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Startups
The Station: Rounding up the Tesla Cyber Roundup, a Waymo change up and the mysterious disappearance of Bolt Mobility
7:00 am PDT • August 8, 2022
The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive it every weekend in your inbox. Welcome back to…
Security
Twilio hacked by phishing campaign targeting internet companies
6:58 am PDT • August 8, 2022
Communications giant Twilio has confirmed hackers accessed customer data after successfully tricking employees into handing over their corporate login credentials. The San Francisco-based company, which allows users to build voice…
Startups
Miferia wants to expand its wholesale inventory marketplace across Latin America
6:02 am PDT • August 8, 2022
The Mexico-based company enables retailers to bring their inventory relationships online, expand their product selection and get more favorable credit terms.
Enterprise
Ping Identity CEO discusses his company’s long, strange startup trip
6:00 am PDT • August 8, 2022
Ping Identity CEO Andre Durand sees another opportunity to continue growing the company under private equity ownership.
Crypto
Bitmain co-founder welcomes crypto regulation to restore market confidence
5:37 am PDT • August 8, 2022
The collapse of Three Arrow Capital and the counterparties wrapped in the crypto hedge fund’s troubles have drawn questions about the soundness of the heady digital asset investment space. For…
Google is suing Sonos (again) over patent infringement in what seems to be an unending legal fight series between two tech companies. The two new lawsuits filed Monday center around…
Startups
Equalum lands new capital to help companies build data pipelines
5:00 am PDT • August 8, 2022
The pandemic prompted countless companies to migrate to the cloud. By 2025, driven partly by the need for digital services, 85% of enterprises will have a cloud-first principle, according to…
Enterprise
Vista Equity Partners to acquire automated tax compliance company Avalara for $8.4B
4:40 am PDT • August 8, 2022
Global investment giant Vista Equity Partners has announced plans to acquire automated tax compliance software provider Avalara in an all-cash deal worth $8.4 billion. Founded in 2004, Seattle-based Avalara works…
Biotech & Health
Bluu Seafood unveils its first lab-grown fish products and readies for regulators
2:27 am PDT • August 8, 2022
Bluu Seafood, a German company developing “lab-grown” fish, is showcasing its first finished products as it prepares to begin the regulatory approval process for key markets in Asia, Europe and…
Bluechip, an African systems integrator with partners like Microsoft and Oracle, is expanding to Europe
2:00 am PDT • August 8, 2022
It’s not often you hear about African tech companies expanding into Europe. Some examples include fintechs Lidya and Korapay in Eastern Europe and the U.K., respectively. In the latest development,…
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Venture
SoftBank cautions longer startup winter because unicorn founders are unwilling to cut valuations
1:47 am PDT • August 8, 2022
Masayoshi Son, founder and chief executive of SoftBank Group, which reported a quarterly loss of more than $23 billion, is worried that the funding winter for startups may continue for…
Transportation
Baidu to operate fully driverless commercial robotaxi in Wuhan and Chongqing
7:00 pm PDT • August 7, 2022
Chinese internet giant Baidu has secured permits to offer a fully driverless commercial robotaxi service, with no human driver present, in Chongqing and Wuhan via the company’s autonomous ride-hailing unit,…
Crypto
There’s always another nightmarish crypto hack around the corner
3:30 PM PDT • August 7, 2022
Welcome back to Chain Reaction. Last week, we looked at the near-term future for crypto gaming as VCs zero in on where to place consumer…
Venture
The cybersecurity funding bubble hasn’t burst — but it’s starting to deflate
9:30 am PDT • August 7, 2022
Despite a slowdown in financing and an apparent over-investment in certain cybersecurity subsectors, investors don’t expect doom and gloom for the cybersecurity market going forward.
Enterprise
Why not all VCs are ready to embrace AI-powered investment tools
9:00 am PDT • August 7, 2022
By 2025, three-quarters of VCs could use AI to guide their investments. But we’re a far cry from that number today.
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Amazon buys Roomba’s maker, Bolt vanishes, and YC slims down
1:16 pm PDT • August 6, 2022
Hello again! Welcome back to Week in Review, the newsletter where we quickly recap the top stories to cross TechCrunch dot-com over the past seven days. Want it in your…
Media & Entertainment
This Week in Apps: French developers sue Apple, time spent in apps grows, Instagram adds NFTs
11:30 am PDT • August 6, 2022
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. Global app spending reached…
Venture investors to founders: Turn down for what?
11:03 am PDT • August 6, 2022
Welcome to Startups Weekly, a fresh human-first take on this week’s startup news and trends. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. Gumroad’s Sahil Lavingia broke into the venture…
Many Big Tech companies are notoriously hard to get a hold of when running into any sort of problem. Yet, consumer-facing startups excel at customer support with far fewer resources.
