Gillmor Gang: Fractured fairy tales
1971 is the name of the year and an Apple TV+ documentary series billed as The Year That Music Changed Everything. It’s also the number of hours the former president kept up his blog “From the Desk Of.” No, that’s not true. But it is satisfactual. The thesis of the movie 19
Google’s Gradient Ventures leads $8.2M Series A for Vault Platform’s misconduct reporting SaaS
Fixing workplace misconduct reporting is a mission that’s snagged London-based Vault Platform backing from Google’s AI focused fund, Gradient Ventures, which is the lead investor in an $8.2 mlion Series A that’s being announced today.
Other investors joining the round are Illumina
Elon Musk officially hits the brakes on Tesla Model S Plaid+
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has made it official and publicly cancelled plans to produce the Model S Plaid+, a supercharged version of the upcoming Plaid version of the electric vehicle that will be delivered to the first customers this month.
Musk’s reason: Plaid is so good that another variant isn&
China’s drive to compete against Starlink for the future of orbital internet
There has been a wave of businesses over the past several years hoping to offer broadband internet delivered from thousands of satellites in low-Earth orbit (LEO), providing coverage of most of the earth's surface.
This isn't the first time we've seen excitement in the category. Compani
In search of a new crypto deity
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Get thrifty, and your startup might just acquire a generation
Etsy, a marketplace for kitschy and creative DIY goods, acquired Depop, a hippy and thrifty marketplace for resale goods, for $1.625 billion this week. So, today we'll discuss the tale of two marketplaces, a deal that has given us a peek into the evolving ethos of social shopping.
Depop, for th
Um, where is the SEC when it comes to SPACs and conflicts of interest?
Earlier today, technewss’s Kirsten Korosec reported that the autonomous vehicle startup Aurora is close to finalizing a deal to merge with one of three blank-check companies that have been formed to date by renowned entrepreneurs Reid Hoffman and Mark Pincus and a third partner in these deal
Cruise can now give passengers rides in driverless cars in California
Cruise, the autonomous vehicle subsidiary of GM that also has backing from SoftBank Vision Fund, Microsoft and Honda, has secured a permit that will allow the company to shuttle passengers in its test vehicles without a human safety operator behind the wheel.
The permit, issued by the California Pu
Daily Crunch: Facebook extends Trump's suspension until January 2023
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Tinder finally adds a Block Contacts feature
Despite the complications of meeting new people in the midst of a global pandemic, dating apps have shown a recent spike in both downloads and usage. Now, as COVID-19 vaccines become more widely available, it’s likely that this trend will continue.
In other words, Tinder is anticipating a
It's time for security teams to embrace security data lakes
The average corporate security organization spends $18 million annually but is largely ineffective at preventing breaches, IP theft and data loss. Why? The fragmented approach we're currently using in the security operations center (SOC) does not work.
Here's a quick refresher on security o
Extra Crunch roundup: Guest posts wanted, ‘mango’ seed rounds, Expensify’s tech stack
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Autonomous vehicle startup Aurora in final talks to merge with Reid Hoffman’s newest SPAC
Autonomous vehicle startup Aurora is close to finalizing a deal to merge with Reinvent Technology Partners Y, the newest special purpose acquisition company launched by LinkedIn co-founder and investor Reid Hoffman, Zynga founder Mark Pincus and managing partner Michael Thompson, according to sever
Xometry is taking its excess manufacturing capacity business public
Xometry, a Maryland-based service that connects companies with manufacturers with excess production capacity around the world, filed an S-1 form with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announcing its intent to become a public company.
As the global supply chain tightened during the pandemi