February 2024

Paytm target slashed by Macquarie on regulatory woes

February 13, 2024

Macquarie dramatically cut its 12-month price target on One97 Communications Ltd., the parent company of digital payments firm Paytm, citing heightened regulatory scrutiny. Macquarie, which predicted the slump at Paytm before the listing, lowered its target to 275 rupees, the most brutal by any major brokerage firm. Paytm, which ended the Monday trading session at […]

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President Biden has a meme strategy, and it’s leaning on Dark Brandon

February 13, 2024

President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign has finally set up shop on TikTok. Despite controversy in Congress over the app, TikTok is an indispensable tool for presidential candidates to reach young voters, experts say. “I wasn’t surprised at all to see that the campaign launched a TikTok account, because it would genuinely have been such a […]

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Chiefs’ Historic Consecutive Super Bowl Victories

February 13, 2024
In a remarkable display of resilience, teamwork, and exceptional talent, the Kansas City Chiefs have etched their name in the annals of history by winning back-to-back Super Bowls. This feat,…

The not-so-secret-anymore lunar mining startup

February 12, 2024

Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch Space. We’re just two days away from Intuitive Machines’ first-ever mission to the moon.

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Hackers uncover new TheTruthSpy stalkerware victims: Is your Android device compromised?

February 12, 2024

A consumer-grade spyware operation called TheTruthSpy poses an ongoing security and privacy risk to thousands of people whose Android devices are unknowingly compromised with its mobile surveillance apps, not least due to a simple security flaw that its operators never fixed. Now, two hacking groups have independently found the flaw that allows the mass access […]

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That anti-Tesla Super Bowl ad just got the wrong kind of attention from the NTSB

February 12, 2024

The National Transportation Safety Board, a U.S. government agency that investigates crashes, has ordered the Dawn Project organization to stop using its seal after it appeared in a Super Bowl ad that called for consumers to boycott Tesla. The NTSB said in a letter that its seal must be immediately removed from the Dawn Project’s […]

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Spotify’s layoffs put an end to a musical encyclopedia, and fans are pissed

February 12, 2024

On a brutal December day, 17% of Spotify employees found out they had been laid off in the company’s third round of job cuts that year. Not long after, music fans around the world realized that the cult-favorite website Every Noise at Once (EveryNoise), an encyclopedic goldmine for music discovery, had stopped working. These two […]

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Twitter alternative Spoutible clashes with critics over security breach

February 12, 2024

A user on the Twitter/X alternative Spoutible claims the company deleted their posts after they pushed Spoutible CEO Christopher Bouzy to be more honest about the nature of its recent security issue. The claims, which the company denies, are the latest bizarre twist in the security incident saga taking place over the past week at […]

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