TikTok partners with AXS to sell tickets for live events worldwide Tiktok said today that it has partnered with ticketing company AXS to sell tickets for events worldwide. The ByteDance-owned app is introducing this feature in the US, UK, Sweden, and Australia at lau...
SOSV founder says climate investing is a ‘war effort’ as firm closes $306M fund SOSV’s new fund makes it one of the largest pools of deep tech venture capital to be raised in recent years. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Overture Maps Foundation releases the first beta of its open map dataset The Overture Maps Foundation today launched the first beta of its global open map dataset. With this, the foundation, which is backed by the likes of Amazon, Esri, Meta, Microsoft and TomTom, is getti...
Tesla layoffs hit high performers, some departments slashed, sources say Tesla management told employees Monday that the recent layoffs — which gutted some departments by 20% and even hit high performers — were largely due to poor financial performance, a source familiar w...
Two Chairs raises $72M Series C in equity and debt to scale its therapist network When Alex Katz founded Two Chairs in 2017, he firmly believed that in-person therapy is the most effective for behavioral health. Two Chairs used technology — a proprietary matching algorithm — to fin...
Apple lawsuit behind it, chip startup Rivos plots its next moves The long-term goal with Rivos is to build chips primarily for servers that can handle intensive data analytics and AI workloads, including generative AI workloads. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reser...
Meta’s Oversight Board probes explicit AI-generated images posted on Instagram and Facebook The Oversight Board, Meta’s semi-independent policy council, is turning its attention to how the company’s social platforms are handling explicit, AI-generated images. Tuesday, it announced investigat...
Quilt rides heat pump heat wave with hefty $33M Series A Quilt promises its heat pump will be a sleeker design that can be installed in more places around a room than competitors’ offerings. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Google Wallet appears in India, with local integrations, but Pay will stay Google Wallet will finally launch in India — nearly two years after its relaunch as a digital wallet platform in the U.S. — according to a preview of the app that the company accidentally posted on th...
Microsoft’s $1.5B check for G42 shows growing US-China rift As the Gulf region gains growing strategic importance for the tech war between the U.S. and China, Microsoft makes a big move into one of its richest oil countries. On Monday evening, Microsoft announ...