Month: November 2023

Amazon Internet Providers is stay in Las Vegas for its AWS re:Invent occasion. We count on a rapid-fire stream of bulletins and unveilings of current issues it’s been engaged on.  We all know you may not have time to look at the entire thing, so we’re taking that on for the following few days and

Byju’s stated on Wednesday that current accusations by India’s crime-fighting company concerning a breach of the nation’s foreign exchange rule are “solely technical” in nature and the startup anticipates that any resultant penalty could be minimal. The Bengaluru-headquartered startup, India’s most beneficial, stated it maintains full compliance with India’s foreign exchange guidelines and has filed

GM Chair and CEO Mary Barra reiterated Wednesday plans for Cruise to be extra “deliberate” when operations ultimately resume on the troubled self-driving car subsidiary. For GM, that can embody slashing spending at Cruise “by a whole bunch of hundreds of thousands of {dollars}” in 2024, an motion that’s anticipated to lead to widespread layoffs

Builders are all the time discovering a technique to make note-taking easy and fast. Techstars-backed Stashpad constructed a ‘DM-to-self’ interface for developers to allow them to take notes quickly and manage them later. Qept is an iOS app with an identical note-taking philosophy however for every kind of customers. Now a brand new Mac app

Many corporations try to make use of AI chatbots (past ChatGPT) in different industries — particularly within the client sector. UK-based startup Layla is banking on this pattern to construct an eponymous chatbot (together with an app) that means new journey locations. It will probably additionally assist them in the case of bookings. The corporate

GoMetro, a South African tech firm that operates within the fleet administration area, has raised £9 million (~$11.4 million) in a Sequence A funding spherical led by Zenobē Vitality, a strategic investor famend for financing and working electrical buses. Zenobē Vitality additionally engages in large-scale battery tasks for wind farms, with the U.Okay.’s Nationwide Grid

The worldwide power spare components market is valued at over $90 billion, with the Center East representing about 35% of this sector. This sector stays largely untapped by current additive manufacturing and digital inventory platforms which have unfold footprints throughout medical, aviation, automotive and jewellery industries. In contrast to these industries, which have embraced additive

Prosus has marked down the valuation of Byju’s, India’s most dear startup, to under $3 billion, the funding big’s executives stated on an earnings name Wednesday at the same time as they asserted that they continue to be bullish on the alternatives within the South Asian market. The Bengaluru-headquartered startup, which has raised over $5

FEBE Ventures’ identify stands for “for entrepreneurs by entrepreneurs,” and true to kind, it’s persevering with to help seed-stage startups with the launch of its second fund. Concentrating on $75 million, Fund II is 2.5 occasions bigger than FEBE’s first fund and 90% has already been dedicated. As a part of the launch, FEBE Ventures

Uber has secured another win over the struggling taxi trade. Quickly, riders in London will be capable to hail an iconic black cab within the metropolis. London cabbies can now begin signing up for Uber journey referrals, however the service gained’t roll out till early 2024. Uber says some drivers have already begun displaying curiosity

Fearless Fund’s Strivers Grant Program was already at risk earlier than Edward Blum’s American Alliance for Equal Rights sued it in August, in keeping with paperwork reviewed by TechCrunch. In June, simply two months earlier than the lawsuit was filed, the muse arm of the fund held an organization offsite through which it marked the

German micromobility operator Tier Mobility is shedding one other 22% of its workforce to chop prices within the unending grind towards profitability, in accordance with a LinkedIn post from CEO Lawrence Leuschner. The hits preserve coming for the micromobility large, which sailed into 2022 on a excessive word. By March 2022, Tier had raised a

What to purchase your self, your loved ones and your pals! Alex Wilhelm 11 hours Hi there pricey TechCrunch readers, we hope that you’re wholesome, entire and able to waddle into the vacation season with a cup of one thing heat and time to learn. As many people like to present presents to at least

The infamous ransomware gang LockBit has claimed duty for a cyberattack focusing on India’s state-owned aerospace analysis lab. On Wednesday, LockBit added the Nationwide Aerospace Laboratories (NAL) to its darkish internet leak web site, which ransomware gangs use to extort victims for ransom payments. The group threatened to publish the group’s stolen knowledge if it

“When is a bot an individual?,” my colleague Kirsten requested after I discovered that Polestar’s local weather bot is more human than machine. Polestar launched its “Truth Bot” on X (previously Twitter) forward of COP28, the UN local weather convention overseen by an oil executive. The Reality Bot replies to deceptive tweets concerning the local

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Australia and New Zealand are dealing with the identical challenges as the remainder of tech: valuations have come again down, early-stage funding is up, and buyers need their companies to concentrate on sustainable long-term development and a transparent path to income. Full TechCrunch+ articles are solely obtainable to members.Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to avoid wasting