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Monthly Archives: July 2022
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Indonesian government has blocked access to a range of online services, including Steam, Epic Games, PayPal, and Yahoo after the companies failed to comply with a new requirement related to the country’s restrictive content moderation laws, as reported earlier by Reuters. In line with the rules, companies…
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. Bootstrapped startups, or companies that use their own revenue or existing cash flow to fund growth instead of relying on external capital sources, sit in a very separate box than venture-backed startups….
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. Global app spending reached $65 billion in the first half of 2022, up only slightly from the $64.4 billion during the same period in 2021, as hypergrowth fueled by…
Welcome back to Chain Reaction. Last week, we looked at Musk holding onto doge. This week, we’re talking about where all of this crypto VC money is possibly gonna go. To get this in your inbox every Thursday, you can subscribe on TechCrunch’s newsletter page. maybe, it’s all a game? A weekly dispatch from the…
From left: Meiloorun Juice, Tatooine Sunset, Sour Sarlac (top) on display. Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images The cost of tickets to Disneyland went up 8% in 2021, reports say. Disney is experiencing the effects of inflation like ‘any restaurant on the street,’ expert says. Food and beverage prices at Disneyland…
Rep. Adam Schiff of California. Brandon Bell/Getty Images Rep. Adam Schiff is gauging a potential run for House Democratic leader, per The Washington Post. Schiff, the chair of the House Intelligence Committee, is a prominent face within the party. However, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries has long been seen as a frontrunner to succeed Speaker Nancy Pelosi….
Elon Musk HANNIBAL HANSCHKE /Getty Images Elon Musk said Saturday that interactions with most Twitter accounts seem “much lower” lately. Musk and Twitter are caught in an ongoing legal battle after he tried to back out of his $44 billion deal to buy the company. Musk filed a countersuit against Twitter on Friday after the…
Feel that gust of wind whipping by? Was it a summer breeze? Or could it have been the two, giant, building-sized asteroids whipping past the Earth this weekend? (It couldn’t, but just imagine.) The two space objects were documented by NASA, and will fly past — and safely miss! — our planet on July 29…
Picture this: it’s 2008 and I’m in my first year of college, badly needing my own laptop but not having a ton of spare income (read: barely any at all). At this point Dell, which had firmly established itself as a brand thanks to the desktops it provided to mine and other high schools, was…