Technology

Is this a short-term glitch in a bad year for all SaaS companies or a series of moves that could be indicative of something more worrisome at Salesforce?

Salesforce ends 2022 in an unusually turbulent position by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week’s startup news and trends by Senior Reporter and Equity co-host Natasha Mascarenhas. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. May the earnest among us rise up: Techies, it’s prediction season. It’s my favorite time of the year, not because I’m a glutton for threads […]

Tech’s latest controversy? The return of the five-day, in-person work week by Natasha Mascarenhas originally published on TechCrunch

U.S. safety regulators have opened a preliminary investigation into the robotaxis developed and operated by GM self-driving subsidiary Cruise. The National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration said it opened the investigation after learning of incidents when these robotaxis “may have engaged in inappropriately hard braking or became immobilized while operating on public roads.” The preliminary investigation […]

Cruise’s autonomous driving tech comes under scrutiny from safety regulators by Kirsten Korosec originally published on TechCrunch

It seems like many startups are born from an idea someone had while in college. Here’s how four universities are fostering those companies.

Collegiate entrepreneur hubs look to provide first support for would-be startups by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch

Alphonzo “Phonz” Terrell and DeVaris Brown met during orientation on their first day working at Twitter. They didn’t know that just a few years later, they’d be building a social media platform of their own. “We were the only two Black guys in there, and we were like, ‘Hey, we’ll be friends!’” said Terrell, who […]

Twitter is a mess, so former employees are creating Spill as an alternative by Amanda Silberling originally published on TechCrunch