In sub-Saharan Africa, only 33% of the urban population has access to public transportation, compared to 75% in Europe and North America, according to UN statistics. That means that most of the continent faces challenges chasing new job opportunities, going to school, accessing healthcare and just having a night on the town. This lack of … Read more
Hustle Fund, an early-stage focused venture firm built by former 500 Startups partners Elizabeth Yin and Eric Bahn, is growing into its name. The firm has steadily grown its assets under management since first launching five years ago. Its first fund closed at $11.5 million, its second fund closed with $33.6 million, and today, it … Read more
We’re beyond amazed at the collective creativity, ingenuity and technical prowess of the Startup Battlefield 200. Out of thousands of applications, only 200 early-stage startups made the final cut, and you’ll find all of them — and only them — exhibiting on the TechCrunch Disrupt show floor on October 18-20 in San Francisco. That’s a … Read more
Crypto exchange Bittrex, custodian BitPay and six other firms have joined the Crypto Market Integrity Coalition (CMIC) s self-regulatory organization aiming to prevent crypto market manipulation.
Amazon’s steady march to bring Amazon Go-powered instant checkout stores across the U.S. and U.K. has been well-documented. Far less known is that it has also been making some moves to expand the technology in another very key market for the business: India. TechCrunch has learned that Amazon quietly picked up the founders of a … Read more
Samar Haddad / The Verge Whether you’re recording a podcast, an interview, a message to a friend, or notes to yourself, audio recording is very easy to do on Windows. There are various third-party apps you can use, but Windows 11 also comes with an app called Voice Recorder preinstalled. You can use that to … Read more
General Motors and OneD Battery Sciences are teaming up on a joint research venture into building more efficient batteries for electric vehicles. The partnership will focus on using OneD’s silicon nanotechnology in GM’s Ultium battery cells to extend range, improve performance and cut costs. The automaker said Thursday that OneD’s Sinanode platform, which uses silicon … Read more
Photo by Edward Smith / Getty Images Mental health technology company Headspace Health is calling for researchers to submit proposals for studies on the impact of the company’s tools. The company’s products include both the meditation app Headspace and the digital therapy platform Ginger. “We see meditation as both a practice rooted in ancient history … Read more
Ride-hailing giant Lyft and autonomous vehicle technology company Argo AI are now officially offering public robotaxi service in Austin, Texas. This is the second city in which Lyft and Argo are operating a commercial robotaxi service after Miami, which launched in December. Riders in Austin will have the option of choosing a driverless commute directly … Read more
Last year, Amazon spent over $4.3 million on anti-union consultants alone, to which labor advocates asked, why not just pay that money to workers? Now, Amazon will do just that. Over the next year, Amazon will dedicate nearly $1 billion to increasing the average wages of its warehouse and transportation workers from about $18 to … Read more
Twitter is rolling out its redesigned Spaces tab, which includes podcasts, to Twitter Blue subscribers on Android. The Android launch comes a few weeks after Blue subscribers on iOS got access to podcasts and the redesigned Spaces tab. When Twitter first announced that it was introducing podcasts to its platform, the social network said they would be … Read more
A new letter penned by Senate and House Democrats accuses Amazon of “anticompetitive” practices in its bid to purchase Roomba-maker, iRobot, for $1.7 billion. Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren is leading the charge to convince the Federal Trade Commission to reject the deal, according to a report from Axios. “Rather than compete in a fair marketplace … Read more
Entergalactic’s protagonist Jabari, who kinda sorta looks like Kid Cudi. | Netflix Netflix’s Entergalactic is a ‘television event’ that becomes way more emotionally resonant when you look at it as a companion piece to Kid Cudi’s upcoming album Continue reading…
The investor-turned-DJ told CoinDesk that he was running low on liquidity and wanted to spark movement during crypto winter.
A small example of what Melba can do. | Image: PlayerUnknown Productions Hey, remember PlayerUnknown? As in PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds or PUBG to your friends? Yeah, well Brendan Greene, aka PlayerUnknown, has provided details surrounding his latest gaming project, codenamed “Artemis,” which aims to be an open-source Earth-sized virtual environment supporting hundreds of thousands of players … Read more
Today, Nielsen announced that Roku plans to enable four-screen measurement across desktop, mobile, connected TV, and traditional TV. This is the first time Roku will use the digital methodology, Nielsen One, the data measurement firm’s cross-media measurement tool, which launches in December. In the age of streaming, it’s becoming more challenging for companies to measure … Read more
Anyone who has followed global news events of late will have noticed the devastating floods that have engulfed pretty much every corner of the world, from the U.S. and Europe, to Africa, Australia, and Asia, where India and Pakistan have been hit by some of their worst floods in recent memory. By pretty much all … Read more
The future of Kenya-based Sky.Garden — an Amazon-style marketplace for third-party merchants to sell electronics, home goods and more — is in the balance after the startup failed to close a round of financing, according to a memo the startup sent out to employees. An insider told TechCrunch that the startup’s co-founder and CEO, Martin Majlund, sent … Read more
As younger consumers are shifting to social apps that focus on video and more personal forms of social networking, a new social app called Studio, launching today, is introducing a group camcorder experience that allows groups of friends to share videos with one another in private albums. These albums, or “studios” as they’re called, are … Read more
The Eero Pro 6 isn’t the latest model, but it might be all you need. It offers two 5GHz bands and one 2.4GHz band with support for dozens of devices connected simultaneously. | Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge After a day full of product announcements, Amazon is getting back to cutting prices on … Read more
Software product marketers typically are charged with creating demos for potential customers. These let people who are interested in the product see how a function inside an application works as a way to whet the appetite of the potential buyer. Arcade, a startup launched by two former Atlassian employees, decided to attack this problem with … Read more
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Kevin Varadian Contributor Share on Twitter Kevin Varadian is SVP of sales and general manager at CoachHub. The advent of SaaS and cloud-based software services has all but obliterated the traditional sales model, but not many organizations are actually helping their sales teams adapt to this new world order. Sales training statistics paint a grim picture. … Read more
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