Flat.mx, which wants to build a real estate “super app” for Latin America, has closed on a $20 million Series A round of funding.Anthemis and 500 Startups co-led the investment, which included partici
Google is appealing the more than half a billion dollar fine it got slapped with by France’s competition authority in July.The penalty relates to the adtech giant’s approach toward paying
Amsterdam-based startup VanMoof has raised a $128 million Series C funding round. The company designs and sells electric bikes that are quite popular in some markets. It now wants to become the world’
What do LinkedIn and Twitter have in common? They both introduced ephemeral story features that were pretty fleeting. LinkedIn announced today that it will suspend its Stories feature on September 30
Microsoft offered a broad “Holiday 2021” release date when it announced Windows 11, back in June. Of course, it didn’t specify precisely which holiday. Perhaps the company was aiming for World Teacher
Having a loved one with specialized care needs is incredibly challenging, but not something that people who have never had to deal with the issue would necessarily quite understand.For anyone who has
The voices on Amazon’s Alexa, Google Assistant and other AI assistants are far ahead of old-school GPS devices, but they still lack the rhythms, intonation and other qualities that make speech s
As the last U.S. aircraft carrying military personnel took off from Kabul airport on Monday, the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan came to a crushing end. But for Americans who fought or lost loved ones
LoftyInc Capital, a pan-African VC firm, announced today that it is launching its third fund — LoftyInc Afropreneurs Fund 3 — at $10 million for tech startups in Africa.The firm has reache
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) are urging President Biden to replace Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell as hi
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here.Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for August 30, 2021. The startup w
Less than two weeks after its official launch, The Boring Company’s Loop system in Las Vegas had its first security breach.On June 21, the morning of the final day of the International Beauty Sh
Online gaming companies will force users to register to play under their real identities and under-18s will only be allowed to play between 8pm and 9pm on Friday, Saturday, Sunday and public holidays.
Ola Electric is in advanced talks to raise between $250 million to $500 million in a new financing round as the Indian firm looks to scale its electric vehicle manufacturing business in the South Asia
Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch’s China roundup, a digest of recent events shaping the Chinese tech landscape and what they mean to people in the rest of the world.The biggest news of the week ag
The ownership of startups is often a mystery. In the absence of a public registry, it is difficult to figure out who owns what. Since most startups incorporate in Delaware, the Delaware Division of Co
When Headspace merged with on-demand mental healthcare platform Ginger, I was surprised. After all, Ginger raised $100 million in Series E funding just a few months ago — and last time I spoke to CEO
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