Google’s FeedBurner moves to a new infrastructure but loses its email subscription service
Google today announced that it is moving FeedBurner to a new infrastructure but also deprecating its email subscription service.
If you’re an internet user of a certain age, chances are you used Google’s FeedBurner to manage the RSS feeds of your personal blogs and early podcasts at som
Check out the tech leaders joining us on Extra Crunch Live in May
Extra Crunch Live, our weekly event series that connects founders with tech leaders, is really picking up speed. Recently, we had a conversation with Accel’s Dan Levine and Scale’s Alexandr Wang about how sometimes, unconventional VC deals are the best deals.
We’ve also taken a wa
Dear Sophie: How can I get an H-1B without the lottery?
Here’s another edition of “Dear Sophie,” the advice column that answers immigration-related questions about working at technology companies.
“Your questions are vital to the spread of knowledge that allows people all over the world to rise above borders and pursue their dreams,” says
Amazon’s latest Echo Buds are a shameless Apple knockoff
This is Amazon’s latest hardware product: The redesigned Alexa earbuds. technewss covered the announcement here, where the specs and capabilities are listed. I’m sure they work fine, too, but the case design is a blatant rip-off of Apple’s AirPod Pros.
This is just lazy.
I can’t believe it’s not meat! Mycelium meat replacement company aims for summer launch of first products
Meati, a company turning mycelium (the structural fibers of fungi) into healthier meat replacements for consumers, is prepping for a big summer rollout.
Co-founder Tyler Huggins expects to have the first samples of its whole-cut steak and chicken products in select restaurants around the country
Creatively raises $5M to help creative professionals showcase and find work
Creatively — a startup that helps designers, photographers, illustrators and other creative professionals showcase their work and find their next job — is announcing that it has raised in $5 million.
Founded by Stacey Bendet (founder and CEO of fashion company Alicia + Olivia) and Joe Indriolo
Large-scale CO2 removal startup Carbo Culture raises $6.2M Seed led by True Ventures
Carbo Culture — a startup that has scaled an industrial process to create large-scale CO2 removal using woody waste from agriculture and forests — has raised $6.2 million in seed a financing round led by Silicon Valley VC True Ventures. The round was co-led by European early-stage venture firm
Republican antitrust bill would block all Big Tech acquisitions
There are about to be a lot of antitrust bills taking aim at Big Tech, and here’s one more. Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) rolled out a new bill this week that would take some severe measures to rein in Big Tech’s power, blocking mergers and acquisitions outright.
The “Trust-Busting f
Temasek and BlackRock form Decarbonization Partners with $600 million to create a zero-emission economy
"speakable-summary" style="font-weight: 400;">The $9 trillion financial management firm Blackrock is collaborating with the $313 billion Singapore investment firm Temasek to back companies developing technologies and services to help create a zero-emission economy by 2050.
The two mega-investment fi
Tech talent can thrive in the public sector but government must invest in it
Building, scaling and launching new tools and products is the lifeblood of the technology sector. When we consider these concepts today, many think of Big Tech and flashy startups, known for their industry dominance or new technologies that impact our everyday lives. But long before garages and dor
Daily Crunch: Microsoft acquires Nuance for $19.7B
Microsoft makes a big healthcare tech acquisition, Twitter is building a presence in Africa and Apple may be cooking up some new smart home products. This is your Daily Crunch for April 12, 2021.
The big story: Microsoft acquires Nuance for $19.7B
Microsoft announced this morning th
Tech and auto execs tackle global chip shortage at White House summit
A collection of tech and auto industry executives met with the White House to discuss solutions for the worldwide chip shortage Monday.
CEOs from Google, Intel, HP, Dell, Ford and General Motors attended the virtual summit on semiconductors and resilience in supply chains. National Security Adviser
Apple and Google will both attend Senate hearing on app store competition
After it looked like Apple might no-show, the company has committed to sending a representative to a Senate antitrust hearing on app store competition later this month.
Last week, Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Mike Lee (R-UT) put public pressure on the company to attend the hearing, which will
IonQ now supports IBM’s Qiskit quantum development kit
IonQ, the trapped ion quantum computing company that recently announced that it wants to go public via a SPAC, today announced that it is integrating its quantum computing platform with the open-source Qiskit software development kit. This means Qiskit users can now bring their programs to IonQR