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Startups

This former PG&E engineer is building a ‘Google Maps for the underground’ | TechCrunch

Josh Mackanic left a 10-year engineering career at Pacific Gas and Electric because he kept thinking about what...

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Commerce

Two years after launch, Walmart’s Flipkart is closing in on India’s quick-commerce leaders | TechCrunch

Indian startups spent years getting consumers accustomed to having groceries and everyday goods delivered within minutes. Now Walmart-owned...

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Hardware

Apple’s MacBook Neo is winning over a new generation of buyers | TechCrunch

Nearly three months after its debut, Apple’s MacBook Neo is emerging as an early success story, helping the...

Starcloud founders (l-r) Ezra Feilden, Philip Johnston, and Adi Oltean.
Space

Starcloud raises $250 million for orbital data centers as launch options dry up | TechCrunch

Starcloud, a startup developing satellites that can perform AI inference in orbit, told TechCrunch that it has added...

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Transportation

This startup is fuel-injecting hydrogen to make cargo ships more efficient | TechCrunch

It’s one of the most iconic scenes in the Fast & Furious film franchise: Paul Walker’s thumb comes...

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...

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...

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Security

US courts will start publishing how often the government uses spyware | TechCrunch

The FBI has been using hacking techniques and tools, such as spyware, since at least 1998, but to...

A screenshot from a game of Valorant, Riot Games' competitive online first-person shooter.
Security

How Riot Games is fighting the war against video game hackers | TechCrunch

For as long as there have been video games, there have been people willing to find ways to...

The June founding team: Ohad Hen, Barak Goldstein, Efrat Rapoport, and Idan Tsitiat.
AI

A Marc Benioff-backed startup thinks AI can solve the AI deployment problem | TechCrunch

It’s so hard for big businesses to get AI tools working reliably that whole new organizations of forward-deployed...