It has been revealed that the Facebook-owned messaging app, WhatsApp, is removing a feature that it designed into the chats about a year ago using which you could conduct a chat room.According to a WABetaInfo report, WhatsApp has removed the Messenger …
Cartona gets $4.5M pre-Series A to connect retailers with suppliers in Egypt
image Credit: CartonaYear-old startup Capiter announced last week that it raised a $33 million Series A to digitize Egypt’s traditional offline retail market.It’s looking to take a large pie in the budding e-commerce and retail play, where multiple sta…
Paralympians bring home gold medals, but we’re failing them on web accessibility
Joseph Wengier ContributorShare on TwitterJoseph Wengier competed in five Paralympics and won nine gold medals. He promotes the advancement of a more inclusive internet as an ambassador for accessibility technology company UserWay.After winning my firs…
Sorare raises $680 million for its fantasy sports NFT game
image credit:SorareFrench startup Sorare has announced that it has raised a significant funding round. SoftBank’s Vision Fund 2 has led a $680 million Series B round, which values the company at $4.3 billion.Sorare has built a fantasty football (soccer…
Netflix launches free plan in Kenya to boost growth
Image Credits: Krisztian Bocsi / Bloomberg / Getty ImagesNetflix said on Monday it is launching a free mobile plan in Kenya as the global streaming giant looks to tap the East African nation that is home to over 20 million internet users.The free …
VC Mark Suster: “The bet we’re making now is on founder skills,” not customers or products
Image Credits: Mark Suster / Upfront VenturesWe recently caught up with longtime VC Mark Suster of L.A.-based Upfront Ventures, which last raised both an early-stage fund and a growth stage fund several years ago and, according to regulatory filin…
MIT study finds Tesla drivers become inattentive when Autopilot is activated
Image Credits: Bloomberg / Contributor under a license.By the end of this week, potentially thousands of Tesla owners will be testing out the automaker’s newest version of its “Full Self-Driving” beta software, version 10.0.1, on public roads, eve…
TrueLayer nabs $130M at a $1B+ valuation as open banking rises as a viable option to card networks
Image Credits: ipopba / Getty ImagesOpen banking — a disruptive technology that seeks to bypass the dominance of card networks and other traditional financial rails by letting banks open their systems directly to developers (and new services) by w…
Evil Geniuses CEO Nicole LaPointe Jameson is coming to Disrupt
Image Credits: Evil GeniusesAs the opportunities in the gaming world continue to expand aggressively as part of post-COVID shifts to the entertainment sector, esports has found its own opportunities in reaching new audiences. While competitive gam…
Daily Crunch: European regulators share more privacy concerns over Facebook “smart” glasses
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here.Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for September 20, 2021. It is Disrupt week, everyone, and TechCrunch is buzzing. Kicki…