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    Any San Francisco teacher who needs a second monitor can get one, via Two Screens for Teachers – TechCrunch

    Any teacher in the San Francisco Unified School District who needs a second monitor can request one free of charge from Two Screens for...

    Minecraft Earth will shut down in June – TechCrunch

    Throughout 2019, Microsoft experimented with building a real world, augmented reality Minecraft game designed in the same vein as Pokémon GO. Called Minecraft...

    Virgin Orbit targets launch window opening January 10 for next orbital flight attempt – TechCrunch

    Virgin Orbit is wasting no time in 2021 getting back to active flight testing: The company has a window for its next orbital...

    Dell monitors embrace video calls with pop-up webcams and Teams buttons built in – TechCrunch

    Dell’s latest monitors reflect the growing need for simple, solid solutions to video conferencing needs, with a clever pop-up camera and a perhaps...

    FBI, NSA says hacks on US federal agencies ‘likely Russian in origin’ – TechCrunch

    The U.S. government is blaming hackers “likely Russian in origin” for breaching the networks of at least 10 U.S. federal agencies and several major...

    P&G terminates plan to acquire razor startup Billie following FTC lawsuit – TechCrunch

    Procter & Gamble will not acquire women’s beauty products startup Billie, as previously planned, following action taken by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to...

    Coral Vita cultivates $2M seed to take its reef restoration mission global – TechCrunch

    Coral reefs all over the world are struggling to survive, with millions of people and billions of dollars in business that rely on them...

    Nintendo buys Canadian game studio in rare acquisition – TechCrunch

    While gaming giants Sony and Microsoft have made M&A a critical part of their strategic growth plans, Nintendo has always seemed to...

    Affirm targets up to $38 per share in IPO, pushing its valuation above $9B – TechCrunch

    Today Affirm, a fintech startup that offers payment options to e-commerce customers, released a new S-1/A filing. The new document follows a late-December filing...

    GitHub alumni are building Rewatch, a solution for your Zoom fatigue – TechCrunch

    The rise of distributed teams in response to the coronavirus has led to more video-conferencing meetings for all of us. As offices remain closed,...

    Indian electronics and lifestyle brand Boat raises $100 million from Warburg Pincus – TechCrunch

    Boat, an electronics and lifestyle startup in India, has raised $100 million in a new financing round that many independent investors termed as the...

    How Segment redesigned its core systems to solve an existential scaling crisis – TechCrunch

    Segment, the startup Twilio bought last fall for $3.2 billion, was just beginning to take off in 2015 when it ran into a scaling...

    20% discount on all TechCrunch 2021 events – TechCrunch

    We’ve announced our slate of 2021 events, and we’d like to take this time to remind you that annual or two-year Extra Crunch members...

    Kyte raises $9 million to deliver rental cars to your doorstep – TechCrunch

    More than two years ago, Ludwig Schoenack, Nikolaus Volk and Francesco Wiedemann looked at the bevy of scooter services, ride-hailing apps, public transit and...

    Divvy raises $165M as the spend management space stays red-hot – TechCrunch

    Today Divvy, a Utah-based startup that focuses on corporate spend management, announced that it has closed a $165 million round at a $1.6 billion...

    Chronosphere nabs $43M Series B to expand cloud native monitoring tool – TechCrunch

    Chronosphere, the scalable cloud native monitoring tool launched in 2019 by two former Uber engineers, announced a $43.4 million Series B today. The company...