Podcast Episodes

Maybe Friend wasn’t crazy for spending $1.8M on a domain after all

Avi Schiffmann, the founder and CEO of Friend, told TechCrunch over email that the purchase has already paid for itself.

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2 years ago

Rocket Lab’s sunny outlook bodes well for future constellation plans

Rocket Lab surpassed $100 million in quarterly revenue for the first time, a 71% increase from the same quarter of last year. This is just one of sev…

2 years ago

Spotify and Epic Games call Apple’s revised DMA compliance plan ‘confusing,’ ‘illegal’ and ‘unacceptable’

Count Spotify and Epic Games among the Apple critics who are not happy with the iPhone maker’s newly revised compliance plan for the European Union’s…

2 years ago

UK launches formal probe into Amazon’s ties with AI startup Anthropic

The U.K.’s antitrust regulator has confirmed that it’s carrying out a formal antitrust investigation into Amazon’s ties with Anthropic, after Amazon …

2 years ago

Airbnb details plans to expand beyond short-term rentals, including co-hosting and relaunching ‘experiences’

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky suggested on Tuesday’s Q2 earnings call with investors that the company will soon expand into new products and services, incl…

2 years ago

Lyft to ‘open up a can of whoop ass’ on surge pricing

Ride-hail giant Lyft will pilot a new feature called Price Lock that will let a rider purchase a monthly subscription “that caps the price for a spec…

2 years ago

Figure’s new humanoid robot leverages OpenAI for natural speech conversations

Figure 02 is outfitted with speakers and microphones to speak and listen to people at work.

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2 years ago

Uber highlights autonomous vehicle efforts with Tesla in its rearview mirror

Uber reported strong second-quarter results, with gross bookings and net profit both up decently. But the company has chosen to highlight the success…

2 years ago

AWS launches Mithra to identify and mitigate malicious domains across its massive system

When a company is the size of Amazon, a lot of bad actors will come after it and its customers, which makes defending the network a monster job.

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2 years ago

How the theft of 40M UK voter register records was entirely preventable

A scathing rebuke by the U.K. data protection watchdog reveals what led to the compromise of tens of millions of U.K. voters' information.

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2 years ago