Facebook makes a billion-dollar acquisition, we learn more about Twitter’s Clubhouse-style feature and Moderna applies for emergency authorization for its COVID-19 vaccine. This is your Daily Crunch for November 30, 2020. The big story: ... read more

Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge Developers have now made it possible to emulate PS2 games on the Xbox Series X and S using the RetroArch emulator — something that the ... read more

Engineers are racing to fix a failed piece of equipment on NASA’s future deep-space crew capsule Orion ahead of its first flight to space. It may require months of work to replace ... read more

With the release of watchOS 7, Apple at last turned the Apple Watch into the GPS-based kid tracker parents have wanted, albeit at a price point that requires careful consideration. As someone in the target ... read more

No one has a bigger stake in keeping the Senate Republican than the president. ... read more

Prime Minister Costa veils his plan with pretty words about European values. ... read more

His economic advisers share a belief in the power of federal regulation and spending. ... read more

Students at Brown nonsensically accuse Roman emperors of ‘white supremacy.’ ... read more

Start with issues that cross party lines. For some ideas, look to November’s state ballot measures. ... read more

‘How to help kids understand why school inexplicably opens and closes.’ ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Zoom is doing pretty well. The company reported $777.2 million in revenue during its third quarter, well over 4x its revenue from the same quarter ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple has hired Josh Elman, a prominent venture capitalist and former vice president of product at stock-trading app Robinhood, to help it improve iOS app ... read more

Josh Elman is moving over to Apple, he announced on Twitter today, saying he will be focused on the company’s App Store and helping “customers discover the best apps for them.” Asked for more ... read more

Vista Equity Partners hasn’t been shy about scooping up enterprise companies over the years, and today it added to a growing portfolio with its purchase of Gainsight.  The company’s software helps clients with customer success, ... read more

Infogrid, an IoT startup which can retrofit an existing building to make it ‘smart’, has raised $15.5 million. The Series A funding round was led by Northzone with participation from JLL Spark, Concrete VC, The ... read more

The Raspberry Pi Foundation has been on a roll this year with cool new hardware: there’s the upgraded Raspberry Pi 4; the new Raspberry Pi camera; and my personal favorite: the Raspberry ... read more

Chris Kim and Nate Williams formed Union Labs with the conviction that investors and companies aren’t collaborating closely enough to ensure the success of the startups they back. Kim is the former co-founder and chief ... read more

New Xbox Series X dynamic backgrounds. | Image: Microsoft Microsoft is starting to roll out the November update for the Xbox Series X, Series S, and Xbox One consoles today. The software ... read more

TX Zhuo Contributor Share on Twitter TX Zhuo is the managing partner of Fika Ventures, focusing on fintech, enterprise software and marketplace opportunities. ... read more

Nonprofit donor management platform EveryAction is buying Mobilize, a company that connects Democratic campaigns to volunteers and helps marshal activists toward progressive causes. Mobilize, formerly known as MobilizeAmerica, grew out of Higher Ground Labs, an ... read more

We’re just about two weeks away from launching TC Sessions: Space 2020, our first focused foray into early-stage space startups and the essential satellite industries that support them. Buy your pass and join us on ... read more

Photo by Katelyn Mulcahy / Getty Images On December 26th, the Arizona Cardinals / San Francisco 49ers game will skip national television networks entirely and head to Prime Video, Twitch, and two ... read more

Image: Disney In line with bad things happening in 2020, Disney has digitally removed a lone crew member who accidentally appeared in the background of a recent Mandalorian episode. The crew ... read more

Image: Tesla When it first appeared, Tesla’s tequila was an April Fools’ joke on Elon Musk’s Twitter account. It was also called “Teslaquila.” But that name, ultimately, wouldn’t make it to the ... read more

Today is the final day of the Green Days Sale. Don’t miss out on an opportunity to save 25% on annual Extra Crunch membership. You can claim the deal here. Extra Crunch helps you spot technology ... read more

Virgin Orbit has announced the target timing for its next orbital flight attempt, which follows a demonstration launch earlier this year that went mostly well – right up until its rocket separated from the ... read more

Sophie Alcorn Contributor Share on Twitter Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ ... read more

On the heels of news that DoorDash is targeting an initial IPO valuation up to $27 billion, C3.ai also dropped a new S-1 filing detailing a first-draft guess of what the richly valued company might ... read more

Earlier this month, Twitter announced it would soon begin testing its own Clubhouse rival, called Audio Spaces. The new product will allow Twitter users to gather in dedicated spaces for live conversations with another ... read more

"On TV And Video" is a column exploring opportunities and challenges in advanced TV and video.  Today’s column is written by Alex White, COO at Peer39. While conversations around connected TV tend to center on ... read more

The Galaxy Buds Pro are rumored to look similar to the Galaxy Buds Plus (above), but the charging case will be different. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge It was ... read more

The Chairman of the FCC, Ajit Pai, has announced he will leave his position on January 20 as President-elect Biden is sworn in. Pai’s tenure has been a controversial one, and while he ... read more

Spurred by Zoom's removal of data limits across is platform on Thanksgiving Day, U.S. broadband usage surged vs. Thanksgiving 2019, according to estimates released today by OpenVault. ... read more

Today Facebook made one of its biggest plays yet to build services for the businesses on its platform: it has announced that it is acquiring Kustomer, a startup founded with the aim of disrupting the ... read more

The Pokémon Company International and The Wand Company are teaming up to release premium replicas of the classic Poké Ball, Great Ball, Ultra Ball, and Premier Ball. These $99.99 die-cast metal balls ... read more

A French administration in charge of consumer rights and fraud has investigated on Wish, the mobile e-commerce platform that recently filed to go public. While the company generated $1.9 billion in revenue in 2019, ... read more

Images: Nikola Motor Company General Motors ditched its plans to acquire an equity stake in troubled electric truck startup Nikola. GM will also no longer help engineer and manufacture Nikola’s battery-electric and ... read more

Thanksgiving and Black Friday online shopping this year had big gains on 2019, but both still fell somewhat short of expectations in what is proving to be a good if more muted holiday shopping season, ... read more

Moldafsky will be responsible for all marketing including global brand strategy and management, product marketing, media, research and analytics, meetings, events and sponsorships and reputation. ... read more

Moldafsky will be responsible for all marketing including global brand strategy and management, product marketing, media, research and analytics, meetings, events and sponsorships and reputation. ... read more

This morning Salut, an app-based service that allows fitness trainers to host classes virtually, announced that it has raised $1.25 million in a new financing event. The round was led by Charles Hudson, an investor ... read more

Despite the occurrence of a sweeping, global, historic health crisis, all American consumers aren't experiencing it in the same way. ... read more

The largely celebratory coverage unwittingly emphasizes the triumph of the press’s own class. ... read more

Our machines have no secret ‘vote flipping’ algorithm. We have no ties to dictator Hugo Chávez. ... read more

“We think of diversity as a keystone issue for the cannabis industry,” said Curio WMBE Fund managing director Jerel Registre in a conversation with TechCrunch. Registre’s conviction around this program is obvious as he explains ... read more

A woman from the Mayan community of Tecoh wades through the water in a flood caused by Tropical Storm Cristobal in the town of Tecoh near Merida in Yucatan State, Mexico, on June ... read more

The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive it every weekend in your inbox. Hello and welcome back to The Station, a ... read more

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CRED, a two-year-old startup that is helping credit card users in India improve their financial behaviour, has raised $80 million in a new financing round, a source familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. The ... read more

Facebook is reportedly nearing a deal to acquire a platform specializing in customer service that will value the startup -- Kustomer -- at a little more than $1 billion. ... read more

A couple of years ago, French President Emmanuel Macron initiated the Tech for Good Summit by inviting 50 tech CEOs to discuss the challenges in the tech industry and make some announcements. Usually, tech ... read more

Worldwide linear TV advertising is expected to fall 16% -- $29.9 billion this year -- to $155.6 billion, the worst decline on record, according to ad and marketing research company WARC. ... read more

Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has announced plans to step down from his position when President-elect Joe Biden is inaugurated on January 20th. “It has been the honor ... read more

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In what should have been a period of intense audience interest for major conservative news sites -- the October lead-in to the 2020 presidential election -- many of the biggest experienced significant audience erosion vs. ... read more

NYIAX has forged partnerships with major holding companies to drive advertising as it builds out an omnichannel marketplace, and is now focused on expanding available inventory through digital out-of-home and video. ... read more

Photo by Blake Nissen for The Boston Globe via Getty Images Moderna plans to file for authorization of its COVID-19 vaccine today, after the final analysis of its clinical trial data confirmed ... read more

Dominik Schiener Contributor Dominik Schiener is co-Founder and Chairman of the IOTA Foundation. He has been in the blockchain space since 2011, with several startups in Switzerland, UK ... read more

DeepMind, the AI technology company that’s part of Google parent Alphabet, has achieved a significant breakthrough in AI-based protein structure prediction. The company announced today that its AlphaFold system has officially solved a protein ... read more

The rumors ignited last Thursday that Salesforce had interest in Slack. This morning, CNBC is reporting the deal is all but done and will be announced tomorrow. Chances are, this is going to a big ... read more

Photo by ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images Two of the year’s most anticipated public listings — DoorDash and Airbnb — will seek higher than expected valuations for their IPOs, new filings show. ... read more

Among the solutions being proffered for the ongoing deprecation of the cookie is returning to a method of targeting people based on what interested them to land on a piece of content in the first ... read more

Materialize, the SQL streaming database startup built on top of the open source Timely Dataflow project, announced a $32 million Series B investment today led by Kleiner Perkins with participation from Lightspeed Ventures. While it ... read more

Exciting gifts for your favorite gamers Continue reading… ... read more

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This is Equity Monday, our weekly kickoff that tracks the latest big news, chats about the ... read more

This morning, DoorDash filed a new S-1 document, this time updating the market about the price it expects to command during its public offering. The food-delivery giant gave a range of $75 to $85 ... read more

Billings for the assignment are estimated at $300 million annually. The award followed a formal review that the global coffee and tea distributor began earlier this year. ... read more

GM is backing away from an agreement to take a stake in electric automaker Nikola Corp, marking the collapse of a deal that has been problematic since it was announced just two months ago. Shares ... read more

The Raspberry Pi Foundation has released a new product today. It’s a tiny $5 fan combined with a small heatsink for the Raspberry Pi 4. It works with the official case, below the top ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Italian Competition Authority, Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato or AGCM, has fined Apple €10 million (around $12 million) for making misleading claims ... read more

European Union lawmakers are considering whether current rules aimed at limiting the practice of geoblocking across the bloc should be extended to cover access to streaming audio-visual content. Access to services like Netflix tends to ... read more

ServiceNow, the cloud-based IT services company, is making a significant acquisition today to fill out its longer-term strategy to be a big player in the worlds of automation and artificial intelligence for enterprises. It is ... read more

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Woot is offering the best price yet on the bean-shaped Samsung Galaxy Buds Live wireless earbuds. This model has gone as low as $130 during ... read more

“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Myles Younger, Senior Director of MightyHive and Ken Archer, VP ... read more

Cyber Monday is here. It’s the last big shopping opportunity of 2020, and if you didn’t already take advantage of some deals that debuted over the weekend, now’s your chance. Every retailer ... read more

The vaccine might deliver a newly liberated audience, but that is the extent of its impact for brands. ... read more

New drama series capable of generating critical heat or viewer buzz for basic cable have virtually disappeared. ... read more

While the media industry’s enthusiasm for addressable TV is building, it will remain a relatively small part of the TV advertising pie, says Dave Morgan, CEO and Founder of Simulmedia in this podcast. This episode ... read more

Drugmaker Moderna has completed its initial efficacy analysis of its COVID-19 vaccine from the drug’s Phase 3 clinical study, and determined that it was 94.1% effective in preventing people from contracting COVID-19 across 196 confirmed ... read more

Earlier this year, I collaborated with Jason Baldwin, global head of product management at WPP, on this project to describe five major trends in martech that would shape the decade ahead for agencies and ... read more

Apple’s marketing of iPhones as ‘water resistant’ without clarifying the limits of the feature and also having a warranty that excludes cover for damage by liquids has got the company into hot water in ... read more

Spotify’s Christmas Hits playlists was one of the ones to get an accompanying story. | Screenshot: Spotify Spotify is testing a new Snapchat-style Stories feature alongside some of its playlists. On its ... read more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The UK government is banning the installation of new Huawei 5G equipment from September 2021 as part of its plans to phase out the Chinese ... read more

The UK government has squeezed the timetable for domestic telcos to stop installing 5G kit from Chinese suppliers, per the BBC, which reports that the deadline for installation of kit from so-called ‘high risk’ vendors ... read more

Food delivery apps have been a big deal this year for consumers stuck at home and unable (or unwilling) to go to restaurants or grocery stores; and for investors who are eyeing the opportunity to ... read more

We are now into the all-important holiday sales period, and new numbers from Gartner point to some recovery underway for the smartphone market as vendors roll out a raft of new 5G handsets. Q3 smartphone ... read more

Universal Studios Japan has announced an opening date for its long-awaited Nintendo-themed area. The Super Nintendo Land zone will open at the Osaka theme park on February 4th, 2021. That’s actually a ... read more

SMIC, one of largest chip makers in the world, is among several companies that the Department of Defense plans to designate as being owned or controlled by the Chinese military, reports Reuters. Earlier this month, ... read more

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Snap Is Back It’s been a loooong, dark year for publishers, but there has been at least one bright spot: Snapchat. Digiday reports that ... read more

BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti said on the Digiday Podcast that plugging HuffPost into the larger BuzzFeed organization may cost the news publisher some revenue in the first six months after the acquisition closes. But ... read more

Media and agency professionals’ livers, rejoice: The dreaded holiday party gauntlet shall not be run in 2020. With social distancing measures locked in through the end of 2020, the boozy, lavish — maybe even dangerous — ... read more

This article is part of the Future of Work briefing, a weekly email with stories, interviews, trends and links about how work, workplaces and workforces are changing. Sign up here. In general, virtual events are boring, at ... read more

This year, some retailers and major marketers are treating Cyber Monday as a Cyber Week or even as an unofficial Cyber Month, boasting sales once reserved for a single day for much of November. Lengthening ... read more

The Note 20 5G (left) is getting a new red color, while the Z Flip 5G (right) will be sold in white. | Image: Samsung Samsung’s Galaxy Note 20 5G and Z ... read more

2020 was a year that broke many companies. But it may also end up being a year when those that were able to invest in marketing created a new foothold that catapulted them toward growth. ... read more

In the last couple of years, most of the noise about digital ad targeting has been made at the intersection of two channels – video and mobile. But the growth in streaming audio consumption, coupled ... read more

Primer, the U.K. fintech that wants to help merchants consolidate their payments stack and easily support new payment methods in the future, has raised £14 million in Series A funding. The round was led by ... read more

Thanks I’m giving for the start of the first big online season. Yes, the pandemic has put in place a gigantic move to the digital for our immediate and accelerated future. We all know ... read more

London HQ’d Firstminute Capital has announced its second early-stage venture fund of $111m (£87m). Founded and cornerstoned in 2016 by Brent Hoberman CBE (best known as co-founder of lastminute.com and MADE.com), together with Spencer Crawley ... read more

John Boyega stars in Small Axe: Red, White and Blue | Amazon Prime I would like to discuss my THOUGHTS about the Netflix movie Happiest Season with you all but I don’t ... read more