timef 06/23/2025
- Senators urge FTC to investigate Spotify’s higher-priced bundled subscription techcrunch.com2025-06-23 22:57:21
Two U.S. senators have requested that the FTC investigate Spotify due to allegations that the company bundled its subscription without user consent, while also undercompensating creators.
- TikTok parent ByteDance is shutting down its short-lived book publisher techcrunch.com2025-06-23 22:51:53
The TikTok parent company ByteDance started a book publisher in 2023, but it's already shutting it down.
- US insurance giant Aflac says customers’ personal data stolen during cyberattack techcrunch.com2025-06-23 22:50:00
The U.S. insurance giant provides supplemental insurance to around 50 million customers.
- Want to know where VCs are investing next? Be in the room at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 techcrunch.com2025-06-23 22:30:00
Early-stage founders, listen up! You will want a front row seat at the Builders Stage on Oct 27 at 1:00 pm. This session at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 brings together Nina Achadjian, partner, Index Ventures; Jerry Chen, general partner, Greylock; and Viviana Faga, general partner, Felicis, all of whom will share their 2026 investment priorities across […]
- Japanese shipping firm NYK acquires Kadmos, a salary payment platform for seafarers techcrunch.com2025-06-23 21:08:47
Japanese shipping company Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha is acquiring German salary payment platform for seafaring workers, Kadmos.
- Google adds AI features to Chromebook Plus devices techcrunch.com2025-06-23 21:00:00
Google's adding a slew of AI features to the Chromebook Plus line, including a search and text capture tool, NotebookLM, and a tool for simplifying text.
- SMB-focused Finom closes €115M as European fintech heats up techcrunch.com2025-06-23 15:01:00
Finom, an Amsterdam-based challenger bank for SMBs that claims to have doubled its revenue in 2024, closed a €115 million Series C equity round (around $133 million).
- OpenAI pulls promotional materials around Jony Ive deal techcrunch.com2025-06-23 05:22:35
OpenAI appears to have pulled a much-discussed video promoting the friendship between CEO Sam Altman and legendary Apple designer Jony Ive (plus, incidentally, OpenAI’s $6.5 billion deal to acquire Ive and Altman’s device startup io) from its website and YouTube page.
- Tesla launches robotaxi rides in Austin with big promises and unanswered questions techcrunch.com2025-06-23 04:58:02
Tesla has started giving rides in driverless Model Y SUVs in Austin. Details are still sparse, but limited service is open to vetted and invited riders.
- Why Danny Boyle shot ‘28 Years Later’ on iPhones techcrunch.com2025-06-23 04:22:00
Director Danny Boyle famously shot his post-apocalyptic classic “28 Days Later” on Canon digital cameras, making it easier for him to capture eerie scenes of an abandoned London, and giving the movie’s fast-moving zombies a terrifying immediacy. To make his decades-later sequel “28 Years Later” (which opened this weekend), Boyle turned to a different piece […]
- The stablecoin evangelist: Katie Haun’s fight for digital dollars techcrunch.com2025-06-23 02:43:27
In 2018, when Bitcoin was trading around $4,000 and most Americans, at least, thought cryptocurrency was a fad, Katie Haun found herself on a debate stage in Mexico City opposite Paul Krugman, the Nobel Prize-winning economist who had dismissed digital assets as near worthless. As Krugman focused on Bitcoin's wild price swings, Haun steered the conversation toward something else — stablecoins.
- Moratorium on state AI regulation clears Senate hurdle techcrunch.com2025-06-23 01:17:56
A Republican effort to prevent states from enforcing their own AI regulations cleared a key procedural hurdle on Saturday.
