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Permira is taking Squarespace private in a $6.9 billion deal
[[{“value”:” Squarespace is being taken private in an all-cash deal that values the company on an equity basis at $6.6 billion. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. “}]]
Buy Me a Coffee’s founder has built an AI-powered voice note app
[[{“value”:” AI-powered tools like OpenAI’s Whisper have enabled many apps to make transcription an integral part of their feature set for personal note-taking, and the space has quickly flourished as a result. Apps like AudioPen, Cleft Notes and TalkNotes have proliferated across app stores and the internet, but most offer a pretty limited feature set: They […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Google partners with Airtel to offer cloud and GenAI products to Indian businesses
[[{“value”:” Airtel, India’s second-largest telco, is partnering with Google Cloud to develop and deliver cloud and GenAI solutions to Indian businesses. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. “}]]
Women in AI: Rep. Dar’shun Kendrick wants to pass more AI legislation
[[{“value”:” To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight, TechCrunch has been publishing a series of interviews focused on remarkable women who’ve contributed to the AI revolution. We’re publishing these pieces throughout the year as the AI boom continues, highlighting key work that often goes unrecognized. Read more profiles here. […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
A reckoning is coming for emerging venture funds, and that, VCs say, is a good thing
[[{“value”:” We took the pulse of emerging fund managers about what it’s been like for them during these post-ZERP, venture-capital-winter years. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. “}]]
Workers at a Maryland Apple store authorize strike
[[{“value”:” It’s been a busy weekend for union organizing efforts at U.S. Apple stores, with the union at one store voting to authorize a strike, while workers at another store voted against forming a union. Back in 2022, workers in Towson, Maryland, became the first formally recognized union at an Apple retail store. That union, which […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Alora Baby aims to push baby gear away from the ‘landfill economy’
[[{“value”:” Alora Baby is not just aiming to manufacture baby cribs in an environmentally friendly way but is attempting to overhaul the whole lifecycle of a product © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. “}]]
Go on, let bots date other bots
[[{“value”:” Bumble founder and executive chair Whitney Wolfe Herd raised eyebrows this week with her comments about how AI might change the dating experience. During an onstage interview, Bloomberg’s Emily Chang brought up bots posing as real people, or real people falling in love with bots, as examples of how AI might make online dating worse. […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Why Apple’s ‘Crush’ ad is so misguided
[[{“value”:” Welcome to Week in Review: TechCrunch’s newsletter recapping the week’s biggest news. This week Apple unveiled new iPad models at its Let Loose event, including a new 13-inch display for the iPad Air, as well as Tandem OLED and a new M4 chip for the iPad Pro. But its ad for the new iPad Pro […] © 2024 TechCrunch….