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TechCrunch Disrupt 2024
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RealPage, a publicly traded full-service property management technology firm with over 12,200 clients worldwide, today announced that it has acquired Stratis IoT, a startup that provides IoT services to the…
Earlier this year, online marketplace OfferUp raised $120 million and acquired a top competitor, letgo, as a part of the fundraise led by letgo’s majority investor, OLX Group. As a…
Enterprise
Capchase raises $4.6M to deliver fast cash to SaaS companies
9:30 am PDT • August 31, 2020
As a business model, SaaS has expanded to epic size. A number of major SaaS companies filed to go public last week, and there are now thousands of SaaS startups…
Startups
5 days left to save on early-bird passes to TC Sessions: Mobility 2020
9:00 am PDT • August 31, 2020
TC Sessions: Mobility 2020 kicks off in 37 days, but the countdown clock on early-bird pricing runs out in just five. Engage with the mobility community’s brightest minds, makers, visionaries…
Featured Article
Frugal startups should pay attention to how JFrog’s IPO prices
In last week’s IPO wave, one company fell a bit by the wayside amongst filings from better-known companies like Asana and Palantir. JFrog, a company that TechCrunch reported helps allows developers and companies deliver application updates “in the background without disturbing the user experience” when it raised $165 million in 2018, is positioned for an…
8:53 am PDT • August 31, 2020
AI
Amazon’s Prime Air drone delivery fleet gains FAA approval for trial commercial flights
8:48 am PDT • August 31, 2020
Amazon has been granted an approval by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) that will allow it to start trialing commercial deliveries via drone, Bloomberg reports. This certification is the…
Media & Entertainment
The New Paper offers a ‘fact-first’ news digest in text message form
8:47 am PDT • August 31, 2020
Tired of signing up for email newsletters? Then maybe it’s time to try out The New Paper‘s news digest, which arrives in the form of a daily text message rounding up…
Media & Entertainment
Facebook partially documents its content recommendation system
8:36 am PDT • August 31, 2020
Algorithmic recommendation systems on social media sites like YouTube, Facebook and Twitter have shouldered much of the blame for the spread of misinformation, propaganda, hate speech, conspiracy theories and other…
The Smart Clock Essential really blurs smart display lines. Aesthetics aside, Lenovo’s new device probably has more in common with the Echo Dot with Clock than it does the company’s…
Welcome to the most important panel on product development in the history of Disrupt
7:14 am PDT • August 31, 2020
In a few short weeks, some of the best product developers from some of the world’s most important tech companies will take to the virtual stage of our virtual Disrupt…
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Security
Apple mistakenly approved a widely used malware to run on Macs
7:00 am PDT • August 31, 2020
Apple has some of the strictest rules to prevent malicious software from landing in its app store, even if on occasion a bad app slips through the net. But last…
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This is Equity Monday, our weekly kickoff that…
Google launches Google Kids Space, a ‘kids mode’ feature for Android, initially on Lenovo tablets
6:41 am PDT • August 31, 2020
Streaming services have built-in kids’ profiles, so why not devices? Google today is responding to parents’ demand for a better way for their children to interact with technology with the…
Biotech & Health
Rocket Lab returns to flight with a successful launch of a Capella Space satellite
4:59 am PDT • August 31, 2020
Rocket Lab is back to active launch status after encountering an issue with its last mission that resulted in a loss of the payload. In just over a month, Rocket…
Biotech & Health
SpaceX successfully launches its first polar orbit mission from Florida
4:25 am PDT • August 31, 2020
SpaceX performed a milestone first polar orbit launch of a satellite from its East Coast launch facility at Cape Canaveral on Sunday. The Falcon 9 mission carried three payloads, including…
Startups
Semalytix picks up €4.3M to build the world’s largest patient experience data set
4:13 am PDT • August 31, 2020
Semalytix, a Bielefeld, Germany-based startup that offers pharmaceutical companies an AI-powered data tool to better understand real-world patient experiences, has raised €4.3 million in Series A funding. Leading the round…
Media & Entertainment
Netflix makes some movies and shows free worldwide to non-subscribers
3:24 am PDT • August 31, 2020
Over the past year, Netflix has attempted to expand its appeal in part by making a title or two free to non-paying users in select markets. Now the American giant…
Media & Entertainment
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative backs Indian education startup Eruditus in $113 million fundraise
2:07 am PDT • August 31, 2020
Mumbai-based Eruditus, which works with top universities globally to offer more than 100 executive-level courses to students in over 80 nations, said on Monday it has raised $113 million in…
Some of the brightest minds in Europe are joining us at Disrupt
1:00 am PDT • August 31, 2020
TechCrunch Disrupt is right around the corner. And this year, we’re trying something different — we’re taking Disrupt virtual. That’s why we’re excited to announce that we used this opportunity…
AI
TikTok parent ByteDance says it will ‘strictly follow’ China export controls
12:30 am PDT • August 31, 2020
While Beijing has repeatedly spoken out against Washington’s pressure on Huawei, it has remained relatively quiet amid TikTok’s recent struggles in the U.S. As the red-hot video app approaches a…
