Daily Crunch: Saving-investing app Acorns files to go public in $2.2B SPAC deal
Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for Thursday, May 27. From the home desk, TechCrunch has a few notes to share. First, we’re hosting a virtual meetup in Pittsburgh as part of our national tour spotlighting neat startup markets. And if you are a super early-stage founder, you can still apply to take part in the upcoming Battlefield competition at Disrupt. Do it. It’s going to be a blast. See you at both! Alex
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Lots of people are working on NFTs: Whether you’re a crypto fan or not, you’ve heard of non-fungible tokens, or NFTs. If you have already digested the NBA TopShot hype wave, buckle in, because a lot of folks are still building in the NFT world. That includes Anima, which is bringing AR to NFTs and
Daily Crunch: In $8.45B deal, Amazon to buy MGM Studios
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Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for Wednesday, May 26. Yes, we’re going to get to the huge Amazon-MGM deal, but we have to chat about a startup first. Have you heard of Poparazzi? If you have kids you might have it’s the latest social phenom. And it just ran its way up to the top of the App Store. (Too bad it’s not
Daily Crunch: Before the pandemic, Expensify made remote work cool and profitable
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Welcome to Daily Crunch for May 25, 2021. Whether you are a developer, a startup fanatic or merely someone with wanderlust, we have something for everyone today. Well, except for disappointed investors in Lordstown Motors. They are stuck holding the bag today after the American electric vehicle company announced a pretty awful set of earnings.
But for the rest of us, there’s quite a lot of tech and startup news to enjoy. Let’s get to it! Alex
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Welcome to Daily Crunch for Monday, May 17. We have a
lot to get to, so we’ll keep our introduction incredibly curt and simply note that early-stage founders can still apply to the upcoming TechCrunch Battlefield event for another week or so. Neesha has the details here. Alex
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Today the biggest stories concern the never-ending flow of cash to insurtech, the ability of software companies to post accelerating revenue growth, and the market leverage of major tech platforms:
Daily Crunch: Stripe buys Y Combinator alum Bouncer for undisclosed sum
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Wrapping the week here at Daily Crunch with a big thanks to Henry for taking over yesterday and a fist bump to everyone who has written in with notes on its format. We’re still tinkering, so your notes are read and (mostly) appreciated, even if we can’t respond to everyone.
Stick with us as we get this fully figured out. Alex
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