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Bending Spoons CEO & co-founder Luca Ferrari
Startups

Bending Spoons defies SaaS slump, surges 40% on first day of trading | TechCrunch

Earlier this year, shares of traditional SaaS companies tumbled amid investor fears that software built with AI could...

Social

Patreon launches 30 new creator features, including short-form Clips and revamped discovery | TechCrunch

The team at Patreon, the membership platform for creators, has been building like crazy and is now revealing...

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Hardware

Apple teams up with Klarna to launch a lease-to-own program for iPhones, iPads, and Macs | TechCrunch

Apple is reportedly teaming up with deferred payment processor Klarna to launch a new lease-to-own program for its...

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Security

Crypto hardware wallet owners face fresh security risks after recent spate of personal data thefts | TechCrunch

Data breaches at two shipping companies has put cryptocurrency owners with physical hardware wallets at greater risk of...

AI

Dario Amodei and other AI leaders want to ‘Pace the Frontier’ but…how? | TechCrunch

Loading the player…A week after an Anthropic researcher’s doomsday warning rattled the AI world, the company’s CEO Dario...

Unacademy lobby
Startups

India’s Unacademy sells to rival upGrad for $206M, about 94% less than its peak valuation | TechCrunch

Unacademy, once one of India’s most valuable edtech startups, has been acquired by rival upGrad at a valuation...

Matteo Danieli, co-founder of Bending Spoons, center, rings the opening bell during the Bending Spoons initial public offering (IPO) at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York, US, on Wednesday, July 1, 2026. Bending Spoons applies a private equity playbook to software, buying up mostly fledgling subscription-based apps, slashing headcount and handing operations to its roster of Italian engineers. Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Venture

After $18B IPO, Bending Spoons founder says success comes from minimizing luck | TechCrunch

AOL is public again — sort of. Its owner Bending Spoons, the 13-year-old Italian company that has been...

Little Leaguers at the LLWS
Apps

Gambling on the Little League World Series? Sports bettors have gone too far | TechCrunch

Have we tried turning off society and turning it back on again? We need a complete cultural reset,...

Sam Altman and Jony Ive
Hardware

Can an Apple lawsuit derail OpenAI’s hardware plans? | TechCrunch

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Security

How to tell if your AI platforms’ accounts have been hacked | TechCrunch

Just like any other online service, hackers can target and break into your accounts on popular AI platforms...