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Google invests $350 million in Indian e-commerce giant Flipkart
Google is investing nearly $350 million in Flipkart, becoming the latest high-profile name to back the Walmart-owned Indian e-commerce startup. The Android-maker will also provide Flipkart with cloud offerings as…
Manish Singh
May 24, 2024, 1:05 p.m.
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Signal’s Meredith Whittaker on the Telegram security clash and the “edge lords” at OpenAI
Meredith Whittaker has had it with the “frat house” contingent of the tech industry. I sat down with the CEO of Signal at VivaTech in Paris to go over the wide range of serious, grown-up issues society is facing, from disinformation, to who controls AI, to the encroaching surveillance state. In the course of our…
Mike Butcher
May 24, 2024, 1:05 p.m.
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Last day to vote for TC Disrupt 2024 Audience Choice program
Attention, tech enthusiasts and startup supporters! The final countdown is here: Today is the last day to cast your vote for the TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 Audience Choice program. Voting closes…
TechCrunch Events
May 24, 2024, 1:05 p.m.
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Lucid Motors slashes 400 jobs ahead of crucial SUV launch
Lucid Motors is laying off about 400 employees, or roughly 6% of its workforce, as part of a restructuring ahead of the launch of its first electric SUV later this…
Sean O'Kane
May 24, 2024, 12:35 p.m.
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Google invests $350 million in India’s Flipkart
Google is investing nearly $350 million in Flipkart, becoming the latest high-profile name to back the Walmart-owned Indian e-commerce startup. The Android-maker will also provide the Bengaluru-headquartered startup with cloud…
Manish Singh
May 24, 2024, 12:05 p.m.
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Jio Financial unit to buy $4.32B of telecom gear from Reliance Retail
A Jio Financial unit plans to purchase customer premises equipment and telecom gear worth $4.32 billion from Reliance Retail.
Manish Singh
May 24, 2024, 6:05 a.m.
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Foursquare just laid off 105 employees
Foursquare, the location-focused outfit that in 2020 merged with Factual, another location-focused outfit, is joining the parade of companies to make cuts to one of its biggest cost centers –…
Connie Loizos
May 24, 2024, 4:34 a.m.
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Using memes, social media users have become red teams for half-baked AI features
“Running with scissors is a cardio exercise that can increase your heart rate and require concentration and focus,” says Google’s new AI search feature. “Some say it can also improve…
Amanda Silberling
May 24, 2024, 12:34 a.m.
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Expressable brings speech therapy into the home
Expressable is a platform that offers one-on-one virtual sessions with speech language pathologists.
Kyle Wiggers
May 23, 2024, 10:04 p.m.
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ESA prepares for the post-ISS era, selects The Exploration Company, Thales Alenia to develop cargo spacecraft
The European Space Agency selected two companies on Wednesday to advance designs of a cargo spacecraft that could establish the continent’s first sovereign access to space. The two awardees, major…
Aria Alamalhodaei
May 23, 2024, 10:04 p.m.
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