techcrunch.com —  1+ hour, 11+ min ago

...BlackRock has cut the valuation of Byju"s, which is India's most valuable startup at $22 billion, to nearly half at $11.5 billion, according to filings... ...Swiggy, India's most valuable food delivery startup at $10.7 billion, has been marked down to a valuation of about $8 billion by Invesco, according...

techcrunch.com —  1+ hour, 45+ min ago

...We had it all this week, friends, so please strap in and get ready for another catchup with your besties Mary Ann, Natasha and Alex.... ...Equity crowdfunding and former startup founders trying to bribe China?...

techcrunch.com —  6+ hour, 30+ min ago

...The company has raised $10 million in seed funding from investors like Madrona Venture Group and PSL Ventures.... ...The tool, which works with Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, and Webex gives you analytics like sentiment, and participant engagement scores to...

techcrunch.com —  21+ hour, 23+ min ago

...Major brands are experimenting with it, using the AI to generate ad and marketing copy, for example. And OpenAI is heavily investing in it.... ...ChatGPT was recently super-charged by GPT-4, the latest language-writing model from OpenAI's labs.... ...A week after ChatGPT was released into the wild, two developers -- Steven Tey and Dom Eccleston -- made a Chrome extension called ShareGPT to make... ...At a press event in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft announced its long-rumored integration of OpenAI's GPT-4 model into Bing, providing a ChatGPT-like...

techcrunch.com —  3+ hour, 25+ min ago

...TechCrunch Early Stage is less than three weeks away from kicking off on April 20 in the Hub of the Universe -- Boston.... ...But listen up, because in less than 24 hours you"ll miss out on saving some big-time cash if you don't take advantage of our early-bird pricing and... ...People like NFX's James Currier, Techstars" Kerty Levy, Harvard Innovation Labs" Matt Segneri, SOSV's Pae Wu and many more.... ...Early Stage in Boston....

techcrunch.com —  5+ hour, 38+ min ago

...In a move that proved transformative, Star India executives Ajit Mohan and Uday Shankar's strategic investment in cricket streaming nearly a decade... ...With the highly anticipated Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket tournament starting later today, Ambani is eyeing this as the perfect opportunity... ...Shankar, who also left Star, has formed a venture fund with former top Fox executive James Murdoch.... ...Reliance has "promised" advertisers that cricket streaming on Jio Cinema will reach 400 million users, said Media Partners Asia. ...

techcrunch.com —  6+ hour, 31+ min ago

...The company has raised $10 million in seed funding from investors like Madrona Venture Group and PSL Ventures.... ...The tool, which works with Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, and Webex gives you analytics like sentiment, and participant engagement scores to...

techcrunch.com —  20+ hour, 44+ min ago

...Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange by volume, its CEO Changpeng Zhao and Chief Compliance Officer Samuel Lim are being sued by the U.S.... ...Commodity Futures and Trading Commission (CFTC), according to a filing on Monday.... ..."Crypto is under attack," Yankun Guo, partner at Chicago-based law firm Ice Miller, told TechCrunch+.... ...former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried alleging he bribed Chinese officials....

techcrunch.com —  1+ day ago

...According to a survey from Imperva, 42.3% of internet traffic in 2021 wasn't human, but instead bots that ran automated routines with ill intent.... ...Case in point, DataDome, a provider of bot protection services for mobile apps, websites and APIs, has raised $42 million in a Series C round led... ..."Think about recent headlines, like the Taylor Swift and Ticketmaster debacle," Fabre said.... ...Beyond the cybersecurity industry, the fallout from the Silicon Valley Bank collapse continues to impact startups" ability to secure funding....

techcrunch.com —  21+ hour, 54+ min ago

...When the Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid AV was first revealed, it might not have been what people expected from the former Google self-driving project... ...More than five years ago, a newly minted Waymo took the wraps off of what would become its first commercialized autonomous vehicle: a Chrysler Pacifica... ...Waymo revealed the Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid in December 2016 and then provided more technical and business model details a month later at the 2017... ...Waymo eventually opened up the service to the public -- no NDA required -- and grew its service area to Phoenix suburbs Chandler, Tempe, Ahwatukee...