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Netflix adds a real-time voting feature for its Star Search reboot, available on mobile, smart TVs, and streaming devices, but not on a browser (techcrunch.com)
9 days ago Mobile Netflix Browser

PE firm Everstone combines India's Wingify, which helps A/B test sites, and France's AB Tasty, which improves e-commerce UX; Everstone bought Wingify for $200M (techcrunch.com)
9 days ago France India

Similarweb: Threads had 141.5M DAUs on iOS and Android as of January 7, driven by Instagram promotions, while X had 125M DAUs; X continues to lead on the web (techcrunch.com)
11 days ago Android IOS Instagram

RunPod, an AI app hosting service launched four years ago that raised a $20M seed in May 2024, says it has reached a $120M annual revenue run rate (techcrunch.com)
11 days ago AI

Anthropic appoints Irina Ghose, a former Microsoft India managing director, to lead its business in India, which has the second-largest user base for Claude (techcrunch.com)
12 days ago India Microsoft

Appfigures: global consumer spending in mobile apps on the App Store and Google Play rose 21.6% YoY to $155.8B in 2025, but app downloads dropped 2.7% to 106.9B (techcrunch.com)
14 days ago Google Mobile

Bengaluru-based edtech startup Emversity raised a $30M Series A led by Premji Invest, sources say at a $120M post-money valuation, up from $60M in April 2025 (techcrunch.com)
14 days ago Startup

Digg, rebooted under original founder Kevin Rose and Alexis Ohanian, launches its open beta; the site had been open to 67,000 users on an invite-only basis (techcrunch.com)
15 days ago

Depthfirst, which provides AI-native tools for codebase scanning, credential exposure protection, and more, raised a $40M Series A led by Accel Partners (techcrunch.com)
15 days ago AI

Deepgram, which is building enterprise voice-recognition tech, raised a $130M Series C led by AVP at a $1.3B valuation, taking its total funding to $215M (techcrunch.com)
16 days ago

Boston- and Tel Aviv-based Converge Bio, which uses AI trained on molecular data to help pharma and biotech companies develop drugs, raised a $25M Series A (techcrunch.com)
16 days ago AI Biotech

A profile of Eric Migicovsky's Core Devices, a five-person company that he says is “not a startup” and aims to be “sustainable”, as it builds new Pebble devices (techcrunch.com)
16 days ago Startup

Walmart to expand Wing, Alphabet's on-demand drone delivery service, to another 150 stores, bringing the total to 270+ stores, covering ~10% of US population (techcrunch.com)
18 days ago Drone Alphabet Walmart

Google unveils the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), a new open standard that lets AI agents work across different parts of the customer's buying process (techcrunch.com)
18 days ago Google AI

Snowflake agrees to acquire Observe, an observability platform built on Snowflake databases; the deal was previously reported to be valued at around $1B (techcrunch.com)
21 days ago

WhatsApp rolls out new group chat features: member tags that show user roles, text stickers generated from any word, and custom event reminders (techcrunch.com)
22 days ago WhatsApp

Intel spinout and enterprise AI company Articul8 raised over half of a $70M Series B at a $500M pre-money valuation and expects the round to close in Q1 2026 (techcrunch.com)
22 days ago Intel AI

In the first successful US prosecution of a spyware operator in 10+ years, pcTattletale founder pleads guilty to promoting surveillance apps for unlawful uses (techcrunch.com)
23 days ago

AMD unveils Ryzen AI 400 Series AI PC chips with 12 CPU cores, claiming 1.3x faster multitasking and 1.7x faster content creation than rivals (techcrunch.com)
24 days ago AI AMD

Amazon unveils a Fire TV UI redesign with rounded corners, 20 app slots, and Alexa+ integration, and launches $899+ Ember Artline TV series with colorful frames (techcrunch.com)
24 days ago Amazon

African fintech Flutterwave acquires Nigerian open banking startup Mono, sources say in an all-stock deal valued at $25M to $40M; Mono raised $17.5M since 2020 (techcrunch.com)
24 days ago Fintech Startup Africa Nigeria

CES 2026: self-driving truck company Kodiak partners with Bosch to develop a hardware and software system to turn standard semi-trucks into autonomous vehicles (techcrunch.com)
24 days ago Autonomous Car

India orders X to fix Grok to block the generation of obscene content, giving it 72 hours to submit an action-taken report or risk losing “safe harbor” immunity (techcrunch.com)
27 days ago India

Pebble unveils Pebble Round 2 smart watch with a rounded screen and basic health and activity tracking but no heart rate monitor, shipping in May for $199 (techcrunch.com)
27 days ago

Dealroom: 76 European deep tech and life sciences companies spun out from universities reached $1B valuations or $100M in revenue in 2025, or both (techcrunch.com)
29 days ago Europe

Tracxn: VC funding for Indian startups fell 17%+ YoY to $10.5B in 2025 across 1,518 deals, down ~39% YoY; AI startups raised $643M, up 4% YoY, across 100 deals (techcrunch.com)
2025-12-28 India Startup AI

A profile of the Digital Security Helpline, run by Access Now, which gives 24/7 help to reporters and others who suspect they are victims of government spyware (techcrunch.com)
2025-12-28

Chainalysis and TRM Labs estimate that $2.7B was stolen in crypto in 2025 in total, up from $2.2B in 2024; the biggest hack was the $1.4B breach at Bybit (techcrunch.com)
2025-12-24

Marissa Mayer's new startup Dazzle, which is building next-gen AI personal assistants, raised an $8M seed at a $35M valuation and plans to exit stealth in 2026 (techcrunch.com)
2025-12-24 Startup AI

Lemon Slice, which launched a 20B-parameter model that creates digital avatars for AI agents, streaming video at 20 FPS on a single GPU, raised a $10.5M seed (techcrunch.com)
2025-12-24 AI

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