Tag: TechCrunch

TechInnovation – On TikTok, Black creators’ dance strike calls out creative exploitation (Taylor Hatmaker, TechCrunch)

There’s a new Megan Thee Stallion music video out in time for triple digit temperatures. But instead of launching a fresh viral TikTok dance for summer,...

TechInnovation – Nanofabricated ‘tetrakaidecahedrons’ could out-bulletproof kevlar (Devin Coldewey, TechCrunch)

Researchers at MIT and Caltech have created a nanoengineered material that could be tougher than the likes of kevlar or steel. Made of interconnected carbon “tetrakaidecahedrons,” the material...

Cybersecurity – To end cyberterrorism, the government should extend a hand to the private sector (Mark Testoni, Joseph Moreno, TechCrunch)

It is said that the best way to lose the next war is to keep fighting the last one. The citadels of the medieval...

TechInnovation – Mercuryo raises $7.5M for crypto-focused, cross-border payments after crossing $50M in ARR (Mary Ann Azevedo, TechCrunch)

Mercuryo, a startup that has built a cross-border payments network, has raised $7.5 million in a Series A round of funding. The London-based company describes...

TechInnovation – LinkedIn formally joins EU Code on hate speech takedowns (Natasha Lomas, TechCrunch)

Microsoft-owned LinkedIn has committed to doing more to quickly purge illegal hate speech from its platform in the European Union by formally signing up...

TechInnovation – Loom spins up a pregnancy and postpartum education program (Natasha Mascarenhas, TechCrunch)

Erica Chidi, the co-founder of LOOM and a first-generation Nigerian-American, learned how to wrap the language of self-care around her body from an early age. She...

TechInnovation – Edge Delta raises $15M Series A to take on Splunk (Frederic Lardinois, TechCrunch)

Seattle-based Edge Delta, a startup that is building a modern distributed monitoring stack that is competing directly with industry heavyweights like Splunk, New Relic and...

TechInnovation – AWS has acquired encrypted messaging service Wickr (Carly Page, Ingrid Lunden, TechCrunch)

Amazon’s cloud services giant Amazon Web Services (AWS) is getting into the encrypted messaging business. The company has just announced that it has acquired secure communications...

Computer vision inches towards ‘common sense’ with Facebook’s latest research (TechCrunch)

Devin Coldewey Machine learning is capable of doing all sorts of things as long as you have the data to teach it how. That’s not...

Geothermal technology has enormous potential to power the planet and Fervo wants to tap it (TechCrunch)

Jonathan Shieber Tapping the geothermal energy stored beneath the Earth’s surface as a way to generate renewable power is one of the new visions for...

Rapchat tunes into $2.3M as its music-making app hits 7M users (TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden YouTube, Snapchat, Twitter, TikTok and Facebook’s Instagram have upended the film and TV industries, with a new wave of cinematographers, directors and actors...

Developer-focused video platform Mux achieves unicorn status with $105M funding (TechCrunch)

Anthony Ha Barely more than eight months after announcing a $37 million funding round, Mux has another $105 million. https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/30/mux-series-d/

As concerns rise over forest carbon offsets, Pachama’s verified offset marketplace gets $15 million (TechCrunch)

Jonathan Shieber Restoring and preserving the world’s forests has long been considered one of the easiest, lowest cost, and simplest ways to reduce the amount...

Europe/Apple – Europe charges Apple with antitrust breach, citing Spotify App Store complaint (TechCrunch)

Natasha Lomas The European Commission has issued a formal ‘statement of objections’ against Apple, saying today that its preliminary view is Apple’s app store rules distort competition...

Eclipse Ventures has $500 million more to digitize old-line industries and bring them up to speed (TechCrunch)

Connie Loizos Two years ago, we talked with Lior Susan, the founder of now six-year-old Eclipse Ventures in Palo Alto, Ca. At the time, the...

Wasabi scores $112M Series C on $700M valuation to take on cloud storage hyperscalers (TechCrunch)

Ron Miller Taking on Amazon S3 in the cloud storage game would seem to be a fool-hearty proposition, but Wasabi has found a way to build storage...