Justice Department charges Indian government employee in foiled plot to assassinate US citizen in New York City

TechCrunch Google replaces executive in charge of Search and advertising Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced on Thursday that Prabhakar Raghavan, the executive in charge of the company's search engine and ads products, is leaving his role. Longtime Google executive Nick Fox will replace Raghavan, who will now take on the role of chief technologist. "Prabhakar has decided it's time to make a big leap in his own career," Pichai said in the announcement post.

Eclipse opens an NYC office with plans to bolster its presence on the East Coast After nearly a decade, industrials-focused VC Eclipse expanded out of Silicon Valley. The firm opened its second office in New York's Soho neighborhood, with plans to invest more on the East Coast. Since the firm's founding in 2015, it has been exclusively located in Silicon Valley — until now.

Zepto eyes $100M from Indian offices in third funding in 6 months Zepto is in advanced stages of talks to raise $100 million in new investment, its third in the last six months, as the leading Indian quick-commerce startup looks to rope in more domestic investors, sources familiar with the talks told TechCrunch. The Mumbai-headquartered startup, which delivers grocery items and office stationery to customers' doorsteps in 10 minutes in multiple Indian cities, is raising the new investment from Indian family offices and high-net-worth individuals. Motilal Oswal, the asset management giant that earlier invested $40 million in Zepto, is running the mandate for the new funding deliberation, the sources said, requesting anonymity as the matter is private.

Yahoo Finance Resolution of a Boeing legal crisis hangs in balance as financial crisis deepens A federal judge is weighing whether to approve a plea deal Boeing reached with the Justice Department in July, when the company agreed to plead guilty to misleading regulators before two 737 MAX fatal crashes at the end of last decade.

ODD taps $27M for diamond chips to clear radioactive debris at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant Back in 2011, the world held its breath after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan suffered a failure of its cooling systems, in the wake of the country getting hit by a 9.0 magnitude earthquake and tsunami. Last month, the Japanese government began a testing procedure to remove radioactive debris in and around the plant - a significant step in the plant's decommissioning process, expected to be completed by 2051. A groundbreaking startup from Japan, Ookuma Diamond Device (ODD), is playing a fascinating part in the process, by way of diamond-chip-powered amplifiers that are being used in efforts to remove radioactive debris.

The FTC makes it easier to cancel subscriptions like streaming services, memberships and Prime First put forth for comment last year, the rule applies to any automatically renewing subscription, ranging from streaming services to gym memberships and payments for plans like Amazon Prime. Under the rule, businesses — including those offering free trials that charge if you don't cancel in time — can't force customers to end a subscription using a method different from how they signed up. The FTC says that it receives thousands of complaints about duplicitous subscription plans each year — and that these numbers have been steadily increasing over the past five years.

How Paladin's drones helped Asheville during Hurricane Helene When Hurricane Helene hit Asheville, North Carolina in September, the city's police department reached out to public safety drone startup Paladin for help. The startup's 30-member team jumped into action working nights and through the weekend to assist Asheville's police department with locating people and dropping off supplies. Asheville was a Paladin customer and its team was able to help because its software could control drones remotely from the company's Houston headquarters, Paladin founder and CEO Divy Shrivastava told TechCrunch.