Microsoft has invested $5 million in Indian budget hotel chain Oyo, according to a regulatory filing this week. The investment confirms a TechCrunch scoop from last month.The new investment values Oyo
OnlyFans, a London-based social media platform, is popular with amateur pornographic models and has become more widely used during the coronavirus pandemic. But it says any posts featuring nudity will now need to be consistent with its updated policies.
Forty-seven migrants were found dead on August 16 off the coast of Nouadhibou, northwest Mauritania, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) a
Bay Area-based Diamond Age this week announced that it has raised $8 million. The seed round is led by Prime Movers Lab and Alpaca VC and features a slew of additional firms, including Dolby Family Ve
Huawei Technologies Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou returns to a court hearing following a lunch break in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, August 18, 2021. /Reuters An online petition
Huawei Technologies Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou's extradition hearing in Canada closed on Wednesday. The judge will set a date to announce the decision in Octo
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture-capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.For our Wednesday show this week, Natasha and Alex and Danny had collea
FILE PHOTO: A health work educates a man on the process of vaccination at the Ridge Hospital in Accra, Ghana, on March 2, 2021. (Nipah Dennis via CFP) The global number of new COVID-19 cases h
Chinese President Xi Jinpingon Tuesday sent a message of condolence to his Algerian counterpart Abdelmadjid Tebbouneover the deadly wildfires that erupted in the countr
CFP Image Botswana's government announced the resumption of its mass COVID-19 vaccination campaign from Wednesday, August 18, as it seeks to inoculate more of its 2.3 million people.The Southe
Egypt’s Feryal Ashraf Abdelaziz, poses with her gold medal after winning the women's +61 kg karate competition at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. /CFP Image Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Si
Problems are mounting for NASA's ambitious target of landing the first woman and next man on the moon by 2024, and additional delays driven by a litigious billionaire could end up scuppering the target landing date.
Cheerleaders at Louise High School perform in the auditorium as other students watch during a pep rally, as the COVID-19 pandemic continues in Louise, Texas, U.S., November 20, 2020. /Reuters
The benchmark S&P 500 and the Dow industrials hit record highs on Monday as investors moved into defensive sectors and stocks recovered from losses earlier in the sessi
More than 60 members of the international community called for the "safe and orderly departure" from Afghanistan of foreign nationals and Afghans on Sunday, hours after
Seventy-seven people died and another 47 people are still unaccounted for in Turkey after flash floods swept through several towns in the Black Sea regions last week, officials said on Monday.More th
The New York State Department of Health issued an order Monday requiring all healthcare workers be vaccinated against COVID-19 by September 27. /Getty Images The New York State Department of H