TechCrunch Master Template TechCrunch Newsletter
| | | | | Tuesday, January 14, 2020 ⢠By Anthony Ha |
|
Happy Tuesday Visa acquires Plaid, Google gets aggressive against cookies and a lot of people downloaded Disney+. Here’s your Daily Crunch for January 14, 2020. |
|
|
|
| You can compare what Plaid does to Stripe â but instead of facilitating payments, Plaid helps developers share banking and other financial information more easily. Plaid raised $250 million at the end of 2018, with both Mastercard and Visa quietly participating in the round. So Visa must be pretty happy with how the startup has developed since then. Read more |
| | Image Credits: Getty Images |
|
|
| |
| The fact that Google will drop support for these cookies â which are typically used to track users across the web â doesnât necessarily come as a surprise, given the company’s announcements around privacy in Chrome. But this aggressive timeline is new. Read more |
|
|
|
| Following the appâs mid-November launch in the U.S., Disney+ was downloaded more than 30 million times in Q4 2019 â according to a new report from SensorTower, that’s more than double the downloads for the runner-up, TikTok. Read more |
| | |
|
|
| The announcement marks the end of the companies’ litigation before the Bombay High Court, where Warner Music was seeking an injunction to prevent Spotify from using its music in India. Spotify ended up launching in India anyway, but without a number of Warner Music titles. Read more |
|
|
|
| Home robots have already had a few false starts, including some high-profile flare-outs like Anki and previous CES darling Kuri. But Darrell Etherington argues that between slow-burn categories and the sheer volume of newer products, it now seems certain weâre on a path that will lead to robots becoming common household items. (Extra Crunch membership required.) Read more |
| | Image Credits: Bridget Bennett/Bloomberg / Getty Images |
|
|
| Moving forward, the Justin Kan-founded startup will focus on its software for startups navigating fundraising, hiring and collaborating with lawyers. Atrium also plans to ramp up its startup advising services, and it’s doubling down on its year-old network of professional service providers that help clients navigate day-to-day legal work. Read more |
|
|
|
| The show will be held at Gateway Sheraton Hotel in Los Angeles on June 25, right in the neighborhood of Americaâs most powerful players in space, including Boeing, Northrop, Lockheed, Raytheon, Teledyne, The Aerospace Corporation, the U.S. Air Force and, of course, SpaceX. Read more |
|
|
|
| |
Newest Jobs from Crunchboard | | Software Developer at Quorum (Washington, DC, USA) DevSecOps Engineer at Brivo Systems LLC (Bethesda, MD, USA) Chief Coder/Programmer and IT Specialist. Possible Future CTO. at Launch Medical (Los Angeles, CA, USA) Full Stack Web Developer at SOCi (San Diego, CA, USA) P/T Instructor positions (technical)-Workforce and Economic Development-non-benefited at Bunker Hill Community College (Boston, MA, USA) See more jobs on CrunchBoard Post your tech jobs and reach millions of TechCrunch readers for only $200 per month. |
|
|
|
| |
| |
