Google rebrands G Suite, Apple reveals its next event date and John McAfee is jailed. This is your Daily Crunch for October 6, 2020.
The big story: G Suite becomes Google Workspace
For something, Google is (as previously announced) integrating Meet, Chat and Rooms across applications, with Gmail as the service where they truly come together. Other functions coming quickly are the capability to team up on files in Chats and a “smart chip” with contact details and suggested actions that appear when you @mention somebody in a file.
To a big level, Google Workspace is just a rebranding of G Suite, total with a brand-new set of (less distinctive) logos for Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Docs and Meet. However the company is also releasing a number of new functions.
Pricing stays largely the exact same, although theres now an $18 per user per month Business Plus plan with extra security features and compliance tools.
The tech giants
Facebooks Portal adds assistance for Netflix, Zoom and other features– The company will likewise introduce much easier ways to introduce Netflix and other video streaming apps via one-touch buttons on its brand-new remote.
Instagrams 10th birthday release presents a Stories Map, customized icons and more– Theres even a choice of customized app icons for those who have actually just recently been inspired to upgrade their home screen.
Apple will reveal the next iPhone on October 13– Apple simply sent welcomes for its approaching hardware event, all but validating the arrival of the next iPhone.
Startups, funding and venture capital
Salesforce Ventures launches $100M Impact Fund to buy cloud start-ups with social mission– Focus locations consist of education and reskilling, climate action, equity, inclusion and variety, in addition to supplying tech for nonprofits and structures.
SpaceX granted agreement to help establish US missile-tracking satellite network– The agreement covers creation and shipment of “area automobiles” (real satellites) that will form a constellation offering global protection of advance rocket caution and tracking.
Ÿnsect, the makers of the worlds most costly bug farm, raises another $224 million– The group hopes to provide insect protein for things like fish food and fertilizer.
Guidance and analysis from Extra Crunch
A quick peek into Opendoors monetary outcomes– Opendoors 2020 results are not excellent.
Trump is currently breaking platform guidelines again with incorrect claim that COVID-19 is far less lethal than the flu– Facebook took down Trumps post, while Twitter hid it behind a caution.
Inside Roots IPO filing– As insurtech booms, Root wants to make the most of a warm market and enthusiastic financiers.
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John McAfee jailed after DOJ prosecutes crypto millionaire for tax evasion– The cybersecurity entrepreneur and crypto personalitys wild trip might be coming to an end after he was detained in Spain and now deals with extradition to the U.S.
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To fill funding spaces, VCs enhance efforts to find Indias standout early-stage start-ups– Blume Ventures Karthik Reddy states, “Theres an artificial alter towards unicorns.”
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