Netflix Now Lets You Share A Favorite Title Directly To Instagram Stories
Gmail gets a strikethrough button: Frederic Lardinois
This is not earth-shattering news by any means, but Google today announced that Gmail is getting a strikethrough button in its formatting bar. In addition, it’s also getting Undo/Redo options and the ability to download emails as .EML files. There really isn’…
A private equity bet in Latin America proves the strength of fintech investments there: Jonathan Shieber
Latin America is getting another fintech unicorn thanks to Advent International’s acquisition of a 51 percent stake of Prisma Medios de Pago, an Argentine payments company formed as a joint venture between Visa International and local banks. The deal, which v…
Report: Zynga founder Mark Pincus is raising up to $700 million for an investment fund: Connie Loizos
Zynga founder Mark Pincus is raising up to $700 million for a new investment fund that will focus on publicly traded tech companies in need of strategic restructuring, according to a new report in Axios. It says his new firm is called Reinvent Capital and tha…
Netflix now lets you share a favorite title directly to Instagram Stories: Sarah Perez
Having reached critical mass, Netflix shows are now influencing culture — whether that’s prompting everyone to “tidy up” or causing chaos with “Bird Box”-inspired challenges. For good or bad, what happens on Netflix is talked about, memed and shared across th…
Fender’s Acoustasonic Telecaster does electric/acoustic double duty: Brian Heater
The electric guitar has been floating around in some for or another since the early 30s. But given how much the instrument dominated the music landscape for the latter half of the 20th century, interesting innovations don’t really come along too often. Fender…
Huawei Honor’s smartphone with a hole-punch display is real: Romain Dillet
Honor officially launched the Honor View 20 today in Paris. Honor is Huawei’s sub-brand for mid-range phones. And the View 20 doesn’t look like your average smartphone — the company traded the notch for a hole-punch display. Honor thinks that this design isn’…
Mozilla gets a new CFO: Frederic Lardinois
Mozilla, the not-for-profit behind the Firefox browser and other open source projects, today announced that it has hired Roxi Wen, the former CFO of display manufacturer Elo Touch Solutions, as its new CFO. Wen will replace former Mozilla CFO Jim Cook, who de…
Google will start retiring Hangouts for G Suite users in October: Frederic Lardinois
Google’s strategy around its consumer messaging services remains baffling, especially since it killed off Allo (yet kept Duo on life support). Today, the company clarified the timeline of the transition from classic Hangouts to Chat and Meet for its paying G …
Daily Crunch: Munchery shuts down: Anthony Ha
The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here: 1. After raising $125M, Munchery fails to deliver On-demand food del…
Linux Foundation launches Hyperledger Grid to provide framework for supply chain projects: Ron Miller
The Linux Foundation’s Hyperledger Project has a singular focus on the blockchain, but this morning it announced a framework for building supply chain projects where it didn’t want blockchain stealing the show. In fact, the foundation is careful to point out …
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