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12 key lessons about tech mergers and acquisitions from Cisco's John Chambers
Dec 24, 2:30AM
Cyril Ebersweiler Contributor Cyril Ebersweiler is co-founder and managing partner of HAX, and a general partner at SOSV. More posts by this contributor What every startup founder should know about exits 70 years of VC innovation Benjamin Joffe Contributor Benjamin Joffe is a partner at HAX. More posts by this contributor What every startup founder […]
The year social networks were no longer social
Dec 24, 1:15AM
The term "social network" has become a meaningless association of words. Pair those two words and it becomes a tech category, the equivalent of a single term to define a group of products. But are social networks even social anymore? If you have a feeling of tech fatigue when you open the Facebook app, you're […]
Original Content podcast: Netflix's 'Roma' might be the best movie of the year
Dec 24, 1:08AM
A number of critics have declared that “Roma” is the best movie of the year. Naturally, we had to weigh in on the latest episode of the Original Content podcast. Director Alfonso Cuarón’s recent (and excellent) films were all fantasy and science fiction films (“Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban,” “Children of Men” and […]
5 unicorns that will probably go public in 2019 (besides Uber and Lyft)
Dec 23, 11:47PM
Five unicorn IPOs we can expect to witness in the year ahead that no one's talking about.
HQ Trivia launches HQ Words as reinstalled CEO seeks a game-changer
Dec 23, 11:13PM
HQ’s expansion beyond trivia is emerging from beta, but the question is whether it’s different and accessible enough to revive the startup’s growth. HQ Words opens to everyone today with games at 6:30pm PT within the HQ Trivia app after several weeks of closed beta testing of the Wheel Of Fortune-style game. The launch will […]
SpaceX completes its last mission of 2018 with the launch of a military GPS satellite
Dec 23, 9:11PM
Today's launch is SpaceX's first-ever U.S. national security mission.
The electric scooter wars of 2018
Dec 23, 8:05PM
This was was undoubtedly the year of the electric scooter. Between massive fundraising rounds, lofty valuations and both Uber and Lyft’s entrance into the space, it’s clear these scooters are here for the long haul. But just because investors have poured hundreds of millions of dollars into these companies in the past year, the electric scooter […]
Here comes the downturn
Dec 23, 2:00PM
It's remarkable how fast the tenor of the times has changed. Only a few months ago we were in a boom that seemed like it might never end. Now the yield curve has inverted; the markets have gone bear; and Google Trends has the word "recession" at its highest level since 2009. There seems to […]
Uber reaches tentative settlement with drivers arbitrating over employment status and expense reimbursement
Dec 23, 2:19AM
Uber is reportedly on track to go public in the first quarter next year, and in the lead up to that, it’s sewing up some loose ends. TechCrunch has learned that Uber has offered a tentative settlement to pay out 11 cents for every mile driven for Uber (including adjacent services like Uber Eats) to […]
How Juul made vaping viral to become worth a dirty $38 billion
Dec 22, 6:58PM
A Juul is not a cigarette. It's much easier than that. Through devilishly slick product design I'll discuss here, the startup has massively lowered the barrier to getting hooked on nicotine. Juul has dismantled every deterrent to taking a puff. The result is both a new $38 billion valuation thanks to a $12.8 billion investment […]
Facebook's fact-checkers toil on
Dec 22, 6:21PM
Facebook is fielding so many problems, oversights, scandals, and other miscellaneous ills that it wouldn’t surprise anyone to hear that its fact-checking program, undertaken last year after the network was confronted with its inaction in controlling disinformation, is falling apart. But in this case the reason you haven’t heard much about it isn’t because it’s […]
The top smartphone trends to watch in 2019
Dec 22, 4:15PM
This was a bad year for the smartphone. For the first time, its seemingly unstoppable growth began to slow. Things started off on a bad note in February, when Gartner recorded its first year-over-year decline since it began tracking the category. Not even the mighty Apple was immune from the trend. Last week, stocks took […]
Twitter's newest feature is reigniting the 'iPhone vs Android' war
Dec 22, 4:14PM
Twitter’s newest feature is reigniting the flame war between iOS and Android owners. The U.S. social media company’s latest addition is a subtle piece of information that shows the client that each tweet is sent from. In doing so, the company now displays whether a user tweets from the web or mobile and, if they are on […]
Slack says it will comply with sanctions and block Iran-based activity, apologizes for botched first effort
Dec 22, 1:51PM
Slack has apologized after it shut down the accounts of users who have visited Iran following a poorly executed effort at complying with U.S. sanctions against the country. The company, which has eight million users of its productivity tool, has scrapped that first go at the policy. But it did confirm it will now block […]
Convo now lets you see which employees got the memo
Dec 22, 1:18AM
Convo, a tool perhaps best described as a real-time company message board, picked up a new trick this week: automated acknowledgements. It’s a pretty common thing in the corporate world: you need to send something out to all of the employees at your company, but you also need to know exactly who has seen it […]
An Apple event, but with Bad Lip Reading
Dec 22, 12:48AM
Bad Lip Reading has held a special place in my heart longer than just about any other YouTube channel. The formula is just too perfect: take a thing we know, blend it up in a stew of uncanny absurdity, and re-release it into the world. They’ve done it with The Hunger Games, the NFL, and […]
Crowdfunded developer of space sim Star Citizen takes on $46M in funding at nearly $500M valuation
Dec 21, 11:30PM
The story of the game Star Citizen and Cloud Imperium, the company developing it, is almost too ludicrous to believe: a crowdfunding effort to create a space sim of unparalleled size and realism, raising hundreds of millions, with backers paying thousands for ships and gear in a game that's years from release. Yet it's real enough that it just pulled in $42 million in private funding to help bring it closer to release.
Gaming chat startup Discord raises $150M, surpassing $2B valuation
Dec 21, 10:57PM
Chatty gamers are apparently worth billions. Discord, the gaming chat startup with more than 200 million active users, announced Friday that it had secured $150 million in funding at a $2.05 billion valuation. The round was led by Greenoaks Capital with participation from Firstmark, Tencent, IVP, Index Ventures and Technology Opportunity Partners. The company announced […]
NORAD Santa tracker will stay on even if the government shuts down
Dec 21, 10:52PM
For more than 60 years, the North American Aerospace Defense Command, better known as NORAD, and its predecessor, the Continental Air Defense Command (CONAD) have tracked Santa’s flight around the world on December 24. And it will continue this year, even if there’s a government shutdown, the operations center said Friday in a tweet. In […]
JD.com's billionaire founder Richard Liu won't be charged in sexual misconduct case
Dec 21, 10:42PM
Roughly four months after JD.com's billionaire CEO Richard Liu was arrested and later released by Minneapolis police on suspicion of alleged sexual misconduct, local authorities say they will not be charging him in a sexual misconduct case. In a statement, Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman said it was not possible to prove beyond a reasonable doubt the […]
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