Daily Crunch - Amazon announces new auto partners

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Monday, January 06, 2020 • By Anthony Ha

Happy Monday Amazon makes a whole bunch of auto-related announcements, we look back at the past decade of CES trends and HTC reports a big revenue drop in 2019. Here’s your hardware-heavy Daily Crunch for January 6, 2020 — kicking off a full week of CES coverage! More importantly, today is my birthday, so please make sure to click every one of these headlines two or three times for luck.

Amazon drives deeper into cars with new Alexa partners, Echo Auto expansion Amazon just announced partnerships with Lamborghini and Rivian, new auto-specific skills for its Alexa voice assistant, a market expansion for its Echo Auto device and a plan to bring its latest Fire TV edition into future BMW and Fiat Chrysler vehicles. This is part of a larger push into automotive for Amazon, which previously made a direct investment into EV startup Rivian. In addition, General Motors has said it’s adding Amazon Alexa to the infotainment systems of its Chevrolet, Buick, GMC and Cadillac vehicles in the first half of 2020. Read more

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A look back at 10 years of CES CES is all about "the future," and we'll be here this week covering all the big stories and themes. But what about the past? In the spirit of 2020 hindsight (sorry), here are some of the most notable headlines and trends of the last 10 years. Read more

HTC had a terrible 2019 HTC reported revenue of 10,015 TWD ($333 million) in 2019, down 57.8% from the 23,741 TWD ($789 million) it posted in 2018, and a whopping 87% below the more than $2 billion it grossed in 2017. Read more Image Credits: Kārlis Dambrāns / Flickr under a CC BY 2.0 license. (Image has been modified)

Roku TV adds 15 more brand partners plus a new 'Roku TV Ready' program The new program will allow consumer electronics companies to label themselves as “Roku TV Ready” so consumers know the products have been tested and certified to work with Roku TV. That means the devices will be easy to set up, and will include on-screen access to sound setting and volume control with one remote. Read more

BigID bags another $50M round as data privacy laws proliferate It’s only been four months since BigID announced a $50 million Series C. Investors seem to be excited about BigID's mission to understand and manage a company’s data in the context of increasing privacy regulation. Read more Image Credits: Towfiqu Photography / Getty Images

CrowdStrike's CEO on how to IPO, direct listings and what's ahead for SaaS startups A few days before Christmas, TechCrunch caught up with CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz to chat about his company's public offering, direct listings and his expectations for the 2020 IPO market. (Extra Crunch membership required.) Read more

This week's TechCrunch podcasts The team at Equity discussed the big controversies from the end of 2019 and also kicked off a new, shorter podcast called Equity Mondays. And over at Original Content, we ran down our top five streaming shows and movies from the past year. Read more

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Daily Crunch - Samsung unveils 'Lite' versions of its priciest phones

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Friday, January 03, 2020 • By Anthony Ha

Happy Friday Samsung announces more affordable versions of its flagship phones, TikTok is working on face-swapping technology and a16z doubles down on a Latin American real estate startup. Here’s your Daily Crunch for January 3, 2020.

Samsung announces 'Lite' versions of the Galaxy S10 and Note 10 Seems Samsung couldn't wait a few more days for its CES keynote. The hardware giant just announced "Lite" versions of its popular handsets, designed to deliver key features from the Galaxy S10 and Note 10 without breaking the bank. While Samsung has long offered mid-range devices, the additions of the Galaxy S10 Lite and Note 10 to the line-up are an appeal to users looking for something closer to its flagship products. Samsung has yet to offer specifics on pricing, but they'll presumably fall somewhere between its mid-range A series and the $1,000+ cost of the high-end products. Read more

ByteDance & TikTok have secretly built a deepfakes maker TechCrunch has learned that ByteDance has developed an unreleased feature using life-like deepfakes technology that the app's code refers to as Face Swap. Code in both TikTok and its Chinese sister app Douyin asks users to take a multi-angle biometric scan of their face, then choose from a selection of videos they want to add their face to and share. Read more

How two-year-old Loft nabbed $175M led by Andreessen Horowitz In Latin America, a lack of data transparency around property listings results in low-quality listings, disproportionately high asking prices and prolonged selling times. The team behind Loft thinks it can create transparency and liquidity with open data sets for property value. Read more

This new wireless charger from Zens nearly fulfills the promise of Apple's AirPower Apple's cancellation of its AirPower wireless charging mat was one of the company's few big public flubs, but the concept remains attractive: A wireless charging pad that supports multiple devices, and that isn't picky about how you set down your device in order to make a connection. The Liberty Wireless Charger from Zens gets the industry closer to that goal. Read more

Reading Isaac Asimov at 100 Isaac Asimov has probably done more than any other writer to shape my worldview. But in the #MeToo era, reading and admiring him is no longer quite so simple. Read more Image Credits: Getty Images

After 2019's reality check, what's ahead for driverless cars in 2020? If 2018 was when the industry was shocked into sobriety, 2019 turned into a year when pragmatism and the challenges of trying to develop and scale a technology got a lot more real. And this coming year promises some of the same. (Extra Crunch membership required.) Read more

Apply to present your startup at TechCrunch's CES Pitch Night This Vegas Pitch Night, scheduled for the evening of January 8, isn't a polished show with massive screens, celebrity guests and life-changing cash prizes. It’s meant to be quick and efficient, held in a co-working event space outside of downtown Vegas. But a bunch of TechCrunch editors and writers (including me) will be there! Read more

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Daily Crunch - California's privacy law is here

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Thursday, January 02, 2020 • By Anthony Ha

Happy 2020 The California Consumer Privacy Act is now in effect, a Google executive resigns over human rights concerns and a robot vacuum company raises $15 million. Here’s your very first Daily Crunch for the new decade.

The California Consumer Privacy Act officially takes effect The CCPA is now officially the law in California, although there’s a grace period of six months before regulators penalize any tech companies that sell your personal data without your permission. The law requires, among other things, that companies notify users of the intent to monetize their data, and give them a straightforward means of opting out of said monetization. Sounds simple, but it will probably take years before its implications for businesses and regulators are completely understood. Read more Image Credits: Lee Woodgate / Getty Images

Google has little choice to be evil or not in today's fractured internet Danny Crichton looks at some of the bigger implications behind the resignation of Ross LaJeunesse, who was head of international relations at Google and served for more than a decade in various roles at the company. Read more

Trifo raises $15M, announces new robot vacuum The company’s Lucy vacuum includes a pair of cameras, which combine 1080p color images with depth sensing to provide home surveillance and mapping in light and dark settings. (Whether or not that appeals to you will depend on your views about privacy.) Read more

TRACED Act signed into law, putting robocallers on notice The Pallone-Thune TRACED Act, a bipartisan bit of legislation that should make life harder for the villains behind robocalls, was signed into law by the president on Tuesday. Read more

Lowkey.gg is an esports tournament platform for adult gamers The hope for Lowkey is that it can connect adult gamers with one another to get the most out of their gaming experience. Everyone playing through Lowkey must be 18 years of age or older and have a full-time job. Read more

TechCrunch Include yearly report Our editorial and events teams work hard throughout the year to ensure that we bring you the most dynamic and diverse group of speakers and judges to our event stages. And finally, at the tail end of 2019, we bring you … 2018 data. Read more

These 10 enterprise M&A deals totaled over $40B in 2019 The top 10 enterprise M&A deals in 2019 were less than half of last year's, totaling a mere $40.6 billion. (Extra Crunch membership required.) Read more

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