Month: February 2020
Huawei faces new US charges of IP theft
The US government’s hostility towards Huawei has intensified with new charges of racketeering and trade secret theft. The Chinese telecommunications equipment manufacturer has long been frozen out of the US market on national security grounds. However the past year has seen Washington ban American firms from selling their wares to…
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Windows 10X has already been installed on a MacBook and a Surface Go
Microsoft’s Windows 10X operating system isn’t even out yet, but it’s already been installed on a MacBook and a Surface Go. The software maker released its Windows 10X emulator earlier this week, and people have managed to take this OS image and extract it and tweak it on real hardware.…
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Ericsson: Our 5G technology is better any anyone’s
Ericsson has refuted claims by some mobile operators and industry observers that its 5G technology is inferior to Huawei’s. Along with its China’s Huawei and Finland’s Nokia, Ericsson is competing to provide operators with the equipment required to build next-generation networks. Ericsson has a significant opportunity in areas where Huawei…
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How to use Brave’s tools to protect your privacy while browsing
Brave, which came out of beta last fall, is a browser with a difference. Aggressively anti-advertising, the Chromium-based browser strips sites of their ads while allowing users to opt in to its own set of anonymized advertising. It is also very open in its promotion of user privacy. Deal with…
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Big meditation money, new VC funds, and how do you value Airbnb?
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. After having a good time with NEA’s Rick Yang last week, we thought we’d bring on another venture capitalist. So this week Danny and I had Elliott Robinson from Bessemer swing over for…
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Trump’s impeachment is over — but what about the podcasts?
President Donald Trump’s impeachment proceedings ended last week with him being acquitted on all counts, meaning the podcasts that popped up to cover the proceedings found their ending. What happens to the shows now? Some have pivoted, others have shut down, and more haven’t made up their minds yet. As…
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