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What a long, strange year it’s been in enterprise tech news

I guess I’m a projector person now?

Amazon Echo Frames review, MrBeast jumps the shark and the Apple Watch gets un-banned

The overlooked tech that kept cities moving in 2023

Facing roadblocks, China’s robotaxi darlings apply the brakes

CES 2024: What we’re expecting

More than 40 investors share their top predictions for 2024

Ask Sophie: Whatever happened to International Entrepreneur Parole?

Love ’em or hate ’em, NFTs can survive thanks to the communities that drive them

BotBuilt wants to lower the cost of homebuilding with robots

MOVEit, Capita, CitrixBleed and more: The biggest data breaches of 2023

Apple Vision Pro tipped for late Jan/early Feb release

Bluesky rolls out an in-app video and music player and a new ‘hide post’ feature

Hackers stole $2 billion in crypto in 2023, data shows

The eternal struggle between open source and proprietary software

Nonprofit Code.org sues Byju’s unit WhiteHat Jr over payment dues

In a slow year for enterprise tech M&A, there were few standout deals

Salesforce escaped from the jaws of activists to find stability in 2023

Adobe gives up on Figma, Apple Watch sales halted, and hackers access millions of accounts

Amazon’s new Echo Frames can’t touch the Ray-Ban Meta

Hyperloop’s loss is high-speed rail’s gain

A strong foundation can help raise early-stage capital

The EV tax credit is about to get better, and also harder to find

Against pseudanthropy

Consumer Reports says Tesla’s Autopilot recall fix is ‘insufficient’

6 work from home gifts for remote workers in 2023

The outlook for startups in 2024 is hazy

Music marketing startup Breakr raises more capital, pays $3.5M to creators

TikTok rolls out an enhanced app experience for tablets and foldables

Nikola founder Trevor Milton sentenced to 4 years for securities fraud

Vans, Supreme owner VF Corp. says personal data stolen and orders impacted in suspected ransomware attack

IBM to acquire StreamSets and WebMethods from Software AG for $2.3B

May Mobility’s driverless microtransit might beat robotaxis to profitability

Saudi shopping and BNPL platform Tamara tops $1B valuation in $340M Series C funding

Cruise cuts a quarter of its self-driving workforce, another e-scooter startup folds and a special year-end message

Fintech’s wild ride in 2023

The Rule of X and how cloud leaders should think about growth versus profit

Google’s Gemini comes to more apps, Cruise slashes its workforce and Tesla issues a recall

Democracies are fragile, and hardware is hard

When it comes to generative AI in the enterprise, CIOs are taking it slow

Elon Musk’s Twitter a year later: Everything you need to know

News publisher files class action antitrust suit against Google, citing AI’s harms to their bottom line

Three years after its revamp, Firefox’s Android browser adds 450+ new extensions

Seed-stage startups — and their investors — react to higher hurdles for Series A funding

Receive the gift of growth at TechCrunch Early Stage 2024

Take the time to brush up those pitch decks

Geothermal startup Quaise is raising $25M as it gears up for drilling

We should all be paying more attention to the PDD-Alibaba rivalry

Beeper Mini is back in operation after Apple’s attempt to shut it down

EU says incoming rules for general purpose AIs can evolve over time

Elon Musk brings Alex Jones and Infowars back on X after user poll

Cruise faces fines, TuSimple exits the U.S. and a new reporter joins the TC transpo team

Senator Warren calls out Apple for shutting down Beeper’s ‘iMessage to Android’ solution

Here are the newly minted fintech unicorns

How to push PaaS usage beyond 12-factor apps

Google fakes an AI demo, Grand Theft Auto VI goes viral and Spotify cuts jobs

Do you believe in job after job?

OpenAI taps former Twitter India head to kickstart in the country

X’s AI chatbot Grok now ‘rolled out to all’ US Premium+ subscribers, English language users are next

US indicts alleged Russian hackers for years-long cyber espionage campaign against Western countries

Amazon will no longer accept Venmo as a payment option starting next month

Seattle biotech hub pursues ‘DNA typewriter’ tech with $75M from tech billionaires

Mammoth, an X and Threads competitor, embraces news, curation, and more in latest release

Ask Sophie: Does the H-1B visa require founders to give up equity and control?

Regulatory approval for this subscription solar UK startup could mean more are to come

X is now licensed for payment processing in a dozen U.S states

TC+ Roundup: Amazon is not the AI leader

Twilio might actually deserve activist investor attention

Why does MasterClass work? with David Rogier from MasterClass

Atomic Industries closes $17M seed to exascale America’s industrial base

AI invades ‘word of the year’ lists at Oxford, Cambridge and Merriam-Webster

The makers of pro photography app Halide venture into video with Kino, due this February

23andMe confirms hackers stole ancestry data on 6.9 million users

Spotify cuts 17% jobs amid rising capital costs

India’s MoveinSync eyes $50–60M in fresh funding

More layoffs come for micromobility, Cruise cuts loom, and what the Cybertruck signals for Elon

Gravel gets funding from NEA to support Indonesia’s booming construction industry

Fintechs go shopping

The most important metrics for SaaS funding in 2024

Tesla releases the Cybertruck, Sam Altman officially returns to OpenAI, and Evernote cripples its free plan

Shein a light

What startup founders need to know about AI heading into 2024