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    Popmenu earns raves from investors for its marketing and delivery software for restaurants – TechCrunch

    Brendan Sweeney didn’t know anything about the restaurant business before he and his co-founders launched the Atlanta-based startup Popmenu. What Sweeney did know was that...

    Stripe acquires Nigeria’s Paystack for $200M+ to expand into the African continent – TechCrunch

    When Stripe announced earlier this year that it had picked up another $600 million in funding, it said one big reason for the funding...

    Uber is hiring hundreds of engineers in India to cut costs – TechCrunch

    Uber said on Thursday it is working to hire 225 engineers in India, strengthening its tech team in the key overseas market months...

    Alibaba-affiliated marketplace to leave Taiwan, again – TechCrunch

    Separated by a strait, the internet in Taiwan and mainland China are two different worlds. Even mainland tech giants Alibaba and Tencent have had...

    Menlo Ventures just closed its fifteenth early-stage fund with $500 million – TechCrunch

    Menlo Ventures, the 44-year-old venture firm with offices in Menlo Park and San Francisco, is taking the wraps of its fifteenth early-stage fund today,...

    Luxury watch maker Breitling issues digital certificates on the Ethereum blockchain – TechCrunch

    Breitling is partnering with Arianee to issue a new kind of certificates of authenticity for its luxury watches. Instead of relying on physical certificates,...

    WarnerMedia to discontinue HBO and WB TV channels in India, and select other South Asia markets – TechCrunch

    WarnerMedia will discontinue HBO and WB TV channels in India, Pakistan, Maldives, and Bangladesh later this year as the entertainment conglomerate struggles...

    South Korean startup Cochlear.ai raises $2 million Series A to detect the sounds missed by speech recognition – TechCrunch

    Sit quietly for a moment and pay attention to the different sounds around you. You might hear appliances beeping, cars honking, a dog barking,...

    WizVille Local Monitor helps small shops track Google Maps ratings of competitors – TechCrunch

    French startup WizVille is launching a new product called Local Monitor to help restaurant owners, haircut places, bakeries and all kinds of small shops...

    Rosita Longevity wants to teach seniors how to live long, healthy lives – TechCrunch

    Longevity, as far as startups are concerned, tends to be a moonshot-y space where technologies like biotech and AI are experimentally applied in a...

    Gogoro’s Eeyo 1s e-bike goes on sale in France, its first European market – TechCrunch

    Gogoro announced today that its Eeyo 1s is now available for sale in France, the smart electric bike’s first European market. Another model, the...

    Jared Leto, Scooter Braun and Troy Carter are backing Moment House, a startup recreating live events… digitally – TechCrunch

    A pitch to offer artists a way to give geo-fenced, live events to fans around the world has brought the new Los Angeles startup...

    Harley-Davidson should keep making e-motorcycles – TechCrunch

    Harley-Davidson should continue to make electric motorcycles. That’s my big takeaway after taking home the company’s LiveWire for three weeks. I’d ridden it on a closed...

    Spotify launches an automatically updating iOS 14 widget – TechCrunch

    Spotify today has released its highly-anticipated iOS 14 widget with the latest app update. The new widget, which comes in both the small...

    Google Analytics update uses machine learning to surface more critical customer data – TechCrunch

    If you ever doubted the hunger brands have for more and better information about consumers, you only need to look at Twilio buying customer...

    Khosla Ventures seeks $1.1 billion for its latest fund – TechCrunch

    Khosla Ventures, the eponymous venture firm helmed by longtime Silicon Valley rainmaker, Vinod Khosla, is raising  $1.1 billion for its latest venture fund, according...