Turntable LIVE (née tt.fm) raises $7M ahead of public launch

March 28, 2023

The Turntable wars were one of the more fascinating stories to emerge in 2021 startup land (though I suspect those involved might dispute the matter). After years away, the beloved but bygone collaborative music streaming service returned for a population that had been stuck inside for a year thanks to a global pandemic. Things got […]

Turntable LIVE (née tt.fm) raises $7M ahead of public launch by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch

Twitter is dying

March 28, 2023

It’s five months since Elon Musk overpaid for a relatively small microblogging platform called, Twitter. The platform had punched about its weight in pure user numbers thanks to an unrivalled ability to both distribute real-time information and make expertise available. Combine these elements with your own critical faculty — to weed out the usual spam […]

Twitter is dying by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch

Venti raises $29M for autonomous vehicle tech designed for industrial and logistics hubs

March 28, 2023

We are still likely many years away from wide-scale deployment — let alone adoption — of fully autonomous vehicles on our streets, but in the meantime autonomous vehicle companies focusing on closed-campus environments continue to raise funding and make headway in building self-driving on a smaller scale. In the latest, a startup called Venti Technologies […]

Venti raises $29M for autonomous vehicle tech designed for industrial and logistics hubs by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch

Zoom is adding new features to compete with Slack, Calendly, Google and Microsoft

March 28, 2023

Weeks after laying off 1,300 people (or 15% of the staff), Zoom is introducing new features to compete with numerous companies including Slack, Calendly, Google, and Microsoft. These features include AI-powered meeting summaries, prompt-based email responses, and whiteboard generation along with video “Huddles” and a meeting scheduler. The company wants you to shift more of […]

Zoom is adding new features to compete with Slack, Calendly, Google and Microsoft by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch

Neubility plans to roll out 400 lidar-free delivery and security robots by year-end

March 28, 2023

Last-mile robotics startup Neubility — which makes autonomous delivery robots that work without lidar — says that it plans bump its fleet up to 400  by the end of this year, up from the 50 it currently has in circulation. The goal is part of an ambitious plan that the Seoul-based startup has laid out […]

Neubility plans to roll out 400 lidar-free delivery and security robots by year-end by Kate Park originally published on TechCrunch