Tag Archives: TechCrunch

From Lauri Moore to Vic Singh, venture capitalists continue to play musical chairs

When Keith Rabois announced he was leaving Founders Fund to return to Khosla Ventures in January, it came as a shock to many in the venture capital ecosystem — and not just because Rabois is a big name in the … Continue reading

Posted in Tech | Tagged | Comments Off on From Lauri Moore to Vic Singh, venture capitalists continue to play musical chairs

Epic Games’ ‘MegaGrant’ makes EU alternative app store, AltStore PAL, available for free

AltStore PAL, an app that takes advantage of the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) to bring a third-party app store to EU users, is now available for free, thanks to Epic Games. The app maker announced via social media posts on … Continue reading

Posted in Tech | Tagged | Comments Off on Epic Games’ ‘MegaGrant’ makes EU alternative app store, AltStore PAL, available for free

CodeRabbit raises $16M to bring AI to code reviews

Code reviews — peer reviews of code that help devs improve code quality — are time-consuming. According to one source, 50% of companies spend two to five hours a week on them. Without enough people, code reviews can be overwhelming … Continue reading

Posted in Tech | Tagged | Comments Off on CodeRabbit raises $16M to bring AI to code reviews

TipRanks, an AI-based stock tip evaluator created after its founder got burned by bad advice, sells for $200M to Prytek

Prytek had already been a big investor in TipRanks since 2017, most recently leading a $77 million round in the company in 2021. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Posted in Tech | Tagged | Comments Off on TipRanks, an AI-based stock tip evaluator created after its founder got burned by bad advice, sells for $200M to Prytek

Meta axed CrowdTangle, a tool for tracking disinformation. Critics claim its replacement has just ‘1% of the features’

Journalists, researchers, and politicians are mourning Meta’s shutdown of CrowdTangle, which they used to track the spread of disinformation on Facebook and Instagram. In CrowdTangle’s place, Meta is offering its Content Library – but is limiting usage to people from … Continue reading

Posted in Tech | Tagged | Comments Off on Meta axed CrowdTangle, a tool for tracking disinformation. Critics claim its replacement has just ‘1% of the features’

Cockroach Labs shakes up its licensing to force bigger companies to pay

Cockroach Labs, the business and core developer behind the eponymous distributed SQL database known as CockroachDB, is changing its licensing once again — five years after it moved on from an open source model. The company revealed today that its … Continue reading

Posted in Tech | Tagged | Comments Off on Cockroach Labs shakes up its licensing to force bigger companies to pay

Klarna takes on banking with new savings, cash-back offerings

Swedish fintech giant Klarna is rolling out two new products on Thursday that could make its buy now, pay later offerings more enticing to use.  The company is offering consumers in the U.S. and 11 European countries the ability to … Continue reading

Posted in Tech | Tagged | Comments Off on Klarna takes on banking with new savings, cash-back offerings

Binance restarts services in India after seven-month regulatory halt

Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, has resumed operations for users in India after a seven-month hiatus imposed by a local authority for operating “illegally” in the country. The exchange said Thursday it has registered as a reporting entity with … Continue reading

Posted in Tech | Tagged | Comments Off on Binance restarts services in India after seven-month regulatory halt

Video of Eric Schmidt blaming remote work for Google’s woes mysteriously vanishes

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who has since moved on to greener and perhaps more dangerous pastures, told an audience of Stanford students recently that “Google decided that work-life balance and going home early and working from home was more … Continue reading

Posted in Tech | Tagged | Comments Off on Video of Eric Schmidt blaming remote work for Google’s woes mysteriously vanishes

Meet Black Forest Labs, the startup powering Elon Musk’s unhinged AI image generator

Elon Musk’s Grok released a new AI image generation feature on Tuesday night that, just like the AI chatbot, has very few safeguards. That means you can generate fake images of Donald Trump smoking marijuana on the Joe Rogan Show, … Continue reading

Posted in Tech | Tagged | Comments Off on Meet Black Forest Labs, the startup powering Elon Musk’s unhinged AI image generator