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In Silicon Valley, where names with the same high-wattage tend to dominate headlines, Ali Pertvi has long been a major influence despite limited name recognition. The Iranian-born Harvard graduate created an impressive resume early on. It joined Linkexchange's founding team (acquired by Microsoft for $265 million in 1998) and launched Ilike (sold to MySpace with a $20 million report in 2009) and non-educational code code.org with Twin Brother Hadi. Together, they also became early investors in high-tech giants such as Facebook, Airbnb, and Dropbox. Industry insiders have long viewed Partovi Brothers' involvement in startups as a powerful signal, but the…
4chan has come back online after Hack defeated the infamous image sharing site for almost two weeks. The site first went down on April 14th, and the hack's director apparently leaked data, including a list of moderators and “managers” (one admin told TechCrunch he was “confident” that the leaked data was real). 4chan's expanded loss of disappearance led to at least one premature obituary, writing that journalist Ryan Broderick “has been left over for many years to the mass shooter fan club, the central node of Gamergate, and the fan club for a wide range of sticky beating around the…
If you're someone who wants to bookmark what you find interesting or come back later, it can be difficult to manage everything you save. There are many great bookmark apps in the market that will help you organize all these types of links, articles and everything else you've come across on your phone or browser. We've put together a list of some of the best to help you find the perfect one for you. raindrop.io Image credit: raindrop.io Raindrop is an easy-to-use bookmark app that allows you to clip articles, photos, videos, songs, books, pages, and more on the web…
Perhaps no one has created such a catastrophic technical highgun this year as US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegses. Saga reported that Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg was accidentally added to a fraudulent signal group chat by US national security adviser Michael Waltz. To be fair, we all made embarrassing technical mistakes. But for most people, that means mistakenly preferring an original Instagram post from five years ago. It does not share secret government military plans with fraudulent recipients and commercial messaging apps. While this false misunderstanding of this highly sensitive information has already been bothering enough, this week the New…
A new app recently launched on the App Store a few weeks ago, targeting people with ADHD, arriving on time and rewarding them for doing so. The service is designed to help users manage their travel plans when they are leaving for a trip and manage their travel plans by sending reminders 30, 10, or 5 minutes before departure. It also features live activities on iPhone and Apple Watch, showing the countdown. To encourage timely departures, we have recently adopted a point reward system with four difficulty levels. The easiest level, “Goldfish”, is where users award 3 points early, 2…
Meta's newly released video creation app, Instagram Edits, has achieved a bigger debut than its direct competitor, Bytedance's Capcut. Today, the new app that will help users create videos for Instagram reels, stories and other social posts has been downloaded estimated 702,900 times on iOS devices in the first two days on the market. According to data from App Intelligence Provider Appfigures, downloads of about 37 times the availability of Capcut are about 37 times the availability of Capcut. As of Thursday, the edit had grown to 1.2 million iOS downloads and 5.9 million downloads on Android. In comparison, CapCut…
We are excited to announce that Greek Prime Minister Kiliakos Mitotakis will be taking part in the upcoming StrictlyVC event in Athens, co-hosted with Endeavor at the stunning Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center on Thursday night, May 8th. For those who are not familiar with his background, Mitotakis brings an engaging blend of experiences to the table. Before entering politics, he worked for both McKinsey and Chase investment banks, giving him first-time business experience that many operators across the startup ecosystem could understand. The youngest of four children, he also has an academic qualification in Silicon Valley style. He headed…
The cybersecurity world is full of jargon and lingo. At TechCrunch, we have been writing about cybersecurity for years, and we frequently use technical terms and expressions to describe the nature of what is happening in the world. That’s why we have created this glossary, which includes some of the most common — and not so common — words and expressions that we use in our articles, and explanations of how, and why, we use them. This is a developing compendium, and we will update it regularly. If you have any feedback or suggestions for this glossary, get in touch. An…
We are excited to announce that Roelof Botha, a managing partner at Sequoia Capital and one of the most influential figures in the venture capital world, will be taking part live at Moscone West's TechCrunch Strupt 2025 live in San Francisco, which will take place from October 27th to 29th. As part of our ongoing mission to bring smart, future-focused conversations to the venture and startup community, Botha, the leader who helped shape some of the most iconic tech companies of the past 20 years, joined us. First, the venture industry is evolving rapidly, with the most established ventures beginning…
A data breaches have affected more than 5.5 million people, including the health of Yale New Haven, Connecticut's largest health care system, impacting over 5.5 million people, according to a legally necessary notice to the U.S. government health agency. Yale New Haven said the March cyber attack allowed malicious hackers to obtain personal identification information for patients and copies of some healthcare-related data. According to notifications on the Healthcare System website, stolen data will vary from person to person, but may include patient names, date of birth, postal and email addresses, telephone numbers, race and ethnic data, and Social Security…