In this edition of Week in Review, we cover Tinder's pricey new subscription, Amazon's investment in Anthropic and the features of Apple's next-gen AirPods.
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Color in web design: all you need to know
The success of any piece of visual communication depends on colour. Research into the impact of colour in marketing tells us that it takes the average person just 90 seconds
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4 Tips for boosting sales of your designs online
If you've been hard at work in your spare time creating stunning paper art or impressive poster designs, selling your merchandise online can be a quick way to...
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Classic Rubik's Cube gets a high-tech twist
Originally designed in 1974 and launched internationally in 1980, Rubik's Cube is a design classic that's sold by the hundreds of millions. Over the years, it...
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5 Quick-fire portfolio tips from design experts
Your design portfolio is one of your most useful tools. It can win you commissions, help you snag a new design job, attract collaborators, and get your work in...
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Get started with editorial design
Editorial design can be a daunting task for someone who isn’t used to formatting large amounts of text. The skills you'll need are different to those of...
Venture capital is opening the gates for defense tech
Anduril is symbolic of a trend in which defense tech and venture capital dollars are no longer antithetic.
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Kick streamers consider leaving over CEO’s comments in a sex worker ‘prank’ stream
Streamers are leaving Kick en masse in protest of the platform’s lack of safety guidelines, after a prominent creator streamed an encounter with a sex worker without informing her that there were other people present. She was briefly prevented from leaving after she expressed discomfort, while Kick’s CEO posted laughing emotes in the stream chat. ...
VW bails on its plan for a $2.1B EV plant in Germany
Volkswagen’s $2.1 billion plan to launch a dedicated electric-vehicle factory in Wolfsburg, Germany is kaput. The automaker instead reportedly plans to modify its existing plants in Zwickau and Wolfsburg to handle production of a new flagship EV — the postponed Project Trinity — and an all-electric Golf hatchback. This tracks with an earlier...
When predatory investors damage your chances of success
Welcome to Startups Weekly. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. You know what isn’t a great idea for my energy levels? Enjoying a week of TechCrunch Disrupt and then getting straight on a plane to attend a startup event in Oslo, Norway. I’ve only just gotten over my jet lag, […]
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VC Office Hours: How data can help improve social impact investing
Erin Harkless Moore talks about Pivotal Ventures’ investment strategy, and its future.
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BeReal pushes back at report that it’s losing steam, says it now has 25M daily users
Just under a year ago, the buzzy new social app BeReal looked to be on the rise, with reportedly 20 million users launching the app every day to snap their candid photos. However, in the months since, BeReal’s traction has declined, according to a new report from Similarweb, despite its rollout of new features like […]
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Mixin hacked for $200M, Worldcoin eyes greater expansion and Haun Ventures’ execs talk crypto regulation
Welcome back to Chain Reaction. We’re gearing up for the highly anticipated Sam Bankman-Fried trial. As for other news, it’s been an interesting and somewhat slower week for the crypto community.
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Pilot is a social travel hub that uses AI to help you plan, book and share trips
Pilot, a Vancouver-based startup, wants to become “the hub of global travel experience” and connect people via travel.
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Amazon wins interim stay on delivering a public ads archive in early challenge to EU’s Digital Services Act
Amazon has chalked up an early (partial) win in a court challenge related to the European Union’s designation of its ecommerce marketplace as subject to the strictest level of regulation under the bloc’s recently rebooted digital rulebook, the Digital Services Act (DSA). Today the EU General Court ruled in its favor by agreeing to suspend […]
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Meta Quest is getting a business platform next month
Meta’s Quest headsets have long been reliably consumer focused – at least until last year’s Quest Pro launch. Meta, like Magic Leap and Microsoft before it, has seen the writing on the wall. The real money is in enterprise. At today’s Connect conference in Menlo Park, CA, Meta teased Meta Quest for business. The platform […]
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Ask Sophie: How would a government shutdown affect the H-1B visa process?
Many federal agencies that deal with visa and green card processes are still trying to make their way through backlogs from the pandemic.
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Warner Music CEO Robert Kyncl says AI to impact the music industry within the next year
Warner Music CEO Robert Kyncl believes AI will be significantly impacting the music industry within the next year. Speaking at the Code Conference this week, the industry exec said the industry should soon expect the increasing quality of music made with AI technologies that comes at a very fast pace, and the industry’s best bet […]
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Open Robotics’ ROS is in safe grippers with Alphabet, says Intrinsic
The acquisition of Open Robotics received a mixed reception across the industry. “The aim of Intrinsic is to democratize the access to robotics,” says Wendy Tan White, CEO of Intrinsic.
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Why Solana, Polygon and Aptos expect the enterprise to drive mass adoption
As large enterprises enter the crypto space, there’s potential for “not only millions of users, but billions of users using web3 without even realizing it.”
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Uber is getting tighter with taxi companies
When Uber first launched its ride-hailing service, the company was more pariah than partner to the taxi industry. Some 12 years later, it seems to be the latter. Uber announced Tuesday a multi-year partnership with Los Angeles Yellow Cab and its five partner taxi fleets in Southern California. Under the arrangement, taxi drivers will have […]
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Signal’s Meredith Whittaker: AI is fundamentally ‘a surveillance technology’
Why is it that so many companies that rely on monetizing the data of their users seem to be extremely hot on AI? If you ask Signal president Meredith Whittaker (and I did), she’ll tell you it’s simply because “AI is a surveillance technology.” Onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023, Whittaker explained her perspective that AI […]
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Notetaking app Goodnotes invests $1.9M in digital stationary company WeBudding
Weeks after launching a digital stationary store within the app, notetaking company Goodnotes said today it has invested $1.9 million into South Korea-based digital stationary company WeBudding. WeBudding was founded by Donghwan Shin, Donggyun Ko, and Chaeyoung Lee in 2018. The trio started by selling physical paper notebooks catered towards university...
Google expands its subsea cable infrastructure with Nuvem, connecting the U.S., Bermuda, and Portuga
Google has announced another subsea cable system, as the internet giant strives to bolster its internet infrastructure and get more people using its array of cloud-based services. Dubbed “Nuvem,” the new cable represents one of more than a dozen cables that Google has invested in through the years, starting with Unity which went into operation […]
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Amazon to invest up to $4 billion in AI startup Anthropic
Amazon said Monday it has agreed to invest up to $4 billion in the AI startup Anthropic as the e-commerce group steps up rivalry against Microsoft, Meta, Google and Nvidia in the fast-growing sector that many technologists believe could be the next great frontier. The e-commerce group said it will initially invest $1.25 billion for […]
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Correcto grabs $7M to build out its ‘Grammarly for Spanish’
The generative AI boom has put a spring in the step of Correcto, a Madrid-based language writing tool startup focused on Spanish speakers that’s today announcing $7 million in seed funding. The round is led by London-based Octopus Ventures, with Carya Venture Partners and River Park Ventures also contributing. The founding team began work on […]
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California governor vetoes bill to ban driverless AV trucks
California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill Friday that would have required a human safety operator to be present any time a self-driving truck operated on public roads in the state. The win for the autonomous trucking industry comes after the California Senate had passed the bill in mid-September. The bill would have effectively banned […]
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A conversation with Cruise’s Kyle Vogt, Bird scoops up Spin, and self-driving trucks live to see another day in Cali
The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive the newsletter every weekend in your inbox. Subscribe for free. Welcome back to The Station, your central hub for all past, present and future means of moving people and packages from Point A to Point B....
Building an equitable cap table puts more tools in a startup’s toolbox
Building an equitable cap table allows startups to bring on experts they wouldn't be able to hire while making VC more diverse.
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Despite the ups and downs of the fintech space, people still really care about it
Welcome back to The Interchange, where we take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. If you want to receive The Interchange directly in your inbox every Sunday, head here to sign up! Disrupt! Last week, our team was at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023, which featured a dedicated fintech stage for the first time […]
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Elon Musk threatens to charge for X, OpenAI launches DALL-E 3 and Cisco acquires Splunk
Welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular newsletter covering the past few days in tech. The TC crew — including this reporter — is coming off the high of Disrupt, which hopefully some of you, dear readers, were able to attend in person. Fret not if you didn’t — there’s always next year, and […]
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Disability tech startups kill the cynic in me
"Accessibility is a human right," reads a sticker from the Howe Innovation Center. And for sure, it is great to see startups help companies make this a reality.
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LimeLoop’s sleek reusable mailers seek to replace cardboard boxes
The startup’s smart mailers are reusable dozens of times, reducing the carbon footprint by 90% compared with cardboard boxes.
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Unity U-turns on controversial runtime fee and begs forgiveness
Unity has done a 180 on a controversial new pricing scheme that users of its cross-platform game engine almost unanimously disparaged.
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Yes, you have to update your Apple devices again, because spyware is bad
Apple has released urgent security updates for iPhones, iPads, Macs, Apple Watch, and Safari users to block two active spyware campaigns.
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Akowe wants to fix Africa’s broken certificate system with blockchain
The crypto industry has long been criticized for its disconnection with the real world, but there are players who try to show that the underlying blockchain technology can solve some of our most pressing challenges in today’s society — especially in regions where basic infrastructure is lacking. Akowe, a Nairobi-based startup that is part of […]
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Former a16z execs launch Bastion
Bastion launched a suite of products so companies can integrate web3 infrastructure into their existing enterprise technologies.
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UK bolts US ‘data bridge’ deal onto EU-US Data Privacy Framework
The U.K. government has officially confirmed it will piggyback on a transatlantic data transfer deal between the European Union and the U.S. by bolting on an extension that is dubbed the "U.K.-U.S. data bridge."
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Mainstack’s no-code online business service eliminates cross-border payment complexity
Ayobami Oyaleke and Olamide Akinola grew up in Nigeria dreaming of launching a tech startup. Today they are living that dream with Mainstack, a no-code website-building tool for small business owners that includes a twist: a tool that makes it easy to accept cross-border payments. Mainstack is also part of the 2023 TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield […]
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GitHub expands access to Copilot Chat to individual users
Three months ago, GitHub launched Copilot Chat, its ChatGPT-like programming-centric chatbot, out of private preview by making it available to organizations with a Copilot for Business subscription. Today, it’s taking this a step further by also opening up the Copilot Chat beta to all current GitHub Copilot for Individual subscribers in Visual Studio...
Flint wants to disrupt the battery industry with paper
Lithium-ion batteries have become the standard in the electrification revolution. In fact, they’ve become so unquestionably integral to the development of batteries that everyone from government to automakers to big oil is rushing to shore up access to the mineral. The only problem is, lithium is expensive, time-consuming and labor-intensive to extract....
International Criminal Court says hackers accessed its systems
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has said it experienced a cyberattack last week after hackers accessed its internal systems. The ICC, headquartered in The Hague, Netherlands, is the only permanent war crimes tribunal. Established in 2002, the court is currently investigating crimes against humanity in Ukraine. The organization on Tuesday confirmed...
AirPods Pro get USB-C and a few new tricks
No name change. The AirPods Pro 2 are still the AirPods Pro 2. Apple’s high-end earbuds got the blink-and-you’ll-miss-it treatment during last week’s iPhone 15 event. In fact, I both blinked and missed it, while heads down on a news story. My suspicion is the company’s failure to give the buds much stage time is […]
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TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 opens tomorrow!
Buckle up and get ready to take your business to the next level. TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 begins tomorrow — take a peek at what to expect!
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Boxbot pivots from last-mile trucks to robotical parcel storage
I love a good pivot story. It’s something most startups will confront at some point or other, if they’re going to make it long term. In a category where luck, timing and market forces are at least half the battle, you’ve got to be willing to roll with the punches. Boxbot has been kicking around […]
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Procurement management platform Levelpath raises $30M
Back in 2014, Stan Garber and Alex Yakubovich set out to reinvent the request for proposals (RFP) process with the launch of Scout RFP, which provides a cloud-based sourcing solution designed to help organizations source faster — and, ideally, easier. Scout RFP was acquired by Workday in 2019, and Garber and Yakubovich decided to stay […]
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Dragos raises $74M to secure industrial control systems from threats
Dragos, a company building software to secure the control systems for manufacturing and industrial equipment, has raised $74 million in a Series D round extension led by WestCap. The round, which brings Dragos’ total raised to $440 million, leaves the startup’s post-money valuation unchanged for the second year at $1.7 billion. Dragos CEO Robert Lee...
Roam unveils new EV bus model to tap Kenya’s mass transit sector
Kenya-based EV startup Roam has unveiled a new shuttle bus model dubbed Move, coming as the East African country continues to push for the adoption of electric vehicles. Roam (formerly Opibus) now plans to ramp up its production of the Move bus, and expand its charging infrastructure as it anticipates a growth in EV bus […]
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Prosus, Naspers CEO Bob van Dijk abruptly steps down
Bob van Dijk, the chief executive of Naspers and Prosus, has stepped down from his position effective immediately in a surprising move at the firms that own and are major backers of several large software businesses and startups globally. Ervin Tu, presently Prosus’ Group Chief Investment Officer, has been promoted as interim chief executive of...
An autoworkers strike trifecta and another speed bump for Cruise and Waymo
Welcome back to The Station, your central hub for all past, present and future means of moving people and packages from Point A to Point B.
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Erik Buell on the future of electric motorcycles
The future of mopeds and motorcycles is electric, Erik Buell says. He sees mopeds and motorcycles playing a greater role in transportation.
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TechCrunch+ picks: 9 books set around San Francisco
San Francisco is in a constant state of reinvention, and the many books set in or based on the Bay Area help prove it.
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Real estate tech companies continue to get hammered by high mortgage rates
Once valued at over $2 billion, rent-to-own startup Divvy Homes conducted its third round of layoffs in a year's time.
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The iPhone 15 gets USB-C, a redesigned Cybertruck surfaces and California considers banning AV trucks
Hey, friendly people, and welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular newsletter that aggregates the top tech news over the past few days. It’s our humble opinion that there’s no better place to get caught up on the industry’s happenings, whether you’re a news junkie or simply among the tech-curious. In this edition of […]
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The future of batteries needs more than venture capital
French battery maker Verkor secured more than €2 billion (around $2.1 billion) to build its Dunkirk gigafactory, which is set to be operational by 2025.
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Varda Space puts off orbital factory reentry pending Air Force and FAA green light
The U.S. Air Force denied a recent request from Varda Space Industries to land its capsule at a Utah training area, pushing back the startup’s plans to show off the fruits of its in-space manufacturing, TechCrunch has learned. The company is also still awaiting a reentry license from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, a USAF […]
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Firefly and Millennium Space’s Victus Nox mission sets a new record for responsive launch
Firefly Aerospace successfully launched a satellite for the U.S. Space Force last night with just 24 hours’ notice, in a record-setting demonstration of rapid launch capabilities for national security missions. The Space Force gave Firefly notice to launch on September 13, at which point the 24-hour clock started ticking. Within that window, Firefly...
Is Instacart’s new IPO price range justified?
In its S-1, Instacart describes itself as a "grocery technology company." But does that warrant a tech valuation?
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Answering AI’s biggest questions requires an interdisciplinary approach
Ethical AI requires a deep understanding of what there is, what we want, what we think we know, and how intelligence unfolds.
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TechCrunch+ Roundup: New life for old B2B leads, LatAm VC survey, treasury management basics
It’s shaping up to be a very busy week, so we’ll be back on Friday, September 22 with a new TC+ Roundup.
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Pitch Deck Teardown: Learn.xyz’s $3M seed deck
There's a lot to love about this cute, animated pitch deck, except one thing.
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Your B2B leads are going to waste
Your B2B leads will go to waste unless you begin to create lapsed buckets and develop a strategy to attack them head-on.
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Meet Abu Dhabi ECA, Jorie Healthcare, Establish PR and Scalable Path at TC Disrupt 2023
TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 is mere days away, people! We can’t wait to welcome you and watch the inspiration, collaboration and opportunities unfold. This epic event could not happen without the steadfast support of our partners. But they do more than support — they participate, they educate, they engage. The final four partners at TechCrunch Disrupt...
Arm after the IPO
“The growth of AI, I believe, is the growth of Arm,” Arm EVP and Chief Commercial Officer Will Abbey told me this morning, minutes before the chip designer’s stock started trading on Nasdaq. While AI may not always be the first thing you think about when you hear about Arm, when I asked Abbey about […]
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DistroKid acquires website builder Bandzoogle to expand its toolset for artists
Independent music distribution service DistroKid announced its recent acquisition of Bandzoogle, the website builder designed for musicians. The financial details of the transaction weren’t publicly disclosed. The acquisition is a smart move for the company since DistroKid users can now power digital, physical and on-demand sales “within the DistroKid...
Cruise reveals wheelchair-accessible robotaxi with testing to begin next month
Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt revealed Thursday in San Francisco a prototype of a custom-built, wheelchair accessible, self-driving robotaxi and said that closed course testing of the driverless vehicle would begin in October. The vehicle, called the Cruise WAV, is the result of three years of product design, development and testing by Cruise and GM along...
USDC issuer Circle expands Asia focus in push to enter the region’s flourishing payments ecosystem
How can Asian businesses send and receive payments cheaper, faster and more securely? Circle thinks the answer may come from blockchain and stablecoins.
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TikTok’s revamped creator fund expands beyond the US to Brazil, Germany, Korea and more
TikTok is expanding its revamped creator fund, called the “Creativity Program Beta,” beyond the United States. The program is now available to eligible creators in Brazil, France, Germany, Japan, Korea and the United Kingdom. The company began testing the new program with select creators in February. The new program essentially replaces TikTok’s...
Digital forensics firm Binalyze raises $19M to investigate cyber threats
Binalyze, a London-based startup building a toolset for digital forensics and incident response, this week announced that it raised $19 million in a Series A round led by Molten Ventures with participation from Cisco Investments, Citibank Ventures and Deutsche Bank Ventures. Founder and CEO Emre Tinaztepe says that the tranche, which brings Binalyze’s...
Sapphire Ventures is now managing all of CalSTR’s emerging manager portfolio
Sapphire Partners, the LP arm of enterprise software-focused VC Sapphire Ventures, announced this morning that moving forward, it will be managing five funds with $1.4 billion in assets that are focused on emerging managers on behalf of the giant California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS). In fact, according to CalSTRS, which currently...
Exostellar raises $15M to help companies optimize their cloud spend
Public cloud services spending is projected to reach $1.1 trillion by 2026, up from $531.7 billion this year, according to IDC. But as the use of cloud services expands, organizations are having a tougher time keeping track of exactly how much they’re spending on compute. Statista reports that around 82% of companies find managing cloud […]
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Apple Event 2023: Everything announced so far
Don’t have time to tune in live to the Apple Event 2023? That’s ok — we’re here to bring you the most important parts.
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Techstars selects 12 companies for its fall space accelerator
Techstars has chosen twelve companies to join its aerospace accelerator, a thirteen-week program which runs in partnership with the U.S. Space Force and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The new cohort includes eleven American companies and one from Australia. Matt Kozlov, Techstars managing director, told TechCrunch that he has a particular feeling...
WhatsApp has reluctantly started work on cross-platform messaging due to EU regulation
Last week, the European Union named the six big tech companies that should be considered as gatekeepers in one way or another under the Digital Markets Act (DMA). And just a few days later, as WABetaInfo first reported, a new beta version of WhatsApp features a new screen called “third-party chats” — this represents the […]
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0xPass raises $1.8M from Balaji Srinivasan and others to build secure login systems for web3
0xPass is among the many startups trying to make crypto wallets secure and convenient for mass adoption. Specifically, it’s solving the login piece of user experience, which, at the moment, is cumbersome and requires users to have a decent level of technical know-how. Incubated at the Stanford Blockchain Club, 0xPass allows developers to build multiple...
Common Trust grabs $2.6M to give business owners employee-focused succession plans
Common Trust works with business owners to design, finance and execute an employee ownership buyout so that owners or investors can access liquidity by exiting to employees.
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Open Cosmos, a UK satellite startup focused on sustainability, raises $50M
Satellites have come into focus as a critical way — and sometimes the only way — to deliver communications and receive data about certain locations around the world, a power position that can be heroic but also ripe for abuse, and that’s before considering how their presence contributes to the growing problem of space debris. […]
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India to explore London Stock Exchange for listing local firms
India will explore the possibility of allowing local firms to list on the London Stock Exchange, ministers from both the nations said Monday, in a move that could allow firms in the South Asian nation to gain access to foreign capital for growth. Outside of New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq, the London Stock Exchange […]
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Coinbase to discontinue services in India later this month
Coinbase plans to cease all exchange services for users in India, it has warned some customers in email, over a year after the company’s debut in the South Asian market faced regulatory challenges. The global crypto exchange is warning customers that it will be discontinuing services for them after September 25 and advising them to […]
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SoftBank bets on ex-Argo AI founders, Flexport’s founder cleans house and Cruise digs in
Welcome back to The Station, your central hub for all past, present and future means of moving people and packages from Point A to Point B. This week was packed with news, including in the world of startups — our favorite arena. Before we jump in, let me direct your attention to Friday’s Equity Podcast […]
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A program so nice, these founders did YC twice
Parker Conrad may be best known as the founder of both Zenefits and Rippling, but he is also arguably the best-known founder to have gone through Y Combinator’s accelerator program twice. Of course, he’s not the only one to go through the program twice; some founders have even gone through three times. Y Combinator has […]
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LexisNexis is embracing generative AI to ease legal writing and research
LexisNexis has always been a go-to source for lawyers, but the company is adding AI to make it easier to draft briefs and do research
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Finding business opportunity in startup failure
Welcome back to the Interchange! While we would love for all startups to succeed, the reality is that the vast majority fail. It’s not something that people often talk about, because quite frankly, it can be a downer topic. But failure is a part of life, and many founders who don’t succeed once do try, […]
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Apple Event 2023: iPhone 15, new Apple Watches and everything else to expect
Not all who wonder are lust. Some of us will be forming an orderly queue in the holding room at One Apple Park Way on Tuesday morning. At 10 AM PT on September 12, Tim Cook and co. will be back at it, showcasing the latest gear ahead of the big holiday push. There are […]
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Y Combinator Demo Day, smart chastity cage hacked, and the feds investigate Tesla
Hey, lovely people — it’s that time of week again: Week in Review (WiR) time. For those unfamiliar, WiR is TechCrunch’s regular newsletter that recaps the major events in tech over the past few days. If you’ve been too busy to keep tabs on recent happenings, don’t panic. WiR is here to get you up […]
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Rainbow or storm?
Some fintech companies are weathering the storm better than others and seeing an end in sight.
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Flexport founder rescinds dozens of job offers to get ‘house in order’ days after CEO pushed out
When Flexport founder Ryan Petersen picked Amazon consumer chief Dave Clark to lead the buzzy freight forwarding and logistics startup, he noted that they needed an “entrepreneur” and a builder, not another executive. It seems the pair had different visions for what that meant. And now, with Clark suddenly out after just one year on […]
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Ready, set, network at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023
With less than two weeks to go until TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 kicks off in San Francisco, we’re here with a reminder that networking is job fun at Disrupt! Yes, networking is serious business, and with more than 10,000 attendees, you’ll find plenty of opportunities to build the connections that build your business. That said, it […]
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5 steps for assembling AI-driven business teams
We used OpenAI’s ChatGPT to assemble an AI-driven team: the results obtained were solid, and the evidence was clear.
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Pitch Deck Teardown: Tomorrow University’s $10M Series A deck
Decks for education-based startups are pretty rare. Here's how Tomorrow University landed that $10 million.
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TechCrunch+ Roundup: YC Demo Days, blockchain’s killer app, comparing seed investors
Most startups never get past the pitch deck stage, so getting an investor to say yes can become a founder’s all-encompassing desire.
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Korea Blockchain Week focused on web3 gaming, institutional involvement, investors, regulation…and more
Welcome back to Chain Reaction. To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important crypto stories delivered to your inbox every Thursday at 12 p.m. PT, subscribe here. Annyeong, or hello, friends! While I’m typically based in New York City, this week I’m reporting from Seoul, South Korea for Korea Blockchain Week. The week […]
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Exposed: A closer look at seed investors’ biases and incentives
Pricing too high at early stage is rife with issues that can plague the company's growth if it doesn't operate to perfection.
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AI reading coach startup Ello raises $15M to bolster child literacy
Ello aims to eradicate childhood illiteracy by leveraging artificial intelligence and child speech recognition technology. The startup announced today that it secured $15 million in Series A financing to help it do so, and the funding will go toward product development and expanding access to consumers. “Ello is one of those great companies,” Coddy...
What we expect from Apple’s ‘Wonderlust’ 15 event
Not all who wonder are lust. Some of us will be forming an orderly queue in the holding room at One Apple Park Way on Tuesday morning. At 10 AM PT September 12, Tim Cook and co. will be back at it, showcasing the latest gear ahead of the big holiday push. There are two […]
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Imbue raises $200M to build AI models that can ‘robustly reason’
Imbue, the AI research lab formerly known as Generally Intelligent, has raised $200 million in a Series B funding round that values the company at over $1 billion. Among those participating are the Astera Institute, Nvidia, Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt and Notion co-founder Simon Last. The new tranche takes Imbue’s total raised to $220 million, […]
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Ransomware gang claims credit for Sabre data breach
Travel booking giant Sabre said it was investigating claims of a cyberattack after a tranche of files purportedly stolen from the company appeared on an extortion group’s leak site. “Sabre is aware of the claims of a data exfiltration made by the threat group and we are currently investigating to determine their validity,” Sabre spokesperson […]
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Twitter alternative T2 gets its own For You feed, but won’t force it as the default
The would-be Twitter rival T2 has already launched a number of features hoping to capture the attention of Twitter’s fleeing users, including built-in direct messages and a verification program that allowed Twitter users to import their legacy checkmark before it disappeared on the Elon Musk-owned app, which recently rebranded as X. Today, however,...
Voiijer’s new app offers a social community for nature-lovers and explorers
Social media often disconnects people from the real world, keeping people inside scrolling feeds on their phones. A new social app Voiijer wants to do the opposite by connecting nature enthusiasts to the world’s wonders, where they can create community, share their adventures, document their discoveries, and collaborate with others on expeditions....
OnePlus’ North American CEO is speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023
We’ve got one last addition to Thursday’s Hardware Stage, and it’s a good one. Robin Liu, OnePlus’ North American CEO, will round out the lineup. After a stint at Chinese TV manufacturer Skyworth, Liu joined OnePlus in 2018 to run the smartphone maker’s television and supply chain teams. The executive spent two years heading up […]
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How can startups help close the EV charging gap?
Given the wide gap in supply and demand of EV chargers, there are massive opportunities for startups focused on the space.
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YouTube confirms it’s testing a games offering called ‘Playables’
YouTube is letting a select number of users play online games as part of a new experiment. The games will live in a new “Playables” section on YouTube’s home feed, and can be accessed on both desktop and mobile. This confirms a previous report by the Wall Street Journal, which wrote that Playables would feature […]
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FedNow will expose fintech’s gaps: Compliance-by-design can help banks avoid risk
The best financial technologies will be those created through the lens of regulatory limitations — a compliance by design approach.
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Telecom operators in India want tech companies to pay for network usage
Telecom operators in India are urging internet companies to compensate for using their networks, a recommendation they’ve made to the local regulatory body, echoing a viewpoint that is gaining some momentum in other parts of the world. Jio, India’s largest telecom operator with 450 million subscribers, said it wants internet companies to “contribute”...
Protestors rally at Cruise HQ in San Francisco
Protestors gathered Monday outside Cruise’s headquarters in San Francisco after reports of one of its robotaxis blocking an ambulance with a patient on board who later died. The incident, which the San Francisco Fire Department reported last week, happened on August 14, when a driver hit a pedestrian in the city around 11 p.m. The […]
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myZoi wants to make remittances less costly for migrant workers
Money sent home by migrant workers not only helps their families, but also enables entire economies to develop. But transferring money comes at a high cost to workers, with remittance fees averaging about 6.5%. MyZoi wants to cut fees by more than half, starting with the five million low-income migrant workers in the United Arab […]
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Elon Musk to sue ADL for accusing him, X of antisemitism
In the newest uproar you might have missed, Elon Musk says X, formerly Twitter, will file a defamation lawsuit against the Anti-Defamation League. Musk accused the ADL, an organization that works to combat antisemitism, extremism and bigotry, of falsely accusing him and X of being antisemitic. “To clear our platform’s name on the matter of […]
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Max Q: An inside look at Astra’s Apollo Fusion acquisition
In this issue: Astra’s Apollo Fusion acquisition followed by delays and desertion, news from SpaceX and more
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Level up on the Builders Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt
TechCrunch Disrupt, our flagship startup event, returns to San Francisco on September 19–21, and you can bet TechCrunch+ will be in the house. With excitement and pride, here’s what we have in store for you on the Builders Stage at Disrupt on what I predict will be the most whip-ass stage at the event. See […]
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Indian fintechs amplify sound box pitches to woo merchants
Some of India’s biggest fintech startups are making deeper inroads into sound boxes, unveiling new push to the pocket-sized devices whose chimes are fast becoming the new ‘ka-ching’ for millions of Indian merchants. Paytm, whose soundbox leads the market and is used by over 7 million merchants, launched an advanced version of the device that […]
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Nigerian embedded finance platform Anchor raises $2.4M to expand product offerings
Anchor, a Nigerian banking-as-a-service (BaaS) provider, has raised $2.4 million in seed investment. Justin Kan’s Goat Capital led the financing round which also welcomed participation from FoundersX, Rebel Fund and some existing investors, including Y Combinator and Byld Ventures. The fintech emerged from stealth a year ago with over $1...
Qept is a simple iOS note-taking app that is all about texting yourself
People have a habit of using messaging apps to send things to themselves. So much so that chat apps like WhatsApp, Signal, and Telegram have built-in features for bookmarking or note-taking. Developer Willem de Beijer has developed a new note-taking app for iOS called Qept with the “DM-to-yourself” phenomenon in mind. The developer said that, […]
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Jude is building a bladder health champion
Bladder health isn’t the sexiest subject in the world so it probably won’t surprise you there are so few startups focused on the area. Only one actually, according to Jude founder Peony Li — who’s just closed a $4.24 million seed round for her London-based bladder health startup to expand into the US. But that […]
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What’s up with Qi2 and why should you care?
If you’ve been following the onslaught of gadget news out of Berlin this week, you’ve no doubt heard Qi2 pop up more than once. Notably, Anker and Mophie have both announced products that adopt the standard. So, [Seinfeld voice] what’s the deal with Qi2? Should you care and can the sequel ever truly be better […]
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Launch into the future with the complete Space Stage agenda at TC Disrupt 2023
We’re out-of-this-world excited to announce the complete Space Stage agenda at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023. We’re joining forces with the Aerospace Corporation to host this stage and of course are excited to hear the startup pitches from the Space Domain Awareness Challenge Pitch-off. Space tech, while one of the most complex and costly endeavors, provides...
Crypto funding in August wasn’t as good as the numbers may lead you to believe
At this point, it seems the only thing that could shake up the seemingly never-ending decline in venture interest in crypto would be a drastic thawing of the crypto winter.
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Watered-down SEC fund disclosure changes still worth paying attention to
While VCs may have dodged a bullet regarding what fund disclosure rules the SEC did pass, they shouldn't overlook them.
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Inside Rent Butter: Why credit scores shouldn’t tell the whole story
Welcome back to The Interchange, where we take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. As we head into a long holiday weekend here in the U.S., we look at — among other things — a surprising tie-up between Amazon and Shopify, Klarna’s Q2 results, and a startup out to make […]
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Amazon increases fees, ChatGPT comes to the enterprise, and Apple announces a press conference
Welcome, folks, to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s newsletter that recaps the major happenings in tech over the past few days. If you’ve been too slammed to follow the developments play-by-play, you’ve come to the right place. That’s what WiR is for. In this edition of WiR, we cover Teamshares, a New York–based VC-backed startup […]
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Should the US implement a ‘robot tax?’
A version of this story original appeared in TechCrunch’s weekly robotics newsletter, Actuator. Subscribe here. A big and often unremarked upon aspect of being a reporter is knowing your audience. It’s not always as straightforward as it sounds — particularly when writing about tech. You’re always walking that tightrope between over- and under-explaining....
Making the world a better place?
Managing returns efficiently is a necessity for online sellers; to keep their customers happy to retain them, but also because reducing their environmental impact becomes no longer optional.
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Apple-backed Globalstar inks $64M launch contract with SpaceX
Globalstar, a satellite network operator backed by Apple, has purchased launches from SpaceX worth $64 million, according to regulatory filings. The launches, which are scheduled for 2025, will send at least 17 new satellites to low Earth orbit to replenish Globalstar’s existing constellation. Globalstar entered into a $327 million purchase agreement...
Could AI be the spark that ends the opioid epidemic?
Researchers have spent almost two decades trying to better understand the social and systemic factors behind opioid addiction.
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Magic Leap’s original headset will stop working at the end of 2024
As a company, Magic Leap moved on from its first headset some time ago. Along with a new CEO came a major pivot. With the Magic Leap 2, the startup went all in on enterprise — a far safer and more lucrative bet than the fickle world of gaming. Still, the Magic Leap 1 has […]
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