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Uber is entering India's growing B2B logistics market by breaking the control of e-commerce duo Amazon and Walmart-backed Flipkart, and expanding its partnership with government-backed nonprofit organizations aimed at expanding digital commerce in South Asian countries. On Monday, the riding giant announced that it will soon launch its B2B logistics service through Digital Commerce (ONDC) Open Network (ONDC) to access business on the network through Uber's 1.4 million driver network without disclosing a specific timeline. The service initially allows food delivery for businesses operating on open networks, but aims to expand to e-commerce, groceries, pharmacies and even healthcare logistics. With…

In both the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg, this weekend's story shows that cryptocurrency executives and other investors with substantial wealth from Crypto Holdings are getting more serious about personal safety. Cryptocurrencies have always created their own security risks, but the increasing value of Bitcoin appears to be increasing the threat of violent acceleration. There also appears to be new concerns after a recent Coinbase violation has made its customers' personal information public. (Coinbase said the violations have affected less than 1% of its customers.) For example, three masked men recently tried to acquiesce the daughter and granddaughter of the…

Epic Games is escalating efforts to put pressure on Apple to put the game Fortnite in the App Store. The new court is asking Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers to require Apple to “accept a compliant version of Fortnite in the US storefront of the App Store.” Epic and Apple are engaged in a long-standing legal battle over Apple's App Store policy, particularly the committee that Apple charges for in-app purchases. The Fortnite publisher won a big victory last month when Judge Rodgers determined that Apple was in a “willful violation” of an injunction over anti-competitive pricing. This is a ruling…

Sonali de Rycker, Accel's general partner and one of Europe's most influential venture capitalists, is bullish on the outlook for the AI ​​continent. But she is wary of regulatory overreach that can hit that momentum. On the night of TechCrunch StrictlyVc in London earlier this week, De Rycker reflected European locations in the world's AI races, balancing optimism and realism. “We have all the pieces,” she told people gathered for the event. “We have entrepreneurs. We have ambitions, we have schools, we have capitals, we have talent.” She argued that the only thing missing is the ability to “unleash” that…

Google I/O, Google I/O, is the biggest developer conference of the year and it almost makes it to us. The I/O, scheduled for May 20-21 at the Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, will showcase product launches from across Google's portfolio. Expect a lot of news related to Android, Chrome, Google Search, YouTube, and of course, Google's AI-driven chatbot, Gemini. Earlier this week, Google hosted another event dedicated to Android updates: the Android Show. The company has announced new ways to find lost Android phones and other items, additional device-level features for advanced protection programs, security tools to protect against fraud…

Elon Musk is not the only tech billionaire who has power over the federal agencies that regulate his business. Since Donald Trump took office, more than 30 employees, allies and investors, including Musk, Peter Thiel, Mark Andreesen and Palmer Lucky, have played roles in federal agencies, directly supporting billions of contracts. According to an analysis by the Wall Street Journal, companies owned, founded or invested by Musk, Thiel, Andreessen and Luckey have collected federal contracts totaling over $6 billion since Trump took office in January. And they are actively pursuing billions. These appointments are in the departments that oversee, regulate…

Eric Council Jr., 26, was sentenced to 14 months in prison on Friday and was sentenced to three years of supervised release for participating in the official Securities and Exchange Commission X account hack. The U.S. Department of Justice announced its ruling in a press release. The Council and other hackers mistakenly announced that they took over the SEC X account in 2024 and that the agency had approved Bitcoin exchange funds, or ETFs. Screenshots of fake SEC posts published by hackers who took over the management of their @Secgov X account on January 9, 2024. According to the DOJ,…

Creator platform Patreon will need to change its app to comply with Apple guidelines after a recent update has made it possible for users to purchase via the web. The company says its own web-based checkout option is the default, but you will need to follow Apple's instructions to update the app so that this checkout option opens in an external browser instead. This creates more steps for fans who want to pay directly using Patreon, but still allows the company to allow Apple to have to pay 30% fees on in-app purchases. Patreon first updated the app shortly after…

Epic Games claims that Apple is blocking Fortnite apps from US and EU app stores. After winning the decisive victory for app developers in the legal battle with Apple and forcing the Tech giants to allow external payments at US app stores without a billing committee, Epic Games attempted to resubmit Fortnite to the US app store on May 9, 2025. However, Apple was unable to accept a week's submission, allowing Epic Games to pull out the request and try again. According to Tim Sweeney, CEO of Epic Games, the updates were pulled because Epic Games needs to release Fortnite…

Apple says that the warning message displayed next to the EU App Store list that uses third-party payment systems is not actually new. According to many recent reports, Apple added a warning with a red exclamation point next to an app that proved to not use its own “private and secure payment system.” This message appeared to be intended to discourage users from using external payment mechanisms, as is currently permitted under the new EU law, the Digital Markets Act (DMA). However, the iPhone makers confirmed with TechCrunch that these user discussion screens have been live on the EU App…