#MyTechFrenemy
TechCrunch spoke to over a dozen people who accuse boot camp MyTechBestFriend of hostility, bullying, and harassment of its students.
#MyTechFrenemy by Dominic-Madori Davis originally published on TechCrunch
The Download: how your data is being used to train AI, and why chatbots aren’t doctors
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. A major AI training data set contains millions of examples of personal data Millions of images of passports, credit cards, birth certificates, and other documents containing personally identifiable information are likely included in…
Electric motorbike maker Zapp Electric Vehicles to go public via SPAC
UK-based electric two-wheeler manufacturer Zapp Electric Vehicles is merging with a blank-check company to become publicly traded on the Nasdaq at a post-money valuation of $573 million. Zapp says it will use the proceeds from the merger to bring its long-awaited i300 high performance, seated city scooter to market. The i300 was initially revealed back […]
Electric motorbike maker Zapp Electric Vehicles to go public via SPAC by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch
Lyft, Redwood Materials partner to recycle shared e-bike and e-scooter batteries
Lyft is partnering with Redwood Materials, a battery recycling company founded by ex-Tesla co-founder JB Straubel, to ensure the batteries from its fleets of shared electric bikes and scooters don’t end up in landfill at their end of life. The news, reported by The Verge, comes the same week that Lyft ended its dockless bike […]
Lyft, Redwood Materials partner to recycle shared e-bike and e-scooter batteries by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch
College social app Fizz is growing fast – maybe too fast
Things are bleak in the tech sphere as we close out a year defined by plummeting stocks, persistent mass layoffs and a fall from grace for major social media companies. Yet Stanford dropout Teddy Solomon’s story of co-founding Fizz is so reminiscent of Facebook that he was introduced to his investor and now-CEO Rakesh Mathur […]
College social app Fizz is growing fast – maybe too fast by Amanda Silberling originally published on TechCrunch
FTX’s failure could be a stress test for corporate credit card startups
Startups serving startups feels a bit riskier in a post-FTX cryptocurrency era. Here’s how Ramp, Brex, and Rain are thinking.
FTX’s failure could be a stress test for corporate credit card startups by Natasha Mascarenhas originally published on TechCrunch
A wave of late-stage startups quietly marked down their valuations in Q3
More than 150 startups received a lower 409a valuation in Q3, which prompted them to reprice their employee stock grants.
A wave of late-stage startups quietly marked down their valuations in Q3 by Rebecca Szkutak originally published on TechCrunch
Dear Sophie: Are there any visas or green cards I can get on my own?
Are there any visas or green cards that I can apply for on my own without relying on my employer?
Dear Sophie: Are there any visas or green cards I can get on my own? by Ram Iyer originally published on TechCrunch
Mark Cuban-backed streaming app Fireside acquires Stremium to bring live, interactive shows to your TV
Mark Cuban-backed streaming app Fireside, which today offers podcasters and other creators a way to host interactive, live shows with audience engagement, will soon expand to the TV’s big screen. Variety reported, and Fireside confirmed, it’s acquired the open streaming TV platform Stremium, which will allow Fireside’s shows to become available to a range of […]
Mark Cuban-backed streaming app Fireside acquires Stremium to bring live, interactive shows to your TV by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch
Shadow launches cloud storage service Shadow Drive
Shadow is now officially a tech company with two different products. In addition to its cloud computing service that works particularly well for games, the company is launching Shadow Drive, a cloud storage service based on Nextcloud. “It’s now been a year and a half since Octave Klaba acquired Blade with a vision: take down […]
Shadow launches cloud storage service Shadow Drive by Romain Dillet originally published on TechCrunch
YouTube starts testing a quiz feature for community posts
YouTube is experimenting with a new feature that allows creators to add quizzes to their community posts — the social media-style posts for channels that have at least 500 subscribers. The quiz beta is only available to a small number of creators. The details were first published in a new video on YouTube’s Creator Insider […]
YouTube starts testing a quiz feature for community posts by Lauren Forristal originally published on TechCrunch