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Walmart is adding Symbotic robots to warehouses across the country
The push behind the massive influx of warehouse robotics funding is largely driven by one entity: Amazon. There are other factors driving the industry, of course, including the pandemic, labor shortag
Founder alleges that YC-backed fintech startup is ‘copy-and-pasting’ its business
A new startup lifting elements of competing businesses is far from unusual in today’s venture world, but sometimes competing founders don’t find the imitation all that flattering. Andy Bro
Vibes hold steady at crypto conferences amid bearish market
It’s been a hard month for the global cryptocurrency market. And yet, community members continue to gather nonstop to network, learn and party at what feels like endless crypto conferences.
A group of Activision Blizzard workers vote to unionize
After months of organizing, the quality assurance testers at Raven Software, a division of gaming giant Activision Blizzard, have voted to unionize. This marks the first union at a major gaming compan
eBay launches its first collection of NFTs in partnership with web3 platform OneOf
eBay is the latest company to enter the NFT business, as the online marketplace announced today that it’s launching its first collection of NFTs in partnership with web3 platform OneOf. The comp
Hyundai plans to spend $10B on EVs, AVs and robotics in the US by 2025
Hyundai said it plans to invest more than $10 billion toward accelerating electrification and autonomous vehicle technology in the U.S. by 2025. Part of that pot includes the $5.5 billion Hyundai has
Why in the world would chipmaker Broadcom be interested in VMware?
VMware expanded into cloud-native technologies over the years and has a diversified business, much related to the cloud. Broadcom isn’t involved in much of that, which makes it seem like a poor matc
Take-Two completes $12.7B acquisition of mobile games giant Zynga
Take-Two has completed its $12.7 billion acquisition of mobile games giant Zynga, the company announced on Monday. Under the terms of the merger agreement, Zynga shareholders received $3.50 in cash an
Reddit partners with Netflix to give Redditors ‘Stranger Things’ custom avatars
The social network Reddit unveiled new custom avatars inspired by Netflix’s “Stranger Things” characters ahead of the anticipated season four premiere this Friday, May 27. This is the first part
TikTok to launch LIVE creator subscriptions this week
TikTok is ramping up its competition with Twitch, YouTube and others with this week’s launch of TikTok LIVE subscriptions, a new program that will allow creators to generate recurring revenue vi
Klarna lays off 10% of its workforce
Swedish payment giant Klarna is going to cut hundreds of jobs in the coming days. Today’s news comes a few days after the Wall Street Journal reported that the company was going to cut its valuation
Arclight deserves a medal for how it meddles with the bike pedal
If I were to make a list of things that I didn’t think needed to get smarter, bike pedals would be somewhere near the top of the list. And yet, when Redshift Sports showed me its shiny (literall
Latch, a proptech meets SaaS play, conducts two consecutive weeks of layoffs
Latch, a proptech smart lock company that raised $152 million in known private capital before debuting on the stock market through a SPAC last year, is conducting another round of layoffs. Earlier thi
MainStreet’s valuation could fall 60% to $200 million amid investor recapitalization pursuit
Weeks after laying off about 30% of its staff, MainStreet is said to be raising another round of funding at a $200 million valuation, sources tell TechCrunch. The news is significant in that MainStree
GitLab expands its DevOps platform with new observability and security tools
GitLab, the popular open source DevOps service, today announced version 15 of its platform. As usual, GitLab is basically announcing its roadmap for the entirety of the GitLab 15 release cycle here, w
Microsoft claims its new tools make language models safer to use
Timed to align with Build 2022, Microsoft today open sourced tools and datasets designed to audit AI-powered content moderation systems and automatically write tests highlighting potential bugs in AI
Berkeley and Stanford scientists to talk science, health and tech at TC Sessions: Climate next month
It’s appropriate that the first panel of the first TechCrunch Sessions: Climate event begins with climate science. Establishing a shared understanding of the global crisis and what the future holds
Washington, DC’s AG is suing Mark Zuckerberg over Cambridge Analytica
The District of Columbia has just announced fresh litigation targeting Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, for his role in the Cambridge Analytica Facebook data misuse episode — alleging it has e
Google Assistant arrives on Samsung’s Galaxy Watch 4 (for real, this time)
Google Assistant’s arrival on the Galaxy Watch 4 has been like a look time coming, for a variety of reasons. First, Samsung’s attempt at its own in-house assistant, Bixby, was essentially a non-st
Didi’s delisting now done deal
Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi has voted to delist from the U.S. stock market, a long-expected result of Didi finding itself in hot water with the Chinese government after a troubled U.S. debut.