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FireHydrant, an NYC incident management startup that launched in 2019, announced on Wednesday that it has acquired Blameless, a former competitor. The companies did not share the purchase price. Both companies help SREs (site reliability engineers) deal with the daunting job of keeping software and websites up and running. When things go wrong, they help…

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Zomato, the Indian food delivery giant, has acquired the entertainment ticketing business of financial services firm Paytm for $244.1 million, signaling a strategic move to expand its “going out” offerings. The acquisition, among the largest M&A deals among new-age Indian tech companies, includes Paytm’s ticketing services for movies, sports, and events. As part of the…

Meet Starpath, a startup that wants to make it possible for you to live on Mars one day.  Starpath is building robots that it hopes will be able to autonomously mine liquid oxygen from the moon. That liquid oxygen can then be used to develop fuel for spacecrafts, which could make it possible for humans…

Grim news coming in from Sicily, Italy. Mike Lynch, the U.K. investor and founder of IT company Autonomy, has been identified as one of two bodies recovered from the Bayesian, the yacht that sunk off the coast of Sicily early Monday, according to several reports coming out of the country that cite the Chief of…

For the price, buyers will get a well-equipped electric minivan that falls a bit short on range. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. ​ More than two years after being announced for the U.S., Volkswagen’s electric minivan is inching closer to the showroom floor. Today’s baby steps: a price and an…

Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech! This week, we’re looking at the respective demise of Tally and Score, plus examining Klarna’s latest business move. We also have a list of fintech companies that are looking to add headcount. To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important fintech stories delivered to your inbox every Tuesday at…

Though PayPal has not yet confirmed it will now develop a competing wallet thanks to new APIs, the company has hinted in that such a plan is in the works. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. ​ PayPal is poised to take advantage of the iPhone’s newly opened-up NFC capabilities by…

OpenAI has inked a deal with Condé Nast — the publisher of storied outlets such as The New Yorker, Vogue, and Wired — to surface stories from its properties in OpenAI’s AI-powered chatbot platform ChatGPT and its search prototype SearchGPT. Terms of the partnership weren’t disclosed. But in a memo to staff, Condé Nast CEO…

After tech giant Cisco announced plans for its second round of layoffs this year, employees tell TechCrunch that they will not know if they are affected for close to a month. Earlier this month, Reuters reported that Cisco was planning a second round of layoffs this year, after letting go of around 4,000 workers in…