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Daily Crunch: HQ Trivia is dead
A once-mighty trivia app says goodbye, we try out Samsung's new foldable phone and Google shuts down its free Wi-Fi program in India. Not even Presidents' Day can stop your Daily Crunch.
Original Content podcast: ‘Mythic Quest’ is a likable comedy with a single standout episode
There’s plenty to like about “Mythic Quest: Raven’s Banquet,” a new series on Apple TV+ — its sympathetic-but-critical portrayal of the video game industry, its goofy-but-lik
Daily Crunch: Mobile World Congress is canceled
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Contextual advertising company GumGum raises $22M
GumGum is announcing that it’s raised $22 million from existing investors Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital, NEA spinout NewView Capital and Upfront Ventures. CEO Phil Schraeder said he’ll
Daily Crunch: Samsung unveils another foldable phone
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Former Krux and Salesforce execs raise $15M for their marketing data startup Habu
Marketing startup Habu is emerging from stealth today and announcing that it has already raised $15 million in Series A funding. The company comes out of super{set}, the startup studio created by Krux
Daily Crunch: SiriusXM backs SoundCloud
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Streaming accounts for nearly one-fifth of total US TV watching, according to Nielsen
Streaming eats up a big chunk of viewers’ time, though it’s still outweighed by traditional linear TV. That’s according to the latest Total Audience Report from Nielsen — its first
Daily Crunch: MWC faces coronavirus concerns
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Localytics founders announce Demand Sage, a startup bringing marketing intelligence to small and mid-sized businesses
Just a couple days after mobile analytics and marketing company Localytics was acquired by Upland Software, two of its founders are announcing their new startup, Demand Sage. CEO Raj Aggarwal and CTO
Netflix’s movies only won two Oscars this year
Although Netflix received 24 nominations (the most of any studio) at this year’s Oscars, its films only ended up winning two awards. Laura Dern was named Best Actress in a Supporting Role for p
Original Content podcast: Netflix’s Taylor Swift documentary feels like a guarded self-portrait
“Miss Americana,” a new Netflix documentary about Taylor Swift, is worth watching if you go in with the right expectations. At least, that’s according to two out of three hosts of th
The team behind Apple’s ‘Mythic Quest’ says video games aren’t the punch line
When Ubisoft first approached “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” stars Rob McElhenney and Charlie Day about creating a new show set in the video game industry, McElhenney said they
Daily Crunch: Netflix makes autoplay previews optional
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Our.News fights misinformation with a ‘nutrition label’ for news stories
A startup called Our.News is working to make its users smarter consumers of the news. In other words, it’s confronting some big, seemingly intractable problems. For one thing, there’s a tr
Daily Crunch: LinkedIn is getting a new CEO
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Snafu Records is a music label using algorithms to find its next big artist
Snafu Records is bringing a new approach to finding musical talent — founder and CEO Ankit Desai described the Los Angeles-headquartered startup as “the first full-service, AI-enabled record l
Daily Crunch: Spotify is acquiring The Ringer
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Disney+ already has 28.6M subscribers
The Walt Disney Company just announced that its streaming service Disney+ has 26.5 million paying subscribers — ahead of the already impressive 25 million predicted by Wall Street analysts. (Update
Cards Against Humanity acquires ClickHole, will make employees the majority owners
Cards Against Humanity, the company behind the card game of the same name, has acquired the satirical site ClickHole from G/O Media. BuzzFeed News broke the story last night, reporting that ClickHole