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Loop, the car insurance company co-founded by Harlem Capital co-founder John Henry, has laid off staff as the company struggles with fundraising.  Henry took to Instagram to post the email…

After 20 months of trying to raise funds, insurance startup Loop cuts staff

Microsoft Loop, a Notion-like hub for managing tasks and projects that sync across Microsoft 365 apps and services, launched in public preview today. Loop is available to users with a…

Microsoft launches Loop, its Notion competitor, in public preview

Matt McKinney was a data science manager at Uber, helping launch Uber Freight, along with software engineer Shaosu Liu. One of the main problems the pair saw there was that…

Loop lassos ex-Uber talent and money to finally fix freight invoicing

Electric cars are great and all, but internal combustion engines (ICE) have one thing going for them: comprehensive, well-oiled infrastructure that means you can add 300 miles of range to…

Loop raises $60M to send EV charging infrastructure for a Loop

Spotify is experimenting with yet another new discovery feature, following last week’s test of an “audio news feed” for podcasts. Now, the streaming service is testing a personalized feed on…

Spotify continues testing a TikTok-like discovery feed

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture-capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week we — Natasha and Danny and Alex…

Car auto-insurance from legacy providers has structural bias built into it. It uses metrics such as credit score, income, marital status and education to figure out insurance rates, which eventually…

Loop launches out of stealth to make auto insurance more equitable

A new streaming startup called Loop Media is announcing its first acquisition — a 30-year-old company called ScreenPlay. While you may not have heard of ScreenPlay, the company has licensed…

Loop acquires ScreenPlay to build its streaming library

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The Boring Company goes brick-and-mortar with The Brick Store

Elon Musk has shot out some crazy, unbelievable tweets over the last year, but he wasn’t joking about the bricks. Musk has started a company called The Brick Store LLC to produce and sell bricks, according to public documents obtained by TechCrunch. The new company, which was founded in July,…

The Boring Company goes brick-and-mortar with The Brick Store

Loop, a startup that makes it easy and quick for retailers to collect feedback from customers, has released version 2.0 of its iOS app. The most important change probably isn’t…

Loop Upgrades Its Mobile Survey App, Adds A Pro Account For $99 A Year

New mobile payments startup Loop has closed on $10 million in Series A funding, in what’s being described as an “oversubscribed” angel round involving undisclosed investors. The company, which is working to…

Mobile Payments Startup Loop Closes $10 Million Series A, Starts Shipping Fobs To Early Backers

Loop is a new mobile payments startup making some fairly big claims. The company says it has invented a technology that lets you pay with your phone at nearly any…

Loop: The Future Of Mobile Payments Or A Temporary Fix?

Remember turning the corners of your class notes into flipbooks with a sequence of tiny drawings? iPad app Loop recreates the glee of watching your doodles come to life by…

iPad Animation App Loop Captures The Fun Of Making Doodled Flipbooks

Loop co-founder and CEO Rajit Marwah argued that “surveys and reviews are everywhere” — but they’re often ignored or delayed. With his new startup, on the other hand, Marwah said…

Loop Makes It Easy To Conduct Real-Time Surveys Via iPad