TOKYO, JAPAN – 2024/10/11: Logo at the Seven & i Holdings headquarters in Tokyo. Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Shares of 7-Eleven owner Seven & i soared nearly 11% on Wednesday after a report said the company’s founding family was raising more than $50 billion to take the company private within this fiscal … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world A test launch of SpaceX’s megarocket failed to perform as planned on Tuesday, as president-elect Donald Trump looked on, with flight directors abandoning an effort to catch the vehicle’s reusable booster just minutes … Read more
Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech! This week, we’re diving into PayPal’s new holiday shopping-friendly feature, Klarna’s 2025 IPO ambitions, and sales tax automation startup Kintsugi doubling its valuation in less than a year. If you’d like to receive the Fintech newsletter in your inbox every Tuesday, sign up here! The big story PayPal makes group purchases … Read more
JoJo Siwa and Dakayla Wilson have decided to go their “separate ways.” Siwa, who came out as LGBTQ in January, first hinted at her sexuality through a series of TikTok and Instagram posts. Fans began speculating after she lip-synced to Lady Gaga‘s “Born This Way” during a day with the TikTok collective Pride House LA. … Read more
WBC featherweight champion Brandon Figueroa wants to be more patient and use his boxing skills for his rematch with Stephen Fulton Jr. on February 1st. (Credit: Esther Lin and Ryan Hafey/Premier Boxing Champions) Fulton (25-1-1, 19 KOs) feels that he smothered his power by fighting in close, looking to slug in his 12-round majority decision … Read more
The humanitarian medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has suspended its operations in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, following a violent attack on its staff and the alleged killing of two patients they were treating by Haitian police officers. The incident took place last week as violence continued to worsen in the country. An estimated 25 … Read more
A Brooklyn federal grand jury handed down an indictment last week accusing two brothers—one in New York and another in Bangladesh—of running an allegedly illegal sports and video streaming service known as 247TVStream. Noor Nabi Chowdhury, 56, of Cheektowaga, New York, and his little brother, Mohammad Rahman, 36, of Dhaka, Bangladesh, operated the low-costs streaming … Read more
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More There is a lot of hype and a lot of promise surrounding AI and what it can bring to an enterprise. For enterprise software vendor OpenText, moving beyond the hype to be able to actually demonstrate … Read more
Static Media Seth MacFarlane’s long-lived animated sitcom “Family Guy” has always been known for its flippant, non-sequitur pop culture references and its deliberately tasteless humor. “Family Guy” is often described as being a show for fratboys, as it taps into crass, low impulses. Almost all the characters … Read more
India’s T20I captain Suryakumar Yadav posed with pilots on his way to Mumbai from Johannesburg after leading the Men in Blue to a hat-trick of series wins. India, who recently won the T20I series 3-1 against South Africa, also won the previous two series by 2-1 margins against Sri Lanka (away) and Bangladesh (home). The … Read more