February 2023

TikTok is expanding access to its research API to nonprofit academic institutions in the United States, the company announced on Tuesday. The expansion comes as TikTok started testing an early version of the research API back in November. Interested universities and researchers will have to apply for access and be approved by TikTok’s US Data […]

TikTok expands its research API to nonprofit academic institutions in the U.S. by Aisha Malik originally published on TechCrunch

Crypto exchange Coinbase has confirmed that it was briefly compromised by the same attackers that targeted Twilio, Cloudflare,  DoorDash, and more than a hundred other organizations last year. In a post-mortem of the incident published over the weekend, Coinbase said that the so-called ‘0ktapus’ hackers stole the login credentials of one of its employees in an […]

Coinbase says some employees’ information stolen by hackers by Carly Page originally published on TechCrunch

TechCrunch Live is making a special (virtual) trip to Boston on February 27, 2023, and you’re invited to the free event. Register here! While NYC may have the glitz, Miami the weather, and San Francisco the centrality; Boston has its own charms – and we’re going to discuss why Boston is a great place to […]

Hear why founders and investors love Boston at TechCrunch’s free City Spotlight: Boston event by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch

Swap Robotics entered our orbit last year, when the firm was a finalist for our Battlefield competition at Disrupt 2022. In a world full of robot mowers, the startup grabbed the judges’ attention with a modular design that allows for the titular quick swapping of batteries and functionality with attachments for things like snowplowing. The […]

Swap’s robotic mowers score $7M in seed funding by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch

Shared micromobility giant Lime said it has achieved full-year profitability on both an adjusted and unadjusted EBITDA basis, which would make it an outlier in an industry that has struggled to break even, much less turn a profit. Lime reported adjusted EBITDA profitability of $15 million and unadjusted profitability of $4 million in 2022. The […]

Lime reports first profitable year, tests the waters for IPO by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch