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Indigov lands more funding to connect besieged lawmakers and their oft-frustrated constituents
Republican lawmakers are facing growing anger over the deadliest mass shooting at an American school in nearly a decade yesterday, with many of their constituents expressing frustration over their rep
Unacademy tells employees to focus on profitability at all costs to ‘survive the winter’
Unacademy, one of the high-profile Indian startups, has urged its employees to learn how to work under constraint and focus on reaching profitability as the SoftBank and Tiger Global-backed online lea
Starliner returns to Earth after a successful first trip to ISS
Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft has successfully touched down at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico after ferrying a load of supplies to the International Space Station — its first succ
Twitter agrees to pay $150M for breaking privacy promises
Twitter has agreed to pay $150 million as part of a settlement with regulators over allegations that the social media company misrepresented the “security and privacy” of user data over se
Twitter stock jumps on news that Elon Musk still wants to buy it … maybe
Shares of Twitter are sharply higher in after-hours trading in the wake of a new U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing detailing changes to how Elon Musk is approaching buying the compa
Daily Crunch: a16z literally doubles down, announces $4.5B Crypto Fund IV
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Not trademarking can be an Excruciatingly Expensive® and Wildly Annoying® mistake
I was recently talking to a startup that was airing its frustration over Apple’s Tracker Detect app that enables Android users to find nearby, unknown AirTags. The problem? The company TrackerDe
Dear Sophie: Does International Entrepreneur Parole have any advantages over an O-1 visa?
Are there any advantages to International Entrepreneur Parole over an O-1 visa? IEP seems to require $250k in institutional backing — so getting an O-1A doesn’t seem like a huge reach from there.
Announcing the TechCrunch+ Stage Agenda at Disrupt 2022
2022 is the year that we are returning to in-person events here at TechCrunch, which means that after a few years running remotely, our flagship Disrupt event is back. But while we are shaking up the
Fintech Bolt just laid off over 100 employees across engineering, sales and marketing
One-click checkout startup Bolt has laid off at least 100 employees and counting across go-to-market, sales and recruiting roles, sources say. CEO Maju Kuruvilla confirmed the workforce reduction in a
Lucid recalls all of its 2022 Air EVs due to wiring issues
Despite already struggling to meet production targets, luxury EV maker Lucid has now issued a recall for the Air due to potential issues stemming from the car's wiring harness.
NASA awards $2 million to moonshot solar sail project
The concept of solar sails is not particularly new — just check out the Planetary Society’s LightSail 2, French startup Gama or NASA’s Advanced Composite Solar Sail System. But one grou
Box positive momentum continues with revenue up 18% and improved guidance
Hey, it wasn’t that long ago that Box was lost in single-digit growth doldrums being dogged by activist investors. But today, the company announced its earnings, and revenue was up 18% over the prio
Jeep parent company Stellantis will reportedly plead guilty to emissions fraud
The world’s fifth-largest automaker will reportedly soon plead guilty to end a multi-year investigation into its efforts to conceal the amount of pollution created by its diesel engines.
SEC weighs crackdown on phony environmental and social justice funds
Environmental and social justice-focused funds are booming — so much so that the Securities and Exchange Commission is mulling new regulations to clamp down on funds that fail to back up certain alt
Apple VP kindly reminds retail workers that they can say no to unions
As a handful of Apple retail locations begin the process of unionizing, the trillion-dollar company’s vice president of people and retail Deirdre O’Brien delivered a warning to 58,000 reta
Terra community passes proposal to revive LUNA cryptocurrency following stablecoin-led implosion
Terraform Labs' plan to revive the Terra Ecosystem after its stablecoin UST and cryptocurrency LUNA nosedived earlier this month has passed and been approved by the community.
Google Photos starts rolling out new Real Tone filters
Google Photos is beginning to introduce new Real Tone filters this week, Google announced. The new filters are rolling out on Android, iOS and the web and can be accessed in the ‘Filters’
Jack Dorsey steps down from Twitter’s board
Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s time at the company has come to an end. Dorsey stepped down from Twitter’s board of directors Wednesday, a change that’s effective as of the company&
Spy agency pumps billions into orbital imagery companies BlackSky, Maxar and Planet
A massive contract from the National Reconnaissance Organization will put billions in the pockets of new and established Earth observation companies BlackSky and Planet, and the more generalist Maxar.