After bootstrapping for five years, Instruqt raises a €15M Series A from Blossom Capital

Netherlands-based Instruqt has a product allowing companies to more easily test how a new software would run inside their organization. After bootstrapping its way to growth, it has now... Read more »

Warner Bros. Discovery CTO and CPO explain how they made Max less buggy

A few weeks before Warner Bros. Discovery launches its new HBO Max/Discovery+ streaming service, Max, TechCrunch spoke with WBD chief technology officer Avi Saxena and chief product officer Tyler... Read more »

Crypto, influencers targeted in Kenya’s new tax bid

Kenya is proposing new taxes to tap the growing digital economy in a bid to grow domestic revenues and narrow its fiscal deficit in response to the ongoing cash... Read more »

Samsung surpasses Apple in smartphone shipments by 1% amid persisting market decline

Samsung overtook Apple through a slender 1% lead to secure the top spot in smartphone shipment volumes during the first quarter of 2023, despite the ongoing contraction of the... Read more »

Apple introduces 20 new games to Apple Arcade

Apple launched 20 new games Thursday on Apple Arcade including a new exclusive Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles title along with classic games like Temple Run and Snake.io. Paramount Global’s... Read more »

Kenya’s Fingo partners with Ecobank, launches neobank on the back of $4M investment

Yesterday, Fingo, a YC-backed Kenyan fintech, launched its neobank, which it developed in collaboration with Pan-African financial institution Ecobank Kenya. The Ecobank subsidiary unveiled the neobank, the first of... Read more »

India’s Meesho cuts 251 jobs

Meesho has cut 15% of its workforce, or 251 roles, as the Indian social commerce startup pares its expenses to improve its financial health and confront the “economic reality.”... Read more »

Praktis lands $20M to help Indonesian D2C brands handle their supply chains

Small to medium-sized enterprises contribute 60% of Indonesia’s gross domestic product. But companies in the D2C space still struggle to compete against bigger brands. Praktis wants to put them... Read more »

In Europe, Accel banks on a turnaround over the next six to nine months

It’s been almost five years since this editor sat down with longtime VC Harry Nelis and three other investors from Accel’s London office to talk about the trends rippling... Read more »

Daily Crunch: Shopify lays off 20% of staff and sells its logistics arm to Flexport

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Why, hello, Crunchers! We’re excited to... Read more »
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