Elon Musk All hell breaks loose this evening after Tesla CEO Elon Musk proposed a “Russia-Ukraine Peace” plan that angered the Ukrainian president, blue-check mark gatekeepers, journalists, government officials, and NAFO members. On Monday, Musk posted a tweet that offered the possibility of a peaceful resolution to bring an end to the ongoing …
Read More »London police arrest teen hacking suspect but won’t confirm GTA 6, Uber links
Image Credits: City of London The City of London police report they’ve arrested a 17-year-old in Oxfordshire on suspicion of hacking and said he remains in custody, without releasing any other details. Police declined to say what incident the arrest was in connection with, but many of the details line …
Read More »iOS 15 adds all the little features that were missing – TechCrunch
The release of iOS 15 should be a major event for mobile operating systems. And yet, this year, there’s no breakthrough feature or overarching theme that makes this release stand out. Apple has focused on quality-of-life updates as well as new features for its own apps. The result is a …
Read More »Apple sheds value during iPhone event – TechCrunch
The TechCrunch crew is hard at work writing up the latest from Apple’s iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch event. They have good notes on the megacorp’s hardware updates. But what are the markets saying about the same array of products? For those of us more concerned with effective S&P dividend …
Read More »News aggregator SmartNews raises $230 million, valuing its business at $2 billion – TechCrunch
SmartNews, a Tokyo-headquartered news aggregation website and app that’s grown in popularity despite hefty competition from built-in aggregators like Apple News, today announced it has closed on $230 million in Series F funding. The round brings SmartNews’ total raise to date to over $400 million and values the business at …
Read More »Tile secures $40 million to take on Apple AirTag with new products – TechCrunch
Tile, the maker of Bluetooth-powered lost item finder beacons and, more recently, a staunch Apple critic, announced today it has raised $40 million in non-dilutive debt financing from Capital IP. The funding will be put toward investment in Tile’s finding technologies, ahead of the company’s plan to unveil a new …
Read More »South Korean antitrust regulator fines Google $177M for abusing market dominance – TechCrunch
The Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) said on Tuesday it fined Google $177 million for abusing its market dominance in the Android operating system (OS) market. The U.S. tech company has restricted market competition by prohibiting local smartphone makers like Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics from customizing their Android OS, …
Read More »MarginEdge, a restaurant management software company, raises $18M – TechCrunch
MarginEdge announced Monday it raised $18 million in Series B funding to give restaurant operators a real-time view into their costs. Co-founder and CEO Bo Davis founded the company with Roy Phillips and Brian Mills in 2015. Both Davis and Phillips are veterans of the restaurant industry: Davis was previously …
Read More »MaxRewards banks $3M to reveal best payment methods that reap the most rewards – TechCrunch
When Anik Khan graduated from college, his first job was working on credit cards and business expenses at Accenture. There, he found that someone could bring in a couple of thousand dollars just by having the right credit cards and following the rewards and promotions. It was back in 2017 …
Read More »What we expect from next week’s Apple event – TechCrunch
We’ve been scouring the latest rumors and leaks and playing all of The Mamas and The Papas songs forward and backward to get the best possible picture of what we’re in store for with next Tuesday’s “California Streaming’” event. The invites, which went out a week in advance, don’t appear …
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