Plus: A look at who's hiring in fintech, and more
Welcome to TechCrunch PM! Today we're looking at Apple's upcoming iPhone event and what is rumored to be unveiled. We also have an update on Telegram's app download data after the company's CEO was arrested over the weekend. Let's go! | | | 🍎 Apple announcement: September starts this coming weekend, which means the NFL season is about to kick off, kids are heading back to school, and Apple will unveil a new iPhone. This year's event will take place on September 9, and we have a few ideas about what to expect. Read more 💭 Telegram boost: Telegram CEO Pavel Durov was arrested in France on Saturday, and it's starting to affect the app's traction and ranking. The chat app is seeing an increase in downloads, and it's now at No. 2 on the U.S. App Store's Social Networking charts. Read more 🎵 Tidal tracking: Block-owned music streaming platform Tidal launched new features that let artists track their royalties. Tidal's goal is to take the sprawling world of music royalties data and turn that mess into a nice dashboard for artists to use for free. Read more | | | Image Credits: beast01 / Getty Images | | | 💻 Bye-bye, brokers: LP-led secondaries deals have traditionally been brokered by, well, a broker. But that system is opaque and restrictive for smaller LPs who can't pay lofty broker fees. Palico's new online platform wants to make these deals open and transparent for all. Read more 🍼 Care conundrum: Today the FTC told Care.com that it has to pay $8.5 million in refunds for deceptive practices that made it difficult for users to cancel their members and for misleading potential applicants. Considering that child care and eldercare are industries built on trust, yikes. Read more 🗺️ New features at Niantic: Niantic, the company known best for its Pokémon GO game, is releasing an update for its Scaniverse app. The new updates will allow users to take higher-quality scans of the world around them, which will help Niantic with its quest for building a virtual map of the world. Read more 🤑 How do you do, fellow kids? Investing in free apps is out. Backing the care economy is in. Dominic-Madori Davis catches up with venture capital's youngest entrants to learn about what trends they are interested in at the moment and which ones they think are past their prime. Read more 🛴 Ghost ride: E-scooter company Beam Mobility has apparently been underreporting the number of shared scooters it has in cities in Australia and New Zealand to skirt paying higher registration fees to local governments. Read more 🗂️ Here's who is hiring: In today's market it feels like we hear more about companies looking to decrease headcount as opposed to expand. But many companies are of course still hiring. Mary Ann Azevedo takes a look at the fintech startups looking to build their teams. Read more | | | 🍿 TV time: We love a good CBS drama, but one that revolves around Big Tech and Silicon Valley? Count us double in. The producers behind "The Good Wife" are pulling together a new show called "Cupertino," described as a "David vs. Goliath legal show set in Silicon Valley." Deadline has more 📸 Image work: The Verge puts to rest any arguments over whether image manipulation via AI is just like image manipulation and editing via Photoshop. "Let's put this sloppy, bad-faith argument to rest." Read more | | | Featured jobs from Crunchboard | | | Has this been forwarded to you? Click here to subscribe to this newsletter. | | | Update your preferences here at any time | | Copyright © 2024 TechCrunch, All rights reserved.Yahoo Inc. 110 5th St,San Francisco,CA | | | | |
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