Apple tweaks controversial iOS 15 Safari changes in latest beta – TechCrunch
by Sarah Perez | July 27, 2021 | News | 0 Comments
Apple is responding to user complaints and feedback about the controversial changes to the Safari mobile browser with today’s launch of iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 beta 4. The new Safari design first introduced at WWDC had moved the tab bar (URL bar) to the bottom of...
Covid Is the 21st Century’s Sputnik
by The Editor | July 27, 2021 | News | 0 Comments
America’s leadership of business, science and culture seemed unassailable in 1957. With less than 6% of the world’s population, the U.S. produced close to 40% of global economic output, according to a United Nations survey. Scientists working in the U.S. had...
Dan Olsen leads a product-market fit masterclass for the Startup Alley+ cohort – TechCrunch
by Marquise Foster | July 27, 2021 | News | 0 Comments
Yes Virginia, there are advantages to exhibiting in (the sold-out) Startup Alley at TC Disrupt 2021. Out of all the early-stage startups ready to exhibit on September 21-23, Team TechCrunch hand-picked 50 to form the Startup Alley+ cohort. Startup Alley+ is a...
Wall Street Gets a Chinese Education
by The Editor | July 27, 2021 | News | 0 Comments
The big surprise from this week’s slump in Chinese company stocks is that people are claiming to be surprised. President Xi Jinping has made plain for years that he intends to bring ever greater swathes of China’s private economy under the state’s control....
What I’ve learned after 5 years of buying common stock in startups – TechCrunch
by Ram Iyer | July 27, 2021 | News | 0 Comments
Jamie Goldstein Contributor Jamie is the founding partner of Pillar VC, a Boston-based seed-stage venture capital firm. He has spent the last 22 years investing in early-stage startups. More posts by this contributor Introducing the term-sheet grader From day...
Washington’s Extra Trillion – WSJ
by The Editor | July 27, 2021 | News | 0 Comments
The aging Americans who set federal Covid policy seem poised to impose yet another scientifically dubious burden on young people who are at little or no risk from the virus. CNN reports: The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is expected to recommend...
Monte Carlo’s Barr Moses will join us at TC Sessions: SaaS – TechCrunch
by Alex Wilhelm | July 27, 2021 | News | 0 Comments
Monte Carlo’s Barr Moses joins the data panel at TC Sessions: SaaS. See you there! As the clock ticks down on TechCrunch’s upcoming SaaS-focused event, we’re excited to announce that Monte Carlo co-founder and CEO Barr Moses will join us. Specifically, the...
It’s Time to Start Requiring Covid Vaccines
by The Editor | July 27, 2021 | News | 0 Comments
On Thursday, Kay Ivey, the unimpeachably conservative governor of a deep red state, treated her Alabama constituents to some straight talk. “I want folks to get vaccinated. That’s the cure,” she said. “The data proves that it works.” And it “doesn’t cost you...
Shopify allows merchants to sell NFTs directly through their storefronts – TechCrunch
by Mary Ann Azevedo | July 27, 2021 | News | 0 Comments
Shopify has made it possible for eligible sellers to sell NFTs (non-fungible tokens) via its platform, which opens up a whole new world for e-commerce merchants. On Monday, the NBA’s Chicago Bulls launched its first-ever NFTs –– including digital artwork of NBA...
A Controversial Tool Calls Out Thousands of Hackable Websites
by Andy Greenberg | July 27, 2021 | News | 0 Comments
Caceres freely admits that malicious hackers could use PunkSpider to identify websites to hack. But he argues that scanners that find web vulnerabilities have always existed. This one just makes the results public. "You know your customers can see it, your...
