And Uber is going with . . . Bird (looks like)
Five months ago, the Bay Area-based electric scooter rental company Lime joined forces with the ride-hailing giant Uber, which both invested in the company as...
Commercial insurtech is like an exclusive club — and Google and...
Tech companies and VCs in the insurance space have probably read many of the news articles about Amazon and Google entering insurance (here, here and here)....
Quora says 100 million users may have been affected by data...
Quora said today that a security breach may have compromised data from about 100 million users. In an email sent to users today and...
YouTube Originals will become free and ad-supported by 2020
YouTube is preparing to move its original programming out from behind its paywall. According to reports from The Hollywood Reporter and Variety on Monday,...
This company created a high-tech solution to a 2,500-year-old problem
Ever thumped over a pothole while driving and cringed, wondering if you’re one step closer to a flat tire and cursing the powers-that-be that...
Daily Crunch: Black Friday’s online sales are projected to hit $5.9B
1. Black Friday predicted to hit $5.9B in online sales, $645M spent so far
After a record-breaking Thanksgiving with $3.7 billion in digital sales across...
LinkedIn cuts off email address exports with new privacy setting
A win for privacy on LinkedIn could be a big loss for businesses, recruiters and anyone else expecting to be able to export the...
WhatsApp could wreck Snapchat again by copying ephemeral messaging
WhatsApp already ruined Snapchat’s growth once. WhatsApp Status, its clone of Snapchat Stories, now has 450 million daily active users compared to Snapchat’s 188...
YouTube VR finally lands on the Oculus Go
Today, Google’s YouTube VR app arrives on the $199 Oculus Go, bringing the largest library of VR content on the web to Facebook’s entry-level...
Travel startups are taking off
The second wave of Internet-era travel companies has captured the attention of venture capitalists.
In the last five years, travel companies have raised more than...
