Thursday, June 11, 2020

Daily Crunch - Just Eat Takeaway confirms its Grubhub acquisition

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Thursday, June 11, 2020 • By Anthony Ha

Food delivery takes a big step toward consolidation, Amazon announces a moratorium on providing facial recognition tech to law enforcement (but there are loopholes) and Twitter tests a way to scold users for tweeting an article they haven’t read.

Here’s your Daily Crunch for June 11, 2020.

Just Eat Takeaway confirms it's gobbling up Grubhub in a $7.3B deal

European company Just Eat Takeaway said the combined operation processed 593 million orders in 2019 and will have over 70 million combined active customers globally.

This is an all-stock deal. Matt Maloney, CEO and founder of Grubhub, will join the Just Eat Takeaway.com management board and will lead the combined group's businesses across North America.

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Festival + Support, is that a thing? Yes, IT IS!

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Wix Answers has teamed up with CS in focus, Twilio, SALES Assembly and Catalyst for the world's first multi-day Customer Experience Festival June 15th-18th , a digital event dedicated to customer support. Sign up now.

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Amazon's facial recognition moratorium has major loopholes

In a surprise blog post, Amazon said it will put the brakes on providing its facial recognition technology to police for one year, but it refuses to say if the move applies to federal law enforcement agencies. Amazon also did not say what action it would take after the yearlong moratorium expires.

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Twitter tests a feature that calls you out for RTing without reading the article

The experimental new prompt doesn't stop a user from resharing a link before clicking to read it. Instead, it suggests you might want to read the article first. And the feature will only appear for some U.S.-based Android users for now.

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Sentropy emerges from stealth with an AI platform to tackle online abuse, backed by $13M from Initialized and more

Sentropy says that it has developed the most sophisticated — yet easy to implement — system for identifying, tracking and ultimately purging online abuse by way of its AI-based platform.

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Extra Crunch Live: Join BLCK VC's Sydney Sykes for a discussion on fostering diversity in venture

At 1pm Eastern/10am Pacific today, we’ll be speaking to Sydney Sykes, who started BLCK VC with Frederik Groce in 2018 with a mission to increase the number of Black investors in tech. We’ll be making this episode of Extra Crunch Live free to watch and participate in live, and to view later.

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9 top space tech VCs on the market's opportunities and challenges

We caught up with nine top investors in the space market to collect their thoughts on what's going on right now in the industry, what red flags there are to watch out for and what opportunities they see for new and existing space startups. (Extra Crunch membership required.)

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Theaters are ready to reopen, but is America ready to go back to the movies?

As America begins the slow, deliberate process of reopening, movie theaters have outlined their own plans to return to normal. But it seems clear that like so many other industries, the theatrical movie business remains very uncertain.

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Wednesday, June 10, 2020

Daily Crunch - Uber might lose out on acquiring Grubhub

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Wednesday, June 10, 2020 • By Anthony Ha

Uber stocks tumble after reports that it will lose out on acquiring Grubhub, Reddit appoints a new board member and Republican senators question the legal protections of large social media platforms.

Here’s your Daily Crunch for June 10, 2020.

Uber shares tumble 5% as reports indicate it will lose Grubhub deal to European rival

Reports this morning indicate that Uber, the American ride-hailing giant with a global footprint, will lose out on its attempt to buy Grubhub, an American food ordering and delivery service.

Instead, Grubhub might be acquired by European-rival Just Eat Takeaway. The Wall Street Journal broke the difficult news for Uber. The company’s shares are off nearly 5% today after the news, while Lyft, its local rival in ride-hailing, is off a more modest 2.5%.

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Five Startup Alley exhibitors will give their best pitch to TC Editors and Amish Jani from FirstMark Capital at today's Pitchers and Pitches session. Anyone can attend. Only Startup Alley exhibitors will be eligible to pitch. There's a prize.

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Reddit names YC's Michael Seibel to board, following co-founder Alexis Ohanian's exit

In his resignation letter, co-founder Alexis Ohanian asked Reddit to replace his role with a black board member. Today, the site announced the appointment of Y Combinator CEO Michael Seibel to its board. Seibel became YC’s first black partner in 2014, before ascending to chief executive.

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Republican senators ask FCC to examine Section 230, following Trump order

A recent executive order from the Trump administration seeks to strip away key protections under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Yesterday, four Republican senators sent an open letter to the FCC, urging chairman Ajit Pai to examine the "special status" afforded to social media sites under the statute.

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NS8 raises $123M led by Lightspeed for its suite of online fraud prevention tools

NS8 is a Las Vegas-based startup that provides tools to prevent fraud within e-commerce marketplaces, online merchants, payments gateways and ticketing services.

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What to consider before publishing your diversity memo

Over the past few weeks, several venture capital firms have published different variations of the same pledge: we'll do a better job supporting the Black community. My colleague Natasha Mascarenhas argues that there’s no need to applaud firms for taking long overdue steps to treat others equally. What is more important is how we're going to hold these firms accountable going forward, after a history of inaction. (Extra Crunch membership required.)

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Nikola Motor to open pre-orders for fuel cell pickup truck to compete with Ford, Tesla

Nikola Motor Company, the Arizona startup that made its debut as a publicly traded company June 4, will open reservations later this month for a hydrogen fuel cell electric pickup truck that was designed to compete with the Ford F-150.

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IBM Cloud suffers prolonged outage

The IBM Cloud suffered a major outage yesterday. And with that, multiple services that are hosted on the platform are also down, including everybody's favorite tech news aggregator, Techmeme.

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Tuesday, June 9, 2020

Daily Crunch - IBM is getting out of facial recognition

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Tuesday, June 09, 2020 • By Anthony Ha

IBM’s CEO takes a stand on mass surveillance, Apple may soon make a big chip announcement and Google Maps gets new features to help users navigate transit safely.

Here’s your Daily Crunch for June 9, 2020.

IBM ends all facial recognition business as CEO calls out bias and inequality

IBM CEO Arvind Krishna announced that the company would no longer sell facial recognition services, calling for a "national dialogue" on whether it should be used at all. He also voiced support for a new bill aiming to reduce police violence and increase accountability.

In a letter written in support of the Justice in Policing Act introduced, Krishna said, “IBM firmly opposes and will not condone uses of any technology, including facial recognition technology offered by other vendors, for mass surveillance, racial profiling, violations of basic human rights and freedoms, or any purpose which is not consistent with our values and Principles of Trust and Transparency.”

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The Future of Apache Cassandra is Cloud-Native

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Astra, a database-as-a-service for Apache Cassandra™ applications, is now generally available. It includes five open-source projects to support Cassandra on Kubernetes. Read more about the cloud-native service for Cassandra.

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Apple could reportedly announce Mac shift to its own ARM-based chips this month

For years now, analysts and unconfirmed reports have suggested Apple was working on transitioning its Mac line of computers away from Intel-based chips and to its own, ARM-based processors. Now, Bloomberg reports that the company could make those plans official as early as later this month.

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Google Maps updated with COVID-19 info and related transit alerts

Google Maps is introducing a series of new features to better inform travelers and commuters about how their trip may be impacted by COVID-19 — including travel restrictions, COVID-19 checkpoints or even just the crowdedness of public transport.

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DNAnexus raises $100M for a cloud-based analytics platform aimed at genomics and other clinical big data

The idea is to use the funding to continue building out the company’s research platform, particularly as research has boomed around the current coronavirus global health pandemic.

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Enterprise investors remain flexible as they navigate COVID-19

We asked a number of enterprise investors if they have changed their approach in light of the pandemic and its knock-on economic impacts, how the current environment has changed their relationship with existing portfolio clients and how well those clients are coping with the new reality. (Extra Crunch membership required.)

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Walmart's Flipkart rolls out voice assistant to make shopping easier

The AI-powered voice assistant currently supports the grocery category, called Supermart, but a company spokesperson told TechCrunch that Flipkart will soon be extending it to other verticals. The feature began rolling out to Android users today, and the company says it is working on bringing these capabilities to its iOS app.

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The future ain't what it used to be in first Bill & Ted Face the Music trailer

Finally, something to look forward to.

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