After a few quarters of going turtle, SoftBank has started ramping up its investing cadence once again. Once one of the most active and visible investors in Startup Land, the Japanese conglomerate is itching to get

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I certainly wouldn’t go so far as to say the robotics industry is recession-proof, but it’s remained remarkably stable through a turbulent few years of economic instability. Automation is was accelerated

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Social app IRL shut down in June, but SoftBank — which led the platform’s $170 million Series C in 2021 — is now suing the company for $150 million. IRL told the world it had 20 million monthly active users, but an

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Google today announced the launch of Project IDX, its foray into offering an AI-enabled browser-based development environment for building full-stack web and multiplatform apps. It currently supports frameworks like

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It appears that Sling TV is still in hot water as it continues to experience subscriber churn. Parent company DISH reported its Q2 2023 earnings results on Tuesday, revealing a loss of 97,000 Sling TV subscribers.

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Owners of all-electric Chevrolets and other GM brands will soon be able to use their cars as backup generators to power their homes during an outage or during peak demand days. GM said Tuesday it is bringing

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Here in the States, summer’s slipping away all too soon, but not as fast as your chance to save on passes to TechCrunch Disrupt 2023, taking place September 19–21 in San Francisco. Disrupt is the startup world’s big

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Welcome back to Found, where we get the stories behind the startups. On this week’s episode of Found, Becca and Dom are joined by Anurupa Ganguly, the founder at CEO at Prisms, a startup designing VR math curricula

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Snapchat has quietly dropped the paywall for dark mode on Android after previously requiring users to have a Snapchat+ subscription to access the feature. The company confirmed to TechCrunch on Tuesday that dark

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After last fall signaling its intentions to expand into cloud gaming, Netflix today launched a new app that will soon allow subscribers to play games on their TV. The app, dubbed “Netflix Game Controller,” lets you

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