Month: March 2020
Could lessons from the challenger bank revolution kick-start innovation on the climate crisis?
Now that the world is swimming in data we may be able to address the climate and environmental risks to the planet. But while there is plenty of capital to invest in things like ClimateTech, a lot of the data that’s needed to tackle this big issue is badly applied,…
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Public media found its answer to Spotify in Pocket Casts
BBC Studios and Pocket Casts are announcing today that the British company is investing in the American podcast player. The decision comes at a time when multiple podcast apps, most notably Spotify, are committing themselves to a strategy of exclusive shows designed to build loyalty to their platform. Pocket Casts…
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Equity Monday: Surprise IPOs, Briza’s $3M round, and are we worried about unicorn liquidity?
Good morning friends, and welcome back to TechCrunch’s Equity Monday, a short-form audio hit to kickstart your week. Regular Equity episodes still drop Friday morning, so if you’ve listened to the show over the years don’t worry — we’re not changing the main show. (Here’s last week’s episode with Danny Crichton, going over the…
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Prototype of SpaceX’s Starship rocket implodes during late-night test
Another test of SpaceX’s next-generation rocket, Starship, ended in failure over the weekend, after a major test article imploded at the company’s facility in Boca Chica, Texas. After being filled with super-cold propellant on Friday night, a Starship test vehicle collapsed in on itself and launched up into the air…
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Wayback Machine gets Chrome and Firefox browser extensions
Archive.org, a non-profit digital library that preserves web pages, has announced extensions for Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox web browsers. The organisation’s Internet archive (or Wayback Machine, as it is popularly called) indexes over 400 million deleted websites and makes them available to the public. To access old or deleted…
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mParticle raises $45M to help marketers unify customer data
mParticle, which helps companies like Spotify, Paypal and Starbucks umanage their customer data, is announcing that it has raised $45 million in Series D funding. Co-founder and CEO Michael Katz told me that the company has benefited from broader shifts — like new privacy regulation and the shift away from…
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