Tech's biggest companies are worth ~$5T as 2019's epic stock market run wraps: Alex Wilhelm
Look, this is the last post I’m writing in 2019 and I’m tired. But I can’t let the year close without taking stock of how well tech stocks did this year. It was bonkers. So let’s mark the year’s conclusion with some notes for our future selves. Yes, we know t…
TRACED Act signed into law, putting robocallers on notice: Devin Coldewey
The Pallone-Thrune TRACED Act, a bipartisan bit of legislation that should make life harder for the villains behind robocalls, was signed into law today by the President. It’s still possible to get things done in D.C. after all! We’ve covered the TRACED Act s…
TechCrunch Include yearly report: Henry Pickavet, Matthew Panzarino
Welcome to the third annual TechCrunch Include Progress Report. Our editorial and events teams work hard throughout the year to ensure that we bring you the most dynamic and diverse group of speakers and judges to our event stages. And finally, at the tail en…
How income share agreements will spark the rise of career accelerators: Eric Peckham
The income share agreement (ISA), a financing model where students pay for an education program with a certain percent of their income for several years after graduating, has been one of 2019’s new buzzwords among VCs and entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley. Whil…
Can a $30 pair of wireless earbuds actually be any good?: Brian Heater
2019 was the year wireless earbuds went mainstream. The category has been around much longer, of course, and Apple really broke the whole thing open a full three years ago, with the release of the first AirPods, but sales exploded in 2019. The category experi…
Counting down Boston's biggest venture rounds from 2019: Alex Wilhelm
Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between. Today, the last day of 2019, we’re taking a second look at Boston. Regular readers of this column will recall that we recently took a peek a…
InsightFinder get $2M seed to automate outage prevention: Ron Miller
InsightFinder, a startup from North Carolina based on 15 years of academic research, wants to bring machine learning to system monitoring to automatically identify and fix common issues. Today, the company announced a $2 million seed round. IDEA Fund Partner…
Shipfix raises $4.5M seed for its dry cargo shipping platform: Steve O'Hear
Shipfix, a relatively new startup aiming to drag the dry cargo shipping industry into the digital age, has raised $4.5 million in seed funding. Leading the round is Idinvest Partners, with participation from Kima Ventures, The Family, Bpifrance and strategic …
India's richest man is ready to take on Amazon and Walmart's Flipkart: Manish Singh
Mukesh Ambani, India’s richest man, is ready to take on Amazon and Walmart’s Flipkart. Reliance Retail and Reliance Jio, two subsidiaries of Ambani’s Reliance Industries, said they have soft launched JioMart, their e-commerce venture, in parts of the state of…
Uber and Postmates claim gig worker bill AB-5 is unconstitutional in new lawsuit: Catherine Shu
Postmates and Uber have filed a complaint in California federal district court, alleging that a bill limiting how companies can label workers as independent contractors is unconstitutional. The complaint, which includes two gig workers as co-plaintiffs, was f…
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