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Google says it removed cultural events from its calender last year

February 11, 2025

Google has removed events such as Black History Month and Pride Month from being listed on the calendar by default.  Other events that were removed from the default calendar include Jewish Heritage, Indigenous People Month, Holocaust Remembrance Day, and Hispanic Heritage Month.  Google spokesperson Madison Cushman Veld confirmed the changes to TechCrunch, saying that in […]

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Anduril takes control of Microsoft’s $22B VR military headset program

February 11, 2025

The Army has granted upstart weapons maker Anduril control of one of its highest-profile and long-troubled projects known as the Integrated Visual Augmentation System, founder Palmer Luckey announced in a blog post Tuesday. IVAS was initially awarded to Microsoft in 2018 to develop augmented reality headsets for soldiers based on a ruggedized version of Hololens. […]

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Tumblr to join the fediverse after WordPress migration completes

February 11, 2025

Since 2022, blogging site Tumblr has been teasing its plans to integrate with the fediverse — the open social web powered by the protocol ActivityPub also used by Mastodon, Threads, Flipboard, and others. Now, the Automattic-owned blogging platform is sharing more information about when and how that integration could actually happen. As it turns out, […]

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How Musk’s $97.4B bid could gum up OpenAI’s for-profit conversion

February 11, 2025

On Monday, Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, offered to buy the nonprofit that effectively governs OpenAI for $97.4 billion. The unsolicited buyout would be financed by Musk’s AI company, xAI, and a consortium of outside investors, per a letter sent to California and Delaware’s attorneys general. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman quickly dismissed Musk’s bid, […]

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What Small Businesses Can Learn from Yelp’s Trend Tracker

February 11, 2025
How Yelp’s trend expert helps small businesses thrive by leveraging Yelp Trend Tracker insights, fostering community-focused engagement and embracing data-driven strategies to stay ahead of evolving consumer preferences.

Klarna and Deel eye IPOs, and Stripe embraces crypto

February 11, 2025

Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech!  This week we’re looking at how fintech heavyweights such as Klarna and Stripe are incorporating crypto into their strategies, which companies are planning for IPOs, one fintech’s Super Bowl ad, Stripe’s new lead of startups and venture capital, and more! To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important fintech […]

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