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TechCrunch+ roundup: YC Demo Day faves, thrift shop VCs, cybersecurity product challenges by Walter Thompson originally published on TechCrunch
So much for “free speech absolutism.” Twitter is censoring Substack links by making the posts impossible to reply to, like or retweet. While quote tweeting works, simply pressing the retweet button surfaces an error message: “Some actions on this Tweet have been disabled by Twitter.” The timing of this action doesn’t seem coincidental. Two days […]
Twitter won’t let you retweet, like or reply to Substack links by Amanda Silberling originally published on TechCrunch
Every week something newsworthy (or chaotic) transpires in the wild world of crypto. And this week was no different, but for somewhat personal reasons. I’m excited to share that the podcast I host, Chain Reaction, was nominated for a Webby award in the Best Technology Podcast category. You can help Chain Reaction win by voting […]
TechCrunch’s crypto-focused podcast Chain Reaction is nominated for a Webby Award by Jacquelyn Melinek originally published on TechCrunch
Hello, and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This was Y Combinator week in a sense, with the well-known accelerator showing off hundreds of startups over a two-day period. We had some thoughts about that. But! There was a lot more […]
Don’t ever leak data, but especially if you’re building this by Alex Wilhelm originally published on TechCrunch
Amid a wave of heated debate over whether TikTok should be banned, another ByteDance product, Lemon8, has popped up and quickly climbed into the top 10 on America’s app stores. Lemon8’s sudden rise is reminiscent of TikTok’s early-day growth. At the time Vine had already pioneered short video sharing in the U.S., but TikTok took […]
With latest hit Lemon8, ByteDance again learns from the China playbook by Rita Liao originally published on TechCrunch
Samsung Electronics plans to cut back memory chip production as its operating profit in the first quarter of 2023 is expected to plummet about 96% from the previous year. This will be the lowest profit posted by the South Korean tech giant since 1Q 2009. The global macroeconomic slowdown, memory chip oversupply and sluggish demand […]
Samsung cuts memory chip production as it hits worst quarterly profit since 2009 by Kate Park originally published on TechCrunch
Tesla has nominated JB Straubel, the company’s former CTO who is now running his own startup Redwood Materials, as its next independent board member. The company said in a regulatory filing Thursday that Straubel, if elected by shareholders (which is almost a certainty) would take over the spot vacated by Hiromichi Mizuno, the former chief […]
JB Straubel could return to Tesla – as a board member this time by Kirsten Korosec originally published on TechCrunch
Apple has devised a pocket-sized companion that (hypothetically) does it all: music, videos AND books, sans the nagging smartphone or clumsy smartwatch. Cupertino, you’re so close. In a patent application published recently by the U.S. Patent Office, Apple sketched out such a device; a headphone case-meets-pocket-computer with a touchscreen display and the prerequisite guts for […]
Apple (re)invents the iPod by Harri Weber originally published on TechCrunch