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    SpaceX successfully flies its Starship prototype to a height of around 500 feet – TechCrunch

    SpaceX has been developing Starship, its next-generation spacecraft, at its site in Boca Chica, Texas. The company has built a number of different...

    Disney, Staggered by Pandemic, Sees a Streaming Boom

    The Walt Disney Company reported doomsday financial results on Tuesday as a result of the coronavirus pandemic and a television-related write-down, with net quarterly...

    Anthony Levandowski sentenced to 18 months in prison, as new $4B lawsuit against Uber is filed – TechCrunch

    Anthony Levandowski, the former Google engineer and serial entrepreneur who was at the center of a lawsuit between Uber and Waymo, has been sentenced...

    ‘Mulan’ is coming to Disney+ on September 4, for an additional price of $29.99 – TechCrunch

    Those wondering whether The Walt Disney Company would eventually give up on a traditional theatrical release for “Mulan” now have their answer. While the...

    F.T.C. Investigating Twitter for Potential Privacy Violations

    OAKLAND, Calif. — Twitter said on Monday that it was under investigation by the Federal Trade Commission for potentially misusing people’s personal information to...

    Disney+ grows to more than 60.5M subscribers – TechCrunch

    Disney+ had more than 60.5 million paying subscribers as of yesterday, according to The Walt Disney Company’s CEO Bob Chapek. Chapek shared the number...

    Rippling nabs $145M at a $1.35B valuation to build out its all-in-one platform for employee data – TechCrunch

    Big news today the world of IT startups targeting businesses. Rippling, the startup founded by Parker Conrad to take on the ambitious challenge of...

    Serialized fiction startup Radish raises $63.2M from SoftBank and Kakao – TechCrunch

    Radish is announcing that it has raised $63.2 million in new funding. Breaking up book-length stories into smaller chapters that are released over days or...

    Messenger launches a new chat plugin for business websites to reach non-Facebook customers – TechCrunch

    Facebook is making it easier for businesses to leverage its Messenger service on their own websites. The company in November 2017 first launched a...

    Microsoft, Amazon back a SoCal company making microchips specifically for voice-based apps – TechCrunch

    Microsoft’s venture capital fund, M12 Ventures, has led a slew of strategic corporate investors backing a new chip developer out of Southern...

    Rocket Lab boosts Electron rocket’s lift capacity by 660 lbs – TechCrunch

    Rocket Lab has managed to engineer a significant payload capacity bump into its existing Electron space launch vehicle, the company revealed today....

    Software stocks set new records despite earnings, pandemic – TechCrunch

    The run that SaaS and cloud stocks valuations have been on continues You might have missed it, but amidst the current political-M&A-pandemic-election-disinformation news cycle we...

    Parental control app Boomerang repeatedly blocked from Play Store, losing business – TechCrunch

    Apple isn’t the only one accused of kicking out competitive solutions from its App Store. Google did the same — for over a month...

    Apple Replaces Phil Schiller as Its Top Marketing Executive

    Apple announced on Tuesday that its long-serving chief marketing officer, Phil Schiller, would step down and be replaced by Greg Joswiak, a prominent product...

    Apple’s veteran marketing chief Phil Schiller moves to smaller role inside company – TechCrunch

    After more than three decades climbing Apple’s ranks, marketing chief Phil Schiller is taking a step back at the company, being replaced by a...

    How a teenager hacked Twitter, Garmin’s ransomware aftermath – TechCrunch

    A 17-year-old Florida teenager is accused of perpetrating one of the year’s biggest and most high-profile hacks: Twitter. A federal 30-count indictment filed in Tampa...