It’s been tough times for Zendesk, which has been fending off Jana since the end of last year, when the activist investor began to send the company, which focuses on help desk and ticketing software, a series of complaint letters. Perhaps it shouldn’t come as a surprise that reports surfaced this week that Zendesk is…
Silicon Valley has gotten fantastically efficient at funding apps, SaaS and developer tools. It turns out, though, that climate change cares a lot less about bits, bytes, and stored procedures — it’s a lot more analog than that. Along come Evok Innovations and its cleantech fund, aiming to plow money into companies that are working…
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Automatic transmissions for heavy-duty equipment have been rare, most being considered too fragile for harsh environments and better suited to on-road use. That challenge has been met by Allison Transmissions. Allison Transmission is a designer and manufacturer of vehicle propulsion solutions for commercial and defense vehicles, the largest global manufacturer of medium-duty and heavy-duty fully automatic…
The best Wordle start words are the key to beating the game and avoiding the need to search for today’s Wordle answer. Without a good start word, you risk losing your streak — and nobody wants that fate to befall them. Plus, even if you’re a bit of a Wordle expert by now, having a…
There isn’t a Disney Plus free trial — at least not in the United States. The one-week free trial offer was suspended stateside in June 2020, and we haven’t seen it here since. But it’s not all bad news: The streaming service costs much less than rival Netflix, billed at $8 a month, cancellable at…
Apple has unveiled a series of environmental initiatives, including expanding the use of recycled materials in its products. In addition to starting to use recycled gold for the first time, Apple is more than doubled the use of recycled tungsten, rare earth elements, and cobalt, the company said. In 2021, recycled materials accounted for nearly…
Platforms like Figma have changed the game when it comes to how creatives and other stakeholders in the production and product team conceive and iterate around two-dimensional designs. Now, a company called Gravity Sketch has taken that concept into 3D, leveraging tools like virtual reality headsets to let designers and others dive into and better…
How much will the changing valuation profile of software companies impact the highest-flying private unicorns? Also, why hasn’t Databricks gone public yet? The answer to the former might be the answer to the latter. TechCrunch has spent ample time since the end of 2021 tracking changes to the value of software revenues. To catch you…
The U.S. government has warned that North Korean state-backed hackers known as the Lazarus Group are targeting organizations in the blockchain industry using trojanized cryptocurrency applications. In a joint advisory issued on Monday, the FBI, CISA, and the U.S. Treasury said they had observed the North Korean-backed threat actors targeting a variety of organizations in…
