by Anthony Ha | Feb 28, 2020 | Business Enhancements, Startups
A new startup called Notivize aims to give product teams direct access to one of their most important tools for increasing user engagement — notifications. The company has been testing the product with select customers since last year and says it has already sent...
by Lucas Matney | Feb 28, 2020 | Business Enhancements
The “Sent via Superhuman iOS” email signature has become one of the strangest flexes in the tech industry, but its influence is enduring, as the $30 per month invite-only email app continues to shape how a wave of personal productivity startups are...
by Alex Wilhelm | Feb 28, 2020 | Business Enhancements
That’s it, that’s the whole post. How many unicorns will exit before the market turns?
by Frederic Lardinois | Feb 28, 2020 | Business Enhancements
With the next version of Windows 10, coming this spring, Microsoft’s Cortana digital assistant will lose a number of consumer skills around music and connected homes, as well as some third-party skills. That’s very much in line with Microsoft’s new...
by Anthony Ha | Feb 28, 2020 | Business Enhancements, Startups
End Game Interactive CEO Yang C. Liu has a refreshingly straightforward description of what he and his co-founder Luke Zbihlyj are up to: “We’re just building games. And to be honest, we don’t know what we’re doing.” Despite this self-proclaimed...
by Mike Butcher | Feb 28, 2020 | Business Enhancements, Companies
In emerging markets, up to 80% of the population may have to rely on informally-run public transport to get around. Literally, privately-run buses and cars. But journey-planning apps that work well for commuters in developed markets like New York or London do not work...
by Alex Wilhelm | Feb 28, 2020 | Business Enhancements, Startups, Venture Capital
Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between. All around, this has been a tough week. The coronavirus is spreading and worry is running high as infections mount. In economic terms, global markets...
by Josh Constine | Feb 28, 2020 | Business Enhancements, Startups
It wasn’t a fad. Yolo became the country’s No. 1 app just a week after launch by letting teens ask for anonymous replies to questions they posted on Snapchat. But nine months later, Yolo is still in the top 100 iOS apps and has 10 million active users. Now...
by Alex Wilhelm | Feb 28, 2020 | Business Enhancements, Startups, Venture Capital
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. What a week. What an insane, heart-stopping, odd, and stuffed week. I’m utterly exhausted. But, in better news, all of that great...
by Frederic Lardinois | Feb 27, 2020 | Business Enhancements, Companies, M&A
Contract management service DocuSign today announced that it is acquiring Seal Software for $188 million in cash. The acquisition is expected to close later this year. DocuSign, it’s worth noting, previously invested $15 million in Seal Software in 2019. Seal...
