MoradaUno wants to make it easier to rent apartments in Mexico
Renting in Latin America is restrictive. Most landlords require three months of rent as a deposit and a guarantor that owns property in the same city to co-sign the lease. Santiago Morales, the co-founder and CEO of proptech MoradaUno, said this dynamic makes 40% of prospective renters ineligible. His company
Read MoreCorning, maker of toughened Gorilla Glass for phones, faces EU antitrust probe
On Wednesday, the European Union opened an investigation of U.S. manufacturer Corning over possible anti-competitive practices. Corning may not be a name that’s super familiar to the average tech consumer, but you are almost certainly within touching distance of its products as its a leading supplier of speciality toughened glass
Read MoreApple to be fined for breaching EU’s Digital Markets Act, Bloomberg reports
The European Union’s flagship market contestability regulation has been in force on a handful of tech giants for months. Since March, the bloc has had open investigations on several gatekeepers. But it’s Apple that will face the first Digital Markets Act (DMA) fine, Bloomberg reports, citing people familiar with the
Read MoreBinance Welcomes New VP of Product at Blockchain Week Kickoff
Jeff Li was named the new Vice President of Product at Binance on the opening day of Binance Blockchain Week. With over 16 years of expertise in software engineering and product leadership for both Web2 and Web3, Li will be in charge of expanding and improving Binance’s product line, further
Read MoreApple may update Find My to let you share locations of lost items
Apple could soon let users share the location of lost items via the Find My app with people who are not in their contacts using a link. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read MoreIt’s Election Day, and all the AIs — but one — are acting responsibly
TechCrunch found that X's AI chatbot produced incorrect results about the U.S. presidential election, even as votes were still being cast. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read MoreResearch Grid raises $6.4M to automate clinical trial admin
Amber Hill spent 14 years as a medical researcher. She didn’t mind the work, but there was one thing she consistently hated: administrative tasks. “I think most people do, especially in research,” she told TechCrunch. She would rather be analyzing data or building relationships with patients, she said. “But I
Read MoreElon Musk is being sued over his $1 million giveaway to voters — again
Image: Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Arizona resident Jacqueline McAferty is suing Elon Musk and his pro-Trump America PAC in a Texas federal court, alleging that the PAC’s $1 million-a-day lottery to registered voters in swing states was fraud. The proposed class-action lawsuit was filed a day after
Read MoreApple warns investors its new products might never be as profitable as the iPhone
Apple is warning investors that its new and future products might never be as profitable as the iPhone. The disclosure comes as the company is pursuing newer technologies like artificial intelligence and mixed-reality headsets. Apple added the warning in its latest annual report under the “business risks” section, as first
Read MoreNvidia just became the world’s largest company amid AI boom
Nvidia on Tuesday exceeded Apple’s market capitalization to become the world’s largest company, on the strength of a global AI push. As Bloomberg notes, the chipmaker has experienced an astronomical 850% growth since the tail end of 2022. Nvidia was valued at $3.43 trillion at the close of market, topping
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