Ford shutters company building an app for plumbers, electricians and other trades
Ford has shut down VIIZR, a software-as-a-service company that along with Salesforce built an app to help tradespeople like plumbers, locksmiths and electricians to schedule field appointments, send invoices and manage customers, TechCrunch has learned. About 40 people who worked at VIIZR were laid off. VIIZR, which was announced in
Read moreUber and Lyft pay $328M to settle wage-theft complaints in New York
Uber and Lyft have agreed to pay drivers in New York a combined $328 million to settle wage-theft complaints. The settlement is the result of state attorney general Letitia James’ investigation into whether the companies collected certain fees and taxes from drivers rather than passengers. The investigation also looked into
Read moreAnalyst says Bletchley Declaration delivers the right type of signals
The signing yesterday of the Bletchley Declaration, a document that focuses on the safe development and use of artificial intelligence (AI) technology, by representatives of 28 countries including Canada, revolves only around “setting signals and demonstrating a willingness to cooperate,” said Forrester principal analyst Martha Bennett. “This declaration is not
Read moreWebex integrates AI everywhere
At its annual WebexOne conference last week, Cisco unveiled additional artificial intelligence (AI) features in its Webex suite that build on those it announced in March, all of which aim, it said, to improve both hybrid work and customer experience. Jeetu Patel during his keynote at WebexOne 23 It was,
Read moreCoinbase’s Q3 revenue beat expectations, but its shares fell as growth prospects underwhelmed
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Read moreCharting the last 10 years of the unicorn era
We've witnessed an incredible unicorn stampede over the last 10 years. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read morePagerDuty scoops up incident management startup Jeli.io
PagerDuty announced this afternoon that it intends to acquire Jeli.io, an early-stage incident management startup. The companies did not share the price. Jeli was founded in 2019 by Nora Jones, a chaos engineering veteran, who had previously worked at Netflix and Slack. Jones went to work building a company that
Read moreMusk: SpaceX’s Starlink ‘has achieved breakeven cash flow’
SpaceX’s Starlink has “achieved breakeven cash flow,” CEO Elon Musk said Thursday, a milestone achievement for the rocket company’s four-year-old satellite internet business unit. He announced the news in a post on X, the social media platform that he also owns. He added that Starlink “is also now a majority
Read moreSBF’s trial is coming to a close – here’s what you missed
Welcome back to Chain Reaction. It’s week five of the Sam Bankman-Fried trial and a lot has happened for the former CEO of FTX. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreThe iPhone 15’s best friend is an ultra-budget, stripped down version of Apple Vision Pro
iPhone 15 got USB-C, a great upgrade just for the sake of cable management sanity, but that also brought support for native video out. That means you can connect displays to the iPhone easily with a single cable and do fun stuff like output Netflix videos to your hotel TV,
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