Berlin-based Moss, which offers a spend management service with credit cards to SMBs, raises a €75M Series B led by Tiger Global at a €500M valuation
Berlin-based startup Moss has announced earlier this week that it has closed a new $86 million Series B funding round (€75 million). Tweets: @leimer Tweets: Bradley Leimer / @leime...
Amazon launches the Fire TV Omni Series, its first smart TVs, starting at $410 and shipping in October
Including the First Ever Amazon-Built TVs Tweets: Chris Welch / @chriswelch : Amazon is definitely including some of its own tech. But behind the scenes, I'm fairly sure TCL is sup...
The unedited nature and serendipity of conversations makes Clubhouse a compelling platform for productive discussions on otherwise fraught topics
Elon Musk disrupts podcasting. PLUS: Robinhood's big mistake — I. Andreessen Horowitz and the backdoor pilot — Hey, did you hear Elon Musk went on Clubhouse? Tweets: @taylorlo...
GroupM expects marketers to spend $110.1B on digital ads in the US this year, accounting for more than half of the year's total ad spend for the first time
Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal :
HMBradley, a Santa Monica-based banking startup which offers up to 3% interest on savings accounts, raises $18.25M Series A led by Acrew Capital
As consumers look for ways to make their money earn more money, digital banking platform HMBradley is developing programs to reward savers.
Chris Cox is returning to Facebook as its chief product officer, a year after quitting over differences with Mark Zuckerberg over the company's direction
The longtime executive had quit in 2019 after a difference of opinion over the company's direction — A year after quitting the company …
Twitter removes a tool that let mobile users prevent some data from being shared with advertisers; EU users are exempt and need to opt in to sharing
Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge :
One, a neobank aimed at middle income users in the US, raises $17M Series A from Obvious Ventures and others, bringing its total raised to $26M since Jan. 2019
Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News :
Robinhood says it is again experiencing a “major outage”, after saying issues were resolved on Monday, and will compensate users on a case-by-case basis
- Robinhood saw a second day of glitches that kept clients from trading as markets rebounded.
A look at China's new system using color-coded QR codes to dictate people's movements and quarantines, that may be a template for social control beyond COVID-19
A new system uses software to dictate quarantines — and appears to send personal data to police, in a troubling precedent for automated social control.
The European Data Protection Board, the EU's data protection advisor, says Google's acquisition of Fitbit entails “a high level of risk” to privacy rights
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch :
Facebook will pay users up to $5 for voice recordings via its Viewpoints app to improve its speech recognition tech; recordings won't be tied to user profiles
But it won't pay much — Facebook will offer to pay some users for voice recordings that will be used to help improve …
Profile of Adam Mosseri, who sees Project Daisy, which will eliminate public display of Instagram Likes later this year, as a way to “depressurize the app”
or a team—whose job was to care for users, like an ombudsman/chaplain hybrid, focused less on users' technological experience than on the emotional + psychological. https://www.nyt...
Visa is buying Plaid, which helps popular fintech apps connect to users' bank accounts, for $5.3B
- Visa is buying Plaid in a deal worth $5.3 billion — roughly double the start-up's last private valuation. — Plaid's API software lets start-ups connect to users' bank accounts a...
Uber, Postmates sue CA to block AB-5, days ahead of bill taking effect, say law unconstitutionally targets gig economy companies and benefits other industries
- Companies call labor rights measure unfair, unconstitutional — A.B. 5 will qualify many contractors for employment benefits
Uber, Postmates sue CA to block AB5, days ahead of bill taking effect, say law unconstitutionally targets gig economy companies and benefits other industries
- Companies call labor rights measure unfair, unconstitutional — A.B. 5 will qualify many contractors for employment benefits
The 84 biggest flops, fails, and dead dreams of the 2010s, from the Fire phone and Google Glass to the undoing of net neutrality in the US
A decade of failures — The world never changes quite the way you expect. But at The Verge, we've had a front-row seat while technology …
The 84 biggest flops, fails, and dead dreams of the 2010s, from the Fire phone and Google Glass to the undoing of net neutrality in the US
A decade of failures — The world never changes quite the way you expect. But at The Verge, we've had a front-row seat while technology …
Apple reports Q4 revenue of $64B, up 2% YoY, of which $51.5B came from products and $12.5B from services; Q1 2020 revenue expected to be $85.5B-$89.5B
Services Revenue Reaches All-Time High of $12.5 Billion — EPS Sets New Fourth Quarter Record of $3.03
Tim Cook says Apple Pay transactions more than doubled YoY to 3B+ transactions in Q4, exceeding PayPal's volume and growing 4x faster
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac :