June 13, 2025

Powering next-gen services with AI in regulated industries 

Businesses in highly-regulated industries like financial services, insurance, pharmaceuticals, and health care are increasingly turning to AI-powered tools to streamline complex and sensitive tasks. Conversational AI-driven interfaces are helping hospitals to track the location and delivery of a patient’s time-sensitive cancer drugs. Generative AI chatbots are helping insurance customers answer questions and solve problems. And agentic…

Apple loosens grip on App Store pricing with 700 new price points, support for prices that don’t end in $.99

December 6, 2022

Apple is loosening its requirements around how developers have to price their apps as legal and regulatory pressure over its tight control of the App Store intensifies. The company announced today it’s expanding its App Store pricing system to offer developers access to 700 additional price points, bringing the new total number of price points […]

Apple loosens grip on App Store pricing with 700 new price points, support for prices that don’t end in $.99 by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch

Google Search’s new topic filters make it easier to refine results and expand searches

December 6, 2022

Google announced today that it’s making it easier for users to drill down on a search and explore related topics. Search currently has a few filters to help you refine and separate your search results between videos, news, images or shopping results. Now, the search giant is going to start showing users a scrollable list […]

Google Search’s new topic filters make it easier to refine results and expand searches by Aisha Malik originally published on TechCrunch

Apple illegally interfered with union organizing in Atlanta, labor board finds

December 6, 2022

In April, an Apple Store in Atlanta became the first of the company’s American retail locations to file for a union election. Yet about a month later, the Communications Workers of America (CWA) withdrew its request for an election. The labor union alleged that Apple was using illegal union-busting tactics to influence voting, like interrogating […]

Apple illegally interfered with union organizing in Atlanta, labor board finds by Amanda Silberling originally published on TechCrunch

Rackspace blames ransomware attack for ongoing Exchange outage

December 6, 2022

Cloud computing giant Rackspace has confirmed that it has been hit by ransomware attack that has left a number of its customers without access to email. Rackspace’s hosted Microsoft Exchange service started experiencing problems on Friday last week. At the time, Rackspace posted a notice on its status page saying that due to a “security incident,” […]

Rackspace blames ransomware attack for ongoing Exchange outage by Carly Page originally published on TechCrunch

Sellscale uses generative AI to create better marketing emails

December 6, 2022

Everyone who has email knows what a canned marketing email sounds like (and has probably deleted tons of them). For sales development representatives, automated emails are necessary to create the volume of outbound inquiries they need to get a decent number of leads. But badly written emails result in few replies and also make companies […]

Sellscale uses generative AI to create better marketing emails by Catherine Shu originally published on TechCrunch

Snapchat is testing Lenses with power-ups and upgrades that you can buy

December 6, 2022

At its annual Lens Fest event, Snap announced that it’s experimenting with a small group of AR creators and developers to build Lenses with digital goods that can be purchased with Snap Tokens. As part of this experiment, users will be able to unlock power-ups, AR items and extra tools within select Lenses. Snap Tokens, […]

Snapchat is testing Lenses with power-ups and upgrades that you can buy by Aisha Malik originally published on TechCrunch

Meta’s behavioral ads will finally face GDPR privacy reckoning in January

December 6, 2022

Major privacy complaints targeting the legality of Meta’s core advertising business model in Europe have finally been settled via a dispute resolution mechanism baked into the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The complaints, which date back to May 2018, take aim at the tech giant’s so-called “forced consent” to continue tracking and targeting users […]

Meta’s behavioral ads will finally face GDPR privacy reckoning in January by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch