May 19, 2020
Daily Crunch: Disney’s streaming chief departs for TikTok
TikTok enlists a big name from Disney as its new CEO, Walmart is shuttering its Jet e-commerce brand and EasyJet admits to a major data breach. Here’s your…
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May 18, 2020
Disney streaming exec Kevin Mayer becomes TikTok’s new CEO
Kevin Mayer, head of The Walt Disney Company’s direct-to-consumer and international business, is departing to become CEO of TikTok, as well as COO of the popular video app’s…
Read articleMay 17, 2020
The Great Reset
Ann Miura-Ko Contributor Share on Twitter Ann Miura-Ko is a co-founding partner at Floodgate, a seed-stage VC firm. A repeat member of the Forbes Midas List and the…
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LinkedIn adds polls and live video-based events in a focus on more virtual engagement
With a large part of the working world doing jobs from home when possible these days, the focus right now is on how best to recreate the atmosphere…
Read articleMay 9, 2020
This Week in Apps: WWDC goes online, Android 11 delays, Facebook SDK turns into app kill switch
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the Extra Crunch series that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they support and the money that flows through it…
Read articleMay 8, 2020
CRV’s Saar Gur wants to invest in a new wave of games built for VR, Twitch and Zoom
Saar Gur is adept at identifying the next big consumer trends earlier than most: The San Francisco-based general partner at CRV has led investments into leading consumer internet…
Read articleMay 5, 2020
Social network for women Peanut raises $12M Series A amid pandemic
Peanut, an app that began as a tool for finding new mom friends, has evolved into a social network now used by 1.6 million women to discuss a…
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All product creators can learn something from Jackbox Games’ user experiences
Jason Shen Contributor Share on Twitter Jason Shen is a three-time startup founder and the CEO of Midgame, a gaming technology company backed by Techstars and Betaworks. More…
Read articleApril 30, 2020
How this startup built and exited to Twitter in 1,219 days
By the summer of 2016, Marie Outtier had spent eight years as a consultant advising media agencies and martech companies on marketing growth strategy. Pierre-Jean “PJ” Camillieri started…
Read articleApril 29, 2020
TikTok tops 2 billion downloads
TikTok, the widely popular video sharing app developed by one of the world’s most valued startups (ByteDance), continues to grow rapidly despite suspicion from the U.S. as more…
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