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...
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%...