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Vote for your Disrupt 2024 Audience Choice favs We received countless submissions to speak at this year’s Disrupt 2024. After carefully sifting through all the applications, we’ve narrowed it down to 19 session finalists. Now we need your help to c...

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Vote for your Disrupt 2024 Audience Choice favs | TechCrunch

Now's the time to vote for the sessions you most want to see at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024. Vote now for your favorite speakers.

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‘Got that boomer!’: How cyber-criminals steal one-time passcodes for SIM swap attacks and raiding bank accounts Estate is an invite-only website that has helped hundreds of attackers make thousands of phone calls aimed at stealing account passcodes, according to its leaked database. © 2024 TechCrunch. All righ...

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'Got that boomer!': How cybercriminals steal one-time passcodes for SIM swap attacks and raiding bank accounts | TechCrunch

Estate helped hundreds of cybercriminals make automated calls aimed at stealing account passcodes, according to its leaked database.

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Booking latest to fall under EU market power rules Booking.com has been designated a gatekeeper under the bloc’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), meaning the online travel agency will face regulation under the bloc’s market fairness and contestability frame...

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Booking.com latest to fall under EU market power rules | TechCrunch

Booking.com has been designated a gatekeeper under the EU's DMA, meaning the firm will be regulated under the bloc's market fairness fram...

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Permira is taking Squarespace private in $6.6 billion deal Website building software provider Squarespace is going private in an all-cash deal that values the company on equity basis at $6.6 billion, or a $6.9 billion enterprise valuation. The acquiring compa...

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Permira is taking Squarespace private in a $6.9 billion deal | TechCrunch

Squarespace is being taken private in an all-cash deal that gives the company an enterprise valuation of $6.9 billion.

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Google partners with Airtel to offer cloud and genAI products to Indian businesses Airtel, India's second-largest telco, is partnering with Google Cloud to develop and deliver cloud and GenAI solutions to Indian businesses. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use o...

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Google partners with Airtel to offer cloud and GenAI products to Indian businesses | TechCrunch

Airtel, India's second-largest telco, is partnering with Google Cloud to develop and deliver cloud and GenAI solutions to Indian businesses.

techcrunch 1 year ago

Buymeacoffee’s founder has built an AI-powered voice note app AI-powered tools like OpenAI’s Whisper have enabled many apps to make transcription an integral part of their feature set for personal note-taking, and the space has quickly flourished as a result. Ap...

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Buy Me a Coffee's founder has built an AI-powered voice note app | TechCrunch

Creator tipping platform Buymeacoffee founder Jijo Sunny, along with his wife Aleesha Sunny, built an app called voice notes to become your persona...

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Women in AI: Rep. Dar’shun Kendrick wants to pass more AI legislation To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight, TechCrunch has been publishing a series of interviews focused on remarkable women who’ve contri...

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Women in AI: Rep. Dar'shun Kendrick wants to pass more AI legislation | TechCrunch

To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight, TechCrunch has been publishing a seri...

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A reckoning is coming for emerging venture funds, and that, VCs say, is a good thing We took the pulse of emerging fund managers about what it's been like for them during these post-ZERP, venture-capital-winter years. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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A reckoning is coming for emerging venture funds, and that, VCs say, is a good thing | TechCrunch

We took the pulse of emerging fund managers about what it's been like for them during these post-ZERP, venture-capital-winter years.

techcrunch 1 year ago

Workers at a Maryland Apple store authorize strike It’s been a busy weekend for union organizing efforts at U.S. Apple stores, with the union at one store voting to authorize a strike, while workers at another store voted against forming a union. Back...

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Workers at a Maryland Apple store authorize strike | TechCrunch

It's been a busy weekend for union organizing efforts at U.S. Apple stores, with the union at one store voting to authorize a strike, while wo...

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Alora Baby aims to push baby gear away from the ‘landfill economy’ Alora Baby is not just aiming to manufacture baby cribs in an environmentally friendly way but is attempting to overhaul the whole lifecycle of a product © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For p...

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Alora Baby aims to push baby gear away from the 'landfill economy' | TechCrunch

Alora Baby is not just aiming to manufacture baby cribs in an environmentally friendly way but is attempting to overhaul the whole lifecycle of a p...

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Go on, let bots date other bots Bumble founder and executive chair Whitney Wolfe Herd raised eyebrows this week with her comments about how AI might change the dating experience. During an onstage interview, Bloomberg’s Emily Chang ...

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Go on, let bots date other bots | TechCrunch

Bumble founder and executive chair Whitney Wolfe Herd raised eyebrows this week with her comments about how AI might change the dating experience. ...

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U.K. agency releases tools to test AI model safety The U.K. Safety Institute, the U.K.’s recently established AI safety body, has released a toolset designed to “strengthen AI safety” by making it easier for industry, research organizations and academ...

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UK agency releases tools to test AI model safety | TechCrunch

The U.K.'s AI Safety Institute has released an open source tool for evaluating the safety of AI and generative AI models.

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Why Apple’s ‘Crush’ ad is so misguided Welcome to Week in Review: TechCrunch’s newsletter recapping the week’s biggest news. This week Apple unveiled new iPad models at its Let Loose event, including a new 13-inch display for the iPad Air,...

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Why Apple’s ‘Crush’ ad is so misguided | TechCrunch

Welcome to Week in Review: TechCrunch's newsletter recapping the week’s biggest news. This week Apple unveiled new iPad models at its Let Lo...

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At the AI Film Festival, humanity triumphed over tech AI startup Runway's second annual AI Film Festival showcased movies that incorporated AI tech in some fashion, from backgrounds to animations. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use...

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At the AI Film Festival, humanity triumphed over tech | TechCrunch

AI startup Runway's second annual AI Film Festival showcased movies that incorporated AI tech in some fashion, from backgrounds to animations.

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Women in AI: Rachel Coldicutt researches how technology impacts society Rachel Coldicutt is the founder of Careful Industries, which researches the social impact technology has on society. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Women in AI: Rachel Coldicutt researches how technology impacts society | TechCrunch

Rachel Coldicutt is the founder of Careful Industries, which researches the social impact technology has on society.

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SAP’s chief sustainability officer isn’t interested in getting your company to do the right thing SAP Chief Sustainability Officer Sophia Mendelsohn wants to incentivize companies to be green because it's profitable, not just because it's right. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For persona...

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SAP’s chief sustainability officer isn’t interested in getting your company to do the right thing | TechCrunch

SAP's chief sustainability officer wants to incentivize companies to be green because it's profitable, not just because it's right.

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Tesla’s profitable Supercharger network is in limbo after Musk axed the entire team Here's what one insider said happened in the days leading up to the layoffs. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Tesla’s profitable Supercharger network is in limbo after Musk axed the entire team | TechCrunch

After Elon Musk fired Tesla's Supercharger team, the fate of the EV charging network is unknown. There are 25,000 charging ports in the U.S. a...

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StrictlyVC London welcomes Phoenix Court and WEX StrictlyVC events deliver exclusive insider content from the Silicon Valley & Global VC scene while creating meaningful connections over cocktails and canapés with leading investors, entrepreneurs and...

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StrictlyVC London welcomes Phoenix Court and WEX | TechCrunch

StrictlyVC events deliver exclusive insider content from the Silicon Valley and global VC scene while creating meaningful connections over cocktail...

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Meesho, an Indian social commerce with 150M transacting users, secures $275M in new funding Meesho, a leading e-commerce startup in India with about 150 million transacting users, has secured $275 million in a new funding round, it disclosed in a securities filing. The new funding is part of...

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Meesho, an Indian social commerce platform with 150M transacting users, raises $275M | TechCrunch

Meesho, a leading e-commerce startup in India, has secured $275 million in a new funding round.

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Scammers found planting online betting ads on Indian government websites Some Indian government websites have allowed scammers to plant advertisements capable of redirecting visitors to online betting platforms. TechCrunch discovered around four dozen “gov.in” website link...

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Scammers found planting online betting ads on Indian government websites | TechCrunch

Dozens of Indian government websites are unintentionally redirecting visitors to online betting platforms, TechCrunch has found.