The United States Department of Justice argued Wednesday that Google should divest its Chrome browser as part of a remedy to break up the company’s illegal monopoly in online search, according to a filing with the U.S District Court of the District of Columbia. Google would not be allowed to re-enter the search market for […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
WhatsApp Business has grown to over 200 million monthly users over the past few years. That means there are tons of businesses sending messages to users — and some of these messages could be considered as spam. For customers, the only option was to either let them send messages and offers, or block the business account […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
OneCell Diagnostics has secured $16 million in a Series A round as it aims to limit cancer recurrence using AI advancements along with scientific ways. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Arzooo, an Indian startup that sought to bring “the best of e-commerce” to physical stores, has sold its assets in a distressed sale to Moksha Group. The deal comes after Arzooo engaged with several startups, including Bengaluru-headquartered Udaan, exploring potential merger opportunities, according to people familiar with the matter. Arzooo provided a digital bridge to […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Lawyers for The New York Times and Daily News, which are suing OpenAI for allegedly scraping their works to train its AI models without permission, say OpenAI engineers accidentally deleted data potentially relevant to the case. Earlier this fall, OpenAI agreed to provide two virtual machines so that counsel for The Times and Daily News […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Hyundai revealed Wednesday the new Ioniq 9, an all-electric three-row SUV — and its largest EV to date — based on the Seven concept that we saw in 2021. (Look, nobody said car-naming protocol had to make sense.) The SUV, which made its debut at the Los Angeles Auto Show and will come to the […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Nvidia raked in more than $19 billion in net income during the last quarter, the company reported on Wednesday, but that did little to assure investors that its rapid growth would continue. On its earnings call, analysts prodded CEO Jensen Huang about how Nvidia would fare if tech companies start using new methods to improve […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Social media platform Reddit experienced an outage this afternoon at around 12:20 p.m. PT (or possibly even earlier), resulting in thousands of users being unable to access its website and app. After four hours, it appears to be working again. Reddit confirmed it fixed the issue and is monitoring the results, according to its status […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Cloud giant Snowflake has agreed to acquire Datavolo, a data pipeline management company, for an undisclosed sum. Snowflake unveiled the deal at the close of the market bell on Wednesday, when it also announced its Q3 2025 earnings. The purchase hasn’t yet closed, and it’s subject to customary closing conditions, Snowflake noted in a release. […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Billionaire Gautam Adani and several executives at his company, the Indian conglomerate Adani Group, have been indicted over an alleged scheme to pay more than $250 million in bribes to Indian officials in exchange for contracts to a 12 gigawatt solar power project. The indictment, unsealed Wednesday in federal court in Brooklyn, charges Adani, his […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.