Original Content Podcast: Apple'S 'Little America' Chooses Uplift Over Anger
LA tech industry mourns Kobe Bryant: Jonathan Shieber
The Los Angeles startup community is joining the rest of the world in mourning the death of NBA superstar, entrepreneur and investor Kobe Bryant who was killed in a helicopter crash in Calabasas, Calif., shortly before 10 a.m. on Sunday. Reports indicate that…
Currencycloud nabs $80M from Visa, World Bank Group and more for its cross-border payments API: Ingrid Lunden
Sending money from one country to another — either because you are a business paying someone for a service, or a family member working abroad and sending money back home, or something in between — is a huge business, worth some $700 million annually. Today, a…
Technology is anthropology: Jon Evans
The interesting thing about the technology business is that, most of the time, it’s not the technology that matters. What matters is how people react to it, and what new social norms they form. This is especially true in today’s era, well past the midpoint of…
Gauging email success, invite-only app launches and other growth tactics: Julian Shapiro
Julian Shapiro Contributor Share on Twitter Julian Shapiro is the founder of BellCurve.com, the growth marketing team that trains startups in advanced growth, helps you hire senior growth marketers, and finds you vetted growth agencies. He also writes at Juli…
Original Content podcast: Apple's 'Little America' chooses uplift over anger: Anthony Ha, Jordan Crook, Darrell Etherington
“Little America,” a new anthology series on Apple TV+, has been widely described as the best show on the fledging streaming service. Here on the Original Content podcast, we aren’t ready to go quite that far, particularly since a couple of us are big fans of …
Sundance: In Miss Americana, Taylor Swift demotes the Internet: Matthew Panzarino
In nearly a decade of attending Sundance, I’ve never seen a scene like the premiere of the documentary Miss Americana, detailing the last year and a half or so of Taylor Swift’s life. The crowd before letting into the theater was huge, blistering with rumors …
Startups Weekly: Tech layoffs spread (a bit): Eric Eldon
Are January layoffs just a few post-WeWork jitters? TechCrunch has found itself writing about layoffs at a few notable tech companies this week — and not just Softbank-backed ones. The focus is very much profits, as Alex Wilhelm summed up on Thursday, especia…
This Week in Apps: Apple antitrust issues come to Congress, subscription apps boom, Tencent takes on TikTok: Sarah Perez
Welcome back to ThisWeek 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 industry is as hot as ever with a record 204 billion downloads in 2019 and $120 billion in…
Samasource CEO Leila Janah passes away at 37: Danny Crichton
The startup community has lost another moral leader today. Leila Janah, a serial entrepreneur who was the CEO and founder of machine learning training data company Samasource, passed away at the age of 37 due to complications from Epithelioid Sarcoma, a form …
Clayton Christensen, author of "The Innovator's Dilemma," has passed away at age 67: Connie Loizos
Clayton Christensen, a longtime professor at Harvard Business School who became famous worldwide after authoring the best-selling business book, “The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail,” passed away last night. The Desert New…
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Kobe was in a special helicopter that cannot crash.