Bob Iger goes from managing Mickey to directing a milk replacement startup as new Perfect Day boardmember
2020-10-21
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Bob Iger, the chairman and former chief executive at Walt Disney is trading his mouse ears for milk substitutes as the new director of massively funded dairy replacement startup Perfect Day. Milk substitutes are a $1 trillion category and Perfect Day is angling to be the leader in the market. Iger’s ascension to a director […]
Wrike launches new AI tools to keep your projects on track
2020-10-21
By: Anirudh Singh
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In: Artificial Intelligence, Business, business software, Enterprise, Entertainment, Food, Home & Lifestyle, machine learning, Mythology, optical character recognition, project management, Sports, Technology, wrike
Project management service Wrike today announced a major update to its platform at its user conference that includes a lot of new AI smarts for keeping individual projects on track and on time, as well as new solutions for marketers and project management offices in large corporations. In addition, the company also launched a new […]
Lessons from Datto’s IPO pricing and revenue multiple
2020-10-21
By: Anirudh Singh
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In: Business, Cloud, Datto, egnyte, Enterprise, enterprise software, Entertainment, Food, Fundings & Exits, Home & Lifestyle, Mythology, Sports, Startups, TC, Technology, The Exchange
Last night Datto priced its IPO at $27 per share, the top end of its range that TechCrunch covered last week. The data and security-focused software company had targeted a $24 to $27 per-share IPO price range, meaning that its final per-share value was at the top of its estimates. The Exchange explores startups, markets […]
Mine raises $9.5M to help people take control of their personal data
2020-10-21
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In: Business, Entertainment, Food, Funding, Fundings & Exits, Gradient Ventures, Home & Lifestyle, mine, Mythology, Privacy, Sports, Startups, TC, Technology
TechCrunch readers probably know that privacy regulations like Europe’s GDPR and California’s CCPA give them additional rights around their personal data — like the ability to request that companies delete your data. But how many of you have actually exercised that right? An Israeli startup called Mine is working to make that process much simpler, […]
Join Extra Crunch Live on October 27 for a conversation on early stage and storytelling success with GV’s M.G. Siegler
2020-10-21
If anyone knows early stage investing and startups, it’s M.G. Siegler. As a General Partner at GV, he’s personally invested in his fair share of rocket ship companies early on in their lifecycles, including Anchor, Slack, Medium and Stripe. He’s also a TechCrunch alum, and a former startup operator himself as a web dev. We’re […]
Sam’s Club will deploy autonomous floor-scrubbing robots in all of its U.S. locations
2020-10-21
By: Anirudh Singh
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In: Brain Corp, Business, Entertainment, Food, Home & Lifestyle, Mythology, Robotics, sams club, Sports, Technology, Walmart
The past six months have seen a fairly aggressive acceleration in the option of robotics and automation as companies look for ways to augment (and, likely, replace in some instances) human workers. The appeal is certainly clear during massive pandemic-fueled shut downs. Sam’s Club has been on the robotic floor cleaning chain for a bit […]
Amazon’s Whole Foods now offers one-hour pickup to Prime members at all locations
2020-10-21
Amazon is now offering Prime members one-hour grocery pickup at all Whole Foods Market locations across the U.S., the company announced this morning. Prime members can use the Amazon app or website to place orders from the Whole Foods Market tab to shop, then select their one-hour pickup window at checkout on orders of $35 […]
Landing AI launches new visual inspection platform for manufacturers
2020-10-21
By: Anirudh Singh
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In: andrew ng, Artificial Intelligence, Business, deep learning, Entertainment, Food, Home & Lifestyle, landing.ai, manufacturing, Mythology, Sports, TC, Technology
As companies manufacturer goods, human inspectors review them for defects. Think of a scratch on smartphone glass or a weakness in raw steel that could have an impact downstream when it gets turned into something else. Landing AI, the company started by former Google and Baidu AI guru Andrew Ng, wants to use AI technology […]
How Yext reinvented itself on its way to going public
2020-10-21
By: Anirudh Singh
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In: Business, Entertainment, Extra Crunch Live, Food, Fundings & Exits, Home & Lifestyle, howard lerman, Mythology, newco, Sports, Startups, TC, Technology, yext
Last week, Yext CEO Howard Lerman dropped by Extra Crunch Live for a chat about his former startup, pivoting and becoming the CEO of a public company. Yext, which focuses on business information and enterprise search products, went public in 2017, making it one of the first companies to demo at a TechCrunch event and […]
TikTok details how it’s taking further action against hateful ideologies
2020-10-21
By: Anirudh Singh
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In: Anti-Defamation League, Business, Entertainment, european commission, european union, Food, Home & Lifestyle, Mythology, Sports, TC, Technology, tiktok
TikTok said on Wednesday it’s strengthening its enforcement actions against hate speech and hateful ideologies to include “neighboring ideologies,” like white nationalism and others, as well as statements that emerge from those ideologies. In a blog post, TikTok explained that it regularly evaluates its enforcement processes with the help of global experts to determine when […]