VCs have growing appetite for ‘AgriFood’
Venture investors are pouring billions of dollars into feeding their hunger for food and agriculture startups. Whether that trend line is due to enthusiasm for the...
Amazon’s Lord of the Rings Series Confirms Its Setting, in the Vaguest Sense Possible
Last week, Amazon started quietly teasing just where its massive Lord of the Rings TV show would take place in the Middle-earth timeline. Now, the speculation...
Daily Crunch: Zuckerberg lays out his privacy vision
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...
Airbnb agrees to acquire last-minute hotel-booking app HotelTonight
As Airbnb gears up for its big leap into the public markets, it’s expanding its accommodations platform to include more than just treehouses and quirky homes....
Sign up before March 11 and save $500 on Disrupt SF 2019 tix
Want to trim a cool $500 off your ticket price to Disrupt San Francisco 2019? It’s easy to do, but you need to act before registration officially...
Take your mobile games business to the next level with Google AdMob and Google Ads at GDC
Each year, the global games community gets together in San Francisco for the Game Developers Conference (GDC), a major industry event for developers, publishers, and business...
A look into one woman’s job at Google: opening doors for other women
When I first talked to Elise Birkhofer, it was 5pm, the last phone call of the day. My energy was low and my feet were dragging—but...
Amazon’s Lord of the Rings Hints at an Epic Prequel
Lord of the Rings fans rejoice: in their new adaptation, Amazon is going far back. This is no re-adaptation. No, it’s going bigger—as many suspected and...
Scaleway releases cloud GPU instances for €1 per hour
French cloud-hosting company Scaleway is rolling out new instances with an Nvidia Tesla P100 GPU. The company is opting for simple pricing with a single configuration...
Stalin’s Scheherazade: Was Nobel Prize-Winner Mikhail Sholokhov a Brilliant Writer or a Communist Con Man?
Stalin’s Russia was full of self-promoting con-men with invented personas, ambitious intellectuals with questionable credentials, and audacious imposters who for a time succeeded in both faking...
