COVID-19 pivot: Travel unicorn Klook sees jump in staycations
Spring 2020 was gloomy for Klook. As countries closed their borders and went into complete or partial lockdown, the SoftBank-backed travel platform saw its revenue plummet by as much as…
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Are virtual concerts here to stay?
The COVID-19 pandemic pushed the music industry to experiment seriously with virtual concerts. Historically, musicians and their managers have been careful about challenging the traditional concert model that became their…
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Newzoo forecasts 2020 global games industry will reach $159 billion
Games and esports analytics firm Newzoo released its highly cited annual report on the size and state of the video gaming industry yesterday. The firm is predicting 2020 global game…
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Twitter starts putting fact-checking labels on tweets about 5G and COVID-19
Conspiracy theories claiming a connection between 5G technology and the coronavirus have been around since the pandemic’s early days, and apparently they’re still going strong. So strong, in fact, that…
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Connected TV usage remains above pre-COVID-19 levels, Nielsen finds
Nielsen this week revealed that CTV (Connected TV) usage remains well above pre-COVID-19 levels. According to Nielsen, weekly time spent watching connected TVs in the USA grew along with overall…
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Join Eventbrite CEO Julia Hartz for a live Q&A: June 17 at 2pm EST/11am PDT/6 pm GMT
One of the earliest disruptions created by the novel coronavirus manifested in the form of event cancellations. Some of the world’s biggest tech conferences, like F8 and Google NEXT, got…
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4 views on the future of retail and the shopping experience
The global spread of COVID-19 and resulting orders to shelter in place have hit retailers hard. As the pandemic drags on, temporary halts are becoming permanent closures, whether it’s the…
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This Week in Apps: Facebook takes on Shopify, Tinder considers its future, contact-tracing tech goes live
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the Extra Crunch series that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they support and the money that flows through it all. The app…
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Facebook makes big remote work moves with plan for new hubs in Dallas, Denver and Atlanta
In a live-streamed town hall, Mark Zuckerberg gave an overview for what he expects in the near future as Facebook pursues accommodations to keep workers productive and safe during the…
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The Great Reset
Ann Miura-Ko Contributor Ann Miura-Ko is a co-founding partner at Floodgate, a seed-stage VC firm. A repeat member of the Forbes Midas List and the New York Times Top 20…
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