Today’s the day! In just a few hours I am chatting with with Jai Das, a managing director at Sapphire Ventures.The conversation is part of the second season of Extra Crunch Live series that has
The latest ban took the total number of blocked Chinese apps to nearly 220. There are now no Chinese apps in the top 500 most-used apps in India. /CFP Editor's note: Abhishek G Bhaya is an Int
Guangdong Province in south China has made it illegal for live streamers to present Mukbang or other types of binge-eating videos.The recent decision can be regarded as
In the past decade, celebrity interest and investment in tech companies has significantly increased. But not all celebrity investments are created equally. Some investors, like Ashton Kutcher, have pr
TikTok’s rise in the West is unprecedented for any Chinese tech company, and so is the amount of attention it has attracted from politicians worldwide. Below is a timeline of how TikTok grew fr
Sure, we’re heading into a holiday weekend here in America, but that doesn’t mean that the good ship TechCrunch is going to slow down. We’re diving right back in next week with anoth
Twitter prepares to hand out more blue checkmarks, YouTube suspends OANN and Discord is raising a big funding round. This is your Daily Crunch for November 24, 2020.The big story: Twitter will bring
YouTube today confirmed that it has suspended right-wing cable channel One America News Network (OAN or OANN for short). The penalty comes after a violation of YouTube’s stated COVID-19 misinformatio
After Election Day, NPR, The Washington Post and various blogs described America as bitterly divided or on the brink of civil war. These were by the same journalists, pundits and intellectuals who onl
Last week, Udemy, an online learning marketplace, raised $50 million at a $3.32 billion valuation, up from a $2 million valuation earlier this year. Language learning app Duolingo raised $35 million o
TikTok announced today it is rolling out a new feature that will allow people with photosensitive epilepsy to automatically skip videos that can trigger seizures.The “Skip All” option wil
Apple's security chief is accused of offering 200 iPads worth $70,000 (£52,501) to police to obtain concealed firearms licenses.
So, this one is going to be a different from last year. Because everything is different from last year. I know 2020 has been a pretty big change for my own personal podcast. I always prefer conducting
Superpeer, a startup that helps experts share and monetize their knowledge online, is announcing that it has raised $8 million in additional funding.As I wrote in March, the Superpeer platform allows
Google has teamed up with Disney and Lucasfilm to bring the Star Wars streaming series “The Mandalorian” to augmented reality. The company announced this morning the launch of a new Andr
Launch provider Rocket Lab has a mission today – codenamed ‘Return to Sender,’ it’s the company’s 16th launch, and it will carry, among other things, a payload that will demons
Twitter has at various times acknowledged that Donald Trump isn’t bound by the same rules that govern the rest of us. This executive privilege has allowed him to continue posting comments that could
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