911 emergency services go down across the US after CenturyLink outage
911 emergency services in several states across the U.S. went down after a massive outage at a CenturyLink data center. The outage began after 12pm ET...
Smart speakers hit critical mass in 2018
We already know Alexa had a good Christmas — the app shot to the top of the App Store over the holidays, and the Alexa service...
Private equity buyouts have become viable exit options — even for early-stage startups
Ajay Chopra Contributor Ajay Chopra co-founded Pinnacle Systems in his living room and grew it to a multi-billion dollar public company before becoming a venture capitalist...
Tesla names Oracle’s Larry Ellison, Walgreens executive to board as part of SEC settlement
Tesla has added two independent directors to its board — Oracle founder, chairman and CTO Larry Ellison and Walgreens executive Kathleen Wilson-Thompson — as part of a...
Bradley Tusk on mobile voting, Uber’s IPO race with Lyft and the Dems taking over the House
Hello! Welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. As you know, typically, a few of us try cramming...
Put down your phone if you want to innovate
We are living in an interstitial period. In the early 1980s we entered an era of desktop computing that culminated in the dot-com crash — a...
Geek Trivia: Which Astronaut’s First Moonwalk Words Were Intended To Settle A Bet?
Which Astronaut’s First Moonwalk Words Were Intended To Settle A Bet? Alan Shepard Buzz Aldrin Neil Armstrong Pete Conrad Think you know the answer? Source :...
How to Change the Keyboard on Your Android Phone
There are more keyboard apps available on Android than you’d care to try, but we do recommend trying at least a few of the best keyboard...
How to Control a Chrome Extension’s Permissions
Google promised control of each Chrome extension’s permissions back in October, and that long-promised feature finally arrived near the end of December. Extensions no longer require...
The Best Outlets With USB-C For All Of Your New Devices
You’ve got a shiny new device that charges via USB-C. Why wrestle with yet another power brick an instead go for a dedicated USB-C outlet? Whether...
