Tag: Startup

PayPal is looking toward the future, despite its falling stock and looming layoffs. In its first-quarter earnings call, CEO Enrique Lores told investors that PayPal needs to “recommit to the fundamentals,” which included “becoming a technology company again.” There was no need to read between the lines — PayPal was pitching an AI-powered turnaround. Lores…

The portfolio he has assembled since 2019 is dotted with technologies that have become more widely interesting to VCs over the last year…

A sensor that can simultaneously capture depth and image data has long been a “holy grail,” Ouster CEO Angus Pacala told TechCrunch…

There’s a lot going on at Salesforce, the company that put the sales tools market on lock in the early days of the 21st century. The new model is Salesforce headless 360, where a sophisticated API and connectivity system means that the software never has to go through the browser. The ‘agentification’ of Salesforce has

As we approach the Convergence Age, the physical, digital, biological, and even cosmic realms are merging into a hyperconnected environment. Our understanding of risk and danger is blurring. Dissolution provides fresh opportunities and problems beyond grasp. It’s not speculation. It’s inevitable due to exponential technology. It’s unlike anything humanity has ever experienced. I have spent

This might be the perfect price for the perfect watch at the perfect time…

Amazon just posted what may be its best quarter ever. Revenue beat. Earnings nearly doubled the estimate. AWS hit its fastest growth rate in 15 quarters. And operating margins reached a level the company had never seen before. Wall Street responded quickly. Five major firms raised their Amazon …

0:01 | Apr 29, 2026, 02:53PM EDT Automate The Mundane, Elevate The Human: Inside Publicis Sapient’s AI Strategy Are you implementing AI to solve a problem, or just adding technology to a broken workflow? Forbes’ Maggie McGrath sits down with Teresa Barreira, Chief Marketing and Communications Officer at Publicis Sapient, to discuss the dangers of

Europe should be known for BottleCap AI, not bottle cap memes. With its tongue-in-cheek name, this Prague-based AI startup is one of the teams that VCs think you should know. It is not that European startups never cut through the noise — Lovable and Mistral AI are proof of it. But there are many more…

Uber has a long-term ambition that goes well beyond shuttling passengers: the company eventually wants to outfit its human drivers’ cars with sensors to soak up real-world data for autonomous vehicle (AV) companies — and potentially other companies training AI models on physical-world scenarios. Praveen Neppalli Naga, Uber’s chief technology officer, revealed the plan in…