The credit card market has become increasingly crowded, with consumer fintech startups locked in a fierce competition to differentiate their offerings through branding, rewards programs and even crypto compatibility. X1 Card is taking a different tack by underwriting customers based on their income rather than their credit scores, which the company says enables it to…
Household cleaning chemicals in the form of a tablet that can be dissolved in water appear to have given rise to a number of startups. As well as Munich-based startup everdrop, there is also Atmo Home out of Berlin, as well as Grove Collaborative, Blueland, Smol, Spruce, Ocean Saver … the list goes on. Few,…
Denmark is effectively banning Google’s services in schools, after officials in the municipality of Helsingør were last year ordered to carry out a risk assessment around the processing of personal data by Google. In a verdict published last week, Denmark’s data protection agency, Datatilsynet, revealed that data processing involving students using Google’s cloud-based Workspace software…
On August 23, the price of ESPN+ will jump from $6.99 to $9.99 per month, and the annual plan is going up from $69.99 to $99.99. The steep 43% increase is the second subscription price hike in a little more than a year. The company confirmed the news to TechCrunch and said that subscribers will…
Ben Boissevain Contributor Share on Twitter Ben Boissevain is the founder of Ascento Capital, a boutique investment bank that provides advisory services for M&A, capital raises and valuations to technology companies in the U.S. and internationally. More posts by this contributor How to prepare for M&A, your most likely exit avenue Valuations in 2022 have…
Digital mortgage lender Better.com, which began making plans to go public via a SPAC in May 2021, has confirmed that it intends to move forward with its planned public debut, despite lackluster performance of blank-check combinations in recent quarters. Better.com has itself seen its fair share of turbulence since it announced its plans to merge…
Parsing the latest data on the startup fundraising market in Q2, TechCrunch has explored the global perspective, taken a closer look at fintech, asked how much dry powder VCs have and brought the latest from unicorn land. But we are not yet done. Later this week, we’re looking at the European venture market, which is faring…
Much has been made of how European countries are, on the one hand, supporting Ukraine in its fight against the heinous and illegal invasion by Russia, but at the same time remaining heavily dependent on Russian energy sources. Many countries in the EU – currently experiencing a heatwave – have scrambled to switch to alternatives,…
Just seven weeks after crypto exchange Gemini cut approximately 10% of its workforce due to “turbulent market conditions,” the startup has made a second round of layoffs, TechCrunch has learned, and there may be more on the way. The company had not widely communicated the extent of Monday’s layoffs internally, leaving employees to speculate on the exact…
Amazon is introducing a new Prime Video interface for streaming devices, smart TVs, and Android devices that ditches text-based tabs on top for icon-based navigation on the side along with a dedicated tab sports on the home page for live and pre-recorded content in the category. The new redesign includes a bigger carousel for Amazon…