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TechCrunch spoke to over a dozen people who accuse boot camp MyTechBestFriend of hostility, bullying, and harassment of its students.

#MyTechFrenemy by Dominic-Madori Davis originally published on TechCrunch

Lyft is partnering with Redwood Materials, a battery recycling company founded by ex-Tesla co-founder JB Straubel, to ensure the batteries from its fleets of shared electric bikes and scooters don’t end up in landfill at their end of life. The news, reported by The Verge, comes the same week that Lyft ended its dockless bike […]

Lyft, Redwood Materials partner to recycle shared e-bike and e-scooter batteries by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch

Things are bleak in the tech sphere as we close out a year defined by plummeting stocks, persistent mass layoffs and a fall from grace for major social media companies. Yet Stanford dropout Teddy Solomon’s story of co-founding Fizz is so reminiscent of Facebook that he was introduced to his investor and now-CEO Rakesh Mathur […]

College social app Fizz is growing fast – maybe too fast by Amanda Silberling originally published on TechCrunch

Startups serving startups feels a bit riskier in a post-FTX cryptocurrency era. Here’s how Ramp, Brex, and Rain are thinking.

FTX’s failure could be a stress test for corporate credit card startups by Natasha Mascarenhas originally published on TechCrunch

More than 150 startups received a lower 409a valuation in Q3, which prompted them to reprice their employee stock grants.

A wave of late-stage startups quietly marked down their valuations in Q3 by Rebecca Szkutak originally published on TechCrunch

Mark Cuban-backed streaming app Fireside, which today offers podcasters and other creators a way to host interactive, live shows with audience engagement, will soon expand to the TV’s big screen. Variety reported, and Fireside confirmed, it’s acquired the open streaming TV platform Stremium, which will allow Fireside’s shows to become available to a range of […]

Mark Cuban-backed streaming app Fireside acquires Stremium to bring live, interactive shows to your TV by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch

YouTube is experimenting with a new feature that allows creators to add quizzes to their community posts — the social media-style posts for channels that have at least 500 subscribers. The quiz beta is only available to a small number of creators. The details were first published in a new video on YouTube’s Creator Insider […]

YouTube starts testing a quiz feature for community posts by Lauren Forristal originally published on TechCrunch

Forge data provides a fascinating lens into how fast things changed and offers advice to startups when it comes to taking lumps in the fundraising market.

How startups can lower their chance of a down round in a downturn by Alex Wilhelm originally published on TechCrunch

Germany’s Federal Cartel Office (FCO) is claiming credit for Meta untying its virtual reality headsets from its social accounts — a change of direction the company announced back in August, when it began to roll out Meta accounts and Meta Horizon Profiles, saying these accounts could be used to log into its virtual reality products […]

Meta’s VR remains under antitrust abuse watch in Germany by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch