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In recent years, there’s been no shortage of startups offering credit lines to the underbanked. Most talk about their mission to help people establish credit, which is noble, but they’re also extending credit because — let’s face it — lending out money is lucrative. Now, a startup founded by Stanford grad James Savoldelli has found […]

This Stanford grad is taking on pawn shops with a new credit card startup by Connie Loizos originally published on TechCrunch

The Internet and Mobile Association of India, an influential tech industry body, has appointed Dream Sports co-founder and chief executive Harsh Jain as the new chairperson of the association, bucking the tradition of giving the top roles to Big Tech executives after receiving criticism from many Indian startups. Rajesh Magow, co-founder and group chief executive […]

Top Indian tech advocacy group replaces Big Tech execs following criticism by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch

Critics have long discredited non-fungible tokens as overpriced JPEGs sold by people who want to make quick bucks. NFT believers want to prove them wrong and show that these certificates of digital art stored on the blockchain, a distributed, immutable database, have real use cases. Their efforts often involve integrating NFTs into applications already with […]

NFT avatar enabler GoodGang has the blessings of Korean giants Kakao and Naver by Rita Liao originally published on TechCrunch

Google is now rolling out Google Play Games for PC Beta — a service that lets you play Android games on Windows — to users in Europe and New Zealand. The company officially announced the annual Google for Game Developers Summit in March. The company first introduced the program in 2022 and it is available […]

Google Play Games for PC is now rolling out to Europe and New Zealand by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch

Sony held its PlayStation Showcase on Wednesday, revealing for the first time 10 minutes of gameplay for the highly anticipated Spider-Man 2 video game. Fans also saw a short clip dedicated to the game’s central villain, Kraven the Hunter. The gameplay trailer shows a much angrier Peter Parker in the black symbiote suit working alongside […]

Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 features Miles with web wings and Peter in symbiote suit by Lauren Forristal originally published on TechCrunch

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis was set to announce his run for president on a Twitter Space with Elon Musk today, but Twitter itself had other ideas. The service, which allows livestreamed group voice chats, cut out quickly after going live at 3PM PT. The audio glitched in and out, at times only played the reverb […]

Technical issues crash Ron DeSantis’s presidential announcement on Twitter by Taylor Hatmaker originally published on TechCrunch