As 2020 ends, new unicorn formation continues to impress
Here in the final few working days of 2020, a surprising number of new unicorns have come to light. The mad scramble that investors are seeing in seed-stage startups appears…
Peloton to acquire fitness equipment maker Precor in $420M bid to grow commercial business
Peloton has announced that it intends to acquire Precor, one of the world’s largest suppliers of commercial fitness equipment. You probably recognize the Precor brand name if you’ve ever spent…
Can Apple’s rumored search engine ever compete with Google?
Small corners of the internet are ablaze with the news that Apple has significantly ramped up its search bot activity. Search bots typically scan websites in order to rank and…
New free Farm Life content material now obtainable for Minecraft for Home windows 10 Starter Assortment
In the event you’ve bought the Minecraft for Home windows 10 Starter Assortment and wish to get some digital dust below your very actual fingernails, take a look at the…
Despite economic downturn, space startup funding defies gravity
The COVID-19 pandemic might have upended the global economy, but according to Meagan Crawford at Spacefund and Chris Moran with Lockheed Martin Ventures, it didn’t dampen investment in space startups.…
After the FireEye and SolarWinds breaches, what’s your failsafe?
David Wolpoff Contributor Share on Twitter A career hacker, David "Moose" Wolpoff is CTO and co-founder of Randori, a company building a continuous red-teaming platform. The security industry is reverberating…
Dedicated commercial human in-space operations are coming sooner than you may realize
If you’ve ever heard someone refer to the idea of ‘working in space,’ you’d be forgive for thinking they were describing a science fiction plot. But the number of humans…
New stimulus bill includes $35.2 billion for new energy initiatives
The new economic stimulus proposal that has been approved by Congress includes roughly $35.2 billion for energy initiatives, according to summary documents seen by TechCrunch. “This is probably the biggest…
Twitter expands API features for developers tracking the public conversation
Twitter is rolling out new features to its developer community with an update to its recently rebuilt Twitter API. One addition to the now expanded collection of API v2 endpoints…
Breaking Ice for the Holiday in World of Warships: Legends
The Holidays are upon us and World of Warships: Legends is bringing a bunch of events and the legendary battleship Massachusetts just in time for the occasion. There’s plenty of…
Silicon Valley should reward zebras, not unicorns
Rebecca Honeyman Contributor Share on Twitter Rebecca Honeyman is co-founder and managing partner of SourceCode Communications. Silicon Valley has a unicorn problem. While no one is calling for startups with…
Beginning the brand-new year with 3 means to much better arrange your life
Intend to figure out just how much even more time you would certainly have for the important things you intend to do if you were much more arranged? A great…
Fintech startups are increasingly focusing on profitability
Fintech startups have been massively successful over the past few years. The biggest consumer startups managed to attract millions — sometimes even tens of millions — of users and have…
3 VCs discuss space junk and what else they’re betting on right now
Space may be the final frontier, but in terms of investment, VCs are just getting started. With that in mind during TC Sessions: Space 2020 last week, we spoke to…
Google expands its cloud with new regions in Chile, Germany and Saudi Arabia
It’s been a busy year of expansion for the large cloud providers, with AWS, Azure and Google aggressively expanding their data center presence around the world. To cap off the…
Bolt adds $75M to its Series C, as the battle to rule online checkout continues
Bolt, a startup that offers online checkout technology to retailers, announced this morning that it has added $75 million to its Series C round, bringing the financing to a total…
The Station: Zoox’s six-year ride, Aurora makes its Uber ATG employee picks and NHTSA takes a new position on AVs
The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive it every Saturday in your inbox. Hi friends and…
Play computer game with family members to establish group abilities as well as develop brand-new memories
It's that time of year when 4 p.m. begins to seem like twelve o'clock at night. The days of having the ability to go outdoors as well as workout or…
Epic’s 15 days of free games continues with Alien Isolation
Bells are ringing, snow is flying, and the Epic Games Store’s already generous gift-giving is going into overdrive. The Epic Games Store Holiday Sale 2020 kicked off on Thursday, December…
IBM snags Nordcloud to add multi-cloud consulting expertise
IBM has been busy since it announced plans to spin out its legacy infrastructure management business in October, placing an all-in bet on the hybrid cloud. Today, it built on…
The US wants startups to get a piece of the $16 billion spent on space tech
The U.S. government is one of the biggest spenders in the nascent space industry and the man who handles the money for the Air Force’s $16 billion checkbook wants startups…
TikTok launches its first personalized annual recap feature, ‘Year on TikTok’
Spotify users have Wrapped and Instagram users have their Top 9. And now TikTok users will have their own year-in-review feature, too. The company today announced the launch of its…
COVID-19 relief bill includes $1.9B to ‘rip and replace’ Huawei and ZTE equipment
A long-awaited COVID-19 relief bill finally received congressional approval over the weekend. Top-line efforts include plans to bolster a population feeling intense strain after nine months of shutdown. The $600…
Zoom update for Apple silicon Macs now available
The holidays are upon us, and with that comes gatherings of friends and family—usually. In this time of COVID-19, in-person gatherings with people outside of your immediate circle are discouraged.…
Equity Monday: Billion-dollar deals, JetBrain’s epic profitability, and our favorite new VC rounds
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This is Equity Monday, our weekly kickoff that tracks the latest private market…
NextMind’s Dev Kit for mind controlled-computing offers a rare ‘wow’ factor in tech
NextMind debuted its Dev Kit hardware at CES last year, but the hardware is now actually shipping out, and the startup shared with me the production version to take a…
Psst, mobility nerds, here are the 4 books you HAVE to read
The holiday period is upon us and hopefully that means you’ve got a bit more time on your hands, can put down your computer, and pick up a book. If…
Data science is changing how business is done and this training will keep you ahead of the curve
TLDR: The 2021 Business Intelligence and Data Science Super Bundle offers six courses that make data analysis, machine learning and cutting edge science more accessible than ever. In case you…
Holiday Sale: Save $10 on Extra Crunch membership
From now until January 3, TechCrunch readers can save $10 on annual Extra Crunch membership. Users outside the US will see a similar discount for the holiday sale, but it…
After lockdowns boost gaming marketplace Eneba, it raises $8M from Practica and InReach
Eneba, a marketplace for gamers that sells games and other products, has raised a $8M round of funding from Practica Capital and InReach Ventures. The funding is described as a…
Thoma Bravo to acquire RealPage property management platform for $10.2B
The busy year in M&A continued this weekend when private equity firm Thoma Bravo announced it was acquiring RealPage for $10.2B. In RealPage, Thoma Bravo is getting a full-service property…
Business is continuing its cloud migration. Train to become an Azure and AWS tech professional
TLDR: The Beginner Cloud Architect Professional Training Bundle ft. Azure and AWS explores building and working with systems in the world’s two largest cloud system environments. As the no. 1…
OneTrust nabs $300M Series C on $5.1B valuation to expand privacy platform
OneTrust, the 4-year old privacy platform startup from the folks who brought you AirWatch (which was acquired by VMWare for $1.5B in 2014), announced a $300 million Series C on…
Lockheed Martin acquires rocket engine maker Aerojet Rocketdyne for $4.4Bn as Space heats up
Lockheed Martin (LM), the US’s largest defence contractor will acquire Aerojet Rocketdyne (AR), a rocket engine and missile manufacturer, for $4.4 billion including debt and net cash, giving the company…
How Netflix shapes mainstream culture, explained by data
In 2019, Netflix was already a fixture in our lives. It had 167 million subscribers globally and regularly produced hit Originals like Stranger Things and Orange is the New Black.…
OnePlus’ latest concept phone changes color to ‘breathe’ with the user
Back in January, OnePlus showed off its first concept phone. The aptly (if plainly) named Concept One sported color-shifting glass, giving the effect of an “invisible camera” on the rear…
10 ultimate gift ideas for your favorite developer
Christmas is just around the corner. Even in the middle of a pandemic, or because of the pandemic, we may feel like treating others (and maybe ourselves) with a special…
What the hell is a minimum lovable product? And why should designers care?
This article was written by Nick Babich and originally published on Built In. One of the most severe fears product designers have is the fear of creating products that nobody wants to use.…
Kyvol Cybovac S31 review: a self-emptying robot vac that mops
The Kyvol Cybovac S31 is the latest in a growing line of self-emptying robot vacuums. These completely autonomous vacuums are a wonderful luxury for most of us. But if you…
Wemo WiFi Smart Outdoor Plug review: Not recommended
Here’s the tl;dr on Wemo’s new outdoor smart plug: Skip it. Here’s why.Wemo is a longstanding and respected name in the smart home space, but the new Wemo WiFi Smart…