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Welcome to TechCrunch Crypto. Here’s the biggest news this week: bitcoin’s price jumped and Coinbase’s app crashed, Telegram rolled out a plan to pay out rewards using toncoin and more. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/8K3kuNm

You may not have a Copilot key on your PC’s keyboard yet, but if you’re a Windows 11 user, you’ll soon be able to use Copilot for a lot more everyday tasks on your desktop. Starting today, Microsoft is adding skills that will allow the Copilot to change more Windows 11 settings for you and […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/kwXB4Tc

The Nest co-founders’ latest startup quickly incorporated customer feedback, arriving at not just new hardware but a tweaked business model, too. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/qOP0ln4

Polestar secured a $950 million loan from a dozen banks, critical funds needed to keep its EV plans moving forward following Volvo’s decision to pull back its financial support of the electric automaker. Polestar said Wednesday the funds were needed to finance the next stage of its development and covers a large majority of its […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/tilUgzI

Ethiopian startup eQub won the fintech pitching battle at 4YFN 2024, the startup event of Mobile World Congress. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/3hxqwZV

Biotech startup SynFlora brought an enticing pitch for a new type of skin treatment technology to 4YFN at the MWC tradeshow in Barcelona this week. The Spanish startup, whose three co-founders all have PhDs, is working to improve understanding of the skin’s microbiome and engineer skin microbes with the goal of enabling more targeted and […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/315H9Gs

Lizcore, a sport tracking startup out of Barcelona, caught our eye on the 4YFN show floor at MWC this week. It’s done what this climber — frankly — thought impossible: Come up with a way to digitize and upgrade the indoor climbing experience that bouldering addicts might actually get on board with. Bouldering gyms that […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/Ox4R2vY

Admittedly Apple iWatch uses have had it since October last year, but as of today at Mobile World Congress, the Doublepoint startup has launched the updated version of its popular WowMouse gesture-touch control app for Android smartwatches. Launched at CES in January, the free app now supports Google’s Pixel Watch 2, having already garnered around […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/lVf9hrE

UiPath was a startup darling with a $35B valuation, but the public markets proved rougher until the company diversified its product line. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/7PEdSal

On the heels of Microsoft’s investment and partnership with French Large Language Model startup Mistral AI, the company continues to work hard to try to dispel the image that it’s blocking competition through its deep partnership (and financial stake) in OpenAI. Today the company launched a new framework it’s calling “AI Access Principles” — an eleven-point […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/Uoiv5pH

Caller identity company Truecaller has launched its call recording and transcription for paid users in India, the company’s biggest market. The recording feature will be available to premium users on both Android and iOS, with support for English and Hindi transcriptions. In June 2023, the company introduced call recording for premium users in the U.S., […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/yZbXxBW

TechCrunch Mobility is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click TechCrunch Mobility — to receive the newsletter every weekend in your inbox. Subscribe for free. Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares and I covered […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/nKd7xSO

As humans spend increasing amounts of time indoors, we lose access to the sun’s natural benefits. Recognition of season affective disorder has grown accordingly. While the actual occurrence of the condition is low (around 5% — or 10 million or so Americans),  it’s led to increasing awareness of the sun’s impact on the production of […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/3R1yztW

The back of your phone is useless. There. I said it. Sure, the cameras are back that, but what about all of that blank real estate monopolizing 90% of the surface area? Honestly, it needs to start carry its weight around here. A fully functioning screen isn’t the answer, however. That’s a lot more battery […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/DO0RQoW

As a part of a multi-part series, TechCrunch is highlighting women innovators — from academics to policymakers — in the field of AI. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/uFJhENi

Welcome, folks, to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular newsletter covering noteworthy happenings in the tech industry. This week, Google launched two new open large language models, Gemma 2B and Gemma 7B, in its continued bid for generative AI dominance. The company, which describes the LLMs as “inspired by Gemini,” its flagship family of GenAI […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/P6itIOV

 Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, and welcome to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. Weekend team, we have something both short and sweet for you: A dig into the Reddit IPO filing that came out just after we recorded our […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/9QyZ7SN

Hardware is difficult, to paraphrase a famous adage. First-generation products from new startups are notoriously so, regardless of how much money and excitement you’ve managed to drum up. Given all that, it’s likely few are too surprised that Humane’s upcoming Ai Pin has been pushed back a bit, from March to “mid-April,” per a new […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/NcCb41P

Reddit’s long-awaited IPO is nearing, promising to be the largest social media IPO since Pinterest. But in the company’s S-1 filing, Reddit fails to fully address the complications that arose from changes to its developer platform and API pricing, which late last year led to site-wide protests, communities going dark, site stability issues, and traffic […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/urxg97X

As Reddit finally files to go public, the company wrote in its S-1 filing that “meme stock” schemes on r/WallStreetBets could pose a risk to investors. The subreddit r/WallStreetBets, a community of retail traders with 15 million members, describes itself as being “like 4chan found a Bloomberg Terminal.” It’s most well known for coordinating a […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/sjeNdpo

After years of copying and pasting shopping links into spreadsheets and taking screenshots of products to share with her friends and family, Kristine Locker finally decided to launch a social shopping platform (which she named after herself) that could take her endless tabs and organize them into a shareable, virtual wish list all in one […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/ED530o4

Mapping startup Hivemapper will launch a new dashcam later this year that its co-founder believes will speed up efforts to claw market share away from Google. The new Hivemapper Bee camera, revealed Wednesday, is part of the company’s years-long push to decentralize mapping and make map data more affordable and accessible. Hivemapper also hopes the […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/m5glB0r

End-to-end encrypted messaging app Signal is launching usernames, the company announced today. Up until now, you have had to give someone your phone number to chat with them on Signal. Now, you can create a unique username that you can use instead. Usernames are currently launching in beta, and will be rolling out to all […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/PLOH2a8

The potential sale of MariaDB to K1 Investment Management for $37 million is a capstone on the failed era of SPAC mergers. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/2P8b6sO

Ford is cutting prices of its all-electric 2023 Mustang Mach-E by has much as $8,100 as the automaker attempts to rid itself of inventory and compete with Tesla and its increasingly cheaper EVs. Total market share of new EV sales has grown, reaching nearly 8% in U.S. in 2023. But as market share has expanded, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/WhiXKf7

A coalition of international law enforcement agencies, including the FBI and the U.K.’s National Crime Agency, have disrupted the operations of the prolific LockBit ransomware gang. LockBit’s dark-web leak site — where the group publicly lists its victims and threatens to leak their stolen data unless a ransom demand is paid — was replaced with […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/pkNLQ5a

If you’ve ever traveled in rural areas in France, you may have realized a French peculiarity. Even in the seemingly less populated towns, there’s a hair salon. French startup Planity has been taking advantage of France’s love affair with hair salons to launch a SaaS product for these businesses in particular. Over time, the company […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/nz5SFLq

In a role reversal, Xalts, a Singapore fintech startup founded 18 months ago, has acquired Contour Network, a digital trade platform set up by eight major banks including HSBC, Standard Chartered and BNP. Terms of the deal were undisclosed, but the acquisition price was in the high single millions and composed of cash and stock. […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/H3MtR9h

TechTaka, a South Korean online shopping fulfillment startup that provides third-party logistics services for e-commerce sellers, has raised $9.5 million (12.6 billion KRW) in a Series B round of funding from a sole investor, Altos Ventures.  The outfit helps e-commerce sellers manage the supply chain, from warehousing, order packing and shipping, so that TechTaka users […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/9isNpAP

TechCrunch Mobility is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click TechCrunch Mobility — to receive the newsletter every weekend in your inbox. Subscribe for free. Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. This week’s news includes a BMW security […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/LbqB07j

It’s every parent’s worst nightmare. Earlier this week, the 19-year-old son of former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, was found dead at UC Berkeley of an apparent drug overdose, according to his grandmother, Esther Wojcicki. The  news broke widely yesterday, though Wojcicki posted the news to Facebook several days ago, writing: “Tragedy hit my family yesterday. […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/DASdOgF

The company made advancements in its proprietary dairy seed system to leverage interactions between recombinant dairy casein and native plant proteins, with or without improved fatty acid profiles. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/Ce0dTt7

With Twilio under pressure from activist investors, it's looking at whether to sell Segment, the company it bought in 2020 for $3.2 billion. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/1FYX4x5

Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech (formerly The Interchange)! This week, we’re looking at a new finance-based dating app, Robinhood’s earnings results and the startup in which PayPal Ventures made its first investment. Let’s dive in! To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important fintech stories delivered to your inbox every Sunday at 7:30 a.m. […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/H2RM5ZO

Few categories are as ripe for automation-fueled disruption as construction. The industry is valued at around $2 trillion a year, in the U.S. alone. Much of that work is strenuous, repetitive and sometimes dangerous — precisely the sorts of problems industrial robotics are built to solve. The other thing construction brings is a wide range […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/d1B9mGY

Welcome, folks, to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular newsletter covering noteworthy happenings in the tech industry. This week, OpenAI stunned the blogosphere with the release of Sora, a new AI model that can generate videos in impressively high fidelity. We’ve seen video generators before. But what makes Sora unique is its understanding of time […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/vK2wNiQ

Leveraging resources such as virtual data rooms and shared labs makes it easier for biotech startups to grow. This is good news: We need more companies attacking cancer from novel angles. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/hNYbWC3

Google is testing a new feature that will place a call to a business on your behalf, wait on hold and then give you a call once a live representative is available, the company confirmed to TechCrunch. The new feature, called “Talk to a Live Rep,” would get rid of the need for users to […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/vfkK4CN

Equals' Series A deck certainly looks good, and it does a ton of things well. But there are a few areas where it can do better. Let's take a look! © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/YgzPQuj

Apple’s recent move to boost the interest rate for its Apple Card Savings Account to 4.5% is now prompting a competitor to do the same. Cash App today announced it will now offer “up to” a 4.5% APY (annual percentage yield) for its Cash App Savings customers, with a few caveats. While Apple’s Savings account […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/MKATnql

This morning, Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai inaugurated a new hub in Paris dedicated to artificial intelligence. This hub is located in a newly renovated building near Google’s main office in Paris. It will host around 300 researchers and engineers. But if you pay close attention to Google’s whereabouts in Paris, you may think that Google […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/G25sIml

It may be Valentine’s Day here in the U.S., but the dating app market isn’t looking as promising as it used to. According to a new analysis by app intelligence provider data.ai, global downloads of dating apps saw only tepid growth year-over-year as of this January —  a slight increase of just 1.9% to reach […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/nrjX5SZ

It’s no fun as a customer to have an interaction with a bot when it’s clearly a bot with which you’re engaging. Rasa is a startup that claims to have developed the infrastructure to give developers at large enterprises the ability to build “robust” generative conversational AI assistants so that those interactions feel more personal […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/fQmyTLY

Phantom, a crypto wallet heavily used in the Solana ecosystem, has seen its user base more than triple over the past year. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/RJ93fCG

The fediverse just got a little bigger today as Flipboard has now launched over 1,000 of its social magazines across the decentralized social web, allowing its curators and publishers to reach new audiences. The news follows the magazine app’s December announcement that it would begin to integrate directly with the fediverse, or the decentralized social […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/8L5Ye6y

Otter, the AI-powered meeting assistant that transcribes audio in real-time is adding another layer of AI to its product with today’s introduction of Meeting GenAI, a new set of AI tools for meetings. Included with GenAI is an AI chatbot you can query to get information about past meetings you’ve recorded with Otter, an AI […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/cmWjRtY

Motif Analytics, a startup specializing in sequence analytics for growth teams, today announced that it has raised a $5.7 million seed funding round led by Felicis and Amplify Partners. InvestInData angel group also participated. At its core Motif helps product teams find the patterns in how users interact with their tools. Simply seeing metrics on […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/HjXqfNC

Wingman Ventures is seeking the best of Switzerland’s startups and its diverse portfolio already ranges from mobile commerce to robotics. The Zurich-based venture capital firm, which focuses on pre-seed startups, announced today it is rebranding as Founderful and has already raised $85 million for its new Fund II, with a target of closing $120 million […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/E5L8BjM

A Waymo robotaxi was vandalized and then set on fire by a crowd of people Saturday evening in San Francisco’s Chinatown neighborhood. The incident is the latest encounter between driverless vehicles and the public in San Francisco, a city where autonomous vehicle companies have spent years testing the technology on public streets.  The Saturday night […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/ojpvGbN

Ilara Health, a Kenya-based health-tech enabling private clinics to access diagnostic devices and pharmaceutical products, has secured $4.2 million debt-equity in a pre-Series A round. The funds will be used to scale operations in the East African country, and to deepen health care access to the masses through the rollout of a B2B health and […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/NrnVFlZ

Peak XV, the venture capital firm that split from Sequoia Capital last year, is taking its portfolio companies from India, Southeast Asia and Australia on an “immersion” trip to Silicon Valley this week to meet several industry titans, the latest in the venture firm’s broadening offerings and networking flex. About 60 founders, many backed by […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/TGbUIN2

If you needed more evidence that GenAI is prone to making stuff up, Google’s Gemini chatbot, formerly Bard, thinks that the 2024 Super Bowl already happened. It even has the (fictional) statistics to back it up. Per a Reddit thread, Gemini, powered by Google’s GenAI models of the same name, is answering questions about Super […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/naGvhTC

TechCrunch Mobility is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click TechCrunch Mobility — to receive the newsletter every weekend in your inbox. Subscribe for free. Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility – your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. This week was a busy one with […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/drUmao4

Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech (formerly The Interchange)! We’re back after a brief hiatus, and I can tell you that judging by the volume of pitches I received last week, venture investing in the fintech space is definitely picking up. This week, we’re looking at Plaid’s latest step toward an IPO, one BNPL company’s financial results, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/t3OLJFw

Hey, folks, welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular newsletter that recaps the last few days in tech. This week, social network Bluesky opened for anyone to join — which feels appropriate here in NYC, given the sunshine and unseasonably warm temperatures we’ve been enjoying. For those more inclined to while away the days […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/Sphrea9

Tech's ability to reinvent the wheel can mean ignoring truths that others have learned. But new founders are sometimes figuring it out for themselves faster than predecessors. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/Lz7CGK8

Kai Kloepfer started biometric “smart” gun startup Biofire as a science fair project after the Aurora, Colorado, mass shooting in 2012 brought the U.S.’s gun violence problem close to home. Kloepfer began thinking of ways to solve the problem using what he knows: technology. Twelve years later, that project has turned into Biofire, a firearms […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/Bf9rPsK

Papaya Global bought a Super Bowl ad slot with the hope of the commercial driving brand recognition for the software company. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/OUuC4gn

On a typically sunny day in Los Angeles last June, Henrik Fisker choked up as he handed over his company’s first all-electric SUVs in the United States. “I’m really kind of emotional about it, because we’ve been waiting two-and-a-half years for this, and everyone here has done a tremendous job,” the founder and CEO said. […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/ZTfXlE7

Is the grass greener on the other side? We’re not sure, but the sky is most certainly bluer. It’s been more than a year since Elon Musk purchased Twitter, now X, leading people to set up shop on alternative platforms. Mastodon, Post, Pebble (which has already shuttered operations) and Spill have been presented as potential […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/rV2enUw

Bluesky opened to the public yesterday after launching in an invite-only beta last year. Getting on Bluesky might not be as exciting as it was when people were selling invites on eBay for $400 a pop, but there’s still a lot of curiosity around the decentralized, open source social app. In the last day, Bluesky […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/dipK9cM

It’s not every day that a new VC firm comes out of stealth. This time, Varsity is announcing its first fund. Founded by a former Société Générale executive and two VC investors who worked at Serena Capital, Varsity has already raised €70 million ($75 million at today’s exchange rate) to back early stage startups across […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/3rhe1QA

AI-generated imagery and other forms of deepfakes depicting child sexual abuse (CSA) could be criminalized in the European Union under plans to update existing legislation to keep pace with technology developments, the Commission announced today. It’s also proposing to create a new criminal offense of livestreaming child sexual abuse. The possession and exchange of “pedophile […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/VfohF0J

Toyota will spend an additional $1.3 billion to prepare its Kentucky factory for production of a new three-row all-electric SUV designed for U.S. consumers, the company announced Tuesday. The extra capital pushes Toyota’s total investment into the factory to nearly $10 billion and is the latest example of the automaker’s renewed pledge to electrification. Toyota […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/VIiWoad

Weaveworks, a startup focusing on cloud native development tooling, announced today on LinkedIn that it would be shutting down, a sad day for any startup. “I am very sad to announce — officially — that Weaveworks will be closing its doors and shutting down commercial operations. Customers and partners will be working with a financial […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/DsNc8Hd

Today, we take a look at the costs Yandex's parent had to endure to exit from Russia, easing price movements in crypto, and some juicy venture fundraising. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/024tEvf

Naboo, a French company that was created just a couple of years ago, is trying to create a modern online experience for company seminar planning. The startup recently raised an $8 million funding round (€7.5 million) and already processes more than $1.5 million in transaction volume per month. On paper, Naboo is quite simple. It’s […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/MKiuVS4

Shares of Paytm plunged 10% on Monday, the third consecutive session of declines, touching an all-time low of 438.35 Indian rupees (or $5.28) after the RBI’s clampdown last week looks to have had a more extensive impact than previously anticipated. The trading was halted after Paytm’s shares fell 10%, the artificial limit put on its […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/k5VSOea

TechCrunch Mobility is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click TechCrunch Mobility — to receive the newsletter every weekend in your inbox. Subscribe for free. Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility – your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. This week, read about autonomous vehicle company […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/vI9D6x2

A survey of TechCrunch readers reveals that while the spot ETFs may boost bitcoin's price, they may not be attracting many people who don't own bitcoin. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/aYShNuk

Last week, at a StrictlyVC event in San Francisco, we sat down with Mamoon Hamid and Ilya Fushman, two longtime VCs whose paths first crossed as children in Frankfurt, Germany, and who were brought in to reboot the storied venture firm Kleiner Perkins roughly six years ago. They’ve seemingly accomplished their mission to burnish the […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/unOzqtv

Hey, folks, welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular newsletter that recaps the week in tech that was. And, boy, was it a week. Lots happened — let’s dig in. As layoffs in tech picked up, the Vision Pro, Apple’s attempt at an AR headset, launched with hundreds of apps right out the gate. […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/amqJLhQ

Apple releases its ambitious Vision Pro headset to consumers today, February 2. There are over 600 apps and games currently available on the visionOS store, with more to come. Although Netflix and YouTube aren’t launching dedicated apps, there are still a lot of apps that could be great to start the Vision Pro journey with — […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/5UnVqWN

Controversies and PR headaches weren’t enough to dissuade Spotify from re-upping its agreement with podcaster Joe Rogan, whose show over the past couple of years drove divisions among music fans and artists alike and even prompted some big names, like Neil Young, to pull their catalogs from the streaming service. Regardless, the show remained popular […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/uAnMTao

Activist investors are coming for Etsy. Elliott Management, the investment management firm known for its aggressive governance tactics, has built a roughly 13% position in Etsy’s stock, CNBC reports — a mix of shares and options. It makes Elliott Etsy’s largest investor after Vanguard, which has an 11% share, and the asset management giant BlackRock […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/4Gebf7u