Tag: TechCrunch

(TechInnovation) WhatsApp said it is rolling out a limited public beta test for its improved multidevice capability

Manish Singh writes for TechCrunch: WhatsApp is finally pushing an improvement to a key feature that even the Facebook-owned instant messaging service acknowledges has...

(TechInnovation) Zuckerberg first announced the new funding to “reward creators for great content” on his Facebook page

Taylor Hatmaker writes for TechCrunch: Facebook just announced plans to pay content creators more than $1 billion by the end of next year through...

(USA) Facebook and Amazon vs Lina Khan as FTC Chair

Devin Coldewey writes for TechCrunch: Facebook has joined Amazon in a show of alarm at the sudden rise of antitrust hawk Lina Khan to...

(TechInnovation) Bevy, an enterprise event platform for virtual, hybrid and in-person events has acquired Eventtus

Mike Butcher writes for TechCrunch: It’s been fascinating to watch the development of Eventtus, a startup I came across many years ago in my travels...

(TechInnovation) Twitter has confirmed that Fleets is shutting down on August 3.

Ingrid Lunden writes for TechCrunch: Twitter has confirmed that Fleets — its own take on ephemeral Stories that it launched into general availability just...

(TechInnovation) San Francisco-based Flymachine is aiming to seek out the holy grail of the digital music industry

Lucas Matney writes for TechCrunch: As concerts and live events return to the physical world stateside, many in the tech industry have wondered whether...

USA – Increasing regulation of ESG (environmental, social, governance) disclosure reporting

Anthony Cimino writes for TechCrunch: The increasing regulation of ESG (environmental, social, governance) disclosure reporting may have started in the public markets, but will...

(TechInnovation) South Korea’s LG Chem

Aria Alamalhodaei writes for TechCrunch: South Korea’s LG Chem has earmarked ₩6 trillion ($5.2 billion) over the next four years to build out its...

TechInnovation – Kurly, the Korean grocery startup, raises $200M on a $2.2B valuation after shifting IPO plans away from the NYSE (Ingrid Lunden, TechCrunch)

  Online grocery startups around the world continue to pull in major investment, underscoring how much they have all grown especially in the last year...

TechInnovation – Germany’s VC industry is ready to take off, but bureaucrats need to release the handbrake (Uwe Horstmann, TechCrunch)

The narrative suggests that Germany is lagging behind its European neighbors when it comes to building a globally competitive venture capital market. But I think...

TechInnovation – Temasek, Warburg Pincus, and Bhavish Aggarwal invest $500 million in Ola (Manish Singh, TechCrunch)

Temasek and an affiliate of Warburg Pincus are investing $500 million in Indian ride-hailing giant Ola, the Bangalore-headquartered startup said in a short statement...

TechInnovation – EU fines BMW, VW $1B for running emissions cartel since the 90s (Rebecca Bellan, TechCrunch)

As environmental issues really came of age in the 1990s, certain German automakers were meeting in secret groups to make sure their cars would...

TechInnovation – Halo will launch a remotely operated car service powered by 5G in Las Vegas (Aria Alamalhodaei, TechCrunch)

5G technology has generated a lot of hype for its potential to power driverless cars using a remote operator, but for the past few...

Cybersecurity – Evernote quietly disappeared from an anti-surveillance lobbying group’s website (Zack Whittaker, TechCrunch)

In 2013, eight tech companies were accused of funneling their users’ data to the U.S. National Security Agency under the so-called PRISM program, according...

TechInnovation – Instacart hires Facebook executive as new CEO ahead of expected IPO (Natasha Mascarenhas, TechCrunch)

Instacart has appointed Facebook executive Fidji Simo as its new CEO, just seven months after she joined the grocery delivery company’s board of directors. Simo, formerly...

TechInnovation – Auto giant Stellantis to invest €30B in electrification through 2025 (Aria Alamalhodaei, TechCrunch)

Stellantis, the global automaker born out of a merger between Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and French automaker Groupe PSA, will invest €30 billion ($35.5 billion)...