Sony unveils its first 5G smartphone – TechCrunch
Sony announces a camera-centric phone, Microsoft offers more details about the next Xbox and a liquid biopsy startup raises $165 million. Here’s your Daily Crunch for February 24, 2020. 1....
Sony announces its first 5G flagship, the triple lens Xperia 1 II – TechCrunch
Sony has announced its first 5G smartphone: The Xperia 1 II — which, for the curious and/or confused, is pronounced ‘Xperia One, Mark Two’. Which isn’t at all confusing, er....
Fintech startups raised $34B in 2019 – TechCrunch
Financial services startups raised less money in 2019 than they did in 2018 as VC firms looked to back late stage firms and focused on developing markets, a new report...
HQ Trivia’s dramatic death, Android 11, Apple mulls a more open iOS – 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...
Shopify joins Facebook’s cryptocurrency Libra Association – TechCrunch
After eBay, Visa, Stripe, and other high-profile partners ditched the Facebook -backed cryptocurrency collective, Libra scored a win today with the addition of Shopify. The ecommerce platform will become a...
Quibi’s streaming service app launches in app stores for pre-order – TechCrunch
Quibi, the mobile-only streaming service from Jeffrey Katzenberg, is now open for pre-orders. The company declined to fully show off its app only a month ago during demos of its...
One year later, the future of foldables remains uncertain – TechCrunch
Yesterday, Samsung announced that the Galaxy Flip Z sold out online. What, precisely, that means, is hard to say, of course, without specific numbers from the company. But it’s probably...
Twitter threads are getting easier – TechCrunch
Twitter is rolling out a “continue thread” button, ViacomCBS has big plans for its streaming service and Morgan Stanley acquires E-Trade. Here’s your Daily Crunch for February 20, 2020. 1....
As Morgan Stanley buys ETrade, Robinhood preps social trading – TechCrunch
Before it was worth $7.6 billion, the original idea for Robinhood was a stock trading social network. At my kitchen table in San Francisco in 2013, the founders envisioned an...
Google launches the first developer preview of Android 11 – TechCrunch
With the days of desert-themed releases officially behind it, Google today announced the first developer preview of Android 11, which is now available as system images for Google’s own Pixel...