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Unknown hackers stole internal data from the games giant Activision. On Sunday, the cybersecurity and malware research group vx-underground published screenshots of data purportedly stolen from Activision, including the schedule…
Apps
TikTok expands access to its research API to nonprofit academic institutions in the US
7:43 am PST • February 21, 2023
TikTok is expanding access to its research API to nonprofit academic institutions in the United States, the company announced on Tuesday. The expansion comes as TikTok started testing an early…
Security
Coinbase says some employees’ information stolen by hackers
7:30 am PST • February 21, 2023
Crypto exchange Coinbase has confirmed that it was briefly compromised by the same attackers that targeted Twilio, Cloudflare, DoorDash and more than a hundred other organizations last year. In a post-mortem…
Venture
Hear why founders and investors love Boston at TechCrunch’s free City Spotlight: Boston event
7:28 am PST • February 21, 2023
TechCrunch Live is making a special (virtual) trip to Boston on February 27, 2023, and you’re invited to the free event. Register here! While NYC may have the glitz, Miami…
Crypto
AI-powered crypto search engine Kaito raises $5.3M to improve browsing with AI, ChatGPT
7:00 am PST • February 21, 2023
Kaito, an AI-powered search engine for crypto, raised $5.3 million in a seed round led by Dragonfly Capital, the company exclusively shared with TechCrunch. “There’s constantly people fighting against information…
Swap Robotics entered our orbit last year, when the firm was a finalist for our Battlefield competition at Disrupt 2022. In a world full of robot mowers, the startup grabbed…
Startups
Replicate wants to take the pain out of running and hosting ML models
7:00 am PST • February 21, 2023
Replicate, a startup that runs machine learning models in the cloud, today launched out of stealth with $17.8 million in venture capital backing; $12.5 million of the total came from…
Transportation
Lime reports first profitable year, tests the waters for IPO
7:00 am PST • February 21, 2023
Shared micromobility giant Lime said it has achieved full-year profitability on both an adjusted and unadjusted EBITDA basis, which would make it an outlier in an industry that has struggled…
Featured Article
Sensitive US military emails spill online
A government cloud server was spilling internal military emails data onto the open internet because no password was set.
6:40 am PST • February 21, 2023
Security
Sublime nabs $9.8M for an anti-phishing email security platform built on collective, crowdsourced rules
6:35 am PST • February 21, 2023
Malicious hackers are getting ever more creative with the techniques they use to break into networks to steal data and wreak havoc, but their primary route for opening that door…
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Startups
5 tactics for managing paid customer acquisition during a downturn
6:30 am PST • February 21, 2023
The narrative today sounds gloomy because it is so. But for opportunistic companies, there’s a silver lining: Now is a great time to go on offense.
Space
Vast acquires Launcher in quest to build artificial gravity space stations
6:00 am PST • February 21, 2023
Vast Space, a company that emerged from stealth last September with the aim of building artificial gravity space stations in low Earth orbit, has acquired space tug startup Launcher, TechCrunch…
Startups
5 key metrics that help edtech startups improve profitability
5:30 am PST • February 21, 2023
A good product, a great marketing team and a stellar sales team are no guarantee that you’ll make money in edtech. You need a failproof strategy.
Startups
Accel, Square Peg back Chronicle’s tool for presentations that won’t put you to sleep
5:00 am PST • February 21, 2023
You would expect the co-founder of a startup that improves on traditional slide presentations to hate tools like PowerPoint. But that’s not the case with Mayuresh Patole, the CEO of…
Venture
YC-backed HR-payroll provider Workpay raises $2.7M to scale in Africa
4:34 am PST • February 21, 2023
The HR payroll market across the world is expected to record a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 9.2%, reaching a $14.31 billion valuation by the close of this decade,…
Startups
SaaS leaders: Use customer insights to accelerate growth during a downturn
4:30 am PST • February 21, 2023
Understanding shifts in how buyers are researching, evaluating, selecting and purchasing software is critical to accelerating growth.
Startups
Agtech Green Labs is the latest Korean startup to lay off employees
4:06 am PST • February 21, 2023
Green Labs, a South Korean agtech startup that raised $140 million (170 billion won) Series C in January last year, is cutting a significant number of jobs. People familiar with…
Social
Kempus wants to be the ultimate app for sharing college hacks
2:11 am PST • February 21, 2023
Remember poring over reviews on Rate My Professors to find out which prof is good-looking and who gives easy As? The professor and class ratings site is one of the…
Enterprise
AeroCloud, a cloud-native airport management platform, raises $12.6M
11:00 pm PST • February 20, 2023
AeroCloud, a cloud-native airport management software startup used by dozens of airports across the world, has raised $12.6 million in a Series A round of funding. Founded out of Chester,…
Fintech
India and Singapore link UPI and PayNow in cross-border payments push
10:19 pm PST • February 20, 2023
India and Singapore have linked their digital payments systems, UPI and PayNow, to enable instant and low-cost fund transfers in a major push to disrupt the cross-border flow of money…
