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Zscaler buys Avalor to bring more AI into its security ...

Zscaler, a cloud security company with headquarters in San Jose, California, has acquired cybersecurity startup Avalor 26 months a...

Pornhub disables access in Texas due to age verificatio...

Texas residents can no longer access Pornhub — without a VPN. As of Thursday, when people in Texas try to access any of the porn s...

TikTok ban: How Congress could force ByteDance to sell ...

TikTok faces an uncertain fate in the U.S. once again. In a 352 to 65 vote Wednesday, the House voted to pass a bill that could le...

Google I/O set for May 14, 15

The sun is peaking out behind the clouds and the birds are singing. That can only mean one thing: developer season is nearly upon ...

TikTok ban: How Congress could push the app out of the ...

TikTok faces an uncertain fate in the U.S. once again. In a 352 to 65 vote Wednesday, the House voted to pass a bill that could le...

‘AI-powered’ ad ignites creator controversy on Instagra...

A new ad from Under Armour featuring boxer Anthony Joshua has come under fire from creatives on Instagram after its director claim...

Bitcoin hits new high, Solana price jumps as memecoins ...

Welcome to TechCrunch Crypto, formerly known as Chain Reaction -- it was an eventful week in the crypto world. © 2024 TechCrunch. ...

The controversial bill that could ban TikTok faces a ro...

A bill threatening to ban an app beloved by half of the American population just rocketed through the House of Representatives in ...

Blockchain tech could be the answer to uncovering deepf...

Two months ago, media giant Fox Corp. partnered with Polygon Labs, the team behind the Ethereum-focused layer-2 blockchain, to tac...

Google is changing how Chrome detects and warns you abo...

Google announced a major change to its Safe Browsing feature in Chrome today that will make the service work in real time by check...

Microbiome startups respond as industry is accused of ‘...

The biotech sector has embraced the microbiome in recent years, a green field market powered by cheap genome sequencing and ventur...

Humanoid robots face continued skepticism at Modex

If your robotics startup is looking to raise, there’s close to a 100% chance you’re going to get two questions from potential inve...

After AWS and Google, Microsoft says it’s removing Azur...

Microsoft has revealed that it too will allow business customers to transfer data out of its Azure cloud infrastructure with no so...

Paytm secures license it desperately needed to survive

India’s Paytm has secured a vital license it needed to survive and maintain continuity of several core features of its eponymous p...

TikTok fined in Italy after ‘French scar’ challenge led...

Italy’s competition and consumer authority, the AGCM, has fined TikTok €10 million (almost $11M) following a probe into algorithmi...

VCs will get liquidity in 2024 from the secondary marke...

If you asked a bunch of VCs at the end of 2023 if the IPO market would finally open again in 2024, most of them would have said ye...

This battery startup says it’s found a way to make chea...

Coreshell, a battery materials startup, revealed a breakthrough this week that could lower the cost of lithium-ion batteries while...

TechCrunch Minute: Why little EVs from Rivian and Telo ...

The great EV boom is fading a bit, but that’s not a concern if you take a long-enough view. Sure, Tesla expects slower growth for ...

48-hour dash: Race against the clock to save $1,000 on ...

Ticktock! Only 48 hours remain to snag your discounted tickets to Disrupt 2024! Shift into high gear and save up to a whopping $1,...

Google’s Safe Browsing protection in Chrome goes real-t...

Google announced a major change to its Safe Browsing feature in Chrome today that will make the service work in real time by check...

India’s Paytm secures lifeline license amid regulatory ...

India’s Paytm has secured a vital license it needed to survive and maintain continuity of several core features of its eponymous p...

Europe eyes LinkedIn’s use of data for ads in another D...

Microsoft-owned professional social network, LinkedIn, is the latest to get a formal request for information (RFI) from the EU. Th...

Reddit introduces a new ad format that looks similar to...

Reddit is introducing a new ad format that looks similar to posts made by users on the platform, the company announced on Thursday...

WarpStream is building a cheaper, cloud-native data str...

When the open source streaming service, Apache Kafka, was created in 2011 at LinkedIn, it was a different world. Most companies we...

Ted Schlein’s 2-year-old Ballistic Ventures has already...

After a shakeup at Kleiner Perkins a few years back, one of its star B2B investors, Ted Schlein, started his own firm. Ballistic h...

Fluent Metal takes a stab at the metal 3D printing mark...

To say that it’s rocky out in the metal 3D printing world may be a bit of an understatement. Almost a decade ago, Desktop Metal wa...

ShopMy lands $18.5M to help influencers earn more money...

ShopMy, a marketing platform for content creators to connect with brands and monetize their content, announced today that it raise...

SpaceX makes significant progress with third Starship o...

SpaceX is continuing to make progress on the development of Starship, the largest rocket ever built, with the third test flight Th...

India’s Paytm secures third-party app license ahead of ...

The National Payments Corporation of India, the firm that built the eponymous UPI rail in the country, approved Paytm’s applicatio...

Former web3 gaming founders raise $2.5M for their NFT m...

Even though NFT sales volume is still down 88% from 2022 all time-highs (and down 38% year-to-date), Pallet Exchange is building a...

Aethero wants to become the space industry’s Intel or N...

Satellite sensors collect an incredible amount of raw data, but on-orbit compute limitations mean that operators have little way t...

EU dials up scrutiny of major platforms over GenAI risk...

The European Commission has sent a series of formal requests for information (RFI) to Google, Meta, Microsoft, Snap, TikTok and X ...

Instagram is working on a feature that would allow you ...

Instagram is working on a “Spins” feature for Reels, its short-form video TikTok clone, the company confirmed to TechCrunch. The f...

Lightspeed’s Alex Kayyal will talk Series A pitfalls at...

There is perhaps no bigger jump for a startup to make than from the incubatory seed stage to its Series A round. Given how large a...

AliExpress is first online marketplace to face DSA inve...

The European Union has opened its third formal investigation of a very large platform under the Digital Services Act (DSA), with C...

Proton Mail desktop app officially launches, but remain...

Proton Mail, the end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) email service from Swiss company Proton, is now officially available via a dedicated ...

Lago, a Paris-based open source billing platform, banks...

A startup out of Paris that began life building marketing tools has raised $22 million after making a successful pivot into billin...

What African B2B e-commerce startups can learn from Omn...

Save for fintech and cleantech, B2B e-commerce and retail was the leading destination for venture capital dollars over the last fi...

Reliance buys Paramount’s stake in Indian media Viacom1...

Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance is buying Paramount Global’s 13% stake in Viacom18 for $517 million as Asia’s richest man broadens his en...

Amazon now lets sellers create listings through a URL b...

Amazon launched generative AI-powered features last year to help sellers quickly create listings by entering just a few words abou...

Nigeria’s Youverify raises $2.5M to enhance anti-money ...

Youverify, a Nigerian provider of identity verification and anti-money laundering (AML) solutions for banks and startups, secured ...

As European dynamism gathers momentum, Elaia and partne...

Elaia's third deep tech seed fund, DTS3, is double the size of the two previous funds, and signals the momentum that is forming ar...

A bug in an Irish government website that exposed COVID...

The Irish government fixed a vulnerability two years ago in its national COVID-19 vaccination portal that exposed the vaccination ...

Behold, TruckBot

One undeniable trend from this year’s Modex conference: suddenly everyone is into truck unloading. The past couple of years have g...

Stripe’s growth continues to impress as total payment v...

The company says it was cash flow positive in 2023, and plans to be again in 2024. With $8.7 billion in venture capital it likely ...


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