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Tech Crunch
- Food delivery firm Zomato surges 65% in key India debut 2 days ago – Shares in Zomato, a Gurgaon-based food delivery company and first of India’s consumer tech startups to go public, closed up 65% in its debut day of trading in Mumbai, delivering a key insight into the appetite investors have for the world’s second largest internet market’s burgeoning startup ecos...
- Kitchenful combines meal planning with a grocery concierge service 3 days ago – Meet Kitchenful, a new German startup backed by Y Combinator that wants to make it easier to cook at home by taking care of menu ideas and grocery shopping. The service is currently available in early access in Germany, with a focus on Berlin and Munich. When you sign up to Kitchenful, you first ...
- GM is bringing its upgraded hands-free Super Cruise driving system to 6 vehicles in 2022 3 days ago – GM is rolling out three major upgrades including automatic lanes changes and towing support to its hands-free driver assistance system Super Cruise and making it available in six vehicles, including the 2022 all-new GMC Hummer EV pickup truck. While GM has steadily improved Super Cruise since its...
- China’s expected edtech clampdown may chill a key startup sector 2 days ago – When it comes to control, the Chinese government doesn't mind wiping out a few dozen billion dollars in market cap here and there. That's not a great system.
- Checkout is the key to frictionless B2B e-commerce 2 days ago – Checkout is a platform play, not a payments play, and now is the time to build the category in B2B. Business buyer behavior is changing, and the stars are aligning on the fintech infrastructure front.
- Lucid Motors’ SPAC merger approved after executives issue plea to shareholders to vote 2 days ago – Shareholders approved Friday EV startup Lucid Motors’ merger with special purpose acquisition company Churchill Capital IV, after the companies extended the deadline by one day because not enough retail investors showed up to cast their vote. The issue is unusual but could become more common as m...
- Extra Crunch roundup: Finding GTM, China’s edtech clampdown and how to define growth 2 days ago – "The not-so-secret secret here is that the key to great retention is really simple," says growth expert Susan Su.
- Pro tips from the team behind Kickstarter’s most funded app 2 days ago – We're sharing our approach and secrets to building a successful crowdfunding campaign because we know just how tough it can be to launch your own product.
- Rivian raises another $2.5B, pushing its EV war chest up to $10.5B 2 days ago – Rivian announced Friday that it has closed a $2.5 billion private funding round led by Amazon’s Climate Pledge Fund, D1 Capital Partners, Ford Motor and funds and accounts advised by T. Rowe Price Associates Inc. Third Point, Fidelity Management and Research Company, Dragoneer Investment Group an...
- Data-driven iteration helped China’s Genki Forest become a $6B beverage giant in 5 years 4 hours ago – The bottled beverage industry wasn’t what Genki Forest’s founder, Binsen Tang, initially set out to tackle. The company aims to reach $1.2 billion this year.
- The DL on CockroachDB a day ago – As college students at Berkeley, Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis created a successful open-source graphics program, GIMP, which got the attention of Google. The duo ultimately joined Google, and even personally got kudos from Sergey Brin and Larry Page. Kimball and Mattis quickly rose to promine...
- Should we be worried about insurtech valuations? a day ago – Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter for your weekend enjoyment.
The Verge
- Communication around masks is still terrible 2 days ago – Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced long-awaited guidelines in May for when vaccinated people could stop wearing masks, some experts cautioned that the changes were coming too soon. We were still learning more about the vac..."Muffled. huh ?"
- Judge rejects Wisk Aero’s effort to block rival air taxi startup Archer from using ‘stolen’ patents 2 days ago – Archer A federal judge in San Francisco rejected air taxi startup Wisk Aero’s request for a preliminary injunction against rival startup Archer Aviation, as Silicon Valley’s first big “flying car” legal drama heats up. Wisk, a joint venture between Boeing and Kitty Hawk, wanted to block ...
iDOS 2 emulator gets App Store takedown notice 2 days ago – Apple may be removing iDOS 2, a popular (or, at the very least, popular for a DOS emulator designed to run decades-old software and games
- A missing ampersand locked some users out of their Chromebooks 2 days ago – Photo by Monica Chin / The Verge A major bug in a recent Chrome OS release (91.0.4472.147) left some users bricked out of their Chromebooks. Reddit, in due course, has already spotted the issue. As some eagle-eyed users, including one “elitist_ferret” (first spotted by Android Police), ha...
- The Apple Watch Series 6 is $279 at Best Buy and Amazon a day ago – Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge The best deal available today is on the 40mm Apple Watch Series 6 with Wi-Fi and GPS connectivity. Usually $399, it’s just $279 at Best Buy through Saturday, July 24th. Amazon is honoring this deal, too, even going a bit lower with a $265 price (though, a...
- Prairie Robotics secures $690,000 CAD to identify recycling contaminants 10 days ago – Regina-based cleantech startup Prairie Robotics has secured $690,000 CAD in seed funding to support its Internet of Things (IoT)-based recycling solution. The all-equity round...
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