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Salesforce turmoil continues into new year, as recent layoffs attest | Ron Miller | 2,023 | 1 | 10 | in the news a lot recently, and largely not for positive reasons. It has been an unusually for the cloud CRM leader, and the first of the year brought little relief: The company announced last week of its approximately 80,000 employees. Layoff news is never good, but it comes on the heels of a slew of other negati... |
Comcast’s Xfinity Stream app adds support for Apple’s AirPlay | Lauren Forristal | 2,023 | 1 | 10 | Xfinity today that customers using the Xfinity Stream app can now use to stream and share content directly to and other AirPlay-supported devices, such as Samsung smart TVs, LG, Sony, Vizio, and smart speakers like Bose and Sonos. AirPlay functionality is important for a pay TV streaming app, so it’s about time C... |
New functional tea brand, buoyed by $6.7M in new funding, debuts in Wegmans, Whole Foods | Christine Hall | 2,023 | 1 | 10 | , a healthy beverage company making a line of functional ready-to-drink tea, raised $6.7 million in funding and is launching into retailers across the Northeastern U.S. in Wegmans and select Whole Foods Market and Wakefern stores. Functional beverages, those offering healthier benefits then your average drink, are hot ... |
Samsung’s quarterly profit hits 8-year low amid weak demand for memory chips, smartphones | Kate Park | 2,023 | 1 | 6 | Samsung Electronics’ operating profit plummeted 69% to $3.4 billion in the quarter that ended in December to an eight-year low, according to its preliminary estimates, as the global demand for memory chips and smartphones wanes due to high inflation and a slowing economy. “Amid continued external uncertainties, includi... |
Singapore-based Supermom helps parenting brands navigate a post-cookie world | Catherine Shu | 2,023 | 1 | 9 | , a parenting platform with 20 million users in six Southeast Asian countries, offers parents price comparisons, communities and the chance to earn money by completing surveys. For brands, it gives them a way to conduct market research and collect first-party data, which is important as marketers prepare for a . The S... |
US family planning nonprofit MFHS says patient medical data stolen in ransomware attack | Carly Page | 2,023 | 1 | 5 | U.S. nonprofit healthcare giant Maternal & Family Health Services has confirmed accessed sensitive patient, financial and medical information months earlier. In an advisory on its website on Thursday, MFHS said a “sophisticated ransomware incident” exposed the sensitive information of current and former patients, e... |
Anthropic’s Claude improves on ChatGPT but still suffers from limitations | Kyle Wiggers | 2,023 | 1 | 9 | , the startup co-founded by ex-OpenAI employees that’s raised over $700 million in funding to date, has developed an AI system similar to OpenAI’s ChatGPT that appears to improve upon the original in key ways. Called Claude, Anthropic’s system is accessible through a Slack integration as part of a . TechCrunch wasn’t ... |
Kleiner Perkins-backed Vylo thinks the future of news is video commentary | Rita Liao | 2,023 | 1 | 11 | TikTok has revolutionized the way people consume and share information. Now a startup called wants to take the short video format a step further and let users share their thoughts about sports, current affairs and other categories of news by filming themselves talking. My first reaction to the idea was: Why does one ... |
A government watchdog spent $15,000 to crack a federal agency’s passwords in minutes | Zack Whittaker | 2,023 | 1 | 10 | has published a scathing rebuke of the Department of the Interior’s cybersecurity posture, finding it was able to crack thousands of employee user accounts because the department’s security policies allow easily guessable passwords like . The by the Office of the Inspector General for the Department of the Interior... |
Buy with Prime, which brings Prime to third-party sites, officially launches in US on Jan. 31 | Sarah Perez | 2,023 | 1 | 10 | Amazon announced this morning it’s expanding its service to U.S.-based merchants by the end of the month. The service, which allows like free shipping and returns on their own apps, was initially only available to those merchants who were already using Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) to handle their shipping and logist... |
OpenAI in talks to back Zeloof and chip legend Keller’s startup at $100 million valuation | Manish Singh | 2,023 | 1 | 10 | Sam Zeloof is a popular name on YouTube and Twitter. For years he has been his impressive journey of building silicon chips in his garage. What most people don’t know is that Zeloof has been working to take this expertise to its next logical step. Zeloof has partnered with engineering veteran Jim Keller to found Atom... |
Microsoft now has its first official union in the US | Amanda Silberling | 2,023 | 1 | 3 | At ZeniMax, a Microsoft-owned gaming studio, 300 quality assurance (QA) testers have voted to unionize. This marks Microsoft’s first official union in the U.S., as well as the biggest gaming union in the country. Union organizing has been on the rise in the video game industry, particularly among QA workers. In 2022, Q... |
Korean handmade goods marketplace Backpackr gears up to expand into Southeast Asia | Kate Park | 2,023 | 1 | 9 | About a decade ago, Donghwan Kim helped his cousin, a ceramist, look for sales channels, like flea markets, to sell his ceramics. But they had a hard time locating a suitable platform, so after about a year, Kim decided to create a marketplace for handmade goods himself in South Korea called Backpackr. Today, Backpackr... |
Microsoft ends Windows 7 security updates | Zack Whittaker | 2,023 | 1 | 10 | Pour one out for Windows 7, the decade-old operating system that today reached the end of the security line. Some after Microsoft called time on mainstream support of Windows 7, the technology giant will no longer provide security updates, leaving the remaining users the option to upgrade to a newer operating system ... |
Qonto plans to move Penta customers to its platform by the end of 2023 | Romain Dillet | 2,023 | 1 | 10 | Last year, French startup its German competitor . Both companies offer business bank accounts for small and medium companies as well as freelancers. Today, Qonto shared some details about the integration process. At the time of the acquisition, Penta was serving 50,000 companies in Germany while Qonto had 300,000 ... |
Check out the final four startups pitching tomorrow at CCC Web3 Demo Day | Lauren Simonds | 2,023 | 1 | 10 | Tomorrow, January 11, is a big day in the web3 universe. It’s , a showcase of 12 boundary-pushing early-stage startups building projects across web3, DeFi, NFT and gaming. Today we’re revealing the final four startups ready to deliver their best five-minute pitch to a global audience, including some of the industry’s ... |
A timeline for startup M&A processes: Key steps and factors to consider | Vishal Lugani | 2,023 | 1 | 10 | been a part of a few M&A processes at companies I work closely with. These transactions involved private companies selling to larger companies (public and private) and were all-cash transactions. This inspired me to chronicle best practices and considerations for founders who are selling their company. In doing so, I ... |
Facebook data-scraping breach triggers GDPR enforcement lawsuit in Ireland | Natasha Lomas | 2,023 | 1 | 10 | Facebook-owner Meta and its lead data protection regulator in the European Union, the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), are facing an interesting legal challenge over a major data-scraping breach that led to a €265 million penalty for Facebook under the bloc’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The lega... |
Are Arm and Ant Group’s derailed exits back on track? | Anna Heim | 2,023 | 1 | 10 | Group saw after news over the weekend that founder Jack Ma would relinquish control of the Alibaba affiliate once known as Alipay. These jumps may seem like a paradox, as Ma’s near disappearance from public view is not exactly encouraging for Chinese entrepreneurs or . However, as we have explored recently in a dif... |
TechCrunch+ roundup: New success metrics, M&A timeline, 5 cloud trends for 2023 | Walter Thompson | 2,023 | 1 | 10 | You don’t need to be an economist to appreciate the myriad forces placing downward pressure on startups today. Setting aside the legions of investors keeping their powder dry, is your yearly revenue growing faster than the inflation rate? What percentage of your sales team has experience working during a downturn? Amid... |
Qarnot creates green data centers by putting servers in central heating boilers | Romain Dillet | 2,023 | 1 | 9 | Running a data center means that you have to find innovative ways to manage heat from the servers. And French startup is standardizing its process to reuse fatal heat and turn it into an asset. While the startup has been around for a while, Qarnot now wants to reach the next level. It has raised a €12.5 million fundi... |
Making sense of Coinbase’s post-settlement stock bump | Anna Heim | 2,023 | 1 | 5 | things about Coinbase yesterday: First, the U.S. crypto exchange will have to for failing to conduct adequate background checks. And second, its jumped 12% in the aftermath of the news. (It’s since moderated, trading at $34.10 per share at the time of publication, roughly in line with where it traded at the very e... |
Data observability startup Metaplane lands investment from YC, others | Kyle Wiggers | 2,023 | 1 | 10 | The need for data observability, or the ability to understand, diagnose and orchestrate data health across various IT tools, continues to grow as organizations adopt more apps and services. (Nearly 10% of businesses now have more than 200 apps to manage, according to a recent Okta .) In a large-scale of IT decision ... |
IonQ acquires quantum networking specialist Entangled Networks | Frederic Lardinois | 2,023 | 1 | 10 | , the trapped ion quantum computing company that via a SPAC in late 2021, today announced that it has acquired , a Toronto-based startup that helps industrial and academic users build and optimize multi-quantum-processor solutions, using specialized networking techniques. The two companies did not disclose the price... |
Microsoft partners with AiFi to launch Smart Store Analytics, a tracking service for cashierless outlets | Kyle Wiggers | 2,023 | 1 | 10 | In partnership with , a startup that aims to enable retailers to deploy autonomous shopping tech cost-effectively, Microsoft today launched a preview of a cloud service called Smart Store Analytics. A part of Microsoft’s Cloud for Retail product suite, Smart Store Analytics provides retailers using AiFi’s technology w... |
2023 will bring crisper methods for evaluating startup success | Lonne Jaffe | 2,023 | 1 | 10 | most active 12 months ever for venture investing did not carry over well into 2022, to say the least. As interest rates and inflation spiked, geopolitical challenges arose and the economy began trending downward, fundraising slowed dramatically throughout the year. But if 2022 was a year of paradigm-shifting dynamics,... |
5 cloud trends to track in 2023 | Josh Berman | 2,023 | 1 | 9 | , 2022 was a year of growth for the cloud technology space. Unpredictable macroeconomic developments saw many organizations thinking about and preparing for greater wins in the years to come instead of right away. In 2023, much of this preparation could come to fruition as the growth achieved in 2022 contributes to a s... |
A flat year for crowdfunding isn’t a bad sign at all for early-stage startups | Rebecca Szkutak | 2,023 | 1 | 9 | crowdfunding market was unable to top 2021’s record-setting year. But despite seeing lower investment volume, it fared quite a lot better than venture capital did in the same time frame. Founders looking to raise extension or bridge financing should take note. Back in , it looked like equity crowdfunding — a funding ... |
Daily Crunch: In an all-cash transaction, private equity firm buys insurtech startup Duck Creek for $2.6B | Christine Hall | 2,023 | 1 | 9 | Welcome to the beginning of the week. My thumb got smashed in my standup waffle iron while I was cleaning it this morning, so it can only get better from there, right? Anyway, here’s what’s in store for today. — Attention has our attention. The company raised $3.1 million to continue developing its technology, which c... |
Max Q: Hitting the ground running | Aria Alamalhodaei | 2,023 | 1 | 9 | Hello and welcome back to Max Q! We’re hitting the ground running at TC HQ, and it seems the space industry is, too — there was a lot of news, which means a lot to get to in this issue! Read on for more. In this issue: In-space transportation startup will head to orbit aboard a SpaceX rideshare mission later this yea... |
Microsoft acquires Fungible, a maker of data processing units, to bolster Azure | Kyle Wiggers | 2,023 | 1 | 9 | In December, suggested that Microsoft had acquired Fungible, a startup fabricating a type of data center hardware known as a data processing unit (DPU), for around $190 million. Today, Microsoft the acquisition but not the purchase price, saying that it plans to use Fungible’s tech and team to deliver “multiple DPU... |
Generative AI’s Magic Leap | Natasha Mascarenhas | 2,023 | 1 | 9 | Welcome back to , the podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. Now that the weird “remember how to work” week is over, I’m feeling refreshed and ready to take on the year. My goal for this week is to collaborate more, whether that means asking for help or joi... |
Jetstream, a Ghanaian e-logistics platform for Africa’s B2B importers and exporters, takes in $13M equity, debt | Tage Kene-Okafor | 2,023 | 1 | 10 | R: Miishe Addy (Jetstream Africa CEO). Jetstream Africa |
Observability platform Chronosphere raises another $115M at a $1.6B valuation | Frederic Lardinois | 2,023 | 1 | 10 | The market for cloud native observability tools remains hot. As with so many new technologies, containerization solved a fair number of problems but also introduced its share of new ones, including a lot of added complexity that is, in part, driven by the dynamic nature of this architecture. That’s both its strength an... |
Khosla Ventures goes after $3B in new funds | Christine Hall | 2,023 | 1 | 9 | Despite a slowdown in deploying venture capital, U.S. venture capital firms had few problems attracting capital for new funds in 2022. We now have a new opportunity to see if this trend will continue: Khosla Ventures is raising about $3 billion across three new funds, according to regulatory filings. The firm, founded ... |
Startups set to go to space for the first time on SpaceX’s Transporter-6 mission | Aria Alamalhodaei | 2,023 | 1 | 2 | SpaceX is poised to launch 114 payloads to orbit on a Falcon 9 tomorrow morning, the sixth mission of its small-sat ride-share program. But while the rocket company is now an old hand at launches — SpaceX just completed a record year with 61 launches in 2022 alone — for a handful of space startups, Transporter-6 marks ... |
Nigerian agritech Releaf gets more capital as it launches new tech for food processing | Tage Kene-Okafor | 2,023 | 1 | 9 | SITE developed by Releaf. Releaf |
Superscript, a bespoke insurance provider for SMEs, raises $54 million | Paul Sawers | 2,023 | 1 | 9 | , an insurance broker and tech platform targeting SMEs and “high-growth” tech firms, has raised £45 million ($54 million) in a Series B round of funding. Founded out of London in 2015, Superscript constitutes two core insurance businesses: an online-only “self-serve” platform that’s available to U.K. customers includin... |
Indian edtech Unacademy cuts upskilling service to double down on tests product and LinkedIn rival | Manish Singh | 2,023 | 1 | 10 | Unacademy said on Tuesday that Relevel, its upskilling product, is shifting focus to its tests product and the newly launched LinkedIn-rival NextLevel, the latest in a series of changes from the Indian edtech unicorn as it scrambles to aggressively find the next breakthrough. As part of the move, about 40 people at Rel... |
Microsoft partners with India space agency to work with startups | Jagmeet Singh | 2,023 | 1 | 4 | Microsoft plans to collaborate with the Indian space agency to give Indian space tech startups free access to cloud tools, the two said Thursday, the latest in the U.S. tech giant’s attempts to deepen its ties with young firms in the South Asian market. As part of a memorandum of understanding that Microsoft has signed... |
Attention uses natural language processing to help sales reps sell faster | Catherine Shu | 2,023 | 1 | 9 | Updating CRMs after each call is an important task for sales representatives, but it means a lot of administrative work that takes time away from actually selling. wants to fix that with its sales assistant, which uses AI tech and natural language processing to automatically fill in CRMs after calls and draft follow-... |
FLIK’s unified checkout solution gives sellers in Southeast Asia more control over data | Catherine Shu | 2,023 | 1 | 9 | E-commerce in Southeast Asia is very fragmented, with consumers having their choice of marketplaces, e-commerce sites and social commerce. Many prefer to buy from large marketplaces, says co-founder Ahmad Gadi, because those platforms offer promotions and cash-back deals. But for direct-to-consumer brands, marketplac... |
Impulse Space will hitch a ride on SpaceX’s Transporter-9 for first mission later this year | Aria Alamalhodaei | 2,023 | 1 | 4 | In-space transportation startup will head to orbit aboard a SpaceX ride-share mission later this year, as it seeks to prove out its orbital maneuvering and servicing technology for the first time. While there’s always major pressure before an inaugural demonstration, there will likely be more eyes on Impulse’s missio... |
Backed by the National Institute on Aging, the a2 Pilot Awards fosters age tech entrepreneurship | Catherine Shu | 2,023 | 1 | 9 | There are than at any other point in history, and that number is expected to rise, according to the . With longer lifespans come challenges like Alzheimer’s, which about . The were created to encourage the development of tech for the elderly. Funded by the NIA with $40 million over the next five years, the awards a... |
Ecobee CEO and founder speaks to TechCrunch Live about CES, Nest and finding product market fit | Matt Burns | 2,023 | 1 | 9 | TechCrunch Live hosted a special, in-person event at CES featuring a long conversation with Ecobee CEO and founder Stuart Lombard. This was our first in-person TechCrunch Live, and I can’t wait to do more. We talked about a lot — how a startup can maximize CES, how to build delightful products and how hardware startups... |
Senator Mark Warner on cybersecurity, Musk’s Twitter and legislating killer robots | Brian Heater | 2,023 | 1 | 8 | Warner’s first CES rodeo. The senior senator from Virginia was on board with this whole tech thing well before being elected the state’s governor back in 2002. His time at Columbia Capital found him knee-deep in the mobile world during its formative years, including his early support of one-time telecom giant, Nextel.... |
XetHub raises $7.5M for its Git-based data collaboration platform | Frederic Lardinois | 2,023 | 1 | 9 | Seattle-based , a startup that makes it easy for businesses to use Git for data management, today announced that it has raised a $7.5 million seed financing round led by . The basic idea here is to allow developers to work with data the same way they work with code, including all of the collaboration features a tool ... |
Did you hear? AnkerWork is going after the wireless mic market | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,023 | 1 | 7 | At this week, AnkerWork announced its brand new AnkerWork M650 Wireless Microphone. It’s a two-microphone kit that can be clipped (or magnetically attached) to your clothing. Perfect for video interviews or improving the quality on Zoom calls. The microphone includes high-quality audio and noise-cancellation technolo... |
Ex-Apple team creates BlenderCap, a delightfully over-engineered portable blender | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,023 | 1 | 7 | Packing battery tech nobody uses in consumer devices and a half-horsepower motor, is one of the most ludicrously over-engineered products we’ve seen in a hot minute. At , we took a closer look at talked with the team behind the product to find out more. Let’s start with, er, why do we need a portable blender in the ... |
This Week in Apps: 2022 in review | Sarah Perez | 2,023 | 1 | 7 | Welcome back to This Week in Apps, that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. Global in the first half of 2022, up only slightly from the $64.4 billion during the same period in 2021, as hypergrowth fueled by the pandemic has slowed down. But overall, the app economy ... |
Sony and Honda unveil Afeela, Bird Buddy launches a new smart feeder, and Amazon secures an $8B loan | Kyle Wiggers | 2,023 | 1 | 7 | Hey, folks, it’s Kyle, filling in for Greg, who’s out for the next few weeks on parental leave. While he enjoys time with his beautiful, healthy newborn (what better gift for the holidays, eh?), I’m learning the ropes of Week in Review to make sure y’all stay up to date with the latest in tech. Hope I do Greg justice —... |
Let’s keep our seed activity expectations in check | Anna Heim | 2,023 | 1 | 7 | As 2022 came to a close, I tried to keep my expectations in check: If even Instacart was , I had to gear up for the dearth of tech IPOs to continue in the first quarter or even the first half of 2023. However, seed-stage venture capital activity was one of the things I felt reasonably optimistic about for the new year... |
D’Amelio family’s new footwear line to launch May 2023 | Sarah Perez | 2,023 | 1 | 9 | TikTok stars Charli and Dixie D’Amelio have been working to translate their social media success into a business empire with help from their parents, Marc and Heidi. In addition to brand deals and sponsorships, the famous family has been through a new VC fund, 444 Capital, and to launch their own fashion, beauty an... |
3 views: What does the future of social media look like after Twitter? | Taylor Hatmaker | 2,023 | 1 | 7 | be overstated, but we still can’t unsee what we saw in 2022. The newly Elon Musk-owned social network could continue zombie-shuffling for months or years for all we know if Elon Musk can scrape together enough advertising revenue to pay the bills — namely, the massive interest on the $13 billion in debt that he saddle... |
The pen gets smarter as Nuwa shows off its smart ballpoint and app combo | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,023 | 1 | 7 | We’ve seen a lot of companies trying to turn the humble pen into something a little more digital, but few have been as elegantly successful as . The company showed off its smart pen at this week. The smart pen uses three integrated cameras along with motion and pressure-sensing electronics to take your ink scribbles... |
Guide dogs will be giving the side-eye to self-driving car tech coming for their jobs | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,023 | 1 | 7 | The visually impaired are getting a helping hand (or a helping belt, as it were) from Korean startup . At , the company was showing off some pretty neat tech that incorporates optical and lidar technology along with AI-powered on-device computing to identify obstacles and help with navigation. The company claims to b... |
Unistellar’s telescope turns your smartphone into a stargazer | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,023 | 1 | 7 | Humans are eternally curious about the night sky but figuring out how to use a telescope is non-trivial. At , believes it has the perfect solution with its Equinox 2 Smart Telescope. “When I was a young teenager, I had a telescope that I used during the long summer nights. Fast-forward to being an adult — I didn’t h... |
At CES, this VR headset wears you | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,023 | 1 | 7 | Hot on the heels from just a few months ago, showed off its vision for what immersive visuals could look like. At , we tried out the 8K fully immersive OLED display, which gives a VR headset-like experience without having to strap anything to your face. “Brelyon Fusion allows the blending of light to scale field o... |
This pepper spray will phone your friends as you mace your assailants | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,023 | 1 | 6 | From the desk of “I’m not sure this is a good idea” at , comes . The early-stage startup is planning to combine pepper spray with some electronics so a potential attack victim’s friends can be notified when they’ve had to deploy the defense spray to get themselves out of a bind. The company is the brainchild of Logan... |
Brane X portable speaker packs a hell of a punch in a small package | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,023 | 1 | 6 | You probably haven’t heard of yet, but trust me on this one: You will. One of my highlights at today was listening to the company’s debut speaker, the Brane X, side-by-side with some other well-known speaker brands. The company’s founder has a background from high-precision magnetics, and after exiting his previous... |
Is Adobe using your photos to train its AI? It’s complicated | Devin Coldewey | 2,023 | 1 | 6 | A sharp-eyed developer at Krita , in the settings for their Adobe Creative Cloud account, the company had opted them (and everyone else) into a “content analysis” program whereby they “may analyze your content using techniques such as machine learning (e.g. for pattern recognition) to develop and improve our products ... |
VCs are pushing startups — will their investors tighten the thumbscrews, too? | Connie Loizos | 2,023 | 1 | 6 | Over the last decade or so, many venture capitalists have built vast personal fortunes. Some of the money has been made through investments in companies that have outperformed. But much of their wealth traces to management fees that added up quickly as fund sizes — raised in faster succession than ever in history — ba... |
When it’s time for a steamy nooner, Steambox has you covered | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,023 | 1 | 7 | If you have a particular hatred for the microwave or prefer your food to be heated gently when you’re ready for lunch, is ready for your steamy lunch encounters. The company at the end of 2019 and is finally ready to start shipping its device. We checked it out at this week. Between Kickstarter, Indiegogo and its... |
The Soul of Blackleaf brings analog visualization to your music experience | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,023 | 1 | 7 | File this one under style over substance, but damn if these speakers don’t pack a whole lot of style into a small container. Under the amazing name , these stylish speakers use a magnetic fluid to visualize your music as its plays. “This basically is a Bluetooth speaker that we combined with the visual effects. We hav... |
Nvidia upgrades GeForce Now with RTX 4080 performance for premium users | Romain Dillet | 2,023 | 1 | 3 | Nvidia some new features for its cloud gaming service during its . The company is upgrading its premium plan by adding new servers with better hardware components. Users on the $19.99 plan should expect better performance for more demanding games. The company is now using GeForce RTX 4080-class graphics processing u... |
Twitter goes down for many in Australia, users say | Manish Singh | 2,023 | 1 | 4 | Twitter users in Australia and New Zealand have been facing issues accessing the service for over 12 hours, they say, as continues to grapple with reliability challenges amid cost-cutting measures. The outage began at around 2 p.m. Pacific Time Tuesday, according to user tweets and DownDetector ( and ), a web monit... |
Picsart’s AI-powered SketchAI app turns images and outlines into digital art | Kyle Wiggers | 2,023 | 1 | 5 | Riding the generative AI wave, Picsart, the developer behind various photo and video editing apps for the web and mobile devices, is introducing a new iOS app that transforms photos and drawings into digital art. Called SketchAI, the app lets users sketch a picture or upload an existing image and apply different artist... |
Snap is shutting down its desktop camera app that allows users to apply filters during video calls | Ivan Mehta | 2,023 | 1 | 5 | Snap is shutting down its camera app for the desktop that allows users to apply filters like cat ears and pirate hats on video calls. The company said on a that the product will be discontinued on January 25 but did not say why it was abandoning the app. Users won’t be able to download or use the Snap Camera after th... |
TikTok begins rolling out the ability for creators to restrict videos to adult viewers | Aisha Malik | 2,023 | 1 | 3 | TikTok has that it’s expanding its audience controls feature, giving creators the ability to restrict their videos to adult viewers. Prior to this expansion, the adult-only audience controls feature was only available for TikTok Live. Now the company is bringing the feature to its short-form videos as well. “We’ve st... |
TikTok users now have access to in-app movie and TV pages powered by IMDb | Lauren Forristal | 2,023 | 1 | 5 | Through a partnership with online movie database IMDb, TikTok a new feature that allows users to tag a movie or TV show in their video. The link directs viewers to a dedicated in-app page with IMDb-provided information about the specific title as well as a collection of related TikTok videos. TikTok creators can also... |
Apple launches AI-powered book narrations | Ivan Mehta | 2,023 | 1 | 5 | At a time when there is a lot of debate going on around ChatGPT and generative AI potentially eating up jobs, Apple has launched on Apple Books. On its website for authors, the company says that this feature will help independent authors who might not be able to convert their titles to audiobooks because of “the cost... |
France fines Apple over App Store ad targeting ePrivacy breach | Natasha Lomas | 2,023 | 1 | 5 | A rare privacy penalty for Apple: France’s data protection watchdog, the CNIL, has it imposed a sanction of €8 million (~$8.5 million) on the iPhone maker for not obtaining local mobile users’ consent prior to placing (and/or reading) ad identifiers on their devices in breach of local data protection law. The sanctio... |
Product Science, which develops mobile app performance monitoring tools, lands $18M | Kyle Wiggers | 2,023 | 1 | 4 | The performance of a mobile app can impact how customers perceive a brand. According to a from Dimensional Research sponsored by HP, 53% of app users who responded said they’ve uninstalled a mobile app with issues like lag, while 37% said that they hold an app responsible for performance problems. Given the pace of d... |
10-year-old Chipolo explains why it’s not worried about Apple’s AirTag | Sarah Perez | 2,023 | 1 | 4 | When Apple’s , competitors like Tile were , saying smaller companies had no chance of competing with Apple’s network of . As it turns out, that’s not how another rival sees the situation. , the 10-year-old maker of similar lost item location devices, has remained self-funded all these years, having sold 3.5 millio... |
Ring brings back the Peephole Cam, now starting at $129 | Kyle Wiggers | 2,023 | 1 | 5 | In 2019, Ring launched the Peephole Cam, a camera that fits over existing door peepholes to record goings-on outdoors, in apartment building hallways and so on. Priced at $199, the Peephole Cam failed to catch on, leading Ring to discontinue it in 2021. But now, Ring’s giving it another go — the Peephole Cam made a ret... |
WhatsApp launches official proxy support for users globally | Aisha Malik | 2,023 | 1 | 5 | WhatsApp is for its users all over the world, the company announced on Thursday. The support will allow users to maintain access to WhatsApp if their connection is blocked or disrupted. Choosing a proxy enables users to connect to WhatsApp through servers set up by volunteers and organizations around the world dedica... |
Daily Crunch: Property management startup Doorstead raises $21.5M Series B | Christine Hall | 2,023 | 1 | 6 | We’ve made it to Friday! If you are looking for a good podcast episode, I highly recommend today’s where , and talk about CES, NYE, SBF and FTX — oh my! Also, shout-out to you Daily Crunchers out there for reading yesterday’s newsletter and helping it be one of today’s top-read stories. It warms my heart, and I ... |
Verizon’s +Play subscription store to later open to non-Verizon customers | Sarah Perez | 2,023 | 1 | 6 | Verizon a new subscription service aggregator, , into open beta, allowing its customers to purchase and manage subscriptions to over 20 services, including Netflix, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max, ESPN+, discovery+, AMC+, NFL+, NBA League Pass and NBA TV. But while the initial version of the service is expected to launch in... |
TechCrunch+ roundup: Dry powder’s slow fuse, landing page basics, generative AI hype | Walter Thompson | 2,023 | 1 | 6 | It’s impossible to plan for everything that can go wrong while building a startup.
A definitive guide would have to include chapters like, “So you’ve hired the wrong person,” or, “Five ways to tell if an investor is lying to you.” Mentors and advisers come in handy, but startups move at breakneck speed. Investors s... |
TikTok is testing a ‘sleep reminders’ feature that nudges you when it’s bedtime | Aisha Malik | 2,023 | 1 | 6 | TikTok users regularly complain of hours lost on the platform, especially at night. In an effort to address these concerns, the company is testing new sleep reminders that include the option to set up alerts when it’s your bedtime and to mute notifications during the recommended seven hours of sleep. TikTok confirmed t... |
Rackspace says hackers accessed customer data during ransomware attack | Carly Page | 2,023 | 1 | 6 | Cloud computing giant Rackspace has confirmed hackers accessed customer data during last month’s ransomware attack. The attack, which Rackspace , impacted the company’s hosted Exchange email environment, forcing the web giant to shut down the hosted email service following the incident. At the time, Rackspace said it ... |
HealthAtom empowers LatAm’s small healthcare offices with cloud-based ops | Andrew Mendez | 2,023 | 1 | 6 | HealthAtom is aiming to be the go-to cloud-based operations system for small and midsize healthcare companies across Latin America (LatAm). Although the company has been around since 2012, this is the first time it has announced fresh capital, in the amount of $10 million. HealthAtom’s medilink and dentalink software s... |
MegaCortex ransomware victims can now recover stolen files for free | Carly Page | 2,023 | 1 | 6 | Victims of the MegaCortex ransomware can now recover their encrypted files for free, thanks to the release of a new file decryptor. The free decryptor was built by cybersecurity firm Bitdefender and the EU’s No More Ransom in cooperation with the Zürich Cantonal Police, the Zürich Public Prosecutor’s Office and Europ... |
TikTok adds video-scrubbing thumbnails to make it easier to find specific parts of videos | Aisha Malik | 2,023 | 1 | 5 | TikTok has quietly added video-scrubbing thumbnails to its platform this week as the company continues to beef up its video features. The new addition makes it easier for users to find a specific part of a longer video. The feature was first spotted by social media consultant . Since the feature is starting to roll ou... |
Twitch experiences an outage for the second time in a week | Amanda Silberling | 2,023 | 1 | 5 | The popular livestreaming service Twitch is experiencing an outage for the second time this week. Around 3 p.m. EST on Thursday afternoon, many creators who were live on Twitch were cut off in the middle of their streams. “We are aware of issues with the site and our teams are actively working on a resolution,” Twitch ... |
Daily Crunch: In layoff update, Amazon CEO tells workers ‘we plan to eliminate just over 18,000 roles’ | Christine Hall | 2,023 | 1 | 5 | Hello, I hope it is a great Thursday for you so far. For me, it’s the little things that get me excited and today it is Delta Air Lines’ announcement that SkyMiles frequent flyers, including yours truly, will starting February 1. May you also find something that excites you today. Let’s get into the news. — Continui... |
Delta launches free Wi-Fi | Frederic Lardinois | 2,023 | 1 | 5 | At CES, today announced that it will launch free Wi-Fi for all members of its SkyMiles frequent flier program starting February 1. This free service, which the company is launching in partnership with T-Mobile, will be available in the majority of the company’s domestic, Viasat-enabled mainline aircraft first, with f... |
Dear Sophie: How can I transfer my H-1B to my new startup in 2023? | Sophie Alcorn | 2,023 | 1 | 4 | 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... |
3 questions founders should be asking investors in Q1 2023 | Talia Rafaeli | 2,023 | 1 | 6 | began 2022 bright-eyed and optimistic as startups raised nearly $13 billion in the first quarter, making it the fifth-highest quarter for funding on record. However, talk of a pullback in global venture capital has become louder and more widespread of late. It’s clear that the cash is not flowing as freely as it once ... |
When will IPOs return? The past may hold some clues | Natalia Holgado Sanchez | 2,023 | 1 | 4 | sure about you, but lately I’ve been hearing the same chatter from friends and colleagues at startups. It’s usually a version of: “Will my equity ever be worth something?” Let me start with the harsh truth: Nobody has a crystal ball to anticipate what the market will do or how it will impact private company stock. Tha... |
5 failure points between $5M and $100M in ARR | Tracy Young | 2,023 | 1 | 4 | privilege of leading PlanGrid to $100 million in ARR before I stepped down as CEO and passed the baton to Autodesk Construction. I’ve had years to dissect the mistakes I made with my first startup. Regardless of which industry you build in, or where you are at in your startup’s journey, there are many things that will... |
OneRoof grabs funding to help apartment dwellers cozy up to their neighbors | Christine Hall | 2,023 | 1 | 5 | Apartment living can be a lonely life, but is here to change that. The company offers a hyperlocal social network app meant to connect people in the same residential building around common interests like hobbies and to even organize around a common goal. The pre-revenue company has grown up a lot since we profiled it... |
John Deere at CES? Yes, with a robotics-based fertilizer system and a new electric excavator | Ingrid Lunden | 2,023 | 1 | 5 | Consumer tech is at an inflection point right now, with slowing growth in developed markets and economic depressions pulling emerging markets back when it comes to investment and usage. Into that vacuum, at CES this year, major industrial company has put itself front and center to launch its latest tech and to make t... |
The FTC moves to ban noncompete agreements | Taylor Hatmaker | 2,023 | 1 | 5 | The Federal Trade Commission on Thursday that would block employers from using noncompete agreements to restrict workers from pursuing employment with competitors. In its push to throw out noncompete agreements, the FTC cites Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act, which prohibits “unfair methods of competitio... |
Apple Fitness+ to add kickboxing workouts, sleep meditation and more | Aisha Malik | 2,023 | 1 | 5 | Apple that its Fitness+ service is getting a new kickboxing workout type, sleep meditation theme, artist spotlights and more for the new year. The company is adding kickboxing starting January 9. Each workout will consist of a distinct round of moves followed by one final round, which will combine the moves users jus... |
VR comes of age, as Rendever, a mixed reality startup focused on the elderly, acquires Alcove from AARP | Ingrid Lunden | 2,023 | 1 | 5 | Elderly people are not typically thought of as early adopters of cutting-edge technology, but there are startups looking to buck that trend, banking on an opportunity to provide them with new services like VR, to address the specific needs of elderly consumers. Today one of the bigger startups in the space, , is annou... |
Roku ends 2022 with new milestone, tops 70M active accounts | Lauren Forristal | 2,023 | 1 | 5 | Roku reached a new milestone in 2022, , surpassing 70 million active accounts globally, an increase of nearly 10 million users year over year. The company had 60.1 million accounts in Q4 2021 and 65.4 million in . Roku also reported a 19% year over year jump in global streaming hours. It had 23.9 billion streaming ho... |
Roku unveils its first-ever TVs designed and built by the company | Sarah Perez | 2,023 | 1 | 4 | Roku today is its product line to include a range of smart TVs that are the first to be both designed and built by Roku itself. The Select and Plus Series TVs will be Roku-branded HD and 4K TVs available across 11 models, ranging from 24” to 75” in size, and made to work well with Roku’s growing line of audio pro... |
Razer’s 5G Edge gaming handheld hits on January 26 for $400 | Devin Coldewey | 2,023 | 1 | 5 | If you’re a gamer who plays on their Android phone a lot, the might be the dedicated platform you’re looking for — and the device will be available later this month starting at $400, the company announced at . The last few years have been interesting for handheld gaming as, following the smash success of the Switch,... |
Profet AI helps manufacturers build prediction models and industrial AI software | Catherine Shu | 2,023 | 1 | 4 | , a Taiwanese startup that makes auto machine learning software for manufacturers, announced today it has raised $5.6 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Darwin Ventures. Returning investors Hive Ventures, AUO and SVTI also participated, along with Harbinger VC and Jensen Capital Management. Founded in 20... |
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