Oct 28th
TechCrunch Disrupt 2024
San Francisco, CA
The Latest
Enterprise
EQT snaps up API and identity management software company WSO2 for more than $600M
10:50 am PDT • May 3, 2024
WSO2, a company that provides API and identity management services for enterprises, has been acquired by EQT for more than $600M.
Apple finally updated its App Store guidelines to allow global developers to host retro game emulators on iOS. Now, you don’t need to jailbreak your iPhone or download any sketchy…
Featured Article
10 years in the making, retro game emulator Delta is now No. 1 on the iOS charts
Video game emulator Delta’s decade-long struggle against the iOS App Store began with a school-issued TI-84 calculator. When Riley Testut was a sophomore in high school, he showed his friends how to load illicit software onto their bulky graphing calculators. Such behavior was generally discouraged at school, but he wasn’t plotting to cheat on a…
10:34 am PDT • May 3, 2024
Companies focused on reducing CO2 emissions raised big sums, second only to Q3 2023.
Biotech & Health
Allozymes puts its accelerated enzymatics to work on a data and AI play, raising $15M
10:20 am PDT • May 3, 2024
Allozymes uses a method in which millions of enzymes can be tested per day, rather than just a few hundred.
Featured Article
Cloud revenue accelerates 21% to $76 billion for the latest earnings cycle
The numbers are in, and the cloud infrastructure market grew at a brisk pace this quarter driven by increasing interest in generative AI.
10:11 am PDT • May 3, 2024
Media & Entertainment
TechCrunch Minute: Spotify’s move to paywall lyrics is putting pressure on free users
9:00 am PDT • May 3, 2024
Spotify’s slow movement to put lyrics behind its paid service wall in its music service are about as popular as you would expect. Precise details of the update are evolving…
Featured Article
UnitedHealth data breach should be a wake-up call for the UK and NHS
The ransomware attack that has engulfed U.S. health insurance giant UnitedHealth Group and its tech subsidiary Change Healthcare is a data privacy nightmare for millions of U.S. patients, with CEO Andrew Witty confirming this week that it may impact as much as one-third of the country. But it should also serve as a wake-up call…
8:43 am PDT • May 3, 2024
Space
NASA is expanding its Wallops Island facility to support three times as many launches
8:30 am PDT • May 3, 2024
NASA is kicking off a formal environmental assessment of its facilities on Wallops Island, Virginia, to increase the number of authorized rocket launches at the site by almost 200%, according…
It’s hard for early-stage founders to say no to revenue from a large customer, whose needs might not align with the broader customer base.
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StrictlyVC – London
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Startups
How Y Combinator’s founder-matching service helped medical records AI startup Hona land $3M
8:00 am PDT • May 3, 2024
Y Combinator’s founder matching tool has quietly become one of most powerful offerings. That’s how medical records AI startup Hona was founded.
Venture
Inside TC’s Techstars investigation and how AI is accelerating disability tech
7:15 AM PDT • May 3, 2024
The downturn in venture capital funding has impacted startups, VC firms, and accelerators alike. One company in the final category, Techstars, has been shaking up…
Apps
Google dubs Epic’s demands from its antitrust win ‘unnecessary’ and ‘far beyond the scope’ of the verdict
1:00 am PDT • May 3, 2024
The new filing, along with Epic’s proposal, will help to inform Judge James Donato in a hearing scheduled on May 23 about what actions to take next to put Google’s…
Hardware
Apple: Pay attention to emerging markets, not falling China sales
3:59 pm PDT • May 2, 2024
Apple’s chief financial officer Luca Maestri challenged investor worries over an 8% drop in China revenue by noting that sales in other emerging markets are growing. “When we start looking…
AI
Microsoft bans US police departments from using enterprise AI tool for facial recognition
1:57 pm PDT • May 2, 2024
Microsoft has reaffirmed its ban on U.S. police departments from using generative AI for facial recognition through Azure OpenAI Service, the company’s fully managed, enterprise-focused wrapper around OpenAI tech. Language…
Hardware
Apple earnings see 10% iPhone sales drop, massive buyback fuels stock jump
1:45 pm PDT • May 2, 2024
Apple on Thursday reported a 10% drop in iPhone sales for the second fiscal quarter, dropping from $51.33 billion to $45.96 billion, year-over-year. The slowdown was fueled, in part, by…
Space
Hubble Network makes Bluetooth connection with a satellite for the first time
1:00 pm PDT • May 2, 2024
Hubble Network has become the first company in history to establish a Bluetooth connection directly to a satellite — a critical technology validation for the company, potentially opening the door…
Crypto
Alliance DAO is attracting fewer US founders amid crypto crackdown
12:57 pm PDT • May 2, 2024
The graduates of Alliance DAO are often useful indicators of investor appetite and user adaption trends within the crypto space. The latest batch of the stage-agnostic crypto accelerator, unveiled today,…
Transportation
Rivian wins $827M incentive package to expand Illinois factory for R2 production
12:02 pm PDT • May 2, 2024
Rivian is getting $827 million in incentives from the state of Illinois to support building its next-generation electric vehicle, known as the R2. The company announced Thursday that the Illinois…
Government & Policy
EU plan to force messaging apps to scan for CSAM risks millions of false positives, experts warn
10:46 am PDT • May 2, 2024
A controversial push by European Union lawmakers to legally require messaging platforms to scan citizens’ private communications for child sexual abuse material (CSAM) could lead to millions of false positives…
