Archives for October 2020

Is Wall Street losing its tech enthusiasm? This is The TechCrunch Exchange, a newsletter that goes out on Saturdays, based on the column of the same name. You can sign up for the email here. Over the past few months the IPO market made it plain that some public investors were willing to pay more for growth-focused […]

Human Capital: Uber Eats hit with claims of ‘reverse racism’ Nellie Peshkov, formerly Reddit’s VP of People and Culture, is now Chief People Officer. Her appointment to the C-suite is part of the much-needed, growing trend of tech companies elevating employees focused on diversity and inclusion to the highest leadership ranks. Uber Eats hit with […]

10 Key Steps to Becoming an Instagram Influencer When I began my journey on Instagram, I had no idea that one day I would become a “top influencer.” In the beginning, companies reached out to me to review their products, seeing as I was CEO of the startup Garnysh. From there, things took on a […]

MG Siegler talks portfolio management and fundraising 6 months into the COVID-19 pandemic This week, GV General Partner (and TechCrunch alum) MG Siegler joined us on Extra Crunch Live for a far-ranging chat about what it takes to foster a good relationship between investor and startup, how portfolio management and investing has changed as the […]

Landing Page Best Practices: How to Optimize Your Web Pages for Increased Conversion Revised and updated October 31, 2020 It’s often said you only get one chance to make a great first impression, and that holds true for your company website. The visual appearance and written copy on your sign-up and landing pages must be […]

The 2020s promise better tech solutions to humanity’s biggest problems Editor’s note: Get this free weekly recap of TechCrunch news that any startup can use by email every Saturday morning (7 a.m. PT). Subscribe here. Let’s think beyond Monday, for a minute, to the trends playing out in technology this coming decade. While humanity’s problems have never […]

Absolute value It’s time for the annual window painting competition in my little town. Store owners allow kids to have a 2 foot by 4 foot piece of window to paint a scary/funny/punny Halloween billboard, and the winners get a certificate. And every year, parents not only help, they often take over and do all […]

3 Ways to Strengthen Your Business in Uncertain Times Imagine going back in time and looking at your business and how well it was doing in 2019. Now take a step back and see how your business is doing today. What a different picture you may be seeing. We’ve all read, wrote about, and discussed […]

The 3 Basics of Startup Branding One of the most important steps when starting a business is branding your new company. Do you know what defines your brand? Three elements—logo, website, and domain name—are key to building a startup’s brand. Let’s take a look at what makes each element so vital to successfully branding your […]

This Week in Apps: Facebook Gaming skips iOS, TikTok goes shopping, Apple One bundles arrive Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the TechCrunch series that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they support and the money that flows through it all. The app industry is as hot as ever, with a record 204 billion downloads and $120 […]

Equity shot: Boo! It’s the Halloween earnings special! Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast (now on Twitter!), where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. As promised, the whole gang is back, this time to chew on the biggest, baddest, worstest, and most troubling earnings reports from the current cycle. This week […]

You can start a venture fund if you’re not rich; here’s how For years — decades, even — there was little question about whether you could become a venture capitalist if you weren’t comfortable financially. You couldn’t. The people and institutions that invest in venture funds want to know that fund managers have their own […]

Apple acknowledges AirPods Pro issues, will replace those that crackle and rattle Are your AirPods Pro earbuds making weird noises? You’re not imagining it — and you’re not the only one. Just a few months after Apple started shipping AirPods Pro, some users started noticing that one or both of their earbuds were rattling or […]

Cough-scrutinizing AI shows major promise as an early warning system for COVID-19 Asymptomatic spread of COVID-19 is a huge contributor to the pandemic, but of course if there are no symptoms, how can anyone tell they should isolate or get a test? MIT research has found that hidden in the sound of coughs is a […]

TikTok stars got a judge to block Trump’s TikTok ban TikTok has won another battle in its fight against the Trump administration’s ban of its video-sharing app in the U.S. — or, more accurately in this case, the TikTok community won a battle. On Friday, a federal judge in Pennsylvania has issued an injunction that […]

iPhones can now tell blind users where and how far away people are Apple has packed an interesting new accessibility feature into the latest beta of iOS: a system that detects the presence of and distance to people in the view of the iPhone’s camera, so blind users can social distance effectively, among many other […]

Daily Crunch: Under Armour is selling MyFitnessPal Under Armour gives up on one of its big acquisitions, Uber Eats faces complaints over its free delivery policy for Black restaurants and Facebook takes another step to limit QAnon-related content. This is your Daily Crunch for October 30, 2020. The big story: Under Armour is selling MyFitnessPal […]

Q3 earnings find Apple and Google looking to the future for hardware rebounds “5G is a once-in-a-decade kind of opportunity,” Tim Cook told the media during the Q&A portion of Apple’s Q3 earnings call. “And we could not be more excited to hit the market exactly when we did.” The truth of the matter is […]

The scooter battle for New York City is on New York City, one of the most coveted shared micromobility markets in the industry, has released its request for interest in its electric scooter pilot, officially kicking off what promises to be a competitive battle among companies vying for a chance to operate their businesses in […]

The Art of Taking a Break So You Will Be Productive Again Think of yourself as a cup. Each day, you wake up full. But as you go about your day—getting tasks done and interacting with people—the amount in your cup gradually gets lower. And as such, you get less and less effective at whatever […]