The much-anticipated addition of “Hamilton” seems to have paid off for Disney+. According to new data from app store analytics firm Apptopia, Disney’s streaming service saw a big jum
When Troy Hunt launched Have I Been Pwned in late 2013, he wanted it to answer a simple question: Have you fallen victim to a data breach?Seven years later, the data-breach notification service proces
In 2019, in the US alone, more than 10,000 startups raised more than $133 billion in venture funding, with a large proportion of that equity investments. Today, a company building a platform to help s
Before 2020, Wuhan might have been little known outside China. The world's initial contact with it came as the new coronavirus reared its spiky, ugly head – but a Japan
China may emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic in better shape than the United States, U.S. media reported over the weekend, giving several reasons. First, China has many
Apple held its WWDC keynote today, a virtual affair that managed to convince swaths of the technology industry to watch a pre-recorded video.While TechCrunch has posts galore up on the site about all
African cross-border fintech startup Chipper Cash has closed a $13.8 million Series A funding round led by Deciens Capital and plans to hire 30 new staff globally.The raise caps an event filled run fo
After touching the 10,000-point milestone yesterday, the Nasdaq Composite set a new all-time intraday high this morning of 10,028.61, per Yahoo Finance.In more normal times this would be a fanfare mo
Drew Brees, quarterback of the New Orleans Saints, attends the Super Bowl LIV Pregame at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida, February 2, 2020. /VCG Drew Brees, quarterback of the New
The ByteDance logo seen in its headquarters in Beijing, China, July 13, 2019. /VCG ByteDance, owner of the global hit short-video app TikTok, has shut down its artificial-intelligence-based ne
Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between.ZoomInfo went public yesterday. After pricing its IPO $1 ahead of its proposed ra
Today Slack reported its earnings results for the three months ending April 30, 2020, the first quarter of its fiscal 2021.The well-known SaaS chat service posted revenue of $201.7 million, up 50% co
Today after the bell, video-chat service Zoom reported its Q1 earnings. The company disclosed that it generated $328.2 million in revenue, up 169% compared to the year-ago period. The company also rep
TikTok isn’t the only new media app with Chinese background that’s making waves in the U.S. News Break, a news app founded by China’s media veteran Jeff Zheng with teams in Beijing,
SoftBank Corp. and Mapbox, the mapping data company that competes with Google and Here, announced that they have established a joint venture called Mapbox Japan.The JV will provide Mapbox’s mapping p
Over the years I’ve seen hundreds, probably thousands, of data breach notifications warning that a company’s data was lost, stolen or left online for anyone to grab.Most of them look large
Former President Barack Obama on Saturday criticized U.S. leaders overseeing the nation’s response to the coronavirus, telling college graduates in an online commenceme
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