Elon Musk buying Twitter after all, the ‘next Mark Zuckerberg’ and fare thee well, Stadia • TechCrunch

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Stadia’s dying: Devin opined on the current Stadia shutdown, saying the surprising demise of the gaming service was the fault of 1 entity alone: Google. He writes: “Nobody trusts Google. It has exhibited such poor understanding of what individuals need, want and pays for that at this level, individuals are cautious of investing in even its extra well-liked merchandise.”

This Week in Elon Musk: First he stepped in it when he waded into the Russia-Ukraine struggle together with his model of a peace plan that Connie characterised as not very well-received. After which he lastly mentioned he’d purchase Twitter in spite of everything. Twitter instructed us that the “Musk events” despatched them a letter expressing the billionaire’s intention to undergo with the acquisition, supplied the trial between the 2, which was scheduled to begin October 17, didn’t happen. As Taylor and Harri mentioned of their story, nonetheless, “given Musk’s chaotic nature, it’s potential that one other wrench could possibly be thrown into the works.”

Fizz to the “subsequent Mark Zuckerberg”: An app created by former Stanford college students to restrict social isolation throughout faculty campuses obtained a $4.5 million spherical this week. The founder, a Stanford dropout, “got down to construct an app by faculty college students, for faculty college students, in search of to assist his fellow classmates really feel much less lonely and type significant connections on campus.”

Google in your Lock Display: iOS 16 customers aren’t restricted solely to Apple widgets on their new Lock Screens. Google made good on its promise to make its apps accessible as widgets for fast entry. Gmail, Google Information, Drive and Chrome are actually accessible, with Search and Apps coming.

Search in vogue: South Korean search firm Naver mentioned it plans to buy attire market Poshmark for $1.2 billion in money.

Edu breach: In what seems to be the most important training breach shortly, hackers launched a cache of information stolen throughout a cyberattack in opposition to the Los Angeles Unified Faculty District.

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Didn’t have time to tune in to all of TechCrunch’s podcasts this week? Right here’s what you may’ve missed:

• For Discovered this week, we rereleased an episode on delivering distant abortion care with Kiki Freedman from Hey Jane. She additionally tells us about how her expertise at Uber knowledgeable her founder mentality and the way the startup hopes to alter the healthcare business.
• Chain Response related with Edward Saatchi, an knowledgeable within the web3 house and the founding father of The Tradition DAO and Fable who mentioned how rising applied sciences can allow new types of storytelling and the way sectors like crypto and AI are altering what the metaverse may appear to be.
• Amanda joined Alex this week on the Wednesday episode of Fairness to talk in regards to the creator economic system.
• On The TC Podcast, Haje Jan Kamps, stepping in for Darrell Etherington, talks with Dominic-Madori Davis about how conservative VCs are shaping the startup panorama and, by extension, the world. He additionally talked with Taylor Hatmaker about all issues Elon.
• And take a look at the TechCrunch Reside podcast, which is the audio model of our weekly TechCrunch Reside present. This week, hear how Mammoth Biosciences Trevor Martin attracted the perfect companions to type the corporate, together with Mayfield accomplice Ursheet Parikh, who wrote an early funding examine. The first step? It begins with the imaginative and prescient and mission.

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What hides behind the TechCrunch+ paywall? Plenty of actually nice stuff! It’s the place we get to step away from the unrelenting information cycle and go a bit deeper on the stuff you inform us you want most. Essentially the most-read TC+ stuff this week?

5 key IP concerns for AI startups: Early-stage startups are creating new AI-based options however may not know whether or not the tech could be protected and one of the best ways to do it. On this put up, Eric L. Sophir, IP accomplice at regulation agency Foley & Lardner LLP, and Matthew Horton, senior counsel and IP lawyer at regulation agency Foley & Lardner LLP, present steerage for younger firms. 

Vori’s pitch deck: Haje brings you one other pitch deck teardown, this time from Vori, which raised to a $10 million Sequence A. Need your pitch deck featured on TC+? Right here’s extra info. Additionally, try all our Pitch Deck Teardowns and different pitching recommendation, all collected in a single helpful place for you! In on this?