Quibi launches its mobile streaming service, Apple sources 20 million protective masks and Red Hat announces a new CEO.
Heres your Daily Crunch for April 6, 2020.1.
Quibi launches its mobile streaming service in the middle of the quarantine eraThe much-hyped mobile app promising to deliver quick bites of video entertainment is finally here.
The company has been in the headlines for more than two years, thanks to the involvement of founder Jeffrey Katzenberg (who previously co-founded DreamWorks Animation) and CEO Meg Whitman (previously the CEO of eBay and Hewlett Packard Enterprise), not to mention $1.75 billion in funding.Judging from a few hours of exploration, the app is as slick as promised, with impressive Turnstyle technology for switching between portrait and landscape viewing.
Whats missing so far, however, is any real sense of creative breakthrough.2.
Apple has sourced over 20 million protective masks, now building and shipping face shieldsThe company is working with governments around the world to distribute its supply of face masks to where its needed most.
Meanwhile, the first delivery of Apple face shields went out to Kaiser hospital facilities in the Santa Clara valley earlier this week, according to CEO Tim Cook.3.
Paul Cormier takes over as Red Hat CEO, as Jim Whitehurst moves to IBMCormier would seem to be a logical choice to run Red Hat, having been with the company since 2001.
He joined as its VP of engineering and has seen the company grow from a small startup to a multi-billion dollar company.4.
GrubHub, Seamlesss pandemic initiatives are predatory and exploitative, and its time to stop using themJon Evans argues that GrubHub (which also owns Seamless) is hurting, not helping, the restaurants that it pretends its trying to support.5.
Pandemic puts the brakes on micromobilityRide Report creates software that enables cities to better work with micro-mobility operators and has a birds-eye view on the industry.
In a conversation with A Technology News Room, CEO William Henderson outlined what we can expect for micro-mobility operators during the pandemic and once its over.
(Extra Crunch membership required.)6.
Open banking fintech Yapily raises $13M Series AFounded in mid-2017 by ex-Goldman Sachs employee Stefano Vaccino, Yapilys open banking platform makes it easier for various service providers to connect to banks.
Specifically, it provides a way to retrieve financial data and initiate payments via a single secure API that in turn connects to each supported banks open API.7.
This weeks A Technology News Room podcastsThe latest full-length episode of Equity discusses the tremendous growth of Zoom and how thats cast a spotlight on the videoconferencing apps security flaws, while the Monday news roundup looks for positive signs in startup funding.
And on Original Content, we review the first season of Star Trek: Picard and the extremely unsettling Netflix film The Platform.The Daily Crunch is A Technology News Rooms roundup of our biggest and most important stories.
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