Indian antitrust watchdog orders an investigation into Apple’s practice of mandating use of its own payments system for iPhone apps in the App Store (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
Indian antitrust watchdog orders an investigation into Apple’s practice of mandating use of its own payments system for iPhone apps in the App Store — Indian antitrust watchdog on Friday…
Minneapolis City Council unanimously approves an ordinance banning the use of facial recognition, including Clearview AI’s software, by its police department (Taylor Hatmaker/TechCrunch)
Minneapolis City Council unanimously approves an ordinance banning the use of facial recognition, including Clearview AI’s software, by its police department — Minneapolis voted Friday to ban the use of…
AirSlate, which automates repetitive business processes, raises $40M, bringing its total raised to $80M (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)
AirSlate, which automates repetitive business processes, raises $40M, bringing its total raised to $80M — Workflow automation startup AirSlate today announced that it raised $40 million from backers including Morgan…
Microsoft says its online-only Build 2021 will take place from May 25 to May 27 (Mary Jo Foley/ZDNet)
Microsoft says its online-only Build 2021 will take place from May 25 to May 27 — Microsoft’s annual developer conference will be a virtual event again and is happening at…
Lido, which has an estimated 80%+ market share in Ethereum liquid staking, raises $70M from Andreessen Horowitz; 76K wallets stake assets worth $10B+ on Lido (Anita Ramaswamy/TechCrunch)
Lido, which has an estimated 80%+ market share in Ethereum liquid staking, raises $70M from Andreessen Horowitz; 76K wallets stake assets worth $10B+ on Lido — The world’s most-used blockchain,…
Twitter says it is testing a new style of displaying tweets that link to e-commerce product pages, after it was spotted by a Twitter for Android user in Qatar (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
Twitter says it is testing a new style of displaying tweets that link to e-commerce product pages, after it was spotted by a Twitter for Android user in Qatar — …
Physical trading cards marketplace and custody service Alt raises a $75M Series B at a $325M+ valuation, says $70M+ worth of cards are stored in its vault (Greg Kumparak/TechCrunch)
Physical trading cards marketplace and custody service Alt raises a $75M Series B at a $325M+ valuation, says $70M+ worth of cards are stored in its vault — When we…
Poland-based Nomagic, which makes pick-and-place warehouse robots, raises a $22M Series A led by Khosla Ventures, Almaz Capital, and European Investment Bank (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
Poland-based Nomagic, which makes pick-and-place warehouse robots, raises a $22M Series A led by Khosla Ventures, Almaz Capital, and European Investment Bank — Robotics are playing a growing role in…
Inside Engineered Arts, a UK-based company making humanoid robots for entertainment and education that can emote and respond to passersby with preset banter (James Vincent/The Verge)
Inside Engineered Arts, a UK-based company making humanoid robots for entertainment and education that can emote and respond to passersby with preset banter — Will Jackson, CEO of robotics company…
Bilibili invests HK$960M in X.D. Network, which runs Chinese game distribution platform TapTap; mobile games accounted for 40% of Bilibili’s 2020 revenues (Rita Liao/TechCrunch)
Bilibili invests HK$960M in X.D. Network, which runs Chinese game distribution platform TapTap; mobile games accounted for 40% of Bilibili’s 2020 revenues — Competition in China’s gaming industry is getting…