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| Jan 31, 2025 | Uploadcare's Video CDN: A Game Changer for Video Management | In the fast-paced digital landscape, where video content reigns supreme, Uploadcare has stepped up to the plate with its new Video CDN. This innovative solution promises to streamline video uploads and enhance streaming experiences for deve... |
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| Jun 18, 2024 | Meta Launches Threads API for Developers | By Jace Dela Cruz
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Meta has officially rolled out its Threads API, which will enable third-party develo... |
| Apr 24, 2024 | Perplexity AI: A Rising Star in the AI Search Space | Perplexity, the AI search engine startup, is making waves in the tech world with its innovative approach to generative AI search. The company recently announced a new funding round of $62.7 million, doubling its valuation to over $1 billion... |
| Apr 23, 2024 | Perplexity is raising $250M+ at a $2.5B-$3B valuation for its AI search platform, sources say | Perplexity, the AI search engine startup, is a hot property at the moment. TechCrunch has learned that the company is currently raising at least $250 million more at a valuation of between $2.5 billion and $3 billion.
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| Apr 8, 2024 | Meta’s X competitor Threads invites developers to sign up for API access, publishes docs | After opening its developer API to select companies for testing in March, Meta’s Twitter/X competitor Threads is now introducing developer documentation and a sign-up sheet for interested parties ahead of the API’s public launch, planned fo... |
| Mar 30, 2024 | TikTok ban could harm Amazon sellers looking for alternatives | In March, the U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill that could force ByteDance to divest TikTok or face a ban in U.S. app stores. Much of the related discussion and debate has centered around American data security and ... |
| Mar 3, 2024 | Business | Dave Taylor: How can I keep track of tech news? | Q: I like to keep track of what’s happening in the computer and tech industry but am overwhelmed by the options. What sites, apps and email newsletters do you recommend, so I can stay on top of both news and troubleshooting info for Windows... |
| Feb 22, 2024 | Reddit’s IPO and what could have been for crypto | Companies are going public again after a dearth of IPOs in 2023, and one of the biggest and most interesting to join the pack is Reddit. Long known as the “front page of the internet,” Reddit is known for the quirky communities that populat... |
| Jan 9, 2024 | Unity to lay off another 1,800 employees, representing 25% of its workforce | Just a few weeks after its most recent round of layoffs, Unity is once again reducing its workforce. This time, around 1,800 employees will lose their job in the coming weeks as the company is trying to improve its financial performance aft... |
| Dec 21, 2023 | Podimo raises €44M to turn up the volume on its Netflix-style podcasting platform | We are fast approaching half a billion people listening to podcasts, and today one of the independent players hoping to cash in on that activity has announced some funding to grow.
Podimo, the Copenhagen-based podcasting startup that’s buil... |
| Nov 16, 2023 | Apple to finally bring RCS to iPhones | Apple plans to add support for the RCS standard on iOS next year, the iPhone-maker said Thursday in a major reversal that would resolve the widespread issue of compatibility in text messaging between iPhones and Android smartphones, but sto... |
| Oct 22, 2023 | Three Steps To Improve Apple’s Next MacBook Pro | Updated October 22nd: article originally posted October 21st. |
| Oct 4, 2023 | Google Uses A Familiar Phrase To Promote The Pixel 8 Pro | With Wednesday’s launch of the Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro, showcasing the new hardware and software to an invited audience in New York and many more on the livestream, Google pulled out all the stops. And those watching might have heard someth... |
| Sep 12, 2023 | Apple Prepares To Delay MacBook Air To Find iPhone Success | Article updated September 12th; article originally posted September 9th. |
| Sep 11, 2023 | Open Cosmos, a UK satellite startup focused on sustainability, raises $50M | Satellites have come into focus as a critical way — and sometimes the only way — to deliver communications and receive data about certain locations around the world, a power position that can be heroic but also ripe for abuse, and that’s be... |
| Sep 7, 2023 | ActiveFence snaps up Spectrum Labs, last valued at $137M, to help fight the harmful content creep | Misinformation, harassment, grooming and other illegal activity continue to be major issues in the worlds of content moderation and online safety, balancing big problems and illicit activity against equally important, and sometimes conflict... |
| Sep 3, 2023 | Apple Loop: AirPods Pro Go USB-C, New iPhone Colors, macOS’ Gaming Conundrum | AirPods USB-C Plans updated September 3rd; article originally posted September 1st. |
| Aug 31, 2023 | New Pixel Hardware Expected To Launch At “Made For Google” Event On October 4th | Everyone waiting for the new Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro should check their diaries. Google has confirmed a launch event for October 4 via the Pixel Store, which is widely expected to see the debut of the Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro. |
| Aug 9, 2023 | Aiming to boost retention, Threads now hooks into Instagram DMs | Despite declines in user retention numbers following its buzzy, record-breaking launch, Instagram’s Twitter (er, X) competitor Threads continues to ship new features. The company today announced a handful of updates to its new app, includin... |
| Jul 17, 2023 | Isometric taps $25M to build a registry and science platform focused on carbon removal | Carbon removal — technology that aims to remove carbon emissions from the environment by breaking it down and turning it into something less harmful — saw a big splash of attention last year after Stripe, Shopify, Meta, Alphabet and more co... |
| Jun 26, 2023 | IBM acquires Apptio from Vista for $4.6B in cash to double down on hybrid cloud services | As cloud architecture continues to be more ubiquitous among organizations, increasingly what is more apparent is that many organizations are taking a hybrid approach, blending SaaS in private and public clouds with some products that remain... |
| Jun 4, 2023 | Apple Relying On Old Specs To Sell New MacBook | Updated June 4th; article originally posted June 3rd. |
| May 20, 2023 | This Week in Apps: ChatGPT comes to iPhone, Bing AI efforts expand, Instagram’s Twitter clone | Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy.
The app economy in 2023 hit a few snags, as consumer spending last year dropped for t... |
| May 17, 2023 | Eagle Eye Networks and Brivo raise $192M in a joint round to boost cloud security business | Eagle Eye Networks and Brivo, two players in the world of physical cloud security — respectively video surveillance and access control systems to secure buildings and other physical spaces — are doubling down on their businesses… quite lite... |
| May 6, 2023 | This Week in Apps: Apple and Google team up on trackers, Google I/O preview, apps hit NewFronts | Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy.
The app economy in 2023 hit a few snags, as consumer spending last year dropped for t... |
| Mar 21, 2023 | Bionic Health raises $3M for its AI health clinic using GPT-4 and other ML models to design better preventative care | The worlds of technology and medicine are making big bets on AI playing a central role in the delivery of healthcare in the future. Today a startup out of Durham, North Carolina, called Bionic Health — built by two early movers in the comme... |
| Mar 18, 2023 | This Week in Apps: AI-powered productivity apps, US weighs TikTok ban, SVB crash boosts crypto apps | Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy.
The app economy in 2023 hit a few snags as consumer spending last year dropped for th... |
| Mar 16, 2023 | Via confirms it’s acquired trip planning app Citymapper to boost its transit tech | Last month, when transportation startup Via raised $110 million at a $3.5 billion valuation, CEO Daniel Ramot said it planned to make acquisitions to grow its transportation technology stack. Now, a piece of that strategy is falling into pl... |
| Mar 15, 2023 | LinkedIn expands its generative AI assistant to recruitment ads and writing profiles | Earlier this month, when LinkedIn started seeding “AI-powered conversation starters” in people’s news feeds to boost engagement on its platform, the move saw more than little engagement of its own, none of it too positive.
But the truth of ... |
| Feb 22, 2023 | Intel slashes dividend by nearly two-thirds to shore up cash as chip giant braces for a tough year | In January, when Intel reported one of its worst financial quarters in years, the chip giant worked to keep up investor confidence by holding its dividend steady at $0.365/share. Less than a month later, it’s singing a very different tune. ... |
| Feb 14, 2023 | BuzzFeed launches Infinity Quizzes, creating personalized stories powered by OpenAI | BuzzFeed — the media site that made its name (literally) spinning out viral content — landed in the middle of the buzz itself last month when news leaked out that it would partner with the AI startup of the moment, OpenAI, to build a new AI... |
| Feb 6, 2023 | Meta fails bid to stop exploitation lawsuit against it in Kenya | More drama is afoot for Facebook’s parent company Meta on the African continent. A Kenyan court today rejected Meta’s request to be removed as party in a lawsuit filed last year against it and Sama, its main subcontractor for content modera... |
| Jan 17, 2023 | Apple Confirms Powerful MacBook Pro Upgrade | Apple has finally announced the upgrade to its professional-grade 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro laptops, with an emphasis on the performance offered by the M2 Pro and M2 Max chipsets. |
| Dec 13, 2022 | Shield AI raises another $60M at a $2.3B valuation for its military autonomous flying tech | Defense technology continues to get a lot of attention from investors, and today, one of the bigger startups in the space is announcing more funding. Shield AI — which develops platforms and planes for autonomous flying systems, targeting t... |
| Dec 12, 2022 | Playtika lays off 610 workers, shuts down three online gaming titles amid broader restructure | Playtika, the Israeli tech company that made its name with through a series of wildly successful online gambling and gaming titles with hundreds of millions of players, is leveling the latest swing of the layoffs pendulum. The company today... |
| Dec 6, 2022 | Telegram Premium tops 1 million subscribers | Telegram Premium has amassed more than 1 million subscribers, less than six months after the popular instant messaging app launched the paid offering and began a serious effort to monetize the business.
Telegram founder and chief executive ... |
| Dec 1, 2022 | Zoe, which went viral with its COVID-reporting app, raises $30M to track nutrition and health | Zoe, a startup founded by doctors and researchers out of London and Boston, made its name during the pandemic with a popular — dare we say viral? — self-reporting COVID-19 app. Embraced both by consumers and researchers, it provided early d... |
| Nov 19, 2022 | This Week in Apps: Apple-Epic antitrust battle resumes, Apple sued over tracking, Google’s new rules for kids’ apps | Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy.
Global app spending reached $65 billion in the first half of 2022, up only slightly f... |
| Nov 16, 2022 | Linktree intros Payment Lock, paywalls creators can put around individual pieces of media | Looking for more ways to grow its revenue, Linktree knows the way to creators’ hearts and wallets: by building more tools to help them make money. Today the “link in bio” startup, which has some 30 million users and drives around 1.5 billio... |
| Oct 24, 2022 | Apple Prepares Next-Generation M2 Pro And M2 Ultra For Mac Debut | Apple may not have revealed the larger MacBook Pro laptops at its October flurry of press releases. Yet new details show that the powerful laptops that many are waiting for should be worth wait… if their biggest concern is the pure utility ... |
| Oct 19, 2022 | Netflix results confirm we’re not in 2021 anymore | I don’t know if anyone’s really noticed, but Netflix had a pretty great third quarter, thank you very much. The streaming platform added 2.41 million subscribers when it only expected 1 million. It also beat analysts’ financial expectations... |
| Oct 11, 2022 | Funding in Indian startups shrinks by more than half | We are getting a more realistic update on the startup funding landscape in India, and as is true elsewhere, all the figures are in red in the South Asian market.
Indian startups raised $3 billion in the quarter that ended in September, down... |
| Sep 19, 2022 | How an underground market for used Amazon seller accounts is wreaking havoc | Today, we've got an inside look at a niche underground market for used Amazon seller accounts — one where fraudsters are wreaking havoc and raising questions about identity theft.
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| Sep 16, 2022 | General Atlantic buys out SoftBank’s 15% stake in edtech Kahoot, now valued at about $152M vs the $215M SoftBank ponied up 2 years ago | SoftBank’s retreat from its past investing exuberance continues apace. This morning, Kahoot, the Norwegian startup that provides a popular platform for people to build and use education-focused games, announced that General Atlantic is buyi... |
| Sep 8, 2022 | ByteDance Shuts Down Douyin Box, its E-Commerce App, Due to Underperformance | Sophie Webster, Tech Times 08 September 2022, 08:09 pm
ByteDance, a Chinese company that owns TikTok, withdrew its support for its e-commerce app only nine months after its launch.
The company continues to shut down struggling business unit... |
| Aug 23, 2022 | Ready Player Me, a platform to build dynamic cross-game avatars for virtual worlds, raises $56M led by a16z | Last week, Mark Zuckerberg was roundly mocked for the bad graphics in his preview of a new expansion of Horizon Worlds, Meta’s metaverse effort. His quick response promising better avatars for the actual launch speaks to just how much appea... |
| Aug 23, 2022 | Mudge’s report helps Musk’s legal fight over $44B Twitter deal; says there are ‘millions’ of accounts that could be spam bots | Elon Musk has been handed a fat golden goose to feed his legal battle over ending his acquisition of Twitter. The tech mogul has been trying to cancel his Twitter-approved $44 billion bid because he believes Twitter has not been transparent... |
| Aug 20, 2022 | This Week in Apps: Android 13 arrives, apps plan for midterms, Amazon copies TikTok | Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy.
Global app spending reached $65 billion in the first half of 2022, up only slightly f... |
| Aug 11, 2022 | Parsing Coinbase’s regulatory risk | Coinbase earnings reports carry weight because the U.S. cryptocurrency exchange commands material market share in a budding portion of the digital economy. Additionally, it’s an active startup investor and a key data point in determining th... |
| Jul 12, 2022 | The Challenges That Nothing’s Phone (1) Must Overcome | After showing enough ankle so everyone in tech circles knew what to expect, Nothing has launched its first smartphone. Following on from the tech company’s Ear (1) wireless in-ear buds, the Phone (1) is officially on the market. |
| Jul 2, 2022 | This Week in Apps: Period tracking app privacy, Snapchat’s paid subscription, calls for TikTok ban | Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy.
The app industry continues to grow, with a record number of downloads and consumer sp... |
| Jun 1, 2022 | Microsoft’s Gentle Update To The Surface Laptop Go | Microsoft has announced the next Surface device today; the Surface Laptop Go 2. Building on 2020’s Surface Laptop Go, it promises to be a smaller laptop with enough power and performance to get you comfortably through a working day while st... |
| Apr 26, 2022 | Thousands of semi-active apps could be caught up in latest App Store purge | A new estimate from app intelligence firm Sensor Tower predicts that nearly 3,000 semi-active apps, if not more, could be pulled from the App Store in the latest sweep designed to remove apps that are no longer being updated by their develo... |
| Mar 23, 2022 | Carl Pei’s Nothing Confirms Ambitious Smartphone Plans | In a surprise to very few, Nothing has announced it will be launching a new smartphone in the summer of 2022. Following the ear (1) true wireless buds, the smartphone will be called the phone (1), powered by Android, and will run Nothing OS... |
| Mar 9, 2022 | Carl Pei’s Nothing Prepares For Future Products With New Funding Round | Today saw consumer technology company Nothing announce a Series B funding round of $70 million, along with details on a new event where the company will talk more about its future product strategy. |
| Mar 9, 2022 | Three Stunning Macs That Apple Forgot | This week’s “Peek Performance” event saw Apple update its iPhone and iPad line-up, along with introducing the new Mac Studio. What’s more notable, at least for Mac fans, was what was not on show. Three new Macs are keenly awaited by Apple’s... |
| Feb 28, 2022 | Honor’s Confident Challenge With Magic4 And Magic4 Pro Launch | Not content with second place in China, Honor’s latest premium handsets are set to challenge Apple across the world. |
| Dec 14, 2021 | Banks, ISPs Increasingly Embrace 'Voice Print' Authentication Despite Growing Security Risk | While it's certainly possible to sometimes do biometrics well, a long line of companies frequently... don't. Voice print authentication is particularly shaky, especially given the rise of inexpensive voice deepfake technology. But, much lik... |
| Dec 14, 2021 | Banks, ISPs Increasingly Embrace 'Voice Print' Authentication Despite Growing Security Risk | While it’s certainly possible to sometimes do biometrics well, a long line of companies frequently… don’t. Voice print authentication is particularly shaky, especially given the rise of inexpensive voice deepfake technology. But, much like ... |
| Dec 9, 2021 | Google Confirms Android Problems With 911 Emergency Service | Google and Microsoft are working to solve a critical issue in Android that could prevent users making a call to 9111 emergency services. While the issue has only been reported by one user, it has been reproduced. |
| Dec 7, 2021 | Permira plans to take email security firm Mimecast private in a $5.8B all-cash deal | Nine months after competitor Proofpoint was scooped up by Thoma Bravo for $12.3 billion, Mimecast is also going the private equity route. Today the security company announced that Permira would be taking Mimecast private in a $5.8 billion a... |
| Oct 26, 2021 | New MacBook Pro Reviews: Apple Finds Its Future In The Past | Updated Tuesday 26th October; article originally posted 25th October. |
| Oct 25, 2021 | Facebook’s stock shrugs off bad-news deluge | After social media company Snap reported earnings last week, the value of its cohort of public companies fell sharply.
Snap shed more than 20% of its value after telling investors that it expects a far smaller fourth quarter than the street... |
| Oct 19, 2021 | Apple’s Courageous MacBook Pro Decision | Updated Tuesday 19th October; article originally posted 18th October. |
| Sep 13, 2021 | GrubMarket gobbles up $120M at a $1B+ pre-money valuation to take on the food supply chain | When people talk about “online food delivery” services, chances are that they’ll think of the Uber Eats, Instacarts and Getirs of this world. But today a startup that’s tackling a different aspect of the market — addressing the supply chain... |
| Aug 3, 2021 | Three Things You Need To Know About Google’s Pixel 6 And Pixel 6 Pro | Whether you call it a launch, a confirmation, a tease, or a spoiler, Google has confirmed a number of details around the upcoming Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro handsets. It’s almost as if Google wants us to consider the new Pixels alongside the u... |
| Jul 20, 2021 | Carlyle confirms acquisition of live video streaming company LiveU, sources tell us for over $400M | Following our report yesterday of an impending sale of LiveU — one of the big developers of live streaming hardware and software, used by some 3,000 major media organizations — today the company and its buyer Carlyle confirmed the deal.
The... |
| Jul 19, 2021 | Carlyle to acquire live broadcasting and streaming tech outfit LiveU for over $400M, say sources | Streaming is the name of the content game these days, and now one of the companies that builds tech to do this from anywhere in the world is getting acquired. LiveU — whose satellite/cellular hardware and software for capturing and deliveri... |
| May 12, 2021 | India offers $2.46B incentive to boost domestic production of batteries | India’s cabinet on Wednesday approved Department of Heavy Industry’s proposal to provide incentives to boost domestic production of batteries with advanced energy storage, the latest in a series of efforts by New Delhi to make the world’s s... |
| Apr 29, 2021 | PortalOne raises $15M from Atari and more for a new hybrid gaming/TV show app | Gaming and streamed video have been two of the biggest pastime winners during the last year+ of pandemic living. Today a startup that has created an app that brings those two entertainment formats together is announcing a notable seed round... |
| Apr 15, 2021 | Oxbotica raises $13.8M from Ocado to build autonomous vehicle tech for the online grocer’s logistics network | Ocado, the UK online grocer that has been making strides reselling its technology to other grocery companies to help them build and run their own online ordering-and-delivery operations, is making an investment today into what it believes w... |
| Apr 7, 2021 | Norway’s Kolonial rebrands as Oda, bags $265M on a $900M valuation to grow its online grocery delivery business in Europe | Food delivery startups, and specifically those focused on grocery delivery, continue to reap super-sized rounds of funding in Europe, buoyed by a year of pandemic living that has led many consumers to shift to shopping online. Today, the la... |
| Apr 6, 2021 | Sendbird raises $100M at a $1B+ valuation, says 150M+ users now interact using its chat and video APIs | Messaging is the medium these days, and today a startup that has built an API to help others build text and video interactivity into their services is announcing a big round to continue scaling its business. Sendbird, a popular provider of ... |
| Mar 23, 2021 | OnePlus 9 Pro And OnePlus 9 Review: OnePlus Puts The Competition On Notice | Today saw OnePlus announce the OnePlus 9 family of smartphones. The OnePlus 9 Pro is a direct challenger to premium flagships from the likes of Samsung and Apple, while the OnePlus 9 feels the spiritual descendant of the first ‘Never Settle... |
| Mar 15, 2021 | Genesis raises $45M to expand its fintech-focussed low-code platform to more verticals | Low-code and no-code tools have been a huge hit with enterprises keen to give their operations more of a tech boost, but often lack the resources to handle more complex integrations. Today, one of the startups that has been building low-cod... |
| Jan 20, 2021 | Tech and crypto funder Andreessen Horowitz wants to replace the media. Is that bad news? | This is the web version of The Ledger, Fortune’s weekly newsletter covering financial technology and cryptocurrency. Sign up here to get it free in your inbox.
If you have even a passing familiarity with Silicon Valley or cryptocurrency, yo... |
| Dec 8, 2020 | Is 2020 bringing more edtech rounds than ever, or does it simply feel that way? | Venture capital activity is high at the moment, making it difficult to keep up with the influx of new rounds that are being announced.
Our cup runneth over, and I would much rather be busy than bored, but not all sectors are as busy as othe... |
| Nov 5, 2020 | TikTok tests a Learn tab to showcase education and how-to videos | How-to videos have been some of the most popular content on YouTube over the years, and now, to grow engagement and the pool of users that it appeals to, the upstart video app TikTok is getting in on the action, too.
After launching a dedic... |
| Oct 21, 2020 | SoftBank’s $100 million diversity and inclusion fund makes its first bet … in health | SoftBank’s Opportunity Fund has made the health insurance startup Vitable Health the first public commitment from its $100 million fund dedicated to investing in startups founded by entrepreneurs of color.
The Philadelphia-based company, wh... |
| Oct 19, 2020 | Pakistan lifts ban on TikTok | Pakistan Telecommunication Authority said on Monday it has lifted the ban on TikTok, 11 days after the South Asian nation’s telecom authority blocked the popular short video app in the country over problematic videos on the platform. The au... |
| Oct 16, 2020 | ProBeat: Shame on tech companies that don’t give employees time off to vote | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
This week, thousands of Amazon employees petition... |
| Oct 16, 2020 | ProBeat: Shame on tech companies that don’t give employees time off to vote | This week, thousands of Amazon employees petitioned for paid time off to vote. The petition asked Amazon “to provide the entire U.S. employee workforce with a paid day/shift off that can be used anytime between now and Election Day on Novem... |
| Oct 14, 2020 | OnePlus 8T Review: When You Need Predictability In Your Smartphone | Once upon a time, the OnePlus promise was easy to understand. There would be one handset, it would look to bring the best features of the competitors current flagships to the mid-range, and sell the handset under the enticing slogan of ‘Nev... |
| Oct 13, 2020 | Microsoft Scores Another Windows 10 ARM Success | I’m told there was an Apple event today. I’m told it was one of the biggest moments of its year. Yet the event was for this year’s tweak of the iPhone, not Apples’s big moment of innovation. That’s coming later this year, when Tim Cook’s te... |
| Jul 22, 2020 | Apple Confirms Stunning New MacBook Pro Details | July 22 update below, post originally published July 21. |
| Jun 17, 2020 | Apple doubles down on its right to profit from other businesses | Apple this week is getting publicly dragged for digging in its heels over its right to take a cut of subscription-based transactions that flow through its App Store. Almost unbelievably, it’s doing so in the middle of antitrust investigatio... |
| Jun 15, 2020 | Equity Monday: Quibi, two Boston rounds and a shift to pessimism | Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This is Equity Monday, our short-form week-starter in which we go over the weekend, look to the week ahead, ta... |
| Jun 3, 2020 | SoftBank launches $100M+ Opportunity Growth Fund to invest in founders of color | As we continue to see protests across the U.S. (and elsewhere) sparked by the killing of George Floyd by police in Minnesota, SoftBank is announcing a new investment vehicle to back entrepreneurs of color, part of its contribution to trying... |
| May 2, 2020 | Startups Weekly: SaaS companies should target burn to match ARR during pandemic | [Editor’s note: Get this weekly recap of TechCrunch news that any startup can use every Saturday morning by email (7am PT). Just subscribe here.]
How well is SaaS overcoming business impacts of the pandemic? First, there’s no negative impac... |
| Apr 27, 2020 | Josh Constine leaves TechCrunch for VC fund SignalFire | How do you leave the place that made you? You figure out what it made you for. TechCrunch made me a part of the startup ecosystem I love. Now it’s time to put that love into action to help a new generation of entrepreneurs build their dream... |
| Apr 22, 2020 | iPhone SE Reviews: The Old, Boring, Powerful, Perfect iPhone | Apple’s cut-price iPhone SE will go on sale the Friday, but review units have been sent out and the geekerati have had their first look at Apple’s return to the mid-range space with a new handset. Will this bring in more consumers to Apple’... |
| Mar 25, 2020 | OnCoins | If you are a crypto enthusiast like me, how do you stay on top of the daily crypto news cycle? There is crypto twitter, but that’s not for the faint of heart. If you hang out there, you know what I mean. You can read the news at Coindesk, C... |
| Feb 27, 2020 | DoorDash, the $13B on-demand food delivery startup, says it has confidentially filed for an IPO | The on-demand food delivery wars continue to heat up in the U.S. DoorDash announced today that it has filed confidentially to go public. The company noted that its Form S-1, a draft registration statement, was filed with the SEC and is now ... |
| Feb 26, 2020 | 5 Ways To Optimize Your Website For Mobile Devices | Back in the heady days of 2008, analysts predicted that mobile internet use would take over desktop internet use by 2014. At that point, it seemed like a bold prediction, considering that accessing the internet on your mobile was still some... |
| Jan 30, 2020 | Avast shuts down marketing analytics subsidiary Jumpshot amid controversy over selling user data | Avast has made a huge business out of selling antivirus protection for computers and mobile devices, but more recently it was revealed that the Czech-based cybersecurity specialist was also cultivating another, more controversial, revenue s... |
| Jan 30, 2020 | Amazon quietly publishes its latest transparency report | Just as Amazon was basking in the news of a massive earnings win, the tech giant quietly published — as it always does — its latest transparency report, revealing a slight dip in the number of government demands for user data.
It’s a rarely... |
| Nov 18, 2019 | Conflicting Bull And Bear Signs Across Startupland | 11 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
Morning Markets: Kicking off this nigh-holiday week, let’s take a look at what we’re seeing around the startup market. It’s hard to get a single feel for the pulse as both bullish and bearish sentim... |