valuations for the startups closest to going public are proving stickier than we perhaps expected. Today we’re flipping the script a... |
Yelp update to warn consumers Crisis Pregnancy Centers aren’t abortion care providers | Andrew Mendez | 2,022 | 8 | 23 | Yelp “For people specifically searching for abortion services, we’ve increased our efforts to better match them with reproductive health services that actually offer abortions and make it less likely they will see crisis pregnancy centers in their search results,” a Yelp spokesperson told TechCrunch. This year, alone,... |
Toyota accepts California’s authority to set emissions standards under Clean Air Act | Rebecca Bellan | 2,022 | 8 | 23 | Toyota has joined the growing list of automakers that have recognized the state of California’s authority to set vehicle emissions standards under the U.S. Clean Air Act. The move will make the Japanese automaker eligible for government fleet purchases by California. “Toyota continues to share the vision of greenhouse ... |
Someone made a BlackBerry movie starring Dennis from ‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’ | Brian Heater | 2,022 | 8 | 23 | We all knew this day was coming. With the film world hungry for failed tech fodder on the heels of titles like The Drop Out and WeCrashed, some producer was bound to hit upon BlackBerry on the way to the inevitable 20-part Juicero miniseries. The beloved and beleaguered smartphone firm formerly known as Research in Mot... |
TikTok is testing a new ‘Nearby’ feed to display local content | Aisha Malik | 2,022 | 8 | 23 | TikTok is testing a new ‘Nearby’ feed that is designed to display local content to users. A spokesperson for the company told TechCrunch that the new feed is being tested with select users in Southeast Asia and that the test is currently limited in scope. Users who are part of the limited test will see the new feed tab... |
Tier Mobility lays off 180 people amid poor funding climate | Rebecca Bellan | 2,022 | 8 | 23 | Tier Mobility, the German micromobility giant that recently , is laying off 16% of staff, or 180 people, according to a and an open letter from the executive that has been viewed by TechCrunch. “Ultimately, we have to respond to the current economic and funding climate, reducing the number of projects and business l... |
Walmart+ adds a new cash-back feature for members, Walmart Rewards | Sarah Perez | 2,022 | 8 | 23 | Walmart is introducing another perk designed to sweeten the deal for its Walmart+ membership program — the retailer’s answer to Amazon Prime, which today offers a combination of free shipping, fuel discounts, contact-free checkout, exclusive deals, , and more. On Wednesday, the Walmart+ subscription will gain a new ca... |
YouTube TV update could let viewers watch up to four live streams at once | Lauren Forristal | 2,022 | 8 | 23 | Google may be working on a handful of new features for its live TV streaming service, YouTube TV. According to , the feature is called “Mosaic Mode” and would let viewers watch up to four livestreams at the same time. Google did not immediately respond to TechCrunch’s request for comment. The company declined to comme... |
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US SEC Chair Gensler reiterates crypto stance, frustrating those seeking clarity | Jacquelyn Melinek | 2,022 | 8 | 23 | of major crypto firms and freezing assets and filing for bankruptcy, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler took to The Wall Street Journal’s pages to reiterate that securities laws still apply to new technologies like digital assets. But some in the crypto industry have expressed frustration... |
Meta officially rolls out its new metaverse ID system | Andrew Mendez | 2,022 | 8 | 23 | Meta, formerly Facebook, has what it’s calling Meta accounts and Meta Horizon Profiles. The global launch will be gradual, but both “accounts” are to be used in place of the personal social media account logins — Facebook and Instagram — once used to log in to the company’s virtual reality (VR) system. Users, new and... |
Twitch now lets partners stream on rival platforms like YouTube and Facebook | Aisha Malik | 2,022 | 8 | 23 | Twitch is that prevented its partners from streaming on other services, the company said in an email to partners on Tuesday. Starting today, partners can now stream on YouTube, Facebook Live and more, just not while streaming on Twitch at the same time. “When we first developed the Partner Program, we felt it was imp... |
Klarna founder to launch new ‘Nobel Prize for Impact’ | Mike Butcher | 2,022 | 8 | 15 | According to global assets under management are around $100 trillion, but only $715 billion, or , goes on what you might term “impact” companies or projects to tackle the world’s biggest environmental and social issues. Now, a Klarna founder plans to create what he calls a “Nobel Prize for Impact”. Niklas Adalberth ... |
SoftBank, Sequoia China back this ERP startup enabling China’s online exporters | Rita Liao | 2,022 | 8 | 15 | Thanks to cross-border e-commerce platforms, China continues to be a major exporter of consumer goods for the world in the online shopping age. It’s not just marketplaces like Amazon and AliExpress that are enabling Chinese businesses to sell abroad. Behind the scene, a group of startups are making the software that al... |
Helbiz reports revenue increase but dwindling cash reserves | Rebecca Bellan | 2,022 | 8 | 15 | Helbiz started out as a shared micromobility company but has since expanded to include ghost kitchens, media streaming and, most recently, . The company Monday after the bell. The startup was the first scooter operator to go , and many in the industry wish it wasn’t so after consistently earnings reports. Since H... |
Daily Crunch: Meta backs SMB e-commerce app launched by former Facebook engineering manager | Christine Hall | 2,022 | 8 | 15 | Hello, Crunchers! Wait, that’s kind of a weird nickname, as if you’re munching on granola. What should we call y’all? Never mind that. Tomorrow, we’re running a Twitter Spaces where and are talking about what’s new in the world of crypto with . It’s at 1:00 p.m. PDT, and you can easily . Have an awesome week! — ... |
Mycel’s mushroom-based biomaterials sprout $10M in funding | Kate Park | 2,022 | 8 | 15 | , a South Korean startup making fungal-based biomaterials that can replace leather and meat, said it has raised $10 million (13 billion WON) in a pre-Series A round of funding. Co-founder and CEO of Mycel Sungjin Sah told TechCrunch that the company uses mycelium, a root-like structure of mushroom, to make leather subs... |
Tech industry reacts to Adam Neumann’s a16z-backed return to real estate | Natasha Mascarenhas | 2,022 | 8 | 15 | WeWork co-founder and former chief executive ’s career arc has felt synonymous with the rise and eventual fall of unicorn dreams. The entrepreneur, whose fall from grace has attracted global interest, just found a ladder in the form of a check from storied venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz announced on Monday ... |
Max Q: Testing, testing | Aria Alamalhodaei | 2,022 | 8 | 15 | Hello and welcome back to Max Q. In this issue: Northrop Grumman has announced that it will partner with startup Firefly Aerospace to build an all-American version of its workhorse Antares rocket, which currently flies with Russian-built RD-181 engines. Due to the continuing war in Ukraine, to the United States in Ma... |
Bird burns $310M but sees revenue bounce back | Rebecca Bellan | 2,022 | 8 | 15 | Shared micromobility company Bird has had a tumultuous second quarter. The company , had a , and for trading too low. Bird, one of two public micromobility companies that , presented its Q2 earnings for the year after the bell, showing an increase in revenue year over year and quarter over quarter, but also an i... |
DoorDash partners with Meta to test delivery of Facebook Marketplace items | Lauren Forristal | 2,022 | 8 | 15 | DoorDash has confirmed that it has teamed up with to make that awkward exchange of items with a stranger a bit easier. The company said , its business-to-business service that provides drivers to merchants through their own website or app, is now in the early stages of testing a service that will allow DoorDash driv... |
Bumble experiments with group chats, polls and video calls for its new social networking feature, ‘Hive’ | Sarah Perez | 2,022 | 8 | 15 | Dating app maker Bumble revealed more of its plans to strengthen its social networking features during last week’s Q2 , which saw the company’s over its despite delivering a revenue beat. Now, new images show what Bumble has been developing as part of the larger revamp of its “Bumble BFF” friend-finding feature — ... |
YouTube may launch a channel store for streaming services, report says | Lauren Forristal | 2,022 | 8 | 15 | YouTube may be looking to launch an online channel store for streaming services through the YouTube app, positioning itself in direct competition with Amazon, Roku, and Apple, three tech giants that each offer its own streaming subscription hubs. As reported by , sources say the company has been working on its channel... |
Serena Williams’ next act in venture capital is essential in this moment | Dominic-Madori Davis | 2,022 | 8 | 15 | backhand winner down the line. It’s hard to imagine that in two weeks, Serena Williams is playing what could — and most likely will be — her last tennis tournament after 23 Grand Slams and decades of dazzling on center courts. She in the latest issue of Vogue magazine, writing that she will be “evolving” away from t... |
Walmart+, the retailer’s Prime competitor, will add Paramount+ access as a new perk | Sarah Perez | 2,022 | 8 | 15 | Walmart is with Paramount Global to offer its streaming service, Paramount+, to members of Walmart’s own free shipping program and Amazon Prime rival, . The deal was first confirmed by on Monday afternoon, following recent news of the retailer’s discussions with major media companies about such an arrangement. Wal... |
Layoffs hit HBO Max as 70 employees lose their jobs | Amanda Silberling | 2,022 | 8 | 15 | The rumored layoffs are coming true: Warner Bros. Discovery, the newly merged parent company to HBO, is . Fourteen percent of staff under HBO and HBO Max chief content officer Casey Bloys will be laid off, impacting 70 employees. The New York Times that unscripted and live-action family programming for HBO Max, the ... |
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The phishing catch of the day is Twillio (and other TC news) | Darrell Etherington | 2,022 | 8 | 15 | This week on the TechCrunch Podcast Natasha Mascarenhas is back to talk about VC-backed aperitif company Haus being forced to sell. Then we’re joined by Carly page to talk about a recent phishing campaign that targeted Twilio and many other internet companies. And as always, we’ll catch you up on the tech news you may ... |
Signal says 1,900 users’ phone numbers exposed by Twilio breach | Carly Page | 2,022 | 8 | 15 | End-to-end encrypted messaging app Signal says attackers accessed the phone numbers and SMS verification codes for almost 2,000 users as part of . Twilio, which provides phone number verification services to Signal, said on August 8 that malicious actors accessed the data of 125 customers after successfully phishing m... |
5 things you may have missed in Disney’s latest earnings | Anna Heim | 2,022 | 8 | 15 | Company announced better-than-expected results last week when it for the second quarter of 2022 (the company’s third fiscal quarter.) The data point that caught the most attention? That total Disney DTC subscriptions — including Disney+, but also Hulu and ESPN+ — reached 221.1 million. Many headlines subsequently fo... |
BitGo seeks $100M in damages from Galaxy Digital for calling off $1.2B acquisition | Manish Singh | 2,022 | 8 | 15 | The crypto sector’s first $1 billion deal, announced at the height of record surge in token prices last year, is disbanding as the market reverses much of the gains — and not everyone is pleased. Galaxy Digital said Monday it has terminated the $1.2 billion proposed acquisition of crypto custodian BitGo, a high-profile... |
Startup yachts, Adam Neumann and wait what year is it again? | Natasha Mascarenhas | 2,022 | 8 | 15 | Hello and welcome back to , a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. took over Equity Monday this week alongside Grace, as enjoys some always-deserved vacation. Thankfully, there was way too much to get into. So much so that I recommend you listening to ... |
Oil and gas didn’t benefit from investor largesse in recent years — but renewables did | Tim De Chant | 2,022 | 8 | 15 | Inflation Reduction Act expected to be signed by President Joe Biden this week, The Wall Street Journal asked Dealogic to analyze the amount of money being loaned to “green” companies and to oil and gas companies. Investors, WSJ , aren’t ready to give up on fossil fuels. But the data suggests that they’re starting to... |
After the FBI raid at Mar-a-Lago, online threats quickly turn into real-world violence | Taylor Hatmaker | 2,022 | 8 | 12 | Threats of violence reached a fever pitch reminiscent of the days leading up to the Capitol attack this week after the to retrieve classified documents the former president may have unlawfully taken there. After Trump himself confirmed Monday’s raid at Mar-a-Lago, pro-Trump pundits and politicians rallied around an... |
Daily Crunch: Samsung’s vice chairman receives presidential pardon for bribery conviction | Christine Hall | 2,022 | 8 | 12 | Last night was a full moon, somehow it’s already halfway through August, and did you know there’s ? The world’s gone topsy-turvy, but at least it’s time for the weekend. What did you do this week that made you feel alive? Can you do more of that next week? And that concludes our microtherapy session. Now, let’s get on... |
TechCrunch+ roundup: Down-funnel growth metrics, RIF planning, is e-commerce aggregation over? | Walter Thompson | 2,022 | 8 | 12 | In the video game Katamari Damacy, players control an avatar who rolls a sticky ball that captures anything it touches. The goal is to create a sphere large enough to become a star or moon. E-commerce aggregators work in much the same way by purchasing smaller brands, then optimizing their manufacturing and sales chann... |
It might be time for companies in San Francisco to call employees’ bluff | Connie Loizos | 2,022 | 8 | 12 | Spend any amount of time in New York, and you’ll feel it. Manhattan and Brooklyn are teeming with activity. It’s electrifying to be there after years spent relatively locked down. The question, and one by the San Francisco Chronicle, is why San Francisco isn’t bouncing back in the same way. As reporter Roland Li writ... |
This startup is setting a DALL-E 2-like AI free, consequences be damned | Kyle Wiggers | 2,022 | 8 | 12 | DALL-E 2, OpenAI’s powerful text-to-image AI system, can create photos in the style of cartoonists, 19th century daguerreotypists, stop-motion animators and more. But it has an important, artificial limitation: a filter that prevents it from creating images depicting public figures and content deemed too toxic. Now an ... |
TrashBot uses AI to sort recyclables | Brian Heater | 2,022 | 8 | 12 | There are a number of startups working to improve trash sorting with robots. is near the top of the list, coupling a picker and a conveyor belt to sort materials in large, automated facilities. The technology aims to correct human shortcomings when it comes to recycling. Too often people either don’t bother to separa... |
Roon wants to educate patients with freshly sourced info on their conditions | Andrew Mendez | 2,022 | 8 | 12 | As individuals try to manage medical information and understand their conditions, many typically turn to Google or WebMD — neither of which does much to verify or provide the latest information. But plans to change this with a medical education platform for vetted information, sourced strictly from doctors, patients,... |
The Silicon Peach is still ripe: Atlanta’s venture ecosystem stands strong | Dominic-Madori Davis | 2,022 | 8 | 12 | is looking pretty peachy. In H1 2022, Atlanta companies raised in funding, according to a recent PitchBook report. If the second half of the year is the same, it places the city on track to nearly hit the in capital it raised last year. Another promising sign is that seed-stage deal volume appears to have remained... |
EV laggards BMW and Toyota to partner on hydrogen fuel cell vehicles | Jaclyn Trop | 2,022 | 8 | 12 | BMW and Toyota will team up to produce hydrogen fuel cell vehicles starting mid-decade, according to a report in . The two will begin producing and selling hydrogen fuel cell vehicles developed jointly as early as 2025, BMW sales chief Pieter Nota told the publication. The automakers have worked together before, joint... |
FTX Ventures’ Amy Wu is bringing her blockchain investing expertise to TC Sessions: Crypto | Lucas Matney | 2,022 | 8 | 12 | The world of crypto venture has had a whirlwind few years, with powerful new players inspiring furious catch-up among traditional VC firms aiming to make a name for themselves in the sector. All the while, the corporate venture fund has been reshaped by plenty of the top crypto startups, now capitalizing on historic re... |
The subscription pie is getting bigger: How to leverage usage-based billing | Sanjay Manchanda | 2,022 | 8 | 12 | the tech and consumer industries have created a lot of buzz around “subscription fatigue.” The very model that business and consumer platforms have relied on for growth and predictable revenue seems under threat in a changing economy. There is one problem with that idea, however: It is not true. Subscriptions are not ... |
FWD: fwd: From the CEO: BeCareful while you BeReal! | Amanda Silberling | 2,022 | 8 | 12 | all-staff@vc-funded-startup.ai ceo@vc-funded-startup.ai Dear colleagues, I wanted to reach out to you today to talk about the app (yes, I know what that is — I have teenage kids and a life outside of work, unlike the rest of you, who are working more hours than me and yet aren’t eligible for company dental insurance.... |
Diagnostic Robotics has AI catching health problems before they take you to the ER | Devin Coldewey | 2,022 | 8 | 12 | A stitch in time saves nine, they say — and a blood thinner in time saves a trip to the emergency room for a heart attack, as hopes to show. The company’s machine learning-powered preventative care aims to predict and avoid dangerous (and costly) medical crises, saving everyone money and hopefully keeping them health... |
Nothing negative about Positive Food’s meal expansion plan after $7M investment | Christine Hall | 2,022 | 8 | 12 | Positive Food Co., providing freshly packaged salads, heat-and-eat prepared meals and vegan overnight oats, raised $7 million in funding as it goes after the . In 2018, co-founders Schuyler Deerman and James Chan started selling healthy meals at WeWork offices around Los Angeles out of giant Yeti coolers, standing aro... |
Hands-on with Lockdown Mode in iOS 16 | Zack Whittaker | 2,022 | 8 | 12 | Apple feature you should hope you’ll never need to use. But for those who do, like journalists, politicians, lawyers and human rights defenders, it’s a last line of defense against nation-state spyware designed to punch through an iPhone’s protections. The new security feature was as an “extreme” level of protection... |
Wire grabs fresh funding for secure messaging tech that’s big with G7 governments | Natasha Lomas | 2,022 | 8 | 12 | More funding for European end-to-end encrypted messaging app, : The enterprise-focused messaging platform told TechCrunch it closed a €24 million Series C round of funding led by growth equity firm Cipio Partners and Iconical, the investment vehicle of Skype co-founder Janus Friis. Existing investor UVC Partners also ... |
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As other startups slash spending and hoard cash, Databricks hits accelerator | Ron Miller | 2,022 | 8 | 12 | earlier this month that it crossed , it was certainly a big milestone for the company, but it wasn’t a huge surprise. The data lake startup has been flying. Almost exactly a year ago, announced on an astonishing $38 billion valuation with $600 million ARR. That grew to by February this year. Databricks now says... |
Hyundai announces $400M AI, robotics institute powered by Boston Dynamics | Brian Heater | 2,022 | 8 | 12 | When Hyundai acquired Boston Dynamics at the end of 2020, there were plenty of open questions. Chief among them was why we should assume this acquisition would be any different than the past few? The 30-year-old bleeding-edge robotics firm had been an uncomfortable fit for its last two owners, Google and SoftBank, but ... |
Instacart’s latest feature lets you order from two retailers with one delivery fee | Aisha Malik | 2,022 | 8 | 12 | Instacart today that it’s launching a new “OrderUp” feature that lets users add items from additional retailers to their original grocery order without having to pay an extra delivery fee. The company says the new feature gives users a way to complete their weekly shopping in one delivery trip, whether they’re lookin... |
Felicis, Lux Capital and Upfront Ventures tackle TAM at Disrupt | Lauren Simonds | 2,022 | 8 | 12 | Perception is everything — especially when it comes to the value of software startups and total addressable markets (TAM). During 2020 and 2021, as COVID bit into the economy, tech products turned out to be more recession-resistant than expected. What’s more, tech companies grew faster than previously anticipated. Thos... |
Twilio gets hacked, teens ditch Facebook, and SpaceX takes South Korea to the moon | Greg Kumparak | 2,022 | 8 | 13 | Hi again! Welcome back to , the newsletter where we quickly recap the top stories from TechCrunch dot-com this week. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Is Facebook for old people? If you’ve got a teenager around the house, you’ve probably heard them say as much. The story this week is on that suggests this gen... |
You’re not that special (I swear, there’s a startup angle here) | Natasha Mascarenhas | 2,022 | 8 | 13 | For longtime Startups Weekly readers, you’ll remember that edtech used to be my primary beat. Most of my coverage was focused on of the pandemic, . Duolingo continues to be the company that I know the most about, mostly because While I’m more focused on fintech these days, I was curious if edtech is still a big... |
TechCrunch staff asks: What’s really the best Taylor Swift song? | Alex Wilhelm | 2,022 | 8 | 13 | While TechCrunch is a , at times we wind up a little off-topic in our internal conversations. We talk video games. We talk bad reality television. We riff on sports and pets and our families. And we talk about music. Naturally, with as diverse a group as our team, viewpoints vary. But one notable point of commonal... |
Is the future of the microchip industry going to be Made in America? | Anna Heim | 2,022 | 8 | 13 | TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s inspired by the where it gets its name. — U.S. president Joe Biden signed the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 into law earlier this week after the bill received broad bipartisan support in the House and Senate. The H and I in CHIPS stand for “Helpf... |
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