Micromobility in limbo: Takeaways from Paris and LA
Shared electric scooters came onto the scene five years ago with a promising vision of getting people out of cars...
Month: December 2022
How we covered the creator economy in 2022
This summer, I went straight from VidCon — the largest creator conference — to a labor journalism seminar with the...
The year customer experience died
This was a rough year for customer experience. We’ve been hearing for years how important customer experience is to business,...
How China is building a parallel generative AI universe
The gigantic technological leap that machine learning models have shown in the last few months is getting everyone excited about...
Fidelity slashes the value of its Twitter stake by over half
Fidelity, which was among the group of outside investors that helped Elon Musk finance his $44 billion takeover of Twitter,...
Daily Crunch: To take the friction out of consumer messaging, more companies are entering the Matrix
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m....
QuickVid uses AI to generate short-form videos, complete with voiceovers
Generative AI is coming for videos. A new website, QuickVid, combines several generative AI systems into a single tool for automatically...
There’s now an open source alternative to ChatGPT, but good luck running it
The first open-source equivalent of OpenAI’s ChatGPT has arrived, but good luck running it on your laptop — or at...
What to look for in a term sheet as a first-time founder
Securing funding is a stressful endeavor, but it doesn’t have to be. We recently sat down with three VCs to...
Meta acquires Luxexcel, a smart eyewear company
As Meta faces antitrust scrutiny over its acquisition of VR fitness developers Within, the tech giant is making another acquisition....
Despite myriad flaws, US remains top spot for Black startup founders seeking VC dollars
Despite, well, everything, the U.S. is still the best place in the world for Black startup founders to raise money....
Netflix vs. Hulu: Which offers better value?
As streaming services continue to hike their prices, cord-cutters have found it harder to manage their growing subscription bills. Hulu...
5 of the best apps for tracking your reading and discovering new books
As 2022 comes to a close, you may be looking for the best reads of the year that you might...
How TechCrunch+ followed the venture dollars in 2022
When looking at how TechCrunch+ covered venture in 2022, we didn’t see a lot of positive news. We saw layoffs,...
Meet the cybercriminals of 2022
Arrested, seized, doxed and detained. These are just some of the ways police and prosecutors around the world took down...
5 promising fusion startups that aren’t unicorns — yet
The biggest news last week wasn’t another of Elon Musk’s Twitter tantrums, but the announcement that scientists had finally cracked...
2022’s best and worst dinner guests: Elon Musk and SBF
What. A. Year. Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers...
Inside Matrix, the protocol that might finally make messaging apps interoperable
Interoperability and decentralization have been major themes in tech this year, driven in large part by mounting regulation, societal and...
5 tips for dealing with Day 2 Kubernetes operational challenges
Lukas Gentele Contributor Share on Twitter Lukas Gentele is the CEO of Loft Labs, which builds open source developer tooling...
Dispatch from Bangalore, end of 2022 edition
In 2014, Prayank Swaroop made a pitch to the storied venture firm Accel, where he worked as an associate, about...
