It’s been six months since Uber hosted Go, Get, a global smorgasbord of product reveals and features that covered everything from booking party buses and voice ordering for Uber Eats to linking travel plans to Gmail and skipping the food lines at sports stadiums. The product reveals aren’t just about creating new revenue streams or […]
The Amazonification of Uber by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch
Helmed by erratic new owner Elon Musk, Twitter is no longer fulfilling key obligations required for it to claim Ireland as its so-called “main establishment” under the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a source familiar with the matter has told TechCrunch. Our source, who is well placed, requested and was granted anonymity owing […]
Is Elon Musk’s Twitter about to fall out of the GDPR’s one-stop shop? by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch
Google has agreed to a $391.5 million settlement with 40 state attorneys general over its location tracking practices. The settlement outlines that Google misled its users into thinking they had turned off location tracking even as the company continued to collect their location information. The investigation, which marks the largest attorney general-led consumer privacy settlement […]
Google to pay $391.5 million in location-tracking settlement with 40 states by Aisha Malik originally published on TechCrunch
Apple’s antitrust battle against Fortnite maker Epic Games is returning to the courtroom after both sides appealed last year’s ruling in a precedent-setting case over Apple’s alleged anti-competitive behavior. Last year, a U.S. District Court judge had largely favored Apple when ruling the tech giant was not acting as a monopolist with regard to its […]
The Epic Games-Apple antitrust battle resumes today in appeals court by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch
Owl Labs, a startup developing a linuep AI-powered meeting hardware, today announced that it raised $25 million in a Series C round led by HP Tech Ventures (HP’s venture capital arm) with participation from Sourcenext, Matrix Partners, Spark Capital and Playground Global. The closing of the tranche marks the start of a strategic partnership with […]
Meeting camera startup Owl Labs lands $25M and partnership with HP by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch
A new lawsuit is taking on Apple’s data collection practices in the wake of a recent report by independent researchers who found Apple was continuing to track consumers in its mobile apps, even when they had explicitly configured their iPhone privacy settings to turn tracking off. In a proposed class action lawsuit, plaintiff Elliot Libman […]
Apple faces new lawsuit over its data collection practices in first-party apps, like the App Store by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch
Google paid the security researcher for reporting a bug that skirted Android lock screen protections.
A simple Android lock screen bypass bug landed a researcher $70,000 by Zack Whittaker originally published on TechCrunch
It’s no secret that VC spending in 2022 did not take a page from the wild funding spree that was 2021. This year’s more measured approach has had a cooling effect — particularly on space-related startups. In Q3 alone, investments in 79 space companies hit $3.4 billion — down 44% from Q3 2021. Still, some […]
Playground, Seraphim and Root VCs talk funding trends at TC Sessions: Space by Lauren Simonds originally published on TechCrunch