When Phia’s founders Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni decided to build an AI startup, they targeted an area they understood well: online shopping. The founders, who met at Stanford when they were randomly paired up as roommates, understood e-commerce because…
Typically, when a company acquires another, it absorbs the new company’s branding or integrates it with its own identity. Grammarly is doing something different. After acquiring the email client Superhuman in July, the company is renaming itself “Superhuman.” Despite this…
Mogul, the film studio fantasy platform created by the movie theater subscription service MoviePass, launched out of private beta on Wednesday. The company announced the platform is now available as a public beta for everyone. Designed specifically for the Hollywood…
India’s free digital payments revolution has transformed how money moves, but it has not changed how fintech companies generate profit. Now, Flipkart’s fintech arm, Super.money, is partnering with Kotak811, the digital offering of Kotak Mahindra Bank, to address this. Their…
India’s free digital payments revolution has transformed how money moves, but it has not changed how fintech companies generate profit. Now, Flipkart’s fintech arm, Super.money, is partnering with one of India’s top commercial banks, Kotak Mahindra Bank, to address this.…
On Monday, researchers at the cybersecurity firm Kaspersky published a report identifying a new spyware called Dante. They stated the spyware targeted Windows victims in Russia and neighboring Belarus. The researchers said the Dante spyware is made by Memento Labs,…
LG Uplus, one of the largest telecom operators in South Korea, has confirmed it reported a suspected data breach to Korea’s national cybersecurity watchdog, KISA. The company did not specify when the results of its investigation would be available. All…
Indian automotive giant Tata Motors has fixed a series of security flaws that exposed sensitive internal data. The compromised information included personal details of customers, company reports, and data related to its dealers. Security researcher Eaton Zveare discovered the flaws…
After two days of live demos and pitches, it is time to announce the five finalists at this year’s Startup Battlefield. These finalists were chosen from an initial pool of thousands of applicants. The TechCrunch editorial team first narrowed the…
Every good startup begins with a problem, and this one may have started with a bad Slack conversation. According to CEO and co-founder Tom Bachant, he remembers seeing the chaos of Slack-based support. This included haphazard ticketing, a jumble of…
