Shaun O’Meara Contributor Shaun O’Meara, global field CTO at Mirantis, has worked with customers designing and building enterprise IT infrastructure for 20 years. Several weeks ago, the Linux community was rocked by the disturbing news that University of Minnesota researchers had developed (but, as it turned out, not fully executed) a method for introducing what…
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Meditation and mindfulness apps have become hot perks. Companies are increasingly offering mental health services to employees to help alleviate pandemic strains. Even before lockdowns, the investment case was gaining growing recognition. Studies suggest every £1 spent yields an average return of £5, according to Deloitte. A growing number of virtual mental-health service providers have emerged to…
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Lila Ibrahim is the first ever chief operating officer of DeepMind, one of the world’s best known artificial intelligence companies. She has no formal background in AI or research, which is the primary work of the company, yet she oversees half of its workforce, a global team of some 500 people, including engineers and scientists.…
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Relevance is often tied to rarity. As a result, the first anything — whether a birthday, scientific feat or female vice president — comes with its own weight. Whether that pressure is warranted is a discussion in and of itself, but today, we’ll focus on the ripple effects of India’s first unicorn IPO: Zomato. Food…
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Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s inspired by what the weekday Exchange column digs into, but free, and made for your weekend reading. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. Friends! Hello and thanks for dropping by. Today we have lots of our usual fare: Funding rounds…
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Like some of the best consumer tech from the last decade, I didn’t know I needed an e-bike until I was on one, breezing down the bike lane contemplating my newfound freedom. Before buying a Nintendo Switch, I would have never guessed how much a candy-colored gaming console that I could pop out of a…
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Long before China’s cyber space agency warned Didi to slow down its blockbuster $4.4bn public offering in New York, the country’s data security hawks had started preparing their legal arsenal to face another perceived threat from the US. In March 2018, the US passed the Cloud Act, allowing law enforcement to request data stored outside…
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To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for July 16, 2021. A PSA: A few of us at TechCrunch took some time this week to chat about funding rounds, covering them and how…
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At our recent Early Stage event, we had the opportunity to talk at length with Arvind Purushotham, the managing director and global head of Citi Ventures, about how startups should think about corporate venture arms, including what a check from an enterprise like Citi can mean, and how to leverage that kind of Goliath once…
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Google favors large sites more than ever, basically because it is trying to avoid providing misinformation in our polarized age. But sometimes the small sites have key new information — like the content that your startup is trying to share with the world. How can you stand out in the right search results, as algorithms continue…
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