TechCrunchflipped into All About AppsNowSpotify cancels 11 original podcasts, lays off under 5% of staffverified_publisherTechCrunch - Lauren ForristalSpotify is pulling 11 original podcasts from the platform, which will impact studios Parcast and Gimlet and involve less than 5% layoffs, a source familiar with the matter confirmed to TechCrunch. Spotify will also reassign some staff to other podcasts, we understand. Reached for comment, Spotify …
TechCrunchflipped into Latest TechCrunch StoriesNowElon Musk moves to kill the upcoming Twitter trialverified_publisherTechCrunch - Amanda SilberlingAfter Elon Musk agreed to buy Twitter after all, his legal team is now motioning for the court to cancel the upcoming trial with Twitter, slated to begin on October 17. But, as Judge Kathaleen McCormick pointed out yesterday, the trial cannot be called off until both parties agree. So, the trial is …
TechCrunchflipped into Robotics & AI News1 hour agoSub-Optimusverified_publisherTechCrunch - Brian HeaterI sat out Friday’s big Tesla AI event. I was actually looking forward to seeing what the company had cooked up after months of teasing, but a combination of rogue stomach virus and the most inconvenient event timing (Friday at 9:15 PM EDT) outside of something held on the other side of the world …
TechCrunchflipped into Latest TechCrunch Stories1 hour agoRo says it ‘inadvertently’ exposed employees’ personal informationverified_publisherTechCrunch - Zack WhittakerHealthcare unicorn Ro is notifying employees of a data exposure involving their personal information after a security contractor “inadvertently” uploaded a spreadsheet of employee data to the internet. In a data breach notice obtained by TechCrunch from an affected employee who received the notice …
TechCrunchflipped into Latest TechCrunch Stories1 hour agoGOP’s war on ESG could come back to bite itverified_publisherTechCrunch - Dominic-Madori DavisLess than two months before Hurricane Ian swept across Florida, its governor, Ron DeSantis, referred to ESG investing as a danger to economic freedom. His office even released a statement saying the practice sought to “advance a woke ideological agenda,” and that investors taking into account …
TechCrunchflipped into Startup News2 hours agoA new cross-border VC firm is offering a sweetener to its founder LPs: part of its own profitsverified_publisherTechCrunch - Mary Ann AzevedoAtman Capital, a year-old early-stage venture firm partially backed by about 20 founders, is sweetening the deal for these individual limited partners. It promises to give credit to any one of them who refers a successful deal to the venture firm in the form of some carried interest in the firm’s …
