Category: Enterprise
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Watch the Apple Intelligence reveal, and the rest of WWDC 2024 right here
Apple kicked off its weeklong Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC 2024) event today with the customary keynote at 1 p.m. ET/10 a.m. PT. The presentation focused on the company’s software offerings and the developers that power them, including the latest versions of iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, visionOS and watchOS. But the biggest news came with the…
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Slack CEO Denise Dresser is coming to TechCrunch Disrupt this October
Slack CEO Denise Dresser is speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. When Slack CEO Denise Dresser was handed the reins last November, she was the third CEO in less than a year at the enterprise communications company. That kind of upheaval presents its own set…
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How Urvashi Barooah broke into venture after everyone told her she couldn’t
When Urvashi Barooah applied to MBA programs in 2015, she focused her applications around her dream of becoming a venture capitalist. She got rejected from every school, and was told she was being unrealistic about her prospects in the venture industry — but she didn’t let that deter her. Now, nine years later, Barooah, 33,…
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Apple confirms plans to work with Google’s Gemini ‘in the future’
“We’re looking forward to doing integrations with other models, including Google Gemini, for instance, in the future,” Federighi said during WWDC 2024. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Following a keynote presentation at WWDC 2024 that both introduced Apple Intelligence and confirmed a partnership that brings ChatGPT access to Siri…
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Elon Musk threatens to ban Apple devices from his companies over Apple’s ChatGPT integrations
Elon Musk’s posts seem to misunderstand the relationship Apple announced with OpenAI at WWDC 2024. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Elon Musk is threatening to ban iPhones from all his companies over the newly announced OpenAI integrations Apple announced at WWDC 2024 on Monday. In a series of posts…
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TechCrunch Space: A week that will go down in history
Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch Space. What a week! In the same seven-day period, we watched Boeing’s Starliner launch astronauts to space for the first time, and then we got to watch those two astronauts dock with the International Space Station. And we also got to see SpaceX launch Starship for the fourth time…
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Here’s everything Apple announced at the WWDC 2024 keynote, including Apple Intelligence, Siri makeover
The TechCrunch team runs down all of the biggest news from the Apple WWDC 2024 keynote in an easy-to-skim digest. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. It’s WWDC 2024 keynote time! Each year Apple kicks off its Worldwide Developers Conference with a few hours of just straight announcements, like the…
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With €50 million to invest, Italian Founders Fund looks for entrepreneurs with global ambitions
While funding for Italian startups has been growing, the country still ranks eighth in Europe by VC investment, according to Dealroom. Newly created Italian Founders Fund (IFF) hopes to help with the catching up, both in quantity and in quality. With €50 million to invest into 25 companies, it also positions itself as a sector…
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Sources: Wasoko-MaxAB e-commerce merger faces delays amid headwinds in Africa
The merger has yet to close due to extended due diligence amid ongoing restructuring and macroeconomic headwinds across multiple countries. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Last December, Nairobi’s Wasoko and Cairo-based rival MaxAB — two B2B e-commerce startups that enable retailers to order fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) from suppliers…
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After hits like Reddit and Scopley, Collaborative Fund easily raised a $125M fund to tackle climate, health and food
“We were motivated to fundraise because we think the ’24 vintage is going to be a good one,” founder Craig Shapiro said. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. The folks at Collaborative Fund certainly like a challenge. They don’t specialize in venture capital’s favorite business model, SaaS, preferring instead to…