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Apple’s top App Store exec, Phil Schiller, follows wave of exits as CEO Tim Cook steps down
[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-1660777497.jpg?resize=1200,799″] Tim Cook is departing from his long-held role as Apple’s CEO — and a wave of top executives are heading for the exits as he does. On Monday, Bloomberg reported that Phil Schiller, long the head of Apple’s App Store, stepped down from his position in recent days. Schiller has been with…
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Microsoft tests fix for latest hours-long Outlook outage
[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/microsoft-outlook-app.jpg?resize=1200,800″] Snow day? Microsoft on Monday confirmed a widespread, multi-hour outage affecting Outlook users, leading to email delays and failures, authentication issues, and other problems. In a post on X, Microsoft reported the issue was impacting its Exchange Online service, its cloud-hosted platform for business email, calendar, contacts, and tasks, and then said…
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Kalshi bans George Santos for life over State of the Union bets
[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/GettyImages-1824575665.jpg?resize=1200,800″] Kalshi has banned former Republican Rep. George Santos from its platform for life, the first time the prediction market company has taken such an action. Kalshi also penalized and suspended several political candidates accused of betting on their own races, including Ben Midgley, who ran and lost in the Republican primary for…
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Harvard Law dropout raises $6M for Blue Voice to build a ‘Harvey for police officers’
[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/BlueVoice_Founders.png?resize=1200,600″] David Lawrence was a Harvard Law student when an on-campus shooting involving a police officer sparked intense controversy over police conduct. Realizing that most policing errors occur when officers lack instant access to department rules, Lawrence dropped out to tackle the problem with AI. He teamed up with co-founders Amit Patankar, a…
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Ryan Breslow is raising up to $27M in pay-to-play bridge funding to save Bolt
[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/ryan-breslow-bolt.jpg?resize=1200,800″] Ryan Breslow, the controversial entrepreneur who returned as CEO of Bolt last year after years of legal battles and clashes with investors, refuses to give up on the checkout processing startup he co-founded in 2014. The company, which hit an $11 billion valuation in early 2022 before plummeting 97% to $300 million,…
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Tim Cook’s parting message: Apple is in the hands of a product builder
[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Apple-John-Ternus-Tim-Cook_Full-Bleed-Image.jpg.xlarge_2x.jpg?resize=1200,675″] On his last day as Apple CEO, Tim Cook offered a rousing endorsement of his successor: John Ternus, the company’s senior vice president of hardware engineering. In a memo to employees, Cook reminded staff that he’s “not leaving Apple,” just stepping away from the role of CEO, while declaring that “few people…
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Meet the brands activating at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 this October
[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/54890325451_a8c86b7388_k.jpg?resize=1200,801″] TechCrunch Disrupt returns to San Francisco’s Moscone West October 13–15, and the sponsor roster is filling up quickly! Google for Startups is helping founders at our popular AI Stage, featuring speakers from OpenAI, Databricks, Luma AI, and more. The New York Stock Exchange is fostering even more detailed tips and tricks for…
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VLC crosses 7 billion downloads
[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/GettyImages-590060556.jpg?resize=1200,800″] In our world of expensive streaming platforms, the very free and offline VLC media player, developed by the non-profit VideoLAN, has crossed 7 billion downloads across all platforms. Jean-Baptiste Kempf, the president and lead developer of VLC, sent this update in an email. This milestone comes almost 18 months after the app…
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Clipto uses AI to search terabytes of video and is now valued at $250M
[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/ai-agents-GettyImages-2229880232.jpg?resize=1200,675″] Generative AI is making it easier to produce more content and harder to keep track of it. As videos, recordings, and documents accumulate, Adobe, Apple, Google, and a growing number of startups are using AI to make those files searchable. It is not yet clear whether that will support a new category…
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How AI could make it harder for governments to use hacking tools
[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/brianstack-mspy-email-leak-2024.jpg?resize=1200,675″] Earlier in August, cryptography professor Matthew Green wrote a controversial thread on X and a longer blog post that went viral within the cybersecurity community. Green, who has long been a close observer of the debate around the use of hacking tools by governments to fight crime and the need for strong…