Image: Halliday Halliday Glasses have boarded the smart spectacles hype train, featuring “proactive” AI assistance and a near-eye display that shows information directly in the user’s field of view. Wearable…
Accel has maintained its India fund size at $650 million for its eighth vehicle, even as other venture firms in the region are racing to raise increasingly larger pools of…
Get caught up on the latest technology and startup news from the past week. Here are the most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Dec. 29, 2024. Sign…
Conway has recruited for some of the buzziest defense and hard tech firms in Silicon Valley over the last decade, like Palantir and Mach Industries. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights…
A new year brings with it hope for a better tomorrow — kind of, at least. In the world of venture capital, nothing is quite predictable. The number of firms…
Dara Khosrowshahi is resigning from the board of autonomous vehicle technology company Aurora Innovation, citing a desire to focus on his ongoing responsibilities as CEO of Uber and reduce external…
Friday, December 27, was supposed to be the start of a relaxing holiday weekend. But it was chaos for thousands of small business owners who use Bench, an accounting and…
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Hydrogen startups are widely seen as a promising way to eliminate fossil fuels from heavy industry and long-haul transportation. But they have been stuck in limbo for the last couple…
PayPal is being sued by the founder of venture firm Andav Capital, who claims she was excluded from the payment giant’s diversity and equity program because she is Asian, according…
On January 7, tech giants and promising startups alike will converge on Las Vegas for CES 2025, the most powerful tech event in the world. The Digital Trends editorial team…
Anthropic has partly resolved a legal disagreement that saw the AI startup draw the ire of the music industry. In October 2023, a group of music publishers, including Universal Music…
Electra has raised $76.3 million to clean up the dirty ironmaking industry, TechCrunch has learned. The startup has developed a novel method of using electricity to coax pure iron out…
Kieran Snyder. (LinkedIn Photo) Our latest Ask the Expert business advice column focuses on the debate over remote work, which continues to be a highly debated topic, nearly five years…
Consumer goods giant Hindustan Unilever is in advanced talks to acquire four-year-old direct-to-consumer startup Minimalist for up to $350 million, according to two people familiar with the matter. An acquisition…
More than 100,000 people are expected to make their annual trek to Las Vegas in January – and no they're not taking the trip to gamble (mostly).We're, of course, talking…
Tacora Capital has raised its second fund, after Peter Thiel backed its first fund with $250 million. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Source
Soapbox Project founder and CEO Nivi Achanta, standing, at an invite-only December soft launch of the nonprofit’s new weekly meeting space at Seattle’s Slip Gallery. The nonprofit’s public launch in…
The Bill Gates-backed startup uses AI to comb through massive data sets in an attempt to find more critical minerals. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.…
Dutch startup Legato is leading an effort to bring support for streaming speakers to Matter. | Image: Legato Matter, the smart home standard designed to connect and control all your…