Month: March 2021
This tiny car beat Tesla’s Model 3 as the best-selling EV in the world for January and February
The Hong Guang Mini EV edged out Tesla’s Model 3 as the top-selling electric vehicle in the world in January and February, not a small feat for the relatively new hatchback. More than 36,000 of the tiny cars sold in January, compared to about 21,500 Model 3s, and the Hong…
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Brazil regulator fines Apple $2 million for not including chargers with iPhone 12
The consumer protection agency in Brazil’s São Paulo state has fined Apple $2 million for failing to include chargers within iPhone 12 boxes, according to 9to5 Mac. Procon-SP says Apple engaged in “misleading advertising, selling a device without the charger and unfair terms.” Apple announced in October that the iPhone…
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The pandemic has thrown the world into a privacy nightmare security
Privacy is very difficult to come by in today’s connected world and this issue has only been exacerbated by the pandemic, which legitimized the collection of masses of personal data. Governments have already begun to put Covid-related data to use in other contexts. And beyond medical data, the debate around…
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Tech companies predict the (economic) future
Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s broadly based on the daily column that appears on Extra Crunch, but free, and made for your weekend reading. Want it in your inbox every Saturday morning? Sign up here. Earnings season is coming to a close, with public tech companies…
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Tim Cook and Tim Sweeney among potential witnesses for Apple/Epic trial
A proposed witness list filed by Apple for its upcoming trial against game-maker Epic reads like a who’s who of executives from the two companies. The drawn out battle could well prove a watershed moment from mobile app payments. The two sides came to loggerheads when the Fortnite maker was…
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Coinbase pays $6.5 million to settle trading investigation with CFTC
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) said in a news release Friday that cryptocurrency exchange platform Coinbase has paid $6.5 million to settle regulators’ claims that it reported misleading transaction data. According to the CFTC, between January 2015 and September 2018 “Coinbase recklessly delivered false, misleading, or inaccurate reports concerning…
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