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It would be fair to say the pandemic has had enormous effects on the world of work, but it has come at a time when other factors were already ongoing. The decline of main-street shopping due to e-comm

Patch, the carbon offset API developer, has raised $4.5 million in financing to build out its business selling customers a way to calculate their carbon footprint and identify and finance offset proje

The early-stage carbon offset API developer Patch could be another one of Andreessen Horowitz’s early bets on climate tech. According to several people with knowledge of the investment round, fo

In 2017 — for the first time in over a decade — a computer worm ran rampage across the internet, threatening to disrupt businesses, industries, governments and national infrastructure across sever

Today’s Patch layoffs are unfortunate, especially in the current media market. They are not, however, surprising. Patch wasn’t profitable, and despite AOL’s firm promises, never foun

The ax came down at Patch today. TechCrunch has confirmed that a number of Patch employees were let go this morning with another round of layoffs happening later today. We're hearing hundreds were lai

Update: AOL says implications that Patch is closing down are inaccurate. A New York Times article stated that AOL is reportedly planning to "dismantle Patch or perhaps sell it off to various partners,

Yesterday I <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2013/08/18/inside-patchs-leaked-revenue-numbers-and-its-hunt-for-profitability/">ran estimates</a> on Patch's revenue, yielding the point that, given the s

Patch, AOL’s hyperlocal news project, is undergoing steep layoffs as it aims for profitability by the end of the year. Leaked memos detail Patch’s revenue both in its lower reaches, and wh

AOL CEO Tim Armstrong held another conference call for Patch employees today, and after what was likely the worst week to be working at the hyper-local news venture following the previous all-hands ca

After a call with the AOL-owned Patch team included the public firing of Patch Creative Director Abel Lenz last week, AOL CEO Tim Armstrong has issued an internal memo apologizing for the action and p

Today AOL confirmed that Patch will <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2013/08/09/armstrong-confirms-hundreds-of-layoffs-at-patch-400-sites-shuttered-or-partnered-off-and-a-new-ceo/">close hundreds</a> o

We reported yesterday that <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2013/08/08/aol-to-impact-hundreds-of-patch-employees-friday-in-a-bid-for-hyper-local-profits/">AOL's hyper-local news service would lose hund

Patch, AOL’s hyper-local news effort, will lose up to 550 employees this Friday, according to a local editor at the group. Hundreds of sites in the network are expected to close in the process.

<a href="https://techcrunch.com/2013/02/08/aol-q4-2012-beats-the-street-on-revenues-of-600m-showing-its-first-revenue-growth-in-8-years/">AOL's Q4 earnings today</a> saw that company (which owns TechC

Traditional publishers and fledgling digital publications alike are trying to find the best ways to monetize their content on the Web and take advantage of the benefits offered by hyperlocal content a

Our parent company <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/aol">AOL</a> is having a <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2011/08/09/aols-q2-global-advertising-revenue-finally-rising-net-loss-narrows/">r