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WeWork expected to announce major layoffs 2 days ago – Two weeks after WeWork CEO Adam Neumann resigned, layoffs are expected.
We’ll have self-flying cars before self-driving cars, Thrun says 2 days ago – Once you get up high enough, you don’t have to worry about a lot of the obstacles like pedestrians and traffic jams that plague autonomous cars. That’s why Sebastian Thrun, Google’s self-driving team founder turned CEO of flying vehicle startup Kitty Hawk, said onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt SF to...
Orbit Fab raises $3M to make orbital refueling easier, cheaper and more accessible 2 days ago – Orbit Fab, one of the companies competing in this year’s TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield in San Francisco this week, has closed a seed round of $3 million. The funding comes from Type 1 Ventures, TechStars and others, and will help Orbit Fab continue to build on the great momentum it has already b...
Amazon’s Prime Video app disappears from the App Store [Updated] a day ago – In what we understand was a “technical issue”, the Amazon Prime Video app disappeared from the Apple App Store, making it unavailable for new downloads or updates to users both on iOS and Apple TV. Twitter users began to tweet to Amazon for help about the problem on Friday morning, to which Amazo...
Stephen Curry invests in Guild Education a day ago – Stephen Curry, along with SC 30, Inc. President Bryant Barr, just announced an investment in Guild Education, which helps Fortune 1000 companies, like Disney and Lowe’s, offer debt-free degrees to their employees. “We pioneered what we call education as a benefit,” Guild Education co-founder and ...
Alteryx acquires machine learning startup Feature Labs a day ago – Alteryx, a publicly traded analytics company, announced this morning that it has acquired Feature Labs, a machine learning startup that launched out of MIT in 2018. The company did not reveal the terms of the deal. Co-founder and CEO Max Kanter told TechCrunch at the time of the launch the compan...
As Sinai Ventures returns first fund, partner Jordan Fudge talks new LA focus a day ago – At age 27, Jordan Fudge is quietly making a splash in the VC world. Fudge is the managing partner of Sinai Ventures, a multi-stage VC fund that manages $100 million and has more than 80 portfolio companies including Ro, Drivetime, Kapwing, and Luminary. His 2017 investment in Pinterest — a second...
Snap CEO isn’t expecting much from Facebook antitrust investigations a day ago – Facebook’s relentless feature copy of Snapchat has been seen as one of the chief examples of the company’s competitive overreach, but Snap CEO Evan Spiegel isn’t sure whether antitrust activity from the government is going to change the company’s near-term prospects of competing with Instagram. “...
Amid mounting concerns around vaping cannabis, entrepreneurs say regulators need to step up a day ago – As concerns over the safety of vaping products for cannabis sweeps across the country, executives in the industry are passing the buck to regulators to come up with a solution. The need for national regulation touches everything from how to bank cannabis businesses to how to manage the distributi...
HTC stopped innovating on smartphones, new CEO admits 2 hours ago – Several months back, we invited HTC cofounder and CEO Cher Wang to appear on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt. Sometimes, however, life happens. Two weeks ago, the company announced that Wang would be stepping down from the role, which would immediately be filled by longtime telecom vet, Yves Maitres....
HTC stopped innovating on smartphones, new CEO admits 2 hours ago – Several months back, we invited HTC cofounder and CEO Cher Wang to appear on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt. Sometimes, however, life happens. Two weeks ago, the company announced that Wang would be stepping down from the role, which would immediately be filled by longtime telecom vet, Yves Maitres....
NASA shares 3D Moon data for CG artists and creators 3 hours ago – If you want to set your movie or game on the Moon, it's not hard to find imagery of our photogenic satellite. But NASA has just released a useful and beautiful new set of data just for creators that includes not just imagery but depth data, making it simple to build an incredibly detailed 3D map ...
Report: WeWork cofounder Adam Neumann may have to unload property to pay off a giant loan a day ago – Adam Neumann may be out of the daily flow of WeWork, but he seemingly remains top of mind to some of the company’s bankers. According to a new Business Insider piece, Neumann is working with JPMorgan, UBS, and Credit Suisse to consider new terms for a $500 million loan that he took out before WeW...
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Mark Zuckerberg promises Facebook won’t be biased against Elizabeth Warren 2 days ago – When I said that I would have more to share from Mark Zuckerberg’s employee Q&A sessions for you in the newsletter this week, I didn’t think it would go like this. Three days after we published leaked audio from a pair of July meetings inside Facebook, Zuckerberg decided to live-stream Thursd...
What the heck is Windows 10X? a day ago – Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge For die-hard gadget lovers, Microsoft’s Surface event this week was something of a dream come true. The company resurrected its legendary dual-screen Courier concept as the Surface Neo, then it surprised the world by announcing a dual-screen Android ...
Apple CEO Tim Cook slams Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency as a power grab a day ago – Photo by Drew Angerer / Getty Images Apple CEO Tim Cook had some choice words when asked about Facebook’s controversial blockchain project Libra, with the chief executive openly characterizing the company’s plans to launch a cryptocurrency as a blatant power grab. Speaking with the French news...
Should we treat incels as terrorists? 10 hours ago – Photo by Creative Touch Imaging Ltd./NurPhoto via Getty Images The Toronto attack showed us what gender-based terrorism looks like Continue reading…