Month: February 2021
Extra Crunch roundup: Metromile CEO interview, Oscar Health’s IPO plans, our 2-year anniversary, more
I’m very proud of the work we’re doing here at Extra Crunch, so it gives me great pleasure to announce that today is our second anniversary. Thanks to hard work from the entire TechCrunch team, authoritative guest contributors and a very engaged reader base, we’ve tripled our membership in the…
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How To Use Drop In With Your Amazon Echo, Dot or Amazon Show Presidents' Day deals: echo show 5
One of the features we love about Amazon’s line of Echo products (the Echo, Dot and Show) is the ability to “Drop In” on another enabled Echo device. This effectively works as a smart home version of an intercom or walkie talkie, and Drop In is especially great for families, as it…
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Microsoft reveals huge growth in web shell attacks Hacker Typing
The number of malicious web shells installed on web servers increased significantly last year and between August and January of 2021, Microsoft registered an average of 140,000 encounters of these threats each month. One of the main reasons web shells have grown in popularity among cybercriminals is due to how…
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How TCL is leveraging its vertical integration to outpace competitors TCL TV lifestyle photo
When you buy a product from any brand, it may seem logical that that company was behind the entire creation of the product. But for complex items, like phones and TVs, that can be far from the case. A car you buy will have parts coming from all over the…
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Building A Smart Home: How To Get Started smart home
Do you flip a switch to turn a light on or off? Manually set your thermostat? Pull out a key to lock and unlock your front door? Tug window shades up or down? Drag a vacuum cleaner across your floors? If your answer is yes any to these questions, then…
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Tony Florence, the low-flying head of NEA’s tech practice, on the art of building household brands
Tony Florence isn’t as well known to the public as other top investors like Bill Gurley or Marc Andreessen, but he’s someone who founders with SaaS and especially marketplace e-commerce companies know — or should. He’s responsible for the global tech investing activities for NEA, one of the world’s biggest…
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