June 19, 2025

The Download: future grids, and bad boy bots

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. Before we embark on our usual programming we’re thrilled to share that The Download won Best Technology Newsletter at this year’s Publisher Newsletter Awards! Thank you to all of you for reading, subscribing,…

Everything Elon Musk and execs shared (and skipped) at Tesla Investor Day

March 2, 2023

The big, giant message Tesla CEO Elon Musk and other execs tried to impart during its four-hour Tesla Investor Day was how the company would be a driver of a global shift to clean energy. Investors, at least those active after the market closed, weren’t impressed perhaps because it lacked that big product announcement, specific […]

Everything Elon Musk and execs shared (and skipped) at Tesla Investor Day by Kirsten Korosec originally published on TechCrunch

8VC raises $880M in new fund that aims “to fix a broken world”

March 2, 2023

Austin-based venture firm 8VC, led by controversial Palantir founder Jon Lonsdale, has raised $880 million in its fifth fund. In a blog post published today, Lonsdale – who serves as 8VC’s general partner – said that his firm’s mission is “to fix a broken world.” While he did not specify which industries the new fund […]

8VC raises $880M in new fund that aims “to fix a broken world” by Mary Ann Azevedo originally published on TechCrunch

Google’s Sameer Samat on ecosystems, regulation and competition

March 1, 2023

Android was, predictably, everywhere at Mobile World Congress. At a show where Apple has no public-facing presence, Google’s mobile operating system is almost entirely ubiquitous. As in past years, the company also set up a sprawling outdoor booth between halls. This time, the focus was on interoperability and ecosystem. You’d be hard-pressed to find a […]

Google’s Sameer Samat on ecosystems, regulation and competition by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch

Tweetbot and Twitterific ask customers to decline refunds in rare App Store exception

March 1, 2023

Twitter last month officially banned third-party clients putting a sudden end to popular apps including Tweetbot, Twitterific, and others. Now, in an unusual turn of events, two developers this week have updated their shuttered apps with new functionality: they’re asking their subscribers to decline to receive a refund by clicking a new “I don’t need […]

Tweetbot and Twitterific ask customers to decline refunds in rare App Store exception by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch

Salesforce strikes back

March 1, 2023

It would be an understatement to say that Salesforce has been having a rough ride of late — from activist pressure to executive departures and layoffs — it seems like everyone was piling onto a company that was already struggling as profits declined. It needed a strong quarter, and all indications were they wouldn’t get […]

Salesforce strikes back by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch