Apple cancels its car, Google’s AI goes awry and Bumble stumbles

March 2, 2024

Hello, folks, welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s newsletter covering noteworthy happenings in the tech industry. This week, investment firm KKR announced that it would acquire VMware’s end-user computing business from Broadcom for $4 billion. As Ron explains, that business included VMware Workspace One and VMware Horizon — two remote desktop apps that had […]

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Taiko raises $37M to build web3 infrastructure for a censorship-free internet

March 2, 2024

Amid the speculation and volatility in the casino-like crypto land, there remains a subset of individuals who espouse blockchain’s potential to decentralize various aspects of human activities for the greater good. Taiko‘s founder Daniel Wang is one of these idealistic founders. A serial entrepreneur, Wang initially wanted to bring decentralization to social platforms. Decentralized networks […]

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Apple abandons its car: Here are other projects the company has killed

March 2, 2024

Apple has scrapped plans to enter the automotive industry with its mysterious autonomous electric car, instead shifting focus to the wildly popular world of generative AI. The project saw the company hiring prominent executives from places like Tesla and Ford. Its end has led to job losses for some employees, while others have changed divisions […]

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Nubank CEO dishes on the neobank’s profit surge and how tourist VCs in LatAm have gone home

March 2, 2024

Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, and welcome back to Equity, the podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This is our interview show, where we sit down with a guest, think about their work, and unpack the rest. This week, we talked to David […]

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Karine Perset helps governments understand AI

March 2, 2024

TechCrunch has launched a series of interviews focusing on remarkable women who’ve contributed to the AI revolution.

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