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Our Monday show covers the latest in tech news from the weekend and what’s making headlines early in the week.
DoorDash launches AI-powered voice ordering technology for restaurants
DoorDash is launching AI-powered voice ordering technology that will allow restaurants to increase their sales by answering all of the calls they receive, the company announced on Monday. The system…
X saw weekly active users and rankings drop post rebrand, but Twitter Lite installs grew
Reports that X’s (formerly Twitter) downloads decreased after Elon Musk’s rebranding of the microblogging social network only tell part of the story. Twitter’s renaming also saw its weekly active users…
Splinter group officially launches OpenTF fork of HashiCorp Terraform
Earlier this month HashiCorp announced it was changing the open source license it uses for Terraform and its other developer tools. The change triggered an uproar in the open source…
India is launching its first space-based solar observatory mission called Aditya-L1 to study the sun — just days after the successful landing of the country’s moon rover mission Chandrayaan-3. The…
Leadsales targets LatAm businesses with conversational commerce tool for WhatsApp
The conversational commerce company developed a customer relationship management tool that provides customizable columns and sales funnel automation for sales made via WhatsApp and other social media.
Treatments like botox are becoming more ubiquitous, spurring growth in the number of medspas, or centers that offer botox, IV hydration and laser treatments from certified providers like registered nurses.…
Ihar Mahaniok designed Geek Ventures to provide immigrant-focused networking events so founders have an opportunity to grow their professional networks and break into the U.S. market.
Devolut leverages e-commerce growth in Latin America to develop reverse logistics tool
Devolut enables merchants a returns option that doesn’t require boxes or labels. It also provides a network of “city points” where consumers can go to return merchandise.
Reliance’s financial services unit to offer insurance, merchant lending
Jio Financial Services, the financial services unit of Mukesh Ambani-run Indian conglomerate Reliance Industries, plans to expand to merchant lending and insurance, Ambani said at Reliance’s annual general meeting in…
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Reliance’s 5G hotspot Jio AirFiber to hit stores next month in broadband push
Jio Platforms on Monday launched the AirFiber, a wireless plug-and-play 5G hotspot, as the top Indian telecom operator races to make a dent in the broadband market. With the Jio…
Reliance appoints Ambani’s children to board in succession plan
Mukesh Ambani will lead Reliance Industries for five more years and groom and mentor his children to take the $200 billion Indian oil-to-telecom giant to greater heights of growth and…
Bluesky introduced a bunch of updates on Friday to its mobile apps and website, including a new tab to see your own likes, notification support for apps and an emoji…
Tesla’s China rival XPeng buys ride-hailing giant Didi’s smart EV assets for $744M
Chinese electric vehicle upstart XPeng is acquiring the smart EV assets of ride-hailing giant Didi for $744 million, marking another significant alliance that the Tesla challenger has struck in recent…
The battery business is booming and Zeekr kicks off its IPO roadshow
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Welcome back to The Interchange, where we take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. Better.com finally went public last week, and the stock’s performance was worse…
Microsoft brings Python to Excel, Cruise reduces fleet following crash, and MrBeast creates controversy
Hello, folks, and welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular newsletter that covers the biggest happenings in tech over the past few days. Haven’t been able to follow the…
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A Brazilian phone spyware was hacked and victims’ devices ‘deleted’ from server
A Portuguese-language spyware called WebDetetive has been used to compromise more than 76,000 Android phones in recent years across South America, largely in Brazil. WebDetetive is also the latest phone spyware company in recent months to have been hacked. In an undated note seen by TechCrunch, the unnamed hackers described how they found and exploited…