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Transportation
Tesla delivers 139,300 vehicles in Q3, beating expectations
7:48 am PDT • October 2, 2020
Tesla delivered 139,300 vehicles in the third quarter, slightly above Wall Street’s expectations and a notable improvement from last quarter, as well as the same period a year ago. Tesla’s…
Featured Article
Asana’s strong direct listing lights alternative path to public market for SaaS startups
This week’s pair of direct listings from Asana and Palantir were historic moments for each firm, but they also served as public business experiments. For Palantir, the event tested how far corporate governance could be twisted while leaving a company worth buying in the eyes of public shareholders. And with Asana, its direct listing was…
7:10 am PDT • October 2, 2020
Space
Elon Musk says an update for its Starship spacecraft development program is coming in 3 weeks
6:39 am PDT • October 2, 2020
SpaceX will provide an update about what’s happening with their Starship spacecraft in roughly three weeks, according to CEO and founder Elon Musk. Starship is a next-generation, fully reusable spacecraft…
Startups
Air quality monitoring service Airly raises $2 million as fires, pollution force consumers to take note
6:04 am PDT • October 2, 2020
As smoke from fires chokes the skies in the western U.S. and pollution chokes much of the world, air quality has become yet another issue for civilization to address. Industrialization…
Startups
Indianapolis-based Malomo raises $2.8 million to turn order tracking into a branded customer experience
6:00 am PDT • October 2, 2020
Yaw Aning named Malomo, the service he launched for small businesses to turn their order-tracking services into branded customer experiences, as a tribute to his mother, who was a small…
Startups
Zynga completes its acquisition of hyper-casual game maker Rollic
6:00 am PDT • October 2, 2020
Zynga announced in August that it would be acquiring Istanbul-based Rollic, developer and publisher of hyper-casual gaming hits like Go Knots 3D and Tangle Master 3D. Today, it says the…
Enterprise
American stocks drop in wake of president’s COVID-19 diagnosis
5:29 am PDT • October 2, 2020
American stocks are selling in the wake of President Trump, and members of his family and a key staff member, testing positive for COVID-19. The news, which came overnight, is…
Media & Entertainment
Twitter may let users choose how to crop image previews after bias scrutiny
3:32 am PDT • October 2, 2020
In an interesting development in the wake of a bias controversy over its cropping algorithm, Twitter has said it’s considering giving users decision-making power over how tweet previews look, saying…
Media & Entertainment
Paired picks up $1M funding and launches its relationship app for couples
1:15 am PDT • October 2, 2020
Paired, a new app for couples, is launching today and disclosing $1 million in funding. Backing the startup, which wants to support “happier and healthier” relationships, is Taavet Hinrikus of…
Venture
Blossom Capital appoints Carmen Alfonso Rico as its newest partner
1:00 am PDT • October 2, 2020
Blossom Capital, the early-stage venture capital firm founded by Ophelia Brown, has recruited its latest partner: Carmen Alfonso Rico has joined from Samaipata VC, where she led the U.K. office.…
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Featured Article
Nintendo’s new RC Mario Kart looks terrific
In a different year, Nintendo would have demoed, in person, Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit. The company would have invited select members of the press into some rented event space and let us experience the game first-hand, like it had with Labo and Ring Fit Adventures. It’s 2020, however, and that’s just not how we…
6:00 pm PDT • October 1, 2020
Media & Entertainment
A PC gaming site had to ban political troll mods for games, because nowhere is safe
3:56 pm PDT • October 1, 2020
NexusMods, a large platform and gathering place for modding PC games, has banned all content relating to the U.S. elections following a flood of troll content, saying “we’ve decided to…
Startups
Spain’s startup ecosystem: 9 investors on remote work, green shoots and 2020 trends
3:41 pm PDT • October 1, 2020
As reported in the first half of our Spain-focused VC survey, the nation’s startup ecosystem continues to grow and is keeping pace with ecosystems in more developed European countries such as…
Digital vote-by-mail applications in most states are inaccessible to people with disabilities
3:26 pm PDT • October 1, 2020
The 2020 election is without a doubt going to be the biggest one in history for voting by mail, but people with disabilities may find it rather difficult to apply…
Media & Entertainment
Daily Crunch: Google commits $1B to pay publishers
3:22 pm PDT • October 1, 2020
Google is paying a lot of money for its news licensing program, Microsoft announces an affordable laptop and Facebook says it won’t accept ads casting doubts on the election. This…
AI
There’s a way to pick the absolute best images for your content: Apply AI
2:02 pm PDT • October 1, 2020
Is there a data-driven — or even better, an AI-driven — process for gaining deeper insight into which images are more likely to engage users?
Security
Facebook sues two companies engaged in data scraping operations
1:54 pm PDT • October 1, 2020
Facebook today says it has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. against two companies that had engaged in an international “data scraping” operation. The operation extended across Facebook properties, including…
Section 230 will be on the chopping block at the next big tech hearing
1:26 pm PDT • October 1, 2020
It looks like we’re in for another big tech CEO hearing. The Senate Commerce Committee voted Thursday to move forward with subpoenas for Twitter’s Jack Dorsey, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and…
What if the kernel is corrupt?
12:59 PM PDT • October 1, 2020
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s VC-focused podcast (now on Twitter!), where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week, Alex is on a…
Enterprise
Oracle’s TikTok and Zoom deals won’t move cloud market share needle significantly
12:15 pm PDT • October 1, 2020
While the overall cloud infrastructure market is booming having reached $30 billion last quarter worldwide, Oracle is struggling with market share in the low single digits. It is hoping that…
