Mark Zuckerberg is ‘proud’ of how Facebook handled its scandals this year
After the year Mark Zuckerberg’s had, you’d think he’d struggle to appear so chipper. “I’m proud of the progress we’ve made,” he said in an end-of-year...
‘Bird Box’ breaks a Netflix record with 45M+ people watching in its first week
Sandra Bullock’s star power can still sell a movie, apparently. Though reviews for the Netflix horror film “Bird Box” have been lukewarm — the movie has...
The Very Slow Movie Player shows a film over an entire year
It seems someone took Every Frame a Painting literally: The Very Slow Movie Player is a device that turns cinema into wallpaper, advancing the image by...
Samsara banks $100M at a $3.6B valuation for its internet-connected sensors
Sensor data platform Samsara confirmed this morning that it had closed a new round of funding from existing investors Andreessen Horowitz and General Catalyst that values...
Capsicum launches a beautiful daily planner for iOS
Calendaring and note-taking apps have never really filled the void left behind when we moved away from our old, paper-based daily planners to digital devices. But...
911 emergency services go down across the US after CenturyLink outage
911 emergency services in several states across the U.S. went down after a massive outage at a CenturyLink data center. The outage began after 12pm ET...
Smart speakers hit critical mass in 2018
We already know Alexa had a good Christmas — the app shot to the top of the App Store over the holidays, and the Alexa service...
Private equity buyouts have become viable exit options — even for early-stage startups
Ajay Chopra Contributor Ajay Chopra co-founded Pinnacle Systems in his living room and grew it to a multi-billion dollar public company before becoming a venture capitalist...
Tesla names Oracle’s Larry Ellison, Walgreens executive to board as part of SEC settlement
Tesla has added two independent directors to its board — Oracle founder, chairman and CTO Larry Ellison and Walgreens executive Kathleen Wilson-Thompson — as part of a...
Bradley Tusk on mobile voting, Uber’s IPO race with Lyft and the Dems taking over the House
Hello! Welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. As you know, typically, a few of us try cramming...
