China has ordered app store operators to remove Didi’s app from their stores, at the latest as tensions between the country’s largest ride-hailing giant and local regulators escalate. The app has disappeared from several stores, including Apple’s App Store in China, TechCrunch can confirm. The country’s cyberspace administration, which revealed the order on Sunday, said … Read more
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using apps on Android devices … Read more
Until the children reach a certain age, the enrichment programs are in some ways limited to school, sports and camps, while opportunities for making money are largely non-existent. Now, a year-old LA-based startup called Mighty, a type of Shopify that invites younger children to open an online store, wants to partially fill the void. In … Read more
Licious, a Bangalore-based startup selling fresh meat and seafood online, has raised $ 192 million in a new round of funding to expand its presence beyond the South Asian market. The new round – a Series F – was led by Singapore’s investment firm Temasek and Multiples Private Equity. The round that increases the six-year-old … Read more
Hepsiburada – Turkey’s giant online shopping platform considered the Amazon of their country – is floating on Nasdaq today, with a valuation of likely $ 3.9 billion according to current forecasts, particularly with stocks trading as high as $ 14 -Dollars per item are marked (compared to the previously forecast $ 12). . But for … Read more
Nodes & Links is a planning platform for large infrastructure projects that defines when and in what order the bolts and nuts for the bridge (for example) should be delivered. Unsurprisingly, this is often wrong with complex infrastructure projects. The company has now raised a $ 11 million Series A financing round led by urban … Read more
India-based tech startup Salesken.ai has secured an exposed server that has spilled private and sensitive data on one of its customers, Byju’s, an education technology giant and India’s most valuable startup. According to historical data from Shodan, a search engine for exposed devices and databases, the server has been unprotected since at least June 14th. … Read more
2U, a SaaS platform that helps nonprofits and colleges run online universities, plans to acquire all of Harvard’s assets and MIT-founded edX for a $ 600 million deal, according to multiple sources. 2U did not immediately respond to requests for comment and it is unclear if this is a pure cash transaction. The deal gives … Read more
The math is simple: Big research universities produce great startups. Pittsburgh certainly has little shortage of the former, with two world-class research schools – Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh – in the city. The latter has posed a challenge to Pittsburgh in the past as local startups often headed to the greener … Read more
In the past few years we’ve seen a growing trend for YouTubers to adopt digital and social media, not just as a supplement to your media presence, but also as a cornerstone of your personal brand. The pandemic has certainly accelerated trends in the creator economy. Many well-known artists and personalities had to postpone concerts … Read more