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Chinese sprinter Su Bingtian clocks 9.98 in Zhaoqing

Chinese sprinter Su Bingtian (C) competes during a 100-meter sprint practice race in Zhaoqing, Guangdong Province, China, April 23, 2021. /CFP Su Bingtian of China clocked 9.98 seconds to win

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Solving the security challenges of public cloud

Experts believe the data-lake market will hit a massive $31.5 billion in the next six years, a prediction that has led to much concern among large enterprises. Why? Well, an increase in data lakes equ

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Satellite imagery startup Albedo closes $10M seed round

While most startups today are creating software, not every upstart enterprise is taking a code-only approach to building a business. Some of today’s most ambitious startups are aiming quite a bi

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China's vaccine map: Sinovac vaccine proves 'significantly effective'

02:05 Editor's note: This is the weekly wrap-up of Chinese COVID-19 vaccines' contribution in the global fight against the virus for April 12-18, 2021.This one also focuses on the reco

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Coinbase’s direct listing alters the landscape for fintech and crypto startups

Coinbase’s direct listing was a massive finance, startup and cryptocurrency event that impacted a host of public and private investors, early employees, and crypto-enthusiasts. Regardless of where one

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Let’s talk about gaslighting and fundraising

“Most of the startups I give advice to about how to raise venture capital shouldn’t be raising venture capital,” an investor recently told me. While the idea that every startup isn’t venture-backable

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Daily Crunch: Amazon makes PR push ahead of union vote

Amazon pushes back against unionization, WeWork eyes the SPAC route and there’s new spyware on Android. This is your Daily Crunch for March 26, 2021.The big story: Amazon makes PR push ahead of

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You can only invest if you promise not to read the fine print, ok?

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.Natasha and Danny and Alex and Grace were all here to chat through the

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Four possible ways to describe Biden's foreign policy

The White House in Washington, D.C., the U.S. /Getty Editor's note:Josef Gregory Mahoney is a professor of politics at East China Normal University. The article reflects the author's opinions,

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Google’s Soli radar returns to track sleep on the new Nest Hub

Talk about surprise comebacks. This morning Google announced the arrival of the next-gen Nest Hub. In spite of rebranding from Google Home Hub back in 2019, the smart screen hasn’t seen many changes s

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UFC 259: Amanda Nunes proves she is too good for her own good

The UFC created its women's featherweight division to court Cris Cyborg, the biggest draw in women's MMA not named Ronda Rousey, away from Scott Coker's rival promotion Bellator MMA. What was intende

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UN: Global food waste doubled in 2019

03:23 Food waste is a massive global problem, made more jarring when juxtaposed against world hunger.But alarming new data from the UN Environment Program and UK non-profit WRAP, revea

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Food equivalent to 23 million fully-loaded trucks wasted in 2019

More than 931 million tonnes of food, equalling nearly 17 percent of the total food available for consumption in 2019, were dumped in dustbins, dampening global efforts to reduce hunger and emissi

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G League looks into Jeremy Lin's claim of being called 'coronavirus'

Jeremy Lin #7 of the Santa Cruz Warriors looks on in the game agaisnt the Delaware Blue Coats at AdventHealth Arena in Orlando, Florida, U.S., February 12, 2021. /CFP The NBA G League is look

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How to overcome the challenges of switching to usage-based pricing

The usage-based pricing model almost feels like a cheat code — it enables SaaS companies to more efficiently acquire new customers, grow with those customers as they’re successful and keep those custo

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10 investors predict MaaS, on-demand delivery and EVs will dominate mobility’s post-pandemic future

The COVID-19 pandemic didn’t just upend the transportation industry. It laid bare its weaknesses, and conversely, uncovered potential opportunities.Electric bikes sales spiked as public transit

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Ally.io rasies $50M Series C as the OKR software market stays explosive

This morning Ally.io, a software startup with a focus on the OKR (objectives and key results, in case you’ve somehow avoided being exposed) goal-setting technique, announced that it has closed $