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Rootly nabs $3.2M seed to build SRE incident management solution inside Slack

As companies look for ways to respond to incidents in their complex microservices-driven software stacks, SREs — site reliability engineers — are left to deal with the issues involved in making everyt

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Germany's female gymnastics team wears unitards in 'sexualization' row

03:32 With toes pointed, back straight and hair pinned up, Sarah Voss waved to the cheering crowd at Munich's Olympic Halle Stadium as her name was announced across the loudspeakers.The

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Tate, Miró artworks mark opening of Shanghai's new art museum

A visitor looks at the large kinetic light installation "Encounter with the Unknown" by artist Cai Guoqiang at the Museum of Art Pudong in Shanghai, July 6, 2021. /CFPA

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H Venture Partners closes $10M debut fund targeting science-based brands

H Venture Partners brought together more than 75 consumer and retail industry experts to invest in its first fund, raising $10 million aimed at consumer brand startups backed by science.Founder and Ma

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We want your city in TechCrunch’s European Cities Survey 2021!

Do you want your city to get its own TechCrunch Survey? They join in! So if you are a tech startup founder or investor in one of these cities please fill out our survey form here Check the list of Eur

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Videos of tribe women being beaten by their families go viral in India

00:30 Disturbing videos spread across social media showing young women, in both cases from tribes and villages within India's state of Madhya Pradesh, being dragged by their hair, eithe

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Announcing the startups pitching at TC Early Stage

This Thursday and Friday, TechCrunch will host Early Stage – a virtual bootcamp for early stage founders. After the success of the spring event, on Friday, TC will feature 10 phenomenal early-st

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MAGIC Fund raises $30M to scale its global founders-backing-founders fund

Influential entrepreneurs like Paul Graham and Naval Ravikant always preach the need for startups to have founders-turned-investors on their cap table. As Ravikant puts it, “founders want to know that

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Duchess of Cambridge self-isolating at home after Covid contact

The Duchess of Cambridge is having to self-isolate after coming into contact with someone who later tested positive for coronavirus, Kensington Palace has said.Kate was

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Sporting moments of the week (June 28-July 4)

Senegalese participants celebrate after winning their traditional pirogue race in Dakar, Senegal, July 4, 2021. Pirogue racing is deeply rooted in the Senegalese culture of communities living

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Fourth of July International Hot Dog-Eating Contest in U.S.

Click arrows to view gallery It may not be pretty, but Nathan's Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog-Eating Contest is an Independence Day tradition in the

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A familiar question at Cannes: where are the women?

Women stage a mass protest at the 2018 Cannes festival over the lack of female representation. /AFP With just four women among the directors behind the 24 films in competition for the Palme d'

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Welcome to hot due diligence summer 

Wow, that headline worked?A recent board fight at a digital health unicorn is a reminder to entrepreneurs that it’s important to set boundaries, even amid the dizzying volume and velocity of this summ

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FINA rejects extra-large caps for thick, curly hair in Tokyo Olympics

Alice Dearing of Britain in action in the women's 400m medley final in the Manchester International Swimming Meet at the Manchester Aquatics Centre in Manchester, England, February 13, 2021. /CFP

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WTA cancels major Asian tournaments due to pandemic

Ashleigh Barty of Australia after winning the WTA Finals in Shenzhen, south China, November 3, 2019. /CFP The Women's Tennis Association (WTA) wiped out the Asian swing of tournaments from it

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3 guiding principles for CEOs who post on Twitter

A CEO’s fiduciary duties to their company and its shareholders do not end when they are off the clock — they must always act in good faith. However, navigating the boundaries between a company’s offic

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Art exhibitions, live shows mark Party's anniversary

Spring Festival, by teachers and students at the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, is one of many artworks on show at the National Museum of China in Beijing. [Photo by Jiang Dong/China Daily] Numer