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The era of e-commerce has brought choice, convenience, and cardboard boxes. Oh, so many cardboard boxes. “Everything goes in packaging these days,” said Chantal Emmanuel, co-founder and CTO of LimeLoop, which is a participant in the TechCrunch 2023 Battlefield 200 startup competition. For many consumers, the sight of so much waste can be distressing. And…

Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinKlaviyo cofounders Andrew Bialecki (left) and Ed Hallen are billionaires, in part thanks to a decision to bootstrap the company for its first three years which has allowed them to together retain a 52% stake in the company. Klaviyo Klaviyo’s stock popped 23% in its stock market debut, pushing…

Can software work alongside human physicists and engineers in R&D labs to develop new quantum computers? That’s the question Qruise, a startup in TechCrunch’s Battlefield 200 competition at Disrupt 2023, is attempting to answer. Qruise, a spinoff of Forschungszentrum Jülich, a national research institute based in Germany, is building what its founders describe as a…

Roblox, the community-focused gaming platform popular amongst kids, has downsized a substantial portion of its talent acquisition team, signaling a shift in the company’s focus from expansion to the bottom line. In a statement to TechCrunch, Roblox confirmed that about 30 employees in its talent acquisition organization were let go on Monday. No other teams…

Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinTopline Amazon and Target will add on a combined 350,000 employees for the upcoming holiday shopping season, according to announcements by both companies on Tuesday, while Amazon said it will invest more than $1 billion to increase average hourly wages. Amazon announced the seasonal hires in addition to wage…

The retail giant wants a bigger piece of the technology hardware pie — and it’s going to have to fight for it…

Google-backed audio content platform Kuku FM has raised $25 million in a new funding round as it looks to make deeper inroads with its audiobook offerings in the South Asian market. Indian billionaire and technologist Nandan Nilekani’s Fundamentum Partnership led the Series C funding in Kuku FM with International Finance Corporation, part of the World…

When HashiCorp announced it was changing its Terraform license in August, it set off a firestorm in the open source community, and actually represented an existential threat to startups who were built on top of the popular open source project. The community went into action and within weeks they had written a manifesto, and soon…

Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinTopline Starbucks must face a lawsuit arguing it has violated consumer protection laws by misleading customers into believing its popular “refresher” drinks contain all of the fruits in their names, a judge ruled last week, marking the latest lawsuit over food advertising techniques. Starbucks must face a lawsuit alleging…