Historic regional competition launches to showcase Central Eurasia’s rising startup ecosystem on Silicon Valley’s biggest stage. For the first time in its history, Central Eurasia will have a direct pathway to TechCrunch Startup Battlefield through the launch of “Road to Battlefield,” a groundbreaking regional competition that promises to put the underrepresented region firmly on the
UPDATE: Jul. 1, 2025, 3:10 p.m. EDT We’ve updated this story to add more details about Target’s upcoming Circle Week deals and Circle 360 promos. After letting Amazon Prime Day hog the spotlight last July, Target’s biggest sale of the summer will directly compete with it in 2025. The bullseye retailer has announced its plans
As Mark Zuckerberg staffs up Meta’s new superintelligence lab, he’s offering top research talent pay packages of up to $300 million over four years, with more than $100 million in total compensation for the first year, WIRED has learned. Meta has made at least 10 of these staggeringly high offers to OpenAI staffers. One high-ranking
General Motors sold 4,508 electric Hummer trucks and SUVs in the second quarter in the U.S., putting it close to Ford’s F-150 Lightning despite a price gap in the tens of thousands of dollars. The Hummer sales were part of a banner quarter for GM’s electric vehicles, making it one of the only automakers that
SAVE $25: The Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K is on sale for $24.99 at Amazon, down from the normal price of $49.99. That’s a 50% discount. We’re still a week away from Amazon’s longest Prime Day sales event on record, but the prices are already dropping. You can score a shockingly good price on a
Other Good Backyard Hot Dog Options Look, if you’re trying to feed a football team, no little hot dog cooker will do. What you’ll want is one of our favorite griddles or grills. No wee steamer can beat a 33-inch Traeger griddle, my favorite griddle of all backyard griddles. There are a couple griddles, however,
TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 is coming to Moscone West in San Francisco from October 27–29, bringing together 10,000+ startup and VC leaders to chart what’s next in tech. And on October 27, on the premiere industry stage: Going Public, David George of Andreessen Horowitz will take the mic for a fireside chat focused on one of
Since 2006, airlines have provided some form of in-flight WiFi. And as frequent fliers know, WiFi in the air hasn’t always been smooth – but some airlines are better than others, a new study has found. According to analysis by Ookla, Hawaiian Airlines and Qatar Airways stand out as the best-performing airlines when it comes
Another week, another Chinese electric car poised to deliver an extinction event to Western automakers. This time it’s Xiaomi, a Beijing-based tech firm best known for smartphones and the company behind the Porsche Taycan-baiting SU7, which in late-2024 was so popular that Xiaomi increased its sales forecast three times in a matter of months. Now
Cloudflare, a cloud infrastructure provider that serves 20% of the web, announced Tuesday the launch of a new marketplace that reimagines the relationship between website owners and AI companies — ideally giving publishers greater control over their content. For the last year, Cloudflare has launched tools for publishers to address the rampant rise of AI