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A hacker is advertising customer data allegedly stolen from the Australia-based live events and ticketing company TEG on a well-known hacking forum. On Thursday, a hacker put up for sale…

Hacker claims to have 30 million customer records from Australian ticket seller giant TEG

TikTok said today that it has partnered with ticketing company AXS to sell tickets for events worldwide. The ByteDance-owned app is introducing this feature in the U.S., U.K., Sweden and…

TikTok partners with AXS to sell tickets for live events worldwide

WhatsApp is bolstering its shopping experience for both merchants and users through a new feature called Flows, which will let users complete tasks such as picking a seat on a…

WhatsApp is introducing Flows for a richer in-app shopping experience

Spotify has launched a new site to sell fans tickets to live gigs directly from its platform instead of redirecting users to partners like Ticketmaster and Eventbrite. The company’s new…

Spotify starts selling live music tickets to fans directly

Though the COVID-19 pandemic almost immediately devasted the business of travel booking startup Headout, the company has been able to return to growth as domestic travel rebounded in recent months.…

Travel experiences app Headout survives the Omicron surge, grabs $30M more in funding

As college football’s second week draws to a close, one storyline has gotten an unusual amount of attention: the game’s slumping attendance numbers.

As college football attendance slumps, new ways to ticket may hold an answer

Shout out to all the savvy enterprise software startuppers. Here’s a quick, two-part money-saving reminder. Part one: TC Sessions: Enterprise 2019 is right around the corner on September 5, and…

Every TC Sessions: Enterprise 2019 ticket includes a free pass to Disrupt SF

Here are five words you’ll never hear spring from the mouth of an early-stage startupper. “I don’t mind paying more.” We feel you, and that’s why we’re letting you know…

Early-bird pricing ends next week for TC Sessions: Enterprise 2019

Get ready to experience world-class networking TechCrunch-style at TC Sessions: Enterprise 2019. On September 5, more than 1,000 of the top enterprise software minds and makers, movers and shakers will…

CrunchMatch simplifies networking at TC Sessions: Enterprise 2019

Every startupper we’ve ever met loves a great deal, and so do we. That’s why we’re offering an exclusive 2-for-1 sale on tickets to TC Sessions: Enterprise 2019, which takes…

Buy-One-Get-One Free Sale – TC Sessions: Enterprise 2019

Could you use a little summer startup fun? We’re rolling out our next round of tickets to the TechCrunch Summer Party at Park Chalet, San Francisco’s coastal beer garden. If you…

New tickets available to the 14th Annual TechCrunch Summer Party

In a world where the enterprise market hovers around $500 billion in annual sales, is it any wonder that hundreds of enterprise startups launch into that fiercely competitive arena every…

Get your early-bird tickets to TC Sessions: Enterprise 2019

Get ready for summer in the city, TechCrunch-style. We just released a fresh batch of tickets to the 14th Annual TechCrunch Summer Party. Available on a first-come, first-served basis, tickets…

More tickets available to the 14th Annual TechCrunch Summer Party

Ticketmaster is turning to new technology to help fight ticket fraud. The ticketing giant today unveiled its next-generation digital tickets, “SafeTix,” which are tied to the ticket holder’s mobile device…

Ticketmaster puts an end to screenshots with new digital ticket technology

MoviePass may still be trying to figure out how to make a movie ticket subscription service financially viable, but it can be credited for at least correctly identifying consumer demand…

Atom Tickets to challenge MoviePass with a subscription ticket platform for theaters

Among the many myths that were laid low in 2018, perhaps none was as welcome to throngs of live-event fans as the fantasy of the sold-out show.

In 2018 the ticketing industry finally killed the ‘sold-out’ show

Buying event tickets online isn’t a great experience. Sites like Ticketmaster are the default, but are difficult to use and expensive. A startup called Lea wants to offer a more…

Lea’s live event assistant for Messenger makes buying tickets easier

The football ticket is about to go paperless. As part of a multi-year contract extension between The National Football League and Ticketmaster, the ticketing giant has said it will be…

Ticketmaster is taking NFL ticketing digital

Today the MLB announced that the Oakland Athletics are piloting a new NFC ticketing solution which lets fans enter the stadium by tapping their phone (or Apple Watch) to a…

An MLB team is using the iPhone’s NFC feature for contactless stadium entry

Some Facebook users have noticed a new section called “Movies” appearing in the mobile app’s main navigation. The feature offers a way to see which movies are playing nearby, available…

Facebook adds a dedicated ‘Movies’ section offering showtimes and ticket sales

The Budapest Transport Authority (BKK, in Hungarian) recently launched an online payment system with the help of a T-Systems Hungary, Deutsche Telekom’s consulting arm. The system, which took three months…

Hungarian hacker arrested for pressing F12

Eventbrite, the billion-dollar event-management platform that some tip for an imminent IPO, has made another acquisition in Europe to build out its presence here, and to move deeper into ticketing…

Eventbrite buys Ticketscript, a self-service ticket platform for music events

If you’re a sports fan you probably remember attending a game where you spent a fortune on tickets — and it was totally worth it. Your team won in overtime, there…

GameHedge will refund 50% of your ticket if your sports team gets blown out

Gametime has raised $20 million in venture funding for an app that allows people to find and buy tickets to a nearby concert or sporting event at the last minute,…

Gametime raises $20 million to sell last-minute, textable tickets to sporting events and concerts

Teams and artists aren’t able to manage their businesses effectively, e.g. they cannot move prices in real-time in response to changes in supply and demand (closed ticketing systems don’t expose…

New ticketing technologies will open more doors to live entertainment

Have you ever bought sweet tickets for a ballgame, a concert or some other live event, only to find out that you couldn’t make it? The internet certainly offers plenty…

SeatGeek will calculate how much that ticket is worth

Sometimes the government, not the startup, wins. Case in point: Fixed, the company that began as a tool to help drivers fight their parking tickets through the use technology, has been acquired. Fixed had…

Fixed, the app that helps you fight tickets, gets acquired by a law firm

While EBay continues to build out its core marketplace for physical goods, it’s also investing to expand its other businesses and brands, too. Today the company announced that it has…

eBay buys Spain’s Ticketbis for $165M to expand StubHub into Europe, Latin America, Asia

All sports fans love a good playoff game. But actually attending one is something most folks never have the chance to do. The ticket prices for these games, from pro…

Shoowin lets you reserve playoff tickets to sports events on the cheap

StubHub, long considered to be the leader in secondary ticket sales for events, is getting into direct sales of primary tickets through a new partnership with the Philadelphia 76ers. They…

Partnering With 76ers, StubHub Moves Into Direct Ticketing Sales