Apple launches a new app for tracking sports scores, stats

February 21, 2024

Apple today is continuing its investment in sports and subscriptions business with the launch of a new app for iPhone users, Apple Sports. The app will offer sports fans access to real-time scores, stats, and other information about their favorite teams and leagues, while introducing competition to other sports score aggregators on the App Store. […]

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Apple readies iMessage for when quantum computers could break encryption

February 21, 2024

Apple announced today it is upgrading iMessage’s security layer to post-quantum cryptography, starting in iOS and iPadOS 17.4, macOS 14.4, and watchOS 10.4. The technology giant said that in the coming years, quantum computers will be able to break today’s cryptography standards. That’s why Apple said it is changing how end-to-end encryption works with iMessage […]

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Clumio raises $75M to automate cloud data backup and recovery

February 21, 2024

Clumio, a data backup and recovery provider for companies using the public cloud, has raised $75 million in a Series D round of funding. The raise comes as the Santa Clara, California-based company claimed a four-fold increase in annual recurring revenue (ARR) last year, driven by new customers such as Atlassian which is now using […]

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Hadrian Automation’s CEO wants to defy history and revitalize American industry

February 21, 2024

Chris Power, founder and CEO of industrial automation startup Hadrian, is a student of history. And in his studies, he observed that history repeats itself: in particular, the cycle of empires ascending and descending, nearly all of them outsourcing core industries to lower-cost countries and paying for it in internal stagnation and, eventually, decline. “Never […]

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Early Stage 2024 Audience Choice winner revealed

February 21, 2024

You voted and the results are finally in! We’re excited to announce that you chose Dana Louie, Hubspot’s Senior Manager of Corporate Development, as this year’s Audience Choice roundtable winner at TechCrunch Early Stage 2024. The winning Early Stage 2024 roundtable Dana’s roundtable “Exiting via M&A: What Acquirers Are Looking for and How You Can […]

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Qloo raises $25M to predict your favorite movies, TV shows and more

February 21, 2024

The buzziest AI today — GenAI — is an undoubted labor savor, generating images, emails, songs and more in record time. But one of AI’s more useful applications in the long run might be identifying the counterintuitive correlations humans miss. Consider, for example, that people who like horror movies might be inclined to try certain […]

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Samphire Neuroscience is building a brain stimulating wearable for period pain

February 21, 2024

It’s a horrible truth that many women simply endure period pain every month — perhaps relying on painkillers or a hot water bottle to relieve stomach cramps. For others, menstrual pain can be inescapably debilitating — to the point where they have to stay in bed for days each month and wait the pain out, […]

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