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Sat 4:00pm By Megan Rose DickeyHey y’all. You’ve just landed on Human Capital, the weekly newsletter that details the latest in labor, and diversity and inclusion in tech. The week kicked off with GitHub making a public apology to the person the company terminated for cautioning his…How VCs and founders see 2021 differently
Sat 4:00pm By Alex WilhelmWelcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s broadly based on the daily column that appears on Extra Crunch, but free, and made for your weekend reading. Click here if you want it in your inbox every Saturday…Augmented reality’s awkward phase will be long and painful
Sat 3:26pm By Lucas MatneyHowdy friends, this is the web version of my Week in Review newsletter, it’s here to entice you to sign up and get it in your inbox every week. Last week, I showcased how Twitter was looking at the future of the web with a decentralized approach so that they…Work trips are making a $5 billion comeback
Sat 2:00pm By Natasha MascarenhasWould you bet millions of dollars on a corporate travel comeback? Doesn’t matter. Andreessen Horowitz, Addition and Elad Gil are anyways. This week, the trio led a nine-figure financing round in TripActions, a software company that helps other companies book…Original Content podcast: ‘Bridgerton’ is an addictive reimagining of Jane Austen-style romance
Sat 12:40pm By Anthony Ha“Bridgerton,” the Shondaland drama that launched last month on Netflix, offers a few key updates to the standard formula of Regency-era romance. For one thing, there’s a racially diverse cast, with Black actors taking on the role of early 19th-century…This Week in Apps: TikTok viral hit breaks Spotify records, inauguration boosts news app installs,…
Sat 11:00am By Sarah PerezWelcome 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 is as hot as ever, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global…Watch SpaceX launch its first dedicated rideshare mission live, carrying a record-breaking number of…
Sat 9:11am By Darrell Etherington[UPDATE: Today’s attempt was scrubbed due to weather conditions. Another launch window is available tomorrow at 10 AM ET] SpaceX is set to launch the very first of its dedicated rideshare missions – an offering it introduced in 2019 that allows small…How fintech and serial founders drove African pre-seed investing to new heights in 2020
Sat 2:00am By Tage Kene-OkaforWhen Stripe-subsidiary Paystack raised its seed round of $1.3 million in 2016, it was one of the largest disclosed rounds at that stage in Nigeria. At the time, seven-figure seed investments in African startups were a rarity. But over the years, those same…Could giant SPACs be next?
Fri 9:45pm By Connie LoizosWhile many deemed 2020 the year of SPAC, short for special purpose acquisition company, 2021 may well make last year look quaint in comparison. It’s probably not premature to be asking: is there any company too big to be SPAC’d? Just today, we saw the…Daily Crunch: Alphabet shuts down Loon
Fri 6:22pm By Anthony HaAlphabet pulls the plug on its internet balloon company, Apple is reportedly developing a new MacBook Air and Google threatens to pull out of Australia. This is your Daily Crunch for January 22, 2021. The big story: Alphabet shuts down Loon Alphabet announced…The far right’s favorite registrar is building ‘censorship-resistant’ servers
Fri 4:55pm By David RiggsAlmost half the global population currently has no internet access, and many who do cannot freely access all information sources.End-to-end operators are the next generation of consumer business
Fri 4:20pm By Walter ThompsonThese businesses are fundamentally reimagining their product experience by owning the entire value chain from end to end, thereby creating a step-functionally better experience for consumers.Extra Crunch roundup: Digital health VC survey, edtech M&A, deep tech marketing, more
Fri 3:58pm By Walter ThompsonSpeaking as an unvaccinated urban dweller: I'd rather speak to a nurse or doctor via my laptop than try to remain physically distanced on a bus or hailed ride traveling to/from their office.Backed by Vint Cerf, Emortal wants to protect your digital legacy from ‘bit-rot’
Fri 3:32pm By Mike ButcherWe are all pumping out data into the cloud. Some of it we’d like to keep forever. Emortal is a startup that wants to help you organize, protect, preserve and pass on your “digital legacy” and protect it from becoming unreadable, otherwise known as…Drupal’s journey from dorm-room project to billion-dollar exit
Fri 3:02pm By Ron MillerMoving from dorm room to billion-dollar exit is the dream of every startup founder. Dries Buytaert got there by being bold, working hard and thinking big.Boston Globe will consider people’s requests to have articles about them anonymized
Fri 2:39pm By Devin ColdeweyThe Boston Globe is starting a new program by which people who feel an article at the newspaper is harmful to their reputation can ask that it be updated or anonymized. It’s reminiscent of the EU’s “right to be forgotten,” though potentially less…Microsoft withdraws Xbox Live Gold price hike following uproar from users
Fri 2:38pm By Greg KumparakIn what feels like an attempt at kicking some bad news under the rug on a Friday, Microsoft announced this morning that the price of Xbox Live Gold is going up.
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