Ecobee CEO and Founder speaks to TechCrunch Live about CES, Nest, and finding product market fit

TechCrunch Live hosted a special, in-person event at CES featuring a long conversation with Ecobee CEO and founder Stuart Lombard. This was our first in-person TechCrunch Live, and I can’t wait to do more. We talked about a lot — how a startup can maximize CES, build delightful products, and how hardware startups can raising … Read more

Vista Equity Partners to acquire insurance software company Duck Creek for $2.6B

Private equity giant Vista Equity Partners has announced plans to take Duck Creek Technologies private in a $2.6 billion deal. Boston-based Duck Creek, a SaaS-based software provider for the property and casualty (P&C) insurance sector, went public back in 2020, initially hitting a market cap of around $5 billion. After peaking at around $7 billion … Read more

New Algorithm Closes Quantum Supremacy Window

In what specific cases do quantum computers surpass their classical counterparts? That’s a hard question to answer, in part because today’s quantum computers are finicky things, plagued with errors that can pile up and spoil their calculations. By one measure, of course, they’ve already done it. In 2019, physicists at Google announced that they used … Read more

5 cloud trends to track in 2023

Josh Berman Contributor Share on Twitter Josh Berman is president of C2C Global. He is an expert in community building with a long track record of establishing connections between technology companies and their target audiences. More posts by this contributor 6 cloud trends to watch in 2022 In many ways, 2022 was a year of … Read more

FLIK’s unified checkout solution gives Southeast Asian sellers more control over data

E-commerce in Southeast Asia is very fragmented, with consumers having their choice of marketplaces, e-commerce sites and social commerce. Many prefer to buy from large marketplaces, says FLIK co-founder Ahmad Gadi, because those platforms offer promotions and cashback deals. But for direct-to-consumer brands, marketplaces aren’t the best way to get consumer data or foster brand … Read more