Pebblebee co-founders Nick Pearson-Franks (left) and Daniel Daoura spent eight years building the company together. Pearson-Franks died in an accident in June 2020. (Pebblebee Photo) Startup founders face many challenges when it comes to building a company and being successful. For more than a year, Daniel Daoura has been working on overcoming the most difficult … Read more
Charter Spectrum customers could not download the Spectrum TV app from Roku’s channel store unless they had already done so in December. The two companies were unable to agree on the contract extension, which resulted in Roku pulling the app from its store to prevent new downloads. Now it looks like they finally got to … Read more
Karan Bajaj, the founder and CEO of WhiteHat Jr, is leaving the company a year after selling the startup to Indian edtech giant Byju’s for $ 300 million. In an email to staff on Wednesday, Bajaj and Byjus Founder and CEO Byju Raveendran said the departure follows a “mutually agreed” decision made at the time … Read more
Misuse of location technology can only lead to heated political disputes. According to Wired, SkyWatch and Global Fishing Watch have conducted studies that show over 100 warship locations have been forged since August 2020, including the British aircraft carrier Queen Elizabeth and the US destroyer Roosevelt. In some cases, the false data showed the ships … Read more
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s greatest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3:00 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for July 15, 2021. Good news from the TechCrunch front: The agenda for our big disrupt conference in September is set. It’s going to be incredible, … Read more
Maybe we have to say goodbye to SoftBank’s adorable humanoid robot Pepper. According to Reuters, the Japanese conglomerate stopped producing the robot last year and is cutting jobs in robot-related companies in several countries. Apparently there wasn’t much demand for Pepper, and SoftBank only ever produced 27,000 units of Foxconn. Nikkei has also reported that … Read more
Weather: Mostly sunny today, with a high in the low 80s. On weekends mixed sun and clouds with a chance of afternoon storms and highs around 90. Alternative parking: In force until May 31 (Memorial Day). An arrangement of homemade signs, letters, and flowers near the gates of Green-Wood Cemetery on Fifth Avenue in Brooklyn. … Read more
Albert Bourla, CEO of Pfizer, said Tuesday the company had been mandated to ship 1.6 billion doses of its Covid-19 vaccine worldwide this year and the company expects to deliver at least 3 billion doses of the vaccine by 2022 to produce. The company is in talks with countries for multi-year contracts with potential delivery. … Read more
This week we welcome guest Hana Mohan to our Found Podcast. Hana is the co-founder and CEO of MagicBell, a new startup she co-founded with Josue Montano that recently completed the Y Combinator Winter 2021 cohort. MagicBell is a full-featured, plug-and-play notification inbox aimed at developers who want to add one to their own product … Read more
One of these things is not like the other. (Innersloth screenshot) Last year’s viral hit Among Us is slated for release on PlayStation 4 & 5 later this year. The PS4 / 5 version of Among Us, which was announced during the Sony State of Play press conference on Thursday, offers crossplay, online multiplayer and … Read more