How to watch Apple unveil its AR/VR headset , iOS 17 and more at WWDC 2023
Tomorrow’s the big day, and we’re expecting big things – well, one really big thing for sure. Apple will kick of WWDC 2023 at 10AM PT Monday June 5 with its customary keynote. As ever, the event will focus on the latest versions of the company’s operating systems, namely: iOS/iPadOS
Read moreElon goes to China, Rivian is selling stock for $3 billion, and Fiat’s cutest tiny EV
Welcome back to The Station, your central hub for all past, present and future means of moving people and packages from Point A to Point B. Rebecca Bellan here, and yup, I’m still steering the ship. The biggest news this week has been Elon Musk’s visit to China, a move
Read moreAfter investing $28B in Slack, Salesforce bets on one of its own as new CEO
In a flurry of activity at the end of last year, Salesforce announced that co-CEO Bret Taylor was stepping down. Shortly thereafter, Slack co-founder and CEO Stewart Butterfield announced his exit. We would soon learn that his replacement would be Lidiane Jones, who at the time was GM of Commerce
Read moreFor startups, growth still trumps cloud cost control
There’s room for startups to cut their cloud costs, even if they have to balance the implicit costs of doing so, such as the time required and the potential for slower development. The question then becomes: How much of a priority is finding incremental savings for young tech companies? A
Read moreInside Stripe’s latest moves
Welcome back to The Interchange! If you want this in your inbox, sign up here. While there is always a lot going on in the world of fintech, this week felt a little subdued overall — at least when it came to funding rounds. But there was definitely still other fintech
Read moreA peek into China’s stance on web3
Web3 has come to be known as the internet built on decentralized blockchains that power applications like cryptocurrencies and NFTs. The catch-all term is sometimes used interchangeably with crypto, but in China, the government is pursuing its own path in web3 that so far has excluded all things crypto-related. Earlier
Read moreYouTube rolls back its rules against election misinformation
YouTube was the slowest major platform to disallow misinformation during the 2020 U.S. election and almost three years later, the company will toss that policy out altogether. The company announced Friday that it would reverse its rules around election denialism, allowing some previously prohibited false claims, effective immediately. Axios first
Read moreGig workers get paid, Fidelity slashes Reddit’s valuation and AI conquers Minecraft
Hey, folks, welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular newsletter that recaps the week in tech. Hope the summer’s treating y’all well — it’s a balmy 90 degrees here in NYC! — and that some much-needed R&R is on the agenda. Speaking of “agenda,” mark your calendars for Disrupt,
Read moreIs AI ever too much AI?
W elcome to the TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s inspired by the daily TechCrunch+ column where it gets its name. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. This week, I explore how one VC is feeling about a big chunk of her portfolio pivot into
Read moreDeal Dive: Doing venture math on the non-alcoholic spirits industry
Hangovers suck. Especially so for those who felt pressured to drink the alcohol that inevitably caused the hangover to begin with. Drinking is slowly starting to fall out of fad, especially among younger generations. According to 2022 Gallup polling, 60% of adult Americans drink alcohol. This is down from 65%
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