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Perplexity debuts a shopping feature offering product recommendations, one-click checkout, and more for Pro users in the US, alongside a merchant program (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-19

Xiaomi, the second largest smartphone vendor in India, plans to replace its app store there with one from PhonePe in January, amid ongoing geopolitical tensions (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-19 India Xiaomi

India fines Meta ~$25M and imposes new data rules, over antitrust issues from 2021 when it removed a way to opt out of sharing WhatsApp data with Meta companies (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-19 India WhatsApp

In his amended lawsuit against OpenAI, Musk names new defendants including Microsoft, Reid Hoffman, and ex-OpenAI board member and Microsoft VP Dee Templeton (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-15 Microsoft

SwiftConnect, which provides a platform to let workers access physical offices via mobile digital badges, raised a $37M Series B led by Quadri Ventures (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-15 Mobile

OpenAI says the ChatGPT desktop app for MacOS can now read code in some developer-focused apps, including VS Code, Xcode, TextEdit, and Terminal (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-15

François Chollet, the AI pioneer who created Keras, says he is leaving Google after nearly 10 years to start a new company, but doesn't reveal many details (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-15 Google AI

The EU publishes its first draft of a Code of Practice under the AI Act for general-purpose AI models, including provisions for copyright and systemic risk (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-15 AI

BitSight, the cybersecurity startup last valued at $2.4B, acquires Cybersixgill, which gathers threat intelligence data from the dark web, for $115M (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-15 Startup Intelligence Darknet

Amazon One Medical expands telehealth services with low-cost treatment plans and medication delivery for beauty and lifestyle issues like hair loss, skin care (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-15 Amazon

London-based Tessl, which is building an AI to write and maintain code, raised $125M across seed and Series A, sources say at a $500M+ post-money valuation (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-14 AI London

UK consumer rights group Which? launches a legal claim against Apple, seeking £3B in compensation, alleging that Apple locked ~40M UK users into iCloud services (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-14 Apple

DeepL, which was valued at $2B in May 2024, debuts DeepL Voice to give users real-time text translations of others speaking in one of 13 different languages (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-14

Google announces new features for the Fitbit Ace LTE, its smartwatch for kids, including family group chats, messaging for siblings, and a new mini-game (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-14 Google

Just Eat Takeaway announces that it is selling Grubhub to Wonder in a $650M deal expected to close in Q1 2025; Just Eat bought Grubhub for $7.3B in 2020 (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-13

Rivian and VW finalize a software development joint venture; VW has invested $1B of its planned up to $5.8B by 2027 in the JV designed to be a 50-50 partnership (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-13

Perplexity says it will begin experimenting with ads on its platform in the US starting this week; ads will be formatted as “sponsored follow-up questions” (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-13

PointFive, which helps companies track usage across multiple clouds, raised a $20M Series A led by Salesforce Ventures, after raising a $16M seed in June 2024 (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-13 Salesforce

Zurich-based LocalStack, which helps developers emulate and test cloud apps locally, raised a $25M Series A led by Notable Capital (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-13

New York-based ScaleOps, which offers cloud spend management tools, raised a $58M Series B led by Lightspeed, taking its total funding to $80M (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-13 New York

Writer, which makes enterprise generative AI tools, raised a $200M Series C led by Premji, Radical Ventures, and Iconiq at a $1.9B valuation, for $326M raised (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-13 AI

SoftBank says Vision Fund co-CEO Rajeev Misra will step down from his leadership roles; during his 10-year tenure, he led investments in WeWork, Wag, and others (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-12

An interview with Mozilla interim CEO Laura Chambers about Firefox's 20th birthday, growth due to EU's DMA, focus on privacy, Google search deal, AI, and more (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-11 Google Interview AI Firefox Mozilla

Source: AI coding assistant startup Anysphere has received unsolicited offers valuing the company at as much as $2.5B from Benchmark, Index, a16z, and others (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-9 Startup AI

ChatGPT gave ~2M responses asking users to get election news elsewhere on Nov. 5 and Nov. 6, and rejected 250K+ requests for DALL-E images of Trump and others (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-9 Trump

Sources: Upwind, which sells tools to secure cloud infrastructure, is raising a $100M Series B at a $850M-$900M valuation, after raising $50M in September 2023 (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-9

UnifyApp, which lets companies build their own AI chatbots by connecting their SaaS apps and data, raised a $20M Series A, around six months after a $11M seed (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-9 SaaS AI chatbot

Yelp agrees to buy RepairPal, a site for car repair estimates, for $80M in cash, with the deal expected to close by the end of 2024; RepairPal had raised $21.3M (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-8

TikTok launches Share to TikTok, which lets users directly share music from Apple Music and Spotify in a post to their TikTok Feed or in DMs via TikTok Messages (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-8 Apple Spotify

Anthropic partners with Palantir and AWS to provide US intelligence and defense agencies access to its Claude models and “operationalize” their use (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-8 Intelligence

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