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Blue Origin, the aerospace company of Jeff Bezos, Techno King’s great rival, has just won a key contract with NASA…
Consumers aren’t going to let them off the hook Over the past several years, environmental, social and governance (ESG) initiatives took the business world by storm. The bottom line was no longer all that mattered. Customers and investors alike wanted to know how companies were tackling a host of ESG issues, from climate change to…
Should early-stage startups pursue a single-cloud, multicloud or on-prem strategy when just starting out? Well, the simple answer to that question is just one cloud, but in the wake of the Silicon Valley Bank collapse, redundancy has become sexy again: Who wants to be dependent on a single provider for any mission-critical activity? TechCrunch+ is…
W elcome to the TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s inspired by the daily TechCrunch+ column where it gets its name. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. Internal developer portals are a welcome tool to alleviate the cognitive load of developers, and could go one step further as they start…
© Reuters. U.S. President Joe Biden participates in a Quad Leaders’ meeting with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida of Japan, Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India, and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of Australia, May 20, 2023, in Hiroshima, Japan. Kenny Holston/Pool via By Trevor Hunnicutt HIROSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden and top congressional…
2/2 © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) arrives for a portrait unveiling ceremony for former Speaker of the House Paul Ryan on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., May 17, 2023. REUTERS/Nathan Howard/File Photo 2/2 By Moira Warburton and Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden’s administration and congressional Republicans…
Welcome back to Chain Reaction, a podcast that interviews newsmakers in crypto to better understand the tech behind the hype and the people working to build a decentralized future. For this week’s episode, Jacquelyn interviewed Sergey Nazarov, co-founder of Chainlink, a protocol that provides an oracle network to power smart contracts. “Oracle networks are really…
The San Francisco-based regional bank, First Republic, was the third financial institution to declare insolvency in 2023 and the second-largest bank to fail since Washington Mutual collapsed during the Financial Crisis of 2007–2008. Plagued by many of the same issues that doomed Silicon Valley Bank …
Remember when it was actually interesting to see a startup becoming a unicorn? A company reaching the billion-dollar valuation mark used to be a rare event — hence the term ‘unicorn.’ But by 2020 and 2021, it was anything but. Every week was like, “Oh, another crypto unicorn? Great. Wow, the fifth neobank this month. Amazing.…





