May 22, 2019
Throw out your diary, Jour is a new app for guided journaling
Since Jour, a new app for private and portable journaling, dropped on the App Store two months ago, it’s racked up 80,000 users. No paid marketing or public…
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May 22, 2019
Zendesk acquires Smooch, doubles down on support via messaging apps like WhatsApp
One of the bigger developments in customer services has been the impact of social media — both as a place to vent frustration or praise (mostly frustration) and…
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Leak reveals Uber’s $9.99 unlimited delivery Eats Pass
What’s the cord-cutting equivalent to ditching your kitchen? Uber’s upcoming subscription to unlimited free food delivery. Uber is preparing to launch the $9.99 per month Uber Eats Pass,…
Read articleMay 21, 2019
DefinedCrowd offers mobile apps to empower its AI-annotating masses
DefinedCrowd, the Startup Battlefield alumnus that produces and refines data for AI-training purposes, has just debuted iOS and Android apps for its army of human annotators. It should…
Read articleMay 21, 2019
ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, plans to launch a free music streaming app
Does the overcrowded and cut-throat music streaming business have room for an additional player? The world’s most valuable startup certainly thinks so. Chinese conglomerate ByteDance, valued at more…
Read articleMay 20, 2019
Instagram’s IGTV copies TikTok’s AI, Snapchat’s design
Instagram conquered Stories, but it’s losing the battle for the next video formats. TikTok is blowing up with an algorithmically suggested vertical one-at-a-time feed featuring videos of users…
Read articleMay 19, 2019
Google reportedly suspends select business with Huawei over U.S. ban
The Trump administration Huawei ban is sure to have wide-ranging and long lasting effects for all parties. In the meantime, it seems, a number of those involved in…
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Under the hood on Zoom’s IPO, with founder and CEO Eric Yuan
Extra Crunch offers members the opportunity to tune into conference calls led and moderated by the TechCrunch writers you read every day. This week, TechCrunch’s Kate Clark sat…
Read articleMay 17, 2019
Minecraft Earth makes the whole real world your very own blocky realm
When your game tops 100 million players, your thoughts naturally turn to doubling that number. That’s the case with the creators, or rather stewards, of Minecraft at Microsoft,…
Read articleMay 16, 2019
ObjectiveEd is building a better digital curriculum for vision-impaired kids
Children with vision impairments struggle to get a solid K-12 education for a lot of reasons — so the more tools their teachers have to impart basic skills…
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