all News of 04/09/20

Gillmor Gang: Digital Ben

The Gillmor Gang — Frank Radice, Michael Markman, Keith Teare, Denis Pombriant and Steve Gillmor . Recorded live Sunday, March 29, 2020. The Gang returns with a Zoom recording, checking in from London, Seattle, Palo Alto, Boston and ...

Disney+ Hotstar Has About 8 Million Subscribers

We finally know just about how many subscribers Hotstar has amassed over the years in India. “Approximately 8 million.” Disney said on Wednesday that its eponymous streaming service now has  over 50 million subscribers , nearly 8 million of ...

Outrunning COVID-19 Twice

Outrunning COVID-19 twice image Editor’s note : Our writer Rita’s journey from China to the US and back again was planned months before the coronavirus pandemic descended on the world. That descent ended up turning a simple trip home into a kind of epic journey. The ...

‘We Learned A Lesson.’ Zoom’S CEO Wants You To Trust The Company Again

As businesses, schools and other organizations were forced to quickly, and sometimes haphazardly, move their operations online amid the COVID-19 pandemic , they embraced a number of tools making that shift possible. Among them: Zoom, a video ...

Disney+ Has More Than 50m Subscribers

The Walt Disney Company just announced that its streaming service Disney+ has more than 50 million subscribers. The service launched less than five months ago , and apparently had 28.6 million subscribers as of February 3. These “paid ...

Bessemer’S Tess Hatch On The Evolving Aerospace Market And COVID-19 Adjustments

The aerospace market is evolving quickly and merging with other segments of tech, making it an exciting space for both startups and investors — but the complications of the global pandemic are being felt by both. Bessemer Venture Partners investor ...

Original Content Podcast: We Have Mixed Feelings About Quibi

Quibi , the short-form, mobile-focused video service that Hollywood executive Jeffrey Katzenberg first hinted at in 2017 , officially  launched on Monday . After years of star-studded content announcements , not to mention $1.75 billion in ...

Deliveroo, Graphcore And Other Big UK Startups Say They’Re Being Cut Out Of COVID-19 Lending Relief

The UK government, like a number of other countries around the world such as the US, has stepped up its pace in providing relief in the form of loans for businesses being impacted by the coronavirus health crisis and the related shutdown that ...

Saudi Arabian Officials Announce Cease-Fire In Yemen Amid Coronavirus Pandemic

SANAA, Yemen — Saudi officials say the coalition fighting Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen will begin a cease-fire starting Thursday. The officials told journalists Wednesday night that the decision was in response to U.N. calls to halt ...

Will Civil Rights In Latin America Be A Permanent Casualty Of Coronavirus?

Bogota, Colombia—People are never more willing to give up their civil rights to the government than when they feel threatened. Nearly 19 years after the United States enacted the supposedly temporary measures of the PATRIOT Act , citizens still ...

Fifth Circuit Reinstates Texas Ban That Banned "Non-Essential" Medical Procedures, Including Most Abortions

From yesterday's In re Abbott , Fifth Circuit Judge Stuart Kyle Duncan, joined by Judge Jennifer Walker Elrod: To preserve critical medical resources during the escalating COVID-19 pandemic [especially "PPE," personal protective equipment], on ...

Stocks Rally Again As New COVID-19 Cases Show Signs Of Slowing

All major indices rose Wednesday, led by the Dow Jones Industrial Average, which increased 3.44% to close above 23,000 for the first time since March 13. Investors seemed heartened by comments made by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious ...

NASA Selects Masten Space Systems To Deliver Cargo To The Moon In 2022

NASA has chosen a new lunar surface delivery partner from its list of Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) vendors to actually transport stuff on its behalf – Mojave’s Masten Space Systems, which is being tapped by the agency to take ...

IFood Merges With Delivery Hero’S Domicilios.Com To Challenge Rappi In Colombia

Latin America’s leading legacy food delivery company iFood and Delivery Hero-owned Domicilios.com are merging in a bid to take on the food startup Rappi on its home turf. The price of the transaction was undisclosed, but will result in iFood ...

TechCrunch Live: Join USV Managing Director Albert Wenger For A Live Chat Thursday At 9am PDT

Startups big and small, across all industries, are affected by the novel coronavirus pandemic. From Etsy to MongoDB, from Twilio to Foursquare, these companies are looking for ways to capitalize and ultimately thrive in what has become a survivalist ...

No-Code Automation Platform Tonkean Raises $24m From Lightspeed

No-code automation platform Tonkean raises $24M from Lightspeed image As more companies find their workflows upended by remote work in the pandemic crisis, there are plenty of SaaS startups aiming to sell them a new path to streamlining processes. Tonkean is an SF startup selling a no-code automation platform to do ...

Mom-Focused Content Startup Motherly Raises $5.4m As It Expands Into Commerce

Mom-focused content startup Motherly raises $5.4M as it expands into commerce image Motherly CEO Jill Koziol admits that it was a tough pitch when she and her co-founder Liz Tenety first tried to get investors on-board in 2015. “We wanted to create a brand first and foremost,” Koziol told me. “We did not want to ...

Boris Johnson Isn’T The First British Leader To Fall Ill While In Office. Here’S What Happened When His Predecessors Took Time Off

U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson is in his third day of intensive care with COVID-19 , making him the first world leader to be forced to take a break from their post because of the coronavirus . In his absence, the country’s Cabinet is ...

Mass Antibody Testing In This Rural Colorado County Sheds Light On COVID-19's Prevalence And Lethality

Mass antibody testing is crucial to getting a handle on the scope and severity of the COVID-19 epidemic in the United States, since it reveals who has been exposed to the virus that causes the disease, including people who never had noticeable ...

How To Teach Your Kids During The Coronavirus Pandemic: Try 'Unschooling'

School's out…indefinitely.  Parents across the world are attempting to juggle their work schedules with taking care of their children full-time, putting them under enormous stress. Kerry McDonald, an education researcher and author of ...