Zack Whittaker 2022-08-12 14:30:27 techcrunch.com Lockdown Mode is a new Apple feature you should hope you’ll never need to use. But for those who do, like journalists, politicians, lawyers and human rights defenders, it’s a last line of defense…
Ram Iyer 2022-08-12 10:00:38 techcrunch.com Arnav Sahu is an investor at Y Combinator Continuity, YC’s growth-stage investing platform. He was previously an investor at Spark Capital, led M&A at AppDynamics and Cisco, and was an investor at The Blackstone…
Paul Sawers 2022-08-12 07:05:00 techcrunch.com Amazon’s cash-cow cloud division AWS has launched a new service designed to help companies deploy their own private 5G networks — eventually, at least. AWS first announced AWS Private 5G in early preview late…
Aisha Malik 2022-08-11 14:43:00 techcrunch.com LinkedIn announced today that it’s rolling out new features for creators that are designed to make it easier to share visual content on the social network. The launch marks LinkedIn’s latest effort toward building…
Jacquelyn Melinek 2022-08-11 15:07:11 techcrunch.com Image Credits: TechCrunch It seems like there are always people butting heads in the crypto world, and this week was no different. Cryptocurrency mixer Tornado Cash was hit with sanctions by the U.S. and…
Taylor Hatmaker 2022-08-11 15:09:16 techcrunch.com If you’ve ever Googled something only to be met with a little info box highlighting the top answer, you’ve encountered one of Google’s “featured snippets.” Featured snippets are the little bite-sized Google results the…
Anita Ramaswamy 2022-08-11 15:42:42 techcrunch.com Lawsuits from disgruntled investors are beginning to stack up after crypto prices plummeted over the past few months, leaving them with steep losses. Billionaire Mark Cuban is the latest celebrity on the receiving end…
Brian Heater 2022-08-11 12:20:12 techcrunch.com Happy unofficial foldables week! An increasingly rare bright spot in the broadly struggling smartphone space, manufacturers are looking toward the emerging form factor to help kickstart them out of the doldrums. Following announcements by…
Ram Iyer 2022-08-11 15:00:12 techcrunch.com Amanda Barbour Contributor Across the globe, financial transactions have trended upward. In 2021, international merger and acquisition (M&A) activity increased significantly, eclipsing $5 trillion in deal volume for the first time in history, growing…
Brian Heater 2022-08-11 12:55:03 techcrunch.com Long gone are the days when a consumer electronics company could simply announce a phone and call it a day. At this morning’s big launch event in Beijing, Xiaomi followed up its foldable news…
Alex Wilhelm 2022-08-11 10:27:59 techcrunch.com Coinbase earnings reports carry weight because the U.S. cryptocurrency exchange commands material market share in a budding portion of the digital economy. Additionally, it’s an active startup investor and a key data point in…
Jaclyn Trop 2022-08-11 09:27:10 techcrunch.com Arrival, the U.K.-based commercial EV startup turned publicly traded company, has lowered its delivery plans from 400 vehicles to 20 as it postpones development of its battery-electric buses and shifts gears to focus on…
Ivan Mehta 2022-08-11 06:32:17 techcrunch.com As Google continues the great merger between its Duo and Meet video communications apps, the company today announced that it’s introducing new Apple SharePlay-like live-sharing features to Meet, making it easier for call-participants to…
Aisha Malik 2022-08-10 17:10:45 techcrunch.com The Walt Disney Company reported on Wednesday that total Disney+ subscriptions rose to 152.1 million during the company’s third quarter, posting better-than-expected results. The streaming service added 14.4 million subscribers in the quarter, beating…
Aisha Malik 2022-08-10 16:26:40 techcrunch.com Disney announced today that it’s raising the price of its ad-free Disney+ subscription to $10.99 per month starting December 8th in the United States, up from the current $7.99 price. The streaming service’s upcoming…
Kyle Wiggers 2022-08-10 14:03:58 techcrunch.com Portal, the beleaguered brand of smart displays released in 2018 by Meta (then Facebook), is reportedly slated for a phase-out as the company refocuses the product line on the enterprise. Ahead of the transition,…
Ron Miller 2022-08-10 12:45:00 techcrunch.com It’s long been known that security is not a problem that companies, even large corporations, can solve on their own. It takes a community working together to battle the kinds of problems that companies…
Lauren Simonds 2022-08-10 10:45:13 techcrunch.com Love it, hate it or barely understand it, crypto continues to draw massive amounts of VC money, despite recent token turbulence casting a shadow over the still-nascent sector. Case in point, in May the…
Ron Miller 2022-08-10 09:00:45 techcrunch.com Cloud security startup Wiz launched just two years ago. It’s released its first product about 18 months ago. In December the company announced a $550 million Series A on a $6 billion valuation. That’s…
Kyle Wiggers 2022-08-09 16:11:18 techcrunch.com Fresh off of an expansion to Mexico, Google today previewed the launch of new Google Cloud regions concentrated in Asia-Pacific (APAC), specifically Malaysia, Thailand and New Zealand. When they come online, they’ll bring Google’s…
Jagmeet Singh 2022-08-10 03:00:33 techcrunch.com Snap on Wednesday launched the paid version of its widely used social media service in India, bringing its exclusive and experimental features offering to the South Asian nation for just 62 cents a month…
Maggie Stamets 2022-08-09 16:38:06 techcrunch.com Welcome back to Found, where we get the stories behind the startups. This week, Darrell and Jordan talked with Davida Herzl the co-founder and CEO of Aclima. We all have a right to clean…
Aisha Malik 2022-08-09 17:13:47 techcrunch.com TikTok is testing a new feature that enhances the popular short-form video app’s search functions. The new feature highlights keywords in comments and links to search results for the term. TikTok’s search function already…
Mary Ann Azevedo 2022-08-09 09:33:11 techcrunch.com In this challenging fundraising environment, more startups than ever are turning to alternative financial solutions such as debt. Despite the negative connotation associated with debt, a startup should not view it as an…
Rebecca Bellan 2022-08-09 18:37:51 techcrunch.com While onstage at Tesla’s annual shareholder event, CEO Elon Musk hinted that the automaker would choose the location for a new gigafactory by the end of the year. Musk jokingly asked his fans where…
Harri Weber 2022-08-09 16:26:21 techcrunch.com Social media marketing firm Hootsuite says it has slashed its workforce by 30%. “We need to refocus our strategies to drive efficiency, growth and financial sustainability,” CEO Tom Keiser said in a statement sent…
Ram Iyer 2022-08-09 14:30:01 techcrunch.com Frederik Mijnhardt Contributor Frederik Mijnhardt is the CEO of Secfi, an equity planning platform for startup executives and employees. More posts by this contributor Late-stage tech companies must do right by their employees: Reassess…
Walter Thompson 2022-08-09 13:55:26 techcrunch.com I have limited boating experience, but I do know that being a few degrees off your desired heading can be the difference between enjoying a relaxing dinner with friends and waiting in the dark…
Aisha Malik 2022-08-09 11:09:56 techcrunch.com Spotify announced today that it’s launching a new Home experience that includes separate feeds for “Music” and “Podcasts & Shows.” Now, when Spotify users launch the app, they’ll notice two feeds at the top…
Ivan Mehta 2022-08-09 10:00:33 techcrunch.com Spotify’s digital audio workstation (DAW) platform Soundtrap is introducing new features for musicians, including live collaboration, auto-save and comments. The firm said the first two features are under an opt-in beta so artists will…
Ivan Mehta 2022-08-09 07:35:45 techcrunch.com South Korea’s communication watchdog, the Korea Communications Commission (KCC), said Tuesday it will investigate Apple and Google over potential violations of the country’s in-app payment rule. Local media reports noted that the agency will…
Ivan Mehta 2022-08-09 03:12:34 techcrunch.com WhatsApp now allows you to delete a message for up to two days and 12 hours (60 hours in total), so you can remove an accidentally sent chat even after hours. Previously, this limit…
Manish Singh 2022-08-09 04:31:26 techcrunch.com A group of game companies in India has requested Prime Minister Modi to offer a “uniform and fair treatment” to all entities operating in the South Asian market weeks after the country banned Krafton’s…
