Tag: TechCrunch

The FDA should regulate Instagram’s algorithm as a drug (Daniel Liss, TechCrunch)

The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday reported Silicon Valley’s worst-kept secret: Instagram harms teens’ mental health; in fact, its impact is so negative that it introduces...

Front introduces customer-centric features with deeper CRM integration (Romain Dillet, TechCrunch)

Customer communication platform Front is holding an event today to introduce three new features. These new features focus on showing you more information about your customers...

News aggregator SmartNews raises $230 million, valuing its business at $2 billion (Sarah Perez, TechCrunch)

SmartNews, a Tokyo-headquartered news aggregation website and app that’s grown in popularity despite hefty competition from built-in aggregators like Apple News, today announced it...

TechInnovation. Logistics robotics startup Ambi raises $26M (Brian Heater, TechCrunch)

Five months ago, Ambi Robotics emerged from stealth with a $6 million raise. Today the Bay Area-based firm is back with several times that,...

TechInnovation. Glovo bags two grocery picking and delivery startups (Natasha Lomas, TechCrunch)

More startup swapping in the food delivery space: Spain’s Glovo, an on-demand delivery platform which operates a network of dark stores focused on urban...

TechInnovation. AgBiome lands $166M for safer crop protection technology (Christine Hall, TechCrunch)

AgBiome, developing products from microbial communities, brought in a $116 million Series D round as the company prepares to pad its pipeline with new...

TechInnovation. SoftBank commits $3B more to investing in Latin American tech companies (Mary Ann Azevedo, TechCrunch)

SoftBank Group Corp. is doubling down on its commitment to Latin America. Today, the Japanese investment conglomerate is announcing the launch of the SoftBank Latin...

TechInnovation. Helsinki’s Maki.vc poised to close fund at €100M, key focus will be sustainability, deeptech (Mike Butcher, TechCrunch)

Helsinki-based VC Maki.vc is poised to reach the final close of its second fund at €100 million, with the aim to invest in seed-stage startups across...

TechInnovation. South Korean antitrust regulator fines Google $177M for abusing market dominance (Kate Park, TechCrunch)

The Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) said on Tuesday it fined Google $177 million for abusing its market dominance in the Android operating system (OS) market. The...

TechInnovation. PassFort, a RegTech SaaS for KYC and AML, nets $16.2M (Natasha Lomas, TechCrunch)

London-based PassFort, a SaaS provider that helps business meet compliance requirements such as KYC (Know Your Customer) and AML (Anti-Money Laundering) reporting, has closed a...

India/Singapore. India and Singapore to link their payments systems to enable ‘instant and low-cost’ cross-border transactions (Manish Singh, TechCrunch)

India and Singapore are working to link their digital payments systems to enable “instant, low-cost fund transfers,” in a major push to disrupt the...

TechInnovation. Political economist Neil Malholtra on why some in Silicon Valley turned on Gavin Newsom (Connie Loizos, TechCrunch)

Whether or not Democratic California Governor Gavin Newsom survives Tuesday’s recall election may depend to some degree on a small but vocal group of...

TechInnovation. Digital freight marketplace BridgeLinx raises $10 million in Pakistan’s largest seed funding (Manish Singh, TechCrunch)

BridgeLinx, a 9-month-old Lahore-headquartered startup that operates a digital freight marketplace, said on Tuesday it has raised $10 million in what is the largest...

TechInnovation. Chinese tech giant Baidu begins publicly testing Apollo Go robotaxis in Shanghai (Rebecca Bellan, TechCrunch)

Chinese search engine giant Baidu has begun publicly testing its Apollo Go robotaxi mobile platform in Shanghai, marking the company’s continued expansion of its...

TechInnovation. Rezilion raises $30M help security operations teams with tools to automate their busywork (Ingrid Lunden, TechCrunch)

Security operations teams face a daunting task these days, fending off malicious hackers and their increasingly sophisticated approaches to cracking into networks. That also...

TechInnovation. MarginEdge, a restaurant management software company, raises $18M (Christine Hall, TechCrunch)

MarginEdge announced Monday it raised $18 million in Series B funding to give restaurant operators a real-time view into their costs. Co-founder and CEO Bo Davis...