April 2023

Elon exposes his burner, Tile embraces the cat life, and Elizabeth Holmes avoids prison

April 29, 2023

Hey, TechCrunch people. If you’re looking for a recap of the week’s news in tech, you’ve come to the right place. It’s Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular recap column. Glad to have you. Before we get on with the meat of it, a PSA that tickets for TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 are available now. Disrupt, […]

Elon exposes his burner, Tile embraces the cat life, and Elizabeth Holmes avoids prison by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

This Week in Apps: Users pan Snapchat’s AI, Bluesky has a moment, Apple wins antitrust appeal

April 29, 2023

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app economy in 2023 hit a few snags, as consumer spending last year dropped for the first time by 2% to $167 billion, according to data.ai’s “State of […]

This Week in Apps: Users pan Snapchat’s AI, Bluesky has a moment, Apple wins antitrust appeal by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch

Pitch for the check you want 

April 29, 2023

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week’s startup news and trends by Senior Reporter and Equity co-host Natasha Mascarenhas. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. Tech’s guiding principles these days aren’t too difficult to find: discipline, focus and cash conservation. But I’ve always found those same focuses to be especially in conflict with […]

Pitch for the check you want  by Natasha Mascarenhas originally published on TechCrunch

Persona and Index Ventures talk identity, and identifying a good deal

April 29, 2023

Identity management used to mean making sure you had your driver’s license when you left the house, but these days it’s not so easy: Identity fundamentally underpins how we engage with the digital world, and identity services can take on many forms (and, unfortunately, abuses). I’m excited to host a TechCrunch Live event with Persona […]

Persona and Index Ventures talk identity, and identifying a good deal by Matt Burns originally published on TechCrunch

Jack Dorsey thinks Elon Musk isn’t doing right by Twitter

April 29, 2023

Jack Dorsey has been using Bluesky, the app he partially funded that’s built upon a federated and open social networking protocol he advocates, to do some truth-telling about Twitter, Elon Musk and the decision to take the company private under the stewardship of the Tesla CEO. Dorsey admits that Twitter is faring poorly under Musk […]

Jack Dorsey thinks Elon Musk isn’t doing right by Twitter by Darrell Etherington originally published on TechCrunch