Category: Military

  • Twitter Blue expands to six new countries, brings back Spaces curation

    Twitter Blue expands to six new countries, brings back Spaces curation

    Twitter is in a hurry to make money, and in another step that might lead to some revenue it has expanded the Twitter Blue subscription to six new countries. The paid plans are now available in Saudi Arabia, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, and Spain making it 12 regions in total to which users can subscribe…

  • Damus pulled from Apple’s App Store in China after two days

    Damus pulled from Apple’s App Store in China after two days

    Damus, one of the fastest-growing Twitter alternatives, has been pulled from China’s App Store just two days after the app was approved by Apple. The app, which runs atop the Jack Dorsey-backed decentralized social networking protocol Nostr, was removed from the China App Store per request by the country’s top internet watchdog because it “includes…

  • Car-sharing SPAC Getaround lays off 10% of staff

    Car-sharing SPAC Getaround lays off 10% of staff

    Peer-to-peer car-sharing company Getaround is laying off 10% of staff starting Thursday. The layoffs are part of a restructure aimed to put Getaround on the path to “sustainable profitability and long-term growth,” the company said in a statement. Per LinkedIn, Getaround has 421 employees, so the staff cuts should affect around 42 employees. Getaround would…

  • Apple stock drops on rare Q4 earnings miss

    Apple stock drops on rare Q4 earnings miss

    Apple has thus far been lauded for a deliberate hiring approach that saved the company from the mass layoffs conducted by top competitors like Alphabet and Amazon. But not even the iPhone maker is immune from economic headwinds. In quarterly earnings posted today, the company notched its first year-over-year loss since before the pandemic. The…

  • Daily Crunch: Hundreds of Salesforce workers laid off in January just discovered they were out of work today

    Daily Crunch: Hundreds of Salesforce workers laid off in January just discovered they were out of work today

    To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PST, subscribe here. On the one hand, we could be upset that Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow, but the sun hasn’t come out where Christine lives for several days, so she’s pretty stoked that wherever…

  • Rebar robotics firm Toggle adds another $3M to its fundraising tally

    Rebar robotics firm Toggle adds another $3M to its fundraising tally

    There’s no denying that the robotics startup world has taken a hit during the ongoing economic downturn. Recent numbers prove what we’ve all suspected for some time. But two things are true: 1) The lull is temporary; and 2) While robotics isn’t recession-proof, construction might as well be. This is certainly a theme of late…

  • Ford left ‘$2B of profits on the table’ in 2022

    Ford left ‘$2B of profits on the table’ in 2022

    Ford reported Thursday it earned $10.4 billion in net income last year, falling well below its own guidance and missing Wall Street’s expectations as the U.S. automaker struggled with supply chain issues and production instability that drove down sales and pushed operating costs higher. Shares fell as much as 8.3% in after-market trading, before recovering.…

  • ‘0ktapus’ hackers are back and targeting tech and gaming companies, says leaked report

    ‘0ktapus’ hackers are back and targeting tech and gaming companies, says leaked report

    The hackers who reportedly hit more than 130 organizations last year and stole the credentials of almost 10,000 employees are still targeting several tech and video game companies, according to a report obtained by TechCrunch. The report, prepared by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, calls the hackers “Scattered Spider.” In a previous publicly available report, the company…

  • Is Instagram considering paid verification? Code reveals references to a ‘paid blue badge’

    Is Instagram considering paid verification? Code reveals references to a ‘paid blue badge’

    New references in Instagram’s code suggest the company could be developing a paid verification feature following the rollout of a similar system at Twitter under Elon Musk. Recently discovered code snippets reference explicitly refer to a “paid blue badge” and a new subscription product, a developer has discovered. The same reference also appears in the…

  • Usage-based pricing is rising, but not replacing other models

    Usage-based pricing is rising, but not replacing other models

    Usage-based pricing (UBP) is on the rise — 61% of SaaS companies used this model in some form in 2022, VC firm OpenView found out. UBP consists of charging based on how the service or product is consumed, not on how many people are using it; that would be the seat-based approach. But as often…