Robinhood suffers prolonged outage on the day the Dow enjoyed its single biggest point gain: Jonathan Shieber
Robinhood, the startup with a stock trading app valued upwards of at least $7.6 billion, suffered one of its worst outages on one of the busiest trading days of the year. As the Dow Jones Industrial Average enjoyed the single biggest point-gain in the history…
Sonantic scores €2.3M funding to bring 'human-quality' artificial voices to games: Steve O'Hear
Sonantic, a U.K. startup that has developed “human-quality” artificial voice technology for the games and entertainment industry, has raised €2.3 million in funding. Leading the round is EQT Ventures, with participation from existing backers, including Entrep…
Google cancels Cloud Next because of coronavirus: Frederic Lardinois
Google today announced that it is canceling the physical part of Cloud Next, its cloud-focused event and its largest annual conference by far with around 30,000 attendees, over concerns around the current spread of COVID-19. Given all of the recent conference…
Connie Chan of Andreessen Horowitz discusses consumer tech's winners and losers: Connie Loizos
Last week, I sat down with Connie Chan, a general partner with Andreessen Horowitz who focuses on investing in consumer tech. She joined the firm in 2011 after working at HP in China. From her temporary offices located in a modest skyscraper with unobscured v…
Aurora VP Jinnah Hosein is coming to TC Sessions: Robotics + AI: Kirsten Korosec
TechCrunch Sessions: Robotics + AI is tomorrow and we have one more exciting speaker announcement to share. Jinnah Hosein, the vice president of software engineering at self-driving vehicle startup Aurora, is coming to TC Sessions: Robotics + AI at UC Berkele…
Apple agrees to settlement of up to $500 million from lawsuit alleging it throttled older phones: Jonathan Shieber
Apple Inc. has agreed to pay a settlement of up to $500 million, following a lawsuit accusing the company of intentionally slowing down the performance of older phones to encourage customers to buy newer models or fresh batteries. The preliminary proposed cla…
Waymo brings in $2.25 billion from outside investors, Alphabet: Kirsten Korosec
Waymo, the former Google self-driving car project that is now a business under Alphabet, said Monday it raised $2.25 billion in a fundraising round led by Silver Lake, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, and Mubadala Investment Company. This is the company’…
After turbulent week, the stock market sees record gains: Alex Wilhelm
So much for that correction! After a desolate week, the United States saw its major indices rally on Monday, pushing the value of domestic, and domestically-listed securities higher. The gains came despite a rising number of infections in the country of the n…
The companies that will shape the upcoming multiverse era of social media: Eric Peckham
Throughout this series on the rise of multiverse virtual worlds, I have outlined the collision of gaming and social media into a new multiverse era of social media within virtual worlds due to technological and cultural changes. The result will be a healthier…
Cyan Banister leaves Founders Fund for Long Journey Ventures: Jonathan Shieber
Cyan Banister is leaving Founders Fund to become a member of a new early-stage investment and operations-focused firm called Long Journey Ventures. The move, first reported by Axios, brings Banister back to their early-stage roots as an investor after years a…
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