Nokia’s CEO is stepping down – TechCrunch
Nokia announces a big leadership change, an AT&T streaming service expands and we look at how our jobs may have to evolve during to the coronavirus pandemic. Here’s your Daily...
mParticle raises $45M to help marketers unify customer data – TechCrunch
mParticle, which helps companies like Spotify, Paypal and Starbucks umanage their customer data, is announcing that it has raised $45 million in Series D funding. Co-founder and CEO Michael Katz...
Coronavirus impacts app stores, Facebook sues mobile SDK maker, Apple kicks out a cloud gaming app – TechCrunch
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the Extra Crunch series that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they support and the money that flows through it all. The app industry...
Facebook Messenger ditches Discover, demotes chat bots – TechCrunch
Chat bots were central to Facebook Messenger’s strategy three years ago. Now they’re being hidden from view in the app along with games and businesses. Facebook Messenger is now removing...
FCC proposes $200M in fines for wireless carriers that sold your location for years – TechCrunch
The FCC has officially and finally determined that the major wireless carriers in the U.S. broke the law by secretly selling subscribers’ location data for years with almost no constraints...
Facebook brings its 3D photos feature to users with single-camera phones – TechCrunch
Facebook first showed off its 3D photos back in 2018, and shared the technical details behind it a month later. But unless you had one of a handful of phones...
End Game, the startup behind Zombs Royale, raises $3M – TechCrunch
End Game Interactive CEO Yang C. Liu has a refreshingly straightforward description of what he and his co-founder Luke Zbihlyj are up to: “We’re just building games. And to be...
Teen hit Yolo raises $8M to let you Snapchat anonymously – TechCrunch
It wasn’t a fad. Yolo became the country’s No. 1 app just a week after launch by letting teens ask for anonymous replies to questions they posted on Snapchat. But...
Tinder’s video series ‘Swipe Night’ gets a second season – TechCrunch
Following a successful debut for Tinder’s first foray into original content, the company is giving its interactive video series “Swipe Night” another run. The company confirmed today it’s renewing “Swipe...
Facebook’s Libra Association adds crypto prime broker Tagomi – TechCrunch
$28 million-funded crypto startup Tagomi will be the newest member of the Libra Association that governs the Facebook-backed Libra stablecoin, TechCrunch has learned. A formal announcement of Tagomi joining was...