Payments giant Stripe has acquired a four-year-old competitor, Lemon Squeezy, the latter company announced Friday. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. As a self-proclaimed “merchant of record,” Lemon Squeezy calculates and pays global sales tax for digital products, handling legal processing and fees in every country. It primarily serves SaaS and software businesses. In […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only ..read more

Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. To get Startups Weekly in your inbox every Friday, sign up here. This week we are talking about Wiz’s bold decision, VC’s public feud, legal tech’s new capital and a16z’s close call. Let’s go! Most interesting startup stories […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only ..read more

Apple joins 15 other tech companies — including Google, Meta, Microsoft and OpenAI — that committed to the White House's rules for developing generative AI. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only ..read more

The language is ambiguous, so it's not clear whether X is helping itself to all user data for training Grok or whether this processing refers only to user interactions with the chatbot. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only ..read more

Sound Search on TikTok is somewhat similar to YouTube Music’s song detection tool that lets you find the name of a song by singing, humming or playing it.  © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only ..read more

Skip exited stealth this week to announce a partnership with outdoor clothing specialist Arc’teryx. The deal is the first to bring Skip’s MO/GO technology to market: “powered pants” that utilize a soft exoskeleton technology, developed in-house at Alphabet’s X Labs moonshot factory. MO/GO, short for “mountain goat,” is a hybrid soft/rigid exoskeleton system designed to […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only ..read more

Ledger, a French startup mostly known for its secure crypto hardware wallets, has launched a new mid-range device, the Ledger Flex. Available now, priced at $249, the dinky hardware wallet features an E-Ink display to navigate the interface and approve transactions with a tap. Like all of Ledger’s wallets, the Ledger Flex is built around […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only ..read more

The good news is that you can switch off the new data-sharing setting and also delete your conversation history with the AI.  © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only ..read more

Regulators gave SpaceX the all-clear to return to launch two weeks after the Falcon 9 rocket experienced an anomaly on orbit. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only ..read more

Madison Long and Simone May founded Clutch in 2020 to help connect people to businesses looking for marketing and content creation. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only ..read more