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India’s Slice gears up to take on PhonePe and Google Pay with UPI support
A new player is preparing to enter India’s crowded and yet duopoly-sided UPI payments market. Bengaluru-headquartered Slice, which became a unicorn late last year, plans to introduce UPI payments f...
Dyson is betting you’ll want to strap an air purifier to your face
Air. I love it, you love it. We’re all out here walking around in it all day, filling our lungs and blood with the stuff. We can’t get enough of it. But that beautiful, wonderful, life-saving air t...
The tech inside the new Lotus Eletre EV hints at autonomous driving ambitions
Lotus unveiled Tuesday a battery-electric “hyper” SUV called the Eletre — the first of a trio of EVs Lotus plans to launch over the next four years. The upshot? The Eletre, which ...
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The 25 crypto startups that Y Combinator is backing in its W22 batch
Crypto was big at YC this batch. Y Combinator Demo Days returned yet again with another balloonin...
Everything you need to know about YC Winter 2022 Demo Day, part 1
The TechCrunch team spent today covering the first day of Y Combinator’s Winter 2022 Demo Day, which featured half of the 394 companies that plan to virtually present. Since the overall batch...
AR glasses maker Nreal nabs $200M funding in 12 months
China’s augmented reality startup Nreal is on a roll. The company, which hopes to bring AR to the masses by making bright-color, lightweight smart glasses, has just received $60 million in a ...
Our favorite startups from YC’s Winter 2022 Demo Day, Part 1
One thing we’re not changing with our Y Combinator coverage is collecting favorites.
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Twitter ‘Collabs’ feature could make it possible for users to co-author tweets with brands
You can “collab” on Instagram, but what about on Twitter? The social network is continuing to work on a feature that would allow multiple users to co-author a tweet, which it’s re...
TechCrunch+ roundup: Plaid’s staffing story, RevOps for B2B sales, demo day’s demise
There’s no textbook-approved technique for building a startup engineering team: in the early days, everyone wears several hats.
Starry’s SPAC part of Chet Kanojia’s mission to shake up broadband
The internet service provider’s approach involves beaming broadband speed internet through the air using millimeter waves.
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Motorola still has fight left as it nabs No. 3 spot in the US market
Turns out the smartphone market can still surprise — to an extent. You can almost certainly figure out which two companies command the first and second position in the U.S. market these days....
How to make a teaser trailer for your startup pitch
A well-crafted teaser trailer is the perfect first step toward developing a positive relationship.
Vietnam’s VinFast to invest $2B in North Carolina EV factory
VinFast, the Vietnamese automaker under Vingroup, said Tuesday it will build its first U.S. factory in North Carolina, part of the company’s previously stated plans to invest and expand in th...
Messenger adds new shortcuts, including a Slack-like ‘@everyone’ feature
Meta, formerly known as Facebook, is introducing several new features and shortcuts to its Messenger app. Most notably, the company is adding a new Slack-like “@everyone” functionality ...
Is YC turning into a kind of fight club?
Since inception, Y Combinator has invested in thousands of startups, and more recently, even hundreds within a single batch. Given the accelerator’s growth, competitive tensions feel nearly inevita...
This startup’s novel tech promises to boost battery capacity for EVs
Five years ago, Jonathan Tan and Roger Basu were on the hunt to find an industry where they could take their expertise in thin-film technology and make the biggest and fastest impact possible. They...
Apple and Major League Baseball to livestream 12 weeks of Friday night games for free
Earlier this month, Apple announced its first live sports deal with Major League Baseball to bring a number of games and other MLB content to the Apple TV+ service for the 2022 season. Today, Apple...
A look at all 35 international fintech startups at YC’s winter 2022 Demo Day
As more banking, e-commerce and insurance startups work to improve the way business is done in emerging countries, it should come as no surprise that this winter’s Y Combinator batch is rife with r...
Uber and Lyft drivers say fuel surcharge is ‘an insult to drivers’
Nearly half of Uber and Lyft drivers in the U.S. have quit or are driving less due to high gas prices caused by Russia’s war in Ukraine, despite temporary fuel surcharges added to fares by th...