TechCrunchflipped into Asia2 hours agoAmazon launches live commerce in Indiaverified_publisherTechCrunch - Manish SinghAmazon has launched live commerce in India, broadening its offerings in the key overseas market where it has deployed over $6.5 billion to win customers. The company on Friday quietly rolled out the new service, called Amazon Live, bringing an army of creators to host livestreams and talk about a …
TechCrunchflipped into Latest TechCrunch Stories6 hours agoWhy this Blizzard vet thinks the next killer web3 game will come from Chinaverified_publisherTechCrunch - Rita LiaoThis year, around 3.2 billion people — or about 40% of the world’s population — will play games, with total spending nearing $200 billion, estimates industry researcher Newzoo. The purveyors of web3 want a slice of this gargantuan market. Criticisms of the first generation of crypto games, …
TechCrunchflipped into Tech Layoffs8 hours agoSoftBank Vision Fund is reportedly laying off 30% of its workforce, or at least 150 employeesverified_publisherTechCrunch - Kate ParkThe Vision Fund, a venture capital arm of SoftBank, has launched a sweeping layoff process, cutting at least 30% of its workforce globally, or approximately 150 of the 500 employees, according to a report by Bloomberg. The news comes nearly two months after SoftBank chief executive officer and …
TechCrunchflipped into Latest TechCrunch Stories9 hours agoGV aims to help build a company that can sniff out disease, literallyverified_publisherTechCrunch - Connie LoizosAlex Wiltschko has what he thinks is a big idea. He wants to build a company that digitizes scent. It’s a natural step for Wiltschko, who has a PhD in neurobiology from Harvard, where he studied how the brain processes odor. He didn’t wind up in this specific group accidentally, he suggests. It owes …
TechCrunchflipped into Latest TechCrunch Stories9 hours agoHere are some of the cringiest revelations in the Elon Musk text dumpverified_publisherTechCrunch - Amanda SilberlingA new, particularly juicy document has surfaced in discovery leading up to the Elon Musk v. Twitter trial, slated to take place in a few weeks. Behold: a trove of texts between Musk and key figures at Twitter, like founder Jack Dorsey, board chair Bret Taylor and current CEO Parag Agrawal, and …
TechCrunchflipped into Robotics & AI News10 hours agoGoogle Colaboratory launches a pay-as-you-go option, premium GPU accessverified_publisherTechCrunch - Kyle WiggersGoogle Colaboratory (Colab for short), Google’s service designed to allow anyone to write and execute arbitrary Python code through a web browser, is introducing a pay-as-a-you-go plan. In its first pricing change since Google launched premium Colab plans in 2020, Colab will now give users the …
