Powder raises $14 million for its social app for game clips – TechCrunch
Meet Powder, a French startup that helps you share video clips of your favorite games, follow people with the same interests and interact with them. The company has raised a...
Podz turns podcasts into a personalized audio newsfeed – TechCrunch
Podz is the latest startup trying to solve the problem of podcast discovery, with backing from investors like M13, Katie Couric and Paris Hilton. “Even though podcasts have gained a...
Dating juggernaut Match buys Seoul-based Hyperconnect for $1.73B, its biggest acquisition ever – TechCrunch
In a large win for the Korean startup ecosystem, dating powerhouse Match Group announced this afternoon that it would buy social networking company Hyperconnect for a combined cash and stock...
Spotify confirms it’s (finally) testing a live lyrics feature in the U.S. – TechCrunch
Spotify this morning confirmed it’s testing a new, synced lyrics feature in the U.S. market, following a report from Engadget. Though the streaming music service today offers live lyrics in...
Minneapolis police used geofence warrant at George Floyd protests – TechCrunch
Police in Minneapolis obtained a search warrant ordering Google to turn over sets of account data on vandals accused of sparking violence in the wake of the police killing of...
Biden Commerce nominee Raimondo sees no reason to remove Huawei from entity list – TechCrunch
Huawei’s status in the U.S. has been one of many question marks hovering over the newly minted Biden administration. The smartphone maker was one of a number of Chinese companies...
TikTok will downrank ‘unsubstantiated’ claims – TechCrunch
TikTok announces additional steps to fight misinformation, Myanmar’s military cracks down on Facebook and Google’s subsea cable goes online. This is your Daily Crunch for February 3, 2021. The big...
Apple Music, Books, iTunes, App Store and more are experiencing outages – TechCrunch
Several high-level Apple services are experiencing issues and outages on Wednesday morning, Apple has confirmed. These issues are impacting a number of consumer-facing services including Apple Music and Radio, Apple...
Global smartphone shipments expected to rebound 11% this year – TechCrunch
Like countless other industries, mobile phone sales got hit hard in 2020. The industry hit a 10.5% decline for the year, as Covid-19 first decimated the supply and later consumer...
Hourly job-matching startup Landed raises $1.4M – TechCrunch
Landed, a startup aiming to improve the hiring process for hourly employers and job applicants, is officially launching its mobile app today. It’s also announcing that it has raised $1.4...