It’s been a little over a year since accelerator 500 Startups rebranded to 500 Global in an attempt to reposition itself as a venture firm. It also launched a $140 million fund to invest in later-stage companies for a total of $2.8 billion in assets under management, according to its website. The new 500 fund…
India’s market regulator has tightened disclosure norms for firms looking to file for an initial public offering after lackluster performance of more than half a dozen tech startups in the past year and a half. Firms looking to raise funds from public offers will now be required by law to disclose their key performance indicators…
Is Tumblr porn making a comeback? No, it’s not — and Amanda Silberling joins me on this week’s TechCrunch podcast to explain why, and why people thought it might be. Devin Coldewey also joins us to talk about NASA’s DART mission, which saw the US space agency throw a little spacecraft at a big asteroid…
TL;DR: As of Sept. 30, you can get a refurbished 7th gen iPad (WiFi, 32GB) for just $299.99, down from $329. That’s about $30 in savings. But you might want to hurry, because this deal ends today. Whoever said that buying refurbished tech is just like buying a worn-out hand-me-down gadget is simply misinformed. In…
I was online, like I always seem to be, when Hurricane Ian made landfall in Florida earlier this week. I flicked through Twitter and endlessly scrolled TikTok as the afternoon stretched into evening. It was a weird, troubling experience. Being online during a natural disaster like Ian is a strange mix of live devastation and…
Infamous North Korean threat actor Lazarus Group has been observed engaging in a highly sophisticated, targeted malware attack that involves compromising popular open-source software and running spear phishing campaigns. As a result, it has managed to compromise “numerous” organizations in the media, defense and aerospace, as well as IT services industries, a report from Microsoft…
If there’s anything we’ve learned from the events of the past several years, it’s that creativity and productivity can happen anywhere. No longer must makers, creators, and dreamers be tethered to an office or a kitchen table to do their best work. And just as people shouldn’t be held back by where they work, they…
A woman holds a protest sign as she stands in front of a vandalized Russian Consulate on September 30, 2022 in New York City. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images The Russian consulate in New York was vandalized with red spray paint early Friday, police said. The NYPD is investigating the vandalism as a possible bias incident,…
Then-New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, right, speaks during a news conference alongside then-Police Commissioner Bill Bratton at New York City Hall on February 22, 1995. AP Photo/Ed Bailey Bratton said ex-NYC mayor Giuliani “really wanted to be the police commissioner,” per a new book. The writer Andrew Kirtzman chronicled the former prosecutor’s mayoralty in…
Ari Emanuel and Elon Musk Amy Sussman and Pascal Le Segretain via Getty Ari Emanuel has recently pushed for a settlement between Elon Musk and Twitter, Bloomberg reported. It’s unclear whether either side is open to settling the case before it goes to trial in October. Spokespeople for Twitter and Musk did not respond to…