January 2024

The race to get next-generation solar technology on the market

January 15, 2024
In Swift Solar’s lab, more than a dozen pairs of elbow-length rubber gloves hover horizontally in midair, inflated like arms. The gloves are animated by gaseous nitrogen and jut out of waist-high, glass-walled enclosures, designed to keep the workspaces dry and airtight to protect the delicate solar materials inside.  In a corner, technician Roger Thompson…

LG opens its first US EV charging factory in Texas 

January 15, 2024

LG Electronics has opened its first electric vehicle (EV) charger facility outside of South Korea — in Fort Worth, Texas — to capture a share of North America’s competitive EV charging market.  Its new EV charging station factory, spanning 59,202 square feet, has the capacity to produce more than 10,000 chargers per year, LG said […]

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CES has almost fully succeeded in chasing sex-tech off its show floors

January 14, 2024

CES has long been a launchpad for innovation and cutting-edge technology. However, at this year’s event, there was a conspicuous void: the near-absence of sex tech. Despite being an industry that caters to a universal human experience, sex tech has always had an uneasy association with CES. This year, its conspicuous absence begs the question: […]

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Carta’s missteps and real estate fintech’s up-and-down week

January 14, 2024

Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech (formerly The Interchange)! In this edition, I’m going to look at some hits and misses in the real estate fintech space, Carta’s missteps (again), and more! To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important fintech stories delivered to your inbox every Sunday at 7:30 a.m. PT, subscribe here. The […]

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Look at your startup’s CAC to decide if you should launch another product

January 14, 2024

Rodrigo Fernandes Contributor Share on X Rodrigo Fernandes is a professor at Fundação Dom Cabral and is the CFO at Pingback, a Brazilian startup that provides a comprehensive solution for digital creators. Daniel McCarthy Contributor Share on X Daniel McCarthy is an Assistant Professor of Marketing at Emory University’s Goizueta School of Business and co-founder […]

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