Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to Linkedin AP Photo/Cliff Owen Warren Buffett’s pockets are a little bit lighter this week. Buffett, the world’s sixth-richest person, donated $4.6 billion worth of stock in his conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway on Wednesday, continuing a summer tradition of big gifts that stretches back to 2006. The recipients are a familiar…
Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinTopline Bitcoin spiked to its highest level in more than a year Friday, moving against a rather dreary stretch for stocks and keeping its 2023 winning streak alive thanks to extended optimism stemming from major financial institutions’ recent embrace of the cryptocurrency. Bitcoin has its swagger back. Future Publishing…
Amazon plans to more than double its investment in India in the next seven years, the e-commerce group said, joining a roster of other high-profile American giants ramping up commitment to the South Asian market after meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi this week. The e-commerce group has invested about $11 billion in India to…
Mauricio Costa, a software engineer and music composer living in Atlanta, is creating a musical comedy out of the Silicon Valley Bank collapse, called “The Valley.” Perhaps the wounds are still fresh, but Costa told TechCrunch while reading articles about the bank’s demise and trying to understand what was going on, “I could see the…
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. The start of a new season is always a good time to revisit past predictions and look for new topics to track. Today,…
Access to healthcare has long been an issue in the U.S., but the sheer magnitude of the problem became apparent during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. Numerous digital health startups stepped in to address the plethora of issues, and for a few quarters, VCs flocked to back them. Many of those startups are…
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Most founders won’t realize that they’re on the wrong track until it’s too late. That’s because failure is something many entrepreneurs can only perceive in hindsight: The day-to-day work of building a startup requires a high degree of confidence — and for some, denial. Quoting the movie “Grosse Pointe Blank,” perhaps this column by Haje…
Commodities and futures broker Carley Garner shared her short-term outlook for natural gas following the biggest price drop since March of 2023. Catch her full take on the commodities and futures landscape and much more in the Action Alerts PLUS investing club. Full Video Transcript …
The International Space Station has a monopoly on in-space research, but the huge surge of interest in commercial space is starting to change that. Atmos Space Cargo, a German startup, is looking to open up the opportunities for life sciences research and manufacturing in orbit with its return capsules that will deliver cargo from space…





