April 14, 2026

AI datacenter startup Fluidstack in talks for $1B round at $18B valuation months after hitting $7.5B, says report

Fundraising is reportedly flowing for Fluidstack after it secured a $50 billion deal to build data centers for Anthropic.

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Reddit is testing Discord-like channels for community chat

April 28, 2023

Reddit announced Thursday that it is testing Discord-like chat channels with select subreddits. With this move, the social network is trying to give more avenues for community members to interact with each other apart from the usual asynchronous commenting system. The company said it is starting this test with 25 volunteer subreddits — the company didn’t […]

Reddit is testing Discord-like channels for community chat by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch

Amazon omits India business in earnings, a first in years

April 28, 2023

Amazon omitted India updates in Thursday’s earnings call and release, a notable change for the e-commerce giant that has consistently highlighted rapid growth in the South Asian market. The absence of India in the quarterly earnings, the first since early 2014, follows Amazon’s shutdown of multiple services, including food delivery and wholesale distribution, in the […]

Amazon omits India business in earnings, a first in years by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch

Clubhouse needs to fix things, and today it cut more than half of staff

April 27, 2023

Clubhouse, a once skyrocketing social audio app built by Paul Davison and Rohan Seth, has laid off more than half of its staff. The startup’s co-founders made the decision in response to customer habits changing in a post-COVID world and remote work complexities, according to a blog post. Those who were impacted will receive severance […]

Clubhouse needs to fix things, and today it cut more than half of staff by Natasha Mascarenhas originally published on TechCrunch

Hackers steal emails, private messages from hookup websites

April 27, 2023

Hackers have stolen email addresses, direct messages, and other personal data from users of two dating websites, according to a data breach expert. Earlier this week, someone alerted Troy Hunt, the founder and maintainer of the data breach alerting website Have I Been Pwned, that hackers had breached two dating websites, CitiJerks and TruckerSucker. Hunt […]

Hackers steal emails, private messages from hookup websites by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai originally published on TechCrunch