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Meta buys a fifth of Cred, and a new WhatsApp boss
Meta is paying $900mn for a fifth of Cred, an Indian fintech. The bigger prize is its founder, Kunal Shah, who will now run WhatsA…
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Instagram looks to take on streaming services with longer-form, episodic and live formats for its TV app
Instagram is coming for streaming services like Netflix and Amazon Prime Video as it sets its ambitions for living room viewing.
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The founder conference built for growth: TechCrunch Founder Summit pass rates increase June 26
Save up to $190 on your pass to TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 by June 26, 11:59 p.m. PT. Designed for founders first on November …
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Ireland takes the EU presidency with Big Tech paying 40 per cent of its tax bill
Ireland takes over the rotating presidency of the Council of the EU on 1 July, inheriting a legislative agenda that includes propo…
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Lucid Motors’ new CEO cuts 18% of staff to ‘simplify the company’
The company is also eliminating a production shift at its Arizona factory to align "production plans with anticipated demand."
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JD.com says robots will replace its 700,000 couriers
JD.com robots will eventually replace the company’s 700,000 couriers, its founder says. It is a rare admission that automation is …
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Seedcamp raises $320M for its new fund to expand its US footprint
After 18 years of focusing on Europe, early-stage investor Seedcamp said that it has raised $320 million for its latest fund which…
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Klue hack results in data breach at several cybersecurity firms
Huntress, HackerOne, Jamf, Recorded Future, and Tanium are among the cybersecurity companies that had data stolen following an ear…
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Uber anchors Lime’s IPO as the scooter firm goes public
The Lime IPO has a price and an anchor investor: Uber, the ride-hailing giant that already owns a chunk of the scooter firm and is…
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China hits back at the Pentagon with curbs on 56 US firms
China’s new trade curbs target 56 US companies, from rare-earth miners to drone makers. It is direct retaliation for Washington ad…
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Prosper AI raises $30M from a16z to automate the patient journey
Most of what makes American healthcare expensive happens before a doctor is ever in the room, and after. Someone schedules the app…
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Microsoft’s Nadella turns on the AI giants he helped build
In a blunt interview, Satya Nadella warned that the AI giants cannot keep promising mass job losses while demanding the power to b…
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Microsoft turns to Chevron’s gas to power a Texas data centre
The Chevron Microsoft gas deal hands the oil major a 20-year contract to power a giant West Texas data centre. For a company that …
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Getty Images soars after striking a deal with the kind of company it sued
For most of the generative-AI era, Getty Images has been the industry’s most determined courtroom opponent, the stock-photo giant …
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SpaceX shares slide again as the post-IPO rally keeps unwinding
SpaceX shares looked poised to fall again as US markets reopened after the long weekend, extending a slide that has already erased…
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Baden Bower tracks 12,040 AI citations across six engines to rank top publications for AI visibility
For years, brands have made media placement decisions based on a publication’s domain authority, readership numbers, and name reco…
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Spiro takes $55M from China’s NewTrails as it nears a $1bn valuation
The hard part of electrifying a motorcycle in Lagos or Nairobi was never the motorcycle, it was the charging. A rider who earns by…
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‘Owning and controlling the entire AI stack is essential’: Europe is doubling down on its own AI infrastructure
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The Bank of England backs down on its toughest stablecoin rules
When the Bank of England first sketched out how it would regulate stablecoins, the industry read the draft and recoiled. Caps on h…
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Indonesia turns to AI to deliver Prabowo’s biggest promises
The most expensive promise Prabowo Subianto made on his way to Indonesia’s presidency was lunch. His free-meals programme, budgete…
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China’s green-power target for AI data centres runs into the grid
The cleanest way to power a data centre is also the least predictable. The sun sets, the wind drops, and a server hall full of AI …
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Seedcamp raises $320M and builds out a transatlantic bridge
Seedcamp has spent nearly two decades writing the first cheque into companies before anyone else was sure they were worth one. Rev…
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Canada buys Australian Arctic radar in A$2.5bn defence-export first
Australia has been refining the same unusual piece of radar for decades, a system that bounces signals off the ionosphere to see t…
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Korea’s policy chief warns chip windfall could inflate housing
A semiconductor boom is a fine problem for a country to have, until you start asking where the money goes. That is roughly the que…