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• Italy fines Amazon, Apple $230M over reseller collusion (Techcrunch)
  Amazon and Apple have been hit with almost $230 million (€203 million) in total fines by Italy’s antitrust authority — following an investi…
• Daily Crunch: Peloton CEO to shareholders: ‘Turnarounds are hard work’ (Techcrunch)
  Hello friends and welcome to Daily Crunch, bringing you the most important startup, tech and venture capital news in a single package.
• UPI supercharged mobile payments in India. It's now gearing up for next phase of growth. (Techcrunch)
  "UPI has emerged as the pride of the nation. It's one area where I think India can play a major leadership role in the world," RBI Governor…
• Zopa, the UK neobank, raises $93M more at a $1B+ valuation | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  After raising $300 million in a round led by SoftBank back in 2021, U.K. neobank Zopa has closed a deal to put more funding in its coffers.
• Riverwood Capital closes $1.8B fund, says opportunity in LatAm 'has never been greater' | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  Riverwood’s strategy is to invest in “high-growth” mid-size technology companies that are either profitable or with positive unit economics.
• Sava, a spend management platform for African businesses, gets $2M pre-seed backing | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  When Yoeal Haile started Aspira, a lending service, in 2017, he wanted to give Kenyans more choice about buying stuff on credit.
• DOJ’s Apple antitrust case neatly aligns with EU on one key point: NFC and mobile payments (Techcrunch)
  There is overlap in the issues the DOJ and Europe are addressing with Apple, but digital wallets are where they are most neatly aligned.
• Google AI and search chief John Giannandrea steps down (Techcrunch)
  It looks like Google is making some changes to its AI team, starting at the top.
• WhatsApp launches its native macOS app (Techcrunch)
  WhatsApp announced a new native app for Mac today, which will allow users to participate in video calls with up to eight people.
• ZeroDown, valued at $150M, plans to take on Zillow | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  Days out of Y Combinator, venture capitalists valued Zero Down, a financial and real estate technology startup, at $150 million, the compan…
• Procurement platform Zip raises $100M at a $1.5 billion valuation | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  Zip, a procurement startup, has raised $100 million at a $1.5 billion valuation from Y Combinator and others.
• Ex-500 Startups partners launch Hustle Fund to level the playing field for founders | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  Ex-500 Startups partners Elizabeth Yin and Eric Bahn want to focus on potential impact, not on whether or not founders have a degree from S…
• Wonder Brands’ pivot to acquiring e-commerce infrastructure pays off | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  Wonder Brands has launched over 15 brands and over 2,000 SKUs in the past 12 months in categories like home, beauty and personal care.
• Africa Roundup: Visa connects to M-Pesa, Flutterwave enters e-commerce (Techcrunch)
  It seems the demand for Safaricom's M-Pesa payment product never eases.
• Google makes calling businesses less painful with features for seeing wait times, phone tree options (Techcrunch)
  Alongside today’s release of the new Pixel 6 smartphones, Google has again upgraded one of the device’s most basic — but often overlooked —…
• Google is killing Gmail's basic HTML view (but not Gmail) in 2024 (Techcrunch)
  Google is sunsetting Gmail's basic HMTL view, which allows users to look at their emails in a bare-bones state, starting January 2024.
• IAB Europe’s ad tracking consent framework found to fail GDPR standard (Techcrunch)
  A flagship framework for gathering Internet users’ consent for targeting with behavioral ads — which is designed by ad industry body, the I…
• Pier banks $2.4M to launch ‘Stripe for credit’ | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  Developers add Pier’s APIs with a few lines of codes, and the company then manages the credit lifecycle from end-to-end.
• CircleCI partners with GitLab to help its users manage changes (Techcrunch)
  CircleCI, the popular continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) platform, today announced a partnership with GitLab, the popular DevOps p…
• Apple won’t force developers to let users opt out of tracking until next year (Techcrunch)
  The iOS 14 privacy feature, announced earlier this year, will not be enforced until 2021.
• Goldfinch raises $25M from a16z to power its DeFi lending protocol for borrowers in developing (Techcrunch)
  For all of the excitement pulsing through the so-called web3 space in the past year, most of the heartiest sums of investor dollars have se…
• Remembering the startups we lost in 2022 (Techcrunch)
  A commonly cited figure suggest that 90% of these companies will ultimately fail. But even with that in mind, 2022 just hit different.
• Walmart experiments with generative AI tools that can help you plan a party or decorate (Techcrunch)
  After launching a generative AI tool for corporate employees in August, Walmart is bringing the technology to its customers.
• AT&T killed off the HBO Max bundle in its highest-priced unlimited wireless plan (Techcrunch)
  Telecommunications provider AT&T quietly dropped HBO Max as a bundled perk for new AT&T customers on its top unlimited wireless plan, AT&T…
• Taptap Send gets $13.4M for a no-fee money transfer service aimed at price-conscious emerging (Techcrunch)
  Remittances — specifically when people in developed countries send money to family or friends in emerging markets — continue to be a huge l…
• CircleCI says hackers stole encryption keys and customers' secrets (Techcrunch)
  In a post-mortem, CircleCi blamed malware stole an employee's session token allowing intruders to access customer data.
• Yandex signs deal with VK to sell its media products (Techcrunch)
  In further fallout from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Yandex, the company that’s sometimes referred to as the ‘Google of Russia,’ has signe…
• Joby Aviation makes its public trading debut on the NYSE (Techcrunch)
  Joby Aviation is now public, 12 years after JoeBen Bevirt founded the company at his ranch in the Santa Cruz mountains.
• Paris-based Breega closes €250M fund, opens Barcelona office to back Iberian startups (Techcrunch)
  Paris-originated VC Breega wasn’t enormously well known in the VC world (it only closed its first fund in 2015) until, perhaps, it started…
• Lack of big tech GDPR decisions looms large in EU watchdog's annual report (Techcrunch)
  The lead European Union regulator for most of big tech has put out its annual report which shows another major bump in complaints filed und…
• Affirm files to go public (Techcrunch)
  Affirm, a consumer finance business founded by PayPal mafia member Max Levchin, filed to go public this afternoon.
• Google Photos gets a new video editor (Techcrunch)
  If you're a Chromebook user, you'll now be able to use Google Photos' new movie editor. If you're not, you're out of luck for now.
• Apple retail workers at the Grand Central store are trying to unionize (Techcrunch)
  From Activision to Amazon, historic union elections are changing the way that Americans think about work.
• From NDA to LOI: What really happens when your startup is being acquired? | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  While IPOs may get more headlines, a well-timed, well-planned acquisition can mean even larger opportunities for you, your team and the tec…
• Plaid, once aimed at mostly fintechs, is growing its enterprise business and now has over 1,000 (Techcrunch)
  An expansion into being a multi-product company has led to Plaid starting to see real traction beyond traditional fintech customers.
• T2D3 Software Update: Embracing the Founder to CEO (F2C) Journey (Techcrunch)
  It’s been four years since TechCrunch published my blog post The SaaS Adventure, which introduced the concept of a “T2D3” roadmap to help S…
• Starting with data centers, Carbon Relay is slashing energy costs and emissions using AI (Techcrunch)
  Taiwanese technology giant Foxconn International is backing Carbon Relay, a Boston-based startup emerging from stealth today that’s harness…
• Imran Khan’s Verishop adds Verified Shops, a way for emerging brands to set up shop in its digital (Techcrunch)
  Verishop, the Los Angeles online retailer founded by former Snap executive Imran Khan, launched a little over a year ago to change the way…
• macOS 14 Sonoma is now live in public beta (Techcrunch)
  macOS 14 Sonoma is now live in public beta. Final version is due out later this year.
• DoJ accuses Google of deleting chats in its antitrust investigation, similar to Fortnite's case (Techcrunch)
  In a new filing late last week, the U.S. Department of Justice alleged that Google "routinely destroyed" an entire category of written comm…
• Unite for Mac releases a new version to turn websites into web apps (Techcrunch)
  Unite, which offers similar functionality, has released a new version with powerful customization options.
• Graphite turned an internal side project into $20M Series A (Techcrunch)
  Graphite raised a $20 million Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz to build a code review tool.
• Europe's AI Act falls far short on protecting fundamental rights, civil society groups warn (Techcrunch)
  Civil society has been poring over the detail of the European Commission’s proposal for a risk-based framework for regulating applications…
• Will Volkswagen’s new CEO hamstring its EV push? (Techcrunch)
  Under the previous CEO, Volkswagen’s path toward an electric future seemed set.
• Bose is carving out $50 million for startups using its new audio-focused AR tech | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  The high-end audio technology company Bose is getting into the augmented reality game with a new product and a $50 million fund devoted to…
• Lightspeed Venture Partners leads $4.3M seed in automated financial reporting fintech InScope (Techcrunch)
  InScope leverages machine learning and LLMs to provide financial reporting and auditing processes for mid-market and enterprises.
• QA Wolf secures $36M to grow its app QA-testing suite | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  QA Wolf, a startup building an automated app QA testing platform, has raised a new tranche of VC cash, which it says it'll put toward growt…
• Jay-Z-backed Altro just raised $18M to help you build credit (Techcrunch)
  Altro founders think credit access should be free. They came up with the idea of helping people build credit through recurring payment form…
• Trunk extends its developer toolkit with CI analytics (Techcrunch)
  Developer toolkit startup Trunk today announced the launch of its analytics service for continuous integration.
• Unlikely players team up to lead South Korea's air taxi industry (Techcrunch)
  South Korea, which lacks the VC, entrepreneurial ecosystem and aerospace legacy of the U.S., might be the first to lay the groundwork for t…