Rapido, a popular ride-hailing platform in India, has quietly begun beta testing its food delivery service in Bengaluru. This marks its first serious move to challenge market leaders Swiggy and Zomato in one of the world’s fastest-growing delivery markets. The…
Customer service can make or break a brand, and a recent interaction between Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Stripe co-founder John Collison highlights how powerful responsiveness can be. On Wednesday, Pichai announced on X that Google Calendar had rolled out…
Anthropic has acquired the co-founders and most of the team behind Humanloop, a platform for prompt management, LLM evaluation, and observability, in a move to strengthen its enterprise strategy. The terms of the deal were not disclosed, but it follows…
Eric Migicovsky, the original creator of the Pebble smartwatch, showcased new designs for the upcoming watch on Wednesday, now known as the Pebble Time 2. Although the company initially branded its new watches as the Core 2 Duo and Core…
India-based audio series platform Pocket FM aims to become the Netflix of audio by matching its extensive library of episodes to users’ preferences. To achieve this, the company is leveraging AI to accelerate content production. The startup, backed by Lightspeed,…
For decades, NASA built and operated its own relay orbiters and spacecraft to transmit valuable data back to Earth. Now, the agency is shifting toward purchasing connectivity as a service, similar to its approach with launch and astronaut transportation. This…
Foxconn will no longer manufacture electric tractors for California startup Monarch Tractor after the Taiwanese tech company sold its Ohio factory to SoftBank. Monarch CEO Praveen Penmetsa confirmed the news in a LinkedIn comment on Tuesday. He mentioned that his…
Instagram is working on a new feature called “Picks” designed to help users discover common interests with friends. The Meta-owned platform confirmed to TechCrunch that Picks is currently an internal prototype and not yet available for external testing. The feature…
Eight years ago, orthopedic surgeon Dr. William Kapp attended a medical conference that changed his professional life. He had transitioned from private practice to co-founding a company that built critical care hospitals, eventually selling it. This experience sparked his interest…
TeaOnHer, an app designed for men to share photos and information about women they claim to have dated, ironically exposed the personal data of thousands of its users to the open web. Much like its counterpart, Tea—a dating-gossip app for…
