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With help from 'Game of Thrones,' HBO conquers Netflix in Emmy nominations
Jul 16, 5:18PM
When the Emmy nominations were announced last year, Netflix had a big win, overtaking HBO for the first time. But this year’s HBO is back in the lead, with 137 nominations compared to Netflix’s 117. The 2019 nominations were just announced and The Hollywood Reporter has tallied up the numbers, with Amazon Prime Video getting 47 […]
Jeffrey Katzenberg's Quibi partners with NBC News for a daily news show aimed at millennials
Jul 16, 5:12PM
NBC News today announced an exclusive partnership with Jeffrey Katzenberg’s upcoming mobile streaming service, Quibi, which will see the media company becoming the first major producer for the service’s “Daily Essentials” news programming, aimed at millennial viewers. As part of the deal, NBC will produce both a 6-minute morning and evening news show for the […]
What we can learn from DTC success with TV ads
Jul 16, 5:02PM
Kevin Krim and Sebastian Chiu Contributor Share on Twitter Kevin Krim is EDO's President & CEO. His 21-year career has spanned search, social and TV advertising across start-ups and major companies like Yahoo and NBCUniversal. Sebastian Chiu is EDO's Chief Data Scientist. He earned his undergraduate and post-graduate degrees from Harvard, working previously as a […]
Billie raises €30M for its B2B invoicing and payments platform
Jul 16, 4:49PM
Billie, the Berlin-based fintech startup that offers a B2B invoicing and payments platform, has raised €30 million in Series B funding. Leading the round is Creandum, alongside SpeedInvest, Rocket Internet’s GFC and Picus. Founded in 2017 by the same team behind SME online lending platform Zencap, which exited to Funding Circle in 2015, Billie wants […]
How to watch Elon Musk's Neuralink brain control interface startup presentation live
Jul 16, 4:48PM
One of Elon Musk’s stealthier endeavors is set to become a lot less stealthy tonight, with a presentation set for 8 PM PT (11 PM ET) streaming live from its website in which we’ll learn a lot more about Neuralink, the company Musk founded in 2017 to work on brain control interfaces (BCIs) and essentially […]
Voyant Photonics raises $4.3M to fit lidar on the head of a pin
Jul 16, 4:45PM
Lidar is a critical method by which robots and autonomous vehicles sense the world around them, but the lasers and sensors generally take up a considerable amount of space. Not so with Voyant Photonics, which has created a lidar system that you really could conceivably balance on the head of a pin.
Verified Expert Growth Marketing Agency: TrueUp
Jul 16, 4:02PM
It was the perfect storm when CEO and Founder Liam Reynolds finally decided to start TrueUp, a data-driven growth marketing agency/consultancy based in London. After decades of working for large creative advertising agencies, Liam quit his job right around the beginning of Silicon Valley's growth hacking trend and plunged headfirst into running growth for early-stage […]
Qualtrics' Julie Larson-Green will talk customer experience at TC Sessions: Enterprise
Jul 16, 4:00PM
We’re less than two months out from our first TC Sessions: Enterprise event, which is happening in San Francisco on September 5, and did you know our buy 1 get 1 free sale ends today too! Among the many enterprise and startup executives that’ll join us for the event is Qualtrics’ Julie Larson-Green. If that […]
China startup deals shrink as fundraising for investors plummets
Jul 16, 3:48PM
Chinese startups continue to weather tough times as private investors, caught in a cash crunch, are concentrating money into fewer deals. China’s deal-making activity for startups in the six months ended June halved from a year ago to 1910, according to data from consulting firm ChinaVenture’s research arm. The amount invested in domestic startups during […]
Highlights from Facebook's Libra Senate hearing
Jul 16, 3:25PM
Facebook will only build its own Calibra cryptocurrency wallet into Messenger and Whatsapp, and will refuse to embed competing wallets, the head of Calibra David Marcus told the Senate Banking Committee today. While some like Senator Brown blustered that “Facebook is dangerous!”, others surfaced poignant questions about Libra’s risks. Calibra will be interoperable so users […]
Echo Dot and Fire TV Stick are again Prime Day's best selling devices (so far!)
Jul 16, 3:17PM
Amazon Prime members again snapped up loss leaders like the Echo Dot and Fire TV Stick with Alexa Remote on the first day of Amazon Prime Day 2019, which has now been stretched out to a 48-hour sale. This is the third year in a row that the entry-level Alexa smart speaker, the Echo Dot, […]
Quirk wants to make cognitive behavioral therapy more accessible
Jul 16, 3:15PM
Quirk, a YC-backed company, is looking to bring cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to more people suffering from anxiety or depression. CBT aims to lessen or stop harmful behavior by changing the way people think, stopping them from falling into established patterns of negatively distorting their reality to justify or account for unhelpful habits. “CBT has […]
Aavgo security lapse exposed hotel bookings
Jul 16, 3:05PM
A security lapse at a hotel management startup has exposed hotel bookings and guests’ personal information. The security lapse was resolved Monday after TechCrunch reached out to Aavgo, a hospitality tech company based in San Francisco, which secured a server it had left online without a password. The server was open for three weeks — […]
Apply to TC Top Picks before the deadline & exhibit free at Disrupt SF 2019
Jul 16, 3:00PM
Does your company have what it takes to be part of an elite cadre of early-stage startups and exhibit for free at Disrupt San Francisco 2019? There's only one way to know for sure, but time is running out. Apply to be a TC Top Pick now — before the application window closes for good […]
Mercari's new Instant Pay feature transfers verified sellers' balances to their debit cards within minutes
Jul 16, 3:00PM
For online sellers, waiting three to five days for e-commerce platforms to transfer their balance is one of their biggest pain points. Mercari is going after rivals with its new Instant Pay feature, which deposits money in a few minutes. Once sellers are verified, they can instantly transfer up to $500 per month of their […]
Sony's new A7R IV camera is a 61 MP full-frame mirrorless beast
Jul 16, 2:53PM
Sony unveiled the latest in its line of interchangeable lens mirrorless cameras on Tuesday, debuting the A7R IV, its top-of-the-line full-frame digital shooter aimed at pros. The new camera packs a walloping 61-megapixel sensor, and will retail for $3,500 when it goes on sale this September. The camera’s image resolution is a “world first” for […]
Learn how to change banking one dollar at a time at Disrupt SF
Jul 16, 2:35PM
Fintech startups are the hot new thing. Everybody wants to reinvent the way you manage money, invest and pay for things. That's why we're inviting three fintech experts to TechCrunch Disrupt SF to help you learn everything about the space. They know that the bank of the future is not necessarily a bank and that […]
3 lessons from Roblox's growth to gaming dominance
Jul 16, 2:28PM
Our recently published EC-1 on Roblox recounts the origin story and growth prospects of the company. But there's one more piece to the story: what Roblox's impact will be on gaming and the broader startup industry, if the company manages to multiply its current 90 million users. We've distilled three key ideas out of the […]
Large retailers saw 64% increase in sales on Monday, thanks to Amazon Prime Day
Jul 16, 2:04PM
It’s no longer a winner-take-all scenario for Amazon Prime Day — in fact, that hasn’t been true for years. As soon as other large retailers realized they could piggyback on Amazon’s annual sales event to boost their own revenues from counter-sales, they’ve been doing just that. According to new data from Adobe Analytics out this […]
Newsletter platform Substack raises $15.3M round led by a16z
Jul 16, 2:00PM
Andreessen Horowitz is betting that there’s still a big opportunity in newsletters — the venture capital firm is leading a $15.3 million Series A in Substack. To be clear, although Substack started out two years ago as a way turn newsletters into a paid subscription business, it’s since added support for podcasts and discussion threads […]
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