South Korean content providers raise service fees in the wake of Google’s in-app payment policy

South Korean app developers and content providers are upping their paid subscription and service fees on Google’s Play marketplace due to the heavy 15-30% commissions now required following Google’s... Read more »

Last call to Volunteer at TC Sessions: Climate and go to TC Disrupt 2022 for free

TC Sessions: Climate & The Extreme Tech Challenge 2022 Global Finals — our first event dedicated to climate tech — takes place on June 14 in Berkeley, California, and... Read more »

Ford to invest $3.7B in U.S. factories, add 6,200 union jobs in push to build more EVs

Ford said Thursday it will invest $3.7 billion and add more than 6,200 new union manufacturing jobs in Michigan, Ohio and Missouri as part of the automaker’s plan to... Read more »

Chainguard raises $50M to guard supply chains

Chainguard, a startup that focuses on securing software supply chains, announced today that it has raised a $50 million Series A funding round led by Sequoia Capital. Amplify, the... Read more »

Amazon is launching an invite-based ordering option, starting with the PS5 and Xbox Series X

Amazon is launching a new invite-based ordering experience for high-demand, low-supply products. The company told TechCrunch that the purpose of the new option is to help prevent inventory shortages... Read more »

Why it isn’t easy to throw cloud spending on the cutting block

There’s been an onslaught of negative economic news of late, with gloom and doom aplenty out there. However the economy plays out in the coming months, people perceive that... Read more »

Pear VC’s Anand Iyer goes solo with new $200M fund for crypto developer tools

Engineers are the bedrock of any tech product, and blockchains are no exception. As the race between different chains heats up, communities of loyalists are duking it out to... Read more »

JupiterOne raises $70M at a $1B+ valuation to help track, manage and secure complex cyber assets

One of the by-products of today’s IT environments — which can involve multiple clouds and data warehouses, on-premise servers, thousands or even millions of connected devices and users, a... Read more »

Visa and Kenya’s Safaricom launch virtual card to support global digital payments via M-Pesa

Global digital payments giant, Visa, and East Africa’s biggest telecom Safaricom, the operator of the M-Pesa mobile money product, have today launched a virtual card, enabling millions of M-Pesa... Read more »

Yummy’s super-sized round helps grow its delivery, ride-sharing super app in LatAm

Less than a year after taking its first funding, Latin American local on-demand delivery and transportation super app Yummy is back with an upsized round of $47 million. The... Read more »
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