 |  | | Friday, January 17, 2020 ⢠By Anthony Ha |
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Happy Friday NBCUniversal prepares for its big streaming launch, Elon Musk shares details about SpaceX’s Starship and Xiaomi spins off its smartphone brand. Here’s your Daily Crunch for January 17, 2020. |
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| NBCUniversal shared the details about its upcoming streaming service at an investor event yesterday. There will be a free tier of Peacock that includes more than 7,500 hours of programming, including classic shows and the current seasons of freshman broadcast series. But if you want to see the original programming that NBCUniversal is creating for Peacock â as well as get early access to âThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallonâ and âLate Night with Seth Meyersâ and twice as many hours of content overall â youâll need Peacock Premium, which will be bundled for Comcast and Cox subscribers, and will cost $4.99 per month otherwise. Read more |
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| Answering questions on Twitter, Musk said that Starship â meant to support a human colony on Mars â will need to operate on a brisk schedule. The spacecraft is being designed with the plan of flying it for an average of three flights per day, each carrying over 100 tons per flight, for a total of more than 1,000 flights per year per vehicle. Read more |
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| POCO, a sub-smartphone brand that Xiaomi created in 2018, is spinning off a standalone company that will now run independently of the Chinese electronics giant. Read more |
|  Image Credits: Anindito Mukherjee / Bloomberg / Getty Images |
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| Zendesk acquired Base CRM in 2018 to give customers a CRM component to go with its core customer service software. After purchasing the company, it changed the name to Sell, and now the company has launched a new Sell Marketplace. Read more |
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| Funnel is a Stockholm-based startup that offers technology to help businesses prepare â or make âbusiness-readyâ â their marketing data for better reporting and analysis. The company says it will use the injection of capital to accelerate its plans in the U.S. Read more |
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| Lizhi, one of Chinaâs biggest audio content apps, is debuting on Nasdaq today under the ticker symbol LIZI. It’s going public before its major Chinese competitors, but Ximalaya is expected to also list in the United States later this year. Read more |
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| Space as an investment target is trending upwards in the VC community, but specialist firm Space Angels has been focused on the sector longer than most. The network of angel investors just published its most recent quarterly overview, revealing that investors put nearly $6 billion in capital into space companies across 2019. (Extra Crunch membership required.) Read more |
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