Category Technology

Salesforce has announced plans to acquire Airkit.ai, a low-code platform that helps e-commerce companies build AI-powered customer service agents. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Founded in 2017, Redwood City, California-based Airkit was created by Adam Evans and Stephen…

eStreamly offers business-to-business video commerce software to enable livestreams and videos to be shoppable across platforms. Source: techcrunch.com

Kinhub, a B2B SaaS platform powered by AI, seeks to democratize access to coaching and wellness support for employees. Source: techcrunch.com

During the last three days 20 startups participated in the incredibly competitive Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt. These 20 companies were selected as the best of the Startup Battlefield 200 and competed for a chance to take home the Startup…

As Microsoft marches toward a new deadline for its planned acquisition of Activision, the company stumbled into an unexpected setback of its own making. This week, a trove of documents surfaced through Microsoft’s battle with the FTC surfaced corporate insights…

GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke considers AI and software development to now be inextricably linked, powered by assistive tools such as Copilot and its associated Copilot Chat, which the Microsoft-owned company expanded to individual GitHub subscribers today. But speaking on stage…

J.B. Straubel has worn many hats in his career: co-founder of Tesla, Tesla Board Member, and more recently, founder and CEO of battery materials and recycling startup Redwood Materials. But in his heart, he’s a engineer, he said during a…

MakersHub’s WiseVision technology extracts and contextualizes all data on bills and receipts, including every line item and data field. Source: techcrunch.com

Keeping kids off social media is idealistic at best, and giving them access to it opens a Pandora’s box of privacy concerns. Source: techcrunch.com

The UN estimates that about one third of all food produced goes to waste before it even gets the chance to decompose in your fridge. That abysmal stat explains is one key reason why leading VCs and celebrities have poured…

Rick Fox took an unconventional path to becoming a startup founder – not least of which includes being a three-time NBA Champion, taking the crown alongside fellow Los Angeles Lakers players Shaquille O’Neal and Kobe Bryant. Fox retired from basketball…

Satellites depend on radio frequency spectrum to communicate with each other and with ground stations on Earth, but spectrum is a finite resource that’s prone to interference — an issue that’s only gotten worse as more satellites are launched into…

If the crypto investment craze of 2021 could be defined with one investor name, that would be Andreessen Horowitz — or a16z for short. The well-known VC firm has raised over $7.6 billion for its crypto funds. And yet, crypto isn’t…

Shaquille O’Neal, 15-time NBA All-Star, four-time NBA champion and three-time NBA Finals MVP, took the stage at TechCrunch Disrupt to talk about his passion for investing in edtech and backing projects that aim to change people’s lives. O’Neal is the…

Ten years ago, Robinhood was founded to “democratize” stock trading, or more simply, to make it more accessible for anyone to trade stocks. Over time, the now publicly traded company has broadened its offerings – allowing users to do far…

Companies often attempt to raise from VCs despite knowing they can’t possibly deliver venture-scale returns. Source: techcrunch.com

News from Canoo and Arrival illustrates just how far off the rails the EV-SPAC boom has gone. Source: techcrunch.com

X owner Elon Musk today floated the idea that the social network formerly known as Twitter may no longer be a free site. In a live-streamed conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday, Musk said the company was…

In this issue: Firefly Aerospace conquered the night, news from Varda Space and more Source: techcrunch.com

Unity, the popular cross-platform game and media development engine, is on the defensive after receiving intense backlash over a controversial new fee structure, which developers using the platform decried as destructive and unfair. Now the company is reportedly looking to…