Micromax, smartphone sales stalled, eyes a steer into electric vehicles
Micromax Informatics once had a firm grip on the local mobile phone market in India, for a time passing stalwarts like Samsung, icons like Apple...
Kickstarter’s CEO eyes the future of crowdfunding at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023
It wasn’t the first, but for more than 10 years, Kickstarter has been synonymous with crowdfunding. We’re excited to announce that CEO Everette Taylor will...
MPL lays off 350 employees as economics re-align post 28% online gaming tax
Mobile Premier League (MPL), one of the only two esports and online gaming unicorns in India, has now responded to the fresh 28% tax on...
Google’s Messages app will now use RCS by default and encrypt group chats
Google announced today it’s making its Messages by Google app more secure with improvements to RCS, or Rich Communication Services — a protocol aimed at...
Rivian beats on Q2 revenue, raises EV production guidance for 2023
Rivian gained positive momentum in the second-quarter and beat Wall Street expectations as the company ramped up EV sales, narrowed losses, reduced costs and shored...
Zoom knots itself a legal tangle over use of customer data for training AI models
Three years ago Zoom settled with the FTC over a claim of deceptive marketing around security claims, having been accused of overstating the strength of...
Singapore wealth management platform Endowus raises $35M
Back in 2021 and early 2022, there was a flurry of VC interest in Southeast Asian investment apps. One of them was Singapore-based Endowus, which...
BlueJeans folds | TechCrunch
Verizon dropped hundreds on millions on BlueJeans at the height of pandemic lockdowns. Three years and some change later, the lesser-known video-conferencing app is done...
New Pistol Whip Roadmap Revealed As Cloudhead Begins Next VR Project
Pistol Whip will receive two further scene collections into early 2024, as Cloudhead Games begins development on its next VR project.With Overdrive Season awaiting its...
Human toddlers are inspiring new approaches to robot learning
It’s an exciting time for robotic learning. Organizations have spent decades building complex datasets and pioneering different ways to teach systems to perform new tasks....