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Twitch will join Amazon Prime Day with giveaways, events and live shows
Jun 28, 4:13PM
Amazon -owned game streaming site Twitch will be participating in Amazon Prime Day this year, with giveaways of free content from Apex Legends and EA Sports games, live-streamed events, and apparently, even a live-streamed shopping show. The latter was reported this morning by AdWeek, which detailed the streaming site’s plans for a 2-day live shopping […]
Bumble now lets you call your matches without exchanging numbers
Jun 28, 4:00PM
Bumble is giving users some new options to get to know each other inside its dating app, announcing today that they are adding voice and video calls to their app. The feature is double opt-in, meaning you won’t get a video call from some rando the second that you match with them. Instead, users will […]
NASA restores Apollo Mission Control to its 1969 Moon landing condition
Jun 28, 3:58PM
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing, which is coming up on July 20, NASA has restored and re-opened the original Apollo Mission Control Center at Johnson Space Center in Houston. The restoration is a painstakingly detailed recreation, which involved years of research of archival footage and photography, and seven months of restoration […]
Synergy Research finds enterprise SaaS revenue hits $100B run rate, led by Microsoft, Salesforce
Jun 28, 3:48PM
In its most recent report, Synergy Research, a company that monitors cloud marketshare, found that enterprise SaaS revenue passed the $100 billion run rate this quarter. The market was led by Microsoft and Salesforce. It shouldn’t be a surprise at this point that these two enterprise powerhouses come in at the top. Microsoft reported $10.1 […]
Quibi is getting an action-thriller series starring Liam Hemsworth
Jun 28, 3:26PM
Streaming media startup Quibi, co-founded by entertainment industry heavyweight Jeffrey Katzenberg and former HP CEO Meg Whitman, is adding more star power to its launch slate. The short-form video content startup will have an action-thriller series starring Liam Hemsworth, one of the many Hemsworths (the one who was in The Hunger Games, specifically). This series […]
Smartphone users are upgrading less frequently — will 5G help?
Jun 28, 3:18PM
A new study out of NPD confirms what we already know about the state of the smartphone in 2019. People just aren't upgrading as frequently. You can see the ramifications of this as companies like Apple and Google scramble to right the ship. Still, it's nice to put some numbers to the abstract trend. The […]
Nielsen reports a record half a trillion on-demand music streams in U.S. so far this year
Jun 28, 2:41PM
Music streaming services have already delivered a new high of half a trillion (507.7 billion) on-demand streams in the first half of 2019, according to Nielsen’s mid-year Music Report released this week. This record number — an increase of 31.6% over the first half of last year — was attributed to the success of singles […]
Formlabs is 3D printing parts of New Balance's new sneakers
Jun 28, 2:27PM
Sneakers have been a pretty effective means for helping 3D printing make the transition from prototype to manufacturing. Carbon in particular has found success with its Adidas partnership, printing out Futurecraft 4D shoes in limited quantities and scaling up considerably in the last few years. Announced back in 2017, the New Balance x Formlabs collab […]
Global Entry is 'vulnerable to exploitation,' says government watchdog
Jun 28, 1:58PM
Global Entry, used by millions of busy passengers traveling to the U.S., is “vulnerable” to criminals taking advantage of weaknesses in the system, according to a new report by a government watchdog. The immigration and border check system, designed to allow vetted low-risk travelers expedited entry to the U.S., has more than six million people […]
Italy stings Facebook with $1.1M fine for Cambridge Analytica data misuse
Jun 28, 1:50PM
Italy’s data protection watchdog has issued Facebook with a €1 million (~$1.1M) fine for violations of local privacy law attached to the Cambridge Analytica data misuse scandal. Last year it emerged that up to 87 million Facebook users had had their data siphoned out of the social media giant’s platform by an app developer working […]
Apple's Sidecar just really *gets* me, you know?
Jun 28, 1:40PM
With the rollout of Apple’s public beta software previews of macOS and the new iPadOS, I’ve finally been able to experience first-hand Sidecar, the feature that lets you use an iPad as an external display for your Mac. This is something I’ve been looking to make work since the day the iPad was released, and […]
SoftBank-backed startup cracks under pressure to scale
Jun 28, 1:00PM
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch's venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.
Facebook's content oversight board plan is raising more questions than it answers
Jun 28, 12:08PM
Facebook has produced a report summarizing feedback it’s taken in on its idea of establishing a content oversight board to help arbitrate on moderation decisions. Aka the ‘supreme court of Facebook’ concept first discussed by founder Mark Zuckerberg last year, when he told Vox: [O]ver the long term, what I'd really like to get to […]
Google is building a new private subsea cable between Portugal and South Africa
Jun 28, 12:00PM
Google today announced Equiano, a new private subsea cable that will connect Portugal and South Africa. The cable will be built by Alcatel Submarine Networks and the first phase of the project is scheduled for completion in 2021. In April, the WSJ first reported the company’s plans for this cable. This is the company’s third […]
UK fintech Jaja pays $671M in cash to acquire the Bank of Ireland's UK credit card business
Jun 28, 10:47AM
Fintech has been one of the bigger stories of the UK startup world — due in no small part to the fact that its capital, London, is also one of the world’s major financial centers. Today, one of those startups made a big splash by buying an incumbent business, and taking on an equity investment […]
Spotify needs to crack down on labels snatching user data
Jun 28, 12:28AM
Spotify seems to have learned little from the Facebook developer platform’s scandals despite getting a huge boost from the social network in its early days. Spotify has been caught allowing record labels to grab tons of unnecessary user data and permissions to even control their accounts just so people can “pre-save” upcoming song releases. An […]
SV Academy just landed $9.5 million to offer tuition-free training that puts people in tech jobs
Jun 28, 12:20AM
When you live in Silicon Valley, it feels like nearly everyone works in tech and that entry into the industry is wide open. Of course, the reality is very different. Even as software eats the world, not everyone has the training or connections to land a high-paying job in either the traditional tech industry or […]
DoorDash double downs on controversial pay model
Jun 27, 11:28PM
There’s seemingly no end in sight for DoorDash’s compensation model where it subsidizes driver wages with customer tips. The mildly bright side, however, is that DoorDash is now providing more transparency after each completed delivery, DoorDash CEO Tony Xu wrote in a blog post today. “With our current pay model, Dashers see a guaranteed minimum — including […]
Freemium's public moment
Jun 27, 11:00PM
Companies that create the most compelling end-user experiences will win over the long term, and this trend of the consumerization of enterprise technology has only just begun.
Apple Music surpasses 60 million subscribers
Jun 27, 10:44PM
Today’s major Apple news may be the departure of its design guru Jony Ive, but the even as the company stomachs the executive loss, their software plows ahead. Today, in an interview with French news site Numerama, Apple honcho Eddy Cue revealed that the number of Apple Music subscribers has now climbed to 60 million. […]
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