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Daily Crunch: Disney reveals streaming bundle
Aug 07, 6:13PM
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. Disney will bundle Hulu, ESPN+ and Disney+ for a monthly price of $12.99 Disney’s streaming services just became even more appealing, […]
Handy co-founder Oisin Hanrahan becomes chief product officer at acquirer ANGI Homeservices
Aug 07, 6:03PM
ANGI Homeservices — which operates HomeAdvisor, Angie’s List and other brands — is naming Handy CEO Oisin Hanrahan as its new chief product officer. Handy offers on-demand access to workers who can clean, assemble furniture, mount TVs and perform other tasks around the home. It was acquired last year by ANGI (a publicly-traded subsidiary of […]
Only 48 hours left for early-bird tickets to TC Sessions: Enterprise 2019
Aug 07, 5:00PM
If enterprise software makes your entrepreneurial heart beat faster, you do not want to miss TC Sessions: Enterprise 2019 on September 5 in San Francisco. And if you really want to make your heart sing, buy an early-bird ticket and save $100. But act quickly, because that deal disappears in just 48 hours on August […]
At Disrupt SF, learn how to take a digital brand offline from Brooklinen, Framebridge and thredUP
Aug 07, 4:32PM
Over the past couple decades, retail has fundamentally changed. Amazon has swept in and devoured mom and pop stores, while incumbent brands face increased competition from a new crop of digital-first companies. But not everything changes. People still want to see and feel the goods they’ll purchase, and most brands still see huge benefits from […]
Virtual reality game-streaming platform Vreal shuts down
Aug 07, 4:25PM
Vreal, an ambitious game-streaming platform that aimed to let VR users explore the worlds that live-streamers were playing in, is shutting down and laying off its staff after raising $15 million in venture capital. The startup announced the shutdown on its website’s homepage. The Seattle startup raised cash from investors including Axioma Ventures, Upfront Ventures […]
HealthTech VCs, fundraising in August, reducing churn, North, and co-ops as startups
Aug 07, 3:40PM
What tech gets right about healthcare This week, our long-time healthtech correspondent Sarah Buhr talked to leading health VCs Phin Barnes of First Round Capital, Matt Ocko of DCVC, and Nick Naclerio of Illumina Ventures about what they are seeing in the healthtech ecosystem, how they are thinking about investments in the space, as well […]
Nike buys an AI startup that predicts what consumers want
Aug 07, 3:36PM
Nike’s market cap has swollen past $100 billion, but the shoe company still sees potential to learn more about what customers want and how to source and stock products to meet those needs. The company announced that it has acquired the Boston-area startup Celect to help Nike beef up its predictive analytics strengths. Like any […]
Ment.io wants to help your team make decisions
Aug 07, 3:30PM
Getting even the most well-organized team to agree on anything can be hard. Tel Aviv’s Ment.io, formerly known as Epistema, wants to make this process easier by applying smart design and a dose of machine learning to streamline the decision-making process. Like with so many Israeli startups, Ment.io’s co-founders Joab Rosenberg and Tzvika Katzenelson got […]
How to fundraise in August
Aug 07, 2:45PM
August is often considered the black hole of venture capital fundraising. Everyone is on vacation (well, everyone who's not a founder anyway), while half of Silicon Valley is slogging down to Black Rock City for Burning Man. It understandably can just seem like an exercise in futility to try to raise any funding at all. […]
PodcastOne is launching LaunchpadDM, a free hosting platform for independent podcasters
Aug 07, 2:27PM
PodcastOne, the celebrity podcasting network from the founder of radio powerhouse WestwoodOne, is launching a free hosting platform for podcasters. The Los Angeles-based syndicated podcasting platform — which counts athletes, politicians, talk radio and reality television stars like Adam Carolla, Shaquille O'Neal, Steve Austin, Kaitlyn Bristowe, Dan Patrick, Spencer and Heidi Pratt, Jim Harbaugh, Ladygang, […]
Rookout lands $8M Series A to expand debugging platform
Aug 07, 2:19PM
Rookout, a startup that provides debugging across a variety of environments, including serverless and containers, announced an $8 million Series A investment today. It plans to use the money to expand beyond its debugging roots. The round was led by Cisco Investments along with existing investors TLV Partners and Emerge. Nat Friedman, CEO of GitHub; […]
Morty raises $8.5M Series A to help first-time homebuyers secure their mortgages
Aug 07, 2:00PM
For the past decade, Brian Faux has been fighting on the front lines of housing finance. In between pursuing a career in mortgage lending and holding stints at Freddie Mac and Wells Fargo, Faux spent more than two years in the detritus of the 2008 financial crisis advising the Department of Housing and Urban Development […]
FEMA just ran a national test of the emergency broadcast system
Aug 07, 2:00PM
Testing, testing. Is this emergency warning system on? The Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, just buzzed every television and radio in the U.S. with its latest test of the Emergency Alert System (EAS). The alert test went out on televisions and radios at 2:20pm ET (11:20am PT). “THIS IS A TEST of the National […]
FedEx ends ground-delivery contract with Amazon
Aug 07, 1:12PM
FedEx is ending a partnership with Amazon to supply the e-commerce company with ground delivery shipping after its current contract ends this month, the company confirmed to Bloomberg. This is the second contract with Amazon that FedEx has allowed to end without renewal, following a similar decision in June that covered only Express air shipments. […]
CircleCI brings its continuous integration to Microsoft programmers for first time
Aug 07, 1:04PM
CircleCI has been supporting continuous integration for Linux and Mac programmers for some time, but up until today, Microsoft developers have been left on the outside looking in. Today, the company changed that, announcing new support for Microsoft programmers using Windows Server 2019. CircleCI, which announced a $56 million Series D investment last month, is […]
Toyota partners with AI startup Preferred Networks on building helper robots for humans
Aug 07, 12:25PM
Toyota is enlisting the help of startup Preferred Networks, a Japanese company founded in 2014 with a focus on artificial intelligence and deep learning, to help move forward its goal of developing useful service robots that can assist people in everyday life. The two companies announced a partnership today to collaborate on research and development […]
Zendesk puts Smooch acquisition to work with WhatsApp integration
Aug 07, 12:00PM
Zendesk has always been all about customer service. Last spring it purchased Smooch to move more deeply into messaging app integration. Today, the company announced it was integrating WhatsApp, the popular messaging tool, into the Zendesk customer service toolkit. Smooch was an early participant in the WhatsApp Business API program. What that does, in practice, […]
Can a radical new event disrupt how VCs raise funds, unlocking cash for Europe?
Aug 07, 11:37AM
For many years there's been an accepted way to raise capital as a venture capital fund. Essentially, GPs (general partners, who set up and run venture capital firms) go “cap in hand” to LPs (limited partners, who invest into their VC firms) in pension funds, privately run “family offices,” “ultra-high net worths” and other such […]
Twitter 'fesses up to more adtech leaks
Aug 07, 8:57AM
Twitter has disclosed more bugs related to how it uses personal data for ad targeting that means it may have shared users data with advertising partners even when a user had expressly told it not to. Back in May the social network disclosed a bug that in certain conditions resulted in an account's location data […]
Brolly launches 'Brolly Contents' to tackle the antiquated home contents insurance market
Aug 07, 8:00AM
Brolly, the U.K. insurance app that lets you keep track of your various policies so you are correctly and competitively covered, is launching a new product to plug what it sees as a gap in home contents insurance. Dubbed “Brolly Contents,” the new offering promises “flexible” monthly cover for all or a subset of the […]
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