Category: Enterprise
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Google faces provisional antitrust charges in UK for ‘self-preferencing’ its ad exchange
More antitrust woes for Google. The U.K’.s competition watchdog said on Friday that it suspects the company of adtech antitrust abuses. The tech giant will now have a chance to respond to the provisional findings before the regulator reaches a final decision. Confirmed violations of U.K. competition law can lead to corrective orders and fines…
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Endolith is using ‘Olympic-caliber’ copper microbes to address the copper shortage
The stealthily operating startup thinks it can narrow the gap by helping miners extract more copper from their mines. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Copper is critical to the energy transition away from fossil fuels. The metal is an excellent conductor of electricity, used in everything from electric vehicles…
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Google’s AI-powered Ask Photos feature begins US rollout
Google said the feature could be used for more than just photo retrieval alone; users would also be able to ask questions to get helpful answers. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. First announced at Google’s I/O developer conference this May, Google Photos’ AI-powered search feature, “Ask Photos,” is rolling…
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Drip Capital, a fintech that provides working capital to SMBs, picks up $113M
Drip Capital has raised $113 million in a combination of $23 million in equity and $90 million in debt to provide credit to more small businesses in India and the U.S. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. For over two decades, Jay Chandarana relied on commercial banks to meet the…
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Driverless car-sharing startup Vay steers toward B2B services
The new business-to-business division is a bet on what co-founder and CEO Thomas von der Ohe thinks is the future of mobility. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Vay, a startup that has put a teleoperated twist to car-sharing in Berlin and Las Vegas, is expanding into commercial and business-to-business…
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Microsoft gives deepfake porn victims a tool to scrub images from Bing search
The advancement of generative AI tools has created a new problem for the internet: the proliferation of synthetic nude images resembling real people. On Thursday, Microsoft took a major step to give revenge porn victims a tool to stop its Bing search engine from returning these images. Microsoft announced a partnership with StopNCII, an organization…
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Lyft restructures its micromobility business and Volkswagen brings ChatGPT to US vehicles
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! Short week, shorter newsletter. For all the U.S.-based readers, I hope you had an enjoyable Labor Day. Before we jump into the news fray, here is one…
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US charges five Russian military hackers with targeting Ukraine’s government with destructive malware
The U.S. government indictment demonstrated deep knowledge of the Russian spies’ activities, including their real-world meetings at a cafe in Moscow. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. On Thursday, the U.S. Department of Justice accused five members of Russia’s military intelligence agency of hacking several Ukrainian government agencies, an unnamed…
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Salesforce acquires data management firm Own for $1.9B in cash
Salesforce has acquired Own Company, a New Jersey-based provider of data management and protection solutions, for $1.9 billion in cash. Own is Salesforce’s biggest deal since buying Slack for $27.7 billion in 2021. The company reportedly considered — but ultimately decided against — purchasing data management software firm Informatica earlier this year. In a press…
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Osom is shutting down on Friday, as it had ‘no customers for a mobile phone’
OSOM always had a difficult road, with plans to launch a privacy-focused handset. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Launching a phone company is a remarkably difficult — some even say foolish — thing to do. OSOM Products, which rose out of the smoldering ashes of Essential in 2020, is…