Observe construction technology Software company Procore goes public today after prices are above its bandwidth and the IPO slowdown looks like a delay it wasn’t. Investors are quick to offer the company’s value in trading, giving Procore a higher than expected valuation and increasing confidence in the IPO market in general. Construction technology may not … Read more
Pickup truck performance isn’t just about torque, power, towing and hauling. Ford’s latest electric F-150 Lightning, unveiled Wednesday, seeks to change the importance of truck performance through a system that can power a customer’s home in the event of a failure. Ford is not alone in showing consumers the benefits of an all-electric vehicle. Others, … Read more
AI-powered voice transcription service Otter.ai wants to make it even easier for its business users to record their meetings. Today, the company introduces Otter Assistant, a new feature that allows you to automatically join the Zoom meetings on your calendar, transcribe the conversations, and share the notes with other attendees. Although Otter.ai is already built … Read more
As cloud-native apps become more and more central to how businesses function, a startup founded by the developers of a popular open-source authorization management tool for cloud-native application environments is announcing some means to expand its commercialization efforts to expand the opportunity. Styra, the startup behind Open Policy Agent, has raised $ 40 million in … Read more
SpaceX successfully launched an additional 52 Starlink Internet broadband satellites into orbit on Saturday, less than a week after the last batch was shipped. A small satellite from the startup Capella Space and a Tyvak observation satellite also made a trip to the launch, which took off on Saturday evening from the Kennedy Space Center … Read more
Hello friends, and welcome back to the week in retrospect! Last week I wrote about Facebook’s never-ending Trump problem. This week, I’m checking out Elon Musk’s wild week of whipping crypto markets. If you’re reading this on the TechCrunch website, it can be found in your inbox via Newsletter pageand follow my tweets @ Lucasmtny. … Read more
I feel hungover. No, not in the traditional sense, but in the dizzying way you feel when half of your world is celebrating double vaccinations and no masks and the other half mourned all over the world for death and not a piece of light in the end The tunnel. The privilege of watching this … Read more
Williesha Morris Contributor Williesha Morris has been a journalist and freelancer for over a decade. When she’s not writing, she’s reading, playing video games, or chatting about the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In 2011 a product Developer named Fred Davison read an article about the inventor Ken Yankelevitz and his QuadControl video game controller for quadriplegics. … Read more
Before Twilio had a market cap approaching $56 billion and more than 200,000 customers, the cloud-communications platform developed a secret sauce to fuel its growth: a developer-focused model that dispensed with traditional marketing rules. Software companies that sell directly to end users share a simple framework for managing growth that leverages discoverability, desirability and do-ability … Read more
Electric car startup Fisker signed an agreement with Foxconn, the Taiwanese company that assembles iPhones, to jointly design and manufacture a new electric vehicle. Production of the car, which will be sold under the Fisker brand name in North America, Europe, China and India, will begin in the United States in late 2023. Numerous details, … Read more