Payment giant Stripe is going to offer a new product that makes it easier to hold cryptocurrencies without signing up to a cryptocurrency exchange. The company’s new fiat-to-crypto widget can be embedded in any crypto product so that users can enter their card information and acquire crypto that can be used in another web3 product. […]
Stripe announces fiat-to-crypto onramp widget by Romain Dillet originally published on TechCrunch
Box launched in 2005 out of a dorm room. This week, after 17 years in business, the SaaS company reached a $1 billion run rate.
Box reaches $1B run rate in spite of a quarter dogged by currency challenges by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch
GoStudent — the Austria-based late-stage Tutor marketplace which has raised $686.3 million (and attained a €3BN valuation) to date — has acquired Germany-based Studienkreis, a traditional tutoring company, founded in 1974, which is focused on the German-speaking ‘DACH’ region. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Studienkreis had previously been owned, since 2017, by the […]
GoStudent uses its warchest to acquire large network of traditional tutoring centres in Europe by Mike Butcher originally published on TechCrunch
The Cuba ransomware gang extorted more than $60 million in ransom payments from victims between December 2021 and August 2022, a joint advisory from CISA and the FBI has warned. The latest advisory is a follow-up to a flash alert released by the FBI in December 2021, which revealed that the gang had earned close […]
FBI, CISA say Cuba ransomware gang extorted $60M from victims this year by Carly Page originally published on TechCrunch
I had to see if I was in near-term employment trouble, so I ran a little test with the ChatGPT model. Here are the results.
ChatGPT isn’t putting me out of a job yet, but it’s very good fun by Alex Wilhelm originally published on TechCrunch
Carousell, a Singaporean consumer-to-consumer (C2C) service platform operating across Southeast Asia, is letting go of about 110 employees, or 10% of its total headcount, in an effort to reduce costs amid a challenging market condition for the tech industry. The announcement came from the company’s blog on Thursday, posted by co-founder and CEO of Carousell […]
Singapore-based e-commerce platform Carousell lays off 10% of staff by Kate Park originally published on TechCrunch
Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. For the last time in 2022, the whole Friday gang got together to chat through the latest and greatest in the world of technology and startup news. From here on out, Equity is […]
Are we bullfighting in Spain? Because that’s a red flag by Natasha Mascarenhas originally published on TechCrunch
Co-founders Pascal Kriesche and Morgan Abraham call smoodi, which came out of Harvard Innovation Labs, a “healthy smoothie store-in-a-box.”
Smoodi closes $5M to expand reach for its robotic smart blender by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch
Just four days stand between you and a deep space exploratory mission right here on planet Earth. We’re talking about TechCrunch Sessions: Space, of course, which lifts off on December 6 in Los Angeles. There’s still time to join, learn from and network with the leading minds and makers building the new space economy. Get […]
Learn about Orbital Reef and the LEO economy at TC Sessions: Space by Lauren Simonds originally published on TechCrunch