Month: May 2021
The Daily Crunch: TechCrunch’s parent company sold for $5B, Duolingo’s origin story
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. TechCrunch’s new home The original plan was to spend a minute today explaining that the Daily Crunch is now being put together by a new and expanded…
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Amazon’s over-the-top business, including IMDb TV and Twitch, tops 120M monthly viewers
Amazon’s free, ad-supported streaming service IMDb TV is getting its own mobile app. The company announced the news today at its first-ever NewFronts presentation to advertisers, where it also shared that its over-the-top streaming businesses combined — meaning, IMDb TV, Twitch, live sports like Thursday Night Football, Amazon’s News app…
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Impossible Foods clears legal battle over the ingredient that makes its meat ‘bleed’
A San Francisco federal appeals court upheld a decision by the Food and Drug Administration to allow Impossible Foods to use “heme,” the additive the company says makes its products “taste like meat.” Had Impossible Foods lost this legal battle, it could have dealt a heavy blow to the company.…
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Amazon’s Thursday Night Football deal will start early
Amazon made history as the first all-digital streamer to acquire exclusive rights to the NFL’s Thursday Night Football, and now the NFL has announced that Amazon will be streaming games sooner than expected — starting with the 2022 season. The NFL’s previous announcement set the start of Amazon’s exclusivity in…
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AMD RDNA 3 specs leak points to serious performance gains over Big Navi Big Navi
Details about AMD’s RDNA 3-based Navi 33 GPU may have just leaked online, revealing that the next-gen graphics processor might bring the best of Big Navi to entry-level RDNA 3 graphics cards. The Navi 33 GPU is reportedly going to feature the same specs as the Navi 21 GPU that…
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Fortnite made more than $9 billion in revenue in its first two years
After a meteoric rise to popularity in 2018, Fortnite generated more than $5 billion in its first year for Epic Games, new financial documents reveal. The document, made public as part of Epic’s court battle with Apple over the latter’s App Store practices, shows that the game brought in more…
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