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In this world, there is no such thing as perfect security. Every app or service you use — even the websites you visit — have security bugs. Companies go through…
Facebook Messenger is finally getting desktop apps almost 9 years after its debut. After seeing over a 100% increase in desktop browser audio and video calling, Messenger today releases its…
Biotech & Health
Luckin Coffee’s board initiates investigation into $300M potential fraud
7:00 am PDT • April 2, 2020
China-based Luckin Coffee, the fastest growing coffee brand in the world, has over the years dazzled VCs, public market investors and, frankly, us with its dizzyingly high growth, expanding from…
Media & Entertainment
Disney+ beat Netflix in recent US downloads (report)
7:00 am PDT • April 2, 2020
Netflix may still dominate global streaming, but Disney+ has made a huge splash in the United States, where it launched in November. That much was pretty clear already, and other…
A set of charts provided to TechCrunch detail how the growth rate of SaaS companies, in both B2B and B2C, are falling. The market could be in for SaaS’s first…
Featured Article
How 6 top VCs are adapting to the new uncertainty
As the global economy grinds to a halt, every business sector has been impacted, including the linked worlds of startups and venture capital. But how much has really changed? If you read VC Twitter, you might think that nothing has changed at all. It’s not hard to find investors who say they are still cutting…
6:16 am PDT • April 2, 2020
Enterprise
CIOs are dead tired of dumb tech. Pulse has $6.5M to help them help each other
6:00 am PDT • April 2, 2020
The technology that runs our companies these days is staggering in its complexity. We have moved from a monolith to a microservices world, from boxes to SaaS, and while that…
Cloudflare CEO pledges to double 2020 internship class
6:00 am PDT • April 2, 2020
Internet security company Cloudflare has pledged to double its Summer 2020 internship class, and make the entire program remote if necessary, in response to cancellations of internships programs across the…
Enterprise
Collibra nabs another $112.5M at a $2.3B valuation for its big data management platform
5:00 am PDT • April 2, 2020
GDPR and other data protection and privacy regulations — as well as a significant (and growing) number of data breaches and exposées of companies’ privacy policies — have put a…
Startups
Scoutbee launches free tool to help organisations search for COVID-19 support-related supplies
4:22 am PDT • April 2, 2020
Scoutbee, the supplier discovery platform, has rolled out a new free tool for organisations helping to fight the coronavirus pandemic and who are in need of critical supplies. Targeting NGOs,…
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Ikea acquires AI imaging startup Geomagical Labs to supercharge room visualisations
3:43 am PDT • April 2, 2020
Ikea, the Swedish home furnishings and decor giant, has been one of the leaders among retailers when it comes to adapting to tech innovations that impact its business, being one…
SoftBank Group has pulled a $3 billion tender offer for WeWork shares citing closing conditions not being met. The investment behemoth had been rumored to be getting cold feet when the…
Enterprise
Zoom freezes feature development to fix security and privacy issues
2:34 am PDT • April 2, 2020
Zoom has been widely criticized over the past couple of weeks for terrible security, a poorly designed screensharing feature, misleading dark patterns, fake end-to-end-encryption claims and an incomplete privacy policy.…
Startups
Encore’s musical messages let you commission a video performance to send to loved ones
1:00 am PDT • April 2, 2020
Encore, the U.K. marketplace that lets you find and book a musician or band online for your event, is launching a new online product to help musicians find an additional…
Startups
Money transfer service Azimo partners with Siam Commercial Bank for faster payments to Thailand
12:58 am PDT • April 2, 2020
Azimo, the London-headquartered international money transfer service, has partnered with Thailand’s Siam Commercial Bank (SCB) to deliver instant payments for its customers from Europe to SCB bank accounts in Thailand.…
Startups
Flux and Pleo partner to bring itemised digital receipts to Pleo’s ‘smart’ expense cards
12:00 am PDT • April 2, 2020
When three former employees of Revolut founded Flux in 2016, the mission was clear: build a platform to bridge the gap between the itemised receipt data captured by a merchant’s…
Media & Entertainment
Google to shut down its India-focused Q&A app Neighbourly
11:46 pm PDT • April 1, 2020
Google is shutting down Neighbourly, a Q&A social app that it launched in Mumbai two years ago, the company has informed users. A spokesperson confirmed the move to TechCrunch. The…
Venture
‘A perfect storm for first time managers,’ say VCs with their own shops
6:09 pm PDT • April 1, 2020
Until very recently, it had begun to seem like anyone with a thick enough checkbook and some key contacts in the startup world could not only fund companies as an…
Proposed amendments to the Volcker Rule could be a lifeline for venture firms hit by market downturn
5:54 pm PDT • April 1, 2020
In the wake of the financial crisis, Congress passed regulations limiting the types of investments that banks could make into private equity and venture capital funds. As cash strapped investors…
Biotech & Health
Detroit to be first to deploy Abbott Labs’ 5-minute COVID-19 test, mayor says
5:26 pm PDT • April 1, 2020
Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan said today on Wolf Blitzer’s CNN show that the city of Detroit is on track to be the first city to deploy Abbott Labs’ five-minute COVID-19…
