It was a light week for the Experts program, but what we missed in quantity, we made up for in quality: Joey Noble, community manager for DemandCurve, shared a teardown of Zapier’s homepage that contains insights you can use to improve the storytelling techniques on your own website, including more effective copywriting and calls to […]
China’s next generation of hackers won’t be criminals. That’s a problem.
A spate of policies beginning in 2015 put China in a position to replace contracted criminals with new blood from universities.
A wave of LatAm fintechs are laying down new global commerce rails
When it comes to e-commerce, the world is smaller than ever. Developing a new global financial infrastructure capable of supporting a world dominated by digital commerce is a massive challenge.
Daily Crunch: Berlin-based revenue workspace Weflow takes aim at ‘Salesforce fatigue’
Hello friends and welcome to Daily Crunch, bringing you the most important startup, tech and venture capital news in a single package.
Lessons we learned from the last week of fintech earnings
Let’s examine a series of winning fintech results from BNPL, consumer finance, proptech and corporate finance before turning to fintech’s earnings misses from Q3 2021.
TechCrunch+ roundup: Collecting zero-party data, Airbnb CEO interview, crypto volatility
On Wednesday, November 17 at 3 p.m. PST/6 p.m. EST, I’ll interview Ben Parr on Twitter Spaces about how zero-party marketing best practices. To get a reminder, please follow @techcrunch on Twitter.
Microsoft’s shift to the cloud is a lesson in corporate evolution
Jared Spataro, corporate vice president for Microsoft 365, talks about Microsoft’s move to a cloud-centric model.
Why MoviePass’ co-founder bought back the brand
News broke yesterday that MoviePass co-founder Stacy Spikes purchased ownership of the beleaguered brand for an undisclosed sum. The transaction follows one of the more spectacular tech flameouts in recent memory. The service was plagued by ever-changing price tiers, blowback from the country’s biggest theater chain and major issues with its app. Spikes tells TechCrunch […]
Nintendo’s Zelda Game & Watch is another worthwhile stocking stuffer for retro collectors
I have in my hands the Legend of Zelda Game & Watch, the second in Nintendo’s line of whimsical throwback handhelds clearly meant as stocking stuffers for those who already have (or can’t find) a Switch. It does a fine job, and the three old-school Zelda games included are great options for Nintendo-hard adventure that […]
Trialjectory on track to match 50K cancer patients with clinical trials this year: 35% are from underrepresented groups
Each year millions of people are diagnosed with cancer. Meanwhile, hundreds of clinical trials testing potential treatments are ongoing. But there’s a gap between the people who need treatment and the people who actually end up in those studies. Women and ethnic minorities are often underrepresented in cancer trials. For example, one 2018 meta-review of […]