Think of the monetized children and other TC news

Meta is monetizing kids as much as they are the rest of us. But this week the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has alleged that Meta violated a 2020... Read more »

Amazon’s TikTok-like Inspire shopping feed is now available to all customers in the US

Amazon’s in-app TikTok-like shopping feed is now available to all customers in the United States, according to the company’s website. The feature rolled out to select U.S. customers in... Read more »

Vint Cerf on the ‘exhilarating mix’ of thrill and hazard at the frontiers of tech

Vint Cerf has been a near-constant influence on the internet since the days when he was helping create it in the first place. Today he wears many hats, among... Read more »

TechCrunch+ roundup: AI ethics investor survey, B2B SaaS KPIs, don’t frown on down rounds

Investors have raised expectations around SaaS profitability and growth since the downturn began. As a result, it’s even more important for founders to have a firm handle on the... Read more »

Paytm tops $977 million revenue in a year, narrows loss

Paytm, India’s leading mobile payments firm, reported a 13.2% surge in revenue to $285.7 million in the quarter ending March and pared its loss by 57% to $20.5 million... Read more »

RapidAPI headcount down 82% from fresh layoffs less than two weeks after cutting 50% of staff

Rapid (previously known as RapidAPI), a startup that built out an API marketplace valued at $1 billion last year, has laid off another 70 employees less than two weeks... Read more »

Hear how MinIO built a unicorn in object storage on top of Kubernetes and open source

Everything needs a home, and Garima Kapoor co-founded MinIO to build an enterprise-grade, open source object storage solution. The pitch sounds amazing: simple, high performance, and a native Kubernetes... Read more »

Tepid investor reaction clouds Lyft’s new strategy

Shares of Lyft are off sharply this morning, falling nearly 20% in early trading. The company’s equity is selling off in the wake of the U.S. ride-hailing giant’s first... Read more »

Down rounds are a ‘ticket to try again,’ says founder who raised 3 in a row

For the past year, everyone’s been predicting that the muted exit environment and bone-dry funding market would bring a reckoning for many late-stage companies. We’ve been seeing layoffs and... Read more »

Ex-Fin Capital general partner, who led its investment in Pipe, starts new venture firm

Peter Ackerson has departed from his role as general partner at fintech-focused venture firm Fin Capital and started a new firm, Audere Capital. According to his LinkedIn profile, Ackerson... Read more »
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