IT総合 Demanding employees turn on their webcams is a human rights violation, Dutch Court rules
When Florida-based Chetu hired a telemarketer in the Netherlands, the company demanded the employee turn on his webcam. ...
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IT総合 IT総合 Elon and Twitter’s will-they, won’t-they (and other TC news)
This week on The TechCrunch Podcast we talked with Dom about how conservative VCs are using their dollars to shape the w...
IT総合 FlyFeed flies in the face of the global food crisis
FlyFeed claims it signed more than $10 million worth of contracts and closed a $3 million round of investment to launch ...
IT総合 Nice try, startup, but that’s not your serviceable obtainable market (SOM)
There’s one issue I have started to see more and more often: Startup founders, in their desperation to show how bi...
IT総合 Phones and smartwatches and more, oh my: Here is everything Google launched at its Fall 2022 event today
Google went all out today with a wall of launches of new hardware and tech. Here’s a collection of all the cool st...
IT総合 Google’s Guided Frame gives visually impaired folks a voice-over for selfies
Love ’em or hate ’em, selfies are an important aspect of photography; they help us connect with loved ones, ...
IT総合 Pitch Deck Teardown: Vori’s $10M Series A deck
Large supermarket chains have their own purchasing and logistics functions, but there are thousands of small, independen...
IT総合 My cup boileth over: Now kettles have Wi-Fi too, apparently
If you’ve been swimming in the toasty waters of high-end pour-over kettles, you’ve no doubt come across Fell...
IT総合 Edited tweets is still a minefield, but Twitter’s solution just might work
I’ve long been super against edited tweets, mostly for technical reasons. The core issue is that Twitter isn’...
IT総合 Loop raises $60M to send EV charging infrastructure for a Loop
Electric cars are great and all, but internal combustion engines (ICE) have one thing going for them: comprehensive, wel...
IT総合 Pitch Deck Teardown: Rokoko’s $3M strategic extension deck
There are times in the life of a startup when you don’t really want or need to raise money, but an opportunity com...
IT総合 Amazon sheds some light on your would-be intruders with Blink Floodlight
Weighing in at $100, Amazon’s new the new Blink Floodlight camera brings more brightness and smarts to its camera ...
IT総合 Looking at 320 pitch decks, here’s what science tells us works best
Investors are spending 24% less time looking at pitch decks in 2022, compared to 2021. On average, you have just under t...
IT総合 Share your carbon-adjusted earnings per share number, you cowards
If my PR inbox is anything to go by (trust me, it is), companies, and especially stock-market listed megacorps, are scra...
IT総合 This site tells you if photos of you were used to train the AI
Deepfakes, AI generated porn, and a thousand more innocent uses — there’s been a lot of news about neural ne...
IT総合 Brelyon is turning heads with immersive virtual monitors
MIT spin-off Brelyon first showed off its tech at CES in Vegas back in January. Today it is announcing it has raised a c...
IT総合 Stop spending so much time on your product when pitching to investors
Investors think a great deal about a great number of things when considering an investment: How big is the market? How g...
IT総合 Apollo Pro wants to be ‘the Cybertruck of scooters’
The folks at Apollo aren’t messing around when they say they aren’t cutting any corners in creating their ne...
IT総合 Unagi throws in the towel on its $700K Model Eleven scooter Indiegogo campaign
345 backers dug into their pockets to the tune of more than $700,000, but the scooter they backed – the Model Elev...
IT総合 Escend is bringing neck-breaking micromobility to your feet
Escend is a U.K.-based startup that must have figured that scooters were too big, instead deciding to shrink micromobili...
IT総合 Kav spools up a 3D printing factory for bike helmets in Silicon Valley
I’m not a doctor, but I’ve been led to believe that heads and brains are important parts of human infrastruc...
IT総合 DJI turns the world of action cams on its side with the Osmo Action 3
DJI is best known for its quadcopter drones, but over the past few years, the company has been picking a few interesting...
IT総合 EV charging platform Monta raises at $155M valuation to expand into the US
EV charging company Monta has been building out EV charging solutions to make it easier to charge electric vehicles ever...
IT総合 The Merge is upon us (and other TC news)
This week on The TechCrunch Podcast we talked with Natasha about the Y Combinator Demo Day for the Summer 2022 cohort; t...
IT総合 This coffee machine wants to make capsules a thing of the past
We’re all pretty bored of plastic or aluminum capsules for coffee-making, and I guess buying pre-ground coffee, a ...
IT総合 What Minneapolis investors are looking for (hint: It’s not just Minnesota startups)
For this week’s City Spotlight: Minneapolis, I had the honor of interviewing Mary Grove, managing partner of Bread...
IT総合 As a Scuba diver, I would gladly trust my life to the Apple Watch. Here’s why.
Earlier today I wrote a piece about Apple Watch Ultra’s new Scuba diving feature, and a lot of folks came out of t...
IT総合 Go plug yourself, Apple, can we please just have USB-C on the iPhone already?
As part of the Hardware team here at TechCrunch, I love me a good Apple event, and this one was, er, eventful. I’m...
IT総合 With iPhone 14, your screen can always be on
You know what sucks? Having to turn your phone’s screen on just to check whether you have notifications or to chec...
IT総合 Apple iPhone 14 gets new camera hardware and computational photography powers
People use their phones for all sorts of things, but ‘photography’ is top of the list for many. Apple knows ...