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Startups
Ticktock: 5 days left to nest your early-bird savings for TC Early Stage
6:00 am PDT • March 25, 2024
Startup visionaries, time is of the essence! There are only 5 days left to take advantage of the early-bird savings for TechCrunch Early Stage 2024. Don’t let this opportunity slip…
Hardware
Boeing CEO to leave company by year-end after a wave of safety incidents
5:48 am PDT • March 25, 2024
Boeing’s chief executive Dave Calhoun will leave the plane-maker by the end of 2024, according to the company. The company has been rocked by controversy after a cabin panel blowout…
Government & Policy
Apple, Google and Meta face first formal investigations under EU’s DMA
5:10 am PDT • March 25, 2024
What’s the collective noun for investigations on Big Tech? Because the European Union has just announced a pile of probes on gatekeepers designated under the Digital Markets Act (DMA). Alphabet/Google,…
Startups
GoStudent, the online learning platform, says it’s now profitable
4:00 am PDT • March 25, 2024
In a market that no longer favors growth at all costs, GoStudent’s €3 billion valuation and global expansion may belong to the past. However, the Austrian tutoring platform reshaped quickly.
Media & Entertainment
Spotify tests video courses to teach everything from music production to Excel
1:59 am PDT • March 25, 2024
Spotify has carved out a business for itself in music streaming, podcast entertainment and audiobooks. Now, in its ongoing efforts to get its 600 million+ users to spend more time…
Featured Article
TechCrunch Mobility: The wheels are starting to come off the Fisker EV bus
TechCrunch Mobility is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click TechCrunch Mobility — to receive the newsletter every weekend in your inbox. Subscribe for free. Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Before we jump into the startup and…
12:00 pm PDT • March 24, 2024
Featured Article
Nvidia could be primed to be the next AWS
The question is whether Nvidia can sustain that growth to become a long-term revenue powerhouse like AWS has become for Amazon.
8:00 am PDT • March 24, 2024
Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech (formerly The Interchange)! This week, we’re looking at some hot fintech startups in Africa, how Mint’s closure has been Copilot’s gain and why VCs have doubled…
In this edition of Week in Review, we have big news on the latest Apple antitrust lawsuit. Microsoft’s AI ambitions dominated the news as well, so let’s dive right in.……
Mallard Bay is building a marketplace and a vertical SaaS platform for guided fishing and hunting industries.
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Featured Article
Liquid Death is just one of many VC-backed beverage startups ready to disrupt Coke and Pepsi
Some of the new venture-backed beverage startups are hoping to upend the industry by creating new drink categories.
8:00 am PDT • March 23, 2024
Featured Article
Why it’s impossible to review AIs, and why TechCrunch is doing it anyway
Every week seems to bring with it a new AI model, and the technology has unfortunately outpaced anyone’s ability to evaluate it comprehensively. Here’s why it’s pretty much impossible to review something like ChatGPT or Gemini, why it’s important to try anyway, and our (constantly evolving) approach to doing so. The tl;dr: These systems are…
6:01 am PDT • March 23, 2024
AI
Stability AI CEO resigns because you’re ‘not going to beat centralized AI with more centralized AI’
10:58 pm PDT • March 22, 2024
Stability AI founder and chief executive Emad Mostaque has stepped down from the top role and from the unicorn startup‘s board, the buzzy firm said Friday night, making it the…
The company has faced two main issues related to communications and the spacecraft rotation rate — and it’s largely solved both those problems.
Transportation
Lordstown Motors’ ousted CEO settles with SEC for misleading investors
2:33 pm PDT • March 22, 2024
Steve Burns, the ousted founder, chairman and CEO of bankrupt EV startup Lordstown Motors, has settled with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission over misleading investors about demand for the…
Apps
Apple’s Vision Pro is here: These are some of the most exciting indie apps and games
2:00 pm PDT • March 22, 2024
With the Vision Pro finally available, many consumers are curious about Apple’s AR/VR headset and the apps that come with it. While some are from companies you recognize — Disney+,…
In an era where data is king and its volume and complexity are exploding, Protecto aims to eliminate the long-standing dilemma businesses face between leveraging AI’s power while ensuring data…
Social
Truth Social SPAC could pay Trump’s astronomical legal bills — if board approves it
12:28 pm PDT • March 22, 2024
Donald Trump’s beleaguered SPAC deal is finally going through, and just in time to pay nearly half a billion dollars owed over several legal actions — if the board agrees…
Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. Helloooo,…
Customers say their leaked AT&T customer data — names, addresses, phone numbers and Social Security numbers — is accurate.
