TechCrunch+'s founding editor about its launch to complement TechCrunch's ads and events revenue and its failure due to issues with finding business reporters
January was a brutal month for journalists, globally from death and locally from layoffs. The latter hit home this week … Threads: @firstadopter . Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to . X: @mjburnsy , @rez...
Memo: TechCrunch plans to wind down TC+, its paid subscription product launched in 2019 as ExtraCrunch, and lays off ~8 staffers, amid industry-wide cutbacks
The Yahoo-owned publisher first launched TC+ in 2019 — Technology publisher TechCrunch laid off around eight staff members Monday … Threads: @thekenyeung , @markstenberg3 , @martinsfp , and @frederi...
StockX, an online marketplace for sneakers, raises $257M Series E led by Tiger Global at a $2.8B post-money valuation
Matt Burns / TechCrunch : Tweets: @mi_investments Tweets: @mi_investments : Only $2.8 bil for a sneaker trading marketplace...sounds about right for 2020🤦♂️ https://twitter.com/...
Indiegogo CEO and President David Mandelbrot steps down, citing personal reasons, will be replaced by Andy Yang, former Reddit core product lead and 500px CEO
Indiegogo pioneered the crowdfunding industry … Matt Burns / TechCrunch : Indiegogo hires Reddit's Andy Yang as new CEO Tweets: Gamer Wife / @bijanstephen : small end of day scoop from me about @indie...
Circle, which makes a screen time management tool, raises $20M Series B from Netgear, T-Mobile, and others, bringing the total raised to $30M
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Mercedes-Benz to integrate SoundHound's AI voice assistant in A-Class cars soon; the AI assistant is also coming to Kia and Hyundai cars in 2019
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GoPro stock crashes 13%+ after missing quarterly expectations with $540.6M in Q4 revenue amid Karma drone recall
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Microsoft's Surface business grew revenue 38% YoY, hitting $926M, in the most recent quarter
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Microsoft's Surface business grew revenue 38% YoY, hitting $926M, in the most recent quarter
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GoPro to launch foldable Karma quadcopter for $799 on October 23, new Hero5 action cameras and GoPro Plus $5/month sharing service on October 2
a drone and new cameras Eric Frederiksen / The Tech Report : GoPro's foldable Karma Drone is ready for take off Shawn Knight / TechSpot : GoPro unveils Karma drone and Hero5 family of action cameras E...