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Daily Crunch: Capital One discloses enormous data breach
Jul 30, 5:48PM
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. Capital One hacked, over 100 million customers affected Another day, another data breach. This time, the company involved is Capital One, which […]
The dreaded 10x, or, how to handle exceptional employees
Jul 30, 5:26PM
The “10x engineer.” Shudder. Wince. I have rarely seen my Twitter feed unite against an idea so loudly, or in such harmony. I refer of course to the thread last month by Accel India’s Shekhar Kirani, explaining “If you have a 10x engineer as part of your first few engineers, you increase the odds of […]
Google's new version of Android Auto focuses on Assistant
Jul 30, 4:59PM
Google is starting to roll out an updated version of its in-car platform Android Auto that aims to make it easier and safer for drivers to use. The version, which was first revealed during Google I/O 2019, has a dark theme, new fonts and color accents, more opportunities to communicate with Google’s virtual assistant and the […]
CrowdLobby wants to democratize political lobbying
Jul 30, 4:41PM
Lobbying, whether we like it or not, is an effective way to enact political change. But it’s historically only been available to special interest groups and corporations with hoards of cash on hand. CrowdLobby, a non-partisan organization that launched this month, hopes to change that. Last year, corporations and special interest firms spent $3.5 billion […]
Facebook is exploring brain control for AR wearables
Jul 30, 4:31PM
Facebook this morning issued a lengthy breakdown of recent research into BCI (brain-computer interface) as a means with which to control future augmented reality interfaces. The piece coincides with a Facebook-funded UCSF research paper published in Nature today entitled, "Real-time decoding of question-and-answer speech dialogue using human cortical activity." Elements of the research have fairly […]
How retailers can survive the Amazon era
Jul 30, 4:30PM
To survive in the post-Amazon era, the way companies have been storing and delivering physical goods to their final destination will need to change profoundly in the next decade.
Wall St analyst Laura Martin on the fate of Netflix, breaking up Google, EU regulation, and a decade of more money for Hollywood
Jul 30, 4:00PM
The rise of streaming video platforms like Netflix and Amazon Prime has upended traditional power balances in Hollywood and is reorganizing the way we consume films and TV series as consumers. Following her talk at the recent Banff World Media Festival in Canada, I interviewed Laura Martin, the senior analyst covering entertainment and internet stocks […]
Vacasa to acquire Wyndham Vacation Rentals for $162M
Jul 30, 3:18PM
Vacasa, a provider of vacation rental management services akin to Airbnb, has agreed to acquire Wyndham Vacation Rentals from Wyndham Destinations. Portland-based Vacasa will pay Wyndham a total of $162 million, including at least $45 million in cash at closing and upwards of $30 million in Vacasa equity. Vacasa, founded in 2009, has raised $207.5 […]
Nintendo Switch sales are up, even with new models on the way
Jul 30, 3:16PM
Quarterly sales for the Switch remained brisk for Nintendo's most recent quarterly earnings. The number made a jump from 1.88 to 2.13 million units year over year. Modest, sure, but still solid for a console that's getting slightly long in the tooth — especially given the fact that we've been aware new versions are on […]
Catalyst raises $15M from Accel to transform data-driven customer success
Jul 30, 3:00PM
Managing your customers has changed a lot in the past decade. Out are the steak dinners and ballgame tickets to get a sense of a contract's chance at renewal, and in are churn analysis and a whole bunch of data science to learn whether a customer and their users like or love your product. That […]
Former Cambridge Analytica director, Brittany Kaiser, dumps more evidence of Brexit's democratic trainwreck
Jul 30, 2:40PM
A UK parliamentary committee has published new evidence fleshing out how membership data was passed from UKIP, a pro-Brexit political party, to Leave.EU, a Brexit supporting campaign active in the 2016 EU referendum — via the disgraced and now defunct data company, Cambridge Analytica. In evidence sessions last year, during the DCMS committee’s enquiry into […]
What Huawei didn't say in its 'robust' half-year results
Jul 30, 2:13PM
The media has largely bought into Huawei's “strong” half-year results today, but there's a major catch in the report: the company's quarter-by-quarter smartphone growth was zero. The telecom equipment and smartphone giant announced on Tuesday that its revenue grew 23.2% to reach 401.3 billion yuan ($58.31 million) in the first half of 2019 despite all […]
Confluera snags $9M Series A to help stop cyberattacks in real time
Jul 30, 2:00PM
Just yesterday, we experienced yet another major breach when Capital One announced it had been hacked and years of credit card application information had been stolen. Another day, another hack, but the question is how can companies protect themselves in the face of an onslaught of attacks. Confluera, a Palo Alto startup, wants to help […]
'The Operators': Experts from WeWork and Brex talk marketing – Getting the most bang for your buck
Jul 30, 2:00PM
Welcome to this transcribed edition of The Operators. TechCrunch is beginning to publish podcasts from industry experts, with transcriptions available for Extra Crunch members so you can read the conversation wherever you are.
Vymo raises $18M to help on-the-go salespeople do more
Jul 30, 1:58PM
Vymo, a New York-headquartered startup that operates an eponymous mobile-first service to help salespeople manage their leads and get more work done, has raised $18 million in a new financing round to expand its footprint in the U.S. and other markets. The Series B round for the six-year-old startup was led by Emergence Capital, a […]
Huawei is shipping a lot more phones in spite of it all
Jul 30, 1:47PM
There are a lot of reasons to assume Huawei's numbers would be on the decline. Even without getting caught smack in the middle of increasing trade tensions between two superpowers, the smartphone market has been trending down for some time now. A confluence of factors have contributed, including slowed upgrade cycles and stagnate economies in […]
NakedPoppy launches curated beauty marketplace for wellness junkies
Jul 30, 1:00PM
Cowboy Ventures, Felicis Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Maveron and more are betting on cruelty-free, organic and sustainable makeup sales.
AWS follows Microsoft into the Middle East, opening new region in Bahrain
Jul 30, 12:12PM
AWS, Amazon’s cloud arm, announced today that it has opened a Middle East Region in Bahrain. The Middle East is an emerging market for cloud providers and this new region is part of a continuing expansion for the cloud giant. Today’s news comes on the heels of Microsoft announcing its own Middle East data centers […]
Blockchain (the company) launches an exchange (The Pit)
Jul 30, 11:01AM
The company called Blockchain is mostly known for its cryptocurrency wallet. Today, the company is also launching an exchange so you can buy and sell cryptocurrencies without going through a third-party exchange. The company's exchange is called The Pit, and is focused on mainstream adoption and ease of use. It is available in 200 countries, […]
Techstars nabs $42M to expand its global presence
Jul 30, 11:00AM
SVB Financial Group, the holding company of Silicon Valley Bank, invests in Techstars.
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