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IMF 'fully supports' global corporate income tax deal

The IMF supports international taxation reform. /CFP The International Monetary Fund (IMF) called on nations to reach a global agreement on corporate income taxation this year to avoid a tax o

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Cloud gaming service Shadow taken over by OVHcloud founder

Blade, the French startup behind cloud gaming service Shadow, has been acquired by Octave Klaba’s fund following a commercial court order. Klaba is better known as the founder of OVHcloud, a French cl

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The second shot is kicking in

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.First and foremost, Equity was nominated for a Webby for “Best Technolo

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Detroit-based Signal Advisors raises $10m Series A led by General Catalyst

Signal Advisors is building a specialized financial platform for financial advisors, and the company is announcing it raised a $10 million Series A led by Brian Ru and Hemant Taneja at General Catalys

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WHO says India must reduce mobility and mixing to rein in pandemic

A health worker takes swab samples from a woman for COVID-19 test on the roadside, in Bangalore, India on Oct. 9, 2020. /Xinhua India must control mobility and mixing to reduce a surge in infe

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Battery Resourcers raises $20M to commercialize its recycling-plus-manufacturing operations

As a greater share of the transportation market becomes electrified, companies have started to grapple with how to dispose of the thousands of tons of used electric vehicle batteries that are expected

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Clubhouse CEO denies company was hacked after user data leak

The denial addressed only claims the company was hacked, not whether 1.3 million Clubhouse users' data was actually leaked online.

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Twitter said to have held acquisition talks with Clubhouse on potential $4B deal

Twitter held talks with Clubhouse around a potential acquisition of the live drop-in audio networking platform, with a deal value somewhere around $4 billion, according to a report from Bloomberg. Tec

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Cleaning up Europe's vaccine mess

President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen (L) and the President of the European Council Charles Michel (R) are talking to media at the end of a virtual EU Leader summit in the Jus

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Cleaning up Europe's vaccine mess

President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen (L) and the President of the European Council Charles Michel (R) are talking to media at the end of a virtual EU Leader summit in the Jus

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Bring CISOs into the C-suite to bake cybersecurity into company culture

When you think of the core members of the C-suite, you probably think of the usual characters: CEO, CFO, COO and maybe a CMO. Each of these roles is fairly well defined: The CEO controls strategy and

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Buy a pass to Disrupt 2021 and get a free Extra Crunch membership

Are you ready to do whatever it takes to move the needle and drive your startup forward? Then you’re ready for TechCrunch Disrupt 2021. The leading tech conference focused on founders takes place Sept

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Kintent nabs $4M seed to automate compliance questionnaire process

Every tech vendor has to pass security muster with customers, typically a tedious activity involving answering long questionnaires. Kintent, a new startup that wants to automate this process, announce

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Huawei Reports 3.8% Revenue Growth in 2020

Chinese telecom giant Huawei said Wednesday it saw growth in both revenue and profit in 2020, up by 3.8 percent and 3.2 percent respectively, meeting company targets.

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Spotify adds three new types of personalized playlists with launch of ‘Spotify Mixes’

Spotify this morning announced it’s significantly expanding its selection of personalized playlists with the addition of three new categories of playlists under the heading of “Spotify Mix

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Armenia's Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan to Resign in April

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan announced that he will resign in April, ahead of early parliamentary elections in the country."Yes, I will resign very soon, in

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Woven Capital kicks off portfolio with investment in autonomous delivery company Nuro

Woven Capital, the investment arm of Toyota’s innovation-focused subsidiary Woven Planet, has announced an investment into Silicon Valley-based autonomous delivery vehicle company Nuro. This kic