by Adre's IT | 1 August, 2021 | Adre's IT Blog, Devs, revue, TC
The digitization of your haircut may not have been on your 2020 bucket list, but 2021 has an even more surprising line item: Tech-powered barbershops are now a business proposition valued at nearly a billion dollars. Squire is a back-end barbershop management tool for...
by Adre's IT | 1 August, 2021 | Adre's IT Blog, EC United Kingdom, TC
Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s inspired by what the weekday Exchange column digs into, but free, and made for your weekend reading. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. Our work this week...
by Adre's IT | 1 August, 2021 | Adre's IT Blog, CNBC, edtech, Education, Fundings & Exits, harvard, Startups, TC
Duolingo landed onto the public markets this week, rallying excitement and attention for the edtech sector and its founder cohort. The language learning business’ stock price soared when it began to trade, even after the unicorn raised its IPO price range, and...
by Adre's IT | 1 August, 2021 | Adre's IT Blog, Asia, bilibili, Boeing, CNBC, Hardware, iRobot, Kreditech, luckin, May Mobility, Northern Light Venture Capital, Sequoia Capital China, software as a service, TC, The New York Times, Toyota, vista equity partners, Welight Capital, working remotely
Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch’s China roundup, a digest of recent events shaping the Chinese tech landscape and what they mean to people in the rest of the world. The tech industry in China has had quite a turbulent week. The government is upending its $100...
by Adre's IT | 31 July, 2021 | acorns, Adre's IT Blog, Apple, Apps, data protection law, deepfakes, kids, Location, Media, Mobile, TC, this week in apps, tiktok
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer...
by Adre's IT | 31 July, 2021 | Adre's IT Blog, Automotive, autonomous vehicles, garry tan, TC, Transportation, TuSimple
TuSimple, the self-driving truck company that went public earlier this year, has partnered with Ryder as part of its plan to build out a freight network that will support its autonomous trucking operations. Under the deal announced this week, Ryder’s fleet...
