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Danish startup Flatpay, which facilitates card payments for SMBs, raised €145M at a €1.5B valuation and says it “crossed €100M of ARR in October” (techcrunch.com)
28 days ago Startup

BNPL use in the US has grown to 91.5M users, with 25% financing groceries, as default rates accelerate and most loans aren't reported, creating “phantom debt” (techcrunch.com)
28 days ago

Apple updates App Review Guidelines to require apps to disclose and obtain users' permission before sharing personal data with third-party AI providers (techcrunch.com)
30 days ago AI Apple

OpenAI says ChatGPT will now ditch em dashes if users tell it to; em dashes have become telltale signs that supposedly signals text written by AI (techcrunch.com)
2025-11-15 AI

Apple unveils Mini Apps Partner Program, offering a reduced 15% commission on IAPs for mini apps, or “self-contained” experiences built with web tech like HTML5 (techcrunch.com)
2025-11-14 Apple

Meta overhauls Facebook Marketplace, adding new collaborative tools, expanded social features, an improved checkout experience, and Meta AI integrations (techcrunch.com)
2025-11-14 Facebook AI

Exowatt, which aims to use concentrated solar power to generate 1¢ per kWh electricity for data centers, raised a $120M Series A from a16z, Sam Altman, and more (techcrunch.com)
2025-11-14 Solar

TikTok launches Bulletin board, which lets brands and creators share public, one-to-many messages to their followers, similar to Instagram's broadcast channels (techcrunch.com)
2025-11-14 Instagram

LinkedIn rolls out AI-powered people search to premium users in the US, with plans to expand it to other countries in the coming months (techcrunch.com)
2025-11-14 LinkedIn AI

Apple launches Digital ID in Apple Wallet, letting iPhone and Apple Watch owners in the US carry a copy of their passport, which can be used at TSA checkpoints (techcrunch.com)
2025-11-13 iPhone Apple

WisdomAI, which offers AI-driven data analytics that can answer business questions, including from “dirty” data, raised a $50M Series A led by Kleiner Perkins (techcrunch.com)
2025-11-13 AI

Fei-Fei Li's World Labs launches Marble, its first world model to let users turn prompts, photos, and other media into editable 3D environments, after a beta (techcrunch.com)
2025-11-13

Indian investment app Groww raised ~$748M in its Indian IPO, closing up 29% and giving it a ~$9B market cap; Groww is the first Indian YC-backed startup to IPO (techcrunch.com)
2025-11-13 India IPO Startup

Boston-based Teradar, which aims to launch a solid-state sensor for autonomous cars in 2028 that it says can outperform lidar and radar, raised a $150M Series B (techcrunch.com)
2025-11-13 Autonomous Car Sensor

Google unveils new features for Pixel phones, including AI-powered notification summaries, notification prioritization, and AI photo edits in Messages (techcrunch.com)
2025-11-12 Google AI

Threads adds new features for podcasters, as it tries to become the de facto place for people to talk about shows and engage with creators (techcrunch.com)
2025-11-12

Scribe, which helps enterprises identify where AI and automation investments will yield genuine returns, raised a $75M Series C at a $1.3B post-money valuation (techcrunch.com)
2025-11-11 AI

Rivian spins off Mind Robotics as a new stand-alone industrial AI and robotics company; Mind Robotics raised a $115M seed led by Eclipse (techcrunch.com)
2025-11-9 AI Robot

Amazon launches Amazon Bazaar, a standalone low-cost shopping app in 12+ markets in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, with most products priced under $10 (techcrunch.com)
2025-11-8 U.S. Amazon Asia Africa Latin America

Meta launches Vibes, its short-form video feed of AI-generated videos, in Europe through the Meta AI app, following its US debut six weeks earlier (techcrunch.com)
2025-11-7 Europe AI

Fomo, a consumer crypto trading app, raised a $17M Series A led by Benchmark, bringing its total funding to $19M, and reports $20M-$40M in daily trading volume (techcrunch.com)
2025-11-7

Inception, which is building diffusion-based AI models for code and text, raised a $50M seed led by Menlo and releases an update to its Mercury coding model (techcrunch.com)
2025-11-7 AI

Microsoft built a simulated marketplace to test hundreds of AI agents, finding that businesses could manipulate agents into buying their products and more (techcrunch.com)
2025-11-6 Microsoft AI

Wabi, a “YouTube for apps” launched by Replika founder Eugenia Kuyda to let users create and share mini apps without coding, raised a $20M pre-seed (techcrunch.com)
2025-11-6 YouTube

Customer engagement service MoEngage raised a $100M Series F led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives, bringing its total funding to $250M as it ramps up AI investment (techcrunch.com)
2025-11-5 AI Goldman

Qualcomm Ventures and six Indian VC firms join India Deep Tech Alliance with an additional $850M+ in commitments; Nvidia joins as a strategic technical adviser (techcrunch.com)
2025-11-5 India Nvidia

Spotify says it now has nearly 500K video podcasts and more than 390M users have now streamed a video podcast on its platform, up 54% YoY (techcrunch.com)
2025-11-5 Spotify

WhatsApp launches an Apple Watch companion app, letting users get call notifications, read full messages, and record and send voice messages (techcrunch.com)
2025-11-5 Apple WhatsApp

Indian digital payments company Pine Labs prices its IPO at $2 to $2.5/share, valuing it at $2.9B at the top end of the range, down from a $5B valuation in 2022 (techcrunch.com)
2025-11-4 India IPO

TikTok announces its first ever TikTok Awards show in the US; the live event will take place on December 18 and will be streamed on the TikTok app and on Tubi (techcrunch.com)
2025-11-4

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