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The TechCrunch Top 3 - Love gadgets? You’ll love today’s newsletter: Google's new Chromecast is a quadruple threat: 4K HDR support, 10,000 apps, costs $30 and has a remote, Ivan writes. Yes, please.
- The first cut is the deepest: Just when Indian hotel chain Oyo thought it was safe to go public, SoftBank slashed its valuation by 73% to $2.7 billion, Manish reports.
- No closing time here: E-commerce company acquirer OpenStore is defying the e-commerce aggregator odds by both doing well in this economy and raising funds, Christine writes. The 1-year-old company, started by Founders Fund's Keith Rabois and Atomic's Jack Abraham, raised $32 million in a round of funding that values the company at $970 million.
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"You had one job" might be amusing if a birthday cake decoration goes wrong, but when we're talking about executives who don't show for board meetings, the stakes are much higher, writes Matt Blumberg, co-founder and CEO of Bolster. "Disengaged or dysfunctional boards aren't just bad for CEOs and LPs; they're bad for everyone," Blumberg says, a realization that spurred him to adopt a new meeting format that includes follow-up surveys. "That is a lot of moving pieces to manage, but I find that doing so keeps the meeting fresh and well paced." More TC+ goodness: TechCrunch+ is our membership program that helps founders and startup teams get ahead of the pack. You can sign up here. Use code "DC" for a 15% discount on an annual subscription! Read More | | Image Credits: Richard Drury / Getty Images | | |
Big Tech Inc. Get ready to bite into a big Apple. Brian put on his reviewer hat and took a look at the AirPods Pro, which he said had "some really welcome additions to one of the best pair of earbuds out there." And Brian and Kirsten tried out the Apple Watch Ultra, where one of their concluding views was "the Ultra is much more than an Apple Watch dressed up in a rugged case." Meanwhile, buy now, pay later giant Klarna confirmed it had to take some additional bites out of its workforce to the tune of 100 people, though 500 were warned of the reduction, Connie writes. - Adam Levine wishes this existed already: Ivan reports that Instagram is testing a nudity protection filter for direct messages so that users of the social media app don't have to see unsolicited nude messages. Too bad there isn’t a feature yet to warn you against sending certain messages…
- Don't get locked in: Natasha L writes about Mozilla's research regarding the ability to choose our own web browser on the devices we like to use versus being presented with pre-installed ones.
- Not playing games: India's Department of Telecommunications is proposing the regulation of internet communication services that would require platforms to obtain a license before they could operate in the market. Jagmeet has more.
- Single and ready to mingle: Alibaba Cloud has plans to double down on its cloud service offering overseas and is ready to spend $1 billion on a "global partner ecosystem upgrade," Rita writes.
- That's a large chunk of "chain": Authorities in South Korea uncovered another $680 million in "abnormal" crypto-linked foreign exchange transactions, Kate reports. If you're keeping score at home, that's now a total of $7.2 billion since June.
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