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Last week's Reddit and Astera Labs IPOs consumed a lot of media oxygen. And for good reason: the two tech IPOs were priced high and traded even more actively. The discovery of two major multibillion-dollar products in the same week is part of a long-awaited victory for private market technology companies after a long shortage of technology products. I breathed a sigh of relief. But last week, Trump Media and Technology Group, the company behind Truth Social, offered a different service from a technology perspective. You can read more about it here on TechCrunch, but the gist is that after…

The British government blamed China for a 2021 cyberattack that compromised the personal information of millions of British voters. British Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden said in a statement to MPs in Parliament on Monday that the 2021 Electoral Commission data breach was the work of hackers working for the Chinese government. Mr Dowden told MPs that the UK government “will not hesitate to take swift and strong action when the Chinese government threatens our interests”. This is the first time the UK has revealed the cause of the breach since the cyberattack was first revealed in 2023. The Electoral…

Hello. Welcome to Equity, the startup business podcast. Uncover the numbers and nuances behind the headlines. This is a Monday show where we look back at the weekend and look back at what's coming up in the week ahead. We covered a lot of material on today's show. While stocks around the world are falling, cryptocurrencies have seen some gains recently and are looking pretty strong. The biggest news in his Startup Land this morning is his departure as CEO of Stability AI. The company's revenue growth and burn rate have been the subject of debate for some time, making…

Tinder owner Match Group has appointed two new members to its board of directors and signed a deal with Elliott Management, the company announced Monday. Laura Jones, Instacart's chief marketing officer, and Zillow co-founder Spencer Rascoff will join the company's board effective immediately. Mutch said in a press release that the changes were based on “constructive dialogue” with the activist investor, as the two companies have an “information-sharing” agreement in place. Today's announcement comes several months after the Wall Street Journal reported that Elliott had acquired an approximately $1 billion stake in the company. According to the report, Elliott was…

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Vienna is rich in museums, public transport, springs, and public housing, but one of its crown jewels is the tutoring platform GoStudent. Its services are currently used by more than 11 million families, many of whom live outside of GoStudent's home country. Eight-year-old GoStudent is one of the few Austrian startups to make a name for itself on the international tech scene, along with Bitpanda and Runtastic, which was acquired by Adidas. But its €3 billion valuation and global expansion may be a thing of the past, at least for now, as it has had to adapt rapidly to a…

Nvidia and Amazon Web Services, Amazon's highly profitable cloud division, have something surprising in common. First of all, their core business was born out of a happy accident. In the case of AWS, we realized that we could sell internal services (storage, compute, memory) that we created for our company. For Nvidia, the fact is that GPUs created for gaming purposes are also suitable for handling AI workloads. That ultimately led to explosive revenue growth in recent quarters. Nvidia's revenue is growing in triple digits, from $7.1 billion in the first quarter of 2024 to $22.1 billion in the fourth…

Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech (formerly The Interchange)! This week, we look at how the closure of Africa's hottest fintech startup, Mint, benefited Copilot, and why venture capital is doubling down on one particular expense management startup. Get TechCrunch's roundup of the biggest and most important fintech stories delivered to your inbox every Sunday at 7:30 a.m. PT. Subscribe here. big story Although venture funding in Africa (like the rest of the world) has been declining in recent years, last week was a good week for the region's fintech ecosystem. TC reporter Tage Kene-Okafor explains how Uber led a $100 million…

Americans spent more than $144.8 billion on fishing and hunting in 2022 alone, according to a study by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Guided hunting and fishing tours are an important part of the industry, but remain largely offline. Reservations are made by phone and payment is made by check or cash. Mallard Bay is trying to change that. The Houston-based startup is a marketplace where hunting and fishing consumers can discover and book guided tours online, much like booking a hotel. Mallard Bay is also a vertical SaaS platform for clothing stores themselves to bring their back-office online…