Tim De Chant 2023-03-28 08:00:43 techcrunch.com The oversubscribed round is yet another sign of fusion’s maturity One fusion startup is betting that a 70-year-old idea can help it leapfrog the competition, so much so that it’s …
Sequoia Capital India, GFC back 1-click payment checkout startup Nimbbl in $3.5m funding
Jagmeet Singh 2023-03-28 03:30:47 techcrunch.com Nimbbl, an Indian startup seeking to improve conversions for merchants with its 1-click payment checkout solution, has raised $3.5 million in seed and pre-Series A rounds from Sequoia Capital India, Global …
Disney cuts metaverse division as part of broader restructuring
Rebecca Bellan 2023-03-27 23:47:13 techcrunch.com Walt Disney Co. has eliminated its metaverse division as part of staff cuts that promise to reduce head count by around 7,000 across the company over the next two months, reports …
Daily Crunch: Twitter tells GitHub to remove proprietary source code and help them ID who posted it
Christine Hall 2023-03-27 18:05:05 techcrunch.com To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Happy Monday Crunch, our Crunch-a-licious friends! Our favorite …
The first round of Disney layoffs begins this week, CEO Bob Iger shares in memo
Lauren Forristal 2023-03-27 14:10:09 techcrunch.com In February, Disney CEO Bob Iger told shareholders in an earnings call that the company plans to lay off 7,000 employees as part of a significant restructuring. Today, in an internal …
Recruiting marketplace Paraform gets backing from Primer Sazze and Twitch founders
Catherine Shu 2023-03-27 13:00:36 techcrunch.com Among the casualties of the mass tech layoffs are people who helped get their co-workers hired in the first place. Paraform, a startup that wants to change how the recruiting industry …
Jury selection begins for Tesla racial discrimination lawsuit
Rebecca Bellan 2023-03-27 11:00:39 techcrunch.com Tesla is back in court this week to defend itself against allegations from a Black former worker who claimed the automaker’s Fremont factory is rife with racial discrimination and harassment. Tesla …
Upheaval in venture banking can help us get back to basics: efficient growth
Jenna Routenberg 2023-03-27 07:30:10 techcrunch.com Sach Chitnis is co-founder of Jump Capital, a thesis-led, sector-focused and operating-centric venture capital firm specializing in Seed and Series A investments. With the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, founders find …
TechCrunch+ roundup: 20 questions VCs ask, crypto compliance tips, Indian investor survey
Walter Thompson 2023-03-24 13:00:48 techcrunch.com The quickening pace of tech layoffs is creating growing uncertainty for workers, but it’s giving investors access to a new wave of technical and entrepreneurial talent. There’s no simple test to …
Just 7 days until the TC Early Stage early bird flies away
Jkopeck 2023-03-24 13:01:58 techcrunch.com Budget-minded entrepreneurs and early-stage startup founders take heed — this is no time to procrastinate. We have only 7 days left of early-bird pricing to TechCrunch Early Stage 2023 in Boston on …
Fifteen shows off the latest generation of its shared, docked bikes
Romain Dillet 2023-03-23 12:43:24 techcrunch.com Fifteen might not be a familiar name, but you may already know some of Fifteen’s bikes. Fifteen is the new name of the companies formerly known as Smoove and Zoov — …
Live sports streaming service Fubo adds MLB.TV after YouTube TV drops MLB Network
Lauren Forristal 2023-03-23 12:39:03 techcrunch.com With Major League Baseball Opening Day starting next week, on March 30, Fubo announced today that it is adding MLB.TV to its lineup in the coming days. The out-of-market package will …
India government-backed open e-commerce network expands to mobility
Manish Singh 2023-03-23 03:07:27 techcrunch.com The Open Network for Digital Commerce, an Indian government-backed initiative that is attempting to “democratize” e-commerce, has set its eyes on another industry it would like to disrupt. ONDC, a non-profit …
TikTok’s hearing in Congress is a reminder of Chinese startups’ identity crisis
Rita Liao 2023-03-23 09:20:38 techcrunch.com TikTok, which now boasts more than 150 million monthly active users in the U.S., is set to testify before Congress on Thursday morning. Over in China, home to TikTok’s parent ByteDance, …
How to spot investment-worthy founders: Look for mindset, competence and confidence
Jenna Routenberg 2023-03-23 07:30:01 techcrunch.com Sanjay Reddy is a co-founding partner of Unlock Venture Partners, a firm focused on early-stage technology investments in Los Angeles and Seattle. More than 102,000 workers in U.S.-based tech companies have …
YouTube shutting down Indian social commerce app Simsim
Manish Singh 2023-03-23 05:33:08 techcrunch.com YouTube is shutting down its live social commerce app Simsim less than two years after acquiring the Indian startup but insists that it’s committed to building “a seamless shopping experience for …
Clerk is simplifying identity for front-end web developers
Ron Miller 2023-03-22 10:00:16 techcrunch.com Developers building front-end Jamstack web applications often struggle to build identity with traditional API tools. With the approach growing in popularity, the founders of Clerk decided to focus their startup on …
Amazon expands Fire TV lineup with more QLED models, entry-level 2-Series TVs and new markets
Sarah Perez 2023-03-22 10:00:50 techcrunch.com As competition among smart TV makers heats up, Amazon today is introducing an expanded Fire TV lineup which now includes more sizes for its top-of-the-line Omni QLED series as well as …
Daily Crunch: Bing allows users to generate images using ‘very latest DALL-E models’
Christine Hall 2023-03-21 18:05:47 techcrunch.com To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Happy Tuesday Crunch, you beautiful, strong, and smart …
Nvidia launches new cloud services and partnerships to train generative AI
Kyle Wiggers 2023-03-21 11:42:13 techcrunch.com At its annual GPU Technology Conference, Nvidia announced a set of cloud services designed to help businesses build and run generative AI models trained on custom data and created for “domain-specific …
Dragonfly, a startup developing a ‘drop-in’ replacement for Redis, raises $21M
Kyle Wiggers 2023-03-21 09:00:34 techcrunch.com Oded Poncz and Roman Gershman experienced the pain of managing and scaling Redis, the open source database, in their previous engineering roles. The pair worked together both at Google and Ubimo, …
Apple Pay is now available in South Korea
Kate Park 2023-03-21 02:57:00 techcrunch.com After months of regulatory delays, Apple users in South Korea finally saw the launch of Apple Pay today. As with other markets, Apple’s wallet and payment service in Korea will work …
Daily Crunch: Amazon CEO says laying off 9,000 more workers ‘is best for the company long-term’
Christine Hall 2023-03-20 18:05:15 techcrunch.com To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. 🚚 Trucking is a vital industry and yet …
For tech titans, AI prominence is the new measuring stick
Alex Wilhelm 2023-03-20 11:30:15 techcrunch.com For many tech companies, investors are applying a new valuation method that has caught our eye: AI proficiency. The current wave of AI hype has two main flavors that I’m interested …
Sellfy Review 2022: How Good Is This Ecommerce Platform?
noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) 2022-03-12 06:54:00 techncruncher.blogspot.com Are you searching for an ecomerce platform to help you build an online store and sell products? In this Sellfy review, we’ll talk about how this eCommerce platform can let …
TOP 11 AI MARKETING TOOLS YOU SHOULD USE (Updated 2022)
noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) 2022-07-13 11:25:00 techncruncher.blogspot.com The marketing industry is turning to artificial intelligence (AI) as a way to save time and execute smarter, more personalized campaigns. 61% of marketers say AI software is the most …
Founders, don’t put all your cash in one basket
Anna Heim 2023-03-18 13:00:11 techcrunch.com W elcome to the TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s inspired by the daily TechCrunch+ column where it gets its name. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up …
To my infinite chagrin, we’re probably not getting tech IPOs until later this year
Alex Wilhelm 2023-03-18 11:00:25 techcrunch.com But there are reasons to be optimistic we’ll get a good crop of public offerings The IPO market thus far in 2023 has been a goose egg, and we probably won’t …
You can probably manufacture closer to home than you think
Haje Jan Kamps 2023-03-17 09:00:41 techcrunch.com Nonprofit FORGE is bringing ‘nearshoring’ to US startups There’s a persistent theory in hardware that manufacturing overseas is the cheaper/better/more efficient option. You manufacture there, assemble somewhere else, and finally …
OpenAI’s ChatGPT Plus subscription launches in India
Jagmeet Singh 2023-03-17 02:34:33 techcrunch.com ChatGPT Plus, the subscription service to access OpenAI’s text-generating AI, is now available in India. ChatGPT Plus features GPT-4, the refined AI model that OpenAI launched earlier this week. The paid …
Daily Crunch: Microsoft waives its waitlist and opens up its AI-powered Bing chatbot to all
Christine Hall 2023-03-16 18:05:01 techcrunch.com To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Happy Thursday, Crunchers! An agreement among a group …
YouTube TV hikes price to $72.99 per month due to rising ‘content costs’
Aisha Malik 2023-03-16 13:19:58 techcrunch.com YouTube has announced that it’s raising the price of its YouTube TV subscription to $72.99 per month. The new monthly price is an $8 increase from the current $64.99 monthly fee. …
Cast AI raises $20M to help companies reduce cloud spend
Kyle Wiggers 2023-03-16 11:00:44 techcrunch.com Cloud costs remain a top concern for organizations. According to a recent Anodot survey, 50% of businesses are struggling to control them, in part because they lack visibility into their cloud …
Dear Sophie: How can I return to the United States as a founder?
Walter Thompson 2023-03-15 23:00:54 techcrunch.com Here’s another edition of “Dear Sophie,” the advice column that answers immigration-related questions about working at technology companies. “Your questions are vital to the spread of knowledge that allows people all …
The bizarre trailer for Peacock’s new series, ‘Mrs. Davis,’ features a war against AI
Lauren Forristal 2023-03-15 15:40:20 techcrunch.com Peacock released yesterday the official trailer for its upcoming original series, “Mrs. Davis,” a peculiar yet hilarious take on artificial intelligence and a nun (played by “G.L.O.W.” actress Betty Giplin) that …
Ghost debuts an anonymous group messaging app with ChatGPT baked in
Sarah Perez 2023-03-15 13:21:49 techcrunch.com Anonymous social apps have a history of devolving into bullying and harassment, ultimately leading to their failure. But a new startup called Ghost believes that putting in extra guardrails around the …
