Chat platform WhatsApp said today that it will limit the number of broadcast messages individual users and businesses can send to curb spam on the app. In the coming weeks, the company…
Tech Crunch – TurinTech reveals $20M in backing to fix problems in ‘vibe coding’
So-called “vibe coding” with LLM-driven tools like Cursor Composer — a term coined by renowned computer scientist Andrej Karpathy — describes a hands-off approach to writing code using Gen AI models, and…
Tech Crunch – Apple loses appeal against Germany’s special abuse control for Big Tech
Being a staggeringly successful big tech company does have some downsides: Apple has lost an appeal against a special abuse control regime that Germany’s competition watchdog applied to it last year. The…
Tech Crunch – Google is buying Wiz for $32B to beef up in cloud security, sources say
Google is making the biggest acquisition in its history. The company’s parent company Alphabet is acquiring Wiz, the cloud security startup, for $32 billion, our sources say. The deal will still need…
Tech Crunch – Nerdio nabs $500M to power virtual desktops on Azure
Nerdio, a platform designed to simplify how companies deploy and manage Microsoft cloud technologies, has raised $500 million in a Series C round of funding. The Chicago-based startup says its valuation has…
Texas Monthly – After COVID, Texas is less prepared for the next pandemic
Five years after Texas’ first COVID death, the state spends less on public health, vaccination rates have dropped and a distrust of authority has taken hold. Read: Read More
Texas Monthly – An abandoned West Texas oil well has created a 200-foot-wide sinkhole
The rapidly-growing sinkhole in Upton County is the latest of many problems caused by old wells in the Permian Basin. Read: Read More
Tech Crunch – YC-backed food supply startup Vendease restructures employees’ salaries
Y Combinator-backed Nigerian food procurement startup Vendease has changed its employee pay structure and is seeking fresh capital, TechCrunch has learned. This is after laying off 44% of its workforce — around…
Tech Crunch – GrubMarket raises $50M at a $3.5B+ valuation to build AI for the $1 trillion food distribution industry
U.S. President Trump’s wide-ranging tariff hikes are already resulting in growth forecasts being cut amid other uncertainty — actions that will inevitably impact the technology sector, too. Today, however, one food e-commerce…
Tech Crunch – Google, Speedinvest back Kenya’s Leta, which uses AI to make logistics cheaper
African businesses pay up to four times the global average to transport goods. Nairobi-based logistics SaaS provider Leta wants to change that. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only….