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David Sacks’s Craft Ventures just closed its second fund with $500 million
Craft Ventures, the venture firm launched in 2017 by serial entrepreneur David Sacks, has closed its second fund with $500 million in capital commitments, an amount the firm was said to begin targeting roughly a year ago. Craft’s debut fund had closed with $350 million. The outfit — which Sacks runs with other serial entrepreneurs […]
With Alibaba, Pivotal and Lightbend on board, Reactive flexes its ROI muscle in the microservices world
The Linux Foundation recently announced the launch of the Reactive Foundation. Its founding members are Alibaba, Lightbend, Pivotal and Netifi. So what exactly is this?
AMC Theatres launches its own on-demand streaming service
AMC Theatres announced a new service today called AMC Theatres On Demand — a marketplace where members of AMC’s Stubs loyalty program can buy or rent individual movies to watch at home. The launch of an iTunes-style, à la carte movie marketplace seems almost quaint at a time when all the major media companies seem […]
Will unreliable research bury your healthcare startup?
For healthtech founders and funders, scientific claims and conclusions are more than policy — business models depend upon the lucid appraisal of clinical problems, evaluating inadequacies in current standards of care, a clear understanding of disease pathways, and designing superior interventions. At each step along this value chain, founders stand on the shoulders of the […]
Hands-on with the new Pixel 4
After the onstage presentation at Made by Google 2019, we got our hands on a Pixel 4. In this video, you can watch us do a quick run-through of the major new features — like Motion Sense, which provides gesture controls that don’t require you to touch your phone, and improved Night Sight, which allows […]
Product lessons from building our subscription service Extra Crunch
Subscription has been all the rage in media circles as the industry searches for new, sustainable business models. We’ve seen companies from infrastructure plays like Substack and Pico to brand verticals like Holloway and The Athletic receive venture funding, all with the goal of changing the economics of news, information and entertainment. Every day, I […]
Twitter says it will restrict users from retweeting world leaders who break its rules
Twitter said it will restrict how users can interact with tweets from world leaders who break its rules. The social media giant said it will not allow users to like, reply, share or retweet the offending tweets, but instead will let users quote-tweet to allow ordinary users to express their opinions. The company said the […]
ZeroDown, valued at $150M, plans to take on Zillow
ZeroDown launches a home search engine.
NASA’s new Artemis spacesuits make it easier for astronauts of all sizes to move on the Moon
NASA revealed new spacesuits, specifically created for the Artemis generation of missions, which aim to get the first American woman and the next American man to the surface of the Moon by 2024. The new design’s toppling feature is greater mobility and flexibility, in basically every respect. NASA unveiled both a full suit designed for […]
Walmart launches in-home grocery delivery in three cities: Kansas City, Pittsburgh & Vero Beach
Walmart will bring your groceries to you and put them away in the fridge, with the launch of its new service, InHome. The retailer is today debuting its new in-home grocery delivery service in three cities: Kansas City, (Missouri and Kansas); Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and Vero Beach, Florida. Customers in these markets can subscribe to InHome […]
Up close with Google’s budget Chromebook, the Pixelbook Go
The Chromebook has been a marked hit for Google — well, for Google’s hardware partners, at least. Low cost devices have flooded the market, with a stranglehold on the educational category in particular. Google’s own first party offerings, on the other hand, have been a bit more curious. Devices like the Pixelbook and Pixel Slate […]
Thirty-one women who ‘run the world’ and what can be learned from them
Today, a new book called “Girls Who Run the World” hits real and virtual bookshelves, and for anyone with a middle-school aged kid or looking to inspire a high-schooler, it might be worth checking out. Featuring 31 women who are the CEOs of companies that they have created themselves — think Spanx, Glossier, Caribou Sciences, […]
Kabbage Launches Drum, Your Small Business’s Own Influencer Sales Team
This new tool from Kabbage helps you build an influencer network for your small business.
How Lockheed Martin Ventures manages its early-stage $200M fund
In niche markets like aerospace, where the traditional VC model might not yield an abundance of available funding, corporate venture funds can offer entrepreneurs an interesting alternative. Unlike traditional VCs, firms like Lockheed Martin Ventures are in constant contact with internal business units about challenges they need solved, or improvements they’re seeking that cannot be […]
Kabuto is building smart suitcases for geeks
French company Kabuto is launching a Kickstarter campaign today for the second generation of its smart carry-on suitcase. The company was previously known as Xtend. If you think about smart suitcases, chances are you picture a suitcase with a battery pack in it and that’s it. In other words, they are not that smart. Kabuto […]
TikTok taps corporate law firm K&L Gates to advise on its US content moderation policies
As TikTok continues its rapid U.S. growth, the company is being challenged to better explain its content moderation choices. Why, for example, is the short-form video app censoring the Hong Kong protests but not U.S. political content? Why is it banning political ads, but supports hashtags like #trump2020 and #maga, each with millions, or even […]
Why Bad Things Stay So Bad For So Long
From staying in an abusive relationship, to joining a Twitter mob that bullies others, to not speaking up against corporate and political malfeasance, things stay bad for a long time because people are too dependent on money. Whether money is a need or a want, it ruins a person’s ability to stand up for what they know is right.
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This is the Pixel 4, the handset that literally everyone saw coming. Even by Google’s standards, the handset leaked like crazy. Some was almost certainly by design, as the company looked to hype its new flagship amid slowing smartphone sales. That said, showing up for pre-order on two different sites in the past few days […]
Watch OpenAI’s ‘human-like’ robot solve a Rubik’s Cube one-handed
There’s always been something so annoying about people who found the need to stack additional challenges onto solving a Rubik’s Cube quickly, whether it was doing it blindfolded or while juggling or one-handed. While it might have just been a challenge for them, it also seemed like a need to show off. OpenAI is clearly […]
Uber, Lime and Spin scooters are now legal in SF
Uber, Lime and Spin have officially deployed their electric scooters on the streets of San Francisco as part of the city’s permitting program. Last month, the city announced Uber’s JUMP, Lime, Ford’s Spin and Scoot were granted permits to operate the shared electric scooter services. Scoot, however, has operated in the city since last year. […]
Spearhead will give $1M to 15 founders to invest freely
Applications to Spearhead’s third cohort open this week.
What is Customer 360 and How Can It Help Your Business?
Customer 360 is a business idea dealing with how SMBs understand their target markets. Here’s what you need to know, and why.
Entrepreneur First, the ‘talent investor,’ pulls out of Hong Kong
Entrepreneur First (EF), the Greylock-backed “talent investor” that recruits and backs individuals pre-team and pre-idea to enable them to found startups, is pulling out of Hong Kong, TechCrunch has learned. According to sources, the London-HQ’d company builder has told provisional candidates for its 2020 Hong Kong cohort that they should instead apply to one of […]
Annie Leibovitz used the Pixel 4 to shoot a new collection of photos
Google ended today’s hardware event by going deep on the photo technology in its new Pixel 4, and brought out someone who’s actually been using the camera — legendary photographer Annie Leibovitz. The company announced that it was working with Leibovitz back in October 2018. Today, she spoke about the experience of working with the Pixel […]
91% of Customers Prefer Small Businesses When Convenient
Great customer service is key for small business success.
Amazon migrates more than 100 consumer services from Oracle to AWS databases
AWS and Oracle love to take shots at each other, but as much as Amazon has knocked Oracle over the years, it was forced to admit that it was in fact a customer. Today in a company blog post, the company announced it was shedding Oracle for AWS databases, and had effectively turned off its […]
New Online Apps Certify Green Business Initiatives
Get the most from your going-green work with these apps.
Retailers Will Close on Thanksgiving Spelling Good News for Small Business
More big retailers are closing on Thanksgiving.
Secrets of Making More Money with Social Media Revealed
This is how you can get paid with social media.
Headless CMS company Strapi raises $4 million
French startup Strapi has raised a $4 million seed round led by Accel and Stride.vc. The company has been working on an open-source Node.js headless content management system. That’s a lot of technical words in a row, but it’s not that hard to understand what Strapi is. Content management systems, or CMS, are web applications […]
Everything to Know About Google’s New Pixel 4 and Pixel XL Smartphones
Google on Tuesday announced new flagship smartphones, the Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL.
Apple’s Routing of User Data to Google Could Be Breaking EU Privacy Law
A Safari security feature may break EU law, but not the famed General Data Protection Regulation – rather, an out-of-date law called the ePrivacy Directive.
Why Most Companies Are Failing at Artificial Intelligence: Eye on A.I.
A survey by MIT Sloan Management Review and Boston Consulting Group found that most companies report little to no impact from their A.I. projects.
Google Announces Nest Wifi Mesh Router and Nest Mini Smart Speaker
The new Nest gadgets bring features like an in-home intercom service and Google Assistant to homes.
AMC Is Jumping Into the Streaming Business
AMC Theaters on Demand Will Offer Roughly 2,000 Films.
The Best Movies That Came Out of the 2019 New York Film Festival
Reviews of “Parasite,” “Portrait of a Lady on Fire,” “The Irishman,” “First Cow,” “Pain and Glory,” “Marriage Story,” “Beanpole,” and “Uncut Gems” at the New York Film Festival.
Democratic Debate: Will the Candidates Talk About Health Care for Gig Workers?
Few plans explicitly mention a growing segment of the workforce who would gain from the expansion of health care or potential introduction of a nationalized system: gig workers.
The World’s Best Multinational Workplaces List: raceAhead
Spoiler alert: Cisco is number one. But how they get there is a labor of “love.”
Who Is Tom Steyer? 2020 Democratic Candidate Debates for the First Time
He makes his 2020 Democratic debate stage debut Tuesday.
Here’s What You Need to Know About Google’s New Pixelbook Go Chromebook
Google Pixelbook Go is a Chrome OS-based Chromebook with a starting price of $649.
Bernie Sanders Wants to Ban Stock Buybacks. He Should Focus on This Instead
Corporate America isn’t going to stop making profits. Politicians should focus on making it easier for workers to earn a share of those profits, regardless of how the companies return that money to shareholders.
AutoNation CEO Says Auto Sales Are ‘Pretty Strong’ and Consumers Are in ‘Good Shape’
AutoNation is the world’s largest dealership and CEO Cheryl Miller says there’s strong demand for SUVs, trucks, and “nearly new” vehicles.
Why ‘Parasite’ Is the Film Everyone’s Talking About
The latest film from South Korean director Bong Joon-ho could be a crossover box office hit—and a serious Oscar contender.
Impeachment Inquiry Gains Momentum, Despite Trump’s Efforts to Squelch Testimony
A “hand grenade who is going to blow everybody up,” is how former White House national security adviser John Bolton reportedly called Rudy Giuliani for his back-channel activities in Ukraine.
Ancestry Swerves into 23andMe’s Lane With DNA Health Tests: Brainstorm Health
Consumer genomics firm Ancestry will begin selling DNA health test kits, setting up a showdown with 23andMe.
Majority of Investors Believe Elizabeth Warren Will Win Democratic Nomination, Bank Survey Shows
More than three months before the Iowa caucuses in February.
E-Cigarette Sales Slow Dramatically in Wake of Vaping-Related Health Warnings
“The impacts of vapor related illnesses have led to substantial sequential declines,” wrote Cowen analyst Vivien Azer.
Is China Serious About Opening Its Economy to Foreign Competition?
Skepticism is renewed as the U.S.-China trade war’s potential for resolution is questioned.
Riot Games Celebrates ‘League of Legends’ 10th Anniversary With Three New Titles
League of Legends has been big business for Riot Games—and e-sports overall.
Fact Checking Claims From the Fourth Democratic Debate
Fact checking claims from the fourth Democratic debate.
8 tips for founders trying to raise their first round of venture capital
Charles Hudson, Annie Kadavy and Russ Heddleston offer pro tips.
Interior design startup Havenly raises $32 million
Interior design platform Havenly is raising $32 million in new funding to create its first private label brand as the startup aims to integrate its own products into its design recommendation engine. The Denver-based startup is an online interior design consultancy of sorts that pairs with expert designers users looking to redesign their homes or […]
Ex-Uber exec launches startup to autonomously reposition electric scooters and bikes
Just how Android is the operating system for a number of mobile phones, Tortoise wants to be the operating system for micromobility vehicles, its co-founder Dmitry Shevelenko, who previously served as Uber’s director of business development, told TechCrunch. Given the volume of micromobility operators in the space today, Tortoise aims to make it easier for […]
Brooklyn-based construction robotics startup Toggle gets $3M seed fund
Toggle, a Brooklyn-based robotics startup, announced today that it scored $3 million in seed funding. The early-stage round was led by Point72 Ventures’ AI Group, with participation from Mark Cuban and VC Twenty Seven Ventures. The series follows a 2018 pre-seed round of $570,000 from its Urban-X accelerator, Urban Us, Accelerate NY / Empire State […]
Algolia finds $110M from Accel and Salesforce for its search-as-a-service, used by Slack, Twitch and 8K others
Algolia, one of the group of startups that provides search as a service for websites and apps as an alternative to Google and other search engines, is announcing a major round of funding today to fuel its growth. The startup — which already has more than 8,000 customers, including big names like Twitch, Slack, Discovery […]
Newly rebranded Thimble raises $22M to bring flexible insurance to the gig economy
Thimble, which offers flexible, short-term insurance to small businesses and freelancers, is announcing that it has raised $22 million in a Series A funding round led by IAC. Until today, the startup was known as Verifly, a name tied to the company’s initial aim of providing insurance to drone pilots. However, founder and CEO Jay […]
Level Home emerges from stealth with $71M from Walmart and Lennar and a new take on the smart lock
As companies like Google, Amazon and Apple hone their strategies to build the brain that helps you use the smart home of the future, where a new wave of internet-enabled appliances, climate and security systems and other connected objects can be connected and controlled through their hubs, a new smart home startup called Level Home […]
GoFundMe launches free platform for nonprofits and charities, rolls out button to donate anywhere
GoFundMe has made its name primarily as a platform for individuals to create fundraisers for personal causes — a service that has seen hundreds of campaigns go viral through social media to raise collectively well over $5 billion in funding to date. Now, the startup is taking the next step in its ambition to build […]
The Real Secret to My Social Media Success
The other day I was recording a podcast episode with my co-host Eric Siu and he wanted to discuss something in particular. He wanted to talk about how I got to 62,000 Instagram followers in a very short period of time and without spending any money on ads or marketing. Eric is a great marketer […]
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True Balance raises $23M to bring its payments app to more small cities and towns in India
South Korean startup True Balance, which operates an eponymous financial services app aimed at tens of millions of users in small cities and towns in India, has closed a new financing round as it looks to court more first-time users in the world’s second largest internet market. True Balance said on Tuesday that it has […]
South Korea-based Mathpresso, developer of tutoring app Qanda, raises $14.5 million Series B
Seoul-based education technology startup Mathpresso announced today that it has raised $14.5 million in Series B funding. The company’s flagship app is Qanda, which provides students with math and science help and tutoring. Participants in the round include Legend Capital, InterVest, NP Investments and Mirae Asset Venture Investment. This brings Mathpresso’s total funding so far […]
Bird’s chief legal & policy officer is leaving the company
David Estrada, who was hired last year from Kitty Hawk, is joining another mobility business.
Pinterest Academy Helps Businesses Pin Better with Online Courses
Pinterest Academy wants to help you post better pins.
15 of the Most Successful Hispanic Entrepreneurs
There has never been a time in history when so many successful Hispanic entrepreneurs were thriving as much as now. Here are the top 15.
Daily Crunch: Facebook has a weak stance on political ads
The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here. 1. Facebook should ban campaign ads. End the lies. Facebook recently formalized its approach to political advertising, declaring, “We don’t believe, however, […]
82% of Business Failure is Due to Poor Cash Management (INFOGRAPHIC)
Financing is a concern for businesses in their first year of operation.
WeWork pulls thousands of phone booths out of service over formaldehyde scare
WeWork, the co-working empire once valued at $47 billion before reality struck, plunging the business and its investors into crisis, has another problem to add to its growing pile — one which doesn’t exactly reflect well on its core business of kitting out and maintaining modern working environments. The problem is a safety concern affecting […]
10 Tips for Retailers to Get the Most Out of Pinterest
Effective use of Pinterest could bring more people to your website or better promote your brand.
Reddit now lets iOS users share to Snapchat
Reddit users can now share to Snapchat their favorite content from the site, thanks to a new integration that allows sharing of text, link and image-based posts on iOS from Reddit’s “Safe for Work” communities. The move makes Snapchat the first platform partner with which Reddit is testing content sharing integration, the company says, and […]
Founder’s guide to the pre-IPO secondary market
The increase in activity in the pre-IPO secondary market means that founders, early employees, and investors are receiving liquidity much sooner in a company’s lifecycle than ever before…
DoorDash opens a shared kitchen in Redwood City
DoorDash is opening its first shared commissary kitchen in Redwood City, Calif., bringing new delivery and pickup options to customers in Peninsula towns, including Atherton, Menlo Park and Palo Alto. This is part of a broader trend of companies like Deliveroo opening shared kitchens that allow restaurant partners to expand their delivery footprint without dealing […]
Opendoor appoints CFO, CPO
Opendoor has named Gautam Gupta chief financial officer and chief business officer.
Foodvisor automatically tracks what you eat using deep learning
Meet Foodvisor, a startup that has built a mobile app that helps you log everything you eat in order to lose weight, follow a diet or get healthier. You can add data by capturing a photo of your plate before you eat. “We’ve spent a little over two years doing research and development before we […]
Friday deadline alert: Apply to TC Top Picks @ Disrupt Berlin 2019
We dedicate this countdown post to all the early-stage startup founders who hunger for an opportunity to break new ground. This is the final week you can apply to be a TC Top Pick and exhibit your startup — for free — in Startup Alley at Disrupt Berlin 2019 on 11-12 December. The application window […]
Facebook should ban campaign ads. End the lies.
Permitting falsehood in political advertising would work if we had a model democracy, but we don’t. Not only are candidates dishonest, but voters aren’t educated, and the media isn’t objective. And now, hyperlinks turn lies into donations and donations into louder lies. The checks don’t balance. What we face is a self-reinforcing disinformation dystopia. That’s […]
The colours and courage of mental wellbeing in the workplace
I’ve always been the type to squeeze a lot in my life. A flurry of children, a boisterous puppy and a global role as GM of Global People Experience are my norm on a slow day.
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Why it might have been time for new leadership at SAP
SAP CEO Bill McDermott announced he was stepping down last night after a decade at the helm in an announcement that shocked many. It’s always tough to measure the performance of an enterprise leader when he or she leaves. Some people look at stock price over their tenure. Some at culture. Some at the acquisitions […]
IAC outlines its plans for a Match Group spin-off
Digital media holding company IAC has taken the next step toward spinning off Match Group, with a proposal outlining what that process would look like. Match Group (which owns Tinder, PlentOfFish, OkCupid, Hinge and of course Match itself) is already a publicly traded company, but IAC remains the majority owner. With the spin-off, IAC says […]
Descartes Labs snaps up $20M more for its AI-based geospatial imagery analytics platform
Satellite imagery holds a wealth of information that could be useful for industries, science and humanitarian causes, but one big and persistent challenge with it has been a lack of effective ways to tap that disparate data for specific ends. That’s created a demand for better analytics, and now, one of the startups that has […]
Trump gets on Twitch
The reelection campaign will be live-streamed. US president Donald Trump has joined Amazon-owned live-streaming platform Twitch. Twitch is best known as a social video streaming platform for gamers but does host other content, including politics. The verified DonaldTrump Twitch account, spotted earlier by Reuters, has just one video in the recent broadcast section so far: […]
SAP’s Bill McDermott on stepping down as CEO
SAP’s CEO Bill McDermott today announced that he wouldn’t seek to renew his contract for the next year and would step down immediately after nine years at the helm of the German enterprise giant. Shortly after the announcement, I talked to McDermott, as well as SAP’s new co-CEOs Jennifer Morgan and Christian Klein. During the […]
Bill McDermott steps down as SAP’s CEO
SAP today announced that Bill McDermott, its CEO for the last nine years, is stepping down immediately. The company says he decided not to renew his contract. SAP Executive Board members Jennifer Morgan and Christian Klein have been appointed co-CEOs. McDermott, who started his business career as a deli owner in Amityville, Long Island and […]
Top VCs, founders share how to build a successful SaaS company
Last week at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, we hosted a panel on the Extra Crunch stage on “How to build a billion-dollar SaaS company.” A better title probably would have been “How to build a successful SaaS company.” We spoke to Whitney Bouck, COO at HelloSign; Jyoti Bansal, CEO and founder at Harness, and […]
Flaw in Cyberoam firewalls exposed corporate networks to hackers
Sophos said it is fixing a vulnerability in its Cyberoam firewall appliances, which a security researcher says can allow an attacker to gain access to a company’s internal network without needing a password. The vulnerability allows an attacker to remotely gain “root” permissions on a vulnerable device, giving them the highest level of access, by […]
Getting more people to open your emails
We’ve aggregated the world’s best growth marketers into one community. Twice a month, we ask them to share their most effective growth tactics, and we compile them into this Growth Report.
Xage now supports hierarchical blockchains for complex implementations
Xage is working with utilities, energy companies and manufacturers to secure their massive systems, and today it announced some significant updates to deal with the scale and complexity of these customers’ requirements, including a new hierarchical blockchain. Xage enables customers to set security policy, then enforce that policy on the blockchain. Company CEO Duncan Greatwood […]
Salesforce adds integrated order management system to its arsenal
Salesforce certainly has a lot of tools crossing the sales, service and marketing categories, but until today when it announced Lightning Order Management, it lacked an integration layer that allowed companies to work across these systems to manage orders in a seamless way. “This is a new product built from the ground up on the […]
Clari snags $60M Series D on valuation of around $500M
Clari uses AI to help companies find key information like the customers most likely to convert, the state of orders in the sales process or the next big sources of revenue. As its revenue management system continues to flourish, the company announced a $60 million Series D investment today. Sapphire Ventures led the round with […]
Making Mental Health Matter in Small Business
It’s World Mental Health Day this week. So we asked Dr Nick Taylor, the founder of Unmind for his views on how we can raise awareness and encourage more discussion in the small business workplace.
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Okta wants to make every user a security ally
End users tend to get a bad rap in the security business because they are often the weakest security link. They fall for phishing schemes, use weak passwords and often unknowingly are the conduit for malicious actors getting into your company’s systems. Okta wants to change that by giving end users information about suspicious activity […]
New Vector scores $8.5M to plug more users into its open, decentralized messaging Matrix
New Vector, a European startup founded in 2017 by the creators of an open, decentralized communications standard called Matrix to drive adoption and grow an ecosystem around an alternative messaging protocol for instant messaging and VoIP apps, has raised an $8.5 million Series A funding round. Investors in New Vector’s Series A round include enterprise […]
Advisor-powered recommendations: a smarter way to advise
Sometimes a human touch truly does beat a machine’s algorithm. Xero’s advisor partners are specialists who understand their clients’ needs. As of today, they can put that specialisation to work simpler than ever.
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Facebook sure does love free $peech
Ensuring politicians in the 2020 election stay truthful is hard work, so Facebook has decided it’s going to sit this one out. Joe Biden’s campaign team sent a letter to CEO Mark Zuckerberg, COO Sheryl Sandberg and global elections policy chief Katie Harbath that essentially called on the company to take down a Trump campaign […]
Suse’s OpenStack Cloud dissipates
Suse, the newly independent open-source company behind the eponymous Linux distribution and an increasingly large set of managed enterprise services, today announced a bit of a new strategy as it looks to stay on top of the changing trends in the enterprise developer space. Over the course of the last few years, Suse put a […]
Instagram launches Create mode with On This Day throwbacks
Instagram has finally turned Throwback Thursday into an official feature. It’s part of the new Instagram “Create” mode that launches today in Stories, bringing the app beyond the camera. Create makes Instagram a more omni-purpose social network with the flexibility to adapt to a broader range of content formats. For now, the highlight of Create […]
Arm brings custom instructions to its embedded CPUs
At its annual TechCon event in San Jose, Arm today announced Custom Instructions, a new feature of its Armv8-M architecture for embedded CPUs that, as the name implies, enables its customers to write their own custom instructions to accelerate their specific use cases for embedded and IoT applications. “We already have ways to add acceleration, […]
Nadella warns government conference not to betray user trust
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, delivering the keynote at the Microsoft Government Leaders Summit in Washington, DC today, had a message for attendees to maintain user trust in their tools technologies above all else. He said it is essential to earn user trust, regardless of your business. “Now, of course, the power law here is all […]
Facebook’s Workplace hits 3M paying users, launches Portal app in a wider push for video
The rapid rise of Slack — which has recently broken the 100,000 mark for paying businesses using its service — has ushered in a rush of competition from other companies across the worlds of social media and enterprise software, all aiming to become the go-to conversation layer for businesses. Today, Workplace, Facebook’s effort in that […]
Satya Nadella looks to the future with edge computing
Speaking today at the Microsoft Government Leaders Summit in Washington, DC, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella made the case for edge computing, even while pushing the Azure cloud as what he called “the world’s computer.” While Amazon, Google and other competitors may have something to say about that, marketing hype aside, many companies are still in […]
Lawyers for former Tinder execs file to dismiss ‘retaliatory’ defamation lawsuit
Last week, former Tinder CEO Greg Blatt filed a defamation lawsuit against Sean Rad and Rosette Pambakian, who are part of a group of Tinder founders and former executives who accused Blatt (pictured above) of sexual harassment and assault as part of a broader suit. Now Rad and Pambakian’s attorneys have filed their own motion […]
Forward Networks raises $35M to help enterprises map, track and predict their networks’ behavior
Security breaches and other activities that cause network surges and outages are all on the rise in the enterprise, and today, a startup called Forward Networks, which has built a clever way to help businesses monitor their network traffic to identify when things are going wrong, has raised a round of $35 million to continue […]
The Ultimate List of Free SEO Tools
Who says you have to spend money to get more traffic? For today’s blog post, I thought it would be fun to break down all of the free SEO tools. Sure you may know of some, like Ubersuggest, but there are many more options than just my own tool. Now before I dive into the […]
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Instagram is killing its creepy stalking feature, the Following tab
Instagram is removing its Following tab, a feature that became better known as a stalking tool than one to aid with new account discovery, as the company had intended. Today, Instagram says that its Explore tab is the go-to place to find new people, places and hashtags to follow. Meanwhile, the Following tab is now […]
Reasons Why You Should Never Sell Your Profitable Business
If you are a business owner who is burning out and wishing to cash out, here is some perspective of someone who did. He sold his baby for $2.8 million and regrets his decision every day.
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83North closes $300M fifth fund focused on Europe, Israel
83North has closed its fifth fund, completing an oversubscribed $300 million raise and bringing its total capital under management to $1.1BN+. The VC firm, which spun out from Silicon Valley giant Greylock Partners in 2015 — and invests in startups in Europe and Israel, out of offices in London and Tel Aviv — last closed […]
Annual Extra Crunch members can receive $1,000 in AWS credits
We’re excited to announce a new partnership with Amazon Web Services for annual members of Extra Crunch. Starting today, qualified annual members can receive $1,000 in AWS credits. You also must be a startup founder to claim this Extra Crunch community perk. AWS is the premier service for your application hosting needs, and we want […]
Snap CEO isn’t expecting much from Facebook antitrust investigations
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. “I mean the history of antitrust would basically say that […]
Daily Crunch: Facebook faces government pressure over encryption
The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here. 1. Facebook is being leaned on by US, UK, Australia to ditch its end-to-end encryption expansion plan U.S. Attorney General William Barr, […]
Ellen Pao calls out Twitter’s ‘public town square’ model as flawed
Project Include CEO Ellen Pao, who has been working to foster diversity, inclusion and ethics in the tech industry, called out Twitter’s “public square” model as flawed — and a decision that indicates a lack of ethical consideration, on Twitter’s part. The topic of Twitter came up on a panel at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2019 […]
The final countdown to Making Tax Digital for VAT (part 3) – your questions answered
In the final post of our Making Tax Digital Countdown series, we speak to accountant Linda Gibson from Gibson Whitter. She unpicks some of the challenging questions you might have from using spreadsheets to poor internet access, and touches on what’s next on the horizon for digital tax.
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Zuckerberg says Facebook will sue to stop EU’s global content takedowns
Facebook plans to challenge Europe’s top court, which today ruled that EU countries can order Facebook to globally remove content that violates local laws. Facebook currently complies with proper legal requests to remove content that breaks a nation’s laws, but can leave it up for global viewers if the post doesn’t violate its Community Standards. […]
T4 wants to transform market research data with a combination of AI and humans
When T4 co-founder and CEO Maks Khurgin was working at Bain and Company, he ran into a common problem for analysts looking for market data. He spent way too much time searching for it and felt there had to be a better way. He decided to build a centralized market data platform himself, and T4 […]
TikTok explains its ban on political advertising
Already under fire for advancing Chinese foreign policy by censoring topics like Hong Kong’s protests and pro-LGBT content, the Beijing-based video app TikTok is now further distancing itself from U.S. social media platforms, like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, with a ban on political ads on its app. The company today says it will not allow […]
Six ways to manage employee wellbeing
Over the last few years, large corporations have become obsessed with the mental health and wellbeing of their employees. And they’ve made a lot of progress – from providing fresh fruit and gym memberships.
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The final countdown to Making Tax Digital for VAT (part 2) – your questions answered
There are only a few days to go until the final Making Tax Digital for VAT deadline. So we’ve been asking some of our accounting partners to answer any last minute questions you’ve got.
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How I Beat Google’s Core Update by Changing the Game
Google released a major update. They typically don’t announce their updates, but you know when they do, it is going to be big. And that’s what happened with the most recent update that they announced. A lot of people saw their traffic drop. And of course, at the same time, people saw their traffic increase […]
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The Xero NZ Roadshow has arrived!
We’re back bigger than ever with this year’s NZ Roadshow, travelling from Whangarei to Invercargill, visiting 18 locations across the country. We’re hosting 39 awesome events that are tailored to accountants, bookkeepers and small businesses.
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The final countdown to Making Tax Digital for VAT (part 1) – your questions answered
Earlier in the year, the Government introduced new digital tax rules impacting small businesses.
Time has flown by. We are now quickly approaching 7th October. This is the final deadline that businesses over the VAT threshold have got to be ready by.
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How To Retire Early With Kids: A Nearly Impossible Task
Everybody can retire when their investment income is enough to cover their basic living expenses. But when it comes to retiring early (before 60), there are different levels of difficulty. The hardest type of early retirement is retiring early while raising adolescent children. Once you have children, you suddenly realize that retiring early without children is like going for a walk in the park. It seems so easy, you wonder why more people don’t get on board!
In this episode I discuss subjective and objective reasons why retiring early with children is nearly impossible, followed by some potential solutions.
Read more here, https://www.financialsamurai.com/how-to-retire-early-with-kids-a-nearly-impossible-task/
SuiteFiles: Making file management a breeze in the cloud
Xero’s app marketplace has over 800 apps which help small businesses and their advisors reach their goals. Each month we celebrate an app partner who stands out for helping small businesses thrive.
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The impact of Brexit on small businesses: where to turn
Since our last Brexit blog, a lot has changed. There has been a new Prime Minister, Parliament has been suspended, and two deals have been refused.
The situation changes every minute.
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New research: close to half of small business employees have experienced pay-day problems
New research by Xero has revealed that payday problems are widespread across Australia with 43 percent of workers experiencing issues with their pay, rising to 49 percent for those employed by small businesses.
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How I Ranked For 636,363 Keywords Using This Simple Hack
When I started doing SEO on NeilPatel.com I used this advanced formula to rank for 477,000 keywords. Over time, my traffic started to flatline and I wasn’t ranking for many more keywords, even though I was continually creating more content. But then I figured out a simple hack that took me from 477,000 keywords to […]
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Check out our changes to batch payment screens
Paying bills is a time consuming task for all small businesses. We’re working to update this process in Xero to reduce friction and streamline it where we can.
The existing batch payments interface was one of the first features to be built at Xero.
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As it readies a test for vaping additives, cannabis testing company Cannalysis raises $22.6 million
Cannalysis, a testing company for cannabis, has raised $22.6 million in a new round of financing as it prepares to bring a new test for vaping additives to the market. The test, which the company is preparing to unveil later this week, will test for the presence and amount of Vitamin E acetate, a chemical […]
Netflix cofounder Marc Randolph on the company’s earliest days, the streaming wars, and moving on
Netflix is today a company whose valuation hovers around $130 billion, but it was, of course, once a little startup, and in his new book “That Will Never Work,” Netflix’s cofounder and its first CEO Marc Randolph takes readers on a fun and surprisingly vivid journey through the streaming giant’s earliest days. It’s also instructive, […]
Get your Startup Alley Exhibitor package plus bonus hotel stay
It’s getting down to the wire for your opportunity to show off your early-stage startup in Startup Alley at TechCrunch Disrupt SF this October 2-4. There’s simply no better way to place your ideas and technology in front of influential change agents that can help you propel your business forward and set the stage for future success. […]
How to profit from valuable peer referrals hiding in Slack
Brands often act like the person who searches for their keys under the streetlight simply because that is where the light is better. However, when brand marketers focus only on engaging with…
Lunchclub raises $4M from a16z for its AI warm intro service
There are apps out there that help you find friends, find dates and find your distant family histories, but when it comes to “growing your professional network,” the options are shockingly bad, we’re talking LinkedIn here. Lunchclub is a startup that’s looking to help users navigate finding new connections inside specific industries. The company has […]
California Governor Gavin Newsom signs gig worker bill AB-5 into law
California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed into law gig worker protections bill AB-5. This comes shortly after AB-5 passed in the California State Assembly and Senate. “Today, we are disrupting the status quo and taking a bold step forward to rebuild our middle class and reshape the future of workers as we know it,” bill […]
Out of the box influencer strategies to accelerate awareness for your startup
For new brands, growing awareness and gaining consumer trust are two of the most important yet challenging marketing objectives. But startups don’t have the budget to activate mega-influencers…
Daily Crunch: Facebook announces Portal TV
The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here. 1. Facebook launches Portal TV, a $149 video chat set-top box The Portal TV lets you hang out with friends using your […]
VAT: Domestic Reverse Charge now live in Xero
We’re pleased to announce that the Domestic Reverse Charge (DRC) is now live in Xero. The new feature will help you comply with your DRC obligations.
DRC intends to cut down on “missing trader” fraud, where companies receiving high net amounts of VAT from their customers have no intention of ever paying over to HMRC.
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Get The Best Mortgage Rate Possible By Avoiding This One Crucial Mistake
Don’t make my mortgage refinance mistake that has so far cost me $1,005 in extra interest! Trying to refinance today is a real PITA. It’s a bummer because I pride myself on calculating all variables to make the best financial decision.
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Arbitrage Your Way To A Richer And Better Life
You can take advantage of kinks in the system every day to improve your wealth and quality of life. Don’t just sit back passively and wait for your investments to make you wealthy. Also take some action.
Practice identifying arbitrage opportunities to prosper. See the post here.
3,000 Xero advisors (and counting) are here to guide you through all things STP
As a small business owner it often seems like there aren’t enough hours in the day. And the struggle to stay on top of things is likely all too familiar.
With the ATO now requiring all businesses in Australia to digitally report their payroll information through Single Touch Payroll (STP), you may be finding it tricky to get your head around these new changes.
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Google’s New Link Building Guidelines
In case you missed it, Google has just changed up the rules for link building. It used to be that when people link to you, the link would either be a dofollow link or a nofollow link. Well, that’s now changed. They are now introducing 2 more link types that will affect SEOs. Now before […]
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Why You Deserve Everything
Every week, there are a lot of funny things that make me scratch my head and wonder WTF. But it is precisely these funny things that make me so positive and bullish for you and me. Here are three examples that make me go “hmmmm.”
Cloudflare co-founder Michelle Zatlyn on the company’s IPO today, its unique dual class structure, and what’s next
Shares of Cloudflare rose 20% today in its first day of trading on the public market, opening trading at $18 after it priced its IPO at $15 a share yesterday and holding steady through the day. Put another way, the performance of the nine-year-old company — which provides cloud-based network services to enterprises — was relatively […]
MoviePass will shut down on September 14th
MoviePass’ all-you-can-watch movie theater membership always seemed too good to be true. After multiple price hikes, business model changes, temporary shutdowns and raising a mountain of money less than a year ago, the company seems to be calling it quits. MoviePass has issued an announcement letting customers know that the service will stop working as […]
How to work with top influencers and avoid ad blockers
We’ve aggregated the world’s best growth marketers into one community. Twice a month, we ask them to share their most effective growth tactics, and we compile them into this Growth Report.
Ten questions for 2020 presidential candidate John Delaney
In November 2020, America will go to the polls to vote in perhaps the most consequential election in a generation. The winner will lead the country amid great social, economic and ecological unrest. The 2020 election will be a referendum on both the current White House and the direction of the country at large. Nearly […]
Despite tipping policy changes, DoorDash says back pay is not ‘at issue here’
When DoorDash announced changes in its tipping model last month, it was certainly a step in the right direction. Some workers, however, have said it’s not enough. In addition to wanting fair wages, they want back pay. In light of DoorDash’s announcement, labor group Working Washington said a key question remained: “Will they pay workers […]
Calculating sales efficiency in a startup: The magic number that will help you scale
Sales efficiency is the best way to understand the economics of a business. It answers whether a business can ever scale. The harsh truth is, if it can’t scale, investors won’t be interested…
Space is the next economic frontier… hear more about it at Disrupt SF
For decades space has been the playplace for world powers, but the advent of (relatively) cheap and frequent rocket launches has opened it up for new business opportunities. But it’s still hard as hell, as early adopters of this orbital economy Tess Hatch of Bessemer Ventures, Swarm’s Sara Spangelo, and OneWeb’s Adrian Steckel can attest.
24-hour Friday flashback on Disrupt SF passes
We here at TechCrunch love a good flashback, like when Sebastian Thrun’s puppy, Charlie, was in the spotlight during Thrun’s fireside chat at Disrupt SF a few years ago. Since then, the serial entrepreneur and inventor seems to have doubled down on his vision of the future of transportation with his current flying car company, […]
Boston gets a new biotech accelerator with the launch of Petri
As biotechnology becomes more central to new innovations in healthcare, material science and manufacturing, one of the nation’s research hubs is getting a new accelerator called Petri to launch companies focused on the commercialization of new technologies. Backed by the Boston-based venture capital firm Pillar, Petri has a three-year $15 million commitment to back companies […]
WeWork and Uber are proof valuations are meaningless
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week Kate and Alex were back to cover a lot of late-stage news, which they rounded up with some early-stage notes toward the end. As a reminder, come check out the show at Disrupt SF if you […]
Element AI raises $151M on a $600-700M valuation to help companies build and run AI solutions
While tech giants like Google and Amazon build and invest in a multitude of artificial intelligence applications to grow their businesses, a startup has raised a big round of funding to help those that are not technology businesses by nature also jump into the AI fray. Element AI, the very well-funded, well-connected Canadian startup that […]
WeWork Tries to Address Investor Concerns With Big Governance Changes: Term Sheet
The company plans to curb the voting power of Adam Neumann in order to get its upcoming IPO back on track.
New ‘Saturday Night Live’ Actor Shane Gillis Under Fire for Racist Remarks
The “SNL” hire made several racist remarks about Chinese people in the not-so-distant past.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Fires Back After Picture of Her Is Set Ablaze in Ad
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez clapped back after a TV commercial from a Republican-based political action committee called her “ignorant” and set a picture of the New York Congresswoman on fire.
Social Security Increases in 2020 Will Be Noticeably Smaller Than This Year
Cost of living increase shrinks by nearly 50%.
Texas Lawmaker to Beto O’Rourke: ‘My AR Is Ready for You’
O’Rourke’s campaign reported the death threat to the FBI.
3 Things We Learned From the Third Democratic Debate Last Night
As the frontrunners clashed on healthcare, one of the most controversial and complicated topics in American politics, the others vied for their moment in the spotlight.
FDA: Impurity That Could Cause Cancer Found in Zantac
Officials determining whether it poses a risk.
What to Watch (and Skip) This Weekend on Netflix and in Theaters
From “Hustlers” to “The Goldfinch” out this weekend, we tell you what to watch.
Maryland Launches an Investigation on Racial Terror Lynchings: raceAhead
Maryland has started a commission to seek justice for victims of racial terror.
SmileDirectClub’s 30-Year-Old Founders Still Have Reason to Smile After Rocky IPO: They’re Billionaires
After one of the worst stock-market debuts in more than a decade, two 30-year-old founders of SmileDirectClub Inc. are billionaires.
British Fashion Officials Warn of Financial Woes From a No-Deal Brexit
As London Fashion Week gets underway and climate-change protests against the industry resurface.
Felicity Huffman Sentenced to 14 Days for Role in College Admissions Scandal
“I am deeply ashamed of what I have done. I have inflicted more damage than I could ever imagine,” the actress said before the sentencing.
The Insurance CEO Who Gives Customers His Cellphone Number
Most people prefer a visit to the dentist over communicating with their insurance provider. Hippo CEO Assaf Wand wants to change that.
Gamer Sentenced to 15 Months for ‘Swatting’ Prank That Led to a Fatal Shooting
In March, the man who made the call was sentenced to 20 years, after being charged with 51 counts of making fake emergency reports and threats around the country.
MoviePass Finally Shuts Down for Good
The infamous movie ticketing subscription service will cease operations on Saturday, Sept. 14.
Apple Says TV Plus Pricing Won’t Have a Negative Effect on Profits, Rebutting a Goldman Analyst
A Goldman Sachs analyst who covers the company cut his price target on Apple shares from $187 to $165.
Disney CEO Bob Iger, Who Took Over Steve Jobs’ Seat, Resigns From Apple’s Board
The move comes as both companies prepare to launching competing video streaming services, Disney Plus and Apple TV Plus.
Moderna and the Art of Personalized Medicine: Brainstorm Health
Happy Friday, readers. In 2018, Moderna Therapeutics filed for a titanic IPO (at that point, the largest biotech public offering in history). It raised $604 million, setting the company up for an initial valuation of about $7.5 billion. But, as is the story with so many pre-market biotechs, controversy was just around the corner. Moderna’s […]
The FDA Is Weighing Final Approval on a Treatment for Peanut Allergies in Children and Teens
Peanut allergy is the most common food allergy in the United States, and about 1.6 million children and teenagers would be eligible for the medication.
Amazon Is Crowdsourcing Alexa’s Answers. Smart Tactic or a Questionable Move?
What could go wrong? Lots, say experts.
India’s OkCredit raises $67M to help small merchants digitize their bookkeeping
OkCredit, a Bangalore-based startup that enables small merchants to digitize their bookkeeping, has raised $67 million in a new financing round to grow its business in the nation. The Series B financing round for the two-year-old startup was led by Lightspeed and Tiger Global. The new round, which follows the Series A in June, increases […]
Small businesses know how to impress at ANZLF Awards 2019
At Xero, we’re always looking for ways to support small businesses to succeed and grow. That’s why we were thrilled to sponsor the Trans-Tasman Innovation and Growth Awards this year. Run by the Australia and New Zealand Leadership Forum (ANZLF), the awards are all about recognising emerging businesses having an impact through innovation and collaboration.
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Another high-flying, heavily funded AR headset startup is shutting down
While Apple and Microsoft strain to sell augmented reality as the next major computing platform, many of the startups aiming to beat them to the punch are crashing and burning. Daqri, which built enterprise-grade AR headsets, has shuttered its HQ, laid off many of its employees and is selling off assets ahead of a shutdown, […]
How to stop vanity marketing from killing your startup
In 2014, I got in on the ground floor of what I thought was a rocket ship. We had all the money and time in the world — right up until we didn’t.
Max Levchin’s Affirm seeks capital amid surge in fintech funding
Fintech investment is expected to reach new highs in 2019.
Voyage raises $31 million to bring driverless taxis to communities
Voyage, the autonomous vehicle startup that spun out of Udacity, announced Thursday it has raised $31 million in a round led by Franklin Templeton. Khosla Ventures, Jaguar Land Rover’s InMotion Ventures and Chevron Technology Ventures also participated in the round. The company, which operates a ride-hailing service in retirement communities using self-driving cars supported by […]
Shape Security hits $1B valuation with $51M Series F
Anti-fraud startup Shape Security has tipped over the $1 billion valuation mark following its latest Series F round of $51 million. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company announced the fundraise Thursday, bringing the total amount of outside investment to $183 million since the company debuted in 2011. C5 Capital led the round, along with several other […]
Sidewalk Labs spins out urban data-gathering tool Replica into a company
Replica, the data-gathering tool created within Sidewalk Labs that maps the movement of people in cities, is now a company. The newly formed company, which is headed by Nick Bowden, also announced Thursday it has raised $11 million in a Series A funding round from investors Innovation Endeavors, Firebrand Ventures and Revolution’s Rise of the […]
SmileDirectClub makes its debut on the public market
SmileDirectClub rang the opening bell earlier today, marking its first day of trading as a public company. The teeth-straightening company is now trading on the Nasdaq under the symbol “SDC.” Already, the stock is trading down 11% at $20.36 per share. SmileDirectClub kicked off its IPO hoping to raise up to $1.3 billion at an […]
Patch Homes locks in $5M Series A to give homeowners financial freedom without debt
Home ownership has long been touted as the American dream. But rising rates of mortgage debt and student loan debt are making the pursuit of home ownership a nightmare. Debt-burdened individuals or those with inconsistent or tight cash flow can not only struggle to get credit loan approval when buying a home but also struggle to […]
Y Combinator’s Michael Seibel, Ali Rowghani to reveal new YC top 100 list, talk startups at Disrupt SF
Y Combinator has become its own economy since its founding in 2005, as the formative seed-stage venture fund has nurtured leading startups across industries. Today, you’ll often see newer YC startups get started by providing services to larger YC companies — and then become the larger companies themselves (Stripe and Gusto are two of the […]
Which ICO Projects Should You Monitor in the Upcoming Months?
The first half of 2019 had been decent for new blockchain-based startups, which managed to raise an aggregate of $2 billion, both from retail and institutional investors. It’s still way below the numbers we saw in 2018, but the regulatory scrutiny that emerged a year ago, as well as the strong drop in cryptocurrency prices, […]
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7 Advanced SEO Strategies I’m Trying to Implement Before 2020
Google makes over 3,200 algorithm changes per year. That’s a lot of changes. Just think about that for a minute… and let that sink in. It’s roughly 9 changes per day. So how can you beat this gigantic company at their own game and rank high? Especially when you consider that they generate over $100 […]
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Playcentre Aotearoa: families learning together
Playcentre provides a sense of community for families. Find out how using Xero benefits the volunteer treasurers at the 420+ Playcentres in Aotearoa.
Playcentre is unlike any other early learning service.
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Will Kirkland Lake Gold Continue to Shine?
Kirkland Lake Gold Ltd. (KL) shares have had a great run over the last year. It has grown by 150% since the beginning of 2019, and this doesn’t even include the dividend it pays out, which although isn’t very much, should still add up over time for long term shareholders. But how much higher can […]
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The Average Net Worth For The Above Average Married Couple
Does 1 + 1 = 2 in your marriage? Not according to the government. If you’re trying to figure out what combined net worth to shoot for as a couple, here are three frameworks to think about. Don’t get mad if you’re not there. Get motivated!
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Sysco: Reasonably-Priced Defense
Now that global economic growth is decelerating, many investors are flocking to defensive, recession-resistant equities. This tends to happen during late stages of an economic cycle, as well as during mid-cycle slowdowns between periods of growth. For example, the consumer staples sector has outperformed the broader S&P 500 by over 9% over the past 12 […]
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Apple doesn’t want Google ‘stoking fear’ about serious iOS security exploits
Apple has issued a tart response to an extensive report by Google of a serious security flaw in iOS. The flaw, which let an attacker gain root access to a device visiting a malicious website, was reported last week. Apple wants to “make sure all of our customers have the facts,” which is funny, because it’s likely we wouldn’t have any of the facts if Google had not so rigorously documented this issue.
APIs are the next big SaaS wave
While the software revolution started out slowly, over the past few years it’s exploded and the fastest-growing segment to-date has been the shift towards software as a service or SaaS…
Anti-utopian type design with Monotype’s Charles Nix
Monotype recently introduced a new typeface called Ambiguity, created by its chief type designer, Charles Nix. Its unusual proportions deliberately challenge typographical conventions, going wide where a letter was once narrow and vice versa. I had a chance to talk to Nix about the genesis of Ambiguity and the state of type design; The conversation was interesting enough that I felt I should publish it more or less intact.
Looking to become the video-based social network of the gaming world, Medal.tv raises $9 million
When Medal.tv first launched on the scene, the company was an upstart trying to be the social network for the gaming generation. Since its debut in February, the clipping and messaging service for gamers has amassed 5 million total users with hundreds of thousands of daily active users. And now it has a $9 million […]
US senator demands answers from Amazon’s Ring over its police partnerships
Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) is looking for answers from Amazon about its doorbell camera Ring and the company’s relationships with law enforcement agencies around the U.S. In a letter published on Thursday, he writes to the technology giant how partnerships like Ring’s raise “serious privacy and civil liberties concerns,” and asks Amazon to further […]
Top VCs on the changing landscape for enterprise startups
Yesterday at TechCrunch’s Enterprise event in San Francisco, we sat down with three venture capitalists who spend a lot of their time thinking about enterprise startups. We wanted to ask what trends they are seeing, what concerns they might have about the state of the market and, of course, how startups might persuade them to […]
Only a few hours left for early-bird passes to Disrupt SF 2019
We’re in a price-hike homestretch, startup fans. Early-bird savings head south, and ticket prices head north in just a few short hours. Want to save up to $1,300 on passes to Disrupt San Francisco 2019? Buy your passes by 11:59 p.m. (PST) tonight, September 6 — avoid the costly stroke of midnight. Wring even more savings […]
Tile teams up with Google to bring its lost item finding technology to Google Assistant
As rumors swirl about Apple’s plans to launch a Tile competitor, Tile today announced it’s teaming up with Google to make it easier for users to locate their lost items using their Android devices and others using Google Assistant. For the uninitiated, Tile is a small hardware accessory that you can attach to items like […]
NY attorney general will lead antitrust investigation into Facebook
New York Attorney General Letitia James announced this morning that she’s leading an investigation into Facebook over antitrust issues — in other words, whether Facebook used its social media dominance to engage in anti-competitive behavior. In a statement, James said: Even the largest social media platform in the world must follow the law and respect […]
Huboo raises £1M to take the pain out of e-commerce fulfilment
Huboo, a U.K. startup that operates a multi-channel fulfillment service for e-commerce businesses of varying sizes, has raised £1 million in seed funding. Backing the majority of the round is London venture capital firm Episode 1, alongside a number of unnamed private individual investors. Launched in November 2017 by Martin Bysh and Paul Dodd after […]
Why Box is one of the most underappreciated companies
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week, we recorded on location at TechCrunch Sessions: Enterprise in San Francisco, a show that saw talks from Box’s Aaron Levie, Atlassian CEO Scott Farquhar and venture capitalists Maha Ibrahim, Rebecca Lynn and Jason Green. The latter, […]
New Skype Features Improve Workflow for Small Businesses
The new Skype features will boost the productivity of your business.
Alibaba’s UCWeb to launch an e-commerce service in India
UCWeb, a subsidiary of Chinese giant Alibaba Group, plans to launch an e-commerce service in India in the coming months. In a statement to TechCrunch, a UCWeb spokesperson said the firm plans to build an e-commerce service around content platforms in India. It has no intention to compete with existing e-commerce businesses in the country, […]
The Dark Side of Family Business
The family business let it up to the locals to choose.
Do You Need to Organize Your Business Bank Accounts? Here’s How
Organizing your business bank accounts will save you a lot of headaches.
Super early-bird pricing for Disrupt Berlin 2019 ends tonight
The last few hours of serious euro-savings are upon us, startuppers. In the States, we’d say it’s time to fish or cut bait. What we’re trying to tell you is that super early-bird pricing for Disrupt Berlin 2019 ends tonight at 11:59 p.m. (CEST). Buy your passes now and save up to €600 or pay […]
Xiaomi has shipped 100 million smartphones in India
Xiaomi said on Friday it has shipped more than 100 million smartphones in India, its most important market, since beginning operations in the nation five years ago. The company cited figures from research firm IDC in its claim. The Chinese giant, which has held the top smartphone vendor position in India for eight straight quarters, […]
Alibaba acquires NetEase Kaola in deal worth $2 billion
Alibaba Group has acquired NetEase Kaola for $2 billion, the two companies said today, and will integrate it into Tmall, creating the largest cross-border e-commerce platform in China. The announcement follows weeks of media reports about a potential deal, which was said to have stalled in the middle of August after the companies reportedly disagreed […]
Looks like Medium is testing a way to save articles across the web
Medium seems to be building a tool to save and reformat online articles for future reading. That’s according to Jane Manchun Wong, a reliable source of scoops on unreleased features. Wong said she spotted this one by reverse engineering Medium’s Android app and monitoring network traffic. The “Save to Medium” feature appears to scrape web […]
Monster.com says a third party exposed user data but didn’t tell anyone
An exposed web server storing résumés of job seekers — including from recruitment site Monster — has been found online. The server contained résumés and CVs for job applicants spanning 2014 and 2017, many of which included private information like phone numbers and home addresses, but also email addresses and a person’s prior work experience. […]
SoftBank-backed Getaround is raising $200M at a $1.5B+ valuation
And the next car-sharing unicorn is…
Flat, a Mexican property tech startup, raises $4.6M pre-seed led by ALLVP
Flat has raised one of Mexico’s largest pre-seed rounds to take the Opendoor real estate marketplace model across the Rio Grande. The company snagged a $4.5 million pre-seed round to expand its business helping homeowners quickly sell their properties in Mexico. The round was led by ALLVP, an active early-stage fund in Mexico. California-based Liquid 2 […]
Novameat has a platform for 3D-printing steaks and has new money to take it to market
Novameat, a Spanish startup looking to accelerate the development of alternative proteins across the meat aisle, has gotten a boost in the form of new investment capital from the leading foodtech investment firm, New Crop Capital. Founded by biomedical engineering expert Giuseppe Scionti, Novameat builds on Scionti’s decade of research as an assistant professor in […]
Woody Allen Casts Himself as a Champion of #MeToo Days After Scarlett Johansson’s Defense of the Filmmaker
The controversial director said he has “done everything the MeToo movement would love to achieve.”
Facebook Faces Another Antitrust Probe—This Time By State Attorneys General
New York Attorney General Letitia James is leading a probe to determine whether Facebook is engaging in anti-competitive behavior.
What do Muslim Voters Want?: raceAhead
Once an overlooked segment, ignoring them has proven to be a mistake.
Nordstrom Tests Accepting Online Returns Bought From Rivals
Another way the Seattle retailer is wooing New Yorkers.
Shaq Shares Secrets of Success at Refresh19
Shaquille O’Neal gives keynote address at Refresh 19.
Should I Allow Employees to Dress Up for Halloween?
How can you make Halloween special? Maybe let your employees dress up for the holiday.
Facebook’s lead EU regulator is asking questions about its latest security fail
Facebook’s lead data protection regulator in Europe has confirmed it’s put questions to the company about a major security breach that we reported on yesterday. “The DPC became aware of this issue through the recent media coverage and we immediately made contact with Facebook and we have asked them a series of questions. We are […]
Facebook is making its own deepfakes and offering prizes for detecting them
Image and video manipulation powered by deep learning, or so-called “deepfakes,” represent a strange and horrifying facet of a promising new field. If we’re going to crack down on these creepy creations, we’ll need to fight fire with fire; Facebook, Microsoft, and many others are banding together to help make machine learning capable of detecting […]
Stripe launches Stripe Capital to make instant loan offers to customers on its platform
A year ago we broke the news that payment giant Stripe was quietly making its first move into business finance by testing a service for advancing cash to existing customers. Now, nearly 12 months on to the day, the company is finally unveiling an official product: today, starting first in the US, it is launching […]
Teaching ethics in computer science the right way with Georgia Tech’s Charles Isbell
The new fall semester is upon us, and at elite private colleges and universities, it’s hard to find a trendier major than Computer Science. It’s also becoming more common for such institutions to prioritize integrating ethics into their CS studies, so students don’t just learn about how to build software, but whether or not they […]
Atlassian launches free tiers for all its cloud products, extends premium pricing plan
At our TC Sessions: Enterprise event, Atlassian co-CEO Scott Farquhar today announced a number of updates to how the company will sell its cloud-based services. These include the launch of new premium plans for more of its products, as well as the addition of a free tier for all of the company’s services that didn’t […]
After announcing Galaxy Fold release date, Samsung cancels older preorders
The good news: Samsung says it has addressed the early problems with the Galaxy Fold and finally has a release date (in Korea at least). The bad news: The company is canceling the first round of U.S. pre-orders. The gooder news: If you were among those early adopters, the company is giving you a $250 […]
Watch TC Sessions: Enterprise live stream right here
TechCrunch is live from San Francisco’s YBCA’s Blue Shield of California Theater, where we’re hosting our first event dedicated to the enterprise. Throughout the day, attendees and viewers can expect to hear from industry experts and partake in discussions about the potential of new technologies like quantum computing and AI, how to deal with the […]
Daily Crunch: Facebook Dating comes to the US
The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here. 1. Facebook Dating launches in the US, adds Instagram integration The integration means users will be able to add their Instagram accounts […]
There’s an ocean of opportunity for startups targeting the seafood industry
Seafood has blown past its iceberg lettuce stage and entered trendy greens territory, with eaters loading up on oceanic superfoods and falling in love with previously unknown species as fast as daters swipe right.
The Conundrum at the Heart of China’s Belt and Road Initiative
The giant project to build infrastructure in developing countries pits economic growth against environmental concerns.
How the U.S. Trade War Could Threaten China’s Efforts to Go Green
The lack of cooperation between the two nations could deal a setback to the global sustainability drive.
How Consumers Are Pushing the Global Fashion Industry Toward Greater Sustainability
Global fashion brands, responding to government pressure and consumer demand, are taking new strides towards sustainability and circular production.
Government Subsidies Fueled China’s Electric Vehicle Boom. Now They’re Facing Intense Scrutiny
The future of China’s electric vehicle subsidies was tackled at a roundtable during Fortune’s Global Sustainability Forum.
Solar Energy Execs Say They’re Dodging the Effects of Trump’s Trade War Tariffs
They argue that industry advances are offsetting the higher cost of imported panels.
Corporations Want Sustainable Suppliers. They Must Rethink Their Punitive Approach
Experts at Fortune’s Global Sustainability Forum argue that working with—rather than punishing—suppliers is the best approach.
WeWork Is Only Making its Image Problems Worse by Trying to Control the Narrative, Say Critics
“I think it’s going to make people dig and dig and dig more, which isn’t good when you have an IPO coming,” says one analyst.
Boeing Wants to Bring Back Its 737 Max This Year—But a Spat Between Regulators Could Thwart It
Aviation executives are increasingly worried that a widening split between the U.S. and Europe will extend the grounding of Boeing’s 737 Max.
Can Sotheby’s Find Sales Success by Going Private?
Telecom mogul Patrick Drahi will take the storied auction house private for $3.7 billion. But that was the easy part.
Why Two Environmentally-Minded Designers Are Optimistic About the Future
“We don’t want to be depressed, because there is a lot of work to do,” says architect and designer Bill McDonough.
The Plunging Valuation of WeWork’s IPO Is Causing Major Stress for Its Biggest Investor
Some employees at SoftBank’s $100 billion Vision Fund could be facing clawbacks.
Designing a Sustainable Future: CEO Daily
Must-read business news, delivered every morning.
Altice CEO Is Shaking Up Cell Phone Market: $20 A Month Plan
The cut-rate deal comes as ATT, Verizon, Comcast and Spectrum are scrambling to keep customers.
How the Energy Industry Is Using Data to Decarbonize Itself
Emmanuel Lagarrigue of Schneider Electric and Zhang Yue of Broad Group talk about the ways their companies are pursuing sustainable, efficient energy production.
Why Solar Execs Say the Game Is Already Over for Non-Renewable Energy
It’s all about new generation.
Deutsche Bank CEO Tries to Quell Investor Concerns by Spending 15% of His Paycheck on Company Stock
Christian Sewing is investing a chunk of his monthly salary into buying the troubled German lender’s shares.
4 Business Leaders on Addressing the Climate Crisis: The Broadsheet
The Broadsheet for Sept. 6
Yes, The Market Will Eventually Crash. Here’s How to Be Ready For the Next One
Everyone assumes they will be able to hop off the train before it goes off the tracks. Invest under the assumption you are not one of these people.
SoftBank’s Big Bet on WeWork Could Turn Sour: Term Sheet
WeWork’s decisions ahead of its initial public offering have far-reaching effects.
Is WeWork Really a Tech Company? The Answer Matters—Data Sheet
This is your Data Sheet for Friday, September 6, 2019
Netflix officially launches a ‘Latest’ section with built-in reminders
Last month, Netflix was spotted testing a new section in its TV app called “Latest,” which would connect viewers with a personalized list of upcoming content due to be released over the course of the current week and the next. Today, Netflix is formally announcing the launch of the feature, with a focus on its […]
BigID announces $50M Series C investment as privacy takes center stage
It turns out GDPR was just the tip of the privacy iceberg. With California’s privacy law coming on line January 1st and dozens more in various stages of development, it’s clear that governments are taking privacy seriously, which means companies have to as well. New York-startup BigID, which has been developing a privacy platform for […]
How to Create a Retail Disaster Recovery Plan for Your Store
Get ready with a disaster plan for your retail store.
RippleMatch nabs $6M for a diversity-focused graduate recruitment platform powered by AI
LinkedIn, with 645 million users in 200 countries, is the undisputed leader when it comes to being the world’s biggest network of professionals, a position that it uses to leverage products in areas like recruitment and e-learning. But in achieving that size, it hasn’t really developed products for a more targeted approach for specific verticals […]
Spirable refuels with $7.4M to serve more personalized video ads in the US
London based adtech startup Spirable has closed a £6M Series A. The round was led by Smedvig Capital, with existing backers Frontline Ventures, Downing Ventures and 24 Haymarket also participating. The startup is one of several playing in the customized video ads space — offering a platform that simplifies and scales video ad creation by […]
YouTube launches a dedicated Fashion vertical
YouTube today is launching a new vertical called YouTube Fashion that aims to capitalize on the popular style and beauty content that attracts millions of viewers to its platform. According to Statista, beauty videos last year alone generated more than 169 billion views on YouTube, and more recently, some of fashion’s biggest names have set […]
What to expect from Apple’s September 10 iPhone event
Here’s what we know for sure: Apple’s holding a big event on its campus at 10AM PT on September 10. Here’s what we almost certainly know for sure: The iPhone 11 will launch with a new camera configuration. There will be probably be three different models. From there, things get a bit more complicated. There’s […]
Newly renamed Superside raises $3.5M for its outsourced design platform
Superside, a startup aiming to create a premium alternative to the existing crowdsourced design platforms, is announcing that it has raised $3.5 million in new funding. It’s also adding new features like the ability to work on user interfaces, interaction design and motion graphics. Co-founder and CEO Fredrik Thomassen said this allows the company to […]
Here are this year’s Breakthrough Prize Winners
On Sunday, November 3, at the 8th annual Breakthrough Prize Awards, hundreds of scientists will win their share of $21.6 million in awards for their outstanding work in the fields of Fundamental Physics, Life Sciences, and Mathematics. Breakthrough Prize was founded by DST Global partner and billionaire Yuri Milner, who has a particular passion for […]
How to Deduct Your Office Costs
Do you know all of the available deductibles in your office?
How early-stage startups can use data effectively
It’s a common belief that startups can measure their way to success. Yet early-stage startups often can’t leverage data easily. This piece discusses what to (not) focus on and how to get real results.
Battlefield winner Forethought adds tool to automate support ticket routing
Last year at this time, Forethought won the TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield competition. A $9 million Series A investment followed last December. Today at TechCrunch Sessions: Enterprise in San Francisco, the company introduced the latest addition to its platform, called Agatha Predictions. Forethought CEO and co-founder Deon Nicholas said that after launching its original product, Agatha […]
How to Get Started as a Seller on Amazon Marketplace
Amazon Marketplace is another good source of revenue for your small business.
Adam Draper gives his oddball accelerator a makeover
Adam Draper, the son of that Draper, is changing things up a bit at his accelerator. Boost VC has been living life on the fringe of Bay Area accelerators, chasing trends like VR and crypto (and sometimes a combo of the two) hard while courting outliers, including a “robot fish platform” and a “cold metal […]
Shared inbox startup Front adds WhatsApp support
Front, the company that lets you manage your inboxes as a team, is adding one more channel: WhatsApp. Starting today, you can read and reply to people contacting you through WhatsApp. This feature is specifically targeted at users of WhatsApp Business. You can get a business phone number through Twilio and then hand out that […]
Facebook Dating launches in the US, adds Instagram integration
Are Americans ready to trust Facebook with their dating life? Barely more than a month has passed since the U.S. Federal Trade Commission fined Facebook a record $5 billion over its privacy lapses, and imposed a modified corporate structure to hold the company more accountable for its decisions over user privacy. In the wake of […]
How to Improve Security in the Workplace
How secure is your business?
Upflow grabs $2.7 million to streamline payment processes
French startup Upflow has raised a $2.7 million funding round (€2.5 million) from Kima Ventures, eFounders and various business angels. The company tracks your outstanding invoices and makes sure you get paid on time. If you’re running a small company, chances are you’re using Excel spreadsheets to enter invoice information, check your company’s bank account […]
Parallel Markets is trying to make it easy to buy and sell private stock
Parallel Markets is a new startup aiming to make it as easy to buy and sell private company shares as it is to buy public company stock. COO Nicholas Goss said this is becoming an issue for startups as they stay private longer, which means early employees can find their equity locked up for longer […]
Tyson Ventures has invested in New Wave Foods, a startup making a plant-based shrimp substitute
Tyson Foods is getting into the seafood business. Through the company’s venture capital arm, Tyson is investing in New Wave Foods, a San Francisco-based startup that’s making a plant-based shrimp substitute. The company, founded by marine biologist Dominique Barnes and chief technology officer Michelle Wolf, who studied biomedical engineering at Carnegie Mellon, is helmed by […]
Only 48 hours left on early-bird pricing to Disrupt SF 2019
Holy price hike, startuppers — you have just 48 hours left to save up to $1,300 on passes to Disrupt San Francisco 2019 on October 2-4. Don’t let time stand in your way of saving serious dough. Release your inner savvy shopper and beat the deadline. Early-bird savings disappear at 11:59 p.m. (PST) on September […]
Lime stops working with freelancers in Paris
Scooter startup Lime is ending the juicer model in Paris. The company has announced that it will stop working with freelancers to recharge scooter batteries at night. Lime is switching to Amazon’s model by partnering with third-party companies. Lime has often been criticized for relying on freelancers to take care of its scooters. As Libération […]
Cooks Venture picks up $12 million to rethink agriculture from the ground up
“You are what what you’re eating eats,” says Matthew Wadiak, cofounder and CEO of Cooks Venture and former Blue Apron COO. The company, which just received $12 million in funding, is looking to rethink the way we grow crops, feed our livestock, and ultimately take better care of our planet. The strategy is three-fold. First, […]
Terramera raises $45 million for its technology to reduce the use of chemicals in agriculture
Terramera, a Canadian company selling bio-pesticides and seed treatments to reduce the use of chemicals in agriculture, has raised $45 million in its latest round of financing. The round was led by strategic investor Ospraie Ag Science and the company’s previous backer, Seed2Growth Ventures. Led by Carl Casale, a former Monsanto executive, Ospraie Ag Science […]
OpenGov acquires ViewPoint Cloud, to add licensing and permitting functionality to its platform
In the same week that it announced a $51 million round of funding, OpenGov — the startup that provides SaaS software designed to help governments and other civic organizations run their operations — is announcing an acquisition to expand the kinds of tools it provides to customers. The company has acquired ViewPoint, a platform used […]
8-month-old startup FPL Technologies raises $4.5M to improve credit card experience in India
An eight-month-old startup in India that wants to improve the user experience of credit card holders in the nation has received the backing of at least two major investors. Pune-based FPL Technologies said Thursday it has raised $4.5 million from Matrix Partners India, Sequoia Capital India and others in its maiden financing round. In an […]
Only 48 hours left on super early-bird savings for Disrupt Berlin 2019
It’s time to trot out our fractured German. Why? Because you have only 48 hours left to take advantage of super early-bird pricing on passes to Disrupt Berlin 2019. And that begs the question: Warum mehr bezahlen als nötig? Why pay more than necessary? Passes at the super early-bird price start at €345 + VAT […]
Is your startup TC Top Picks material? Apply to exhibit for free at Disrupt Berlin 2019
If you’re the founder of an early-stage startup here’s a big, fat reminder about one of the great experiences you can have at Disrupt Berlin 2019 on 11-12 December. Apply to our TC Top Picks program for a chance to step into the startup spotlight. If you’re selected, you’ll receive a free Startup Alley Exhibitor Package […]
India’s Milkbasket in talks to raise over $50M
Milkbasket, a Gurugram-based micro-delivery startup, is in talks to close a new financing round as it looks to expand its footprint in the milk, grocery, fruit and vegetable delivery market that has attracted the attention of many in recent months, including Amazon India. The four-year-old startup is in advanced stages of talks with private equity […]
SF-based African fintech startup Chipper Cash expands to Nigeria
The African no-fee, cross-border payment startup Chipper Cash has expanded to Nigeria. The San Francisco-based startup, with offices in Ghana and Kenya, will offer its P2P payment service and app in Africa’s most populous nation in partnership with Paystack — the payment gateway company. Paystack CEO Shola Akinlade confirmed the collaboration. Chipper Cash will establish a […]
Palo Alto Networks intends to acquire Zingbox for $75M
Palo Alto Networks surely loves to buy security startups. Today it added to its growing collection when it announced its intent to acquire IoT security startup Zingbox for $75 million. The company had raised $23.5 million, according to Crunchbase data. The three co-founders, Xu Zou, May Wang and Jianlin Zeng, will be joining Palo Alto […]
Reefknot Investments launches $50 million fund to invest in logistics and supply chain startups
Reefknot Investments, a joint venture between Temasek, Singapore’s sovereign fund, and global logistics company Kuehne + Nagel, announced today the launch of a $50 million fund for logistics and supply chain startups. The firm is based in Singapore, but will look for companies around the world that are raising their Series A or B rounds. […]
Bellwether Coffee, ‘the fastest-growing company in coffee,’ raises $40M Series B
Bellwether Coffee plans to take its tech-enabled commercial roaster overseas with the fresh funds.
Corporate Transparency Act Creates Regulatory Burden for Small Business
Another regulation small businesses have to comply with.
10 Lead Magnet Ideas for Small Businesses
Revamp your lead magnet with these ideas.
Ashton Kutcher, Ann Miura-Ko and Mamoon Hamid are coming to Disrupt!
The Disrupt Battlefield is one of the best parts of the conference. Twenty+ startups step on to the Disrupt Main Stage with a product, a pitch and a dream. They have six minutes to convey how they’re going to fundamentally disrupt their industry, and six minutes of Q&A with world-renowned judges from the VC world. […]
Why Walmart’s Flipkart is betting heavily on Hindi
Flipkart, the largest e-commerce platform in India, said Tuesday it has concluded the roll-out of a range of features to its shopping app in what is its biggest update in recent years. Chief among these new features is access to Flipkart in Hindi language. Prior to the revamp of the app, Flipkart was available only […]
‘Mental fitness’ startup Elevate Labs launches a personalized meditation app called Balance
While investors are already writing big checks for meditation startups, Elevate Labs founder and CEO Jesse Pickard said that none of the existing meditation apps can replace the experience of working with a human coach. “This experience where you have somebody that meets with you is wildly better than any digital product that’s out there,” […]
Endurance events startup Let’s Do This raises seed cash from Serena Williams, Usain Bolt
Let’s Do This is a Y Combinator alumni startup from 2018 which is a marketplace for endurance events, from a 5K fun run to an Ironman triathlon. It has now raised a $5 million seed round, with Serena Williams and Usain Bolt participating. The round was led by Pete Flint (partner at NFX, formerly of […]
We Company adds a director, ditches its $5.9 million naming deal with its CEO, remains a governance nightmare
The company formerly known as WeWork, in an amendment to the S-1 that launched dozens of critical headlines, says it has added a new director to its board and unwound the $5.9 million payout to chief executive Adam Neumann over the name “We.” The new board member is Frances Frei, a professor of technology and […]
Depop CEO Maria Raga tells us everything about social e-commerce at Disrupt Berlin
Depop started as a simple app to post photos of clothes and offer them for sale. But it has become a cultural phenomenon with millions of users, a vibrant community and even some superusers making a living from the platform. That’s why I’m excited to announce that Depop CEO Maria Raga is joining us at […]
Pandora now lets you share music and podcasts to your Instagram Stories
Pandora today announced a new integration with Instagram that will allow users to share to their Instagram Story their favorite music and podcasts. The feature comes well over a year after Spotify launched a similar integration with Instagram Stories, and only days after Spotify introduced sharing to Facebook Stories, as well. In Pandora’s case, accessing […]
Starboard Value takes 7.5% stake in Box
Starboard Value, LP revealed in an SEC Form 13D filing last week that it owns a 7.5% stake in Box, the cloud content management company. It is probably not a coincidence that Starboard Value invests in companies whose stock has taken a bad turn. Box’s share price has been on a roller coaster ride in […]
A New Adventure For Financial Samurai: Less Retirement, More Entrepreneurship
After reaching my goal of publishing 3X a week for 10 years, I’ve decided to focus a little bit more on entrepreneurship. The formula of 90% fun / 10% business that got me this far isn’t going to take me where I want to go.
Once I became a father in 2017, the pressure was on to earn more to take care of my family since my wife doesn’t have a full-time job.
To read the post, click here. This podcast is more like a post-mortem of the post.
How Zhihu has become one of China’s biggest hubs for experts
Zhihu may not be as well known outside of China as WeChat or ByteDance’s Douyin, but over the past eight years, it has cultivated a reputation for being one of the country’s most trustworthy social media platforms. Originally launched as a question-and-answer site similar to Quora, Zhihu has grown to be a central hub for […]
Daily Crunch: Facebook might remove Like counts
The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here. 1. Now Facebook says it may remove Like counts Instagram is already testing something similar in seven countries, including Canada and Brazil. […]
The NFL joins TikTok in multi-year partnership
The NFL and social video app TikTok today announced a multi-year partnership to bring NFL content to worldwide fans, just ahead of the NFL’s 100th season kickoff on September 5. The partnership includes the launch of an official NFL account on the video platform, as well as a series of NFL-themed hashtag challenges and other […]
Kabbage acquires Radius Intelligence, the marketing tech firm with a database of 20M small businesses
Data is the new oil, as the saying goes, and today Kabbage — a fintech startup backed by SoftBank that has built a business around lending up to $250,000 to small and medium enterprises, using AI-based algorithms to help determine the terms of the loan — is picking up an asset to expand its own […]
OpenGov raises $51M to boost its cloud-based IT services for government and civic organizations
OpenGov, the firm co-founded by Palantir’s Joe Lonsdale that helps government and other civic organizations organise, analyse and present financial and other data using cloud-based architecture, has raised another big round of funding to continue expanding its business. The startup has picked up an additional $51 million in a Series D round led by Weatherford […]
Ubersuggest 6.0: Track and Improve Your Rankings Without Learning SEO
I’ve been an SEO for roughly 17 years now. And one thing that has remained constant, no matter how much you know about SEO, there is just too much to do. So much so, that most SEOs don’t even optimize their own websites anymore. And if they do, you’ll find that their site doesn’t rank […]
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Now Facebook says it may remove Like counts
Facebook could soon start hiding the Like counter on News Feed posts to protect users’ from envy and dissuade them from self-censorship. Instagram is already testing this in 7 countries including Canada and Brazil, showing a post’s audience just a few names of mutual friends who’ve Liked it instead of the total number. The idea […]
How A2X helps Amazon and Shopify sellers with e-commerce
Xero’s app marketplace has over 800 apps which help small businesses and their advisors reach their goals. Each month we celebrate an app partner who stands out for helping small businesses thrive.
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Newmont Goldcorp: Assessing The Outlook For This Gold Stock
Gold has proven an extremely popular investment over time. Investors are drawn to its “safe haven” status, meaning it tends to outperform equities in harsher economic times, and during other times of market volatility. This can be accomplished via investing directly in gold, either physically or through an exchange-traded fund like the GLD. It can […]
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You can now share music from Spotify to Facebook Stories
Spotify this morning announced a new way for you to share music with friends (or fans, if you’re an artist) — by way of a new Facebook Stories integration that includes 15-second song previews. Viewers can also optionally tap on the “Play on Spotify” button in the Story to be redirected to the Spotify app […]
The State Of The Housing Market And Higher Lending Standards
As mortgage interest rates tumble, the housing market is becoming more interesting. Inventory is already up in many of the nation’s once hottest housing markets, but the average credit score for qualified mortgage borrowers is also at an all-time high.
Due to these factors, I don’t see a recession as bad as the one we experienced between 2008-2010. Read the post and check out the graphs here.
Marc Benioff will discuss building a socially responsible and successful startup at TechCrunch Disrupt
Salesforce chairman, co-founder and CEO Marc Benioff took a lot of big chances when he launched the company 20 years ago. For starters, his was one of the earliest enterprise SaaS companies, but he wasn’t just developing a company on top of a new platform, he was building one from scratch with social responsibility built-in. […]
Wheaton Precious Metals: An Overvalued Silver Stock
When investors are looking for stable, low volatility income stocks, they rarely look in the direction of precious metals producers. In particular, silver stocks tend to be quite volatile given the massive price swings the metal can exhibit in the market. However, that doesn’t mean these stocks should be ignored outright. The share prices of […]
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Facebook rolls out new business tools for Messenger, kills the ‘Discover’ tab
Facebook today is formally rolling out a new suite of tools for its 40 million active businesses on Messenger, including appointment booking, lead generation and others announced earlier this year at its F8 developer conference. As a part of these changes, Facebook will also begin to phase out the Discover tab in Messenger — a […]
Mews grabs $33M Series B to modernize hotel administration
If you think about the traditional hotel business, there hasn’t been a ton of innovation. You mostly still stand in a line to check in, and sometimes even to check out. You let the staff know about your desire for privacy with a sign on the door. Mews believes it’s time to rethink how hotels […]
Crafting a Single Touch Payroll ready business
A self-avowed perfectionist, Anton Gerner was never interested in working for anybody else. Not a chance. Which is why when it comes to running his award-winning bespoke furniture business, he likes to take a hands on approach.
The post Crafting a Single Touch Payroll ready business appeared first on Xero Blog.
‘Behind the Screen’ illuminates the invisible, indispensable content moderation industry
The moderators who sift through the toxic detritus of social media have gained the spotlight recently, but they’ve been important for far longer — longer than internet giants would like you to know. In her new book “Behind the Screen,” UCLA’s Sarah Roberts illuminates the history of this scrupulously hidden workforce and the many forms the job takes.
The Top 3 Books on House Flipping
Successful house flipping is an art and a science. Some house flippers perfect it and go on to flip dozens of houses a year. Others have more modest goals, but make a profit on each house they sell. A major benefit of running your own house flipping business is that you get to change distressed […]
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ReadMe scores $9M Series A to help firms customize API docs
Software APIs help different tools communicate with one another, let developers access essential services without having to code it themselves and are critical components for driving a platform-driven strategy. Yet they require solid documentation to help make the best use of them. ReadMe, a startup that helps companies customize their API documentation, announced a $9 […]
Facebook will require political advertisers to provide further credentials, or have their ads paused
Ahead of the 2020 elections, Facebook today announced it’s tightening requirements for groups buying political ads on the social network. The company last year began requiring advertisers get authorized to run ads about social issues, elections or politics, which involves advertisers providing identification to confirm who they are and where they’re located — including a U.S. […]
ThoughtSpot hauls in $248M Series E on $1.95B valuation
ThoughtSpot was started by a bunch of ex-Googlers looking to bring the power of search to data. Seven years later the company is growing fast, sporting a fat valuation of almost $2 billion and looking ahead to a possible IPO. Today it announced a hefty $248 million Series E round as it continues on its […]
YouTube to reduce conspiracy theory recommendations in the UK
YouTube is expanding an experimental tweak to its recommendation engine that’s intended to reduce the amplification of conspiracy theories to the UK market. In January, the video-sharing platform said it was making changes in the US to limit the spread of conspiracy theory content, such as junk science and bogus claims about historical events — […]
How to Buy and Hold Real Estate
Profiting from real estate as part of a short-term or a long-term investment strategy (for example, to complement your retirement plan) is a common goal for many investors. The flexibility of real estate investing makes it ideal as a full-time career path, a part-time business, or just as a hobby. Either way, there are some […]
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How to move from VP of Sales to CRO with leading exec recruiter David Ives
It wasn’t so long ago that sales meant just showing up with a deck and a smile. These days, it seems that sales leaders almost need a PhD in statistics just to get through the typical day managing a sales funnel. From SQLs and MQLs to NDRR and managing overall retention, the roles of VP […]
SAP & Pricefx cover hot topics at TechCrunch’s Sept. 5 Enterprise show in SF
You can’t talk enterprise software without talking SAP, one of the giants in a $500 billion industry. And not only will SAP’s CEO Bill McDermott share insights at TC Sessions: Enterprise 2019 on September 5, but the company will also sponsor two breakout sessions. The editors will sit down with McDermott and talk about SAP’s […]
Kadena brings free private blockchain service to Azure Marketplace
The hype around blockchain seems to have cooled a bit, but companies like Kadena have been working on enterprise-grade solutions for some time, and continue to push the technology forward. Today, the startup announced that Kadena Scalable Permissioned Blockchain on Azure is available for free in the Azure Marketplace. Kadena co-founder and CEO Will Martino […]
Axonius, a cybersecurity asset management startup, raises $20M in Series B
Cybersecurity asset management startup Axonius has raised $20 million in its second round of funding this year. Venture capital firm OpenView led the Series B, joining existing investors in bringing $37 million to date following the startup’s $13 million Series A in February. The security startup, founded in 2017, helps companies keep track of their […]
Sweden’s Hedvig raises $10.4M led by Obvious Ventures to build ‘nice insurance’
Hedvig, a Swedish startup, is following in the footsteps of Lemonade, building a new generation of insurance platforms that use AI to help evaluate customers and operate on a policy of using surplus for social good. Today the company announced the next stage of its growth. The startup has closed a SEK100 million ($10.4 million) […]
Ubersuggest 5.0: Generate 1 Million Keyword Suggestions in 7 Seconds (Seriously)
Ubersuggest started out as a tool that provided suggestions through Google Suggest. And although that’s great, everyone these days is using Google Suggest to come up with keyword ideas. There have to be more keyword ideas out there that get more search volume and aren’t competitive, right? Well, there are, and now with the new […]
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Oracle files new appeal over Pentagon’s $10B JEDI cloud contract RFP process
You really have to give Oracle a lot of points for persistence, especially where the $10 billion JEDI cloud contract procurement process is concerned. For more than a year, the company has been complaining across every legal and government channel it can think of. In spite of every attempt to find some issue with the […]
How to use Amazon and advertising to build a D2C startup
Entrepreneurship in consumer packaged goods is being democratized. This article focuses on customer acquisition, particularly Amazon and online advertising, for the direct-to-consumer CPG venture…
Betterment Review – Insider Investing Scoop
In a world where low interest is commonplace, most people know that simply leaving money in the bank may not be the best idea. However, many people choose this as an easy option because they believe that investing in the stock market is too complex for them. As Sendhil Mullainathan wrote for the New York […]
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Facebook succeeds in blocking German FCO’s privacy-minded order against combining user data
Facebook has succeeded in blocking a pioneering order by Germany’s Federal Cartel Office earlier this year that would have banned it from combining data on users across its own suite of social platforms — Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp — without their consent. Pioneering because the antitrust regulator had liaised with EU privacy authorities during a […]
Achieve Your Dreams By Doing One Hard Thing For 10 Years In A Row
Don’t quit before giving your effort a chance to produce amazing results. If you can do one hard thing for 10 years in a row, I’m sure good things are going to happen. Here are some personal thoughts on how you can get to the 10 year mark and achieve your dreams as well. Let’s do this!
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The Best Life Hack For Americans, Taking Advantage Of Canada
Getting ahead is very competitive in America. Thanks to living in a capitalist society, we’re driven by money, fame, and success. As a result, not everybody can win.
Based on my experiences as a high school tennis coach for the past three years, I realized one of the best life hacks for Americans is to take advantage of Canada. If you have children and want to retire early, this episode is for you.
Take your business from local to global with the Bricks & Clicks Roadshow: Next stop Wagga Wagga
The team behind Bricks & Clicks are on a mission. Here to help Australian businesses embrace the power of e-commerce, they’ve got their sights set on large scale change. And they won’t stop until local retailers across the country are given the tools they need to become global brands.
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Take your business from local to global with the Bricks & Clicks Roadshow: Next stop Wagga Wagga
The team behind Bricks & Clicks are on a mission. Here to help Australian businesses embrace the power of e-commerce, they’ve got their sights set on large scale change. And they won’t stop until local retailers across the country are given the tools they need to become global brands.
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Take your business from local to global with the Bricks & Clicks Roadshow: Next stop Wagga Wagga
The team behind Bricks & Clicks are on a mission. Here to help Australian businesses embrace the power of e-commerce, they’ve got their sights set on large scale change. And they won’t stop until local retailers across the country are given the tools they need to become global brands.
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SEO Doesn’t Have to be a Long-Term Game: There Are Quicker Ways to Get Results
Everyone thinks SEO is a long-term game… that you have to wait months if not years to see results. And, maybe that was the case a few years ago when content was still king. With Google making 3200 algorithm changes in just one year, their goal isn’t to make a website wait a year or two […]
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The Median Net Worth For The Middle Class, Mass Affluent, And The Top 1%
America is one of the wealthiest countries in the world. The top 1% have gotten really rich, but the middle class have fallen seriously behind. Let’s look at the data from the latest Survey of Consumer Finances by the Federal Reserve and see where we’re at.
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How To Get The Lowest Interest Rate Possible
Here’s my method to always get the lowest mortgage rate possible, no matter the interest rate environment. I’ve refinanced multiple mortgages multiple times in the past 10 years. During this time, I’ve probably saved over $100,000 in interest expense.
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How to be an authentic and emotionally intelligent leader
Spending his childhood in the wilds of rural Queensland, John Knight wasn’t sure what he wanted to be when he grew up. Just that he’d like to work in “business” and that one day, he hoped to be a leader.
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What To Do Now That The Yield Curve Has Officially Inverted
The yield curve has officially inverted in 3Q2019. The 10-year bond yield is now lower than the 2-year bond yield. Let me explain from different perspectives why an inverted yield curve as an ominous sign and what we should all do to make sure we stay financially safe.
Please read: The Yield Curve: A Prescient Economic Indicator for more charts and analysis.
Xero partners with iwoca in successful bid to improve lending for SMEs in the UK
This morning, we were delighted to hear the news that iwoca, one of our longest standing alternative lending partners, received a grant of £10 million from the Banking Competition Remedies’ (BCR) Capability and Innovation Fund.
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Beyond the buzz: Why innovation is still the most important word we know
When it comes to jargon; the business world just can’t get enough. If we’re not focusing our efforts on ‘synergising’, then we’re hard at work ‘laddering up’ or ‘drilling down’. And then there are the acronyms…
What does it all mean?
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The Importance Of Feeling Consistently Uncomfortable For Personal And Financial Growth
As a parent, you want the best for your kids. However, there’s a risk parents over-protect their kids from harm’s way. It is through difficulty and conflict that we learn the most. In this episode, we discuss the benefits of raising our son in Virginia, where he’d be a minority, versus in Hawaii, where he’d be a majority. I, Sam, grew up in Virginia and the conflict help give me a lot of motivation and grit.
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How to Generate More Traffic with Google’s New Features
You’re probably already familiar with Google My Business. If you aren’t, as a quick recap, Google My Business is a simple way to claim your office address or storefront on Google. That way, when someone searches for your business, you’ll show up on the right side of a Google search like the image above. Or better […]
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The Rapid Decline Of A Harvard Degree
A college degree is depreciating in value, yet tuition is at all-time highs. For those parents and students looking to attend a private university like Harvard, I’m not sure whether the cost, stress, and all the work to get in is worth it. The reputation of private schools and private school grads are getting sullied due to the college bribery scandal.
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Celebrating National Women’s Day in South Africa with inspiring female entrepreneurs
National Women’s Month in South Africa pays tribute to the over 20,000 women who marched to Pretoria’s Union Buildings to ‘protest against the extension of Pass Laws to women’ on 9 August 1956 – now National Women’s Day.
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The Not So Obvious Reasons Why People Want To Retire Early
Retiring early is a dream come true for many. However, there are some not so obvious reasons why people want to leave work early, and they aren’t very flattering at all. Secretly, some early retirees are pretty miserable. Let’s explore why.
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India’s Flipkart bets on free video streaming service and Hindi support to win next 200 million internet users
India’s e-commerce giant Flipkart said on Tuesday that it is revamping its shopping app to add support for Hindi language, a video streaming service, and an audio-visual assistant, the latest in a series of recent efforts to expand its reach in the country. The e-commerce firm, which sold majority stake to Walmart for $16 billion […]
Snap looks to raise $1 billion in private debt offering
Snap, the parent company of Snapchat, is looking to add some cash to its coffers via a new proposed private offering of $1 billion in convertible senior notes, with a due date for maturation of August 1, 2026. The debt offering will be used to cover the cost of general operating expenditures involved in running […]
Watch SpaceX launch a huge satellite using a twice-flown Falcon 9 live
SpaceX is launching a Falcon 9 rocket with a huge communications satellite as payload, with launch window opening at 6:53 PM EDT (3:53 PM PDT) today. The window extends to 8:21 PM EDT, so there’s a possibility of a launch anytime in between there, should weather conditions or anything impact the ability to launch. The […]
Apple subsidiary FileMaker Inc. changes its name (back) to Claris
Remember Claris, the 1987 Apple spin-off that made applications like MacWrite, MacPaint and FileMaker? In 1998, Apple brought all of those products in-house again, with the exception of the low-code application platform FileMaker . With that move, Claris changed its name to FileMaker Inc. Today, however, the Claris name rises from the dead, as FileMaker […]
Squad, the ‘anti-bro startup,’ is creating a safe space for teenage girls online
Why CEO Esther Crawford is rewriting the playbook for social startups
15 Scarcity Marketing Tactics That Will Boost Your Sales
Drive more sales with scarcity marketing.
Cockroach Labs announces $55M Series C to battle industry giants
Cockroach Labs, makers of CockroachDB, sits in a tough position in the database market. On one side, it has traditional database vendors like Oracle, and on the other there’s AWS and its family of databases. It takes some good technology and serious dollars to compete with those companies. Cockroach took care of the latter with […]
Smart Tech Benefits Home Businesses in These 3 Ways
Your business can be more efficient with smart home technology.
Apple rolls out Apple Card Preview to select users
Apple Card is getting its first group of public test users today. A limited amount of customers that signed up to be notified about the release of Apple Card are getting the ability to apply for the card in their Wallet app today — as well as the option to order their physical Apple Card. […]
Facebook still full of groups trading fake reviews, says consumer group
Facebook has failed to clean up the brisk trade in fake product reviews taking place on its platform, an investigation by the consumer association Which? has found. In June both Facebook and eBay were warned by the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) they needed to do more to tackle the sale of fake product […]
Apply to be a TC Top Pick at Disrupt Berlin 2019
It’s official — applications are now open for TC Top Picks at Disrupt Berlin 2019, which takes place on 11-12 December. This pre-conference competition is your chance to experience Disrupt Berlin VIP-style and exhibit your early-stage startup to some of the world’s most influential tech leaders, investors and media outlets across Europe, Asia and beyond […]
Spaceflow, the ‘tenant experience platform’, scores $1.8M investment
Spaceflow, a startup founded out of Prague that offers a “tenant experience platform” to help landlords provide a better service, has raised $1.8 million in funding. Leading the round is Credo Ventures, with participation from Day One Capital, and UP21. The company, which also has an office in New York, says it will use the […]
Penta, the German business banking startup, raises €8M additional funding
Penta, the business banking provider for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) that was recently acquired by fintech company builder Finleap, has raised “over” €8 million in new funding. The round is led by HV Holtzbrinck Ventures. Also participating is Finleap, alongside Fabrick, the Italian platform for open banking and fintech services, which is another […]
The Federal Reserve announces plans for a real-time payments system that will be available to all banks
The Federal Reserve Bank announced today that it is developing a new service called FedNow that will allow all banks in the United States to offer 24/7 real-time payment services every day of the week. FedNow is expected to be available by 2023 or 2024 and will initially support transfers of up to $25,000. FedNow […]
Cybereason raises $200 million for its enterprise security platform
Cybereason, which uses machine learning to increase the number of endpoints a single analyst can manage across a network of distributed resources, has raised $200 million in new financing from SoftBank Group and its affiliates. It’s a sign of the belief that SoftBank has in the technology, since the Japanese investment firm is basically doubling […]
How To Survive The Pressure As The Sole Income Providing Parent
Being the sole income earner can be brutally difficult and stressful. Money strains can jeopardize a marriage and can create a tremendous amount of resentment in the household. Here are some ways to cope to save your relationship and your children.
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The Financial Samurai Podcast: How To Survive The Pressure As The Sole Income Providing Parent
Being the sole income earner can be brutally difficult and stressful. Money strains can jeopardize a marriage and can create a tremendous amount of resentment in the household. Here are some ways to cope to save your relationship and your children.
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Financial services marketplace CompareAsiaGroup raises $20 million in new funding led by Experian
Experian, one of the largest credit reporting bureaus in the United States, announced today that it has invested in CompareAsiaGroup, the financial services marketplace. Experian led the initial closing of a $20 million B1 round. In addition to new funding, the investment also gives Hong Kong-based CompareAsiaGroup access to Experian’s technology, including Experian One, a […]
India’s GoWork raises $53M in debt financing to expand its co-working spaces business
GoWork, a Gurgaon-based startup that runs a co-working spaces business in India, said on Tuesday it has raised $53 million in a debt round to scale its business in the country as competition in the market, including from recent entrant Oyo Rooms, intensifies. The debt round for the two-year-old startup — not to be confused […]
Google’s Advice for Surviving Algorithm Changes
In case you missed it, Google just published advice for SEOs on how to continually do well throughout their algorithm changes. Now, what most people don’t know is Google doesn’t just push out a handful of algorithm changes per year. They publish substantially more. Just to give you an idea of how often Google changes, […]
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Automotive marketplace Carro acquires Indonesia’s Jualo, extends Series B to $90M
Carro, an automotive marketplace and car financing startup based in Singapore, said it has raised $30 million to extend and close its $90 million Series B financing round and acquired Indonesia-based marketplace Jualo as it looks to further scale its business in Southeast Asia. The Series B round, for which Carro raised $60 million last […]
Scale AI and its 22-year-old CEO lock down $100 million to label Silicon Valley’s data
Big artificial intelligence companies are promising an automated future but many of their products rely on the labeled training data coming from Scale AI, a startup that highlights machine learning’s intimate bond between human contractors and algorithms. The three-year-old startup announced Monday that it had closed a $100 million Series C round of financing led […]
U.S. Treasury just designated China as a currency manipulator, so expect more economic shocks
The U.S. Treasury has just taken the extraordinary step of designating China as a currency manipulator, something no administration has done since the days of Bill Clinton. With the action, the trade war between the U.S. and China has entered a new phase that will likely see both countries stepping up both their rhetoric and […]
Audi’s new scooter might actually solve a major problem with scooters
Electric scooters are inundating cities, and for good reason. They’re relatively easy to use, accessible, cheap and even a fun means of traveling short distances. And yet, scooters aren’t infallible. For one, it’s nearly impossible to use hand signals, a problem that jacks up the danger factor of these increasingly popular devices. Audi introduced an […]
The Inside adds sofas to its custom furniture lineup
While The Inside already offers a range of made-to-order furniture like beds, headboards, chairs and ottomans, it’s aiming for the center of your living room today with the launch of its first sofa collection. Founded by CEO Christiane Lemieux (who previously founded Dwell Studio and sold it to Wayfair) and COO Britt Bunn (who previously […]
Google is shutting down its Trips app
Google is shutting down its Trips app for mobile phones, but is incorporating much of the functionality from the service into its Maps app and Search features, according to a statement from the company. Support for the Trips app ends today, but information like notes and saved places will be available in Search as long […]
Tech stocks walloped as China retaliates in the latest salvo of its trade war with the US
All U.S. stock markets were down severely today, and tech stocks were hit especially hard, as China retaliated to increasing U.S. tariffs by halting imports on U.S. agricultural goods and finally acceded to market pressures by letting the yuan slide in value against the dollar. At one point, the Dow was down nearly 900 points […]
The Recession Watch Is Back On: CEO Daily
Must-read business news, delivered every morning.
Cord Cutting Is Canceling Television Subscriptions at a Record Rate in 2019—and Cable Company Stocks Are Loving It
Four million customers a year are cutting the cord, but cable companies are making up the lost revenue in other ways.
The Bond Market Has a Message for the Fed: You’re Not in Charge Anymore
Once the yield curve goes flat, the Fed is following not leading the market, bond-watchers note.
Meet the Humble CEO Who Wants to Build the Biggest Cybersecurity Company Ever—Data Sheet
This is your Data Sheet for Tuesday, August 6, 2019
Apple Is Letting People Apply for Its Credit Card. Can Its Rewards Spur New iPhone Sales?
Cupertino is betting that a cash back perk can take the sting out of ever-climbing smartphone prices.
Apple’s AirPods Business Is Bigger Than You Think
To Apple, it means little. To others, it would change their business.
Toni Morrison, Nobel Laureate and Pulitzer Prize Winner, Dies at 88
Her works included “The Bluest Eye,” “Beloved,” and “Song of Solomon.”
‘Absolute Freaking Joke.’ Beto O’Rourke and Tim Ryan Rail Against Trump After Mass Shootings
Democratic presidential candidates Beto O’ Rourke and Tim Ryan are not holding back with their anger following the two mass shootings that have killed at least 31 people and injured dozens more in a span of 13 hours. And political experts say each candidate will face a tall task not making the killings too much […]
There Are 5 New Billion-Dollar Companies in Today’s Fortune Term Sheet
It’s a busy day in dealmaking.
World Economic Forum Wants to Help Companies Avoid the Pitfalls of Artificial Intelligence: Eye on A.I.
The World Economic Forum plans to release a public version of its artificial intelligence toolkit for corporate boards at the next Davos gathering in 2020.
Trump’s America: Where Politics Dictate the Definition of Racism
Racial and ethnic polarization has been a hallmark of Trump’s political rise and is central to his reelection.
Former Tinder Exec Sues Former CEO For Sexual Assault
Dating app’s problems continue to multiply.
Republican Governor Calls for Gun Sale Background Checks After Ohio Shooting
Gov. Mike DeWine said Ohio needs to do more while balancing people’s rights to own firearms and have due process.
The Root Causes of the U.S.-China Trade War
The current economic battle between President Donald Trump and President Xi Jinping worsens the divide, but the differences stem from the Chinese and Western approaches to the capital markets, writes Richard N. Foster.
How Trump’s Plan to Import Canadian Drugs Would Work
The Trump administration’s latest proposal is to import cheaper drugs from Canada.
Tencent May Buy Stake in Universal Music Group to Tap into Fast-Growing Asian Markets
The deal would value the world’s biggest music company at $34 billion.
Why the U.S. Labeled China a Currency Manipulator
What does the manipulator label mean?
Barneys Files for Bankruptcy Protection, Announces Store Closures
As billionaire investor Richard Perry seeks a buyer for the luxury fashion icon.
Over 1,000 New Craft Breweries Have Opened In the Past Year
Boom days are over, but steady growth remains.
Mexican Dignitaries Visit El Paso Shooting Victims Amid Call for Stronger Protections for Mexicans in America
Eight Mexican nationals were among the 22 killed and six were among the approximately two dozen injured in an attack that happened at a shopping center in the border city.
Segment CEO Peter Reinhardt is coming to TechCrunch Sessions: Enterprise to discuss customer experience management
There are few topics as hot right now in the enterprise as customer experience management, that ability to collect detailed data about your customers, then deliver customized experiences based on what you have learned about them. To help understand the challenges companies face building this kind of experience, we are bringing Segment CEO Peter Reinhardt […]
One Skill That Every Business Owner Needs to Manage Cash Flow
Sponsored Post If you’ve got this one skill, managing cash flow with your business won’t be a painful task.
Libra, Facebook’s global digital currency plan, is fuzzy on privacy, watchdogs warn
Privacy commissioners from the Americas, Europe, Africa and Australasia have put their names to a joint statement raising concerns about a lack of clarity from Facebook over how data protection safeguards will be baked into its planned cryptocurrency project, Libra. Facebook officially unveiled its big bet to build a global digital currency using blockchain technology […]
8chan’s new internet host was kicked off its own host just hours later
The bottom-feeding forum 8chan, which grew popular by embracing fringe hateful internet cultures, is having trouble staying online. After Cloudflare dropped its protection of the site yesterday, 8chan adopted the services of Bitmitigate, but soon lost that too as the company providing Bitmitigate with services dropped them. Deplatforming works, but it can be complicated, so here’s a quick explanation of what these pieces are and why we’re witnessing this hot-potato act in the wake of the latest tragic mass shootings.
“I’m quite shy! If I can have a good time at Xerocon, anyone can”
We’re super excited for this year’s Xerocon London, which runs from 13-14 November 2019 and promises to be the best yet.
Xerocon London is an event where everyone thrives – including those who attend solo.
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82% of Employees Feel Overworked, Are Business Owners Impacted Too?
Competition in the workplace has its pros and cons.
What is Holistic Marketing and Should Your Small Business Use It?
Holistic marketing looks at all aspects of your business operations.
India’s Indifi raises $21M to expand its online lending platform
Indifi, a Gurgaon-based startup that offers loans to small and medium-sized businesses and also operates an online lending marketplace, has raised 1,450 million Indian rupees ($21 million) in a new financing round to expand its business in the country. The Series C round for the four-year-old startup was led by CDC Group, a U.K.-government-owned VC […]
Which Cryptocurrency to Buy: Top Three Bitcoin Alternatives
Table of Contents: Which cryptocurrency to buy – diversification Look at the Problem the Coin Purports to Solve Does the Coin Project Face Competition? Examine the Roadmap Investigate the Team Bitcoin Ethereum Monero Litecoin Binance Coin NEO Cardano The first thing to say about cryptocurrency investment is that it does not provide a guaranteed windfall […]
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UK watchdog eyeing PM Boris Johnson’s Facebook ads data grab
The online campaigning activities of the UK’s new prime minister, Boris Johnson, have already caught the eye of the country’s data protection watchdog. Responding to concerns about the scope of data processing set out in the Conservative Party’s Privacy Policy being flagged to it by a Twitter user, the Information Commissioner’s Office replied that: “This […]
Business Losing Money? Here Are 5 Possible Problems – and Solutions
Find out why your small business might be losing money.
Not your typical startup: How being a cooperative drives our business and product development
Our French startup Digicoop is a remote-first worker cooperative. The goal was simple: make good products that will have a positive impact on companies. The road to funding, not so simple…
What Are Beta Leaders and How Can They Transform Your Business?
Beta leaders are making more headways today.
This startup wants to democratize custom sneaker ownership
There’s nothing like having a pair of fresh, unique sneakers. Limited-release culture facilitates some of that, but The Custom Movement hopes to make originality and self-expression via sneakers more accessible to the masses. The Custom Movement, a custom sneaker startup backed by Y Combinator, enables independent artists to sell their one-of-a-kind sneaker designs to those […]
Four days left for early-bird tickets to TC Sessions: Enterprise 2019
We’re just one month away from TC Sessions: Enterprise, which takes place on September 5 at the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco. But you have only four days left to score an early-bird ticket and save yourself $100. Right now, you pay $249, but once the clock strikes 11:59 p.m. (PT) on August 9, […]
Doubling down on business travelers, Airbnb acquires Urbandoor
Airbnb has today announced the acquisition of Urbandoor, a platform that offers extended stays to corporate clients. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Urbandoor was founded in 2015, according to Crunchbase. One of the big differentiators between Urbandoor and Airbnb was not only its focus on business travelers, relocation, etc., but also that […]
Patrick Brown, the chief executive of Impossible Foods, is coming to Disrupt
Impossible Foods is having quite the year. In the past seven months, the company has signed a nationwide deal with Burger King, weathered a demand surge that saw supplies dwindle and stocks of its signature Impossible burger sell out across the country, and raised fears among players in the $98 billion meat market that they […]
Mesosphere changes name to D2IQ, shifts focus to Kubernetes, cloud native
Mesosphere was born as the commercial face of the open-source Mesos project. It was surely a clever solution to make virtual machines run much more efficiently, but times change and companies change. Today the company announced it was changing its name to Day2IQ, or D2IQ for short, and fixing its sights on Kubernetes and cloud […]
Monzo says it wasn’t storing ‘some’ customer PINs correctly, but has now fixed the bug
Monzo, the fast-growing U.K. challenger bank that recently soft-launched in the U.S., is disclosing a potential, albeit relatively limited, security oversight that saw customer PINs stored incorrectly within the company’s internal systems. Discovered on Friday, the “bug” has now been squashed after being spotted by one of Monzo’s security engineers, co-founder and CEO Tom Blomfield […]