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...
No pan-EU Huawei ban as Commission endorses 5G risk mitigation plan – TechCrunch
The European Commission has endorsed a risk mitigation approach to managing 5G rollouts across the bloc — meaning there will be no pan-EU ban on Huawei. Rather it’s calling for...
Flexibits launches major Fantastical update – TechCrunch
Flexibits, the company behind popular calendar app Fantastical, is releasing Fantastical 3.0 on all platforms today — macOS, iOS, iPadOS and watchOS. New features include event proposals, interesting calendars, new...
GoDaddy continues to expand beyond websites by acquiring social content startup Over – TechCrunch
GoDaddy has reached an agreement to acquire Over, the startup behind an app that helps businesses create the photos and videos they need for social media. Justin Tsai, GoDaddy’s vice...
OpenPhone grabs $2 million for its business phone number app – TechCrunch
Y Combinator graduate OpenPhone is raising a $2 million funding round led by Slow Ventures. The company is working on an app that lets you seamlessly get a business phone...
Smartphone sales expected to get a slight bump in 2020 – TechCrunch
Last year saw global smartphone sales decline for the first time since analysts started tracking such things. In Gartner’s case, that comprises a full 11 years, as figures dropped 2%...
Flipboard expands into local news – TechCrunch
Flipboard, the personalized news aggregation app used by 145 million users per month, is today launching a new feature aimed at bringing local news coverage to 23 cities across the...
AppsFlyer raises $210M for ad attribution and more – TechCrunch
AppsFlyer has raised a massive Series D of $210 million, led by General Atlantic. Founded in 2011, the company is best known for mobile ad attribution — allowing advertisers to...
Huawei’s answer to life after Google Maps? TomTom – TechCrunch
Losing access to Google software and services understandably threw Huawei for a loop. The Chinese hardware giant has clearly been working on a contingency plan to deal with the loss...
2020 will be a moment of truth for foldable devices – TechCrunch
Phones were not the centerpiece at the recently wrapped Consumer Electronics Show; I’ll probably repeat this point a few more times over the course of this piece, just so we’re...