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    Goodbye to the Wild Wild Web

    More recently, the hallmark of the Wild Wild Web became a kind of shoot-first, aim-later approach to corporate strategy. Terms like “permissionless innovation” and...

    Satcom Direct Is Taking Training To New Heights

    As the digitization of aviation rapidly transforms each aircraft into a platform rich in data and information, SD recognizes that connectivity systems are becoming...

    Flying First Class? Is It Worth The High Price?

    First class is the most luxurious way to fly. With access to the best airport facilities, the most spacious and private seating on board...

    Velodyne becomes latest tech company to go public using a SPAC, eschewing the traditional IPO path – TechCrunch

    Velodyne Lidar, the leading supplier of a sensor widely considered critical to the commercial deployment of autonomous vehicles, said Thursday it has struck a...

    Bankruptcy Isn’t Always A Bad Thing For Airlines – Here’s Why

    With fifty years of experience in aviation crisis management, few people are better positioned to comment on the current state of affairs in the...

    Alaska Airlines Pushes Forward With oneworld Membership

    CEO of Alaska Airlines, Brad Tilden, believes that COVID-19 may have accelerated Alaska’s plan to join the oneworld alliance. Alaska believes that, as a member...

    Project M acquires punk rock satire site The Hard Times – TechCrunch

    Matt Saincome knows that compared to many of the startup acquisitions that we write about on TechCrunch, selling a website for a little...

    Alaska Airlines’ CEO Has No Reservations About The Boeing 737 MAX

    Alaska Airlines has been waiting for over seven years for the arrival of its 737 MAX. Despite the delay in delivery and the problematic...

    US Carriers Set To Recieve Up To $25 Billion From Treasury Loans

    Five US Airlines are set to receive combined assistance of up to $25 billion from the United States Treasury. The loans would be provided...

    Join Jason Green of Emergence Capital for a live Q&A on July 9 at 2pmET/11amPT – TechCrunch

    2020 may feel so far like the year of living dangerously, but for many of us it has also been the year of working...

    Apple and Google block banned apps in India – TechCrunch

    Banned Chinese apps are beginning to disappear from India’s app stores, Palantir is raising more funding and Venmo starts testing Business Profiles. Here’s your Daily...

    Pioneering CRISPR researcher Jennifer Doudna is coming to Disrupt – TechCrunch

    Jennifer Doudna, a woman whose work has triggered the explosion in innovation in the field of synthetic biology and has given researchers around...

    Let’s stop COVID-19 from undoing diversity gains – TechCrunch

    Rachel Sheppard Contributor Any disaster will have its harshest repercussions on people who were already marginalized. It’s unsurprising, then, that when it comes to jobs and...

    Berkeley’s Innovative Genomics Institute is rolling out a spit test for COVID-19 testing – TechCrunch

    Scientists from the University of California, Berkeley, have begun trials of a new spit test for COVID-19 infections developed by the university’s Innovative Genomics...

    The great stink in software pipelines – TechCrunch

    Greg Law is the co-founder and CTO at Undo.io, a software failure replay platform provider. It’s the summer of 1858. London. The River Thames is...

    India’s richest man takes on Zoom – TechCrunch

    India’s Reliance Jio Platforms, which recently concluded a $15.2 billion fundraise run, is ready to enter a new business: Video conferencing. On Thursday evening,...