Month: April 2021
How is edtech spending its extra capital?
Edtech unicorns have boatloads of cash to spend following the capital boost to the sector in 2020. As a result, edtech M&A activity has continued to swell. The idea of a well-capitalized startup buying competitors to complement its core business is nothing new, but exits in this sector are notable…
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After iPhone 13, Apple could launch a new iPhone SE with 5G iPhone SE 2020
After the rumored early 2021 launch window came and went for the iPhone SE 3, a new report suggests it could land in 2022 – and add sub-6 5G support. The bad news: the third-generation iPhone SE could pack the same 4.7-inch LCD screen as the iPhone SE 2020 that…
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Daily Crunch: Tiger Global raises one of the biggest venture funds ever
Tiger Global closes a $6.65 billion fund, Facebook gives users more tools to encourage COVID vaccination and iPhone app spending continues to grow. This is your Daily Crunch for April 1, 2021. The big story: Tiger Global raises one of the biggest venture funds ever Investment giant Tiger Global had…
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Microsoft outage knocks sites and services offline
Microsoft stumbled back online Thursday after an hours-long outage in the middle of the U.S. west coast working afternoon. Besides its homepage, Microsoft’s Xbox and Office services went down, log-in pages didn’t load, and the company’s status pages were also knocked offline by the outage. Worse, Microsoft’s cloud service Azure…
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There will soon be more smart devices on Earth than people iPhone 12
The number of PCs, smartphones, and tablets in use around the world is set to increase to 6.2 billion in 2021, boosted by the shift towards remote working. Gartner predicts that there will be 125 million more devices in use next year than this year, with the desire for more…
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Duolingo adds Yiddish to the menu
Duolingo, the popular language learning app, offers a wide variety of languages in its list of courses. While it’s known for teaching well-known tongues such as French, Spanish, and Chinese, it has also added courses in languages that are less widely used, such as Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Hawaiian — and…
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