American Airlines will use passenger planes for cargo-only flights to Europe: Frederic Lardinois
American Airlines today announced that it will fly a handful of cargo-only flights to Europe, using its standard 777-300 passenger planes, over the course of the next few days. The company says these flights will carry medical supplies, mail for active U.S. m…
Watch Mark Zuckerberg talk live with epidemic expert Dr. Anthony Fauci: Taylor Hatmaker
If there’s one face of scientific authority in the U.S. in the throes of COVID-19 chaos, it’s Dr. Anthony Fauci. One of the world’s top HIV/AIDS researchers, Dr. Fauci has served in his post as Director for the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Dis…
Wag! CEO Garrett Smallwood explains his firm's 'radically different path to profitability': Garrett Smallwood
Instead of accepting more investment, we chose to cut costs. This included a consolidation of some of our offices and a painful 76% reduction of our workforce.
Virtual dates and video speed dating: Dating.com Group launches a $50 million corporate venture fund: Natasha Mascarenhas
The dating startup world is notorious for few exits, and a similarly slim number of buyers. There’s Match Group, which owns Tinder, Hinge and OkCupid, and there’s Spark Networks, which owns Christian Mingle, JSwipe, Jdate and Zoosk. Dating.com Group also owns…
Instagram prototypes Snapchat-style disappearing text messages: Josh Constine
Instagram is finally preparing to copy Snapchat’s most popular feature, and one of the few it hasn’t already cloned. Instagram has prototyped an unreleased ephemeral text messaging feature that clears the chat thread whenever you leave it, a Facebook spokespe…
Here's how TechCrunch is keeping our brains busy while we're stuck at home: Brian Heater, Taylor Hatmaker
This is a difficult time. Whoever and wherever you are, your life is likely already changing in ways you never could have anticipated as the world grapples with the fast-spreading global outbreak of a virus we don’t yet fully understand. It’s weird and hard a…
Gaming company Scopely adds $200 million more to its M&A stockpile: Jonathan Shieber
Scopely, the mobile gaming publisher behind titles including Marvel Strike Force, Scrabble Go, Yahtzee with Buddies, and Star Trek Fleet Command, has added another $200 million to its hoard of cash for mergers and acquisitions. While some startups are fearing…
Despite canceled trade shows, gaming startups can still win an extra life: Dave Struzzi
Large developers can come out unscathed, but smaller apps and developers who can’t wait six months for their launch moment need to do something.
GC’s Niko Bonatsos on Y Combinator, edtech and investing in the shadow of coronavirus: Danny Crichton
This week, Extra Crunch hosted a call with General Catalyst managing director Niko Bonatsos to discuss a number of startup topics, including what the novel coronavirus is doing to investing in the Valley, as well as his thoughts on robotics, homeschooling, ed…
YouTube launches dedicated COVID-19 homepage section: Lucas Matney
In an effort to ensure that the latest updates related to COVID-19 are as visible as possible, YouTube announced today that they’re launching a dedicated hub on the YouTube homepage for stories related to the coronavirus outbreak. For YouTube, the dedicated s…
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