Category: Enterprise
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Luxury fashion startup The Floorr empowers personal stylists with tools to grow their businesses
The Floorr offers tools for conducting sales, hosting tailored styling sessions, creating mood boards, and engaging in text or voice chats with clients, all in one place. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. The Floorr launched earlier this year to shake up the digital styling experience by empowering personal shoppers…
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Hacked, leaked, exposed: Why you should never use stalkerware apps
Using stalkerware is creepy, unethical, potentially illegal, and puts your data and that of your loved ones in danger. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. There is a whole shady industry for people who want to monitor and spy on their families. Multiple app makers market their software — sometimes…
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ZoomInfo alum raises $15M for startup that builds AI sales engineers
Until a year ago, Arjun Pillai had the comfortable yet important role of chief data officer at ZoomInfo, a B2B database company. But the serial entrepreneur was getting antsy. He had already founded and sold two startups, including Insent, which ZoomInfo bought in 2021. “Once you start a startup, you always have that bug,” he…
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Substack writers can now draft and publish posts in iOS app
Substack is rolling out the ability for writers to draft and publish new posts directly from their phone via its iOS app, the company announced on Thursday. Until now, users have only been read content through the app. With this update, Substack is catching up with Medium and WordPress’ mobile apps, both of which allow…
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Disrupt 2024 Career Fair: Your gateway to top tech talent
Disrupt 2024 is the premier event where tech careers are launched, connections are forged, and the future of technology talent takes center stage. The Disrupt Career Fair is the perfect opportunity to showcase your company and attract the best candidates. That’s because it has a diverse array of companies, from tech giants to nimble startups,…
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TechCrunch Minute: Meta’s new ‘Imagine me’ feature lets you generate AI selfies
Meta’s AI integrations into apps like Instagram and Facebook have felt pretty useless so far. If I’m just trying to find my friend’s Instagram, why do I have to navigate around a Meta AI interface that is desperately trying to tell me the top five vegetarian protein sources? But with the release of Meta’s new…
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Google makes its Gemini chatbot faster and more widely available
In its bid to maintain pace with generative AI rivals like Anthropic and OpenAI, Google is rolling out updates to the no-fee tier of Gemini, its AI-powered chatbot. The updates are focused on making the platform more performant — and more widely available. Starting Thursday, Gemini 1.5 Flash — a lightweight multimodal model Google announced…
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Archera helps customers access deep cloud discounts
In addition to insured commitments, Archera provides consulting services to help build purchasing strategies for customers to optimize their cloud usage. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Amid the generative AI boom, companies are spending a lot on cloud infrastructure — and they’re concerned about it. According to a 2024…
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Alphabet pours $5B into Waymo, Cruise scraps the Origin and Elon’s bet on autonomy
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! I don’t know about you, but for me, the past few days have offered up even more evidence that our world is vulnerable to software bugs. Yep,…
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Bing previews its answer to Google’s AI Overviews
Microsoft this afternoon previewed its answer to Google’s AI-powered search experiences: Bing generative search. Available for only a “small percentage” of users at the moment, Bing generative search, underpinned by a combo of large and small generative AI models (mum’s the word on which models exactly), aggregates info from around the web and generates a…