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Emotion-detection software startup Affectiva acquired for $73.5M
Smart Eye, the publicly traded Swedish company that supplies driver monitoring systems for a dozen automakers, has acquired emotion-detection software startup Affectiva for $73.5 million in a cash-and
Getty Images leads $16M investment in Promo.com, a social video template tool
The social video tool Promo.com just raised $16 million in a Series B round led by Getty Images, the company synonymous with stock imagery. Brands, creators or whoever else might need some quick and d
Daily Crunch: Before the pandemic, Expensify made remote work cool and profitable
Hello friends and welcome to Daily Crunch, bringing you the most important startup, tech and venture capital news in a single package.
Tesla is no longer using radar sensors in Model 3 and Model Y vehicles built in North America
Tesla Model Y and Model 3 vehicles bound for North American customers are being built without radar, fulfilling a desire by CEO Elon Musk to only use cameras combined with machine learning to support
Extra Crunch roundup: Lordstown Motors’ woes, how co-CEOs work, Brian Chesky interview
Lordstown Motors released its Q1 earnings yesterday, and the electric vehicle manufacturer is facing a few challenges.
We owe it to our kids to put an age limit on social media
We can introduce rules and regulations to ensure the wise use of powerful technologies. We’ve done it before, with cars, radiography and nuclear energy. What’s different about social media?
A new book coauthored by Brad Feld invites founders to get their weekly Nietzsche
In all likelihood, you do not currently associate Friedrich Nietzsche, the German philosopher, essayist and cultural critic, with entrepreneurship. Serial entrepreneurs Brad Feld and Dave Jilk —
What Vimeo’s growth, profits and value tell us about the online video market
Despite the company's putative performance not being very good thus far today, I can't really find much bad about the company's valuation and implied multiples.
Call it a comeback: Turntable.fm raises $7.5M
Earlier this year, Turntable.fm’s founder Billy Chasen dusted off the old site and resurrected it for the pandemic age. I know I wasn’t the only one feeling a wistful pang of nostalgia for the
Raising a round? AngelList Venture CEO Avlok Kohli will share insights at TC Early Stage
What’s it like raising a round in 2021? How has it changed over the last few months, as some glimmer of normalcy seems, at least, within reach? What do early-stage founders (and investors!) need
DC attorney general files antitrust suit against Amazon over third-party seller agreements
Washington, DC Attorney General Karl Racine announced a new antitrust suit against Amazon Tuesday, accusing the company of stifling competition by exerting control over third-party sellers. The lawsui
Whatnot raises $50M to let people sell Pokémon cards, Funko Pops and more via livestream
Whatnot exists with one primary goal in mind: to give people a place to buy and sell collectibles (like Pokémon cards, sports cards, pins, etc.) in a safe, authenticated way. The company started out
Qualified raises $51M to help Salesforce users improve their sales and marketing conversations
Salesforce dominates the world of CRM today, but while it’s a popular and well-used tool for organizing contacts and information, it doesn’t have all the answers when it comes to helping s
Struum launches its ‘ClassPass for streaming’ service to the public
Struum, the new streaming service from former Disney and Discovery execs, is today officially launching to the public. Unlike traditional on-demand streamers, such as Netflix, the Struum model is more
Airbyte announces $26M Series A for open-source data connector platform
One of the major issues facing companies these days isn’t finding relevant data so much as moving it to where it’s needed. Enter Airbyte, an early-stage startup that is building an open-so
How Expensify shed Silicon Valley arrogance to realize its global ambitions
Expensify may be the most ambitious software company ever to mostly abandon the Bay Area as the center of its operations. The startup’s history is tied to places representative of San Francisco:
Brian Chesky describes a faster, nimbler post-pandemic Airbnb
TechCrunch sat down with Brian Chesky, Airbnb co-founder and CEO, to discuss the future of travel and what it was like leading the world's biggest travel startup during a global pandemic.
Microsoft Azure launches enterprise support for PyTorch
Microsoft today announced PyTorch Enterprise, a new Azure service that provides developers with additional support when using PyTorch on Azure. It’s basically Microsoft’s commercial suppor
Microsoft uses GPT-3 to let you code in natural language
Unlike in other years, this year’s Microsoft Build developer conference is not packed with huge surprises — but there’s one announcement that will surely make developers’ ears
Microsoft’s Edge browser can now start up faster and put your tabs to sleep
At its annual Build conference today, Microsoft announced a couple of new features for version 91 of its Edge browser that, like so much at Build this year, aren’t earth-shattering (developer ve