Roku alleges Google is using its monopoly power in YouTube TV carriage negotiations
...that they may lose access to the YouTube TV channel on its platform after negotiations with...
By Sarah PerezApril 26, 2021
TikTok's QAnon ban has been 'buggy'
...theory across their respective platforms. According to a report by NPR this weekend, TikTok had...
By Sarah PerezOctober 19, 2020
- Extra Crunch
How one founder leveraged debt to drive early growth and avoid dilution
Avi Freedman is like any other founder: He wants to build a great company. In this case network...
By Danny CrichtonAugust 21, 2020
This Week in Apps: Apple's antitrust case, Microsoft could buy TikTok, Facetune comes for video
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the TechCrunch series* that recaps the latest OS news, the...
By Sarah PerezAugust 1, 2020
- Extra Crunch
CockroachDB, the database that just won’t die
For Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis, those two worlds collided when they created the widely...
By Bob ReselmanJuly 15, 2021
Taste intelligence startup Halla closes $4.5M Series A1 to predict which grocery items shoppers will...
Halla wants to answer the question of how people decide what to eat, and now has $4.5 million in...
By Christine HallJuly 16, 2021
Daily Crunch: ZoomInfo announces plans to acquire sales intelligence tool Chorus.ai for $575M
There have never been so many great startups: That’s what TechCrunch learned today from investors....
By Alex WilhelmJuly 13, 2021
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Scaling CockroachDB in the red ocean of relational databases
Most database startups avoid building relational databases, since that market is dominated by a few...
By Bob ReselmanJuly 15, 2021
Google fined $592M in France for breaching antitrust order to negotiate copyright fees for news...
...fine is notable as it's over half of the entire $1BN news licensing pot that Google announced...
By Natasha LomasJuly 13, 2021
Perch acquires Web Deals Direct for $100M+ to boost to its Amazon roll-up play
..., an Amazon seller that owns 30 brands of its own (pulling in $80 million in revenue annually)...
By Ingrid LundenJuly 13, 2021