Daily Crunch: After renaming Facebook ‘Meta,’ Zuckerberg says ‘mission remains the same’
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Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for October 28, 2021. With our SaaS event now behind us — a big thanks to the technewss events and sales teams who keep crush
Amazon stock falls on revenue miss, rising costs due to macroeconomic conditions
It’s very hard to feel poorly for a company worth around $1.75 trillion, so we won’t. But shareholders of Amazon stock are taking on a bit of water in after-hours trading this afternoon. Amazon reported its Q3 2021 results today after the bell, detailing its recent performance that incl
Android search choice screen is needed to tackle Google’s market power, says Australia’s ACCC
Australia could be next to mandate a choice screen in a bid to break Google’s dominance of the search market.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is recommending it is given the power to “mandate, develop and implement a mandatory choice screen to improve competiti
As EU eyes ‘balance’ on precarious gig work, Glovo offers pledge of ‘fairer’ conditions for couriers
Spain’s on-demand delivery platform Glovo has announced what it’s calling “The Couriers Pledge” — an initiative which commits its business to setting a new — “fairer” — social rights standard for its gigging couriers.
The self-defined “sta
Daily Crunch: LinkedIn launches global freelancer platform to compete directly with Upwork, Fiverr
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Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for October 27, 2021! We are live all day at our SaaS event, which means that a good chunk of technewss has been busy putting q
Daily Crunch: Indian mobility startup Chalo buys office commute bus aggregator Shuttl
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Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for October 26, 2021! Our one-day SaaS event — extravaganza? — kicks off tomorrow morning and I could not be more hype. In f
Microsoft and Alphabet trounce investor growth expectations
Helping power the global boom in startup investment is a huge — and growing — demand for digital products and services. The same tailwinds that are bolstering smaller tech companies, it turns out, are also powering the giants.
On the heels of a weak Q4 growth forecast from social giant
Jessica Rosenworcel becomes the first woman to chair the FCC, and Gigi Sohn is nominated for 5th spot
The FCC has its first-ever woman as chair of the agency, Jessica Rosenworcel, who has been serving as acting chair since the beginning of the year. President Biden officially appointed her to the position today, and nominated her for a new term — as well as FCC veteran and tireless policy advocat
Vercel brings new dynamic features to its Next.js framework
Vercel, the well-funded company behind the popular Next.js React framework, today announced the launch of Next.js 12 during a keynote at its annual conference.
While Next.js, by default, mostly focuses on helping developers build static sites, Next.js 12 introduces what Vercel calls “middlewa
Verizon partners with Amazon to offer satellite internet in rural areas
Amazon’s internet satellites will be put to work expanding rural broadband coverage. CNBC reports Verizon is teaming with Amazon to improve fixed wireless internet access in rural areas in the US. The alliance will initially concentrate on expanding Verizon’s LTE and 5G service using Am
Adobe brings content attribution tools to Photoshop
Adobe is launching new tools in beta today to help creatives ensure that their work isn’t stolen and for the public to see how images were created (and potentially manipulated). The company, together with a set of partners, first launched its Content Authenticity Initiative two years ago. Tod
Adobe’s Behance adds support for NFTs and paid subscriptions
At its annual MAX conference, Adobe today announced a number of interesting updates to its Behance portfolio site for creatives. According to Adobe, more than 160 million people visited the site in the last year and viewed the work of the creatives on the site over 2.25 billion times. That’s
How Nike innovates for everyday athletes
Eight years ago, Nike decided it was time to expand the Nike Sports Research Lab (NSRL), which was housed in the Mia Hamm building across company headquarters.
Now a full five times the size of its former self, the NSRL, which occupies the top floor of the brand-new LeBron James Innovation Center,
Daily Crunch: New productivity app Routine manages note-taking and task management
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Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for October 25, 2021. What a day. We kicked off with news that a major, multibillion-dollar tech deal was kaput and closed out t