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Who's going to use the big bad Libra?
Jun 23, 1:00PM
There is so much to write about Libra, and so much which has already been written misses the mark, mostly, I think, because most pundits haven’t spent much time in the developing world, which is very clearly the target market here. Just look at its launch video: I’ve seen apocalyptic reactions warning of Libra ushering […]
Week-in-Review: YouTube's awful comments and Google's $1B tech-free investment
Jun 23, 9:58AM
Hello, weekend readers. This is Week-in-Review where I give a heavy amount of analysis and/or rambling thoughts on one story while scouring the rest of the hundreds of stories that emerged on TechCrunch this week to surface my favorites for your reading pleasure. Last week, I talked about how the top gaming industry franchises were […]
While people puzzle over WeWork, niche co-working spaces continue gaining traction
Jun 23, 12:02AM
This week, a young, New York-based startup called Alma raised $8 million in funding to expand its “co-practicing community of therapists, coaches, and wellness professionals,” which it first launched from a space on Madison Avenue last fall. As CNN was first to report, the company is charging psychiatrists, psychologists, clinical social workers and acupuncturists $165 […]
Harry Potter: Wizards Unite goes live in Canada, Germany, and 23 other countries
Jun 22, 6:19PM
Harry Potter: Wizards Unite (think Pokémon GO, but with wands and giant spiders instead of pokéballs and Pikachus) officially launched earlier this week, but with a catch: it was only available in the US, UK, Australia, and New Zealand. Why? Amongst other reasons, a country-by-country rollout helps Niantic ensure that their servers stay stable. By […]
Original Content podcast: Netflix's 'When They See Us' is difficult-but-essential viewing
Jun 22, 6:14PM
“When They See Us,” a new miniseries on Netflix, can be so infuriating that it’s hard to watch — especially its first hour, which depicts the arrest of the teenaged boys who became known as The Central Park Five, and shows police detectives coercing them into confessing to a brutal rape. We review the series […]
Bill Gates on making "one of the greatest mistakes of all time"
Jun 22, 5:53PM
At a recent event hosted for founders by the venture firm Village Global, one of its most prominent investors, Bill Gates, sat down with Eventbrite cofounder and CEO Julia Hartz to discuss founding a company and the tough decisions necessary at nearly every turn in order to create and sustain a thriving enterprise. As part […]
NASA's Curiosity rover finds levels of gas on Mars that could suggest possibility of life
Jun 22, 4:52PM
NASA’s Curiosity Rover has detected high levels of methane output during its mission on the Martian surface, the New York Times reports. The discovery, found during a measurement taking on Wednesday by the robot and observed by NASA researchers, could indicate that microbial lifeforms may have taken up residence underground on Mars. Methane is often […]
Ray Dalio, Niantic, Adobe, Dropbox, remote work, Northzone, and Slack
Jun 22, 3:00PM
Ray Dalio on the Extra Crunch stage at Disrupt SF 2019 This year at Disrupt SF, we will be hosting a special Extra Crunch stage focused on the issues that confront startup founders in building their companies. I am pleased to announce that Ray Dalio of Bridgewater fame will be sitting down for a fireside […]
Equity transcribed: Slack's IPO, the VCs behind Facebook Libra, founder salaries and trouble in scooter-land
Jun 22, 2:30PM
Welcome back to this week's transcribed edition of Equity. This week, TechCrunch’s Danny Crichton filled in for co-host Alex Wilhelm – who was out in preparation for his wedding this weekend – joining Kate to cover the big news of the week. Kate and Danny dive straight into Slack’s IPO and the implications of its direct […]
Startups Weekly: The scooter cash desert
Jun 22, 12:00PM
In this week's newsletter: Slack's direct listing, Juul's conundrum and Facebook's new cryptocurrency.
Netflix is testing a pop-out floating video player on desktop
Jun 22, 11:27AM
Netflix is testing out a new feature that could mean you never have to stop watching, not even while you work – it’s a pop-out video player, similar to the one you may be used to from iOS and macOS for any website or app that supports Safari’s native video player. Basically, that means you […]
Google Pay expands its integration with PayPal to online merchants
Jun 21, 8:09PM
Google and PayPal have been strategic partners for some time. The companies in 2017 announced that PayPal would become a payment method in Android Pay, the service that later rebranded as Google Pay. Last year, users who added PayPal as a payment method on Google Pay could then pay for services like Gmail, YouTube, Google […]
What money should be
Jun 21, 7:00PM
With the release of the Facebook consortium's project Libra whitepaper, the internet, tech world, financial services industry and policy circles are all burning with conversation on the project's potential.
Airbus-owned Voom will compete with Uber Copter in the US in 2019
Jun 21, 6:56PM
The U.S. air taxi market is heating up: Aeronautics industry giant Airbus will be among the companies operating on-demand air travel service in 2019 in American skies, FastCompany reports. Airbus’ Voom on-demand helicopter shuttle operation will set up shop in the U.S. starting this fall, after previously providing service exclusively in Latin America. Uber announced […]
Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative gives $68M to fund Human Cell Atlas projects
Jun 21, 6:33PM
An ongoing global project to map the human body cell by cell has receive a $68 million shot in the arm from the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative. It will support dozens of individual projects contributing to the eponymous atlas of human cells.
Ray Dalio is coming to Disrupt SF
Jun 21, 5:53PM
When it comes to the gods of finance, few people reach the stratosphere of Ray Dalio . The founder of Bridgewater, the investment firm that has grown to manage $150 billion in assets, Dalio is one of the most successful financial entrepreneurs of his generation, and indeed, of all time. While Dalio and Bridgewater are […]
Crowdfunded spacecraft LightSail 2 prepares to go sailing on sunlight
Jun 21, 5:47PM
Among the many spacecraft and satellites ascending to space on Monday's Falcon Heavy launch, the Planetary Society's LightSail 2 may be the most interesting. If all goes well, a week from launch it will be moving through space — slowly, but surely — on nothing more than the force exerted on it by sunlight.
Daily Crunch: Google's not making any more tablets
Jun 21, 5:42PM
The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here. 1. Google says it's not making any more tablets "For Google's first-party hardware efforts, we'll be focusing on Chrome OS laptops and […]
Slack and Zoom are flying high; they're also being chased already by upstarts
Jun 21, 5:42PM
Two of the highest-flying now-public enterprise companies of the year — Slack and Zoom — are different in many ways, besides the fact that one is focused on workplace messaging while the other is centered around video conferencing. Slack began life as a very different startup, while Zoom founder Eric Yuan knew from the outset […]
Apply to Startup Battlefield for a shot at TC fame and fortune
Jun 21, 5:30PM
What would a $100,000 cash infusion do for your early-stage startup? Don't just imagine it. Apply to compete in Startup Battlefield at Disrupt San Francisco 2019 on October 2-4. Our premier pitch competition has launched hundreds of startups on an exponential success trajectory, attracts massive media and investor attention and, yeah, it offers a fat $100K […]
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