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Apple TV+ becomes the first streaming service to win a Best Picture Oscar with “CODA”
Apple TV+ has beat out Netflix to become the first streaming service to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards, with “Coda’s” triumph. “CODA” actor Troy Kotsur also won the best supporting actor t...
Australian fintech Zepto raises $25M AUD Series A to enhance payment infrastructure
Zepto, an Australian real-time account-to-account (A2A) merchant payments platform, said Monday it has raised a $25 million AUD Series A (about 18.8 million USD) co-led by AirTree Ventures and Deca...
TC Sessions: Mobility 2022
Meet your co-founder or find your next gig at TC Sessions: Mobility 2022
Engineers, coders and product designers, lend us your ears! TC Sessions: Mobility 2022 goes big, live and in-person on May 18-19 in San Mateo, California. This two-day deep dive — dedicated to mobi...
Freelancer marketplace Malt acquires consulting marketplace Comatch
It’s consolidation time in the freelancer marketplace industry. French startup Malt is acquiring Comatch, a competing marketplace focused on consultants and industry experts. Comatch originally sta...
Fintech Roundup: Will financial technology startups dodge the venture slowdown?
Welcome to my weekly fintech-focused column. I’ll be publishing this every Sunday, so in between posts, be sure to listen to the Equity podcast and hear Alex Wilhelm, Natasha Mascarenhas and me rif...
We keep trying to reinvent startup accelerators
Welcome to Startups Weekly, a fresh human-first take on this week’s startup news and trends. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. Critiquing the value of a startup accelerator and demo days h...
This Week in Apps: Google’s alternative billing, Instagram’s chronological feeds, digital driver’s licenses
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a...
Are we about to see a unicorn selloff?
Welcome to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s inspired by the daily TechCrunch+ column where it gets its name. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up her...
TC Sessions: Climate 2022
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Daily Crunch: EU, US reach ‘agreement in principle’ on trans-Atlantic data flows
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Spotify will suspend its services in Russia in light of free speech crackdown
Spotify will discontinue access to its streaming services in Russia in light of the country’s dramatic new restrictions on free speech. In early March, the Russian parliament enacted a new la...
IT can play a major role in driving sustainability
With data centers alone consuming around 1% of global electricity demand, IT departments have substantial influence on their organization’s sustainability goals.
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Counting for Amazon’s Alabama and Staten Island union votes begins next week
It’s been a predictably wild ride for unionization efforts at Amazon’s Bessemer, Alabama fulfillment center. After a hard-fought battle, the retail giant emerged victorious last April. While worker...
SpaceX, Northrop Grumman to resupply the ISS through 2026
NASA just placed another order with SpaceX. The agency said Wednesday it had ordered six additional resupply missions from the company under its Commercial Resupply Services-2 (CRS-2) contract. NAS...
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How Europe has expanded its bid to disrupt Big Tech
The European Union’s co-legislators reached political agreement on a major reform of digita...
US charges four Russian spies for hacking Saudi oil facility and US nuclear power plant
The U.S. Department of Justice has announced charges against four Russian government employees for a years-long hacking campaign targeting critical infrastructure, including a U.S. nuclear power op...
TechCrunch+ roundup: PLG handbook, hiring early-stage sales teams, abolishing pro-rata
If investors don’t deliver on their promise to add value for investors, why are pro-rata clauses standard terms?
Spotify confirms it’s testing a new ‘Car Mode’ interface with some users
Spotify has started testing a new “Car Mode” interface with some users, the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Friday. The test comes a few months after Spotify announced that it was re...
Improving discovery for NFTs will amplify digital creators and marketplaces
NFTs hold a tremendous amount of potential not only for buyers, but for artists as well. Yet, that potential isn’t being fully tapped.
HubSpot is the latest SaaS company to woo creators
It’s getting harder these days to get your buyer’s attention. It used to be that you paid for some ads and threw up some blog posts and you were pretty much good to go, but as these cha...
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As Instacart looks to cut its valuation, will it kick off a trend?
The change in price won’t enthuse Instacart’s most recent investors – no one likes losses, paper ...
