- Daily Crunch: Apple announces a new iPad Pro and much moreApple announces new devices, Amazon opens a hair salon and Venmo adds cryptocurrency support. This is your Daily Crunch for April 20, 2021. The big story: Apple announces a new iPad Pro and much more Apple revealed a bunch of new products at…
- All the electric vehicles that stood out at the Shanghai Auto ShowThe 19th annual Shanghai Auto Show delivered a bevy of electric and tech-centric vehicles this year. Chinese, European and U.S. automakers showed off their latest offerings in every price segment, from the budget-minded Wuling Hong Guang Mini via a joint venture between SAIC…
- Bitcoin bears have a $340M lead heading into Friday’s BTC options expiry$1.55 billion in Bitcoin options are set to expire on April 23 and the recent BTC crash to $51,000 has given bears a $340 million advantage. Read MoreCointelegraph.com News
- UK’s IoT ‘security by design’ law will cover smartphones tooSmartphones will be included in the scope of a planned “security by design” U.K. law aimed at beefing up the security of consumer devices, the government said today. It made the announcement in its response to a consultation on legislative plans aimed at…
- Apple event fails to save the company’s stock from broader market sell-offToday’s Apple event, chock-full of the company’s products that will help decide whether the company meets, exceeds or undershoots Wall Street expectations for its future growth and performance, had little to no impact on its share price. By now this is the theme:…
- Exchange tokens bounce from key support levels as COIN looks for directionBitcoin’s sharp correction to $50,000 brought Binance Coin, FTX Token, OKex and Huobi Token to their lower support levels but data shows there is still a bullish case for exchange tokens. Read MoreCointelegraph.com News
- Ohio senator wants clarity for crypto tax reporting in proposed billSenator Rob Portman said lawmakers were “still pulling in information” on crypto to formulate the bill, implying he announced it to the public prematurely. Read MoreCointelegraph.com News
- Gemini exchange’s crypto custody doubled since January, reaching $25BGemini Custody has quickly emerged as a leading platform for institutional investors. Read MoreCointelegraph.com News
- BlaBlaCar raises $115 million to build all-in-one travel appFrench startup BlaBlaCar has raised a new $115 million funding round (€97 million). While the company is better known for its long distance carpooling marketplace, BlaBlaCar has also added a bus marketplace with the acquisition of Ouibus and an online bus ticketing platform…
- Netflix blames ‘lighter content slate’ for slowing subscriber growthNetflix added 4 million net new subscribers in the first quarter of 2021, bringing its total subscriber base to 207.6 million, according to its latest earnings report. Any year-over-year comparison was inevitably going to make this latest quarter seem disappointing, since Netflix grew…
- Snack companies are openly celebrating 4/20 thanks to DOGESince Slim Jim began furiously promoting Dogecoin on Twitter in February, the number of followers on its account has quintupled. Read MoreCointelegraph.com News
- Tile bashes Apple’s new AirTag as unfair competitionNow that Apple’s lost item finder AirTag has officially been introduced, competitor Tile is going on record ahead of its testimony in front of Congress tomorrow about how it perceives Apple’s latest product. The company says it will be asking Congress on Wednesday…
- Atomic swaps and network upgrades send Monero (XMR) price to a 3-year highMonero price is closing in on its 2017 all-time high as network upgrades, atomic swaps and real-world integrations catch the attention of retail and institutional investors. Read MoreCointelegraph.com News
- Who’s funding privacy tech?Privacy isn’t dead, as many would have you believe. New regulations, stricter cross-border data transfer rules and increasing calls for data sovereignty have helped the privacy startup space grow thanks to an uptick in investor support. This is how we got here, and…
- Belarusian regime’s thugs shut down Imaguru, the country’s key startup hubAfter visits by unnamed masked intruders and the cancellation of its lease, Imaguru – the country’s key startup hub, event, and co-working space in Minsk – has effectively been shut down by the Lukashenko regime, which has led a brutal crackdown on its…
- Governments can stop Bitcoin by shutting down mining, says Electric Capital exec“If the U.S. stopped all the U.S. miners, Kazakstan stopped all the miners there — that kind of shuts down 80% to 90% of the hash rate pretty quickly,” said Curtis Spencer. Read MoreCointelegraph.com News
- Discord walked away from Microsoft talks, may pursue an IPOA month after reports that Microsoft sought to buy the hot voice chat app Discord surfaced, those talks are off, a source familiar with the deal confirmed to TechCrunch. Discord is considering plans to stay independent, possibly charting a path to its own…
- The M1 iMac’s power supply sports magnetic connector, Ethernet portApple just announced the new iMac powered by Apple’s own M1 silicon. Among the numerous updates and upgrades is a new power brick that sports something special to Apple’s lineup: an Ethernet port. On the surface, this seems like a silly placement of…
- Andreessen Horowitz leads $28M Aleo raiseSeveral other high-profile investors contributed to the raise, including Coinbase Ventures and Galaxy Digital. Read MoreCointelegraph.com News
- Uniswap’s weekly trade volumes reach record high of $10BThe decentralized exchange has been at the center of the yearlong DeFi explosion. Read MoreCointelegraph.com News
- Here’s everything Apple announced at its ‘Spring Loaded’ event todayIt’s Apple event day! From tweaks to the Apple Card to all new iMacs and iPads, Apple crammed this one-hour event with news. Don’t have time to sit down and click through every last announcement? We’ve slimmed it down to just the key…
- Apple introduces a colorful new iMacAfter years of waiting, Apple has finally given the world a dramatic new iMac redesign, aimed at the company’s long-standing goal of “making the computer disappear.” That, of course, only applies to the the thin new design, because these things are eye-popping. Naturally,…
- Apple officially unveils its lost item finder, AirTagApple today officially unveiled AirTag, its location tracking beacons that can help Apple device owners find lost items through Apple’s “Find My” application. The AirTags themselves are small, rounded tracking devices that can be attached to personal items, like purses, bags or keys.…
- Apple adds a new purple color option to its iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 mini lineupApple has added a new color option to the iPhone 12 lineup — a rare mid-cycle facelift for the company’s flagship product. The new color is purple, and looks like a lavender-ish pastel hue, which is in keeping with the tones on the…
- Deep Science: Introspective, detail-oriented and disaster-chasing AIsResearch papers come out far too frequently for anyone to read them all. That’s especially true in the field of machine learning, which now affects (and produces papers in) practically every industry and company. This column aims to collect some of the most…
- Apple announces Apple Card Family for spouses to build credit together, and over-13s to use it tooApple has been slowly building a position for itself as a financial services giant, banked around its digital wallet for storing a user’s payment cards and the launch of its own Apple Card in 2019. Today during Apple’s spring event, the company announced…
- Tom Brady and Salesforce Ventures pour millions into Class, a Zoom-friendly edtech startupClass, an edtech startup that integrates exclusively with Zoom to make remote teaching more elegant, has raised $12.25 million in new financing. The round brings Salesforce Ventures, Sound Ventures and Super Bowl champion Tom Brady onto its capital table. CEO and founder Michael…
- Apple’s new iMac finally gets an actually good webcamApple introduced new iMacs at its event on Tuesday, outfitted with its M1 processor and redesigned inside and out from the ground up. The hardware is impressive, but one of the biggest improvements for everyone’s Zoom-heavy life might be the webcam. Apple said…
- The new iPad Pro features Apple’s M1 chipThe big news from today’s Spring Loaded event is, as anticipated, a new version of Apple’s high-end tablet. The new iPad Pro is the first in the line to adopt the M1 chip introduced on the company’s Mac line. The device further blurs…
- Publicly traded First Foundation invests in NYDIG as belief in digital assets growsThe two companies also announced a strategic partnership that would allow First Foundation to provide clients with secure access to Bitcoin-related investment products. Read MoreCointelegraph.com News
- Apple brings Touch ID to the Magic KeyboardApple has unveiled a new, colorful iMac today with an Apple-designed M1 chip. But that was just part of the story as the company used that opportunity to release new Mac accessories. In addition to a Magic Trackpad and a Magic Mouse with…
- The new Apple TV 4K comes with a new Siri RemoteApple announced a new Apple TV 4K today, which will come with a new Siri Remote. In addition to the existing Siri support, this new aluminum remote features a redesigned clickpad that allows for circular gestures in the outer ring, which viewers can…
- Tokemak raises $4M from Framework and DeFi investors to build a ‘liquidity reactor’Tokemak plans to become the director for decentralized exchange liquidity. Read MoreCointelegraph.com News
- Cream Finance launches $1.5M bug bounty to improve DeFi securityWith a new security campaign, Cream Finance looks to minimize vulnerabilities. Read MoreCointelegraph.com News
- Over 750,000 Users Downloaded New Billing Fraud Apps From Google Play StoreResearchers have uncovered a new set of fraudulent Android apps in the Google Play store that were found to hijack SMS message notifications for carrying out billing fraud. The apps in question primarily targeted users in Southwest Asia and the Arabian Peninsula, attracting…
- Catch&Release raises $14M to help marketers find and license content from across the webCatch&Release founder and CEO Analisa Goodin told me that she wants to help brands break free from the limitations of stock photography — and that her startup has raised $14 million in Series A funding to achieve that goal. Goodin explained that the…
- Announcing our TC Sessions: SaaS virtual event happening October 27Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is now the default business model for most B2B and B2C software startups. And while it’s been around for a while now, its momentum keeps accelerating and the ecosystem continues to expand as technologists and marketers are getting more sophisticated about…
- Hustle Fund backs Fintor, which wants to make it easier to invest in real estateFarshad Yousefi and Masoud Jalali used to drive through Palo Alto neighborhoods and marvel at the outrageous home prices. But the drives sparked an idea. They were not in a financial position to purchase a home in those neighborhoods (to be clear, not…
- WayUp’s new dashboard helps employers see where their recruiting process loses diverse candidatesWayUp started out as a platform to help college graduates find jobs and internships, but over time, it has increasingly focused on helping employers find diverse job candidates. And it recently introduced a new feature to help those employers see exactly where their…
- IBM breaks latest revenue losing streak as cloud revenue shows modest growthFor IBM, much of the last 8 years simply posting positive revenue growth was a challenge. In fact, the company had a period between 2013 and 2018 when it experienced an astonishing 22 straight quarters of negative revenue growth. So when Big Blue…
- Insurtech startups are leveraging rapid growth to raise big moneyThe investment landscape for insurtech startups is off to a hot start in Q2 2021. Since the end of the first quarter, we’ve seen several players in the broad startup category announce new capital, including Clearcover, Alan, Next Insurance and The Zebra. But, as…
- Gaming infrastructure startup Pragma raises $12M from Greylock, Mark Pincus and othersPragma is building what it calls a “backend as a service,” providing ready-made infrastructure to developers of online, live service games. And it’s announcing today that it has raised $12 million in Series A funding. The round was led by David Thacker at…
- Leo AR, user-facing marketplace for 3D objects, raises $3 million seed roundApple’s introduction of ARKit changed the game for entrepreneurs, not unlike the App Store did on a much, much larger scale back in 2008. One entrepreneur, Dana Loberg, has capitalized on the launch of ARKit with her startup Leo AR. Leo is the…
- Scale AI founder and CEO Alexandr Wang will join us at TC Sessions: Mobility on June 9Last week, Scale AI announced a massive $325 million Series E. Led by Dragoneer, Greenoaks Capital and Tiger Global, the raise gives the San Francisco data labeling startup a $7 billion valuation. Alexandr Wang founded the company back in 2016, while still at…
- Synthesia’s AI video generation platform hooks $12.5 million Series A led by FirstMarkAs AI improves, the possibilities of what we can do with the technology grow exponentially (for better or worse). Synthesia, an AI video generation platform, is looking to make video content creation as simple and efficient as possible, and FirstMark is taking a…
- IDC estimates $19 billion global spending on blockchain solutions in 2024A new update to the International Data Corporation’s (IDC) Worldwide Blockchain Spending Guide forecasts global blockchain spending will hit just under $19 billion (£13.5bn) by 2024. This is compared to an estimated $6.6bn (£4.7bn) in 2021, at a five year compound annual growth…
- Grip Security raises $6M to improve SaaS securityMany large enterprises now rely on hundreds of third-party SaaS applications to do business, but their security organizations can barely keep pace. Right now, the state of the art for SaaS enterprise security are cloud access security brokers (CASBs) that act as intermediaries…
- Clearbanc rebrands its way into a unicornAfter five years of providing non-dilutive financing for founders, Clearbanc is tired of being only a bank. So, it’s rebranding, and has just raised $100 million Series C at a $2 billion valuation off of its broader ambitions. The new valuation is five…
- Watch Apple’s Spring Loaded event light right hereToday, Apple is holding a (virtual) keynote at 10 AM PT (1 PM in New York, 6 PM in London, 7 PM in Paris). And you’ll be able to watch the event right here as the company is streaming it live. Rumor has…
- Cape Privacy announces $20M Series A to help companies securely share dataCape Privacy, the early stage startup that wants to make it easier for companies to share sensitive data in a secure and encrypted way, announced a $20 million Series A today. Evolution Equity Partners led the round with participation from new investors Tiger…
- Bad omen? US dollar and Bitcoin are both slumping in a rare trendBitcoin struggles to regain momentum despite the dollar falling to a seven-week low. Read MoreCointelegraph.com News
The future. From tech to spirituality, and more.