E-motorcycle maker Cake closes $60M round to scale production and retail sales
Swedish electric motorcycle manufacturer Cake has announced the close of a $60 million Series B that the company will use to help set up manufacturing facilities…
Swedish EV-maker Polestar reportedly preparing to go SPAC at $21B valuation
Swedish electric vehicle maker Polestar is reportedly preparing to go public via special purpose acquisition with Gores Guggenheim Inc., reports the Wall Street Journal citing people…
Signal, the encrypted messaging app, is currently down for many users (Update: it’s back)
Update 2: Signal is now back up for “99% of users,” according to its Twitter account. Update: In a tweet, Signal said the disruption is due…
China roundup: Meng Wanzhou’s release and Huawei’s future
Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch’s China roundup, a digest of recent events shaping the Chinese tech landscape and what they mean to people in the rest…
Facebook’s wearable glasses can succeed where Google Glass flopped
While Google tried to invent the design of its new glasses — using its imagination about what people wanted — Facebook leveraged a design that already…
New Limits Give Chinese E-Gamers Whiplash
China has a complex relationship with video games. New government rules for minors have made it even more so. …
This Week in Apps: PayPal launches ‘super app,’ Twitter adds crypto tips, Apple won’t take Fortnite back
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app…
When the biggest Disruption is to just sit down and focus
Welcome to Startups Weekly, a fresh human-first take on this week’s startup news and trends. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. And just like…
Why my new NFT is worth nearly $400 and other observations from a fascinating week in tech
Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter for your weekend enjoyment. …
Why MPG should matter for electric vehicles
We already have a common denominator for the EV age: the kilowatt-hour. A familiar, tangible energy unit that gives us an apples-to-apples way to think about…
Daily Crunch: Chinese regulators issue blanket ban on crypto trading, mining
Hello friends and welcome to Daily Crunch, bringing you the most important startup, tech and venture capital news in a single package. …
Extra Crunch roundup: Here’s everything you missed at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021
If that headline sounded judgmental, I apologize. …
Aiming to create a gender-equitable startup landscape?
Only by leaving behind inclusivity lip service and taking decisive actions to bring women into funds and encourage them as founders will we start to achieve…
Yahoo has built a new calendar app called Day, and it’s recruited the co-founder of Sunrise to design it
When it comes to online calendars and calendar apps, services like Google Calendar and Outlook from Microsoft rule the roost with hundreds of millions of users…