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Sinemia faces consumer pushback and a class action suit over a battery of complaints

Sinemia faces consumer pushback and a class action suit over a battery of complaints

When Sinemia first came across our radar, the company was happily riding the wave of anti-MoviePass publicity. With its chief competition in the midst of what looked to be a historic collapse, Sinemia happily grabbed headlines as a what looked to be more stable alternative for movie ticket subscriptions.

Last July, at the height of MoviePass’ meltdown, we asked Sinemia co-founder and CEO Rifat…

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Actors lead fake lives on social media – Actress, Belinda Effah

Actors lead fake lives on social media – Actress, Belinda Effah

Actress, Belinda Effah, has said she is not comfortable with the lifestyle that a lot of her colleagues portray on social media. Effah told Sunday Scoop that many of them portrayed an image that was a façade. . She said, “The things I see posted on social media by my colleagues are appalling. It is […]

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To stop copycats, Snapchat shares itself

To stop copycats, Snapchat shares itself

Evan Spiegel has finally found a way to fight back against Mark Zuckerberg’s army of clones. For 2.5 years, Snapchat foolishly tried to take the high road versus Facebook, with Spiegel claiming “Our values are hard to copy”. That inaction allowed Zuckerberg to accrue over 1 billion daily Stories usersacross Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook compared to Snapchat’s 186 million total daily users.…

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Equity transcribed: Funding news round-up, a16z’s future, an upcoming IPO and more Lyft

Equity transcribed: Funding news round-up, a16z’s future, an upcoming IPO and more Lyft

Welcome back to this week’s transcribed edition of Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast that unpacks the numbers behind the headlines. Here we put the words of our wildly popular venture capital podcast, Equity, into Extra Crunch members’ eyes instead of their ears. This week, TechCrunch’s Kate Clark and Crunchbase News’s Alex Wilhelm get rapid-fire on funding news from around…

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The future of news is conversation in small groups with trusted voices

The future of news is conversation in small groups with trusted voices

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Chikai Ohazama is the founder and CEO of Muxgram, which offers messaging products like the upcoming Sunday Beagle. He previously co-founded Keyhole (Google Earth/Maps) and held leadership roles at Google for 11 years.

When I first came out to California, one of my favorite places to go for sushi was in downtown…

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Mr. Latin Leads TAMPAN To Ailing Alabi Yellow, Donates Huge Money

Mr. Latin Leads TAMPAN To Ailing Alabi Yellow, Donates Huge Money

Colleagues of ailing veteran actor, Mr. Samuel Oludayo Akinpelu a.k.a. Alabi Yellow, have reached out to him with a huge amount of money for his treatment, Global Excellence can report authoritatively. The umbrella body of the Yoruba movie practitioners, TAMPAN, led by star actor, Mr. Bolaji Amusan a.k.a. Latin, sources said, sent a delegation to […]

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A record $2.5B went to US insurance startup deals last year, and big insurers are in all the way

A record $2.5B went to US insurance startup deals last year, and big insurers are in all the way

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Corporate biotech venture funding rises again

2019 US VC funds take a more boutique approach

Insurance policies are confusing as hell, but the basic business proposition is pretty simple. For policyholders, it’s a way to get paid if something bad happens. And for insurers, it’s a way to make money charging people who…

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Some ruminations on decentralization of identifications

Some ruminations on decentralization of identifications

It’s tax season, which has me thinking about one of decentralized technology’s holy grails: self-sovereign identities. It’s a stirring vision, of a world in which control over our driver’s licenses, passports, birth certificates, social security numbers — the table stakes to participate in the modern economy — rests in our hands, rather than that of the governments who issue them and the…

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Tesla’s automated parking feature will be rolled out to U.S. owners next week

Tesla’s automated parking feature will be rolled out to U.S. owners next week

Tesla is preparing to roll out a more capable and robust version of its automated parking feature known as Enhanced Summon next week, CEO Elon Musk tweeted Saturday.

The tweet comes just days after the company released a new version of Navigate on Autopilot, an advanced driving feature that is viewed as a step towards full automated driving on highways.

In the tweet, Musk writes “Tesla Enhanced…

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GPS Rollover is today. Here’s why devices might get wacky

GPS Rollover is today. Here’s why devices might get wacky

The Global Positioning System time epoch is ending and another one is beginning, an event that could affect your devices or any equipment or legacy system that relies on GPS for time and location.

Most clocks obtain their time from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). But the atomic clocks on satellites are set to GPS time. The timing signals you can get from GPS satellites are very accurate and…

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Scooters, remote workers, ethics, the future of fintech, etc.

Scooters, remote workers, ethics, the future of fintech, etc.

Editor’s Note: refocused newsletters

It was another dizzying week here at Extra Crunch as you will shortly see in this newsletter.

One change that we are making: we are simplifying our newsletters to keep you better informed on what is happening on Extra Crunch. We are merging the daily, weekly, and article editions of this newsletter into a “roundup” format that will come out twice per week. The…

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Scooters, remote workers, ethics, the future of fintech, etc.

Scooters, remote workers, ethics, the future of fintech, etc.

Editor’s Note: refocused newsletters

It was another dizzying week here at Extra Crunch as you will shortly see in this newsletter.

One change that we are making: we are simplifying our newsletters to keep you better informed on what is happening on Extra Crunch. We are merging the daily, weekly, and article editions of this newsletter into a “roundup” format that will come out twice per week. The…

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Space tech rockets higher

Space tech rockets higher

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Corporate biotech venture funding rises again

2019 US VC funds take a more boutique approach

Venture investment in space technology is hitting stratospheric heights in recent quarters. But investors in the sector are betting it will rocket higher still.

The latest example of high-velocity funding is satellite…

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Dissecting what Lyft’s IPO means for Uber and the future of mobility

Dissecting what Lyft’s IPO means for Uber and the future of mobility

Extra Crunch offers members the opportunity to tune into conference calls led and moderated by the TechCrunch writers you read every day. This week, TechCrunch’s Kirsten Korosec and Kate Clark led a deep-dive discussion into Lyft’s IPO and the outlook for the business going forward.

After skyrocketing nearly 10% on its first day hitting the public markets, Lyft stock has faded back down towards…

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Dissecting what Lyft’s IPO means for Uber and the future of mobility

Dissecting what Lyft’s IPO means for Uber and the future of mobility

Extra Crunch offers members the opportunity to tune into conference calls led and moderated by the TechCrunch writers you read every day. This week, TechCrunch’s Kirsten Korosec and Kate Clark led a deep-dive discussion into Lyft’s IPO and the outlook for the business going forward.

After skyrocketing nearly 10% on its first day hitting the public markets, Lyft stock has faded back down towards…

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Dissecting what Lyft’s IPO means for Uber and the future of mobility

Dissecting what Lyft’s IPO means for Uber and the future of mobility

Extra Crunch offers members the opportunity to tune into conference calls led and moderated by the TechCrunch writers you read every day. This week, TechCrunch’s Kirsten Korosec and Kate Clark led a deep-dive discussion into Lyft’s IPO and the outlook for the business going forward.

After skyrocketing nearly 10% on its first day hitting the public markets, Lyft stock has faded back down towards…

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Startups Weekly: US companies raised $30B in Q1 2019

Startups Weekly: US companies raised $30B in Q1 2019

Let’s start this week’s newsletter with some data. Nationally, startups pulled in $30.8 billion in the first quarter of 2019, up 22 percent year-on-year, according to Crunchbase’s latest deal round-up.

A closer look at the numbers shows a big drop in angel funding and a slight decrease in mega-rounds, or financings larger than $100 million. The number of mega-rounds fell to 57 deals in Q1 and…

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