While layoffs keep coming, so far Apple has steered clear

On Wednesday, Microsoft announced it was laying off 10,000 people. Alphabet added to the misery with another 12,000 this morning. We’ve previously seen 18,000 job cuts at Amazon and... Read more »

4 investors discuss the next big wave for alternative seafood startups

Though investment in food technology has slowed in line with the rest of the venture capital world, the industry recently achieved some milestones that suggest the sector and the... Read more »

GoodOnes raises to help make sense of your mess of a camera roll

You know what it’s like – you’ve been on vacation and you’ve taken twenty-eight million photos, and you just want to select the best 12 so you can make... Read more »

Microsoft joined the layoff parade. Did it really have to?

When Microsoft announced this week that it was laying off 10,000 employees, it wasn’t exactly a shock. Other big companies, including Salesforce, Amazon and Meta, have already been down... Read more »

Netflix says it’s open to adding free streaming ‘FAST’ channels to grow its ads business

Netflix reported its Q4 2022 financial results yesterday, topping 230 million global subscribers, up from 223.09 million, thanks to the addition of 7.7 million subs. During the earnings call,... Read more »

Why international DFIs are looking to African startups to scale impact investing efforts

Even as VC funding dries up across the world, development finance institutions (DFIs) from Europe are looking to African startups to deploy their dry powder. British International Investment (BII),... Read more »

TechCrunch+ roundup: 2023 unicorn slump, global VC slowdown, email marketing 101

Due to a phenomenon called semantic satiation, if you repeat a word or phrase too frequently, it can sometimes lose all meaning. That’s what happened to “unicorn:” We wore... Read more »

Canada wants to support commercial space launches

While the bulk of commercial space launch activity is happening just south of its border, Canada is tired of watching from the sidelines and wants in on the action:... Read more »

Amazon’s Music Unlimited quietly gets a price hike in the US and UK

Starting on February 21, Amazon’s Music Unlimited streaming service will increase by $1/£1 in the U.S. and the U.K. The Amazon Music Unlimited Individual Plan is increasing from $9.99... Read more »

A new kind of PE fund plans to roll-up German startups into potential unicorns and bigger exits

European startups have always suffered from the perennial startup problem: how to exit? However, in Europe the problem has always been particularly acute. How many large European industrial or... Read more »
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