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Welcome back to The Interchange, where we take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. If you want to receive The Interchange directly in your inbox every Sunday, head here to sign up! Last week, we chronicled some big rounds in the fintech space, Intuit’s decision to shutter Mint and what that means…

In one of my past startups, I had a co-founder who had a pretty clear goal for himself: he wanted to make $1 million for every year that he worked on this startup, and he wanted to leave a positive impact on the world. I was struck by the clarity of that thought, and so…

Android’s in-built security engine Google Play Protect has a new feature that conducts a real-time analysis of an Android app’s code and blocks it from installing the app if it’s considered potentially harmful. Google announced in October the new real-time app scanning feature built into Google Play Protect that the company says can help catch…

Thrifting is back, though this time it has a tech spin on it. An entirely new generation has discovered the pleasures of digging through other people’s discarded clothes in the hopes of finding the perfect piece. Hoping to cash in on the trend, companies have been embracing resale platforms, allowing them to capture some residual…

Alex Circei Contributor Share on X Alex Circei is the CEO and co-founder of Waydev, a development analytics tool that measures engineering teams’ performance. More posts by this contributor Track the right metrics to improve your developers’ work experience Use DORA metrics to support the next generation of remote-work models If there’s one area where…

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. Take predictions and urban legends with skepticism: Luko is not France’s next unicorn, and Paul McCartney is not dead. Now rumor has it…

Modern Warfare 3 ATVI As they’ve done at least once in the past, Activision has allowed week-early access to the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 campaign ahead of the release of multiplayer. However, given the extremely short turnaround time between the two Modern Warfares, yes, it seems a quite few corners have been cut,…

Hey, folks, welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular newsletter covering the past week in happenings around the tech sphere. Winter’s finally arrived, judging by the NYC weather outside my window — and a winter of a sort might be descending on the tech industry, too, as it unfortunately turns out. This edition of…

OpenAI, Anthropic, Pear VC sublease sizable office spaces in SF; ‘I sold rugs for 17 years, so I have some skills in negotiation’ Ten years ago, Pear VC, then a tiny new venture firm, operated out of a nondescript office in Palo Alto that was enlivened by bright, computer-themed art. Last week, the outfit —…

London was the place to be this week for a who’s who of political leaders and tech CEOs; or more precisely, Bletchley Park was. Famous for housing Alan Turing and other Enigma codebreakers during WW2, the British heritage site played host to the world’s first AI Safety Summit on Wednesday and Thursday. The Exchange explores…