IP for startups: When (not) to patent your inventions
When it comes to intellectual property, “patents” might spring to mind. A good patent can give startups a competitive edge, and once you’ve been granted one, nobody can come and mess with your technology, right? Not so fast. A lot is changing in the patents world, and things can quickly
Read moreA tale of two payments companies
Welcome back to The Interchange, where we take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. There was plenty going on as usual — with fintech investors sounding off, payments companies seeing big stock moves and much more. One other note, you can find Mary Ann on TechCrunch’s Equity podcast,
Read moreSpeed and tech dominated the lawns at Monterey Car Week
The Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance is just the cherry on top of a week of events highlighting, celebrating and sometimes even worshiping the automobile. While the lawn on Sunday mostly focuses on the past, other events like The Quail and the numerous private debuts scattered around Monterey, California have their
Read moreApple devices spoofed, Musk eggs on Zuckerberg and Better.com goes public
Welcome, friends, to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular newsletter covering the major events in tech over the past few days. Haven’t had your eyes glued to the headlines? Not to worry. That’s our job, and we’ve compiled them in the nifty little digest that is WiR. In this week’s
Read moreNailing subscriptions in India
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. Today I’m looking at subscriptions in India from two angles: the consumer market and B2B SaaS. — Anna
Read moreHibernate is not so evil
You just don’t know it well enoughPhoto from my presentation about Hibernate at Warsaw IT DaysA few years ago, when I was a Junior Backend Developer, I was really frustrated at Hibernate. Every time I made any change in the persistence layer designed by my older colleagues, I had serious problems with
Read moreCellebrite asks cops to keep its phone hacking tech ‘hush hush’
For years, cops and other government authorities all over the world have been using phone hacking technology provided by Cellebrite to unlock phones and obtain the data within. And the company has been keen on keeping the use of its technology “hush hush.” As part of the deal with government
Read moreDeal Dive: Forecasting rain on DTC’s Parade
You don’t need me to tell you that startups haven’t been doing great since the funding slowdown and valuation reset started back in 2022. But while some companies will be able to survive on cash reserves or be propped up on inside funding, others will be forced to either liquidate
Read moreThis week in AI: Amazon ‘enhances’ reviews with AI while Snap’s goes rogue
Keeping up with an industry as fast-moving as AI is a tall order. So until an AI can do it for you, here’s a handy roundup of the last week’s stories in the world of machine learning, along with notable research and experiments we didn’t cover on their own. This week in
Read moreHow Index Ventures jumped to the front of the AI GPU line
Earlier this week, the New York Times shone a light on some of the desperation that founders are experiencing as they try and fail to secure compute power for their nascent artificial intelligence startups, thanks to the big companies (and even rich nations) racing to snatch them up. One founder
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