TechCrunchflipped into Top StoriesTechnology Rocket Lab adds new $7.5 million “Mission Success” coin to its online store TechCrunch - Darrell EtheringtonRocket Lab’s merch store has pretty much what you’d expect from a space-themed gift shop – baby onesies, t-shirts, caps and mission patches. But the commercial rocket launch company just added its latest
TechCrunchflipped into Top StoriesTechnology Licious raises $30M to grow its meat and seafood e-commerce platform in India TechCrunch - Manish SinghLicious, a Bangalore-based startup that sells fresh meat and seafood online, has secured $30 million in a new financing round as it looks to expand its footprint in the nation. The new financing round,
TechCrunchflipped into Top StoriesChina China Roundup: GitHub’s China ambitions and WeWork rival’s big hopes TechCrunch - Rita LiaoHello and welcome back to TechCrunch’s China Roundup, a digest of recent events shaping the Chinese tech landscape and what they mean to people in the rest of the world. This week, we are looking at how
TechCrunchflipped into Top StoriesTechnology The new new weird TechCrunch - Jon EvansNeo-Pentecostal gangs in Brazil, driving out other faiths at gunpoint. A mob of 100 lawyers attacking a hospital in Pakistan to revenge themselves on violent doctors there. Anti-vaxxers, neo-Nazis, and
TechCrunchflipped into Top StoriesTechnology Max Q: Blue Origin launches a New Shepard and Rocket Lab officially opens U.S. launch site TechCrunch - Darrell EtheringtonMax Q is a new weekly newsletter all about space from TechCrunch. Sign up here to receive it weekly on Sundays in your inbox. This is it – the very first edition of Max Q: TechCrunch’s space newsletter.
TechCrunchflipped into Top StoriesTechnology Uber all set to sell UberEats’ India business to Zomato TechCrunch - Manish SinghUber is in advanced stages of talks to sell its food delivery service UberEats’ India business to local rival Zomato, as the American ride-hailing giant looks to cut its spending globally, three people
TechCrunchflipped into Top StoriesTechnology RCS messaging has rolled out to Android users in the US TechCrunch - Brian HeaterHere’s a nice little surprise for Android users this weekend. It seems that Google’s pans to roll out Rich Communication Services (RCS) messaging is slightly ahead of schedule. The company announced in
TechCrunchflipped into Top StoriesSpotify Spotify spent a lot of money on podcasting, so it wants you to start listening, please TechCrunch - Brian HeaterListen. Spotify’s tired of screwing around here. The company spent a lot of money on podcasts. Like, a lot, a lot. And it really needs you to start listening to things, because it’s almost certainly going
TechCrunchflipped into Top StoriesTechnology Week in Review: Pet startups will be the death of Silicon Valley TechCrunch - Lucas MatneyHey everyone. Thank you for welcoming me into you inboxes yet again. I’m in Berlin where TechCrunch just pulled off another great Disrupt event, we’ve got a lot of great Europe-focused startup content
TechCrunchflipped into Top StoriesStartups With $4B food delivery acquisition, Korea poised to enter upper tier of startup hubs TechCrunch - Danny CrichtonSeoul and South Korea may well be the secret startup hub that (still) no one talks about. While often dwarfed by the scale and scope of the Chinese startup market next door, South Korea has proven over
TechCrunchflipped into Top StoriesVolkswagen Volkswagen to bring self-driving electric shuttles to Qatar by 2022 TechCrunch - Kirsten KorosecVolkswagen Group and Qatar have agreed to develop a public transit system of autonomous shuttles and buses by 2022 for the capital city of Doha. The agreement signed Saturday by VW Group and the Qatar
TechCrunchflipped into Top StoriesTechnology Fortnite gets lightsabers, courtesy of ‘Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’ promo TechCrunch - Brian HeaterThe final installment of the sequel trilogy is getting a lot of creative promotion — even by Star Wars standards. With The Rise of Skywalker out in just under a week, J.J. Abrams (and some spotty server
TechCrunchflipped into Top StoriesTechnology Let’s talk Samsung Galaxy S11 TechCrunch - Brian HeaterWe’ve officially entered the mid-December hardware doldrums. Obviously no major hardware maker in its right mind is going to be announcing anything major in the next few weeks, for fear of preemptively
TechCrunchflipped into Top StoriesTechnology New Orleans declares state of emergency following ransomware attack TechCrunch - Kirsten KorosecNew Orleans declared a state of emergency and shut down its computers after a cyber security event, the latest in a string of city and state governments to be attacked by hackers. Suspicious activity spotted
TechCrunchflipped into Top StoriesTechnology Gift Guide: Gifts for the commuters in your life TechCrunch - Ingrid LundenWelcome to TechCrunch’s 2019 Holiday Gift Guide! Need help with gift ideas? We’re here to help! We’ll be rolling out gift guides from now through the end of December. You can find our other guides right
TechCrunchflipped into Top StoriesSurveillance FBI secretly demands a ton of consumer data from credit agencies. Now lawmakers want answers TechCrunch - Zack WhittakerRecently released documents revealed the FBI has for years secretly demanded vast amounts of Americans’ consumer and financial information from the largest U.S. credit agencies. The FBI regularly uses
TechCrunchflipped into Top StoriesTechnology Wearable band shipments grew globally, driven by Xiaomi TechCrunch - Brian HeaterApple may dominate the wearable conversation here in the States, but things look a fair bit different on the other side of the world. In Asia, Xiaomi is the giant in the room. According to new numbers
TechCrunchflipped into News about startups from TechCrunchVenture Capital Startups Weekly: This year in startups TechCrunch - Kate ClarkWelcome back to Startups Weekly, a weekend newsletter that dives into the week’s noteworthy startups and venture capital news. Before I jump into today’s topic, let’s catch up a bit. Last week, I wrote
TechCrunchflipped into Top StoriesSmart TV Apple and Spotify’s podcasts come to Echo devices in the US TechCrunch - Sarah PerezAmazon Alexa can now play podcasts from Apple, making Amazon’s line of Echo devices the first third-party clients to support the Apple Podcasts service without using AirPlay. Before, this level of support
TechCrunchflipped into Top StoriesTechnology Grading the final tech IPOs of 2019 TechCrunch - Alex WilhelmAs the holiday slowdown looms, the final U.S.-listed technology IPOs have come in and begun to trade. Three tech, tech-ish or venture-backed companies went public this week: Bill.com, Sprout Social and
TechCrunchflipped into Top StoriesTechnology This Week in Apps: Apple Arcade’s new franchise, Fortnite takes on Google Play, the Disney+ app footprint TechCrunch - Sarah PerezWelcome back to This Week in Apps, the Extra Crunch series that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they support and the money that flows through it all. The app industry is as hot as ever, with
TechCrunchflipped into Top StoriesStartups Consumer sous vide startup Nomiku is winding down operations TechCrunch - Brian HeaterFounded in 2012, Nomiku became a plucky Silicon Valley darling by bringing affordable sous vide cooking to home kitchens. A Kickstarter project that same year generated $750,000, several times its $200,000
TechCrunchflipped into Top StoriesAdobe Adobe turns it up to 11, surpassing $11B in revenue TechCrunch - Ron MillerYesterday, Adobe submitted its quarterly earnings report and the results were quite good. The company generated a tad under $3 billion for the quarter at $2.99 billion, and reported that revenue exceeded
TechCrunchflipped into Top StoriesTechnology India shuts down internet once again, this time in Assam and Meghalaya TechCrunch - Manish SinghIndia maintained a shutdown of the internet in the states of Assam and Meghalaya on Friday, now into 36 hours, to control protests over a controversial and far-reaching new citizen rule. The shutdown the
TechCrunchflipped into Top StoriesTechnology When and how to build out your data science team TechCrunch - Ganes KesariIncreasingly, startups across the spectrum are looking to artificial intelligence (AI) to help them solve business problems and drive efficiency. The numerous benefits of building AI capability in your
TechCrunchflipped into News about startups from TechCrunchVenture Capital The newest members of the $100M ARR club TechCrunch - Alex WilhelmHello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the grey space in between. Today we’re taking stock of a cohort of special companies: still-private startups
TechCrunchflipped into Top StoriesTechnology Bonobos founder Andy Dunn to leave Walmart in 2020 TechCrunch - Sarah PerezAndy Dunn, the founder of menswear site Bonobos which sold to Walmart in 2017 for $310 million, is now parting ways with the retail giant. The executive, who joined Walmart as SVP of digital consumer at
TechCrunchflipped into News about startups from TechCrunchStartups Chicago’s Sprout Social prices IPO mid-range at $17 per share, raising $150M TechCrunch - Alex WilhelmOn the heels of Bill.com’s debut, Chicago-based social media software company Sprout Social priced its IPO last night at $17 per share, in the middle of its proposed $16 to $18 per-share range. Selling
TechCrunchflipped into Top StoriesStartups Equity Dive: Direct Listings TechCrunch - Kate ClarkEquity Dive: Direct Listings Equity Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. We have something special this week
TechCrunchflipped into Top StoriesTechnology Porsche and Lucasfilm co-designed a new starfighter for the Star Wars universe TechCrunch - Darrell EtheringtonPorsche typically concerns itself with terrestrial vehicle designs, but for a new project it worked with Lucasfilm designers in collaboration on a new starfighter for the Star Wars universe. The starfigher,
