Sapphire Ventures Bets Big On Esports And Entertainment With New $115M Fund

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Facebook drafts a proposal describing how its new content review board will work: Sarah Perez


In November, Facebook announced a new plan that would revamp how the company makes content policy decisions on its social network – it will begin to pass off some of the more contested decisions to an independent review board. The board will serve as the fina…

App Store developers have earned $120 billion since 2008: Romain Dillet


Apple is kicking off the Entrepreneur Camp in Cupertino. 11 female-founded app development companies have been invited to Cupertino for multiple workshops and meetings with Apple employees. And Apple used that opportunity to share a new number when it comes t…

Porsche Taycan owners will get three years free charging at hundreds of Electrify America stations: Kirsten Korosec


Owners of the upcoming Porsche Taycan will get three years of free charging at hundreds of Electrify America public stations that will blanket the U.S. in the coming months. And in many cases, that will include access to DC fast chargers that will allow the T…

AirBuddy brings iOS-style AirPod integration to the Mac: Brian Heater


iOS is easily one of the best things AirPods have going for them. Flip open the cap and, boom, there are the headphones and case, each sporting their respective battery levels. Pairing AirPods to your desktop has been doable as well, albeit markedly less conv…

Sapphire Ventures bets big on esports and entertainment with new $115M fund: Kate Clark


Sapphire Ventures launches a dedicated sports and entertainment fund as investment in esports skyrockets.

Apple spent $60 billion with American suppliers in 2018: Romain Dillet


Apple has released an update on its spendings in the U.S. According to the company, Apple is now working with 9,000 different companies in the U.S. Those companies mostly work on hardware components and chipsets for Apple’s devices. You may remember that Appl…

Daily Crunch: Dropbox acquires HelloSign: Anthony Ha


The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here: 1. Dropbox snares HelloSign for $230M, gets workflow and e-signature…

Apple could be working on gaming subscription service: Romain Dillet


Apple is slowly building a lineup of content subscriptions. According to a report from Cheddar, Apple may also be working on a gaming subscription. Alex Heath managed to get five people to talk about the rumored service. If Apple goes ahead and launch such a …

Kite raises $17M for its AI-driven code completion tool: Frederic Lardinois


Kite, a San Francisco-based startup that uses machine learning to build what is essentially a very smart code-completion tool, today announced that it has raised a $17 million funding round. The round was led by Trinity Ventures, with personal participation f…

Will the iPod return in 2019?: Brian Heater


I get a little giddy at the notion of another iPod. It’s almost entirely nostalgic, of course. And Apple long ago abandoned my own favorite, the definitely dea iPod Classic. The touch, on the other hand, just kind of faded away. “The king is gone, but he’s no…



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