2024

Canadian personal fairness agency PartnerOne paid $28.2 million for HeadSpin, a cell app testing startup whose founder was sentenced for fraud earlier this yr, in accordance with paperwork seen by TechCrunch. The hearth sale was reported by TechCrunch final week. HeadSpin’s 2023 income was $21 million and its Q1 2024 income stood at $5 million, the paperwork revealed. Meaning PartnerOne valued HeadSpin...

When Tade Oyerinde first got down to fundraise for his startup, Campus, a completely accredited on-line group school, it was extremely tough. VCs have backed for-profit training firms prior to now, together with Coursera and Udacity, however backing a extra conventional two-year school is totally different. Plus, he was in search of funds just a few years in the past when greater ed was beginning to face...

Waymo is ramping up efforts to realize entry to a profitable robotaxi use case: pickups and drop-offs on the San Francisco Worldwide Airport, based on emails considered by TechCrunch and obtained by way of a Freedom of Data Act request.  Waymo already has the required permits to commercially function its robotaxi service 24 hours a day within the metropolis of San Francisco, components of the Peninsula...

Elon Musk has made it clear he doesn’t like Joe Biden. However since Musk formally endorsed and is reportedly financially backing Donald Trump on this 12 months’s presidential marketing campaign, Biden is returning the favor. The president is now immediately campaigning on Musk — and different high-profile and rich Silicon Valley VCs — supporting Trump’s bid. “I’m sick,” Biden wrote on...

J. Michael Cline, the co-founder of Fandango and a number of different startups over his multi-decade profession, died after falling from a Manhattan resort, New York’s Deputy Commissioner of Public Data tells TechCrunch. The New York Police Division responded to 911 calls from the Kimberly Resort, a 30-story resort on fiftieth road in midtown Manhattan on Tuesday morning. Upon arrival, “officers...

Apple on Thursday introduced its upcoming lineup of immersive video content material for the Imaginative and prescient Professional. The record contains behind-the-scenes footage of the 2024 NBA All-Star Weekend, an immersive efficiency by The Weeknd, new sequence, movies, live shows and extra. The headset launched in February with greater than 150 3D films and immersive titles. Apple is including new...

You've got heard about public cloud, non-public cloud, multicloud, and even perhaps poly cloud. However what about sovereign cloud, one of many newest, best buzzwords on the earth of cloud computing?If the idea of sovereign clouds is new to you — or in case you've already heard of it however desire a deeper dive — this text's for you. Hold studying for a take a look at what sovereign cloud means, the...

Knowledge heart outages are on the decline, and funding in on-site backup methods is the primary cause. That is the one-line takeaway from the most recent Uptime Institute examine of information heart outages.Maintain studying for a deeper dive into knowledge heart outage traits this yr, in addition to an evaluation of what they imply for knowledge heart resilience and restoration planning.Key Data Center...

Welcome again to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for information and insights on the way forward for transportation. Join right here without spending a dime — simply click on TechCrunch Mobility! One other week, one other batch of transportation information. And as at all times, senior reporter Sean O’Kane is deep within the Fisker beat.  Fisker has slightly one thing to rejoice this...

Olivia DeRamus is flipping the script: What if scrolling by way of social media didn’t make us depressing? What if, particularly for girls, social media may truly make us really feel extra supported? “It’s actually not what mainstream social platforms have been constructed for,” DeRamus advised TechCrunch. However along with her social platform Communia, DeRamus is daring to strive one thing that...