Month: January 2020
Daily Crunch: Saudis probably hacked Bezos’ phone
The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here. 1. UN calls for investigation after Saudis linked to Bezos phone hack United Nations experts are calling…
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VIZIO’s 2020 TV lineup gets big audio upgrades
We got up close and personal with VIZIO at CES 2020 where it announced the next generation of its SmartCast smart TV platform and a new range of soundbars (alongside a new lineup of TVs you can see here). SmartCast 4.0 improvements were pretty obvious, and VIZIO needs kudos for…
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The $100M ARR club welcomes four new members
Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between. Today we’re adding a few names to the $100 million annual recurring revenue (ARR) club. The new entrants come after we kicked off 2020 with a previous four new members.…
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Can a time machine offer us the meaning of life?
We are continuing our discussion of Ted Chiang’s “Exhalations.” Today (and one day late because of the MLK holiday), I give some thoughts on the first short story of the collection, “The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate” and kick off the discussion for the second short story of the collection,…
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Plastic giant Coca-Cola says people want its plastic
Coca-Cola stood by its single-use plastic bottle at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Speaking to the BBC, senior vice president Beatriz Perez shifted responsibility for the mountains of plastic they produce on consumers. Customers are thirsty for drinks bottled in resealable, lightweight plastic, she said, emphasizing that Coca-Cola…
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German government paying thousands to keep using Windows 7
The German federal government will pay at least €800,000 ($886,000) to Microsoft this year in order to keep its remaining systems running Windows 7 updated and patched. Now that Windows 7 has reached end of support (EoS), Microsoft will no longer provide free security updates and bug fixes for the…
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