Summary: Contagious by Jonah Berger
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Meta plans hiring freeze, NASA shoots an asteroid, and Elon’s texts about Twitter are made public
Hi all! Welcome back to Week in Review, the newsletter where we quickly sum up some of the most read TechCrunch stories from the past seven days. The goal? Even when you’re swamped, a quick skim of WiR on Saturday morning should give you a pretty good understanding of what happened in tech this week. … Read more
Notes against note-taking systems
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Dish and Sling TV drop Disney, ESPN, and others due to contract dispute
Alex Castro / The Verge Dish and its Sling TV streaming service have dropped Disney’s package of channels after the companies couldn’t come to a contract agreement (via Deadline). In an announcement on its site, Dish says the Disney Channel, ESPN, FX, Freeform, National Geographic, and some local ABC networks are no longer available on … Read more
Ten Years of TypeScript
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Welcome to spooky season in startups
Welcome to Startups Weekly, a fresh human-first take on this week’s startup news and trends. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. A multibillion dollar acquisition, IPO projections and some good ol’ VC and billionaire drama? It would be unfair to say that this week in tech and startups felt like 2021’s boom cycle; especially … Read more
This Week in Apps: Google goes visual, Twitter copies TikTok, OG app drama
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. Global app spending reached $65 billion in the first half of 2022, up only slightly from the $64.4 billion during the same period in 2021, as hypergrowth fueled by … Read more
It’s unclear what will happen in VC in Q4, but it definitely won’t be boring
Venture capital has been on a roller coaster this year. It came into 2022 riding the wave of the strongest year for venture deployment on record, just before the stock market plummeted and dragged venture down with it. As the third quarter comes to a close, things have started to get really interesting — again. … Read more
The latest Pixel Watch leak shows band styles, watch faces, and more
Braided, silicone, and leather Pixel Watch band styles. | Image: Slashleaks via OnLeaks As if the launch of the Pixel Watch hasn’t been spoiled by enough leaks already, a new set of images shared with Slashleaks by reliable leaker OnLeaks (via 9to5Google), show the smartwatch in even more detail just days ahead of Google’s launch … Read more
The rise of product-led growth is creating opportunities for startups
Welcome to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s inspired by the daily TechCrunch+ column where it gets its name. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. More companies are adopting product-led growth (PLG), in which the product itself does most of the selling, and usage-based pricing (UBP) — meaning users … Read more
Why Men Are Hard to Help
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The TC39 Process
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Build for the future now with Mammoth Biosciences and Mayfield
Trevor Martin’s Mammoth Biosciences aims to use CRISPR technology to democratize disease detection. Join this TechCrunch Live event to hear from Trevor Martin and Mayfield investor Ursheet Parikh on how Mammoth Biosciences positioned itself to achieve the lofty goal. Spoiler: Trevor Martin spent time putting the basics in place to ensure future success. This TechCrunch … Read more
DNS Providers as Piracy Fighters?
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Boom! Antitrust Bill Passed
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