Qualcomm’s longer term bet on the automotive sector as a lucrative customer base for its chips and related communications technology is getting a significant push today: the company announced that it is acquiring Autotalks, a fabless chipmaker out of Israel that builds semiconductor and system-on-a-chip technology to aid in automotive safety; sources tell us Qualcomm […]
Qualcomm acquires Autotalks to boost Snapdragon’s automotive safety technology, reportedly for $350-400M by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch
Partners of 3one4 Capital, a venture capital firm in India, recently went on a road show to raise a new fund. Within two and a half months, at the height of the worsening global economy, they had secured $200 million. It’s the fourth marquee fund for the Bengaluru-headquartered fund, whose portfolio includes four unicorn startups. […]
3one4 Capital, driven by contrarian bets, raises $200 million new fund by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app economy in 2023 hit a few snags, as consumer spending last year dropped for the first time by 2% to $167 billion, according to data.ai’s “State of […]
This Week in Apps: Apple and Google team up on trackers, Google I/O preview, apps hit NewFronts by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch
As wildfires continue to become a larger threat, the group of entrepreneurs looking to create tech solutions grows with it.
Deal Dive: VC interest in wildfire tech grows as the world burns around us by Rebecca Szkutak originally published on TechCrunch
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Daily Crunch: New AI model DeepFloyd IF offers ‘advanced text-to-image generation techniques’ by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch
Amazon quietly acquired New York-based audio content discovery engine Snackable AI last December to boost its podcast features, as first reported by New York Post. The tech giant told TechCrunch in email on Friday that the Snackable AI team joined Amazon Music to work on existing podcast projects. The financial terms of the deal were […]
Amazon quietly acquired audio content discovery engine Snackable AI to boost its podcast projects by Aisha Malik originally published on TechCrunch
Driverless cars are often marketed as a safe and convenient means of travel that allows customers to watch movies, scroll through TikTok or nap — all without worrying about taking over control. Whether it’s in a personal vehicle (which to remind everyone, there are currently no personal autonomous cars for sale) or ride-hailing service like […]
Why Halo is betting on a remote-operated car-sharing service by Roberto Baldwin originally published on TechCrunch