Bnext raises $25 million for its mobile banking alternative NEWS Fintech startup Bnext has raised a $25 million funding round. The Spanish company is building a banking product and has managed to attract...
Jobpal pockets $2.7M for its enterprise recruitment chatbot NEWS Berlin-based recruitment chatbot startup Jobpal has closed a €2.5 million (~$2.7M) seed round of funding from InReach Ventures and Acadian...
In the dual-class shares debate, the big exchanges should get off the sidelines NEWS Adam Neumann’s fall from grace was astonishingly swift once his company, WeWork, filed to go public in August. Even while his spending was...
Khatabook raises $25M to help small businesses in India record financial transactions digitally and accept online payments NEWS Even as tens of millions of Indians have come online for the first time in recent years, most businesses in the nation remain offline. They...
Upstart banking company Dave is now worth $1 billion, as Norwest puts in $50 million NEWS Two years after the Los Angeles-based fintech startup Dave launched with a suite of money management tools to save consumers from overdraft...
Rocket Lab launch switcheroo shows the flexibility of the new orbital economy NEWS New Zealand-based launch provider Rocket Lab has announced its next commercial mission, “As The Crow Flies,” taking an Astro Digital satellite...
AWS IQ matches AWS customers with certified service providers NEWS AWS has a lot going on, and it’s not always easy for customers to deal with the breadth of its service offerings on its own. Today, the company...
European early-stage VC firm ‘Project A’ on Europe’s startup scene taking the next step NEWS Project A, the Berlin-based VC, just raised a new $200 million fund (€180 million) to continue backing European startups at Seed and Series...
Microsoft OneDrive Personal Vault rolls out worldwide, launches expandable storage NEWS Earlier this summer, Microsoft introduced an extra layer of security to its Dropbox competitor, OneDrive. The security features, called OneDrive...
Daily Crunch: Facebook faces VR challenges NEWS The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every...
Verizon picks up the assets of Disney-backed VR startup Jaunt NEWS After raising $100 million, virtual reality content startup Jaunt has been in a precarious position for a few years now. It seems like the...
Google brings its Jacquard wearables tech to Levi’s Trucker Jacket NEWS Back in 2015, Google’s ATAP team demoed a new kind of wearable tech at Google I/O that used functional fabrics and conductive yarns to allow...
Stranger Things 4 takes Netflix’s hit retro sci-fi show beyond Hawkins NEWS Stranger Things 4 got its first teaser today, courtesy of the official Stranger Things Twitter account. The Netflix series, which is in its...
Hyundai is getting into the flying car business NEWS Hyundai Motor Group has launched a new air mobility division aimed at developing technology for the commercialization of flying cars, the latest...
Instagram launches a ‘creators’ account to encourage more… creation NEWS Instagram deployed a new tool today that should help it continue to build a more viable alternative to YouTube for individual creators looking...
SmartNews’ head of product on how the news discovery app wants to free readers from filter bubbles NEWS Since launching in the United States five years ago, SmartNews, the news aggregation app that recently hit unicorn status, has quietly built...
Microsoft’s Windows Virtual Desktop service is now generally available NEWS Microsoft today announced that Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD), its Azure-based system for virtualizing the Windows and Office user experience...
PayPal to enter China through GoPay acquisition NEWS The People’s Bank of China has approved PayPal’s acquisition of a 70% equity state in GoPay (Guofubao Information Technology Co. (GoPay), Ltd.),...
WeWork withdraws its S-1 filing, will delay its IPO NEWS WeWork’s parent organization The We Company just announced that it’s withdrawing the S-1 filing for its IPO. The coworking company...
Confluent adds free tier to Kafka real-time streaming data cloud service NEWS When Confluent launched a cloud service in 2017, it was trying to reduce some of the complexity related to running a Kafka streaming data application....
US sanctions two Russians for cyber-related election interference NEWS The U.S. Treasury has imposed sanctions against two Russian men accused of working for a Russian disinformation unit. In a statement, the Treasury...
YouTube TV is now available on Fire TV devices NEWS Earlier this year, Google and Amazon reached an agreement to bring their streaming video apps to each other’s platforms, following years of...