| Lyft raises $1 billion, Stich Fix files to go public and Amazon finally revises its Echo. All that and more in The Daily Crunch for October 20, 2017. 1. Lyft raises $1 billion Lyft raised a new $1 billion in funding, thanks to a new round led by Alphabet's CapitalG investment fund. That's at least the third ride sharing startup the Google parent has invested in through its funding arms. It's also a lot of added runway for Lyft to continue pressing the leader in the space, Uber, and to keep its work going with signing up partners for its autonomous driving platform. 
2. Stitch Fix files for IPO A startup that's mostly profitable filing to go public? Crazy. Yet that's what Stitch Fix is, on the back of its ecommerce model that aims to take the stress and choice out of clothes shopping. 3. Amazon's Echo upgrade is a good one Listen, I have an Echo and I love it but the sound is awful. Per Brian, the new Echo has better sound, and a stylish new exterior. That's good enough for me, I'm sold. 4. All of Adobe's news from its annual MAX conference Adobe had its annual conference this week, and it changed a lot of stuff, including bringing some products out of beta and putting Lightroom (mostly) in the cloud. 5. Palmer Luckey's new company wants to bring AR and VR to the battlefield I don't really understand how you can get more dystopian than this. I'm sure Palmer will show me over the next months and years. 6. Harman Kardon's Cortana speaker is actually pretty good Turns out, all smart speakers are pretty much okay in this modern era. Amazing how quickly the smart in smart speakers got commoditized. Just buy the one you like the looks of best, basically. 7. It's podcast time. Yes, you heard it here first – it's Friday and that means official TechCrunch podcasts. There's a brand new Original Content where we watched Inhumans so you don't have to, and a new Equity where goes Barry Eggers helps cover off a bunch of IPOs. 
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