Over the next few days, Spotify will be launching its service in 85 new markets, and will also roll out 36 new languages on the platform. The news was announced at its online event, âStream Onâ today. The expansion includes markets across Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean. Combined, these markets include more [âŠ] Read more âș
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Spotify provided more details today about how it plans to monetize its investments in podcasts. The company said itâs launching a new audio advertising marketplace, the Spotify Audience Network, which will allow advertisers to reach listeners across Spotifyâs own Originals and Exclusives, as well as podcasts via Megaphone and creation tool Anchor, and its ad-supported [âŠ] Read more âș
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As part of its news announced at its live event today, Spotify announced a set of new creator tools and resources, including the expansion of Marquee, the launch of a tool called âDiscovery Modeâ into beta testing, the opening of the Canvas looping visual feature to all artists, and its plans to expand its Spotify [âŠ] Read more âș
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Splice, the LA-based, AI-infused, beat-making software service for music producers created by the founder of GroupMe, has managed to sample another $55 million in financing from investors for its wildly popular service. The github for music producers ranging from Hook N Sling, Mr Hudson, SLY, and Steve Solomon to TechCrunchâs own Megan Rose Dickey, Splice gained a [âŠ] Read more âș
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Mere days after we discussed Coinbase at $77 billion and Stripe at $115 billion in the private markets, those same semi-liquid exchanges have provided a new valuation for the cryptocurrency company. Itâs now $100 billion, per Axiosâ reporting. Good thing we argued last week that there could be some merit to Coinbaseâs $77 billion secondary market [âŠ] Read more âș
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Spotify today announced its plans to roll out a new high-end subscription service, called Spotify HiFi, along with other new features and updates, including a new podcast morning show, content deals, and features for creators. Spotify HiFi will launch later this year to Spotify Premium subscribers in select global markets, allowing them to listen to [âŠ] Read more âș
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TechCrunch is embarking on a major project to survey the venture capital investors of Europe, and their cities. Our survey of VCs in Oslo and Norway will capture how the country is faring, and what changes are being wrought amongst investors by the coronavirus pandemic. Weâd like to know how Norwayâs startup scene is [âŠ] Read more âș
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Iâve piloted Spot a number of ways in a number of different settings. I had the chance to control the robot for the first time at one of our Robotics events a number of years back, and drove one around an obstacle course at Boston Dynamicsâ headquarters. More recently, I navigated it via web browser [âŠ] Read more âș
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A new market forecast predicts app spending will reach $270 billion by the year 2025, including paid downloads, in-app purchases, and subscriptions. According to data from Sensor Tower, in-app spending will return to pre-pandemic levels of stable growth over the next few years, downloads will continue to grow, and, perhaps most notably, itâs predicting app [âŠ] Read more âș
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The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here â just click The Station â to receive it every weekend in your inbox. Hi friends and new readers, welcome back to The Station, a newsletter dedicated to all the present and future ways people and packages move from Point A to [âŠ] Read more âș
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Without knowing anyone whoâd gone through a similar experience, I had to decide how I would handle my status as a pregnant person when speaking with investors. Read more âș
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Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunchâs venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This is Equity Monday, our weekly kickoff that tracks the latest private market news, talks about the coming week, digs into some recent funding rounds and mulls over a larger theme or narrative from the private markets. You [âŠ] Read more âș
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This morning Creatio, a Boston-based software company, announced that it has raised $68 million. Volition Capital, a growth-equity fund, led the round. The deal was a minority investment in the startup. The deal is notable not merely thanks to its sheer size, but because up until today Creatio had bootstrapped. Thatâs according to founder and [âŠ] Read more âș
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As live audio chat app Clubhouse ascends in popularity around the world, concerns about its data practices also grow. The app is currently only available on iOS, so some developers set out in a race to create Android, Windows and Mac versions of the service. While these endeavors may not be ill-intentioned, the fact that [âŠ] Read more âș
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After online datingâs tremendous 2020 growth that culminated in last weekâs epic Bumble IPO, a new entrant has tossed its hat into the dating app ring. Snack, founded by Kimberly Kaplan, looks to merge the popularity and format of TikTok with the dating world. Kaplan hails from Plenty of Fish, where she was one of [âŠ] Read more âș
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Identifying and supporting anti-champions during the sales cycle helps enterprise software startups close more deals. Read more âș
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Nanitâs nursery camera pairs computer vision with specially-patterned clothing to help answer the question that most new parents ask themselves roughly every 90 seconds: âIs my baby still breathing?â This morning the company is announcing that it has raised an additional $25 million in a Series C round led by GV. As part of the [âŠ] Read more âș
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Retrofitting buildings to make them more energy efficient and better at withstanding climate change induced extreme weather is going to be a big, multi-billion dollar business. But itâs one thatâs been hard for low-income communities to tap, thanks to obstacles ranging faulty incentive structures to an inability to adequately plan for which upgrades will be [âŠ] Read more âș
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Netflix today is launching a new feature that aims to bring more offline content to users who opt in automatic downloads. With âDownloads for Youâ enabled, the Netflix app will download recommended TV shows and movies to your mobile device based on your tastes, as determined by your Netflix watch history. After turning on the [âŠ] Read more âș
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David Baga is going to be getting a new paycheck, which is fitting all things considered. Even, an âon-demand payâ startup that âevensâ out paychecks for workers to give them financial stability and flexibility, will announce later this morning that Baga is joining the company as its new CEO effective March 1, replacing co-founder and [âŠ] Read more âș
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