Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch’s China roundup, a digest of recent events shaping the Chinese tech landscape and what they mean to people in the rest of the world. On Friday, Huawei’s chief financial executive Meng Wanzhou was released from house arrest in Vancouver after reaching a breakthrough deal with the U.S. Justice Department. Chinese […]

The landfall process of cyclone Gulab has started on Sunday evening and it may continue for about three hours, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said here. The system hit the landmass between Kalingapatanam in Andhra Pradesh and Gopalpur in Odisha. As per the […]

Brand Licensing Europe (BLE), the European brand licensing industry event, is partnering with Products of Change to spotlight sustainability in a new activation at this year’s event, to be held at Excel London from 17-19, November 2021, followed by an online event on November 30 and December 1, 2021. Attendees can register for free now at […]

Priyanka Srinivas Contributor Priyanka Srinivas is the co-founder and CEO of Live Green Co, a Chilean food tech startup that uses artificial intelligence to suggest plant-based alternatives for meat and artificial additives in food. When it comes to gender equality in the business world, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg hit the nail on the head: “Knowing […]

India needs a lot more banks and a lot more large sized ones to meet the growing needs of the country needs in the path of making a smart recovery post pandemic disruptions, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Sunday. Speaking at 74th Annual General Meeting of Indian Banks’ Association […]

Bangladesh commerce minister Tipu Munshi recently sought Russian support to ensure direct export of domestic products, including readymade garments (RMG), to the latter’s market. He said despite a huge demand for Bangladeshi products in the Russian market, RMG is being exported there through another country due to several issues that are being addressed […]

Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s inspired by what the weekday Exchange column digs into, but free, and made for your weekend reading. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here.  Hello everyone! Disrupt was this week, which meant that I spent more time than usual with my […]

An orange alert has been issued in Odisha and Andhra Pradesh ahead of cyclone ‘Gulab’, which is approaching the coastal states from the Bay of Bengal and is expected to make landfall on Sunday evening according to the India Meteorological Department. The orange alert has been issued for moderate or […]

Consumer spending in the US on Halloween-related items is expected to reach an all-time high of $10.14 billion, up from $8.05 billion in 2020, according to the National Retail Federation’s (NRF) annual survey conducted by Prosper Insights & Analytics. Plans to celebrate Halloween are up this year compared with last and are close to pre-pandemic […]

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a fresh human-first take on this week’s startup news and trends. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here.  And just like that, TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 has come to an end. I’m exhausted, but it’s hard not to feel optimistic for the future after spending three days hearing vulnerable thoughts from […]