Spotify wants your eyes now, too: The music streaming app is now letting all podcasters upload videos directly to the platform, regardless of where they host their content. The company has now also surpassed 250,000 video podcasts on its platform. Video, it seems, is becoming core to Spotify's strategy. Read More
Inside SpaceX's stock discounts: TechCrunch got its hands on some internal SpaceX documents that show how good of a deal investors are getting for secondary shares at Elon Musk's rocket company. Read More
The rewards of not doing all that labor: We've talked before about how Apple "borrows" ideas from third-party developers and turns them into new features and apps, a practice called "Sherlocking." A new report has put a price tag on how much Apple stands to make from such features in iOS 18: $393 million in revenue. Read More
Fisker wasn't ready to be a car company: EV startup Fisker, which just declared bankruptcy, failed because it simply wasn't ready to be a car company. It was able to get its Ocean SUVs on the roads because it outsourced manufacturing, but there's more to selling cars than just building them, as Fisker learned. Read More
Kilimo raises $7.5M to save water: Kilimo has found a way to help farmers remotely monitor fields and advise them on water use so they can cut back. If they manage to use less water, Kilimo sells the surplus to a company that needs it, sharing a portion of the proceeds with the farmer. Read More
Meta's OK with its chatbot hallucinating about elections in India: Meta has removed restrictions from its AI chatbot that prevented it from answering election-related queries in India now that the country's elections have ended. Google, however, is still holding firm on its limits as part of its global restrictions on these types of queries. Read More
Bringing e-commerce search into 2024: Daydream raised a massive $50 million seed round to build an AI-powered search engine for e-commerce that will give you personalized shopping results using genAI. It sounds great, but how much of it is AI hype and how much is warranted to solve a problem that retailers and shoppers have? Read More
Breega invests in Africa: Paris-based VC firm Breega has launched a $75 million fund to invest in early-stage startups in Africa. It's another sign that Africa's tech ecosystem is maturing, as there's been an increase in high-growth companies from the continent. Read More
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