Thursday, September 26, 2024

Uber snags another robotaxi deal, aviation startups land VC bucks, and where Rivian Foundation money is going

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Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! I’ve been thinking a bit about time — and specifically what trends, music, cultural practices, and even ways we move around that encapsulate a season or particular […]

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The WordPress vs WP Engine drama, explained

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The world of WordPress, one of the most popular technologies for creating and hosting websites, is going through a very heated controversy. The core issue is the fight between WordPress founder and Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg and WP Engine, which hosts web sites built on WordPress. WordPress technology is open-source and free, and it powers […]

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Wednesday, September 25, 2024

WordPress.org bans WP Engine, blocks it from accessing its resources

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WordPress drama went up another notch today after WordPress.org, the free-open source web content hosting software, banned web hosting provider WP Engine from accessing their resources. In a post on WordPress.org, WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg wrote that, pending their legal claims, WP Engine doesn’t have access to the platform’s resources, such as themes and plug-ins. […]

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OpenAI’s chief research officer has left

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OpenAI’s chief research officer, Bob McGrew, and a research VP, Barret Zoph, have left the company hours after OpenAI CTO Mira Murati announced she would be departing. CEO Sam Altman revealed the two latest resignations in a post on X Wednesday evening, along with leadership transition plans. “Mira, Bob, and Barret made these decisions independently […]

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Dinii, a cloud-based restaurant management platform, raises $45M Series B

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Japan has always been a strong market for bringing technology into the experience of consuming food, and now one of the startups leading on this idea is attracting investors from across the ocean. Dinii, which lets diners order food from restaurants and shops through a mobile platform, has raised $48 million (7.46 billion JPY). Bessemer […]

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Pear wants to empower up-and-coming VCs with its new emerging managers in residence program

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When seed-focused Pear VC raised a $432 million fund last year, the firm co-founder Pejman Nozad said that it meant his firm had reached its “own product-market-fit.” That fourth fund was nearly three times larger than its previous $160 million fund. The eleven-year-old firm wants to help emerging venture funds follow in Pear’s footsteps. On […]

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Diagrid launches Catalyst to help enterprises build their microservices

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Back in 2019, Microsoft launched Dapr, a new open-source project that made building event-driven distributed applications easier for developers. Like so many popular open-source projects, Dapr spawned its own ecosystem, especially after Microsoft donated it to the Linux Foundation. And as is also so often the case, some of the creators of Dapr — and […]

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Amazon employees beg management to reverse 5-day RTO mandate

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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy announced to employees last week that they will be expected to work from the office five days a week, starting in 2025. Employees who have grown accustomed to a hybrid work structure are “strongly dissatisfied,” according to an anonymous survey created by Amazon employees. As Fortune reports, hundreds of employees responded […]

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Consumer, culture, and creators with Erin and Sara Foster at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024

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Two of the industry’s most famous sisters, Erin and Sara Foster, sit down alongside business partner Phil Schwarz at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 to talk about consumer investing, culture curation, and what it means to be a creator in the modern age.  Moderated on the Disrupt main stage, the conversation will surround the creator economy, consumer […]

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