Snapchat hits 218M users but big Q4 losses sink share price – TechCrunch
Snapchat still isn’t profitable nearly two years after its IPO. In Q4 2019, Snap lost $241 million on 560.8 million in revenue that’s up 44% year-over-year and an EPS of...
MIT’s RFocus technology could turn your walls into antennas – TechCrunch
RFocus asks a simple question: What if instead of just antennas and transmitters on access points and mobile devices, we put the things just about everywhere? You know, just totally...
Apple News adds coverage of 2020 US presidential election, including guides to candidates, issues & news literacy – TechCrunch
As it has done in previous election years, Apple today has added special coverage of the 2020 US presidential election to its Apple News app. The coverage includes curated news,...
How Dubsmash revived itself as #2 to TikTok – TechCrunch
Lip-syncing app Dubsmash was on the brink of death. After a brief moment of virality in 2015 alongside Vine (R.I.P), Dubsmash was bleeding users faster than it could recruit them....
Carriers ‘violated federal law’ by selling your location data, FCC tells Congress – TechCrunch
More than a year and a half after wireless carriers were caught red-handed selling the real-time location data of their customers to anyone willing to pay for it, the FCC...
zany 4-min cartoons of your avatar – TechCrunch
If you were the star of every show, would you watch more mobile television? Snapchat is betting that narcissism drives resonance for its new weekly videos that put you and...
Facebook hits 2.5B users in Q4 but shares sink from slow profits – TechCrunch
Facebook beat Wall Street estimates in Q4 but slowing profit growth beat up the share price. Facebook reached 2.5 billion monthly users, up 2%, from 2.45 billion in Q3 2019...
Verkada raises $80M at $1.6B to be every building’s security OS – TechCrunch
50 iPads were stolen from Verkada co-founder Hans Robertson’s old company. Only when they checked the security system did they realize the video cameras hadn’t been working for months. He...
Coinbase poaches Google Shopping VP as CPO for cryptocommerce – TechCrunch
“We’re trying to shift cryptocurrency from this speculative asset class to driving real-world utility,” Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong tells me. How? Through commerce and micropayments. But now Coinbase has the...
Mobile messaging startup Attentive raises another $70M – TechCrunch
Less than six months after it announced $40 million in funding, Attentive has raised another $70 million — this time in Series C funding. The new round was led by Sequoia...