Month: April 2021
I Won’t Turn Off App Tracking On My iPhone, Because I’m A Total Cuck
Mega / Apple Mark Zuckerberg photographed in Hawaii and Apple’s new iPhone feature that blocks most apps from tracking your activity across the phone. This past Monday, Apple released an update to its iOS that, by default, stops Facebook (and others) from tracking you across apps. As a technology journalist,…
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Extra Crunch roundup: Fintech stays hot, Brex doubles, and startup IRR is up all over
Tech companies in Silicon Valley, the geography, have had an incredible year. But one indicator points to longer-term changes. The internal rate of return (IRR) for companies in other startup hub cities has been even better. A big new analysis by AngelList showed aggregate IRR of 19.4% per year on…
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Multiple US agencies could have been hacked due to Ivanti flaws hacker targeting a PC
Security flaws in Ivanti’s VPN products could have allowed cybercriminals to breach at least five federal agencies according to an investigation carried out by the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS). DHS’ Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has been working alongside organizations that have been targeted by hackers exploiting…
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Analytics as a service: Why more enterprises should consider outsourcing
Joey Lei Contributor Joey Lei is director of service management at Synoptek. With more than 14 years of experience in engineering and product management, Lei is responsible for the development and growth of the Synoptek service portfolio and solution development with strategic technology alliance partners. More posts by this contributor…
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Daily Crunch: Europe charges Apple with antitrust breach
Apple faces an antitrust complaint in Europe, TikTok has a new CEO and YouTube TV disappears from Roku. This is your Daily Crunch for April 30, 2021. Also, this is my last day at TechCrunch, and therefore my last day writing The Daily Crunch. It’s been a blast rounding up…
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Facebook acquires the developers of VR military simulator Onward
Facebook’s Oculus division has snatched up yet another popular virtual reality game developer. On Friday, the company announced it has acquired Downpour Interactive, the studio behind the hit multiplayer military simulator Onward. “We’ve seen great success with Onward on the Oculus platform for several years — first on Rift and…
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