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India scrambles to curb PhonePe and Google’s dominance in mobile payments

The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), the governing body overseeing the country’s widely used Unified Payments Interface (UPI) mobile payment system, is set to engage with various fintech startups this month to develop a strategy to address the growing … Continue reading

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Flatpay rings up $47M to target smaller merchants with simple payment solutions

As the world waits for $65 billion payments tech giant Stripe to go public, a wave of smaller startups continues to roll into the market to pick up more payments business. In one of the latest developments, Danish company Flatpay, … Continue reading

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Former top SpaceX exec Tom Ochinero sets up new VC firm, filings reveal

Former senior SpaceX executive Tom Ochinero is teaming up with SpaceX alum-turned-VC, Achal Upadhyaya, and one of Sequoia’s top finance leaders, Spencer Hemphill, on a new venture called Interlagos Capital, TechCrunch has learned. There is little public information available about … Continue reading

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FLO is improving EV charging infrastructure

Founded by Louis Tremblay, FLO is looking to build robust EV charging infrastructure that will create a reliable web for drivers to get to where they need to go. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Waymo begins robotaxi testing in Atlanta

Waymo, the self-driving company under Alphabet, began testing its robotaxis in Atlanta on Tuesday, adding another city to its ever-expanding testing and deployment domain. Over the next few months, Waymo will deploy a handful of cars driven manually by humans … Continue reading

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Tesla ditches EV inventory discounts to ‘streamline’ sales and delivery

Tesla has ended discounts on inventory across its entire electric vehicle lineup — even as sales for EVs have flagged — as part of a larger and vague plan by CEO Elon Musk to “streamline the whole Tesla sales and … Continue reading

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HR startup Rippling is in discussions to raise at a $13.4B valuation, up from $11.25B

Late stage HRtech startup Rippling is raising new capital. The company’s new round, that has not yet closed, would inject $200 million into Rippling with another $670 million worth of shares being sold by existing stockholders, according to two people … Continue reading

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Intel and others commit to building open generative AI tools for the enterprise

Can generative AI designed for the enterprise (e.g. AI that autocompletes reports, spreadsheet formulas and so on) ever be interoperable? Along with a coterie of organizations including Cloudera and Intel, the Linux Foundation — the nonprofit organization that supports and … Continue reading

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A crypto wallet maker’s warning about an iMessage bug sounds like a false alarm

A crypto wallet maker claimed this week that hackers may be targeting people with an iMessage “zero-day” exploit — but all signs point to an exaggerated threat, if not a downright scam. Trust Wallet’s official X (previously Twitter) account wrote … Continue reading

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Trump’s Truth Social plans to launch a live TV streaming platform

The streaming service will launch in three phases and will focus on “news networks” and “religious channels,” as well as “family-friendly” offerings. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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