Venostent Has A New Technology To Improve Outcomes For Dialysis Patients
IPO mistakes, fintech results, and the Zenefits 'mafia': Alex Wilhelm
Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter for your weekend enjoyment.
Moft is back with a clever laptop sleeve that converts into a stand: Brian Heater
Moft is a clever company that makes clever products. For a while there, I was sporting their laptop stand. It was a head-turner when I used to unfold it during meetings — back when we used to do those in-person. The truth is, I ended up having to tear it off …
Startups Weekly: What countries want your startup?: Eric Eldon
They say business needs certainty to succeed, but new tech startups are still getting funded aggressively despite the pandemic, recession, trade wars and various large disasters....
Share Ventures, an LA-based studio for company creation, is MoviePass co-founder Hamet Watt's next act: Jonathan Shieber
Nearly eight years ago, Hamet Watt and Stacy Spikes launched MoviePass, the subscription-based movie ticketing service that captured the minds and dollars of investors and brought thousands of cinephiles a too-good-to-be-true deal for all-you-can watch movie …
How I accidentally gatecrashed a startup's morning meeting: Zack Whittaker
No hacking needed.
Daily Crunch: Trump bans transactions with ByteDance and Tencent: Anthony Ha
Trump escalates his campaign against Chinese tech companies, Facebook extends work from home until the middle of 2021 and Netflix adds support for Hindi. Here’s your Daily Crunch for August 7, 2020. The big story: Trump signs orders banning US business with T…
Samsung Galaxy Tab S7+ hands-on: Brian Heater
During an Unpacked event that featured the announcement of five key new devices, the Galaxy Tab S7 didn’t get a ton of love. Understandable, perhaps. It doesn’t quite have the star power of the Note line, nor does it have the novelty of a new foldable or Blue…
Human Capital: Uber and Lyft’s ongoing battle with the law and a brief history of diversity at Snap: Megan Rose Dickey
Welcome back to Human Capital (formerly known as Tech at Work) that looks at all-things labor in tech. This week presented Uber and Lyft with a fresh labor lawsuit as a judge heard arguments from Uber, Lyft and lawyers on behalf of the people of California in…
R&D Roundup: Supercomputer COVID-19 insights, ionic spiderwebs, the whiteness of AI: Devin Coldewey
I see far more research articles than I could possibly write up. This column collects the most interesting of those papers and advances, along with notes on why they may prove important in the world of tech and startups. This week: supercomputers take on COVI…
Federal judge approves ending consent decrees that prevented movie studios from owning theaters: Anthony Ha
A federal judge has approved the Department of Justice’s efforts to end the Paramount Consent Decrees — 70-year-old court orders that prevented movie studios from engaging in a variety of anticompetitive behaviors, including ownership of movie theaters. U.S. …
Apple goes to war with the gaming industry: Lucas Matney
Most gamers may not view Apple as a games company to the same degree that they see Sony with PlayStation or Microsoft with Xbox, but the iPhone-maker continues to uniformly drive the industry with decisions made in the Apple App Store. The company made the ne…
VenoStent has a new technology to improve outcomes for dialysis patients: Jonathan Shieber
Timothy Bouré and his co-founder Geoffrey Lucks were both near broke when they moved to Dallas to join the first accelerator they entered after forming VenoStent, a company that aims to improve outcomes for dialysis patients. Failed dialysis surgeries occur i…
New bidders reportedly emerge for TikTok in the US as powerful critics assail the process: Jonathan Shieber
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that TikTok and Twitter have held talks about a potential merger, even as the video sharing company defends itself against President Donald Trump’s pressure to force the sale of the business or potentially ban it. As the i…
TikTok is reportedly planning to challenge the Trump Administration ban: Jonathan Shieber
TikTok, the video-sharing app that’s moved to the center of the economic conflict between the US and China, is planning to challenge the executive order issued by President Donald Trump that would force the sale or ban the service in the United States. Accord…
Original Content podcast: 'The Umbrella Academy' returns for a messy-but-delightful second season: Anthony Ha, Jordan Crook, Darrell Etherington
The first season of “The Umbrella Academy” had its flaws, but empathetic portrayals of its seven superhero siblings (all adults bearing the emotional scars of an upbringing under their strict adoptive father Reginald Hargreeves) more than made up for its mean…
IPO mistakes, fintech results, and the Zenefits 'mafia': Alex Wilhelm
Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter for your weekend enjoyment.
Moft is back with a clever laptop sleeve that converts into a stand: Brian Heater
Moft is a clever company that makes clever products. For a while there, I was sporting their laptop stand. It was a head-turner when I used to unfold it during meetings — back when we used to do those in-person. The truth is, I ended up having to tear it off …
Startups Weekly: What countries want your startup?: Eric Eldon
They say business needs certainty to succeed, but new tech startups are still getting funded aggressively despite the pandemic, recession, trade wars and various large disasters....
Share Ventures, an LA-based studio for company creation, is MoviePass co-founder Hamet Watt's next act: Jonathan Shieber
Nearly eight years ago, Hamet Watt and Stacy Spikes launched MoviePass, the subscription-based movie ticketing service that captured the minds and dollars of investors and brought thousands of cinephiles a too-good-to-be-true deal for all-you-can watch movie …
How I accidentally gatecrashed a startup's morning meeting: Zack Whittaker
No hacking needed.
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