‘Next Tesla’ Electric Car Startups Hit Speed Bump: ‘Investors Want To See Demand’
Electric vehicle companies large and small, from Ford to Tesla to Rivian, are dealing with cooler-than-expected demand for EVs.
SMB-focused Finom closes €115M as European fintech heats up
Finom, an Amsterdam-based challenger bank for SMBs that claims to have doubled its revenue in 2024, closed a €115 million Series C equity round (around $133 million).
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Former Twitter engineers are building Particle, an AI-powered news reader
A team led by former Twitter engineers is rethinking how AI can be used to help people process news and information. Particle.news, which entered into private beta over the weekend, is a new startup offering a personalized, “multi-perspective” news reading experience that not only leverages AI to summarize the news, but aims to do so […]
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Ransomware attack blamed for Change Healthcare outage stalling US prescriptions
An ongoing cyberattack at U.S. health tech giant Change Healthcare that sparked outages and disruption to hospitals and pharmacies across the U.S. for the past week was caused by ransomware, TechCrunch has learned. A healthcare executive with knowledge of the incident, who was on the call briefed by the company’s executives, said the healthcare tech […]
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The Top 5 Strategies for Overcoming Naysayers in Business
Here’s how you can handle naysayers with resilience and poise.
Let’s Bring Back the Human Element to Paying Bills — Here’s 3 Ways to Nurture Vendor Relationships for Business Success
In a small business’s accounts payable process, the human touch is essential. Building trust through personal interactions with vendors is key, guaranteeing a dependable supply chain and effective collaboration. How can businesses improve these connections? Here are three approaches for improvement.
A Millennial Relocated for a Job and Was Laid off 3 Months Later. Now, She’s Questioning Why She Was Hired in the First Place.
She says the company was aware she had to relocate.
Instagram confirms it’s developing a Snap Map-like ‘Friend Map’ feature
Instagram is developing an opt-in “Friend Map” feature that would allow users to see their friends’ locations in real time, a Meta spokesperson confirmed to TechCrunch on Monday. The company says the feature, which is similar to Snapchat’s Snap Map, is an internal prototype and is not being tested externally. The feature was first spotted […]
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Threads adds a bookmarking feature for saving favorite posts
Threads, the Twitter-like app from Instagram, is shaping up to look more like its competitor X with the recent launches of trending topics, an in-app camera, drafts, and as of today, a bookmarking feature for saving posts for later reference more privately than using a public “like” (the heart icon.) Bookmarking has been a popular […]
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Geothermal startup Fervo Energy is tapping fresh $221M round, filing reveals
The company draws heavily on drilling techniques pioneered by the oil and gas industry.
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The Top 2 Mistakes Founders Make That Hinder the Growth of Their Companies
Here are two of the biggest ways founders sabotage their own success — and how to fix it.