Bandana lands new investment to help hourly wage workers find good jobs
Most startups are looking to solve a problem inside a business, but Bandana, a New York City-based startup has a different goal. It wants to help people at the lower end of the wage scale find better jobs with higher wages and good benefits, all while being closer to home
Read moreHuman Touch and Tech Expertise into E-commerce
Backed by 20 years of tech expertise, SA’s IT solutions provider Braintree has seen its retail turnover increase by 1,200% since launching its e-commerce offering two years ago. With the goal of supporting business professionals in both home and office environments, Braintree offers tech ecommerce over 3,000 premium products from
Read moreAfter EU approval, UK clears HPE’s $14B Juniper Networks acquisition
Hewlett Packard Enterprise's (HPE) planned $14 billion acquisition of Juniper Networks is one step closer to completion — the U.K.'s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has confirmed that the deal won't face any further scrutiny. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreAccessibility by design: Building interfaces for everyone at Stack Overflow
How we took a proactive approach to making our sites and products accessible to all.
Read moreLyft 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 specific route at a specific time,” according to CEO David Risher. The feature is designed to address the inconsistencies of surge pricing, particularly for
Read moreDatabase startup Neon nabs a Microsoft investment
In a sign that big tech companies are ready and willing to shell out cash for database tech, Neon, a startup building an open source alternative to AWS Aurora Postgres, on Wednesday announced that Microsoft’s venture arm M12 led a $25 million strategic investment in its business. The capital will
Read moreAudible is testing an AI-powered search feature
Audible, the audiobook company owned by Amazon, announced on Wednesday that it is testing an AI-powered search feature to assist users in narrowing down their audiobook search. Starting today, select U.S. customers can interact with “Maven,” Audible’s new personal recommendation expert that surfaces title suggestions based on users’ specific requests.
Read moreEx-Clubhouse employees take another swing at a social networking startup
The ex-Clubhouse, Netflix employees raised $1.65M for an app that combines social media, networking, and dating. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreFintech Payoneer is buying 5-year-old global payroll startup Skuad for $61M in cash
New York-based fintech Payoneer has acquired Skuad, a Singapore-based global HR and payroll startup, for $61 million in cash, the company exclusively told TechCrunch. Payoneer said it could also pay up to another $10 million, contingent on if Skuad meets various performance goals within the first 18 months of the
Read moreAssessing the Cost of Major Network or Application Failures
Two weeks after a major global IT failure rendered millions of computer systems inaccessible, another ten-hour outage, resulting from a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, recently affected users of the same global organization across multiple regions. Once again, this incident impacted businesses in many sectors, including retail, financial services,
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