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Startups
Musk raises $6B for AI startup. Also, is TikTok dodging Apple’s commissions?
12:05 pm PDT • May 3, 2024
Welcome to Startups Weekly — Haje’s weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. Musk’s…
Despite spending more than $100 billion on R&D over the last five years, Apple isn’t planning to spin up too many new data centers to run or train AI models.
Transportation
Fisker stiffed the engineering firm developing its low-cost EV and pickup truck, lawsuit claims
11:53 am PDT • May 3, 2024
Henrik Fisker stood on a stage last August and proudly debuted two prototypes designed to catapult his eponymous EV startup Fisker into the mainstream. There was the Pear, a low-cost…
Apps
Instagram now lets you post a secret Story that viewers can uncover with a DM
11:36 am PDT • May 3, 2024
Instagram is adding a handful of new features for Stories to give users more creative ways to share content and engage with each other, the company announced on Friday. Most…
The new job cuts come over a year after the company cut about 4% of its headcount in February last year.
Startups
Despite recent successes, IPO market still won’t fully open until 2025
11:09 am PDT • May 3, 2024
Experts say macroeconomic factors including the upcoming election and the current state of the economy will deter too many IPOs this year.
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.
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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.
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…
