December 18, 2024

The Download: AI tracking birds, and a pig kidney transplant

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. AI is changing how we study bird migration In a warming world, migratory birds face many existential threats. Scientists rely on a combination of methods to track the timing and location of their…

This Week in Apps: Twitter gets an Edit button, Instagram increases ads, Google gets serious about wearables

October 8, 2022

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. Global app spending reached $65 billion in the first half of 2022, up only slightly from the $64.4 billion during the same period in 2021, as hypergrowth fueled by […]

This Week in Apps: Twitter gets an Edit button, Instagram increases ads, Google gets serious about wearables by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch

Elon Musk’s X app for ‘everything’ might be a non-starter in the US

October 8, 2022

As Elon Musk again nears a deal to buy Twitter, speculation is resurfacing around how the billionaire plans to transform the social network. Musk’s tweet this week offered a clue: “Buying Twitter is an accelerant to creating X, the everything app.” While Musk didn’t elaborate on what X would look like, many reckon he’s aspiring […]

Elon Musk’s X app for ‘everything’ might be a non-starter in the US by Rita Liao originally published on TechCrunch

ACLU’s Jennifer Stisa Granick and Google’s Maddie Stone talk security and surveillance at Disrupt

October 8, 2022

In a world filled with bad actors and snooping governments, surveillance is the one factor that affects almost every business across the globe. While companies like Apple, Signal and LastPass fight against surveillance using end-to-end encryption and by shunning mass data collection — you can’t hand over data you don’t have — too many companies, […]

ACLU’s Jennifer Stisa Granick and Google’s Maddie Stone talk security and surveillance at Disrupt by Zack Whittaker originally published on TechCrunch

The Rise Of Financial Data Startups In India

October 8, 2022
It is not just the biggest names in financial data; the onset of the digital revolution has cultivated new ways of information access leading to the birth of state-of-the-art financial data startups

Pakistan revokes YC-backed Tag’s fintech services, orders to pull apps

October 8, 2022

Pakistan’s central bank on Friday revoked the in-principle and pilot operations approval of Tag to operate as an electronic money institution in a move that poses existential threat to the firm. State Bank of Pakistan said in an order that it is revoking Tag’s approval to operate as an electronic money institution, the permission that […]

Pakistan revokes YC-backed Tag’s fintech services, orders to pull apps by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch

China’s once-popular crypto exchange Huobi Global bought by About Capital

October 8, 2022

Huobi Global, once China’s top crypto exchange, has been retooling itself since exiting from the home market following Beijing’s crypto ban. Now the company is nearing a takeover by an investment firm. Huobi Global announced today that its controlling shareholder has completed the transaction to sell its entire stake to About Capital, a Hong Kong-based […]

China’s once-popular crypto exchange Huobi Global bought by About Capital by Rita Liao originally published on TechCrunch