by Adre's IT | 31 October, 2020 | Adre's IT Blog, Apps, TC, tiktok
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the TechCrunch series that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they support and the money that flows through it all. The app industry is as hot as ever, with a record 204 billion downloads and $120 billion in consumer...
by Adre's IT | 31 October, 2020 | Adre's IT Blog, Equity Shot, Fintech, Fundings & Exits, Startups, TC
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast (now on Twitter!), where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. As promised, the whole gang is back, this time to chew on the biggest, baddest, worstest, and most troubling earnings...
by Adre's IT | 31 October, 2020 | Adre's IT Blog, launches
Last month’s report that there may be phosphine gas in the Venusian clouds came with a stunning implication: extraterrestrial life. On Earth, phosphine is a chemical produced by some kinds of bacteria that live in oxygen-poor conditions. Its presence on Venus,...
by Adre's IT | 31 October, 2020 | Adre's IT Blog, AirPods Pro, fund formation, hertz, Joanna Rupp, limited partner, Michael Kim, plexo capital, Recent Funding, Startups, TC, University of Chicago, Venture Capital
For years — decades, even — there was little question about whether you could become a venture capitalist if you weren’t comfortable financially. You couldn’t. The people and institutions that invest in venture funds want to know that fund...
by Adre's IT | 31 October, 2020 | Accel Partners, Adre's IT Blog, Apple, BIPOC, Code Against COVID-19, contact tracing, Quantified self, TC, U.S. government, United States
TikTok has won another battle in its fight against the Trump administration’s ban of its video-sharing app in the U.S. — or, more accurately in this case, the TikTok community won a battle. On Friday, a federal judge in Pennsylvania issued an injunction...
