Inside TabaPay’s drama-filled decision to abandon its plans to buy Synapse’s assets

Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech! This week, we look at the drama around TabaPay deciding to not buy Synapse’s assets, as well as stocks dropping for a couple of fintechs, Monzo raising even more funds, and more! Sign up here to get Fintech in your inbox every Tuesday at 7 a.m. …...Read More

Apple touts stopping $1.8BN in App Store fraud last year in latest pitch to developers

Apple released new data about anti-fraud measures related to its operation of the iOS App Store on Tuesday morning, trumpeting a claim that it stopped over $7 billion in “potentially fraudulent transactions” across the four years between 2020 and 2023. More than $1.8 billion of that total was stopped in …...Read More

Threat actor scraped Dell support tickets, including customer phone numbers

The person who claimed to have stolen the physical addresses of 49 million Dell customers appears to have taken more data from a different Dell portal, TechCrunch has learned. The newly compromised data includes names, phone numbers and email addresses of Dell customers. This personal data is contained in customer …...Read More

On Elon's whim, X now treats 'cisgender' as a slur

If you write the words “cis” or “cisgender” on X, you might be served this full-screen message: “This post contains language that may be considered a slur by X and could be used in a harmful manner in violation of our rules,” the warning says. You can continue to publish …...Read More

Meta is shutting down Workplace, its enterprise communications business

Facebook once had big ambitions to be a major player in enterprise communication and productivity, but today the social network’s parent company Meta will be closing a very significant chapter in that story. TechCrunch has learned that Meta is shuttering Workplace, a version of Facebook that had been built to …...Read More

Sources: Meta is shutting down Workplace, its enterprise communications business

Facebook once had big ambitions to be a major player in enterprise communication and productivity, but today the social network’s parent company Meta will be closing a very significant chapter in that story. TechCrunch has learned that Meta is shuttering Workplace, a version of Facebook that had been built to …...Read More

Meta's Oversight Board overturns takedown decision for Pakistan child abuse documentary

Meta’s external advisory group, the Oversight Board, has overturned the social media company’s decision to take down a news documentary revealing the identities of child victims of sexual abuse and murder in Pakistan — an exceptional case based on newsworthiness. The 11-minute documentary, posted by the broadcaster Voice of America …...Read More

AWS CEO Adam Selipsky steps down

Adam Selipsky is stepping down from his role as CEO of AWS, Amazon PR has confirmed to TechCrunch. In a memo shared internally by Amazon CEO Andy Jassy and published this morning to Amazon’s company blog, Jassy said that AWS sales chief Matt Garman will be promoted to CEO. Garman …...Read More

After surpassing $100M in ARR, Harness Labs grabs a $150M line of credit

Harness Lab isn’t founder Jyoti Bansal’s first startup. He sold AppDynamics to Cisco for $3.7 billion in 2017, the week it was supposed to go public. His latest venture has raised $425 million, per Crunchbase. On Tuesday, Harness announced $150 million in debt financing, essentially a line of credit that …...Read More

David Sacks reveals Glue, the AI company he’s been teasing on his All In podcast

Glue AI Image Credits: Glue If you use Slack at work, you’ve likely noticed that the number of channels you’re invited to proliferates incessantly. David Sacks, one quarter of the popular “All In” podcast and a renowned serial entrepreneur whose past companies include Yammer – an employee chat startup that …...Read More