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Commercial and defense organizations have an Earth data overload problem: they collect vast amounts of heavily siloed data, with few ways to quickly synthesize insights and deliver them to the people who most need it. Danti, a startup emerging from stealth today with $2.75 million in funding, wants to solve this problem with a powerful […]

Danti uses natural language processing to make searching Earth data simple by Aria Alamalhodaei originally published on TechCrunch

In late 2022, BetterBrand found success on Whole Foods Market shelves, driving over $1 million in gross sales in the first five months.

BetterBrand’s new dough raises company’s valuation to over $170M by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch

Jason Del Rey has spent the last 15 years reporting on e-commerce businesses, including Walmart and Amazon. Now, in a new book that hit shelves today called Winner Sells All, he tells the broader story of Walmart — which long focused on preserving what it had built — and its epic battle with Amazon, whose […]

How Amazon beat Walmart — and who might beat Amazon: talking with reporter Jason Del Rey by Connie Loizos originally published on TechCrunch

Texas will require electric vehicle charging companies to include Tesla’s North American Charging Standard (NACS) and the Combined Charging System (CCS) standard in order to qualify for a state program to electrify highways through federal funds, Reuters reports. “The decision by Ford, GM, and now Rivian to adopt NACS changed requirements for Phase 1. Each […]

Texas says state-funded EV chargers must include Tesla plugs by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch

The SEC’s director of enforcement, Gurbir Grewal, says the regulator is not concerned with labels or technology, but with what’s underneath.

SEC director says “nothing has changed” for enforcement even as the crypto industry rumbles by Jacquelyn Melinek originally published on TechCrunch

The director of marine operations at OceanGate, the company whose submersible went missing Sunday on an expedition to the Titanic in the North Atlantic, was fired after raising concerns about its first-of-a-kind carbon fiber hull and other systems before its maiden voyage, according to a filing in a 2018 lawsuit first reported by Insider and […]

A whistleblower raised safety concerns about OceanGate’s submersible in 2018. Then he was fired. by Kirsten Korosec originally published on TechCrunch