Jan 15, 2021	 Ron Miller
GitLab has confirmed with TechCrunch that it raised a $195 million secondary round on a $6 billion valuation. CNBC broke the story earlier today. The company's impressive valuation comes after i
Jan 15, 2021	 Brian Heater
Of course COVID-19 was bound to be an unavoidable topic during the first-ever all-virtual CES. After all, the topic is at front of mind regardless of the topic these days. Close to a year into the pan
Jan 15, 2021	 Anthony Ha
WhatsApp delays enforcement of a controversial privacy change, Apple may get rid of the Touch Bar in future MacBooks and Bumble files to go public. This is your Daily Crunch for January 15, 2021. The
Jan 15, 2021	 Lucas Matney
This week, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey finally responded publicly to the company's decision to ban President Trump from its platform, writing that Twitter had "faced an extraordinary and untenable
Jan 15, 2021	 Jonathan Shieber
Marc Lore, the executive vice president, president and CEO of U.S. e-commerce for Walmart, is stepping down a little over four years after selling his e-commerce company Jet.com to the country's
Jan 15, 2021	 Connie Loizos
Coinbase has a problem. As interest in bitcoin has soared along with its price, the popular cryptocurrency exchange has found itself the target of a growing spate of angry customers who haven't
Jan 15, 2021	 David Teten
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Jan 15, 2021	 Natasha Mascarenhas
Top Hat, a startup that digitizes textbooks and turns them into an interactive experience for college students, announced on Wednesday that it has acquired yet another business: Fountainhead Press. Th
Group Nine's SPAC goes public
Group Nine Media revealed last month that it was forming a SPAC (short for special purpose acquisition corporation) in order to raise money for acquisitions. The company has now moved forward with tho
Jan 15, 2021	 Greg Kumparak
If you've got an Apple TV+ trial that's set to expire sometime between now and June, good news: you're getting some free bonus time. Apple TV+ first launched in November of 2019, alo
Desktop Metal buys fellow 3D printing company EnvisionTEC for $300M
Desktop Metal this morning announced its intention to purchase fellow 3D printing company EnvisionTEC. Founded in Germany in 2002, EnvisionTEC specializes in photopolymer additive manufacturing, putti
Jan 15, 2021	 Manish Singh
WhatsApp said on Friday that it won't enforce the planned update to its data-sharing policy until May 15, weeks after news about the new terms created confusion among its users, exposed the Face
Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson says wisdom lies with your developers
Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson knows a thing or two about unleashing developers. His company has garnered a market cap of almost $60 billion by creating a set of tools to make it easy for programmers to inser
Jan 15, 2021	 Megan Rose Dickey
Block Party, an anti-harassment startup that aims to help folks feel safer on social media founded by Tracy Chou, launched today. Currently only available for Twitter, Block Party helps people filter
Fired GitHub employee who warned co-workers about Nazis is seeking legal counsel
On the day a violent mob of Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol, a worried GitHub employee warned his co-workers in the D.C. area to be safe. After making a comment in Slack saying, "stay safe
DOT evaluated 11 GPS replacements and found only one that worked across use cases
Jan 15, 2021	 Danny Crichton
The United States' GPS system, which is operated by the Defense Department, offers every one of us critical infrastructure around what is known as positioning, navigation and timing (PNT). Positioni
Jan 15, 2021	 Alex Wilhelm
The dating and networking service Bumble has filed to go public. The company, launched by a former co-founder of the IAC-owned Tinder, plans to list on the Nasdaq stock exchange, using the ticker sym
Corporate credit card platform Moss raises $25.5 million
Jan 15, 2021	 Romain Dillet
German startup Moss has raised a $25.5 million (€21 million) funding round led by Valar Ventures. Existing investors Cherry Ventures and Global Founders Capital are also participating. Moss provides
EMA warns over doctored COVID-19 vaccine data hacked and leaked online
Jan 15, 2021	 Natasha Lomas
The European Medical Agency (EMA) has warned that information on COVID-19-related medicines and vaccines, which was stolen in a cyberattack last December and leaked online earlier this week, includes
Jan 15, 2021	 Kirsten Korosec
Another Uber spinout is in the works. Postmates X, the robotics division of the on-demand delivery startup that Uber acquired last year for $2.65 billion, is seeking investors in its bid to become a s