Yet another deal has been signed between a publisher and a GenAI leader. Paris startup Mistral and news outlet Agence France-Presse (AFP) announced today that they are combining their services…
Distracted driving is a leading cause of car crashes — and rising auto insurance premiums, which are expected to increase in 2025. For commercial fleets, that’s an expensive challenge to…
Byteboard co-founder and CEO Sargun Kaur. (LinkedIn Photo) Seattle startup Karat is boosting its technical recruiting platform with the acquisition of Byteboard, a San Francisco-based company that also helps companies run technical…
In the last few weeks, PayPal-owned Honey, which claims to find you the best coupon codes for a deal, has been at the center of controversy. Allegedly, the tool sneakily…
Google has agreed to purchase 100,000 tons of carbon dioxide removal credits from Indian startup Varaha. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Source
French startup Hyperline wants to build the next-generation Chargebee. Over the past two years, the startup has built a new billing platform that can be used for recurring subscriptions, one-off…
Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket lifts off from its Florida launch pad. (Blue Origin via YouTube) For the first time ever, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture has put a…
Amazon has agreed to acquire Indian buy now pay later startup Axio, deepening its push into financial services in one of its fastest-growing markets as it seeks to expand credit…
Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket stands on its Florida launch pad. (Blue Origin Photo) Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture will try, try again to launch its heavy-lift New Glenn rocket…
Y Combinator alum Stoke has an ambitious goal to build the first fully reusable rocket and VCs have opened their wallets wide. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal…
Slop Goes the Weasel Reddit is poised to be overrun with infinite AI-powered marketing campaigns, if one enterprising tech startup has anything to say about it. And unfortunately for us, it…
Lots of startups use Google's productivity suite, known as Workspace, to handle email, documents, and other back-office matters. Relatedly, lots of business-minded webapps use Google's OAuth, i.e. "Sign in with…
MajorBoost co-founder and CEO Lekshmi Venu at the AI2 Incubator summer party last year. (GeekWire File Photo / Taylor Soper) San Francisco health tech startup SuperDial acquired MajorBoost, a Seattle…
“Social media should be built on protocols, not platforms,” Mastodon CEO Eugen Rochko said in an interview for TechCrunch’s Equity podcast. “And people should be able to choose freely between…
Global fashion brands grapple with excess inventory. ASOS, for instance, had over £1.2 billion of unsold products in 2022. Mostly, these brands avoid reselling in core markets like the UK…
Hulu has over 50 million paying subscribers and many limited series for viewers with commitment issues. TV miniseries are often adaptations of novels or based on true stories, but many…
A new report may contain fresh clues about the apparent partnership between Ubisoft and Tencent, Ubisoft's fortunes continue to slide and the company looks for a way forward.Bloomberg reported that…
The Guillemot family and Tencent Holdings Ltd. are considering starting a new venture using some of the Ubisoft assets, according to a new report. According to Bloomberg, the two parties…
Former SoftBank exec Akshay Naheta's startup, Distributed Technologies Research, is trying to bridge the gap between banking and blockchain tech. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.…
Australian-German startup Quantum Brilliance has raised $20mn in Series A funding as it looks to deploy small, portable quantum accelerators that promise to supercharge the computational power of everything from…