Greg Kumparak

Editor, TechCrunch

Greg Kumparak was an editor at TechCrunch. Greg started at TechCrunch in May of 2008 as the editor of its sister site, MobileCrunch. Greg’s coverage primarily focused on consumer companies, particularly those involving gadgets, robotics, or augmented reality. Disclosures: Greg holds shares in ETFs/mutual funds and owns a small amount of cryptocurrency (ETH, ADA)

Greg Kumparak

We made it! Another year (nearly!) complete. Go team! The end of the year means many things — holidays, food, family, reflection, etc. Around these parts, it also means it’s…

TechCrunch’s Favorite Things of 2022

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Twitter battles all things ElonJet, SBF gets arrested, and OpenAI tries to figure out watermarking

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Another week of layoffs, executive departures and AI-generated everything

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LastPass hacked, OpenAI opens access to ChatGPT, and Kanye gets suspended from Twitter (again)

You blinked and it is, inexplicably, almost Black Friday again. Should you buy a bunch of stuff just because it’s discounted? Probably not! Can you use it as an opportunity…

The best Black Friday 2022 tech deals

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Amazon layoffs begin, Ticketmaster can’t handle Taylor Swift, and much of Twitter HQ quits

We tend to write fondly about Backbone’s mobile gaming controller around these parts, but the recommendation has always come with one asterisk: to date, it’s really been meant mostly for…

Backbone launches an Android version of its mobile gaming controller

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Meta lays off thousands, FTX collapses, and Twitter has a very weird week

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Elon guts Twitter, Google shutters Hangouts, and the tech layoffs continue

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Kanye agrees to buy Parler, Elon Musk reportedly plans mass layoffs at Twitter, and Netflix gets into cloud gaming

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Meta announces legs, Hulu raises prices, and Microsoft embraces DALL-E 2

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Elon Musk buying Twitter after all, the ‘next Mark Zuckerberg’ and fare thee well, Stadia

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Meta plans hiring freeze, NASA shoots an asteroid, and Elon’s texts about Twitter are made public

Alchemist Accelerator, the enterprise-focused startup incubator, is hosting a demo day today for its 31st batch of companies. For many of these companies, it’s the first time they’ve shown their…

Alchemist Accelerator announces new leadership alongside its latest class of companies

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GTA 6 footage leaks, Revolut gets hacked, and Wipro fires 300 for ‘moonlighting’

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Adobe buys Figma, Uber gets hacked, and Google shrinks Area 120

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The week an Apple event and YC Demo Day collided

Ever looked at your Apple Watch and thought “Dang, I just wish I could play the classic 1996 first-person shooter Quake on this thing!” … No? OK. But now you…

Twenty-six years later, Quake gets ported to … Apple Watch?

It’s Apple event day, which means new hardware galore. New iPhones! New Apple Watches! New AirPods! Didn’t have time to tune in live? Don’t sweat it — we’ve summed up…

Here’s everything Apple announced at its ‘Far Out’ iPhone event

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Apple readies its next iPhone, Joe Rogan interviews Zuck, and Twitter purportedly pauses plans to compete with OnlyFans

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Hackers access DoorDash data, T-Mobile teams up with SpaceX, and eBay buys TCGplayer

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Apple patches nasty security bugs, HBO Max suddenly removes content, and a16z backs Neumann’s next thing

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Twilio gets hacked, teens ditch Facebook, and SpaceX takes South Korea to the moon

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Amazon buys Roomba’s maker, Bolt vanishes, and YC slims down

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Gmail gets a new look, Instagram trips while trying to be TikTok and India blocks Battleground Mobile

The Backone One is getting a new look. This morning, Backbone (the company behind the Backbone One, a really-dang-good controller accessory for the iPhone) debuted a new variant of its…

Backbone’s mobile gaming controller gets an official PlayStation edition

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Google pauses hiring, Netflix loses nearly 1M customers, and Slack increases prices

We’ve written a few times about Alt, a platform that helps trading card collectors (think Pokémon, NBA, NFL, etc.) research, buy/sell and securely store high-value cards. This week, after a…

Alt gets into lending to let you borrow money against your trading card collection

Slack, the chat platform that serves as an online watercooler for oh-so-many teams, is bumping up its monthly price and changing the way its free plan works. The company announced…

Slack is increasing prices and changing the way its free plan works

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Microsoft’s layoffs, Airlift’s shutdown and Lofi Girl’s unplanned study break