TARC introduces new mobile ticketing option for riders
TARC launched MyTARC Mobile, which allows riders to purchase tickets with their smartphones.
TARC launched MyTARC Mobile, which allows riders to purchase tickets with their smartphones.
TabaPay has abandoned its plans to purchase the assets of troubled banking-as-a-service startup Synapse, TabaPay confirmed to TechCrunch today. Synapse says the problem is banking partner Evolve Bank & Trust. Meanwhile, another player in the saga, Mercury, says Synapse allegations have "no merit."
Here's a tidbit of startup history that may not be widely known outside of the tech firms themselves: The first versions of popular Android apps, like Twitter, were built by Google itself. In a podcast hosted by Lightspeed partner Michael Mignano, Beykpour reminisces about her role in Twitter's history. Later, Beykpour moved to work on mobile at Twitter around the time when other third-party apps were growing in popularity on other platforms, like BlackBerry and iOS.
Zelle is a peer-to-peer payment app that allows you to send and receive money within minutes. So how does it work — and is it safe?
The new bundle, which combines Disney+, Hulu, and Max, highlights a new wave of partnerships among streamers to gain more loyal subscribers.
Technology giant Dell notified customers on Thursday that it experienced a data breach involving customers’ names and physical addresses. In an email seen by TechCrunch and shared by several people on social media, the computer maker wrote that it was investigating “an incident involving a Dell portal, which contains a database with limited types of customer information related to purchases from Dell.” Dell wrote that the information accessed in the breach included customer names, physical addresses and “Dell hardware and order information, including service tag, item description, date of order and related warranty information.”
Fantasy baseball analyst Andy Behrens offers up a fresh batch of midweek pickups to consider, led by a former Dodgers prospect.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a Class I recall for the t:connect mobile app on iOS, which is used to monitor and control the t:slim X2 insulin pump used by people with diabetes.
Sega has announced Sonic Rumble, a game that mirrors much of the popular title Fall Guys.
In our latest drive of the 2024 GMC Hummer EV SUV, we take it off-road in Moab, Utah, where it can really show off its terrain-tackling prowess.
Netflix has added Sonic Mania Plus to its roster of games subscribers can access for free on mobile without ads or in-app purchases.
Get caught up on this morning’s news: Biden to propose new asylum restrictions, Jokić wins NBA MVP and more in today’s edition of The Yodel newsletter
Line Man Wongnai, an on-demand food delivery service in Thailand, is considering an initial public offering on a Thai exchange or the U.S. in 2025, the company's CEO and co-founder, Yod Chinsupakul, said in an exclusive interview with TechCrunch. Line Man Wongnai has yet to finalize where it will launch the IPO, but a dual listing in Thailand and the U.S. is not off the cards, Chinsupakul said. "We are focused on continued business execution and restructuring as key priorities ahead of the potential IPO, and we will continue to assess our capital structure and financing needs, including various fundraising options," Chinsupakul said.
The US has stopped Intel and Qualcomm from selling and sending chips to Chinese-based Huawei Technologies.
Gary Cohen, who previous held chief executive role at Timex and Qualitor Automotive, will be heading up the company, marking a major shift from his predecessor, Angle, a cofounder of the company who held the role from 1997 until January of this year. Cohen joins iRobot at a tumultuous time. In 2002, iRobot effectively birthed the robotic vacuum, launching what is, to date, the only mainstream home robot category.
Founder Ben Lambert realized just that, when after moving to Portugal, his wife's property inspection business needed to be run remotely. Seeing an opportunity, Lambert founded an AI-powered workflow tools startup, Checkfirst, that, in addition to allowing for remote inspections, enables businesses to schedule inspectors based on geographical location and qualifications.
Remedy's and Tencent's gaming project hit a snag last year when they had to go in a different direction. Now, that project has been cancelled completely.
Google on Wednesday launched its digital wallet in India with local integrations, nearly two years after the app was relaunched as a digital wallet platform in the U.S. As TechCrunch exclusively reported last month, Google Wallet will operate in India alongside the existing Google Pay app, which will remain the company’s payments app in the country. Google had replaced its Pay app with Wallet in the U.S. in February.
Bluesky has launched a new product roadmap for the coming months. The decentralized social network said on Tuesday that it is planning to introduce direct messages, support for videos, improved custom feeds, and new moderation controls. In a blog post, the company said it is developing a direct messaging (DM) service that will be integrated into the Bluesky app, off the decentralized AT Protocol — the protocol that Bluesky uses — initially, and would later develop an on-protocol DM.
GitHub on Tuesday announced that Copilot Chat, its AI chat interface for asking coding-related questions and code generation, is now generally available in its mobile app. At first glance, a mobile app may not be the most obvious place to use GitHub's Copilot Chat. As Mario Rodriguez, GitHub's recently promoted SVP of Product, told me, the mobile app is already very popular for performing tasks like starring repos and some of the social features GitHub has to offer.
Amazon is launching a new tool, Bedrock Studio, designed to let organizations experiment with generative AI models, collaborate on those models, and ultimately build generative AI-powered apps. Available in public preview starting today, the web-based Bedrock Studio -- a part of Bedrock, Amazon's generative AI tooling and hosting platform -- provides what Amazon describes in a blog post as a "rapid prototyping environment" for generative AI. Bedrock Studio guides developers through the steps to evaluate, analyze, fine-tune and share generative AI models from Anthropic, Cohere, Mistral, Meta and other Bedrock partners, as well as test different model settings and guardrails and integrate outside data sources and APIs.