Sava, a spend management platform for African businesses, gets $2M pre-seed backing
When Yoeal Haile started Aspira, a lending service, in 2017, he wanted to give Kenyans more choice about buying stuff on credit. The business...
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This Week in Apps: Twitter Notes, Instagram age verification, Spotify’s Live Events
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app...
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Forests are a multitrillion-dollar asset. Vibrant Planet bets SaaS can save them
Vibrant Planet is definitely a software play — from its cloud focus to its per-seat licenses, it’s SaaS through and through — but its end goal...
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Netflix lays off 300 more people — almost 3% of its staff
Video streaming company Netflix said it has laid off 300 people — which represents 3% of its workforce — because of slowing growth and the...
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Vibrant Planet raises $17M seed round to grow forest restoration SaaS
The public benefit startup is developing Land Tender, SaaS for forest management, something they call an “operating system for forest...
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Spotify is developing ‘Community,’ a new place to see your friends’ activity in the mobile app
Spotify is developing a new feature called Community that would allow mobile users to see what sort of music their friends are streaming in real-time...
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Google News launches a new desktop design with topic customization
Google News is refreshing its desktop site with a new design that allows you to track global and local news on one screen. The redesign puts Your...
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Grace debuts privacy-focused parental controls for iOS devices built with Apple’s Screen Time API
A new startup called Grace is launching to make it easier for parents to monitor and manage their kids’ screen time and app usage on iOS...
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Google for Startups deploys $4M of grant funding to 40 Black-led startups across Europe
In an effort to kick-start a greater number of Black tech Founders in Europe, last year Google for Startups launched a $2m (£1.5m) grant fund to...
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Apple’s image cutout feature in iOS 16 is the most fun thing to come out of WWDC 2022
Out of all features Apple announced at its Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) last week, a new addition to Apple’s Visual Lookup system —...
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PayCargo, a fintech for the freight industry, raises $130M
Shipping and cargo services is one of the more fragmented and analogue verticals in the world of industry, with hundreds of thousands of businesses...
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Apple resizes the iPad’s workflow with Stage Manager
Though the iPad was a huge hit from the beginning based on its user-friendly interface and single-application focus, it had begun feeling a bit stale...
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Apple enters the BNPL market as regulation, competition intensify
How will all of these BNPL-focused providers fare with Apple pounding its way into their market?
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UK’s antitrust watchdog finally eyes action on Apple, Google mobile duopoly
The UK’s competition watchdog has published its final report on a comprehensive, year-long mobile ecosystem market study — cementing its...
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MIT researchers uncover ‘unpatchable’ flaw in Apple M1 chips
Apple’s M1 chips have an “unpatchable” hardware vulnerability that could allow attackers to break through its last line of security...
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Pitch Deck Teardown: Lunchbox’s $50 million Series B deck
Lunchbox raised its $50 million Series B with a very tight, 15-slide deck, which the company kindly shared with us. The deck is unabridged, which...
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Apple said to be planning 12″ MacBook, 15″ MacBook Air and 14.1” iPad Pro for 2023 releases
A pair of reports published today potentially reveal Apple’s 2023 laptop and iPad lineup. If true, big changes are coming. Literally big: Apple...
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Chrome will now silence many of those annoying notification permission prompts on the web
Google today announced a set of new and updated security features for Chrome, almost all of which rely on machine learning (ML) models, as well as a...
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In iOS 16, apps can trigger real-world actions hands-free
New functionality arriving in iOS 16 will enable apps to trigger real-world actions hands-free. That means users could do things like start playing...
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A new macOS security feature will block new USB-C accessories by default
The new security feature is a tacit admission that not all USB devices are friendly.
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Finally, Apple’s iPad has a default weather app
Hell hath frozen over, apparently. Today, Apple addressed a longtime user complaint about the iPad with news that the device will finally get its own...
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iOS 16’s Mail app will now let you schedule your email and undo sending
Along with a number of other updates coming in iOS 16, including a revamped lock screen, Apple is rolling out a series of updates to its built-in...
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Apple revamps the lock screen in iOS 16 with interactive widgets and other personalization features
Apple is giving the iPhone’s lock screen a big makeover in iOS 16. At Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference, the company introduced its...
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Apple announces in-camera translations and improves dictation
Apple’s iOS has already made our lives a tad bit easier by letting us copy and paste text in our photos. Now, that same live text functionality...
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Apple makes it easier to use parental controls and Screen Time with iOS 16
Apple is updating its set of features aimed at families with the release of iOS 16, due out later this year. The company says it will now make it...
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This Week in Apps: WWDC preview, hitting the Top Charts, Instagram’s AMBER Alerts
This Week in Apps is the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy.
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Cydia’s antitrust case against Apple is allowed to proceed, judge rules
A federal antitrust lawsuit over the long-shuttered alternative app store called Cydia has now been given the green light to proceed, after its...
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Apple’s iOS 16 said to include a revamped lockscreen with widgets, updated Messages and Health apps
Ahead of Apple’s big developer conference on June 6, WWDC, new information about what’s in store for iOS 16 has come to light. According...
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