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After decimating Twitter’s workforce, imperiling its infrastructure and emptying its ad coffers all within his first month at the company, it’s on to the next thing for Elon Musk. The erratic billionaire picked a fight with Apple in a series of tweets on Monday, bracing for a battle — or perhaps just another volley of […] Elon Musk’s next trick? Picking a fight with Apple by Taylor Hatmaker originally published on TechCrunch... →

A growing number of startup consultants are raising funds to back their clients because their clients want them on the cap table. Move over, operators — consultants are the new nontraditional VC by Rebecca Szkutak originally published on TechCrunch... →

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An interview with the co-founders of VC firm Fiat Ventures and sister arm Fiat Growth discussing fintechs trends, customer acquisition, and more. On affinity-focused fintechs, the future of BNPL, and more by Anna Heim originally published on TechCrunch... →

When it comes to performance issues, it’s hard to know where the problem lies. This is especially true when your monitoring dashboard shows an all-clear, yet you’re still hearing slow app complaints from your users. In these cases, there’s a good chance those problems could be related to an internet connection issue. These kinds of […] Amazon CloudWorks Internet Monitor lets you track connection-related performance issues by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch... →

FrankieOne, a Melbourne-based startup that provides an API platform for identity verification and fraud detection, said it has added $23 million AUD (about $15.4 million USD) in a Series A+, taking its Series A’s total to $45 million AUD (about $30 million USD). FrankieOne says this is the largest amount of VC funding raised by […] AirTree and Greycroft return to lead Australian regtech FrankieOne’s Series A+ by Catherine Shu originally published on TechCrunch... →

The interim rate of return method allows convertible instruments to get back to basics, avoiding discussions of early-stage value. Interim rate of return: A better approach to valuing early-stage startups by Ram Iyer originally published on TechCrunch... →

Cofactr is a logistics and supply chain tech company that provides scalable warehousing and procurement for electronics manufacturers. The company today announced it raised a $6 million round of seed funding, to “lead the next generation of agile hardware materials management.” The company raised on a SAFE note with a $25 million cap. We spoke […] Logistics and procurement on autopilot is the future Cofactr wants to live in by Haje Jan Kamps originally published on TechCrunch... →

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Right on time for its annual post-Thanksgiving re:Invent festivities in Las Vegas, AWS last night announced its “AWS Digital Sovereignty Pledge” — and before you click away, let me just point out that this is definitely more important than the prosaic name implies. As nations across the globe introduce legislation that governs how and where […] AWS announces Digital Sovereignty Pledge by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch... →

To celebrate Cyber Monday, TechCrunch+ is having a sale! Until December 3, take 25% off a subscription to secure access to all our work.  Say hello to the TechCrunch+ Cyber Monday sale! by Alex Wilhelm originally published on TechCrunch... →

Twitter’s crowdsourced fact-checking system, Community Notes, just received an update that the company claims will help to identify more “low quality” fact checks — meaning, the notes written by Twitter users that are appended to tweets to provide further clarification and context. As a result, more of the contributors who write these unhelpful annotations will […] Twitter says crowdsourced fact-checking system updated to better address ‘low quality’ contributions by Sarah Perez originally published on Tech... →

You wouldn’t drive a car or fly a plane if the only controls you had available were on/off switches for left and right or up and down, and yet that’s pretty much what gamers are stuck with when they control their virtual avatars with their keyboards. U.K. startup Peratech wants to change that with a […] This startup is bringing precision control for gamers to the humble keyboard by Haje Jan Kamps originally published on TechCrunch... →

Legal trouble may be brewing for Microsoft in the European Union where an assessment by a working group of German data protection regulators that’s spent around two years looking into a swathe of privacy concerns attached to its cloud-based 365 productivity products — including by engaging directly with the tech giant to try to get […] Microsoft 365 faces darkening GDPR compliance clouds after German report by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch... →

It’s me! Hi! (I’m not the problem, just the podcast’s host, here to bring you the latest greatest in startup and tech news this fine Monday morning). Welcome back to Equity, the podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. And for those of you who hummed […] What’s the next on crypto’s chopping block? by Natasha Mascarenhas originally published on TechCrunch... →

Cyber Monday savings are here — for today only book a pass to TC Sessions: Space 2022 and save 50% on all available passes. This one-day exploration event is focused on early-stage space startups, trends, science and technology across the private, public and defense universe takes place on December 6 in Los Angeles. Don’t miss […] Cyber Monday sale – save 50% on passes for TC Sessions: Space by Lauren Simonds originally published on TechCrunch... →

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Founded in 2017, Bionaut Labs arrived out of stealth in March 2021, with plans to commercialize longstanding research around drug delivery robots. The Los Angeles-based startup today followed up its initial $20 million funding announcement with a $43.2 million Series B, bringing its total raise up to – you guessed it — $63.2 million. This […] Bionaut Labs gets $43.2M for its tiny drug delivery robots by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch... →

Taboola expects to get bigger, more profitable, and more self-sustaining than before thanks to Yahoo. A scale story: TechCrunch’s parent company links up with Taboola by Alex Wilhelm originally published on TechCrunch... →

India’s VerSe Innovation — the $5 billion Indian startup behind news aggregator Dailyhunt, short-video platform Josh, and hyperlocal video app PublicVibe — has cut 150 employees, or 5% of its workforce of 3,000, TechCrunch has learned and confirmed. The Bengaluru-based startup informed impacted employees on Friday and separately held a town hall meeting on Monday […] Google, Microsoft-backed VerSe Innovation cuts 5% of workforce, reduces salaries by Jagmeet Singh originally published on TechCrunch... →