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Daily Crunch: Spotify buys Gimlet and Anchor

The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here: 1. Spotify buys Gimlet and Anchor in podcast p...

Pluto TV will expand its free service with paid subscriptions, says new owner Viacom

Last month, Viacom picked up free streaming service Pluto TV for $340 million in cash. This week, the company spoke in more detail about its plans for Pluto TV — including its potential for ad-supported streaming as well as the ability to mark...

WhatsApp bans 2 million fake accounts per month

WhatsApp is on the offensive. In New Delhi on Wednesday, Facebook-owned WhatsApp held a press conference to share how it is tackling fake accounts and the spread of misinformation on its platform of 1.5 billion users. The conference was espec...

Microsoft’s Build developer conference returns to Seattle May 6-8

Microsoft’s Build developer conference is returning to Seattle May 6 to 8. This is a bit of a surprise since Microsoft itself leaked May 7 to 9 as Build’s dates last month, after all. But then Google’s announced exactly those dates...

Lime raises $310 million Series D round led by Bain Capital and others

Lime just announced it has raised a $310 million Series D round. Led by Bain Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Fidelity Ventures, GV and IVP, the round values Lime at $2.4 billion. “This new investment demonstrates the fundamental strength of our...

Google doubles down on its Asylo confidential computing framework

Last May, Google introduced Asylo, an open-source framework for confidential computing, a technique favored by many of the big cloud vendors because it allows you to set up trusted execution environments that are shielded from the rest of the (potent...

Get the Cuisinart Burr Grind & Brew Thermal coffeemaker on sale for nearly $57 off at Walmart

Good morning! The last thing you want to do is make your own cup of coffee first thing in the morning when you're confused and groggy. How are you expected to make coffee when it's the substance supposed to make you sharp and alert? Ideally, you'd...

Profits at The New York Times show media dinosaurs are ruling the internet

Today’s news that The (failing?) New York Times reported net income of $55.2 million, after losses a year earlier — and that its digital business raked in $709 million — is just one indicator that some of the nation’s oldest m...

Facebook will award bonuses to employees who fix its fake news, hate speech problems

Facebook wants all hands on deck when it comes to fixing the problems that have been dogging the website. One day after the social network celebrated its 15 year anniversary, Facebook announced that its overhauling its employee bonus structure to f...

iPhones are displaying fake '5G E' indicators: Why it matters

We knew it was coming. Users with beta versions of iOS 12.2 are reporting that their iPhone XS, XS Max, and XR phones are now displaying AT&T's "5G E" indicator. But these devices have not been upgraded to 5G. "5G E" is a lie: it's a form of 4G...

Big companies are not becoming data-driven fast enough

I remember watching MIT professor Andrew McAfee years ago telling stories about the importance of data over gut feeling, whether it was predicting successful wines or making sound business decisions. We have been hearing about big data and data-driv...