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Premium streaming subscriptions continue to increase despite Netflix’s downfall
If you’ve been following Netflix lately, then you’d know the streamer is on shaky ground at the moment. Antenna data reveals that Netflix saw 3.6 million subscription cancellations in the first qu
A weaker economy won’t solve the tech talent crunch overnight
Despite the onslaught of bad news, for now, most of the sources we spoke to said folks in charge of hiring are still going to have to shake the bushes for talent.
This week in TechCrunch podcasts: Chain Reaction, Found, Equity and The TechCrunch Live Podcast
TechCrunch is more than just a site with words. We’re also building a growing stable of podcasts focused on the most critical topics relating to the startup and venture capital worlds. To help y
It’s not business as usual (and investors are admitting it)
“You can often pick up significant market share in an economic downturn by just staying alive,” top startup accelerator Y Combinator wrote in an internal email to its founders this week. The advic
Boeing’s Starliner finally makes it all the way to the ISS
Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft has had a rough couple years, but this afternoon it successfully docked with the International Space Station, its first successful mission to orbit. Despite
Pear, now nearly 10 years old and with numerous hits, looks to close its biggest fund by far
Pear, a Palo Alto, Ca.-based venture firm that we’ve been tracking since its outset in 2012, looks to be raising a fourth fund that’s targeting $410 million in capital commitments, shows a
Coinbase’s lost momentum
Hey everyone, and welcome back to Chain Reaction. In our Chain Reaction podcast this week, Anita and I chatted with Mercedes Bent of Lightspeed Venture Partners on backing blockchain startups and the
Why founders should start talking now to bankers and potential buyers
Founders have gotten the memo that the ground is shifting under their feet right now. What to do about it is the question. Already, teams are making plans to scale back their spending to preserve capi
Daily Crunch: South Korea’s special financial crimes unit is investigating Do Kwon
What is that we hear? Is that the Friday, May 20, 2022, on the calendar and the soft, alluring siren’s song of a weekend that’s right around the corner? Why, yes, that must be it! Our events team
Even Amazon can’t quite figure out what Astro is for
Amazon’s cute little Astro robot has been scurrying its way around my apartment for the past few weeks. It has no arms to scratch its own head in confusion, but I am willing to do that for him.
Mobility marketplaces and brake repair on TechCrunch Live
Walker Drewett founded NuBrakes in May 2019. According to Mike Ghaffary, GP at Canvas Ventures, Drewett is building a high-growth business powered by a marketplace model, which is why Ghaffary led the
Hyundai to open $6.5B EV factory in Georgia
Hyundai is the latest automaker to announce plans to open an EV factory in Georgia, the same state where Rivian is preparing to break ground on its controversial plant. Hyundai’s $6.5 billion EV and
Indian launch startup Skyroot successfully completes full-duration stage test
Skyroot, the first private Indian company to design, build and test a solid rocket propulsion stage, has reached another key milestone in the development of its Vikram-I launch vehicle: a full-duratio
Digital biomarkers are healthcare’s next frontier
Historically, continuous tracking of an individual’s vital signs meant they had to be in a hospital. But that's not true anymore.
A third straight week of tech layoffs in the books
You thought the market was bad for venture capitalists, but what about the actual workers behind the tech companies they’ve backed? Reluctantly, we’re writing a tech layoffs roundup for the third
TechCrunch+ roundup: Construction tech survey, founder-CEO friction, diversify your cap table
As you may have heard, tech companies are having a bit of a whoopsie.
Match Group and Google reach an interim compromise over app payments
Match Group, the parent company of dating apps Tinder, Hinge and OkCupid, is getting along better with Google, just by a little bit. On Friday, Match withdrew its request for a temporary restraining o
Salty, subterranean water could relieve world’s lithium shortage
Today’s lithium mines can't hope to meet skyrocketing demand. Startups like Lilac Solutions and Vulcan Energy Resources have leaped into action with new, more efficient lithium extraction processes
Carbon capture is headed for the high seas
Unless you live near a port, you probably don’t think much about the tens of thousands of container ships tearing through the seas, hauling some 1.8 billion metric tons of stuff each year. Yet these
One man’s quest to bring back the small phone
In 2017, we noted that smartphone screen sizes had settled into a sweet spot between five and six inches. In hindsight, that may well have been wishful thinking. A brief respite aside, it seems that p