Category: Enterprise
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Connect with Google Cloud, Aerospace, Qualcomm and more at Disrupt 2024
TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 will be in San Francisco on October 28–30, and we’re already excited! Disrupt brings innovation for every stage of your startup journey, and we could not bring you this world-class event without our world-class partners. Take advantage of the opportunity to leverage the expertise and resources of some of tech’s leading companies. Their participation…
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Meta’s Threads crosses 200 million active users
A day after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg talked about his newest social media experiment Threads reaching “almost” 200 million users on the company’s Q2 2024 earnings call, the platform has touched the milestone. Instagram head Adam Mosseri confirmed that the Twitter rival has reached 200M active users in a post on Threads. Meta has taken…
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Terraform Labs co-founder and crypto fugitive, Do Kwon, set for extradition to South Korea
The Appellate Court of Montenegro ruled on Thursday that Terraform Labs co-founder, Do Kwon, should be returned to his home country, South Korea. The ruling confirmed an earlier decision in April from the High Court of Podgorica which rejected a request to extradite the crypto fugitive to the U.S. The extradition date for Kwon to…
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Anthony Levandowski bets on off-road autonomy, Nuro plots a comeback and Applied Intuition gets more investor love
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! Summer road trip season is upon us, so when Google announced some updates to Google Maps, we got excited. Surely this would include a feature that allows…
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Boeing bleeds another $125M on Starliner program, bringing total losses to $1.6B
While the company was awarded a massive, $4.2 billion contract to accelerate Starliner development in 2014, it was structured as a “fixed-price” model. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Boeing has lost another $125 million on its Starliner astronaut capsule program due to delays in its first crewed flight test,…
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Google brings Gemini-powered search history and Lens to Chrome desktop
Google Thursday said that it is introducing new Gemini-powered features for Chrome’s desktop version, including Lens for desktop, tab compare for shopping assistance, and natural language integration for search history. Years after introducing and evolving Google Lens on mobile, the feature is finally coming to desktop. Rolling out to users across the world in the…
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Heeyo built an AI chatbot to be a billion kids’ interactive tutor and friend
When Xiaoyin Qu was growing up in China, she was obsessed with learning how to build paper airplanes that could do flips in the air. Her parents, though, didn’t have the aerodynamic expertise to support her newfound passion, and her teachers were too overwhelmed to give her dedicated attention. “That’s why I wanted to build…
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Twitter disappears from Mac App Store
X (formerly Twitter) can no longer be accessed in the Mac App Store, suggesting that it has been officially delisted. Searches for both “Twitter” and “X” on Apple’s platform no longer surface the app. The URL no longer works, either. Instead, it displays a pop-up message indicating that it is unavailable. This means new users…
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Self-driving truck startup Aurora Innovation to sell up to $420M in shares ahead of commercial launch
Self-driving technology company Aurora Innovation is looking to raise hundreds of millions in additional capital as it races towards a driverless commercial launch by the end of 2024. Aurora, which went public in 2021 through a special purpose acquisition merger, is pursuing a driver-as-a-service model, wherein carriers purchase trucks with the Aurora Driver tech on…
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Sequoia-backed Knowde raises Series C at a valuation cut
The San Jose-based startup raised $60 million in a round that values it lower than the $500 million valuation it garnered in its most recent round, according to multiple sources. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Knowde, an online marketplace for chemicals and polymers, just closed on a Series C…