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Apple releases torrent of updates, and Wall Street yawns
Today’s WWDC keynote from Apple covered a huge range of updates. From a new macOS to a refreshed watchOS to a new iOS, better privacy controls, FaceTime updates, and even iCloud+, there was some
Snowflake latest enterprise company to feel Wall Street’s wrath after good quarter
Snowflake reported earnings this week, and the results look strong with revenue more than doubling year-over-year. However, while the company’s fourth quarter revenue rose 117% to $190.5 million
Stocks shoot upward as ‘Phase Three’ stimulus passes Senate and unemployment skyrockets
Stocks soared on Thursday even as the U.S. reported its worst unemployment numbers in 50 years of tracking data. The pain felt on Main Street was offset for investors by the federal government opening
Wall Street’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day ends with the Dow down 2,000
At least it’s over. The markets endured their worst day of trading of this young year as the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 2,000 points to close at 23,850.79 — a 7.79% decline. The
Go behind the curtain with Wall Street titan Ray Dalio
Today on Extra Crunch, TechCrunch fintech contributor Gregg Schoenberg went deep beneath the surface with an insider profile of investor Ray Dalio. While Dalio is certainly a celebrity in the world of
WTF is Baillie Gifford?
The SoftBank Vision Fund has been screaming from the venture headlines the last few months, driven by eye-popping rounds (and valuations!) into some of the most notable startups around the world. Yet,
Slack reportedly chooses the New York Stock Exchange for its direct listing
The ubiquitous corporate messaging service Slack is following in the footsteps of Spotify’s subscription music service and heading to the New York Stock Exchange for trading through a direct lis
SEC warns against public companies adding blockchain to their name
Everyone knows that both Main Street and Wall Street investors are going gangbusters for cryptocurrency and blockchain-related technology. But here’s the thing. It’s currently nearly impos
Coinbase’s Custody service wants to store bitcoin for institutional investors
Safely investing in and storing digital currency isn't exactly easy, especially if you're a large institutional firm. So to help, Coinbase just announced that they're launching a service called Coinba
The HOLD 10 Index is a passively managed fund of the top 10 cryptocurrencies
This year the market capitalization of all cryptocurrencies has grown from about $13 billion to well over $150 billion, fueled by infusions of capital from all different types of investors. But regar
Simply Wall St. raises $1.8 million from its own customers to build out investment advisory services
Financial services apps are all the rage these days and one of the latest to capitalize on the trend is Simply Wall St. which closed a $1.8 million round (2.4 million Australian dollars) in its late
Crunch Report | Tech’s Rough Day on Wall Street
Travis Kalanick quits the Trump advisory board, Domino's updates its Facebook Messenger bot in time for the Super Bowl, GoPro and Amazon have a rough day on Wall Street and Medium plans to monetize. A
Snap to list on New York Stock Exchange
Snap, the parent of Snapchat, will be listing on the New York Stock Exchange, TechCrunch has confirmed. The news was first reported by the Wall Street Journal. This means that you can expect to see
Why transparency would have saved us from the 2008 financial collapse
From my desk at Bear Stearns, where I’d traded mortgage-backed securities for years, I watched as the financial and housing markets crashed in 2008. A few months later, there was no Bear, and my new
Another big investor bought up about $1 billion in Apple shares
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway holding company today disclosed in a regulatory filing that it owns around 9.81 million shares of Apple — worth around $1.07 billion at the end of the quar
From the streets to The Street
The past several months have brought a string of terror attacks and violent incidents, which not only claim lives but cause worldwide feelings of fear and vulnerability. It seems that groups of terror
Why Startups Should Leverage Compliance
Business Insider recently reported that “The Clearing House, an advocacy group owned by the world's largest commercial banks, is gunning for payment startups.” Not surprisingly, the banks don’t
A Closer Look At The Silicon Valley Vs. Wall Street Talent War
Gordon Gekko is but a distant blip in the rear-view mirror for this generation’s best and brightest. In lieu of Wall Street, today’s top graduates are flocking to Silicon Valley and other top tech
The MBAs Are Fleeing, Should SF Be Worried?
Bubble, bubble, bubble. Are we in one, are we already done with one, are we getting closer to one? These questions have the dual benefit of being completely impossible to answer while having a high en
GoPro’s 14.6% Day 2 Rise Puts It Up 50% From Its IPO Price
GoPro spiked from its offering price of $24 to $31.34 yesterday in its first day of trading. Today the company built on that success, adding nearly $5 more to its share price, ending the day at $35.92