Google is updating its Nest range with three new products and a refresh for the wired Nest Cam for indoor use. Newcomers include the first battery-powered Nest Cam and Google’s doorbell, according to a recent leak. You can install them practically anywhere in your home and plug them into a wired power source when needed. … Read more
Clockwise from top left: Henny Damian, Co-Founder and CEO of Joola; Stacie Whisonant, co-founder of PYT Funds; Will Rush, Co-Founder and CEO of Stack; and Luke Moberly, Bumper CEO. Four Seattle startups have won a spot in a financial technology incubator run by banking firm BECU and CoMotion, the University of Washington’s innovation arm. The … Read more
Greed is God. At this pointUnless you go public through a direct listing, traditional IPO, or SPAC, are you a high growth company at all? Every CEO I speak to at a startup that generates more than just Series B revenue tells me that SPACs are circling and hungry for a deal so they don’t … Read more
Join TechCrunch for the first edition of 2021 ask me something Series in which TechCrunch interviews experts and answers your burning questions about virtual events. Our first guest is Xiaoyin Qu, co-founder and CEO of Rule the world. Friday, February 26, 1 p.m. PT Register here Run The World is a platform for virtual events … Read more
A quiet Microsoft campus during the COVID-19 pandemic. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) In the first year since aiming to go carbon negative by 2030, Microsoft announced Thursday that it had reduced its carbon footprint by 6% from 11.6 million tons to 10.9 million tons. It was also paid to remove an additional 1.3 million … Read more