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Startups
New sessions announced at TC Early Stage from Dell, Perkins Coie and SVB
10:05 am PDT • June 16, 2020
Early-stage founders have about a zillion questions and face a battalion of challenges to get their businesses up and running. That’s why we created TechCrunch Early Stage, a two-day, virtual…
Media & Entertainment
YouTube’s FameBit rebrands as YouTube BrandConnect, shuts down its self-service program
10:00 am PDT • June 16, 2020
FameBit, YouTube’s influencer marketing platform acquired by Google in 2016, is today undergoing a rebranding. The new platform will now be called YouTube BrandConnect, and will remain open to eligible…
Startups
Aerones abandons industrial drones to focus on ground-based robotics as it raises $1.6M
9:36 am PDT • June 16, 2020
Way back in 2018, Aerones detailed its plans to use large, industrial drones to clean wind turbines. The company had already raised $3.6 million to date and moved from Latvia…
Media & Entertainment
Daily Crunch: European regulators examine Apple App Store
9:29 am PDT • June 16, 2020
Apple’s App Store faces antitrust scrutiny, a private space company plans to install a satellite for lunar communication and Boston Dynamics expands availability of its iconic Spot robot. Here’s your…
Featured Article
As SaaS stocks retrace highs, a glance at today’s cloud fundamentals
The domestic stock market is advancing today on the back of some better-than-anticipated economic recovery data in the United States. While retail spending is still lower compared to the year-ago period, gains in May from April were better than anticipated. The American stock market, ready to trade higher on any scrap of good news —…
9:27 am PDT • June 16, 2020
Enterprise
Dropbox introduces slew of new features for business and home users
9:26 am PDT • June 16, 2020
Dropbox has always been about file storage, sharing and collaboration, but it wants to stretch beyond those roots and provide customers, especially those using the Dropbox Plus paid tier, with…
Join us June 17 for a live discussion on COVID-19 contact tracing and safe reopening strategies
9:24 am PDT • June 16, 2020
Contact tracing is a practice almost as old as epidemiology itself, but today’s technology means the way that we go about tracking the spread of a contagious illness within and…
Amid shelter-in-place, grocery delivery has had a huge spike in popularity, leading investors to take a look at services that approach the market differently than incumbents like Instacart. Jupiter is…
Enterprise
Google Cloud launches Filestore High Scale, a new storage tier for high-performance computing workloads
9:00 am PDT • June 16, 2020
Google Cloud today announced the launch of Filestore High Scale, a new storage option — and tier of Google’s existing Filestore service — for workloads that can benefit from access…
Google today announced a deeper integration between Gmail on mobile and its Meet video conferencing service. Now, if you use Gmail on Android or iOS and somebody sends you a…
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Enterprise
Canva design platform partners with FedEx Office as it pushes further into the US
8:50 am PDT • June 16, 2020
Canva, the design platform for non-designers, has recently inked a partnership with FedEx Office to help businesses reopen amid the coronavirus pandemic with a design-to-print integration. Canva declined to disclose…
Media & Entertainment
Social networking app for women, Peanut, is rolling out video chat
8:33 am PDT • June 16, 2020
Mobile social networking app for women, Peanut, is expanding into video chat to help better support its users amid the coronavirus outbreak. The company, which began its life with a…
Los Angeles-based Open Raven raises $15 million from KPCB for its security tech to secure hybrid clouds
8:29 am PDT • June 16, 2020
Open Raven, the Los Angeles-based security startup founded by a team of cybersecurity veterans from CrowdStrike and SourceClear, has closed on $15 million in new financing only four months after…
Media & Entertainment
Shady TikTok clone Zynn finally removed from the App Store
8:19 am PDT • June 16, 2020
Zynn, the TikTok clone that shot to the top of the app store charts in late May, was pulled from Apple’s App Store on Monday. The controversial app had already…
Enterprise
New Box tools should help ease creation of digitally driven workflows
8:17 am PDT • June 16, 2020
As COVID-19 has forced companies to move employees from office to home, cloud services have seen a burst in business. Box has been speeding up its product roadmap to help…
Startups
Anthos Capital and NBA All-Star Baron Davis back LA-based college tuition savings service, UNest
7:52 am PDT • June 16, 2020
UNest, a Los Angeles provider of financial planning and savings tools for parents, including college savings plans and other beneficial investment vehicles for various life events, has raised $9 million…
Bin-e | Disrupt Berlin 2019
7:35 AM PDT • June 16, 2020
Recorded on June 16, 2020. Bin-e is a smart waste bin that can recognize and sort the waste automatically with AI.
Privacy
EU states agree a tech spec for national coronavirus apps to work across borders
7:31 am PDT • June 16, 2020
European Union countries and the Commission have agreed on a technical framework to enable regional coronavirus contacts tracing apps to work across national borders. A number of European countries have…
Here’s an overview of the most important trends we’re seeing that will allow you to adjust your growth marketing effectively.
Square acquired Verse, a Spanish peer-to-peer payment app that works across Europe. Terms of the deal are undisclosed. According to Crunchbase, Verse had raised $37.6 million from Spark Capital, eVentures,…
