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4:31

Apple is extending some AppleTV+ subs through...

TechCrunch Industry News ·

2020/10/09

Apple told me today that it will be extending AppleTV+ subscriptions that are set to end November 1, 2020 through January 31, 2021 through their billing date in February of 2021. The basic situation is that Apple gave away a free year of AppleTV+ to new device purchasers last year and those are all set […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:42

Kroger, one of America’s largest grocery chains,...

TechCrunch Industry News ·

2020/10/08

The Kroger Co., one of the biggest grocery chains in the Midwest is dipping its toe into on-demand delivery and the ghost kitchen craze through a partnership with an Indianapolis-based startup, ClusterTruck. Supermarkets would seem to be logical places to site the kinds of ghost kitchens that have caught investor’s eye over the past few […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:40

Former Apple engineer and autocorrect creator builds...

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2020/10/08

Former Apple software engineer and designer Ken Kocienda, whose work included the original iPhone and the development of touchscreen autocorrect, has created his first iOS app, Up Spell. The fast-paced, fun word game challenges users to spell all the words you can in two minutes and uses a lexicon of words Kocienda built to allow […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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6:50

Bespoken Spirits raises $2.6M in seed funding to...

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2020/10/07

Bespoken Spirits, a Silicon Valley spirits company that has developed a new data-driven process to accelerate the aging of whiskey and create specific flavors, today announced that it has raised a $2.6 million seed funding round. Investors include Clos de la Tech owner T.J. Rodgers and baseball’s Derek Jeter. The company was co-founded by former […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:06

Twitter tests a new way to find accounts to follow

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2020/10/07

Twitter is testing a new way to follow accounts. The company announced today it’s rolling out a new feature, “Suggested Follows,” that will pop up a list of other accounts you may want to follow on the profile page of someone you had just followed. The feature will be tested on Android devices, for the […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:26

Spotify’s new Soundtrap capture app offers...

TechCrunch Industry News ·

2020/10/06

Acquired in 2017, Soundtrap more or less serves a similar role as Anchor under the larger Spotify banner — albeit largely focused on music creation, instead of podcasting. The company’s software of the same name is a cloud-based service designed to let musicians remotely collaborate on a song, track by track. It is, honestly, a […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5:21

Google teams up with Samsonite to launch a Jacquard...

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2020/10/06

It has been over four years since Project Jacquard, Google’s smart fabric technology, made its debut at the I/O developer conference. Launched out of what was then Google’s ATAP unit, Jacquard is currently best known for being available on Levi’s jeans jackets, but Saint Laurent also launched its $1,000 Cit-e Backpack with built-in Jacquard technology. […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5:00

Lime and Scoot veterans have built Ridepanda, a...

TechCrunch Industry News ·

2020/10/05

Chinmay Malaviya and Charlie Depman found themselves at the center of the shared micromobility industry just as it took off, working for companies like Bird, Lime and Scoot. They experienced a rollercoaster ride of venture funding and skyrocketing demand, product pitfalls and regulatory hurdles. It was in the midst of this activity that the pair […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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2:33

Plaid improves its account linking flow

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2020/10/05

Plaid, the company building a universal banking API that lets you connect an app or service with a bank account, has updated Plaid Link. Plaid Link is the interface that you see when you add your bank account to any app or service that uses Plaid, such as Cash App or TransferWise. Given that 3,000 […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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6:45

Nintendo’s new RC Mario Kart looks terrific

TechCrunch Industry News ·

2020/10/02

In a year, Nintendo would have demoed, in person, Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit. The company would have invited select members of the press into some rented event space and let us experience the game first-hand, like it had with Labo and Ring Fit Adventures. It’s 2020, however, and that’s just not how we do […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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6:18

Oracle’s TikTok and Zoom deals won’t move cloud...

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2020/10/02

While the overall cloud infrastructure market is booming having reached $30 billion last quarter worldwide, Oracle is struggling with market share in the low single digits. It is hoping that the Zoom and TikTok deals can jump start those numbers, but trying to catch the market leaders Amazon, Microsoft and Google, never mind several other […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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6:55

Google to pay out $1B to publishers to license...

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2020/10/01

Google has long had a frenemy position with regards to the world of news: it can direct a lot of traffic to online publishers, but that’s only if people bother to click on links after getting the gist of the story from Google itself (and that’s before considering Google’s AMP approach on mobile that keeps […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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8:59

How Twilio built its own conference platform

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2020/10/01

Twilio’s annual customer conference was supposed to happen in May, but like everyone else who had live events scheduled for this year, it ran smack-dab into COVID-19 and was forced to cancel. That left the company wondering how to reimagine the event online. It began an RFP process to find a vendor to help, but […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:31

iRobot cofounder Helen Greiner named CEO of robotic...

TechCrunch Industry News ·

2020/09/30

Boston-based robotic gardening startup Tertill this morning announced that it has appointed Helen Greiner as CEO and Chairman. The executive is best known for cofounding iRobot in 1990 along with fellow MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab members Rodney Brooks and Colin Angle (the company’s longtime CEO). At first glance, Tertill is a pretty natural fit for […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5:40

Greylock is trying to diversify tech’s wealth cycle

TechCrunch Industry News ·

2020/09/30

Greylock Partners has teamed up with Management Leadership for Tomorrow to address issues of diversity and inclusion in the technology industry. “Our view is this has to be a comprehensive approach,” MLT Founder and CEO John Rice told TechCrunch. “This is not just a coding program, mentor program, fellowship program. There are plenty of great […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:36

Grammarly launches new features to improve your...

TechCrunch Industry News ·

2020/09/29

Grammarly, the popular spelling and grammar checker, is launching a few new features for its paying users today that go beyond some of its traditional tools to help its users make their overall writing not just technically correct but also more legible. That means the service can now help you restructure sentences for clarity, help […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:35

Calling VCs in Rome and Milan: Be featured in The...

TechCrunch Industry News ·

2020/09/29

TechCrunch is embarking on a major new project to survey the venture capital investors of Europe, and their cities. Our survey of VCs in Rome and Milan will capture how the cities are faring, and what changes are being wrought amongst investors by the coronavirus pandemic. (Please note, if you have filled the survey […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:48

Trump administration’s TikTok ban has been delayed,...

TechCrunch Industry News ·

2020/09/28

A U.S. federal court has said a ban on TikTok will not go into effectÂ on Monday as scheduled. The move to delay the anticipated ban will allow Americans to continue using the app while the court considers the ban’s legality and whether the app poses a risk to national security as the Trump administration claims. […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:16

Amazon redesigns the Echo line with spherical...

TechCrunch Industry News ·

2020/09/28

Amazon today announced a lot of new products including the new Echo speaker line. And the products looks dramatically different. Gone are the cylinders. They’re spheres now and look like nothing else on the market. The lights are now on the bottom, while there are still rounded buttons on the top. The Alexa software got […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:14

Apple is (temporarily) waiving its App Store fee for...

TechCrunch Industry News ·

2020/09/25

Last month, Facebook introduced support for paid online events — and since many of the businesses offering those events have struggled during the coronavirus pandemic, the company also said it would not collect fees for the next year. At the same time, it complained that Apple had “dismissed” its requests to waive the App Store’s […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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