Robert Frawley    TechCrunch Early Stage is gearing up for another insightful event on April , and one roundtable session promises to be particularly illuminating for early stage founders. Titled Finance Fundamentals Before Your First Finance Hire: A Founder’s Guide to Navigating Early Financial Decisions, this...

Natasha Lomas    The European Data Protection Board EDPB has published new guidance which has major implications for adtech giants like Meta and other large platforms. Since November , the owner of Facebook and Instagram has forced users in the European Union to agree to being tracked and profiled for its ad...

Jagmeet Singh    LinkedIn the social platform that targets the working world has quietly started testing another way to boost its revenues, this time with a new service for small and medium businesses. TechCrunch has learned and confirmed that it is working on a new LinkedIn Premium Company Page subscription,...

Amanda Silberling    It’s a big year for Reddit. After its IPO, the platform is planning a slew of product features for the year ahead, and spoiler alert most of them are powered by AI. I think the IPO was an important milestone, but we’re just focused on building for our users, Reddit Chief Product Officer ...

Ivan Mehta    TikTok is rolling out its Instagram competitor, TikTok Notes, in select markets. The app is available on the Google Play Store and Apple App Store in Canada and Australia, the company said. The company said on X that it is in the early stage of the app’s rollout. TikTok said that the app is a ...

Lauren Forristal    The AI ClipHero feature creates short clips from livestreamed selling events, which often last for hours. TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Zack Whittaker    Organizations are urged to patch their Palo Alto firewalls after researchers discover evidence of malicious exploitation dating back to late March. TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Alex Wilhelm    This week Boston Dynamics retired its well known Atlas robot that was powered by hydraulics. Then today it unveiled its new Atlas robot, which is powered by electricity. The change might not seem like much, but TechCrunch’s Brian Heater told the TechCrunch Minute that the now deprecated hydraulics...

Ivan Mehta    The new Answer with AI feature returns neatly formatted answers for questions like People who walked on the moon, List of all actors who played Batman or How do descale Nespresso pixie. TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Mary Ann Azevedo    Jaclyn Johnson and Angeline Vuong were on a hike deliberating how hard it can be for people to get started in angel investing when they realized they had stumbled upon a startup idea. TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Ivan Mehta    a z backed Rewind is now pivoting to build AI powered meeting suit along with a hardware product to record your conversations. TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Natasha Lomas    TikTok owner ByteDance is facing fresh questions about its compliance with the European Union’s Digital Services Act DSA , an online governance and content moderation framework that puts a legal obligation on larger platforms to mitigate systemic risks in areas like youth mental health. The EU’s...

Ron Miller    NeuBird founders Goutham Rao and Vinod Jayaraman came from Portworx, a cloud native storage solution they eventually sold to PureStorage in for million. It was their third successful exit. When they went looking for their next startup challenge last year, they saw an opportunity to...

Theresa Loconsolo    What is worth billion and wants to go to Mars to collect rocks NASA’s mission to Mars to collect rocks that was expected to cost billion and take ages. So, the U.S. space agency is throwing the doors open to get more input, and that means that startups are looking at an opportunity that ...

Aria Alamalhodaei    Inversion Space is aptly named. The three year old startup’s primary concern is not getting things to space, but bringing them back transforming the ultimate high ground into a transportation layer for Earth. The company’s plan ultra fast, on demand deliveries to anywhere on Earth sounds...

Brian Heater    Atlas lies motionless in a prone position atop interlocking gym mats. The only soundtrack is the whirring of an electric motor. It’s not quiet, exactly, but it’s nothing compared to the hydraulic jerks of its ancestors. As the camera pans around the robot’s back, its legs bend at the knees. It’s a...

Mary Ann Azevedo    Business banking startup Mercury, founded in , is now launching a consumer banking product. Mercury today serves more than , businesses, many of which are startups, via its B B practice. The expansion is a natural move for the company and one that has been in the works for a couple of...

Tim De Chant    The startup is decarbonizing heavy industry using aluminum as a fuel, an approach inspired by a future mission to Europa. TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Natasha Lomas    Incoming guidance by an expert steering body on European Union data protection law could have major implications for Meta’s advertising business model. The European Data Protection Board EDPB has decided that large platforms such as Facebook and Instagram cannot force a binary pay or consent...

Robert Frawley    Late last summer, TechCrunch joined forces with StrictlyVC to create smaller, more intimate evenings for our readers. Already this year, we’ve hosted these nights in San Francisco and Los Angeles, featuring the co CEO of Waymo, the co founders of Anduril and WorldCoin, and the founder of the AI...