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Let’s make a deal: A crash course on corporate development

Wash, rinse, repeat: A startup is founded, first product ships, customers engage, and then a larger company’s corporate development team sends a blind email requesting to “connect and compare notes.”I

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Tibet sees remarkable development in past 70 years

06:54 Editor's note: China's Tibet Autonomous Region is celebrating the 70th anniversary of peaceful liberation, a turning point in the region's history. Although some

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Fontinalis Partners, the early mobility-focused VC firm backed by Ford, rolls out a third fund

Fontinalis Partners, a 12-year-old, Detroit-based venture firm that was among the earliest early-stage venture outfits to focus squarely on mobility, has collected $104 million in capital commitments

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Climate crisis is humanitarian emergency for women and girls in particular

As we mark World Humanitarian Day, we need to take urgent action to engage in climate adaptation, build climate resilience and prepare all the better for the escalating

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Climate crisis is humanitarian emergency for women and girls in particular

As we mark World Humanitarian Day, we need to take urgent action to engage in climate adaptation, build climate resilience and prepare all the better for the escalating

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Extra Crunch roundup: The Nuro EC-1, early-stage growth tactics, understanding Salesforce+

In 2010, Google’s autonomous vehicle project placed self-driving cars on Bay Area streets and freeways, but practical applications were thought to be at least a decade away.The futurists were ri

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Nura offers a smaller, cheaper version of its wireless earbuds for rent

Some Bluetooth bugginess and questionable mic performance, I liked the NuraTrue, quite a bit. And obviously, I’m always in favor of smaller companies mixing it up with tech giants, while bringing some

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Shopistry bags $2M to provide ‘headless commerce without the headaches’

Canada-based Shopistry wants to turn the concept of headless commerce, well, on its head. On Monday, the e-commerce startup announced $2 million in seed funding to continue developing its toolkit of p

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Takeovers and Twitter headaches

Hello friends!Lucas is still out for a few more days, so I’m filling in for him again on this week’s Week In Review. To recap: I’m Greg. I started at TC back when deciding who to put

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Daily Crunch: 3 US Senators ask Amazon how biometric payment system will handle customers’ palm prints

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 fo

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APD | Weekly top 10 hot news (Aug. 07 - Aug. 13)

Every weekend, Asia Pacific Daily will provide you with a run-down of the latest hot news.This week, the following hot news you should know:Top 1 | Biden administration

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Wisconsin heading toward record $1.7 billion surplus

Wisconsin is on track to end the next two years with an extra $1.7 billion in the bank.The Legislative Fiscal Bureau on Monday said the current state budget, written by

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I have a piece of advice for Mr. Trudeau

Xia Jixuan got this advice from Pierre Elliot Trudeau in 1986 when he worked as a reporter for China Radio International. Xia Jixuan/CGTN Actually, I'm passing this piece of advice on to Justi

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Talkdesk’s valuation jumps to $10B with Series D for smart contact centers

Talkdesk, a provider of cloud-based contact center software, announced $230 million in new Series D funding that more than triples the company’s valuation to $10 billion, Talkdesk founder CEO Tiago Pa

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How Adia Sowho helped steer Thrive Agric through the pandemic crisis

Nigeria’s less than two-decade-old ecosystem is evolving fast. But behind the funding and legitimate hype, there’s without a doubt plenty of learning that needs to be done in running a sta

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APD | US-India Relations Face Serious Concerns

Author: Prof. Engr. Zamir Ahmed Awan, Sinologist (ex-Diplomat), Editor, Analyst, Non-Resident Fellow of CCG (Center for China and Globalization), National University o

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Cryptocurrency group asks hackers to return stolen $600m

In monetary value, the heist would be one of the biggest to hit the cryptocurrency world and the value of the tokens dropped below $400m following the news of the theft.