Negotiating with one of the largest companies in the world doesn’t sound easy, but that’s precisely what Indonesia has been doing for the past few weeks with iPhone maker Apple.…
As Meta faces off with antitrust regulators in the U.S. and Europe, a £2.1 billion+ Facebook U.K. class action-style competition lawsuit, which takes Meta’s market dominance as a given, is…
Waymo is partnering with Moove, an African mobility fintech that offers vehicle financing to gig workers, to handle fleet management operations for its robotaxi service in Phoenix and, soon, Miami. …
Bluesky has blown up this year thanks to a vibrant community of posters, user customization choices, and a decentralized protocol that doesn’t lock users into the choices of a billionaire…
The overarching promise of companies working on AI-powered productivity tools is to build solutions that would do a task for you. Some of the early demos that we have seen…
Not everyone agrees on what an “AI agent” actually is, but they are all still the rage. At a broad level, these so-called “agents” promise to go several steps beyond…
The European Commission has responded to widespread concerns swirling around the impact of TikTok on elections in Romania by announcing it’s stepping up monitoring of the platform’s compliance with the…
Michael Gronager, the co-founder of Chainalysis, has agreed to leave the company permanently, two months after taking a temporary personal leave of absence. Chainalysis, a buzzy 10-year-old, New York-based blockchain…
France’s startup ecosystem has grown significantly over the last decade, thanks to public support and private investment. However, capital isn’t evenly distributed. Most venture-backed startups are Paris-based, with founders who…
Apparel and accessories platform Myntra on Thursday launched “M-Now,” its quick-commerce offering that promises to deliver apparel and accessories within 30 minutes. Retailers in India are rushing to meet changing…
Security researchers confirmed the programmer's phone had spyware, likely during a spell in Russian detention. The programmer told his story to TechCrunch. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal…
The U.K.’s antitrust regulator has greenlighted the longstanding planned merger between two of the country’s biggest telecommunication operators. Vodafone and Three constitute two of the U.K.’s four infrastructure-owning mobile network operators…
U.K.-based legal tech startup Lawhive, which allows small, ‘Main Street’ law firms to run their affairs through an AI-based SaaS platform, is on something of a tear. In April it…
Bitcoin prices have been on the rise this year and the cryptocurrency has reached the mark of $100,000 price point for the first time on Wednesday. The cryptocurrency’s price has…
Bitcoin prices have been on the rise this year, and the cryptocurrency has reached the $100,000 price point for the first time on Wednesday. The cryptocurrency’s price has jumped more…
Scale Ventures Partners’ Jeremy Kaufmann and Alex Niehenke joined us for a StrictlyVC discussion in San Francisco, and they had a more candid take on the impact of AI on…
GV, Google’s venture capital spinoff that started in 2009, has invested billions of dollars in companies from Uber and Nothing to scent digitizing startup Osmo. Their CEO David Krane joined…
Incoming President Donald Trump has nominated Jared Isaacman, a billionaire entrepreneur and private astronaut, to lead NASA through what could be one of the most consequential periods in the agency’s…
The nonprofit organization 1863 Ventures, which focused on providing capital and mentorship to early-staged underrepresented founders, will close and become a for-profit entity called New Majority Ventures, according to its…
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