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Twitter now lets you pin up to 6 DM conversations | Amanda Silberling | 2,022 | 2 | 17 | Twitter is slowly continuing to enhance its direct messaging interface amid a tidal wave of product updates over the last year. The company announced today that it will now enable users to pin six conversations to the top of their DM inbox for easy access. The feature is available on iOS, Android and web. Keep your fav... |
How to grow your organic traffic with earned media | Amanda Milligan | 2,022 | 2 | 17 | a ton of value, but not everyone understands how to measure its impact or grasp its full effect on your organic growth. While it immediately provides increased brand awareness, earned media can also be an excellent vehicle for building brand authority as well as dramatically improving your off-page SEO. Here at Stacke... |
Ford’s Mustang Mach-E ousts the Tesla Model 3 as Consumer Reports’ top EV | Jon Fingas | 2,022 | 2 | 17 | Tesla’s Model 3 has been ‘ top EV choice for the past two years, but the publication is ready to declare a new champion. has revealed that Ford’s has ousted the Model 3 as its EV Top Pick. The Mustang crossover is not only “more practical,” according to editors, but has better first-year reliability and a “far eas... |
Vertical integration | Brian Heater | 2,022 | 2 | 17 | for me this year. No drinking weird promotional energy drinks while watching bands play front yards at 9 AM or traveling out of my way to see the Daniel Johnston mural on the side of the delightfully named but permanently closed Thai, How Are You? restaurant. For a change of pace, I’ve decided to hole myself up in my ... |
One day soon, a robot will make you a salad | Brian Heater | 2,022 | 2 | 17 | Hyphen grabbed a quick mention in (it’s good, you should ) when it came out of stealth, back in August. Automated food prep is going to be a big thing, going forward. Many predicted as much in the early days of the pandemic, when stay at home orders and fears around COVID transmission left many restaurant owners won... |
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Spotify must be more transparent about its rules of the road | Sudhir Venkatesh | 2,022 | 2 | 17 | With the controversy surrounding Joe Rogan’s podcast, Spotify has officially joined the ranks of media platforms publicly defending their governance practices. Rogan’s podcast is a harbinger of the company’s future — and that of social media. Platforms that didn’t think of themselves as social are now faced with managi... |
Super Bowl ads boosted crypto app downloads by 279%, led by Coinbase | Sarah Perez | 2,022 | 2 | 17 | Those paid off for a number of tech companies not just in terms of exposure, but also app installs, a new report indicates. But Coinbase’s viral ad — a QR code around on a black screen like the old DVD screensaver — outperformed the group, with installs jumping 309% week-over-week after the ad’s airing Super Bowl S... |
Peloton adds gaming-inspired ‘Lanebreak,’ which looks like ‘Beatsaber’ on a bike | Amanda Silberling | 2,022 | 2 | 17 | Why stop at just gamifying fitness with a leaderboard? Peloton is literally adding games to its repertoire today as it launches , which the company calls its “first gaming-inspired experience.” Lanebreak falls into the genre of music-centric rhythm games, like virtual reality favorite “Beatsaber” or the classic “Guita... |
Unit’s Itai Damti explains how the company fundraises using culture and value | Matt Burns | 2,022 | 2 | 17 | years, I have never seen a document like it,” Emmalyn Shaw, managing partner at Flourish Ventures, said during TechCrunch Live. The episode was nearing the end, and Unit CEO and co-founder Itai Damti had just explained how the company’s long-running Culture and Values document helped pitch the company. “I’d seen, obvi... |
Actual, which renders company ESG data in a SimCity-like platform, raises $5M seed | Mike Butcher | 2,022 | 2 | 17 | Trying to deal with the huge amount of data associated with how companies are going to transition to a “net zero” economy is an uphill task. The interface of numbers would tax even the geekiest of CEOs. What if it could all be rendered visually, but also accurately? That’s the germ of the idea behind , a SimCity-like ... |
Elon Musk accuses SEC of conducting a ‘harassment campaign’ | Jon Fingas | 2,022 | 2 | 17 | If you thought Elon Musk was upset about frequent … you guessed correctly. Musk and Tesla have to a Southern District of New York court accusing the SEC of conducting a “harassment campaign.” The regulator allegedly broke a promise to pay Tesla shareholders $40 million as part of its 2018 over his tweets about , ... |
Voltron Data grabs $110M to build startup based on Apache Arrow project | Ron Miller | 2,022 | 2 | 17 | was launched last year by former employees from NVidia, Ursa Computing, BlazingSQL and the co-founder of . The group came together to build a company on top of Arrow to help companies that don’t want to deal with the headaches of managing an open source project on their own. Voltron Data co-founder and CEO Josh Patte... |
Beem, an app that lets you livestream yourself in AR, raises $4 million | Sarah Perez | 2,022 | 2 | 17 | What’s the next step beyond Zoom calls and FaceTime? How about beaming yourself from one device to another in real time using augmented reality? That’s the premise behind a startup called , which is today announcing its first consumer app, $4 million in seed funding and its longer-term plan to become a communications ... |
Backed by Accel, Minoan Experience is creating a new category of e-commerce called ‘native retail’ | Catherine Shu | 2,022 | 2 | 17 | Imagine staying at an Airbnb and becoming so attached to a particular chair or tea set that you want to buy it. Instead of asking the property owner where it’s from and tracking it down, lets you order the product by scanning a QR code. Then it’s delivered to your home in a few days. The “native retail” startup annou... |
Metriport helps you take your quantified self to the next increment | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,022 | 2 | 17 | Along comes , which aggregates all of your quantified-self data in one place, and adds clever features like mood tracking, medicine tracking and journaling. All your data lives locally on your device to protect your privacy, and the app can find correlations in your data to help you become a better you. Counting calor... |
Mdundo eyes more telco partnerships after music streaming revenue growth from Tanzania, Nigeria deals | Annie Njanja | 2,022 | 2 | 10 | Mdundo, an Africa-focused music streaming service, is banking on more partnerships with telcos across the continent to grow its earnings and user base. Last year, the company signed deals with MTN and Airtel in Nigeria, and Vodacom in Tanzania, which appear to be paying off after its user-base almost doubled as it adde... |
Atommerce wants to scale its mental health platform with $16.7M funding | Kate Park | 2,022 | 2 | 10 | Now, most of its users are millennials and Gen Z adult females in the country, Kim added. MiNDCAFE app |
What’s driving China’s autonomous vehicle frenzy? | Rita Liao | 2,022 | 2 | 10 | industry first started seeing some traction around 2016, when a bunch of ambitious startups mushroomed following advances in lidar, computing and machine learning. But the nascent sector was still driving in low gear, as the people working on the tech mostly had computer science backgrounds, and there weren’t many wit... |
Researchers warn that social media may be ‘fundamentally at odds’ with science | Devin Coldewey | 2,022 | 2 | 10 | A special set of editorials published in today’s issue of the journal Science argue that social media in its current form may well be fundamentally broken for the purposes of presenting and disseminating facts and reason. The algorithms are running the show now, they argue, and the systems priorities are unfortunately ... |
Daily Crunch: Tesla facing lawsuit after ‘hundreds’ of racial discrimination allegations | Alex Wilhelm | 2,022 | 2 | 10 | Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for Thursday, February 10, 2022! Trying new stuff is always risky, but I wanted to say thanks to everyone who came out today to watch Equity record live. Up next: Found, next Thursday! – And because I exist to test my editors’ patience, |
Indiegogo will designate legit crowdfunders with a ‘Trust-Proven’ badge | Brian Heater | 2,022 | 2 | 10 | Indiegogo has a trust problem. It’s something the company is keenly aware of. For years, the platform has been viewed by many as the destination for those campaigns that didn’t make it through the initial Kickstarter vetting process. As CEO Andy Yang told me in We’ve had our number of failures on our site, of campaign... |
Augmented reality finds a foothold in cars via safety features | Rebecca Bellan | 2,022 | 2 | 10 | The technology needed to electrify and automate cars is coming of age in tandem with the technology that powers augmented reality. Automakers keen on capturing the attention of their customers, and even attracting alternate forms of revenue, are considering the potential use cases of AR, now and in the future. The inte... |
Deepdub raises $20M for AI-powered dubbing that uses actors’ original voices | Sarah Perez | 2,022 | 2 | 10 | Netflix’s Korean drama “Squid Game” was one of the dubbed series of all time, proving the massive potential for foreign-language programming to become a hit in overseas markets. Now, a startup called is capitalizing on the growing demand for localized content by automating parts of the dubbing process using AI techn... |
Create a social media punch list for cryptocurrency marketing | John Biggs | 2,022 | 2 | 10 | officially began allowing crypto advertisers to . This quiet but important change meant that a long-closed marketing avenue for crypto products was now open. But what are best practices for crypto marketers in general? And is the platform worth exploring for crypto and NFT projects? First, let’s understand just what ... |
With steady growth, Egnyte reaches $150M ARR and looks to future IPO | Ron Miller | 2,022 | 2 | 10 | After 14 years, it’s hard to keep calling a startup. It’s more a wily veteran private company with steady growth, one that might have taken 12 years to reach , but took just two more to reach $150 million. It could surpass $200 million this year, and Egnyte CEO and co-founder says that its next milestone could be ... |
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In Hollywood, everything gets a reboot — even MoviePass | Brian Heater | 2,022 | 2 | 10 | MoviePass’ 2.0 kickoff press conference got off to a suitably rocky start. After a high energy introduction montage of upcoming film trailers, founder and new owner Stacy Spikes took the stage amid some audio issues, eventually switching over to a handheld mic. Say what you will about the firm’s previous struggles, but... |
So long, powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle | Amanda Silberling | 2,022 | 2 | 10 | As of this afternoon, if you try to go to — the confusing URL that used to host the internet’s favorite daily word puzzle — the website will redirect to The New York Times’ website. There, we’re greeted with an uncannily familiar webpage, yet something feels slightly amiss, until you realize: the title “Wordle” now s... |
Disney+ outshines Netflix with 11.8M new subscribers in Q1 and strong forecast | Aisha Malik | 2,022 | 2 | 10 | Disney+ added 11.8 million new subscribers last quarter to reach 129.8 million subscribers, Disney as part of its Q1 2022 earnings release, and said it’s still on track to reach 230 to 260 million subscribers by 2024. The company’s quarter beat projections after only adding 2 million subscribers in the previous quart... |
Virtual events platform Hopin cuts 12% of staff, citing goal of ‘sustainable growth’ | Natasha Mascarenhas | 2,022 | 2 | 10 | Hopin, a virtual events platform often lauded for its rapid-scale growth amid the pandemic, has cut 138 full-time employees, or 12% of staff, as well as some contractors, according to multiple sources. A Hopin spokesperson, who confirmed the layoffs to TechCrunch, also confirmed that employees impacted by Hopin’s layof... |
Astra’s first rocket launch from Florida goes awry | Darrell Etherington | 2,022 | 2 | 10 | Astra launched its first rocket from Florida’s “Space Coast” today, with a liftoff from Space Launch Complex 46 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. It was the startup’s second attempt after an earlier one was scrubbed on Monday due to a technical issue, and this time the rocket got off the pad — but unfortunately, t... |
OnlyFans of NFTs will like this profile picture update | Amanda Silberling | 2,022 | 2 | 10 | Who’d you think was going to by making NFT profile pictures a thing? If you guessed OnlyFans — the NSFW creator monetization platform that’s strangely trying to despite — you win! Until you remember that OnlyFans is doing NFT profile pictures now, which means maybe no one wins (except for the intersection of peopl... |
And just like that, Peloton is experiencing a correction | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,022 | 2 | 10 | minute since a publicly traded hardware company experienced a valuation correction as dramatic as Peloton’s. As a former hardware founder and investor, I can’t help but feel sorry for the no-mercy hill climb the company finds itself in. Peloton hasn’t been able to catch a break, even in an era where working out at hom... |
After Zambia, Kenya explores possibility of a digital currency | Annie Njanja | 2,022 | 2 | 10 | Kenya’s central bank has called on the public to share their views, before May 20th, on the possibility of adopting a digital currency, just one day after it emerged that Zambia is also testing its viability too. (CBDC), dubbed the eNaira, in October last year while Ghana is said to be at an advanced stage of rolling ... |
Super Bowl, Spot | Brian Heater | 2,022 | 2 | 10 | things arrive in fits and starts. Last week’s newsletter left me stumbling to cram everything into the allotted column space. Things are considerably more quiet this week, which can only mean that we’re heading for another deluge. Hey robotics world, if you could spread out the news a bit more, you’d be doing me a sol... |
The early bird has landed — buy your in-person pass to TC Sessions: Mobility 2022 today and save | Alexandra Ames | 2,022 | 2 | 19 | Who’s ready to mobilize and meet up in real life? And by “mobilize” we mean join more than 2,000 mobile-minded movers and shakers at in San Mateo, California, on May 18-19. We’re back for our fourth straight year, and can’t wait to see you in person for two days dedicated to exciting, new and emerging technologies de... |
The first developer preview of Android 13 has arrived | Frederic Lardinois | 2,022 | 2 | 10 | Right on , Google today announced the first developer release of Android 13. These very early releases, which are only meant for developers and aren’t available through over-the-air updates, typically don’t include too many user-facing changes. That’s true this time as well, but even in this early release, the company... |
This Week in Apps: Android’s Privacy Sandbox, Super Bowl app ads, App Annie rebrands | Sarah Perez | 2,022 | 2 | 19 | Welcome back to This Week in Apps, that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with number of downloads and consumer spending across both the iOS and Google Play stores combined in 2021, according to the year-end . App Annie glo... |
When to pivot your product, and a tale of two earnings calls | Alex Wilhelm | 2,022 | 2 | 19 | Oh yeah, y’all, it’s the weekend and it’s a long one here in the United States as we have Monday off. As you read this I am – hopefully – napping on the couch with three dogs festooned around me, all four of us drooling while we snooze. But! First! There’s much to do, so let’s dive into one startup’s pivot from earlier... |
Hire, then wire with a twist | Natasha Mascarenhas | 2,022 | 2 | 19 | Since launching the venture firm Backstage Capital in 2015, Arlan Hamilton has invested millions in more than 195 companies led by underrepresented founders, to a team . Despite the breadth in the business, Hamilton says she is consistently asked two questions by her portfolio companies: “Can you help us raise money?... |
Will rising interest rates decimate startup valuations? | Alex Wilhelm | 2,022 | 2 | 19 | Hello and welcome back to , a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This is Saturday, which means it’s not a day for us to drop an episode. But what are we if not try-hards at heart? So, we’re back today. What do we have on store for you? I brought ont... |
Arlan Hamilton wants to reroute how startups hire | Natasha Mascarenhas | 2,022 | 2 | 19 | venture firm Backstage Capital in 2015, Arlan Hamilton has invested millions in more than 195 companies led by underrepresented founders, to a team . Despite the breadth in the business, Hamilton says she is consistently asked two questions by her portfolio companies: “Can you help us raise money? And, “Can you help... |
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Startups scramble in wake of Ukraine invasion | Natasha Mascarenhas | 2,022 | 2 | 26 | I’m doing an abbreviated newsletter this week as I want to spend most of my energy amplifying the brave journalists on the ground reporting about this scary time. As so many have said — — the invasion of Ukraine is a story that impacts all of us, whether we’re on the ground there or not. And it’s hard to celebrate a ... |
PerchPeek raises $11M to woo ‘great resignation employees’ with easy relocation | Mike Butcher | 2,022 | 2 | 21 | Relocating employees can involve up to 20-30 different complex processes, while many of the support packages on the market can be inflexible and expensive. Plus, relocating services are usually only available to company leaders, not staff. But an even bigger issue looms over companies today: the “great resignation” bro... |
MarketForce raises $40 million Series A, introduces BNPL merchant stock financing | Annie Njanja | 2,022 | 2 | 21 | , the retail B2B and end-to-end distribution platform founded in Kenya, has raised $40 million in Series A funding for its merchant inventory financing and expansion across Africa. MarketForce, which was launched in Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda last year after , plans to introduce buy now, pay later (BNPL) options to h... |
Early-stage Euro VC Backed brings in another €150M, puts a heavy focus on founder events | Mike Butcher | 2,022 | 2 | 21 | London-based early-stage European VC fund is bolstering its position by adding €75 million to its seed fund, while adding another €75 million via a new follow-on fund vehicle. The Backed Core 2 fund will continue to invest in seed-stage startups, while the new Backed Encore 1 will do follow-on investments in later-st... |
Not all SPACs are garbage, and the power of teamwork | Alex Wilhelm | 2,022 | 2 | 26 | Hello and happy Saturday! Today we’re taking on two topics. The first fits neatly into our usual coverage area. The second not so much. Let’s go! In the 2021 SPAC rush I missed the public debut of Alight Solutions. Based outside of Chicago, the company is a business process outsourcing shop that supports tens of millio... |
This Week in Apps: Facebook Reels goes global, Trump’s own social app arrives, all eyes on TikTok | Sarah Perez | 2,022 | 2 | 26 | Welcome back to This Week in Apps, that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with number of downloads and consumer spending across both the iOS and Google Play stores combined in 2021, according to the year-end . App Annie glo... |
Last-mile delivery e-bike supplier Zoomo tacks on $20M to Series B | Rebecca Bellan | 2,022 | 2 | 21 | Zoomo, an Australian startup that builds utility e-bikes for delivery workers, has raised an additional $20 million in equity to close out its Series B round. In November, , which it used to fund further software development and more vehicles to expand. The additional funds, which bring Zoomo’s total funding up to $10... |
Sydney-based startup Upflowy raises $4M to optimize web experiences with its no-code solution | Kate Park | 2,022 | 2 | 21 | . Upflowy founders (from left to right): CTO Alex Girard, CIO Matthew Browne, CEO Guillaume Ang “Modern organizations need simple, no-code solutions that remove the friction between data collection and customer experience,” Patrick Eggen, co-founder and general partner at Counterpart Ventures, said in a statement. “T... |
Apple’s standoff with Dutch antitrust authority over dating apps’ payments continues | Natasha Lomas | 2,022 | 2 | 21 | The Netherlands’ competition authority has once again increased a fine levied against Apple for failing to comply with an antitrust order . The fifth penalty payment of €5 million issued today means the tech giant is now on the hook for €25M (out of a possible total of €50M) — and stands accused of continuing to throw... |
Instagram quietly limits ‘daily time limit’ option | Natasha Lomas | 2,022 | 2 | 21 | RIP Mark Zuckerberg’s “ “? In a move that appears to coincide with , photo-sharing app Instagram appears to have quietly removed the ability for mobile users to set a lower daily time limit reminder than 30 minutes. Indeed, the app’s UX design nudges people to choose a three hour ‘limit’ (see screengrab below). This d... |
Meta sent a new draft decision on its EU-US data transfers | Natasha Lomas | 2,022 | 2 | 21 | Facebook has received a “revised” preliminary decision from its lead EU privacy regulator with implications for its ability to continue to export user data to the US, TechCrunch has learned. “Meta has 28 days to make submissions on this preliminary decision at which point we will prepare a draft Article 60 decision for... |
Trump’s TRUTH Social launches at the top of the App Store, but no one can get in | Amanda Silberling | 2,022 | 2 | 21 | Donald Trump’s media group released its app today in the U.S., but a scan of the app’s API using publicly available tools revealed that it already closed itself to registrations (also, the scan showed that its “proprietary account registration microservice” is named “Pepe,” which is also the name of a meme with ).... |
Groundfloor steps up its real estate debt crowdfunding platform with fresh capital | Anita Ramaswamy | 2,022 | 2 | 21 | Crowdfunding has become an increasingly popular way for companies to raise capital, and investors are taking notice. , the first real estate crowdfunding platform to gain regulatory approval, announced today that it raised its first round of institutional capital since 2015. Brian Dally, a former mobile network exec, ... |
Jambo raises $7.5M from Coinbase, Alameda Research to build ‘web3 super app’ of Africa | Tage Kene-Okafor | 2,022 | 2 | 21 | James Zhang (co-founder and CEO, ). |
Sweden’s Volta raises $260M at a $490M valuation to get its all-electric trucks into production by the end of this year | Ingrid Lunden | 2,022 | 2 | 21 | — the Swedish electric vehicle startup that believes it can build better urban delivery vehicles and other trucks that are safer and take up a smaller carbon footprint than their gas-guzzling, more clumsy, existing counterparts — has closed a big round of funding to help it through that last mile of work before its Vo... |
The Station: DeLorean teases an EV, VW and Huawei are ‘talking’ and feds investigate Tesla | Kirsten Korosec | 2,022 | 2 | 21 | Hello readers: Welcome to The Station, your central hub for all past, present and future means of moving people and packages from Point A to Point B. Before you dive into our weekly roundup of news and analysis, I wanted to flag two items. First up, the founders series with , co-founder and COO of autonomous sidewal... |
Nvidia calls off its efforts to acquire Arm | Frederic Lardinois | 2,022 | 2 | 7 | Nvidia’s is off, the two companies and Arm owner SoftBank Tuesday. With this, there is also a major leadership change at Arm. The company’s current CEO, Simon Segars, is leaving his post, effective today, with , the president of Arm’s IP group (and former Nvidia VP and general manager of its computing products bus... |
Clikalia clicks on $86M to expand its iBuyer marketplace across Europe and Latin America | Ingrid Lunden | 2,022 | 2 | 7 | Companies like Opendoor opened the door to a new way of buying and selling properties by inserting a strong middle player who could buy houses or apartments and redevelop them at scale, and then sell them to new homeowners at a profit. Now , another player in the so-called iBuyer space, has raised €75 million ($86 mil... |
Vietnam-focused investment app Infina boosts its seed round to $6M | Catherine Shu | 2,022 | 2 | 7 | Retail investment apps in Southeast Asia , and the trend looks set to continue with Vietnam-focused announcing that it has added $4 million to its seed funding. Along with it announced in June, this brings the round’s total to $6 million. Investors include Sequoia Capital India’s Surge program, Y Combinator, Saiso... |
3D content collaboration startup Taichi Graphics closes $50M Series A | Rita Liao | 2,022 | 2 | 7 | For years, open source software in China was only attracting developers and was poorly understood by returns-seeking investors. But they are finally having a moment like their Western counterparts. The latest open source project to get funded in China is , a 10-month-old startup that aims to make 3D content creation e... |
Selina raises $150M to dish out flexible loans that leverage home equity | Ingrid Lunden | 2,022 | 2 | 7 | For many of us, our home is by far our biggest asset, and in the world of fintech, that’s led to a logical extension: when you need money, borrow against that biggest asset. Today, a London fintech called , which provides flexible capital to consumers on five-year terms against up to 85% of the value of their homes — ... |
4 signs to look for when evaluating ESG investments | Bruce Dahlgren | 2,022 | 2 | 7 | on Google Flights, you may have noticed that airlines have begun to incorporate carbon emissions data into their offerings to consumers. As a frequent flyer, all things — including price — being equal, I’ll always choose the more carbon-efficient flight. This is novel and striking to me. It’s exciting to have a new da... |
Automotive simulation platform Morai secures $20.8M Series B to expand its global footprint | Kate Park | 2,022 | 2 | 7 | Digital Twin Environment developed by Morai SIM – Las Vegas, NV The startup posted $1.7 million of revenue in 2021, increasing at a 226% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) from 2018 through 2021. Last year, Morai set up its U.S. office in San Francisco. |
Max Q: Earth observation is the place to be in space | Darrell Etherington | 2,022 | 2 | 7 | Your friendly neighborhood Max Q welcomes you to the week of February 7! This past week saw some strong signs that the big boom in commercial space for the foreseeable future is going to land in Earth observation. It’s not like this has been an ignored market in the past: GPS is basically a type of EO. But changes in m... |
Daily Crunch: Investors pour $450M into Ethereum scaling platform Polygon | Alex Wilhelm | 2,022 | 2 | 7 | Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for Monday, February 7, 2022! Welcome back to the working week, team. Here’s hoping you got some sleep over the weekend because we’re still in a busy tech cycle. That means lots of news from technology companies big and small. But before we dive into the news, with Heartbeat Health a... |
The IRS won’t make you verify your identity with facial recognition after all | Taylor Hatmaker | 2,022 | 2 | 7 | The IRS announced plans Monday to back away from a third-party facial recognition system that collects biometric data from U.S. taxpayers who want to log in to the agency’s online portal. The IRS says it will abandon the technology, built by a contractor called ID.me, in the coming weeks. The agency says it will instea... |
Peter Thiel to leave Facebook board, which you probably forgot he was still on | Alex Wilhelm | 2,022 | 2 | 7 | Meta, the parent company of Facebook, today that board member will not seek reelection to his post, effectively ending his tenure in the top echelon of the social media company’s leadership. The move is not an enormous surprise. Thiel has been increasingly publicly involved with political activities, including . G... |
From movies to shipping, AWS is driving Amazon’s revenue diversification | Alex Wilhelm | 2,022 | 2 | 7 | about Amazon, it’s usually about some aspect of its vast retail and logistics operation that allows customers to order just about anything and receive it relatively quickly. But with a market cap of $1.6 trillion, it’s actually a conglomerate of multibillion-dollar businesses. That diversification means it doesn’t hav... |
Spotify will invest $100M in content from underrepresented creators, says CEO Daniel Ek | Amanda Silberling | 2,022 | 2 | 7 | In the of the , CEO Daniel Ek sent out a company memo on Sunday addressing Joe Rogan’s use of harmful racial slurs in past episodes of his podcast. Over 70 of these past episodes have now been removed from Spotify. In the memo, which was published by , Ek declared that Spotify will invest $100 million in the licens... |
Apple fined again over Dutch dating app payments order | Natasha Lomas | 2,022 | 2 | 7 | The bill for Apple’s antitrust stand off in the Netherlands over dating apps’ payment methods has ticked up by another €5 million — and now stands at €15M, the Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) confirmed today. The penalty relates to an order by the competition authority requiring Apple to allow local dating ap... |
Changing how we approach data privacy to unlock economic opportunities | Vivek Narayanadas | 2,022 | 2 | 7 | From securing a loan to renting a car to getting a job, our lives increasingly depend on the digital world to enable trust-based interactions online. That world is now borderless: people can interact with one another anytime, no matter where they are. However, online services often lack the ability to understand their ... |
What does the new era of location intelligence hold for businesses? | Gary Little | 2,022 | 2 | 7 | environment, businesses are now tasked with balancing the push toward recovery and developing the agility required to stay on top of reemerging COVID-19 obstacles. Location data is absolutely critical to such strategies, enabling leading enterprises to not only mitigate challenges, but unlock previously unseen opportu... |
Wag’s recovery is a bet on you going back to work | Alex Wilhelm | 2,022 | 2 | 7 | dog-walking app made huge waves back in 2018 when it . Competing with rival , Wag’s service fell out of our minds in the years since its mega-deal. Today, Wag is back in the news thanks to a that will take the company public. This means we get a look inside the machine. In basic terms, Wag’s results detail a compa... |
How one founder is teaching enterprises how to be truly accountable for their climate footprint | Maggie Stamets | 2,022 | 2 | 7 | This week, Persefoni co-founder and CEO Kentaro Kawamori is joining us to talk about his climate tech startup that aims at helping asset managers, banks and other financial institutions measure their emissions footprint and purchase offsets. But he is also sharing his spicey takes on the fundraising landscape and what ... |
Boutique hotel tech platform NUMA raises $45M growth financing round led by DN Capital | Mike Butcher | 2,022 | 2 | 7 | Based out of the U.S., is a tech-driven hospitality company. It’s raised $529.6 million, and, in the post-pandemic world where the population has become far more movable due to remote working, similar businesses are raising funds to attend to the needs of this global, nomadic workforce. We first covered the (then c... |
Founder launch tickets to TechCrunch Early Stage are almost gone | Alexandra Ames | 2,022 | 2 | 7 | Ready to kick your j-o-b to the curb and finally unleash your entrepreneurial ambition? Working hard on launching your startup, but need next-steps advice you can trust? Looking for a supportive community of folks traveling a similar path? You’ll find that and much more at . This day-long, live and in-person summit ta... |
California agency sues Tesla for alleged racial discrimination and harassment | Rebecca Bellan | 2,022 | 2 | 9 | The California Department of Fair Employment and Housing filed a lawsuit against Tesla on Wednesday alleging racial discrimination and harassment. The complaint, which was filed in state court, calls out issues at Tesla’s Fremont, California manufacturing plant. The California agency had received “hundreds of complaint... |
Tiger Global in talks to invest in GoMechanic at over $1 billion valuation | Manish Singh | 2,022 | 2 | 9 | Tiger Global is in talks to lead a new financing round in GoMechanic, an India startup that operates a network of technology-enabled automobile service centres, two sources familiar with the matter said. The proposed talks for the Gurugram-headquartered Series D funding values the startup at $1.2 billion, up from $325 ... |
The rise of the Black Angel Group inside of Alphabet | Connie Loizos | 2,022 | 2 | 9 | A year ago, inside of the corporate leviathan Alphabet, Black Googlers and other Black Alphabet employees were invited to some informal programming around angel investing during Black History Month. It was organized by employees so that anyone interested could learn a bit more about how startup deals are structured, th... |
Brick closes $8.5M seed to enable open finance across Southeast Asia | Catherine Shu | 2,022 | 2 | 9 | Financial apps are proliferating across Southeast Asia, making things like bookkeeping or securing an online loan easier. But this means fintechs need access to large amounts of data that they can use to verify customer identity, creditworthiness or aggregate information from online accounts. wants to simplify the pr... |
Rino gets $3M pre-seed for 10-minute grocery deliveries in Vietnamese cities | Catherine Shu | 2,022 | 2 | 9 | Meal deliveries in Vietnamese cities typically take less than half an hour, but grocery deliveries are lagging behind, sometimes taking up to two to three hours, says founder Trung Thanh Nguyen. By creating a vertically integrated logistics infrastructure centered around “dark stores,” or stores set up for order fulf... |
Daily Crunch: Samsung erases the Note, starts new page with Galaxy S22 Ultra phablet | Alex Wilhelm | 2,022 | 2 | 9 | Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for Wednesday, February 9, 2022! I just got a look at the initial run-of-show , and it looks wicked good. Also, I’m helping . So, you know, swing by and hang out. Bring food and a question; we’re going to have fun! – Getty Images To mark the eighth anniversary of Satya Nadella’s as... |
3 views: Is the metaverse for work or play? | Natasha Mascarenhas | 2,022 | 2 | 9 | of platforms ranging from Second Life to Roblox shows that people are open to virtual worlds where they can socialize, play games, exchange information, and share some laughs. More recently, the rise of virtual HQs, Meta’s investment in interactive social software, and a handful of acquisitions by Microsoft signal tha... |
Mirantis on run rate over $100M two years after buying Docker Enterprise assets | Ron Miller | 2,022 | 2 | 9 | When announced in 2019, it was a big surprise to industry watchers. Perhaps an even bigger surprise was that the buyer was , a company best known for commercializing the OpenStack project. After the sale, Docker company and reported last week last year. In a conversation with TechCrunch this week, Mirantis CEO ... |
Uber wrapped 2021 with strong revenue growth and greater adjusted profitability | Alex Wilhelm | 2,022 | 2 | 9 | Today after the bell, Uber its fourth-quarter financial performance. The company saw $25.9 billion in gross platform spend, up 51% compared to its year-ago result, and revenues of $5.78 billion, up 83% compared to Q4 2020. The company also reported GAAP net income of $0.44 per share, though that number did include no... |
Microsoft says it will open up the Xbox store in light of the Activision Blizzard deal | Taylor Hatmaker | 2,022 | 2 | 9 | Microsoft is working to warm lawmakers up to its plans to bring a collection of the world’s most popular video games under its wing. The company announced its last month in a deal that would be worth $68.7 billion — the largest gaming acquisition of all time, if the deal goes through. The acquisition isn’t exactly il... |
Scopio aims to turn hematology into remote work with $50M C round | Emma Betuel | 2,022 | 2 | 9 | Today, if a hematologist wanted to dive into the exact organization and structure of your blood cells, they’d probably need a microscope in a lab. Scopio, an Israel-based startup that just closed a $50 million Series C round, argues that soon, a lot of that work could be done with nothing more than a laptop. , Scopio i... |
Apple launches its own book club, ‘Strombo’s Lit,’ in the Apple Books app | Sarah Perez | 2,022 | 2 | 9 | , and now…Apple? The iPhone maker has just launched its own book club directly in its Apple Books app for readers in the U.S., Canada, U.K. and Australia, where it will curate both fiction and non-fiction titles for readers. But unlike Apple’s other editorial efforts in apps like Apple Podcasts or the App Store, the ... |
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3 warning signs that your investor will leave you on the sidelines | Michael Redd | 2,022 | 2 | 9 | demonstrates how quickly investors will fall over themselves to seize a golden egg deal. When investors pay so much attention to only the (supposed) big tickets, they leave smaller companies in their portfolios behind. The investment space is in the midst of a mental health crisis and skyrocketing burnout rates. Found... |
Reddit rolls out a web version of Reddit Talk, its live audio product | Amanda Silberling | 2,022 | 2 | 9 | After unveiling its Clubhouse clone , Reddit is new features to Reddit Talk that are intended to boost engagement. Among these additions are web compatibility, recordings of past sessions, live commenting during talks and a live bar at the top of the home feed (similar to Twitter’s) that shows what live chats are ta... |
The Spotify-Rogan saga highlights the distinction between publishers and platforms | Amanda Silberling | 2,022 | 2 | 9 | As our , “How many times must Spotify step on a rake?” The streaming service is learning the hard way that it’s counterintuitive to act as both a platform and a publisher — now, in trying to reassert its status as a platform, it’s acting even more like a publisher. Back in 2020, Spotify was celebrating its success whe... |
Travel app Sēkr scores $2.25 million to bring campsite inventory into the digital age | Sarah Perez | 2,022 | 2 | 9 | Consumers spent in 2020 on camping reservations across the U.S., but the camping industry itself has yet to be fully digitized. Today, reserving a space at some campgrounds, both public and private, may require a phone call. And the reservation itself is still often recorded using old-school systems, like pen and pap... |
Dear Sophie: How can early-stage startups compete for talent? | Sophie Alcorn | 2,022 | 2 | 9 | of “Dear Sophie,” the advice column that answers immigration-related questions about working at technology companies. “Your questions are vital to the spread of knowledge that allows people all over the world to rise above borders and pursue their dreams,” says , a Silicon Valley immigration attorney. “Whether you’re... |
James Murdoch and Uday Shankar return with $1.5 billion Qatar-backed investment firm Bodhi Tree, to focus on India and Southeast Asia | Manish Singh | 2,022 | 2 | 9 | James Murdoch and Uday Shankar have launched a new venture called Bodhi Tree with a $1.5 billion backing from Qatar Investment Authority as the duo looks to double down on their investment in Southeast Asia and India, the two said on Thursday. The duo most recently worked at investment firm Lupa Systems after Murdoch’s... |
‘Woke capitalism’ is a new ideology for a digital economy | Brett Hurt | 2,022 | 2 | 9 | When the head of the world’s largest money manager BlackRock issued his annual letter to CEOs, his latest and strongest push for business leaders to embrace social purpose beyond profits, he continued to turn more than a few heads. “We focus on sustainability not because we’re environmentalists, but because we are capi... |
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