TechCrunch Industry News

Latest Episodes:

Nintendo’s new RC Mario Kart looks terrific Oct 02, 2020

Show notes

In a year, Nintendo would have demoed, in person, Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit. The company would have invited select members of the press into some rented event space and let us experience the game first-hand, like it had with Labo and Ring Fit Adventures. It’s 2020, however, and that’s just not how we do […]

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Oracle’s TikTok and Zoom deals won’t move cloud market share needle significantly Oct 02, 2020

Show notes

While the overall cloud infrastructure market is booming having reached $30 billion last quarter worldwide, Oracle is struggling with market share in the low single digits. It is hoping that the Zoom and TikTok deals can jump start those numbers, but trying to catch the market leaders Amazon, Microsoft and Google, never mind several other […]

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Google to pay out $1B to publishers to license content for new Google News Showcase Oct 01, 2020

Show notes

Google has long had a frenemy position with regards to the world of news: it can direct a lot of traffic to online publishers, but that’s only if people bother to click on links after getting the gist of the story from Google itself (and that’s before considering Google’s AMP approach on mobile that keeps […]

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

How Twilio built its own conference platform Oct 01, 2020

Show notes

Twilio’s annual customer conference was supposed to happen in May, but like everyone else who had live events scheduled for this year, it ran smack-dab into COVID-19 and was forced to cancel. That left the company wondering how to reimagine the event online. It began an RFP process to find a vendor to help, but […]

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

iRobot cofounder Helen Greiner named CEO of robotic gardening startup, Tertill Sep 30, 2020

Show notes

Boston-based robotic gardening startup Tertill this morning announced that it has appointed Helen Greiner as CEO and Chairman. The executive is best known for cofounding iRobot in 1990 along with fellow MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab members Rodney Brooks and Colin Angle (the company’s longtime CEO). At first glance, Tertill is a pretty natural fit for […]

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Greylock is trying to diversify tech’s wealth cycle Sep 30, 2020

Show notes

Greylock Partners has teamed up with Management Leadership for Tomorrow to address issues of diversity and inclusion in the technology industry. “Our view is this has to be a comprehensive approach,” MLT Founder and CEO John Rice told TechCrunch. “This is not just a coding program, mentor program, fellowship program. There are plenty of great […]

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Grammarly launches new features to improve your business writing Sep 29, 2020

Show notes

Grammarly, the popular spelling and grammar checker, is launching a few new features for its paying users today that go beyond some of its traditional tools to help its users make their overall writing not just technically correct but also more legible. That means the service can now help you restructure sentences for clarity, help […]

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Calling VCs in Rome and Milan: Be featured in The Great TechCrunch Survey of European VC Sep 29, 2020

Show notes

TechCrunch is embarking on a major new project to survey the venture capital investors of Europe, and their cities. Our survey of VCs in Rome and Milan will capture how the cities are faring, and what changes are being wrought amongst investors by the coronavirus pandemic. (Please note, if you have filled the survey […]

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Trump administration’s TikTok ban has been delayed, court rules Sep 28, 2020

Show notes

A U.S. federal court has said a ban on TikTok will not go into effectÂ on Monday as scheduled. The move to delay the anticipated ban will allow Americans to continue using the app while the court considers the ban’s legality and whether the app poses a risk to national security as the Trump administration claims. […]

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Amazon redesigns the Echo line with spherical speakers and swiveling screens Sep 28, 2020

Show notes

Amazon today announced a lot of new products including the new Echo speaker line. And the products looks dramatically different. Gone are the cylinders. They’re spheres now and look like nothing else on the market. The lights are now on the bottom, while there are still rounded buttons on the top. The Alexa software got […]

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices