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Navan finished its first day trading at an approximate valuation of $4.7 billion, which is about half of its last private valuation of $9.2 billion.

Nvidia is an existing investor in the AI company and participated in its $500 million Series A round in 2024.

Canva is launching new features like Forms and email design, and it makes Affinity free for all users.

Bevel's AI health companion unifies data from wearables and daily habits across sleep, fitness, and nutrition into personalized insights.

While Threads already offers tools that let you limit replies to people you follow, your followers, or people you mention, the new feature allows you to keep your replies open to all without the negative consequences of having discussions derailed.

U.S. tech giants increasingly view India as the next big frontier — a place to gather diverse data, refine models, and test AI use cases that could later scale across other emerging markets.

Figma said that Weavy will exist as a stand-alone product for now and that, in the future, it will be integrated with the Figma Weave brand, along with the rest of the Figma platform.

Retailers could see up to a 520% increase in traffic from chatbots and AI prompts in 2025 compared to 2024, according to the report. For brands, that means figuring out how to show up in AI-generated recommendations, and fast.

This means if you lose your device, you can use methods like fingerprint, face, or the screen lock code of your previous device to access WhatsApp's backup.

IntrCity SmartBus grew revenue by 67% last year and is targeting full profitability this year, as intercity travel booms across India.

India's appetite for instant convenience — once confined to food and grocery delivery — is expanding into house help.

Cluely's Roy Lee has a message for startup founders: You should be thinking harder about how to go viral.

With Uplift, every subscription will contribute to neighborhood-level network expansion, while local hosts that are known as "AirNode operators" will earn a portion of network revenue by providing community coverage.

Now again under Rose's control, the new Digg is creating a place for people to socialize and connect online within communities, similar to Reddit, but it has different ideas about how such a platform should work at a time when bots are nearly indistinguishable from humans.

YouTube CEO Neal Mohan told employees about the program via an internal memo on Wednesday.

Glīd, which is trying to streamline cargo container logistics, has beaten out 199 other Startup Battlefield companies to take home $100,000.

Speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt, Yakovenko said he's become increasingly comfortable taking a back seat in software development tasks.

geCKo Materials returned to the stage at TechCrunch Disrupt to debut new products as it pushes deeper into commercializing its tech.

He painted a picture of a future of enterprise software where the SaaS is used for the core business workflow, and then the agents ride on top of that.