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Britain's Raab Says EU Should Stop Treating N. Ireland as 'Separate Country'

British foreign minister Dominic Raab criticized the European Union on Sunday for treating Northern Ireland as if it were a separate country rather than part of the Uni

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Inside Marqeta’s fintech mega-IPO

Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s broadly based on the daily column that appears on Extra Crunch, but free, and made for your weekend reading. Wan

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Lydia partners with Cashbee to add savings accounts

French startup Lydia is better known as the dominant app for peer-to-peer payments. But the company has been adding more features, such as a debit card, account aggregation, donations, money pots and

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China says dialogue, cooperation should be Sino-U.S. ties' mainstream

Dialogue and cooperation should be the mainstream of relations between China and the United States, Yang Jiechi, a senior Chinese diplomat, told U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in a phone conv

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China censures Japan over Suga's remarks on Taiwan

China lodged stern representations with Japan after Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga referred to the Taiwan region as a country, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokespe

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Biden gears up for G7 meeting

04:00 In the U.S. president’s own words as he prepared to board Air Force One: "The United States is back" and multilateralism is too, and the focus is on Russia and China.CGTN’s Nathan

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Ledger raises $380 million for its crypto hardware wallet

French startup Ledger has raised a $380 million Series C funding round led by 10T Holdings. Following today’s funding round, the company has reached a valuation of $1.5 billion.Other investors in the

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What SOSV’s Climate Tech 100 tells founders about investors in the space

On Earth Day, April 22, SOSV published the SOSV Climate Tech 100, a list of the best startups that we’ve supported from their earliest stages to address climate change. There are always valuable insig

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Rudy Gobert wins third NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award

Rudy Gobert of the Utah Jazz looks on in practice before Game 1 of the NBA Western Conference semifinals against the Los Angeles Clippers at Vivint Arena in Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S., June 8, 20

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The U.K., U.S. and G7 all "Build Back Better"

02:00 U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson says U.S. President Joe Biden used for his campaign’s “Build Back Better” slogan, which is also a slogan of the G7.It’s not the first time Biden

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Seoul-based Ringle raises $18M Series A for its one-on-one English tutoring platform

Many of the highest-profile English tutoring platforms focus on children, including VIPKID and Magic Ears. Ringle created a niche for itself by focusing on adults first, with courses like business Eng

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Carlyle acquires 1E.com, an endpoint and hybrid working specialist, in $270M deal

Remote work was the order of the day for the past 16 months, but as we (fingers crossed) move out of the pandemic, it’s looking like a lot of people may move into a new era of hybrid work: less

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Branch raises $50M to offer bundled auto & home insurance via an API

Branch Insurance, a startup offering bundled home and auto insurance, has raised $50 million in a Series B funding round led by Anthemis Group.Acrew, Cherry Creek Holdings and existing backers Greycro

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Senate passes 'Innovation' bill, so why all the glum faces?

Editor's note: Anthony Moretti is an associate professor in the Department of Communication and Organizational Leadership at Robert Morris University. The article refle

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Senate passes 'Innovation' bill, so why all the glum faces?

Editor's note: Anthony Moretti is an associate professor in the Department of Communication and Organizational Leadership at Robert Morris University. The article refle

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Elon Musk officially hits the brakes on Tesla Model S Plaid+

Tesla CEO Elon has made it official and publicly cancelled plans to produce the Model S Plaid+, a supercharged version of the upcoming Plaid version of the electric vehicle that will be delivered to t

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Fruit flies get 'hangry' without food, study shows

Researchers from the UEA and Oxford observed male fruit flies get more aggressive the longer they went without food.