After its first earnings miss in two years, Amazon shares get walloped in after-hours trading – TechCrunch

Amazon shares fell by nearly 7%, or $118.38, in after-hours trading on Thursday after the company reported its first earnings miss in two years. Financial analysts had predicted that the launch of one-day shipping would eat into Amazon’s earnings, but even with the forewarning investors pummeled the stock after the market closed. It didn’t help…

The SaaS gold rush will become the ‘Hunger Games’ – TechCrunch

For investors, the next 5 years won’t be as easy as the last 10 Rory O’Driscoll 12 hours Rory O’Driscoll Contributor Enterprise software investor Rory O’Driscoll led Scale Venture Partners’ investments in Box, DocuSign, ExactTarget, and Omniture, and currently invests in AI-powered business applications and automation technologies. More posts by this contributor Measuring and benchmarking…

SpaceX intends to offer Starlink satellite broadband service starting in 2020 – TechCrunch

SpaceX will look to launch its Starlink service for consumers sometime next year, SpaceX President and COO Gwynne Shotwell confirmed at a media roundtable meeting at the company’s offices in Washington during the International Astronautical Congress this week (via SpaceNews). Shotwell, who also appeared on stage at the event to share some updates around SpaceX’s…

SpaceX intends to offer Starlink satellite broadband service starting in 2020 – TechCrunch

SpaceX will look to launch its Starlink service for consumers sometime next year, SpaceX President and COO Gwynne Shotwell confirmed at a media roundtable meeting at the company’s offices in Washington during the International Astronautical Congress this week (via SpaceNews). Shotwell, who also appeared on stage at the event to share some updates around SpaceX’s…

Siemens to buy US edge software startup Pixeom to expand digital factory offer

Germany industrial giant Siemens has announced a deal to acquire US startup Pixeom for an undisclosed fee, in a move to boost its industrial automation and digitalization division.  Pixeom, responsible for the original Raspberry Pi-based personal cloud platform back in 2014, offers a software-defined edge computing platform to enterprises which runs on commodity hardware. Siemens…

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine explains how startups can help with Artemis Moon missions – TechCrunch

At this week’s International Astronautical Congress, where the space industry, international space agencies and researchers from around the world convene to discuss the state of space technology and business, I asked NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine about what role he sees for startups in contributing to his agency’s ambitious Artemis program. Artemis, named after Apollo’s twin…