Category: Technology

Leaked documents show Techstars lost $7 million in 2023...

Cuts to Techstars’ staff and its decision to shutter certain accelerators came after it missed its 2023 revenue goals, according t...

Toyota wants hydrogen to succeed so bad it’s paying peo...

Despite automakers like Toyota and Honda pushing fuel-cell vehicles, hydrogen’s future lies elsewhere. © 2024 TechCrunch. All righ...

Morph Studio lets you make flims using Stability AI–gen...

Want to weave various Stability AI–generated video clips into a movie? Now there’s a tool for that. Morph Studio, which has its ow...

Bluesky snags former Twitter/X Trust & Safety exec cut ...

Emerging decentralized social network and X rival Bluesky has just landed a notable former Twitter leader as its new Head of Trust...

MWC 2024: Everything announced so far, including Nothin...

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

Anycubic users say their 3D printers were hacked to war...

Anycubic customers are reporting that their 3D printers have been hacked and now display a message warning of an alleged security ...

Anamorph’s generative technology reorders scenes to cre...

Anamorph, a new filmmaking and technology company, announced its launch today. The startup, founded by filmmaker Gary Hustwit and ...

Hyundai-backed autonomous company Motional cuts 5% of w...

Motional, the autonomous vehicle company borne out of a joint venture between Hyundai Moor Group and Aptiv, told employees Wednesd...

Former Snap design lead debuts Shader, an AR creation t...

Shader aims to challenge industry heavyweights like Snap’s AR development platform Lens Studio and TikTok’s Effect House, with its...

Morph Studio lets you make flims using Stability AI-gen...

Want to weave various Stability AI-generated video clips into a movie? Now there’s a tool for that. Morph Studio, which has its ow...

Substack gets more social with the launch of DMs

Substack is introducing direct messaging, allowing users to have private one-on-one conversations, the company announced today. DM...

Following the Bitcoin surge, Coinbase’s app is showing ...

Bitcoin’s rally is turning out to be bad news for Coinbase, the crypto trading app that has just confirmed some of its customers a...

Liveliness is a sports community app for finding new wo...

Finding people who share your active passion — to go hiking, biking, running, whatever — is a pretty enduring problem. Existing fr...

India lays foundations for a new spaceport dedicated to...

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has received the go-ahead to construct a new spaceport in Tamil Nadu, with which it ...

Adobe reveals a GenAI tool for music

There’s plenty of GenAI-powered music editing and creation tools out there, but Adobe wants to put its own spin on the concept. To...

Polestar lands $1B loan to keep EV plans on track

Polestar secured a $950 million loan from a dozen banks, critical funds needed to keep its EV plans moving forward following Volvo...

Telegram is launching ad revenue sharing next month usi...

Telegram CEO and founder Pavel Durov announced today that the company is launching its ad platform next month, allowing channel ow...

YouTube’s Create app, a competitor to TikTok’s creative...

YouTube Create, Google’s standalone mobile app aimed at creators, which helps them produce both Shorts and longer videos, is expan...

Microsoft invests in yet another AI company

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

Bumble looks to revive its friendship-focused BFF produ...

Dating app maker Bumble is rethinking its vision for the company’s future after announcing weak earnings and massive job cuts that...

WhatsApp now lets you search conversations by date on A...

WhatsApp announced today that it is rolling out a “search by date” function for individual and group chats on Android devices. The...

Fintech giant Stripe’s valuation spikes to $65B in empl...

Payments infrastructure giant Stripe said today it has inked deals with investors to provide liquidity to current and former emplo...

Sweanty’s wearable patch for athletes tracks salt loss ...

Wearables are coming in an increasing array of shapes, form factors and guises these days as health and fitness tracking prolifera...

A comprehensive list of 2023 & 2024 tech layoffs

The tech-wide reckoning that began in 2022 and ran throughout into 2023 has continued into this year. And while 2024’s losses are ...

MWC 2024: Everything announced so far, including Nothin...

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

Coverdash gathers insurance’s biggest carriers so SMBs ...

A new product for startups resulted in some big business coming Coverdash’s way, including new distribution partners and customer ...

Totango and Catalyst are merging to build a customer su...

One of the interesting aspects of this deal is that no money is changing hands. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For person...

Reliance and Disney merge India media businesses to for...

Reliance, its portfolio Viacom18 and Disney are merging their media businesses in India, creating the largest media entity in the ...

Yolk is a social app where users swap custom live stick...

With so much fresh competition in social apps right now — plus the usual set of social media platforms and messaging giants suckin...

SambaNova now offers a bundle of generative AI models

SambaNova, an AI chip startup that’s raised over $1.1 billion in VC money to date, is gunning for OpenAI — and rivals — with a new...

StarCoder 2 is a code-generating AI that runs on most G...

Developers are adopting AI-powered code generators — services like GitHub Copilot and Amazon CodeWhisperer, along with open access...

Turns out you can use kombucha to make eco-friendly thr...

It’s not everyday you come across kombucha playing a starring role in potential industrial disruption. But here at 4YFN in MWC we ...

The five finalists to emerge from the Four Years From N...

Long ago Mobile World Congress, which we’ve been covering all week, absorbed a side event for startups, the idiosyncratically name...

Lightricks announces AI-powered filmmaking studio to he...

Lightricks, the company that makes popular apps like Facetune and Videoleap, announced a new AI-powered filmmaking tool called LTX...

Apply to pitch at TechCrunch Early Stage 2024 in Boston

Pitches are critical in the quest for funding and first customers. It’s rare, however, for innovators to get truly candid insight ...

Black Tech Nation Ventures’ diversity thesis undeterred...

Black Tech Nation Ventures launched in 2021 to address the funding gap for Black founders amid a wave of venture diversity initiat...

Reliance and Disney to merge media assets in India

Reliance, its portfolio Viacom18 and Disney are merging their media businesses in India, creating the largest media conglomerate i...

Diffusion transformers are the key behind OpenAI’s Sora...

OpenAI’s Sora, which can generate videos and interactive 3D environments on the fly, is a remarkable demonstration of the cutting ...

Deel, the $12B HR startup, acquires Zavvy to step up co...

Consolidation is afoot in the world of HR services, with larger players snapping up interesting, smaller startups en route to more...

MWC 2024: Nothing enters the budget range with Phone (2...

Nothing isn’t one to be quiet about new releases. The London-based phone company’s media push largely relies on trickling out info...

Thrasio, once king of e-commerce aggregation, files for...

Thrasio, the U.S. start-up that raised billions of dollars and popularized the concept of e-commerce aggregation — buying up and r...

Dailyhunt in talks to acquire social network startup Ko...

Media startup Dailyhunt is in advanced stages of talks to acquire the Bengaluru-headquartered social network Koo, two sources fami...

AIs serve up ‘garbage’ to questions about voting and el...

A number of major AI services performed poorly in a test of their ability to address questions and concerns about voting and elect...

Bumble cuts ~350 employees as dating apps face a reckon...

Bumble, a once-powerful force in online dating, is facing a reckoning. The company posted weak Q4 2023 results today showing a $32...

Splitscreen brings a multimonitor setup to Apple’s Visi...

Out of the box, Apple’s Vision Pro doubles as a 4K Mac virtual display, allowing you to extend an existing Mac desktop to the devi...


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