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Tech bosses who willingly flout UK online child safety rules to face criminal liability | Natasha Lomas | 2,023 | 1 | 17 | The U.K. government has confirmed it will expand criminal liability powers contained in draft online safety legislation which is currently making its way through parliament with the aim of preventing platforms from intentionally flouting child-safety rules. The current version of the (already ) Online Safety Bill, w... |
Amplifica Capital ‘wants to be the fund that LatAm’s female tech founders reach out to first’ | Christine Hall | 2,023 | 1 | 17 | Anna Raptis, founder and CEO at Mexico-based venture capital firm , was always someone who’s been “interested in facilitating economic development.” Born in Australia, she followed that lead, holding positions with the United Nations and the World Bank, spending two decades working in the energy sector. That’s what ul... |
Nucleus aims to simplify the process of managing microservices | Kyle Wiggers | 2,023 | 1 | 16 | An increasing number of organizations are adopting microservices, the loosely coupled, independently deployable services that together make up an app. According to a 2020 O’Reilly , 77% of organizations had adopted microservices, with 29% reporting that they were migrating or implementing a majority of their systems u... |
Indian edtech giant Byju’s changes sales strategy in key revamp | Manish Singh | 2,023 | 1 | 15 | Byju’s has made a key change in its sales strategy, moving away from a business practice that attracted the edtech giant criticism over the years. The Bengaluru-headquartered startup, India’s , said on Monday its sales people no longer visit students’ homes to pitch to their parents. Instead, the entire sales workforc... |
Google-backed ShareChat cuts 20% workforce to ‘sustain through headwinds’ | Jagmeet Singh | 2,023 | 1 | 15 | ShareChat, the Indian social media startup backed by Twitter, Google, Tiger Global and Temasek, has laid off 20% of its workforce — or over 400 employees — just a month . The startup informed its employees about the decision on Monday morning. It deactivated access to accounts and wiped out all data of impacted employ... |
Jakarta-based Mindtera helps companies keep an eye on employee morale | Catherine Shu | 2,023 | 1 | 15 | During the pandemic, Tita Ardiati and Bayu Puspito Bhaskoro began developing life coaching content to support employees who were increasingly burned out by working from home. They got a good enough reception that they decided to develop their product into an employee assistance program called , which now serves more t... |
Wristcheck wants to make used luxury watches more affordable | Rita Liao | 2,023 | 1 | 16 | In an age when almost everything can be bought online, watch resale is done in a surprisingly archaic way, namely, face-to-face with little price transparency. , a startup based out of Hong Kong, is taking a shot at digitizing the industry. Traditional secondhand watch dealing is a “buy low, sell high” business that o... |
Environmental health and safety software is now a hot commodity | Kyle Wiggers | 2,023 | 1 | 15 | and safety software hasn’t been a massive market — at least compared to others in the software-as-a-service segment — and it’s admittedly not the most enthralling startup category. But that’s changing, according to a new survey released by research firm Verdantix. EHS software acts as a data management system for capt... |
CircleCI says hackers stole encryption keys and customers’ secrets | Zack Whittaker | 2,023 | 1 | 14 | CircleCi, a software company whose products are popular with developers and software engineers, confirmed that some customers’ data was stolen in a last month. The company on Friday that it identified the intruder’s initial point of access as an employee’s laptop that was compromised with malware, allowing the thef... |
ChatGPT goes pro, layoffs at Alphabet, and Dungeons & Dragons flirts with restrictive new licensing | Kyle Wiggers | 2,023 | 1 | 14 | Welcome, welcome, folks, to Week in Review, TechCrunch’s regular column that recaps the last week in news. If you’d like it in your inbox every Saturday, sign up . Hope you’re sitting comfortably with a warm beverage on this wintery Saturday afternoon. Expecting Greg’s byline? Not to worry — he’s still enjoying parent... |
This Week in Apps: ChatGPT app scammers, Instagram revamp and a consumer spending slowdown | Sarah Perez | 2,023 | 1 | 14 | Welcome back to This Week in Apps, that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app economy in 2023 hit a few snags, as consumer spending last year by 2% to $167 billion, according to the latest “State of Mobile” report by data.ai (previously App Annie). However, do... |
YouTube plans to modify profanity rules that prompted creator backlash | Taylor Hatmaker | 2,023 | 1 | 14 | YouTube’s gaming community against the company this week after some creators saw their old videos demonetized out of the blue. The culprit is a new policy that the company in order to make certain kinds of content more advertiser friendly. That change, made to YouTubes’s advertiser-friendly content guidelines, over... |
Tesla rolls into a pressure cooker, Paris mulls its scooter future, and the double SPAC arrives | Kirsten Korosec | 2,023 | 1 | 16 | Welcome back to , your central hub for all past, present and future means of moving people and packages from Point A to Point B. Let’s get right to it, shall we? Top of mind for me this week is . I know, weird. But really, it seems that pressure is coming from all sides these days. The company’s decision to has ang... |
Stratospheric balloon company World View to go public in $350M SPAC deal | Aria Alamalhodaei | 2,023 | 1 | 13 | , a company developing stratospheric balloons for Earth observation and tourism, is heading to the public markets. The company announced Friday that it would merge with special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) Leo Holdings Corp. II in a deal worth $350 million, as it seeks to build out what it calls “the stratospheri... |
CircleCI warns customers to rotate ‘any and all secrets’ after hack | Carly Page | 2,023 | 1 | 5 | CircleCI, a company whose development products are popular with software engineers, has urged users to rotate their secrets following a breach of the company’s systems. The San Francisco–headquartered DevOps company said in an published late Wednesday that it is currently investigating the security incident — its mos... |
Microsoft 365 Basic launches with 100 GB of storage, Outlook and more for $1.99 per month | Kyle Wiggers | 2,023 | 1 | 11 | Microsoft will introduce a new, lower-cost tier of Microsoft 365, its product family of productivity software, collaboration and cloud-based services, starting on January 30. Called Microsoft 365 Basic and priced at $1.99 per month or $19.99 per year, the plan will initially include 100 GB of storage, Outlook email and... |
Locad lands Series A to expand its “logistics engine” across Southeast Asia and Australia | Catherine Shu | 2,023 | 1 | 15 | When Constantin Robertz was working at Zalora, he was involved in moving warehouses six times as the e-commerce company outgrew its logistics infrastructure. This inspired him to co-found , a logistics provider for omnichannel e-commerce companies that connects its network of third-party warehouses and shipping carrie... |
E Ink’s latest color displays have me dreaming of electronic paper magazines | Harri Weber | 2,023 | 1 | 12 | There’s still nothing quite like thumbing the pages of a real-life print magazine, but the latest evolution of E Ink’s color tech is creeping tantalizingly close — at least as far as my eyes are concerned. You’ve : A lifetime of staring at screens has worn out my eyes, leading me down a rabbit hole of . Some of the t... |
Medium embraces Twitter alternative Mastodon with launch of its own community | Sarah Perez | 2,023 | 1 | 12 | Online publishing platform , originally created by Twitter co-founder , today that it’s embracing the open source Mastodon platform by creating its own instance to support its authors and their publications. The company said it’s launching , a Mastodon community that will offer reliable infrastructure, moderation ... |
Instagram is removing the Shop tab, moving Reels from the center spot in design overhaul next month | Sarah Perez | 2,023 | 1 | 9 | Instagram announced today it will simplify its in-app navigation after years of confusing changes designed to push various products like Instagram Shop and Reels. The company says, , it will return the Compose button (the plus sign “+”) to the front and center of the navigation bar at the bottom of the app and it will... |
Google’s Extension SDK aims to bring latest features to older Android versions | Ivan Mehta | 2,023 | 1 | 10 | Fragmentation has been a longstanding complaint about the Android ecosystem. Often users miss out on features of the latest Android version because they are using older devices that are no longer updated. To reduce the gap, Google has released the first public version of , which aims to bring features of the latest An... |
Apple’s iOS 17 may have fewer major changes than initially planned | Aisha Malik | 2,023 | 1 | 9 | Apple may skip some major changes with the release of iOS 17, according to a new from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. The report says Apple is going to spend most of 2023 focusing on its , which has been a work in progress for several years and may arrive this year. As Apple’s main focus is said to be on the operating syst... |
Keychron gets it right with its Q10 Alice-style keyboard | Frederic Lardinois | 2,023 | 1 | 12 | Are you thinking about getting a mechanical keyboard and asked a friend which one to get? Chances are, they said: get a . It’s basically a meme at this point. After making its name with affordable mechanical keyboards (with a bit of a focus for Mac users) — the company now has something on offer for every budget and i... |
FCC moves to form Space Bureau as its role in regulating orbit intensifies | Devin Coldewey | 2,023 | 1 | 9 | The regulates lots of industries and practices relating to telecommunications and the internet, but it is now cementing its role as a space regulator specializing in the topic. Bureaus are the divisions of the agency that handle different areas of industry: media, wireless, consumer, and so on, as well as enforceme... |
Indian giant Jio makes cloud gaming push | Manish Singh | 2,023 | 1 | 12 | Mukesh Ambani, one of Asia’s richest men, has made a splash in many industries over the past three decades. It now appears he has set his eyes on a new sector: Gaming. JioGames, part of Reliance Industries’ telecom platform Jio, said on Thursday it has inked a 10-year strategic partnership with French firm Gamestream. ... |
How we pivoted our deep tech startup to become a SaaS company | Brian Casey | 2,023 | 1 | 11 | future, global markets will require billions of highly specialized electric machines that perform much better than the inefficient relics of the past. Initially, we approached this as a hardware challenge until we determined that the key to meeting next-generation electric motor demand actually lies in software. That’... |
Roblox may arrive on Meta Quest later this year | Lauren Forristal | 2,023 | 1 | 10 | It appears that Roblox, a major player in the metaverse space, could be getting its moment to shine on Meta’s virtual reality headset. According to The Verge’s , sources say that might be planning to come to in late 2023. Roblox declined to comment to TechCrunch. Meta was not immediately available to comment. This... |
Stardew Valley’s big update is now available for iOS and Android | Taylor Hatmaker | 2,023 | 1 | 9 | If there’s anything fans want, it’s more Stardew — and that’s now the case for anyone playing the cozy life sim on iOS or Android. The game is available on out there (personally I play it on the Nintendo Switch, which is perfect), but Stardew’s mobile fans were left waiting for a major content update that . Over t... |
Google is finally rolling out emoji reactions for Meet video calls | Ivan Mehta | 2,023 | 1 | 12 | Google is finally rolling out emoji reactions to people using Google Meet for video calls. Starting today, the company said this feature will be first available on iOS and the web with Android support coming soon. The search giant , but it is reaching users just now. Users can click or tap on the smile icon on the bot... |
Apple TV and Apple Music apps for Windows quietly appear on the Microsoft Store | Aisha Malik | 2,023 | 1 | 12 | Apple is finally bringing its Apple Music and Apple TV apps to Windows, as preview versions of the two apps have quietly appeared on the Microsoft Store. The roll out comes a few months after the apps would be coming to Windows 11 this year. The launch was first spotted by . The apps look similar to the versions tha... |
Supreme Court declines to block WhatsApp lawsuit over NSO phone hacking | Carly Page | 2,023 | 1 | 9 | The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to block a lawsuit brought by WhatsApp challenging the alleged mass phone hacking by Israeli spyware maker NSO Group. Meta-owned WhatsApp first against NSO Group in 2019 claiming the spyware maker exploited to stealthily deliver its Pegasus phone spyware onto users’ devices. Pega... |
Europe quizzes TikTok on data safety, disinformation and DSA compliance | Natasha Lomas | 2,023 | 1 | 10 | A meeting between TikTok’s CEO, Shou Zi Chew, and senior European Union lawmakers that took place today saw the video sharing platform’s chief executive quizzed on a range of topics — including its preparations to comply with incoming pan-EU rules focused on content governance and safety (aka the Digital Services Act; ... |
TikTok launches a Talent Manager Portal so managers can negotiate brand deals for clients | Sarah Perez | 2,023 | 1 | 12 | TikTok is making it easier for brands to work with its “megastar” creators with an update to its that now invites talent managers to oversee, execute and analyze the brand opportunities and campaigns being presented to their clients. This week, the video entertainment platform introduced a new Talent Manager Portal a... |
YouTube rolls out new Partner Program terms as Shorts revenue sharing begins on February 1 | Aisha Malik | 2,023 | 1 | 9 | YouTube will begin sharing creators on February 1, the company on Monday. To prepare for the upcoming change, YouTube is starting to roll out new terms for all creators in the YouTube Partner Program. Creators need to accept the new terms by July 10 to remain in the program. The major change to YouTube’s Partner Pr... |
Scale AI cuts 20% of its workforce | Kirsten Korosec | 2,023 | 1 | 10 | Scale AI, the San Francisco–based company that uses software and people to label image, text, voice and video data for companies building machine learning algorithms, laid off 20% of its workforce this week. The decision, which was announced by founder and CEO Alexandr Wang via a , was made after rapid hiring in 2021 ... |
Tinder and other Match dating apps will offer in-app tips on avoiding romance scams | Lauren Forristal | 2,023 | 1 | 10 | Match Group, the parent company to dating apps Tinder, Hinge, Match, Plenty of Fish, Meetic and OurTime, among others, announced today the launch of a new campaign that will introduce in-app messages and email notifications to give users tips on how to prevent being scammed online. Tinder and French online dating app M... |
The Easy Company raised $14.2M to build an easy-to-use ‘social’ crypto wallet | Jacquelyn Melinek | 2,023 | 1 | 10 | The Easy Company has raised $14.2 million in a seed round and launched its “social” crypto wallet to help onboard more mainstream audiences, it shared exclusively with TechCrunch. Easy aims to combine user-curated profiles with engaging social features so that people can search, navigate and discover the world of web3 ... |
Tesla plans $770M expansion at Texas factory | Kirsten Korosec | 2,023 | 1 | 11 | Tesla notified Texas regulators this week it plans to invest about $770 million into an expansion of its factory near Austin. The automaker registered plans with the Texas Department of Licensing and Registration. The Austin Business Journal and were the first to report on the filings. The filings show Tesla intends ... |
Amazon quietly tests even cheaper Prime membership in India | Jagmeet Singh | 2,023 | 1 | 14 | Amazon is quietly piloting a new tier for its Prime membership in India, providing customers with access to popular benefits such as free two-day delivery and ad-supported Prime Video in standard definition at a lower price. The new tier, called Prime Lite, is currently available to select customers at a discounted ann... |
BlackRock acquires minority stake in SMB 401(k) provider Human Interest | Mary Ann Azevedo | 2,023 | 1 | 13 | Investment giant BlackRock announced Friday it is taking a minority stake in venture-backed fintech startup . Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Human Interest’s digital retirement benefits platform allows users “to launch a retirement plan in minutes and put it on autopilot,” according to the company. It also tout... |
Oxbotica raises $140M more as its B2B autonomous vehicle platform gains ground | Ingrid Lunden | 2,023 | 1 | 10 | Activity in the self-driving car industry, frenetic for years, has somewhat stalled in more recent times, but a handful of the most promising companies are continuing to see their businesses grow and attract investment in the process. In one of the more recent developments, , a startup out of England that develops sof... |
Is it time for a Common App for startup founders? | Natasha Mascarenhas | 2,023 | 1 | 14 | control capital, but one currency that they’re always in search of is an elusive, evolving one: deal flow. Betting early on the next big startup is enough to cement the entire (and then some) — and help that plucky investor make a name for themselves. This reality makes Afore Capital’s latest product launch appear a... |
Lucid shares pop after exceeding EV production goal | Kirsten Korosec | 2,023 | 1 | 12 | Lucid Group eked out a small win in 2022. The EV automaker said Thursday it produced 7,180 of its luxury Air sedans in 2022, exceeding its previously lowered guidance for the year. Lucid adjusted its guidance last fall, stating it would produce 6,000 to 7,000 vehicles in 2022. Shares popped more than 6% immediately fol... |
5 of the best journaling apps to log your thoughts and experiences | Aisha Malik | 2,023 | 1 | 13 | As we look to the year ahead, you may be interested in creating new habits and setting goals. Journaling is a popular practice that helps you reflect on your life, while also keeping track of your goals. If you’re looking to get into journaling and would prefer to keep a digital journal instead of a physical one, you c... |
The mixed messaging of mixed reality | Brian Heater | 2,023 | 1 | 13 | my first Vive experience. It was many CESes ago. I was managing a different site. Budgets were tight and I had the most on-the-ground experience, so I went solo. I had a different kind of fire back then, writing 100 stories over five days and walking every possible inch of the show floor — even the areas that devolve ... |
TechCrunch+ roundup: 2022 stock options report, pivot to SaaS, crypto investor survey | Walter Thompson | 2,023 | 1 | 13 | of time praising tech investors and entrepreneurs for their risk appetite. But why don’t we put startup workers on the same pedestal? Who’s taking on more risk: A Stanford grad who leveraged their network to raise a seed round or an immigrant worker who relocates to an expensive city for a startup job? In its latest y... |
Bugatti’s new electric scooter is bigger with W16 Mistral vibes | Kirsten Korosec | 2,023 | 1 | 13 | Somewhere hidden amid the thousands of flashy displays and exhibits at in Las Vegas was the newly upgraded 2023 Bugatti electric scooter. TechCrunch never saw it. Did anyone? Luckily, details and images of the 2023 model, a 10% larger, more premium electric scooter, have now been released into the world. , through a ... |
Daily Crunch: 2 Tesla models qualify for EV tax credits after company marks prices down by 20% | Christine Hall | 2,023 | 1 | 13 | The team who went to CES is back at their desks. If you missed the barrage of stories — or simply couldn’t stay on top of them — wrote up an amazing . Give that a skim, and you’ll be safe in the knowledge that you didn’t miss anything major as you grab your favorite easy chair and a book to settle in for the weekend... |
Predictions for the longevity industry in 2023 | Abby Miller Levy | 2,023 | 1 | 11 | when we all got the wake-up call about longevity. From major reports published on the impact of longevity by the and to every leading newspaper, public discourse highlighted how our global healthcare, financial and housing infrastructure was failing to serve a rapidly growing older adult population. While this dem... |
HTC’s global head of Product on VR’s ‘race to the bottom’ | Brian Heater | 2,023 | 1 | 7 | It was the year of XR. But then, they all seem to be, these days. Strong presences from Meta, Magic Leap, Sony and HTC led the way at , with hundreds of startups picking up the rear. I was dazzled by a few demos but ultimately left wondering what form a true mainstreaming of AR/VR might ultimately take — if it ever act... |
Bad Meta! and other TC news | Darrell Etherington | 2,023 | 1 | 13 | Welcome back to The TechCrunch Podcast. This week Christine Hall is here to talk about how VCs are using ChatGPT and Natasha Lomas comes on to explain why Meta is in regulatory hot water. And as always, Darrell breaks down the biggest stories in tech. Articles from the episode: More from TechCrunch |
Meta’s ads being found unlawful in the EU is a warning to other ad-funded platforms | Natasha Lomas | 2,023 | 1 | 12 | Elon Musk should take note of a recent before forging ahead with in the European Union. To wit: In , following the publication of against Meta by EU privacy regulators applying the to Facebook and Instagram — decisions which include a total of around $410 million in fines (still with a third decision against Wh... |
All US domestic flights grounded as key FAA system goes down | Darrell Etherington | 2,023 | 1 | 11 | Flights across the U.S. — including potentially all that fly through any domestic U.S. airspace — are delayed this morning as a major system outage means the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) can’t send out key hazard notices to commercial pilots. The FAA says it’s working to resolve the issue, but the widespread impact... |
Major EU privacy decisions against Meta’s legal basis for ads raise fresh complaints | Natasha Lomas | 2,023 | 1 | 11 | Privacy watchers keen to dig into the regulatory reasoning underpinning two major decisions against Meta — which struck down Facebook and Instagram’s claim of contractual necessity as a valid legal basis to run behavioral advertising on users in the European Union — can now sift through the detail after the complaina... |
Inside Secfi’s 2022 state of stock options equity report | Frederik Mijnhardt | 2,023 | 1 | 11 | a painful one for startups and their employees. Venture capitalists tightened their investments, thousands of people lost their jobs and company valuations stalled or fell amid a protracted bear market. An estimated 24% of startups on the Secfi platform reduced their fair market valuations in 2022, according to an int... |
Kenya’s Xetova exploring market data gaps in Africa to boost trade insight access | Annie Njanja | 2,023 | 1 | 13 | Africa is seen as the next trade frontier, following the coming into force of The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), which created the single largest unrestricted trade region in the world. However, while trade liberalization is meant to spur intra-regional commerce, its take-off is dependent on key infrastr... |
Dear Sophie: Any tips for presenting a strong H-1B case? What if I’m not selected? | Sophie Alcorn | 2,023 | 1 | 11 | of “Dear Sophie,” the advice column that answers immigration-related questions about working at technology companies. “Your questions are vital to the spread of knowledge that allows people all over the world to rise above borders and pursue their dreams,” says , a Silicon Valley immigration attorney. “Whether you’re... |
Daily Crunch: Pet tech startup Digitail fetches $11M Series A led by Atomico | Christine Hall | 2,023 | 1 | 12 | Hello, dear readers! We’re back once again ( ) with a wall of great tech news stories. Plug in some headphones and bop your head to that song while you catch up on what’s happening out there in the wider worlds. Remember: There’s no such thing as a standing desk. It’s a dancing desk. Aw yessss. (We may have had a littl... |
Biden’s call to ‘unite against big tech abuses’ sure sounds familiar | Devin Coldewey | 2,023 | 1 | 12 | President Biden putting Big Tech on notice that his administration was working — in fact, has been working — to rein in its worst abuses. But these “broad principles for reform” sound pretty familiar. The op-ed begins by thanking the tech sector for its hard work (and contributions to the GDP, it is understood) and i... |
After struggling with consumers, Magic Leap hang its hopes on enterprise | Brian Heater | 2,023 | 1 | 7 | Something wasn’t working. In late 2020, Magic Leap announced a major change spearheaded by incoming CEO, Peggy Johnson. “[W]hat I found was nothing was really broken,” she at the time, “It just needed to have a bit more focus.” From the outside, certainly, it seemed like typically understated chief executive speak. I... |
DeFi startups need to experiment with new use cases and build solutions, investors say | Jacquelyn Melinek | 2,023 | 1 | 12 | Although the crypto ecosystem has faced its fair share of bumps, venture capitalists are still bullish about the space and continue to look at decentralized finance (DeFi) as a promising opportunity. TechCrunch about the road ahead for crypto adoption, their sentiment toward DeFi and how the focus in that subsector (... |
Nvidia unveils new AI workflows to help the retail industry with loss prevention | Christine Hall | 2,023 | 1 | 12 | In a recent episode of “ ” a woman put a chainsaw down her pants in an effort to steal it. And you might have caught the video of the . Videos like this are all over the internet, and the retail industry is reporting that theft continues to rise. attributed hundreds of thousands of dollars in profit losses in 2022 t... |
Why the time is right for a Mercedes-Benz charging network | Tim Stevens | 2,023 | 1 | 12 | When your Rolex is due for servicing, you’ll probably take the time to take it to a specialty service center. Likewise, you’re not going to trust the repair of the crimson soles of your Louboutins to the corner shoe-shiner. So why, then, should you be forced to use any plebeian charging network for your premium EV? Mer... |
European carriers file to create joint venture for opt-in ad targeting of mobile users | Natasha Lomas | 2,023 | 1 | 9 | European telcos are moving ahead with a plan to create a joint venture to offer opt-in “personalized” ad targeting of regional mobile network users following trials last year in Germany. Although it remains to be seen whether European Union regulators will sign off on their plan. In a submitted to the European Commis... |
Company created by Citrix-Tibco merger confirms it has laid off 15% of staff | Ron Miller | 2,023 | 1 | 11 | The continuing onslaught of has not let up in the new year. Last week, we saw big layoff announcements from and with thousands of employees being let go. Yesterday that Cloud Software Group was undertaking massive layoffs. Today the company confirmed it was laying off 15% of the workforce. Although the company w... |
DirecTV is the latest pay-TV company to lay off staff amid the ongoing shift to streaming | Lauren Forristal | 2,023 | 1 | 12 | DirecTV plans to lay off approximately 10% of its management staff, a spokesperson confirmed to TechCrunch. The layoffs will be in effect next Friday, January 20. The staff reduction comes as DirecTV, among other pay-TV companies, grapple with the continuous loss of consumers moving away from linear television and shif... |
The Logic School wants to teach tech workers activism | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,023 | 1 | 12 | Product folks and engineers know what they are doing, and by and large, they — and the companies they work for — have a disproportionate amount of power about how the world is shaped. Over a 13-week course called (delivered free, with support from the Omidyar Network), the school aims to teach tech workers to organiz... |
Rent the Runway’s fashion comes to Amazon, including preworn items and design exclusives | Sarah Perez | 2,023 | 1 | 12 | Fashion rentals marketplace was hit hard by the pandemic, as its subscribers were largely renting outfits to wear to in-person events. The , however, by slashing costs, renegotiating supplier contracts, and entering the . Today, the company is expanding that side of its business once again by bringing some of its p... |
The Guardian confirms ransomware attack stole employee data | Carly Page | 2,023 | 1 | 11 | British newspaper The Guardian has confirmed that cybercriminals accessed the personal details of U.K. staff members during a ransomware attack last month. The Guardian confirmed the data breach in an update emailed to staff on Wednesday, which the shortly after. The email, signed by the news outlet’s chief executive... |
TikTok fined in France for manipulative cookie-consent flow | Natasha Lomas | 2,023 | 1 | 12 | TikTok is the latest tech giant to be schooled by France’s data protection watchdog for breaking rules on cookie consent. The €5 million penalty today by the CNIL relates to a cookie-consent flow TikTok had used on its website (tiktok.com) until early last year — in which the regulator found it was not as easy for us... |
HPE acquires Pachyderm as looks to bolster its AI dev offerings | Kyle Wiggers | 2,023 | 1 | 12 | Hewlett Packard Enterprise, the company better known as HPE, today that it acquired , a startup developing a data science platform for “explainable, repeatable” AI. The terms of the deal weren’t disclosed nor was the purchase price. But HPE said that it plans to integrate Pachyderm’s capabilities into a platform tha... |
Can we get more crypto partnerships and less crypto layoffs, please? | Jacquelyn Melinek | 2,023 | 1 | 12 | Welcome back to For the first time in a long time, there was less talk circulating about a certain three-letter crypto exchange, ahem, FTX. But of course, that didn’t last long as the former FTX CEO (who also goes by three letters — SBF) created a and shared his perspective on Thursday — in a 2,300-word overview — de... |
Virgin Orbit says issue with rocket’s second stage led to mission failure | Aria Alamalhodaei | 2,023 | 1 | 12 | Virgin Orbit, the unconventional rocket company founded by billionaire Sir Richard Branson, said its was due to an anomaly with the rocket’s second stage. Although the LauncherOne rocket managed to reach space and achieve stage separation, the anomaly prematurely terminated the first burn of the upper stage’s engines... |
FPGA startup Rapid Silicon lands $15M to bring its first chip to market | Kyle Wiggers | 2,023 | 1 | 12 | , or integrated circuits sold off-the-shelf, are a hot topic in tech. Because they’re relatively affordable and can be programmed for a range of use cases, they’ve caught on particularly in the AI and machine learning space where they’ve been used to accelerate the training of AI systems. The global FPGA market size co... |
Robot or fauxbot? | Brian Heater | 2,023 | 1 | 12 | of debriefs. CES has a way of hurling you into the new year, kicking and screaming, and it can be hard to find your bearings as you emerge on the other side. As the dust has cleared, one thing remains very clear: No two people have the same notion of what does and doesn’t constitute a robot. That’s not a problem, per ... |
Veteran enterprise VC Peter Wagner on the opportunities for AI startups | Connie Loizos | 2,023 | 1 | 11 | you ask, artificial intelligence will either vastly improve our lives or take away our jobs. For veteran venture investor Peter Wagner, it’s a little more nuanced than that. We recently caught up with Wagner, who, along with fellow veteran investor Gaurav Garg, launched . Combined, they have upward of 25 years of exp... |
NFT marketplace SuperRare cuts 30% of staff | Amanda Silberling | 2,023 | 1 | 6 | The NFT marketplace SuperRare is cutting 30% of its staff, according to a Slack message from CEO John Crain. Crain posted a screenshot of the message on . I have some tough news to share: — SuperRare John 💎 (@SuperRareJohn) “During the recent bull run, we grew in tandem with the market. In recent months, it’s becom... |
AWS partners with Avalanche to scale blockchain solutions for enterprises, governments | Jacquelyn Melinek | 2,023 | 1 | 11 | Amazon Web Services (AWS) has partnered with Ava Labs, the company building out layer-1 blockchain Avalanche, to help scale blockchain adoption across enterprises, institutions and governments, the two firms exclusively told TechCrunch. “Looking forward, web3 and blockchain is inevitable,” Howard Wright, VP and global ... |
SEC filing shows Adobe had interest in buying Figma as early as 2020 | Ron Miller | 2,023 | 1 | 12 | A document recently provides a detailed timeline of the negotiations between Adobe and Figma that paints a picture of how the two companies came together on last year. One point previously unknown is that Adobe approached Figma as early as 2020, and Figma co-founder and CEO Dylan Field met with Adobe representative... |
Mastercard launches web3-focused artist incubator with Polygon | Jacquelyn Melinek | 2,023 | 1 | 6 | biggest financial payments providers in the world, is launching a web3-focused to help artists connect with fans through a new medium, the company shared at CES 2023 on Friday. “The core of this program is providing emerging artists with the web3 tools and skills they need to excel and advance their music careers in... |
Coho AI, which uses AI to help B2B SaaS companies boost revenue, raises $8.5M | Kyle Wiggers | 2,023 | 1 | 12 | Teams dedicated to boosting customer acquisition, retention and sales don’t necessarily have the time or tools to use data insights effectively. In a 2019 , NewVantage partners found that the That’s why Ariel Maislos, who sold semiconductor startup Anobit to Apple for $400 million in 2012, partnered with Itamar Falcon... |
Venom Foundation and Iceberg Capital launch $1B venture fund to invest in web3 | Jacquelyn Melinek | 2,023 | 1 | 11 | Venom Foundation, a layer-1 blockchain licensed and regulated by the Abu Dhabi Global Market, and investment manager Iceberg Capital have partnered to launch a $1 billion venture fund, the two firms announced on Wednesday. The $1 billion vehicle, Venom Ventures Fund (VVF), is a blockchain-agnostic fund that will invest... |
When it comes to web3, investors say they’re in it for the long haul | Rebecca Szkutak | 2,023 | 1 | 11 | of 2021’s record-setting venture market, you couldn’t avoid the growing noise from the burgeoning web3 sector. Trust me, I . But while some of that momentum carried into 2022 (Yuga Labs closed a $450 million in March), the rest of the year was relatively quiet. Yes, venture as a whole had a overall in 2022, but t... |
Web3-focused Beacon launches flagship demo day with 13 crypto startups | Jacquelyn Melinek | 2,023 | 1 | 10 | We’re only in the second week of 2023, but demo days have already begun as founders try to keep momentum alive in the ever-changing crypto market. Beacon, a web3-focused early-stage accelerator program, launched last year, and its flagship cohort just graduated. The teams in the first cohort, known as Cohort 0, present... |
PasarPolis is now one of Indonesia’s first full-stack insurtechs | Catherine Shu | 2,023 | 1 | 11 | Indonesia’s is now able to underwrite its own products, making it one of Indonesia’s first full-stack insurtechs. This means PasarPolis will be able to offer new products and work with partners like Tokopedia, Gojek, Traveloka, Xiaomi and IKEA Indonesia to create custom insurance policies. PasarPolis is able to under... |
HBO/HBO Max dominates Golden Globes with most wins | Lauren Forristal | 2,023 | 1 | 11 | It may have been a weird feeling to watch Golden Globe Awards live on television this year. Last year, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), the organization that hosts the ceremony, was criticized for lacking diversity, so NBC announced it wouldn’t broadcast the awards show and the event’s winners were ins... |
Daily Crunch: In ‘an early experimental program,’ OpenAI opens waitlist for GPT Professional | Christine Hall | 2,023 | 1 | 11 | Hello from a very rain-drenched, the Cure-themed, semi-goth-and-sad Silicon Valley (Haje) and a lovely, sunny and warm day (Christine). It’s hard to imagine one from the other, and so here we are, learning a lesson of empathy and realizing that our immediate experience may not be universal. Whoa. Didn’t expect that lev... |
Inbenta, a provider of AI-powered chatbots and more, lands $40M | Kyle Wiggers | 2,023 | 1 | 11 | In 2011, Jordi Torras, a former Oracle VP, had a realization: Companies weren’t optimizing their search technologies as well as they could be. He founded Inbenta to solve this, providing professional consulting services while simultaneously developing an internal AI toolkit for search optimization. Over the years, tr... |
Hack The Box, a gamified cybersecurity training platform with 1.7M users, raises $55M | Ingrid Lunden | 2,023 | 1 | 11 | There’s long existed a divide in the world of computer hacking between those who are taking a malicious approach to crack a system, and those who are using the same techniques to understand the system’s vulnerabilities, help fix them and at the same time fight against the malicious actors. Today, , one of the startups... |
Seek lands $7.5M investment for AI that answers domain-specific questions | Kyle Wiggers | 2,023 | 1 | 11 | , an automation platform for data analytics tasks, today announced that it raised $7.5 million across pre-seed and seed rounds that had participation from Conviction Partners, Battery Ventures and former Snowflake CEO Bob Muglia. CEO Sarah Nagy says that the funding will be put toward growing Seek’s team into the next ... |
Want the Nothing phone in the US? Be a beta | Brian Heater | 2,023 | 1 | 10 | Here’s something that seems all but a guarantee: The way we purchase expensive electronics is going to change. Years after the U.S. began moving away from the carrier-based model of phone purchases, it seems as though we’re heading toward another sort of subscription model in the form of hardware as a service. Even wit... |
India’s Jio says it has rolled out 5G to over 100 cities in 100 days | Manish Singh | 2,023 | 1 | 11 | Jio Platforms said on Wednesday it has rolled out 5G to 101 cities in just as many days as the Indian telecom giant looks to court customers aggressively with faster data speeds. The firm said on Wednesday that its 5G network is now live across at least one city each in 18 Indian states. Bharti Airtel, Jio Platform’s c... |
Blaze makes coding more accessible with AI-driven, no code app builder | Ron Miller | 2,023 | 1 | 11 | There are lots of people out there with their finger on the pulse of the business, who have ideas on how to build useful apps, but lack basic coding skills and the ability to put their ideas to work. What if those people could describe an app they wanted to build, then add connectors to common data sources, or even bui... |
Meta rescinded some full-time job offers | Amanda Silberling | 2,023 | 1 | 11 | Meta rescinded full-time offers from some job candidates, a spokesperson confirmed. “As we continue to reassess our hiring needs, we’ve made the difficult decision to withdraw offers to a small number of candidates,” a Meta spokesperson told TechCrunch. “While this decision did not come lightly, it allows us to remain ... |
Hackers stole data of 460,000 individuals in MFHS ransomware attack | Carly Page | 2,023 | 1 | 11 | Pennsylvania-based nonprofit health provider Maternal & Family Health Services has confirmed cybercriminals accessed the sensitive data of close to half a million people. MFHS revealed that it had been hit by ransomware that exposed the personal data of current and former patients, employees and vendors. The healthca... |
Samsung is holding its next Galaxy Unpacked event on February 1, teases camera improvements | Ivan Mehta | 2,023 | 1 | 11 | Samsung announced today that it’s holding the next Galaxy Unpacked event on February 1 at 10:30 AM PT/1:30 PM ET. The company will expectedly announce the S23 series of phones at its first in-person event in three years. The South Korean tech giant is hosting this event in San Fransico with a “Get ready to share the ep... |
Meta’s main content moderation partner in Africa shuts down operations | Annie Njanja | 2,023 | 1 | 10 | Meta’s main subcontractor for content moderation in Africa, Sama, announced earlier Tuesday the closure of its content moderation arm at its hub in Kenya, citing the need to streamline operations. This comes months after Sama and Meta were and exploitation, and just weeks after called for Meta to increase its conte... |
Google users not given sufficient choice over its data processing, says German antitrust watchdog | Natasha Lomas | 2,023 | 1 | 11 | Bad news for Google in Germany — where the antitrust watchdog has issued a preliminary statement of objections over its data processing terms and said it’s currently planning to require the tech giant to provide users with more choice over what it does with their information. The Bundeskartellamt, or Federal Cartel Off... |
Peppy secures a $45M Series B to expand its B2B2C health services platform to the US | Mike Butcher | 2,023 | 1 | 10 | There are some mega-trends playing out across developed-world workforces that startups are picking up on. There’s the digitization of healthcare, the “platforming” of employee services and the macro effects of older employees, combined with the cost of living crisis for new parents. Founded in London in 2018, offer s... |
Daily Crunch: Citing ‘unscrupulous actors’ and market trends, Coinbase CEO lays off 950 workers | Christine Hall | 2,023 | 1 | 10 | Haje is still dazed from spending a week deep in the bowels of Las Vegas for CES 2023 but is grateful to be back in the Daily Crunch saddle. Let’s see what’s happening in tech land! — and German-based biotech company BioNTech — one of the big manufacturers of COVID-19 vaccines, among other things — , a Tunis-born a... |
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