Observability platform Chronosphere raises another $115M at a $1.6B valuation

January 10, 2023

The market for cloud native observability tools remains hot. As with so many new technologies, containerization solved a fair number of problems but also introduced its share of new ones, including a lot of added complexity that is, in part, driven by the dynamic nature of this architecture. That’s both its strength and downfall, so […]

Observability platform Chronosphere raises another $115M at a $1.6B valuation by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch

The Easy Company raised $14.2M to build an easy-to-use ‘social’ crypto wallet

January 10, 2023

The Easy Company has raised $14.2 million in a seed round and launched its “social” crypto wallet to help onboard more mainstream audiences, it shared exclusively with TechCrunch. Easy aims to combine user-curated profiles with engaging social features so that people can search, navigate and discover the world of web3 on their own. Today, its […]

The Easy Company raised $14.2M to build an easy-to-use ‘social’ crypto wallet by Jacquelyn Melinek originally published on TechCrunch

IonQ acquires quantum networking specialist Entagled Neworks

January 10, 2023

IonQ, the trapped ion quantum computing company that went public via a SPAC in late 2021, today announced that it has acquired Entangled Networks, a Toronto-based startup that helps industrial and academic users build and optimize multi-quantum-processor solutions, using specialized networking techniques. The two companies did not disclose the price of the acquisition. This marks […]

IonQ acquires quantum networking specialist Entagled Neworks by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch

The Download: iRobot privacy scandal, and AI that makes images

January 10, 2023
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Roomba testers feel misled after intimate images ended up on Facebook When Greg unboxed a new robot vacuum cleaner in December 2019, he thought he knew what he was getting into. As a…

FemTech: In a Quest For Better Female Health

January 10, 2023
The term ‘femTech’ was coined in 2016 by Danish entrepreneur Ida Tin, as a way to legitimize and drive innovation in the female health technology sector

Buy with Prime, which brings Prime to third-party sites, officially launches in U.S. on Jan. 31

January 10, 2023

Amazon announced this morning it’s expanding its Buy with Prime service to U.S.-based merchants by the end of the month. The service, which allows third-party merchants to offer Prime benefits like free shipping and returns on their own apps, was initially only available to those merchants who were already using Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) to […]

Buy with Prime, which brings Prime to third-party sites, officially launches in U.S. on Jan. 31 by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch

Google’s Extension SDK aims to bring latest features to older Android versions

January 10, 2023

Fragmentation has been a longstanding complaint about the Android ecosystem. Often users miss out on features of the latest Android version because they are using older devices that are no longer updated. To reduce the gap, Google has released the first public version of the Extension SDK, which aims to bring features of the latest […]

Google’s Extension SDK aims to bring latest features to older Android versions by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch

Coinbase to cut 20% jobs and abandon ‘several projects’

January 10, 2023

Coinbase plans to cut 950 jobs, or about 20% of its workforce, and shut down several projects as the U.S. crypto exchange giant looks to reduce its expenses to increase its “chances of doing well in every scenario.” This is the second round of major layoff at the crypto exchange, which eliminated 18% of its […]

Coinbase to cut 20% jobs and abandon ‘several projects’ by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch