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AI
YouTube is working on a plan to compensate artists and rightsholders for AI music
7:32 am PDT • August 21, 2023
YouTube announced today how it plans to approach the impact AI technology is having on the music industry with regard to its video hosting platform and its existing partnerships across…
Crypto
Robotaxis hit a speedbump, crypto is down and tech IPOs may be on the horizon
7:16 AM PDT • August 21, 2023
Our Monday show covers the latest in tech news from the weekend and what’s making headlines early in the week.
Startups
Twiga lays off 33% of its staff, disbands in-house delivery and introduces logistics marketplace
7:08 am PDT • August 21, 2023
Twiga will conduct another round of layoffs to keep its business afloat amid macroeconomic headwinds that have made capital harder to raise, and forced venture-backed companies to scale down their…
Enterprise
‘All-in-one’ sales tech platform FlashIntel raises $10 million
6:00 am PDT • August 21, 2023
As businesses brace for a slowing global economy, they are seeking avenues to streamline budgets, including trimming their SaaS expenses. Sales tech, in particular, is known for being fragmented with…
You won’t have to search very hard or go very far to engage in compelling conversations next month at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023. In fact, you’ll find more than two dozen…
Apps
An X glitch is breaking native images, links posted before December 2014
5:11 am PDT • August 21, 2023
Update 22/08/2023 1:55 PM IST: On Monday, X said that it has fixed the bug and no data or images were lost. It added that the issue will be resolved…
Security
Tesla says data breach impacting 75,000 employees was an insider job
5:00 am PDT • August 21, 2023
Tesla has said that insider wrongdoing was to blame for a data breach affecting more than 75,000 company employees. Tesla, the electric car maker owned by Elon Musk, said in…
Commerce
B2B inventory marketplace Ghost reappears with $30M Series B to expand outside US
5:00 am PDT • August 21, 2023
In the past year, the company grew its membership base to over 1,000 brands and retailers and saw its year over year gross merchandise value run rate grow over 10…
BeReal is trying to be real. And if we’re being real, what’s the point of that Discovery feed, anyway? The once-a-day, spontaneous photo-sharing app BeReal differentiates itself from other social…
Venture
Zanifu raises $11.2M to scale its inventory financing offering in Kenya
2:47 am PDT • August 21, 2023
Zanifu, a Kenyan fintech providing inventory financing to micro, small and medium-sized businesses, has raised $11.2 million in debt-equity funding in a pre-Series A round led by Beyond Capital Ventures…
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Fintech
Reliance spin-off Jio Financial Services slides on market debut
9:56 pm PDT • August 20, 2023
For years, the Indian market has been anticipating a public debut of Reliance Retail and Jio Platforms. But in a surprise move late last year, Mukesh Ambani, Asia’s richest man…
Startups
Mycoprotein producer Enough raises €40M toward doubling its production capacity
4:00 pm PDT • August 20, 2023
Now with the Netherlands factory online, Enough is ramping up to produce over a tonne of Abunda every hour and around 10,000 metric tonnes per year.
Transportation
VinFast takes a wild ride, a robotaxi fallout brews and the IRA one year later
2:17 pm PDT • August 20, 2023
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Startups
VCs should give up on the winner-takes-all approach to investing
9:30 am PDT • August 20, 2023
VCs shouldn’t get too hung up on a company’s chances of winning an entire category, because most won’t. And that’s fine.
Hiring patent counsel is a critical step for inventors seeking to secure and maintain patent protection for their inventions.
Welcome back to The Interchange, where we take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. There was plenty going on as usual — with fintech investors sounding off,…
Featured Article
Speed and tech dominated the lawns at Monterey Car Week
The Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance is just the cherry on top of a week of events highlighting, celebrating and sometimes even worshiping the automobile. While the lawn on Sunday mostly focuses on the past, other events like The Quail and the numerous private debuts scattered around Monterey, California have their sights very much set on…
6:00 am PDT • August 20, 2023
Social
Apple devices spoofed, Musk eggs on Zuckerberg and Better.com goes public
1:15 pm PDT • August 19, 2023
Welcome, friends, to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular newsletter covering the major events in tech over the past few days. Haven’t had your eyes glued to the headlines? Not…
A look at subscriptions in India from two angles: the consumer market and B2B SaaS.
Featured Article
Cellebrite asks cops to keep its phone hacking tech ‘hush hush’
For years, cops and other government authorities all over the world have been using phone hacking technology provided by Cellebrite to unlock phones and obtain the data within. And the company has been keen on keeping the use of its technology “hush hush.” As part of the deal with government agencies, Cellebrite asks users to…
9:00 am PDT • August 19, 2023
