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AstroPay has been around since 2009. The bootstrapped company currently has 320 employees and is profitable. And yet, it’s not a name that c...

The massive lasers will be installed in the startup’s future facility, which it is building in the San Francisco Bay Area.© 2024 TechCrunch...

The university's incident website blocks search engines from listing the site, making it more difficult for affected individuals to find the...

Meta has been fined €251 million (around $263 million) in the European Union for a Facebook security breach that affected millions of users...

There are few matters in life that divide a room more than the prudence of putting pineapple on pizza. But if you’re of the persuasion that...

Getting paid in cryptocurrencies may sound like a bad idea, but this could be an actually useful feature for international contractors. Remo...

TikTok is now subject to not one but two open Digital Services Act (DSA) investigations after the European Union announced on Tuesday that i...

Online merchants can usually pay up to 8% of every sale on an item to companies like PayPal, Apple Pay, and Stripe — and those costs are usu...

South Korea’s antitrust watchdog has fined Kakao Mobility, the ride-hailing unit of Korean tech firm Kakao, $10.5 million (KRW 15.1 billion)...

A startup out of Turkey that has built a hit casual mobile game where you have to find cats in Where’s Wally-style drawings of increasing co...

Alphabet’s CapitalG-backed Aye Finance, a lender focused on India’s micro, small, and medium enterprises, is seeking to raise $171 million f...

Tyme Group, a South African-born fintech operating in the African country and the Philippines, has secured $250 million in a Series D round,...

Meta’s X rival Threads is growing steadily with more than 100 million people using the service daily, the company’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg said...

Waymo will begin testing its autonomous vehicle technology in Tokyo in early 2025, the first time the Alphabet company’s robotaxis have driv...

The Canadian AI startup has quietly partnered with Palantir to put Cohere's models in use with unnamed Palantir customers.© 2024 TechCrunch...

Jay-Z’s venture capital firm, Marcy Venture Partners, has merged with another Black-owned investment firm, Pendulum Holding’s investment arm...

Colin Angle, one of the co-founders of Roomba maker iRobot, is raising cash for a home robotics venture. A filing with the U.S. Securities a...

TuSimple co-founder and former CEO Xiaodi Hou is on a war path in the lead up to Friday’s annual shareholder meeting that will decide the ma...

TikTok and ByteDance asked the United States Supreme Court to block the law that forces TikTok to be sold off or banned in the United States...

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The hackers stole names, phone numbers, dates of birth and information related to health conditions, treatments and prescriptions.© 2024 Te...

ChatGPT Search, OpenAI’s AI-powered web search experience, is now live for all ChatGPT users — with several new features in tow. By default,...

Instagram has quietly rolled out the ability for users to schedule direct messages. The Meta-owned social network confirmed to TechCrunch on...

Google Labs, Google’s experimental arm, is testing a new image generator called Whisk. This tool allows people to prompt with images instead...

Tesla is trying to boost its Model S sales before the year is out, but it’s got a funny way of doing it.  After initially abandoning its fre...