Instagram has never truly failed at anything, but judging by modest initial view counts, IGTV could get stuck with a reputation as an abandoned theater if the company isn’t careful. It’s no flop, but the long-form video hub certainly isn’t an instant hit like Instagram Stories. Two months after that launched in 2016, Instagram was…
UK startup Skyports is investing in London rooftop spaces with a view to building a drone infrastructure network. Company bosses hope their ‘vertiports’ will become as ubiquitous in urban centres as dedicated bicycle storage and car parking spaces. That vision relies on the promise of drone technology becoming a widespread reality in London: for urban…
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week we had a full house which was super great. TechCrunch’s Connie Loizos and Sarah Buhr held down the fort in San Francisco along with our guest, Susan Mac Cormac, a partner at Morrison Foerster where she…
As the trade war rages between Washington and Beijing, Waymo has confirmed that it has decided to join Tesla by opening operations in China – the world’s biggest automotive market. The autonomous vehicle division of Google’s parent Alphabet has registered a company in Shanghai called Huimo Business Consulting. As well as being a near homophone…
The World Bank has launched the first bond on a blockchain with the Commonwealth Bank of Australia. The A$110 million ($87 million) bond-i (blockchain operated new debt instrument) — so named, I’m assuming, because of Australia’s famed Bondi Beach (bankers have the funnies!) — is the first bond to be created, allocated, transferred and managed…
As the trade war rages between Washington and Beijing, Waymo has confirmed that it has decided to join Tesla by opening operations in China – the world’s biggest automotive market. The autonomous vehicle division of Google’s parent Alphabet has registered a company in Shanghai called Huimo Business Consulting. As well as being a near homophone…
Eventbrite filed an IPO today for $200 million, confirming reports earlier this summer that the event-planning company plans to go public later this year. According to the document, the company plans to raise $200 million from selling Class A shares, but has yet to list the price per share. As for what Eventbrite intends to…
The UK government has recognised three universities as Academic Centres of Excellence in Cyber Security Research (ACE-CSR), bringing the total number of these centres to 17. The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (ESPRC) have identified the University of Kent, King’s College London, and Cardiff University as carrying…
The largest trend in photography over the last five years or so, not counting smartphones, has been the emergence and maturity of mirrorless camera systems. These operate in a very different manner from traditional SLRs, and as such market leaders with decades embedded in the latter — namely Canon and Nikon — have resisted making…
Internet of Business says The political landscape on either side of the Atlantic has rarely felt as divided as it does today. Opinions are entrenched and the discourse suggests that conclusions must be binary, that there is no middle ground. That may be a reflection of circumstance. The issues surrounding Brexit and President Trump, for…
