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Australian space startup Esper wants to build hyperspec...

Australian remote sensing startup Esper wants to capture hyperspectral imagery from space at a fraction of the price of its compet...

Streamer Deezer cheers Apple antitrust fine, but calls ...

Streaming music service Deezer is joining Spotify in cheering the European Union’s €1.84 billion fine imposed on Apple for breakin...

Why Signal ‘turned our architecture inside out’ for its...

Adding usernames to a messaging app may seem like a standard feature, but for Signal, such identifiers were anathema to its missio...

Ex-Brex exec Sam Blond is already leaving Founders Fund...

Sam Blond is leaving Founders Fund, as well as the profession of venture capitalist, just 18 months after he joined the storied Si...

Anthropic claims its new AI chatbot models beat OpenAI’...

AI startup Anthropic, backed by Google and hundreds of millions in venture capital (and perhaps soon hundreds of millions more), t...

Google’s latest Pixel Drop will let users post high-qua...

Google today announced its latest set of Pixel-related features for phones, tablets, and watches, such as 10-bit video support for...

Apple’s €1.84B fine, new AI rules in India and the lat...

This time on Equity, we talk through Apple's massive fine in the EU, India's new rules for AI, Waymo's wins, and Salla's huge pre-...

Epic Games’ Tim Sweeney calls out Apple’s ‘bitter gripi...

“Denial is a river that flows through Cupertino!,” said Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney, a notorious Apple critic who also sued the tec...

Disrupt 2024 call for speakers now open

Got the passion and the know-how, and want to make a difference in tech? Then mark your calendars for TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 happ...

Anthropic claims its new models beat GPT-4

AI startup Anthropic, backed by hundreds of millions in venture capital (and perhaps soon hundreds of millions more), today announ...

Instagram now lets you edit DMs up to 15 mins after sen...

Instagram announced today that it’s rolling out the ability for users to edit their direct messages for up to 15 minutes after sen...

Razor and Perch merge, raise $100M on a $1.7B valuation...

Just days after the bankruptcy of Thrasio, two other significant players in the world of e-commerce aggregators are merging and ra...

Epic Games Tim Sweeney calls out Apple’s ‘bitter gripin...

“Denial is a river that flows through Cupertino!,” said Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney, a notorious Apple critic who also sued the tec...

Punkt rocks its minimalist roots with ‘privacy-first’ M...

Punkt first made a name for itself in the world of mobile with pared-down, monochromatic phones focused on voice, text, and not mu...

Should we ban ransom payments?

As cybercriminals continue to reap the financial rewards of their attacks, talk of a federal ban on ransom payments is getting lou...

Airbnb has a new label to denote its top (and worst) li...

Airbnb already has labels like “Guest favorites” and “Superhost” to indicate the quality of a property or the host. Now the compan...

Mews, the hotel SaaS startup, books $110M at a $1.2B va...

Tourism continues to bounce back in the wake of Covid-19, with 2023 raking in $2.23 trillion globally, surpassing pre-pandemic lev...

Apple plans to appeal European Commission’s massive ant...

Apple says it plans to appeal the historic €1.84 billion fine issued today by the European Commission over Apple’s anticompetitive...

Apple’s €1.84B fine, new AI rules in India, and the la...

This time on Equity, we talk through Apple's massive fine in the EU, India's new rules for AI, Waymo's wins, and Salla's huge pre-...

Topsort helps e-commerce create ads without being ‘cree...

Topsort develops retail media technology for small businesses to use auctions as a way to create effective advertising. © 2024 Tec...

TikTok launches data portability API ahead of Europe’s ...

TikTok is introducing a data portability API to help it comply with new European regulations designed to rein in Big Tech’s market...

Apple fined €1.84BN in EU over anti-steering on iOS mus...

The European Union has fined Apple €1.84 billion for breaching antitrust rules in the market for music streaming services on its m...

Spotify calls Apple’s €1.84B antitrust fine a ‘powerful...

Spotify is cheering the European Commission’s decision to hold Apple accountable for anticompetitive practices in the streaming mu...

Qatar reportedly has a $100M fund for startups

Qatar unveiled its startup investment program at the recent Web Summit through its development bank. The program aims to attract s...

Apple announces new 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Air mod...

Apple announced new MacBook Air models with 13-inch and 15-inch screen sizes with M3 Chip. The 13-inch model starts at $1,099 and ...

Apple fined $1.84BN in EU over anti-steering on iOS mus...

The European Union has fined Apple €1.84 billion for breaching antitrust rules in the market for music streaming services on its m...

When your cap table makes your startup uninvestable

The problem here is that the company has given up more than two-thirds of its equity to raise $3.3 million. © 2024 TechCrunch. All...

Indonesia fintech Wagely makes bank while helping the u...

Wagely, a fintech out of Indonesia, made a name for itself with earned wage access: a way for workers in Southeast Asian countries...

India reverses AI stance, requires government approval ...

India has waded into global AI debate by issuing an advisory that requires tech firms to get government permission before launchin...

Waymo scores a critical robotaxi permit, Fisker cuts mo...

TechCrunch Mobility is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click TechCrunch Mobility —...

Camshaft says Byju’s unit beneficial owner of $533 mill...

Camshaft disclosed in court filings this week that some $533 million it managed for Byju’s Alpha, a U.S. unit of Indian edtech gro...

Plug In South LA helps build diverse startups in a trad...

Derek Smith launched Plug In South LA with goal of helping historically under represented people build successful startups. © 2024...

When startups fail, these startups clean up

Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech (formerly The Interchange)! Apologies for being out last week — a cold got the best of me, but I’m b...

Francine Bennett uses data science to make AI more resp...

TechCrunch has launched a series of interviews focusing on remarkable women who’ve contributed to the AI revolution. © 2024 TechCr...

Apple cancels its car, Google’s AI goes awry and Bumble...

Hello, folks, welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s newsletter covering noteworthy happenings in the tech industry. This w...

Taiko raises $37M to build web3 infrastructure for a ce...

Amid the speculation and volatility in the casino-like crypto land, there remains a subset of individuals who espouse blockchain’s...

Apple abandons its car: Here are other projects the com...

Apple has scrapped plans to enter the automotive industry with its mysterious autonomous electric car, instead shifting focus to t...

Nubank CEO dishes on the neobank’s profit surge and how...

Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, and welcome back to Equity, the podcast about the business of startups, wher...

Karine Perset helps governments understand AI

TechCrunch has launched a series of interviews focusing on remarkable women who’ve contributed to the AI revolution. © 2024 TechCr...

Connect with HomeHQ.ai, SOSV, Prepare 4 VC, Latham & Wa...

We are thrilled to collaborate with some of the most influential players in the startup ecosystem to craft an exceptional experien...

VC Trae Stephens says he has a bunker (and much more) i...

Last night, for an evening hosted by StrictlyVC, this editor sat down with Trae Stephens, a former government intelligence analyst...

Waymo can now charge for robotaxi rides in LA and on Sa...

Waymo received approval Friday afternoon from the California Public Utilities Commission to operate a commercial robotaxi service ...

Rabbit’s Jesse Lyu on the nature of startups: ‘Grow fas...

Rabbit co-founder and CEO Jesse Lyu isn’t afraid of death… the death of the company, at least. He told TechCrunch that the company...

MWC 2024: Everything announced so far, including Swayy’...

The TechCrunch team is in Barcelona this week to bring you all the action going on at Mobile World Congress 2024. © 2024 TechCrunc...

Stay up-to-date on the amount of venture dollars going ...

Stay up-to-date on the latest funding news for Black and women founders. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use...


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