Monthly Archives: February 2024

Motional loses a backer, another micromobility bankruptcy and a mobility startup unicorn is born

Posted on February 4, 2024 by Techme101

TechCrunch Mobility is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click TechCrunch Mobility — to receive the newsletter every weekend in your inbox. Subscribe for free. Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility – your central hub for … Continue reading →

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Perhaps this is why the bitcoin spot ETFs are yet to send crypto prices to the moon

Posted on February 4, 2024 by Techme101

A survey of TechCrunch readers reveals that while the spot ETFs may boost bitcoin’s price, they may not be attracting many people who don’t own bitcoin. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Facebook/Meta — celebrating 20 years of astounding innovation and conflicting emotions

Posted on February 4, 2024 by Techme101

In 2015, Facebook celebrated its 10th anniversary by introducing the “On This Day” feature, allowing users to revisit their past posts. Today, we celebrate 20 years of the global phenomenon known as Facebook (now Meta). It has been a platform … Continue reading →

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Satya Nadella’s first decade as Microsoft CEO was defined by cloud. What’s next?

Posted on February 4, 2024 by Techme101

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is marking a decade at the helm, and he’s now overseeing the world’s most valuable company.

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Bug means EA FC24 is going to get very Messi as EA apologizes for howler

Posted on February 4, 2024 by Techme101

Electronic Arts has issued an apology to FC 24 players for the faulty challenge at the end of January that awarded a Lionel Messi Team of the Year Card to thousands of players, due to a bug in an SBC … Continue reading →

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Facebook at 20: Four ways it changed the world

Posted on February 4, 2024 by Techme101

How the world’s most popular social network has altered society, business and politics

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Mamoon Hamid and Ilya Fushman of Kleiner Perkins: “More than 80%” of pitches now involve AI

Posted on February 3, 2024 by Techme101

Last week, at a StrictlyVC event in San Francisco, we sat down with Mamoon Hamid and Ilya Fushman, two longtime VCs whose paths first crossed as children in Frankfurt, Germany, and who were brought in to reboot the storied venture … Continue reading →

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Apple launches the Vision Pro, Taylor Swift fans strike back and Palworld comes under fire

Posted on February 3, 2024 by Techme101

Hey, folks, welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular newsletter that recaps the week in tech that was. And, boy, was it a week. Lots happened — let’s dig in. As layoffs in tech picked up, the Vision Pro, … Continue reading →

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Deal Dive: It’s time for VCs to break up with fast fashion

Posted on February 3, 2024 by Techme101

VCs have long supported fast-fashion companies but the controversies and lawsuits they draw makes them riskier investments. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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This Week in AI: Do shoppers actually want Amazon’s GenAI?

Posted on February 3, 2024 by Techme101

Keeping up with an industry as fast-moving as AI is a tall order. So until an AI can do it for you, here’s a handy roundup of recent stories in the world of machine learning, along with notable research and experiments we … Continue reading →

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