WhatsApp is now letting small businesses in India sign up for a Meta Verified badge and giving them the ability to send customized messages to customers. India is home to more than 65 million small and medium-sized businesses, but only about 5 million of them sell online, according to a joint report by Meta and […]
Lyft restructures its micromobility business and Volkswagen brings ChatGPT to US vehicles
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! Short week, shorter newsletter. For all the U.S.-based readers, I hope you had an enjoyable Labor Day. Before we jump into the news fray, here is one […]
AI brings a whole new dimension to the challenge of organizational transformation
Let’s start with the premise that change is hard for everyone. It’s even harder at scale for a large organization. As we’ve watched large organizations over the last 15 years try to embrace mobile, Big Data, the cloud and general digital transformation, we have seen many of them struggle again and again to implement these […]
Alphabet X’s latest spinout brings computer vision and AI to salmon farms
Over the course of Alphabet X’s existence, the self-proclaimed “moonshot factory” has been notable for the variety in both its technological solutions and the problems it’s attempting to solve. The combination research facility/accelerator has produced balloons for rural internet and energy-producing kites. Tidal, which quietly spun out of the department in mid-July, has its own […]
Google faces headwinds as it brings Pixel 9 to India
On Tuesday at its Made by Google event, Google announced that the new Pixel 9 line is coming to India. The news also finds the company’s new foldable launching in the world’s second largest smartphone market for the first time. Google is expanding its sales channels in the country by partnering with two offline retail […]