These ten enterprise M&A deals totaled over $40B in 2019: Ron Miller
It would be hard to top the 2018 enterprise M&A total of a whopping $87 billion, and predictably this year didn’t come close. In fact, the top 10 enterprise M&A deals in 2019 were less than half last year’s, totaling $40.6 billion. This year’s biggest purchas…
Jumia, DHL, and Alibaba will face off in African ecommerce 2.0: Jake Bright
The business of selling consumer goods and services online is a relatively young endeavor across Africa, but ecommerce is set to boom. Over the last eight years, the sector has seen its first phase of big VC fundings, startup duels and attrition. To date, sca…
Airbnb’s New Year’s Eve guest volume shows its falling growth rate: Alex Wilhelm
Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between. It’s finally 2020, the year that should bring us a direct listing from home-sharing giant Airbnb, a technology company valued at tens of bil…
The California Consumer Privacy Act officially takes effect today: Devin Coldewey
California's much-debated privacy law officially takes effect today, a year and a half after it was passed and signed — but it'll be six more months before you see the hammer drop on any scofflaw tech companies that sell your personal data without your permis…
Tech's biggest companies are worth ~$5T as 2019's epic stock market run wraps: Alex Wilhelm
Look, this is the last post I’m writing in 2019 and I’m tired. But I can’t let the year close without taking stock of how well tech stocks did this year. It was bonkers. So let’s mark the year’s conclusion with some notes for our future selves. Yes, we know t…
TRACED Act signed into law, putting robocallers on notice: Devin Coldewey
The Pallone-Thrune TRACED Act, a bipartisan bit of legislation that should make life harder for the villains behind robocalls, was signed into law today by the President. It’s still possible to get things done in D.C. after all! We’ve covered the TRACED Act s…
TechCrunch Include yearly report: Henry Pickavet, Matthew Panzarino
Welcome to the third annual TechCrunch Include Progress Report. Our editorial and events teams work hard throughout the year to ensure that we bring you the most dynamic and diverse group of speakers and judges to our event stages. And finally, at the tail en…
How income share agreements will spark the rise of career accelerators: Eric Peckham
The income share agreement (ISA), a financing model where students pay for an education program with a certain percent of their income for several years after graduating, has been one of 2019’s new buzzwords among VCs and entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley. Whil…
Can a $30 pair of wireless earbuds actually be any good?: Brian Heater
2019 was the year wireless earbuds went mainstream. The category has been around much longer, of course, and Apple really broke the whole thing open a full three years ago, with the release of the first AirPods, but sales exploded in 2019. The category experi…
Counting down Boston's biggest venture rounds from 2019: Alex Wilhelm
Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between. Today, the last day of 2019, we’re taking a second look at Boston. Regular readers of this column will recall that we recently took a peek a…
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