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An attorney representing the 22 women who have filed civil lawsuits alleging sexual assault or misconduct against Houston Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson took aim at the NFL on Wednesday for its handling of the investigation, adding that there are no plans to settle any of the cases.

A semi-truck fire caused the closure of a Colorado interstate on Wednesday when its contents – hundreds of lemons – spilled out onto the eastbound lane.

Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers will start their quest for a second consecutive Super Bowl, and the quarterback’s eighth, when they play the Dallas Cowboys in the first game of the regular season on Sept. 9.

In the Colonial Pipeline attack it seems that there is an almost unanimous agreement that Russian hackers were the perpetrators, but there is a difference of opinion as to who should be held accountable.

The House Republican Conference is set to hold a "candidate forum" on Thursday to discuss who should be their next conference chair after ousting Rep. Liz Cheney from the post Wednesday, and Rep. Elise Stefanik says she "absolutely" has the votes to secure the spot in GOP leadership.

The ransomware attack on Washington, D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department is much more extensive than was originally reported, Fox News has learned. 

People who have been vaccinated against the coronavirus “don’t have to wear a mask outside,” Dr. Anthony Fauci said Thursday, adding that it would only be necessary in “a very unusual situation.”

Ikea, known for its DIY furniture and signature Swedish meatballs, is rolling out a pulled pork sandwich.

Readers excoriated Teen Vogue on Wednesday for comparing Israeli military action against Palestinian terrorists to U.S. policing practices.

Ali Fazeli Monfared, known as Alireza, is said to have been murdered last week.

Civilians tell of their terror as rocket fire and airstrikes rain down in Gaza and Israel.

With protesters blockading key roads into Cali, residents are struggling to access essential items.

Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe winner Pierre-Charles Boudot has denied assaulting a woman in February.

The Champions League final between Chelsea and Manchester City on 29 May is switched to Portugal from Turkey.

TV personality Courtney Stodden accepts her apology but questions its sincerity.

"Woman of courage" Elisabetta Belloni is appointed head of Italy's secret services.

A Jewish mob assaults a man live on TV while Israeli Arabs attack a Jewish driver in Acre.

The initial decision made by Tesla in March to accept Bitcoin caused an outcry from environmentalists.

The rules only apply to all communist party members, civil servants and village organisation leaders.

The vaquita marina in Mexico is threatened by a clash of interests between fishing and conservation.

The BBC's Ros Atkins looks at the reasons behind the increased hostilities in the region.

With the pandemic shutting down Hollywood over the past year, actors have been starting companies.

Italy appeals for EU help as 2,000 arrivals within days fill Lampedusa's migrant camp.

What happens when vaccines are slow to arrive - and what it means for ending the pandemic.

France has had a low uptake of the AstraZeneca vaccine which is creating stockpiles of the drug.

Rawiri Waititi was ordered to leave as he did the ceremonial dance in protest against the opposition.

Representative Cheney had challenged former President Trump's claims that the election was stolen.

Georges Tron continues to lead a town in France despite a conviction for rape and sexual assault.

Unrest grows in Israel as the conflict between Palestinian militants in Gaza and the Israeli military escalates.

The ransomware attack on Washington, D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department is much more extensive than was originally reported, Fox News has learned. 

The president of America’s second-largest teachers union is reportedly set to deliver a speech Thursday in which she will call on all schools to be open for "five days a week" of in-person learning for the next academic year. 

The body found inside a submerged SUV in Texas on Tuesday has been positively identified as a mother of three who went missing last month, investigators said.

Waste Management's Your Tomorrow program, in collaboration with Guild Education, offers employees and their "eligible dependents" the ability to chose "from a full range of education options, including earning a college degree" at no cost to them.

Two small airplanes collided in midair Wednesday near Denver, leaving one aircraft nearly ripped in half and forcing the pilot of the other to deploy a parachute attached to the plane to land safely. Remarkably, no one was injured, officials said.

A fairly quiet forecast is expected for much of the country on Thursday and Friday.

While asylum-seeking families and children dominate public attention, single adults represent a growing number of border encounters, nearly two of every three in April.

Police in northern California arrested an 11-year-old and a 17-year-old Wednesday in connection to a violent assault and robbery of an elderly Asian man caught on camera over the weekend.

A few beleaguered school boards, caught between the demands of anti-mask parents and the appeals of employee unions, eliminated student mask rules only to reverse or revise the decisions.

A Saugerties, New York, high school teacher is under fire after she told students George Floyd died of a heart attack and drug overdose.

Horrifying video has captured the moment a crowded Malibu balcony collapsed on Saturday, injuring at least nine people, according to reports.

A uniformed NYPD cop was shot three times — including once in the bulletproof vest — while responding to a report of gunfire in Brooklyn on Wednesday night, sources said.

As the homeless crisis in Los Angeles continues to surge, the city is facing a growing number of fires at encampments, according to reports Wednesday.

New York police are searching for a man who allegedly violently assaulted a father and son last weekend after the son accidentally sideswiped the suspect’s car while pulling out of a parking lot, according to reports.

A 28-year-old woman who went to a Miami high school on Monday dressed as a student to promote her Instagram account was later arrested, according to reports.

Two suspects, ages 17 and 11, were arrested Wednesday in connection with the daylight attack and robbery of an elderly Asian man in San Leandro, California, this weekend, according to authorities.

The body of a 2-year-old Las Vegas boy who went missing a week ago has been found near his home, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police said, according to reports.

Vice President Richard Nixon and his wife, Pat, are spat upon and their limousine battered by rocks thrown by anti-U.S. demonstrators in Caracas, Venezuela. Pope John Paul II is shot and seriously wounded;

Jeff Bezos pushed an unfounded theory that Saudi Arabia was behind the revelation of his affair with Lauren Sanchez — and relished how it shifted the focus away “from the more unsavory and complicated truth,” a new biography claims.

Peer-reviewed research suggests the contact-tracing app prevented between 284,000 and 594,000 cases.

The telecoms giant says its new full-fibre investment strategy could create up to 7,000 jobs.

The order calls for a wide range of moves likely to keep government departments busy.

Kelly Rocklein says she has received abuse since her legal action against the YouTuber became public.

TV personality Courtney Stodden accepts her apology but questions its sincerity.

The initial decision made by Tesla in March to accept Bitcoin caused an outcry from environmentalists.

A court has overturned an EU order for Amazon to pay millions in taxes to Luxembourg.

This is the first time a social media moderator has testified to a parliamentary committee.

The Online Safety Bill threatens media giants with big fines - but aims to protect political debate.

Meliza and Kendall are dedicated football fans but say they experience abuse because of their gender.

More than 6,500 pupils from across the UK took part in the CyberFirst Girls competition.

Powerful magnets are bringing abundant, pollution-free electricity a step closer.

There have been warnings of increased ransomware attacks, the chief executive of Oxford Information Labs says.

How technology has helped emergency responders save lives during the pandemic.

LJ Rich looks at some of the best technology news stories of the week.

Lockdown spurred many people to invent new products, but how did they get to market?

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is likely to continue as now, Dr Beth Breeze says.

Katie Silver tours a microchip factory in Singapore racing to meet demand amid a global shortage.

The phasing out of single-use plastics gathers pace with big companies adopting alternatives.

Dr Fill , a computer program, has just won one of the most prestigious crossword competitions in the US.

The House Republican Conference is set to hold a "candidate forum" on Thursday to discuss who should be their next conference chair after ousting Rep. Liz Cheney from the post Wednesday, and Rep. Elise Stefanik says she "absolutely" has the votes to secure the spot in GOP leadership.

More than three dozen Senate Republicans are urging President Biden to "unequivocally" support" Israel's right to defend itself, and by "immediately" ending negotiations with Iran on sanctions relief, saying Tehran is "supporting" Hamas’ terrorist activity and recent rocket attacks against Israel. 

Rep. Liz Cheney said in an interview Thursday morning that she is "not leaving" the Republican Party despite her harsh criticism of former President Donald Trump and House Republicans removing her as the conference chair via voice vote on Wednesday.

Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., is introducing a bill this week that would seek to reinstate the Trump-era Migrant Protection Protocols in response to a crisis at the southern border that has overwhelmed the immigration system in recent months.

Several conservative groups are redoubling their efforts to oppose the sweeping elections bill Democrats are trying to pass through Congress, particularly focusing on states with Democratic senators who may be reluctant to end the legislative filibuster, including one nearly $2 million ad campaign launched Tuesday.

They cut off a pipeline to the Eastern Seaboard for days, tried to poison a Florida water-treatment plant, held hospital IT systems hostage and stole an undetermined trove of information in the SolarWinds hack – all as the Biden administration searches for a way to respond.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., tried to “aggressively confront” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Wednesday, shouting questions about why the New York Democrat supports “terrorists and antifa,” according to a report.

Richard Grenell, the former acting director of National Intelligence under President Trump, said in an interview with CPAC that he believes Susan Rice has assumed the role of a “shadow president.”

U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., criticized President Biden over his Wednesday statement of support for Israel amid escalating violence with Hamas, claiming he gave little context for what stoked the tensions and was consequently “siding with occupation.”

Top Republicans on the House Judiciary and Oversight Committees on Wednesday called for an investigation into the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention after emails showed the nation's second-largest teachers union lobbied the agency on school reopening policies.

"Frequent releases" of sewage create microplastic hoptspots in UK rivers.

The vaquita marina in Mexico is threatened by a clash of interests between fishing and conservation.

At 170m long, "Florence" is the largest ever tunnelling machine to be used on a UK rail project.

A wide-ranging plan to improve welfare also enshrines in law that animals can experience emotions.

Many internationally funded conservation schemes are underfunded and ineffective, researchers conclude.

Conservation groups say naturally restored forests can help in the fight against climate change.

Powerful magnets are bringing abundant, pollution-free electricity a step closer.

Scientists believe the dust sample may provide clues on the formation of the Solar System.

The broadcaster calls on nations to act in agreement as he is appointed People's Advocate at COP26.

Most of the Chinese Long March-5b rocket reportedly disintegrated as it re-entered the atmosphere.

The first batch of a spirit made with ingredients grown in the Chernobyl exclusion zone is seized.

The country is responsible for 27% of global greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new report.

Reducing methane emissions needs to play a much more important role in tackling global warming.

A young child buried in a cave 78,000 years ago is the earliest known funeral in Africa.

Christie's predicts the bottle of Pétrus 2000 that orbited the earth could sell for $1m (£720,000).

Around 40,000 sq m of coral reef has been restored in Indonesia with plans to extend the scheme further.

Almost 40 UK companies say proposed laws could accelerate deforestation in the Amazon region.

Recent climate change pledges bring the world a fraction closer to Paris goals, analysis suggests.

The phasing out of single-use plastics gathers pace with big companies adopting alternatives.

Hereiti, 17, lives on Rarotonga, the largest of the Cook Islands in the South Pacific Ocean.

Travis Barker is currently dating the older sister of Kim Kardashian.

Prince Harry revealed he first wanted to step away from the royal family in his 20s when he started to fantasize about having a normal life with a wife and child.

The Duke of Sussex, who appeared on the "Armchair Expert" podcast on, slammed Rogan for spreading misinformation.

Rihanna called for “resolve” for the conflict that has seen casualties on both sides.

Former “Deadliest Catch” star Jake Harris was reportedly arrested for another DUI after previously landing himself behind bars in 2019.

Kourtney Kardashian's boyfriend Travis Barker got a new tattoo in her honor designed by the reality star herself.

"American Idol" contestant Caleb Kennedy has exited the current season after a video surfaced that appears to show him standing next to someone in a Ku Klux Klan hood.

Oprah Winfrey recalled the one moment from her decades of interviewing celebrities that still makes her cringe to this day.

Ellen DeGeneres joined the "Today" show on Thursday to address her decision to end "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" after its 19th season in 2022.

In August 2020, the “Ellen” show went through an internal investigation by Warner Bros. after staffers made toxic workplace environment and misconduct accusations.

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover is using its robotic arm to search for signs of ancient microbial life. 

Brood X, a classification of the trillions of periodical cicadas that have descended in states across the eastern and southern U.S., has emerged after a 17-year hiatus -- and already closed one restaurant.

NASA and private space infrastructure company Axiom Space have signed an order kickstarting the first private astronaut mission to the International Space Station (ISS).

Rodents are running rampant in parts of Australia, and residents are routinely sharing horror stories of the encounters.

Voyager 1, which is the farthest human-made object from Earth and the first to enter interstellar space, has been detecting a “faint, persistent hum” that scientists have attributed to interstellar gas.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on Monday began its long journey back to Earth after collecting a sample from the asteroid Bennu.

NASA rebuked China for failing to meet responsible spacefaring standards after remnants of the nation’s rogue Long March 5B rocket landed in the Indian Ocean near the Maldives early Sunday.

China’s rogue Long March 5B slammed down in TKTK Saturday night, after people around the world closely watched its uncontrolled descent following its launch last week.

The core stage of China's Long March 5B rocket is projected to make an uncontrolled re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere within hours.

The core of China's Long March 5B rocket is predicted to re-enter the Earth's atmosphere in a matter of hours, but scientists and government agencies still cannot pinpoint the point of impact. 

The Only Way Is Essex star Tommy Mallet opens up about the challenges he has faced with literacy and dyslexia.

The PM urges more support for girls' education in poor countries - but faces criticism over aid cuts.

Ofsted cannot conduct an impartial review into allegations of sex abuse in schools, a teaching union says.

Universities in England could face fines if they fail to protect free speech on campus under new legislation.

Campaigners are dismayed as the government announces a consultation before the practice is banned.

Adults will be offered "lifelong" training loans under measures being announced in the Queen's Speech.

Professionals tell the BBC what it is like to struggle with reading and writing while at work.

Face coverings will not be needed in England's secondary classrooms from 17 May, says the prime minister.

Dismay from parents, students and teachers as authorities say students can keep learning from home.

Hundreds of students gathered on Jesus Green for a "Caesarean Sunday" celebration.

The gap between poor pupils and their classmates is unlikely to narrow without intervention, researchers say.

A father and an Oxford student seek a High Court hearing to require age verification on porn sites.

Olympian Duncan Goodhew calls for focus on water safety after lessons were lost during the pandemic.

The Oxford study used data from more than 430,000 young people, gathered over 28 years.

The government says the "tough decision" to reduce its contributions by 60% was due to the pandemic.

The universities watchdog received 2,604 complaints in 2020, with £742,132 paid as compensation.

Public libraries have borne the brunt of council cuts but one town is bucking the national trend.

Delays to speech and language skills are a top concern for primary schools, researchers say.

Bereaved parents call for universities to contact students' families to reduce risk of suicides.

Face-to-face courses cannot resume on campuses in England until at least 17 May.

The PM says he is "anxious" about the Covid variant and the government is considering all options.

Concern is growing over a rise in UK coronavirus cases linked to a variant from India.

Nearly a third of hospitals sees long waits balloon, as NHS warned backlog will take years to tackle.

When Paul Harvey's piano playing went viral, it inspired a donation of £1 million to charity.

Stories of genuine experiences shared online have been followed by a wave of anti-vaccine disinformation.

Usually thought of as a party drug, a trial suggests it helps people with post-traumatic stress disorder.

What happens when vaccines are slow to arrive - and what it means for ending the pandemic.

Researchers are still analysing whether injecting two different vaccines leads to better protection.

Hugely disappointing results mean ovarian cancer screening remains more than a decade away.

The actress pays tribute to her mother Gloria, who died in a care home on Tuesday.

The state will be "under the microscope", Boris Johnson says, as Labour urges an earlier start date.

People aged 38 and 39 in England are now being offered a Covid vaccine as the rollout continues.

Explore the data on coronavirus in the UK and find out how many cases there are in your area.

Pregnant women will be directed to centres offering Pfizer and Moderna vaccines when booking.

An independent review calls the international response to the pandemic a "toxic cocktail".

Lockdown restrictions will ease in England, Scotland and Wales from Monday 17 May.

Grace Victory says she was given a 5% chance of recovery after contracting Covid during pregnancy.

Pippa Stacey, 26, faces "all kinds of obstacles" as venues sprawl on to pavements.

Nurses in Italy have been instrumental in helping to fight Covid-19 - but it's taken a heavy toll.

The Labour leader attacks Boris Johnson for "failing to act" in the 657 days since he promised to.

More details will be revealed during Ecomotion Week, which gathers many of the world’s leading companies in the Smart Mobility field May 18-20.

Austrian FM: “This step reflects reality. The group itself makes no distinction between the military and the political arm.”

IDF kills top Hamas commanders on Wednesday, including close operatives to Mohammed Deif, in joint operation with the Shin Bet.

Rocket barrage comes as IDF prepares for possible ground invasion of the Gaza Strip. Plans are to be presented on Thursday to Netanyahu.

The thugs' hatred of those who practice a different religion pales in comparison to the animosity those who are forming a government feel for Netanyahu.

If Israel uses the same playbook as in the past, why should it expect any different result with Hamas?

Hardliner Judiciary chief Ebrahim Raisi may be frontrunner in the race to elect the next president of Iran.

The recent roll of events that led to the current eruption is a conversion of this historical conflict with current events

"Corona was very hard, because our business relies on tourists, but at least we had local Israelis coming in. Now, with the current situation, even that has stopped during the past few days."

St.-Sgt. Omer Tabib who was killed yesterday by an anti-tank missile fired by Hamas from the Gaza Strip into Israel.

Riots have spread across several cities throughout Israel with mixed Arab and Jewish populations.

"No issue threatens the Jewish community more than the alarming rise of antisemitism and violent extremism."

Hamas warned international airlines from flying to Israel, saying it was targeting airports in Israel.

The explosion of violence appears to have come from nowhere but has deep roots in the country.

The use of anti-tank missiles, often Kornet missiles, has plagued Israel for years.

An unprecedented escalation in violence between Israel and Gaza has left many Israelis - in a constant state of uncertainty, wondering if they will get the chance to see tomorrow.

The two companies launched a new filament with a significantly reduced carbon footprint in order to enable sustainable & eco-conscious manufacturing.

According to the account, head of the local United Hatzalah chapter Asher Tzvi Shwed was able to save the life of a 46-year-old man who was jogging in a soccer field.

"We need to be there for Israel, and for our brothers and sisters, who are under brutal attack by terror organizations."

Ali Fazeli Monfared, known as Alireza, is said to have been murdered last week.

Civilians tell of their terror as rocket fire and airstrikes rain down in Gaza and Israel.

The BBC's Ros Atkins looks at the reasons behind the increased hostilities in the region.

The militant group possesses thousands of missiles of varying ranges that it can fire towards Israel.

Locals in Israel and Gaza are terrified amid the worst flare-up in the conflict for years.

Four suspects held in connection with the rape allegations have now been released, prosecutors say.

Unrest grows in Israel as the conflict between Palestinian militants in Gaza and the Israeli military escalates.

Israel has declared a state of emergency in Lod, after riots in the mixed Arab-Jewish town.

Militants fired missiles towards the Israeli city of Tel Aviv in retaliation after a tower block in Gaza collapsed in an Israeli air strike.

Failure to tackle deep-seated issues meant fresh violence between the two sides was a matter of time.

The Pentagon accuses Iranian boats of acting "aggressively" near US vessels in the Strait of Hormuz.

The intended destination of the thousands of Russian and Chinese weapons is under investigation.

TV reporter Ahmed Hassan and protest leader Ihab al-Wazni were targeted by unidentified gunmen.

Hundreds of Palestinians and more than 20 Israeli police officers have been injured in the protests.

A Christian monk is hanged for killing the head of a desert monastery in 2018.

A search for answers as at least 40 tonnes of carp float to the surface of a lake in southern Lebanon.

The funeral of 13-year-old Yedidya Hayut has taken place after he was killed in a crush in Israel.

With the cost of living spiralling, even maamoul is beyond the reach of many families.

Experts believe the woman was aged between 20 and 30 when she died with her unborn child.

The religious minority says it is forced to use land where executed political prisoners are buried.

Decision to sacrifice €115,000 annual income comes amid country’s economic crisis

US equities on track to break three-session losing streak but volatility still likely

Record fine by Beijing authorities weighs on Chinese ecommerce group’s earnings

Sector sell-off highlights investor worries as interest rates rise

Cryptocurrency’s price falls after chief executive goes from evangelist to critic, citing environmental impact

FT correspondents Madhumita Murgia and Kiran Stacey will answer your questions throughout the day

Move follows night of bombings, air strikes on Gaza and street clashes

Concerns over disclosure standards and consumer protections as market expands rapidly

State’s US senators exert outsized influence in talks over proposed $2.3tn spending spree

Low uptake of ‘Smart Pricing’ feature among black hosts increased earnings gap

Many Indians feel abandoned by a leader who ignored signs of a second wave and appears indifferent to their plight

The molecule behind the Pfizer and Moderna jabs has turned the Covid tide. Can it revolutionise medicine?

Palestinian militants armed by cottage industry of rockets, mortars and other weapons launch volleys at Jewish state

Where it went wrong for Lex Greensill, Sanjeev Gupta and David Cameron

With Stage Discovery, Discord is taking its first steps to help users find communities they may want to join. 

Boeing expects to resume deliveries of the 737 Max plane this week and airlines start repairs on an electrical issue that grounded more than 100 of the planes.

The listed stocks have at least 10% upside to their average 12-month price targets and at least 60% of analysts that cover the stock calling it a buy.

"We have to get off of this sugar-cane and Fluffernutter economy and get to the meat-and-the-potatoes economy," Barry Sternlicht told CNBC.

The hiring push comes as businesses are looking for labor in an increasingly tight market.

Buttigieg's remarks come a day after President Joe Biden signed an executive order to help strengthen U.S. cybersecurity defenses.

CNBC's Todd Haselton reviews Amazon's second-generation Echo Buds headphones and find they're a good alternative to AirPods.

The serial entrepreneur said they will take a 40% to 80% stake in early-stage start-ups.

The PPI spiked 6.2% for the 12 months ended in April, the largest increase since the Bureau of Labor Statistics started tracking the data in 2010.

Colonial Pipeline has restarted operations, but gas prices are rising as the fallout from the ransomware attack mounts.

Google has been building a network to connect its data centers for two decades. Now it's coming in handy for a cloud deal with SpaceX.

Most importantly in this market, inflation reduces expectations of earnings growth, putting downward pressure on stock prices.  

McDonald's is looking to hire 10,000 workers for those restaurants over the next three months.

The city is joining a handful of states that already have launched such auto-IRA arrangements or are close to doing so.

Shoppers will be able to use the technology to try on clothing from Walmart's private labels or national brands it carries and get opinions from friends.

Ford is calling its new remote update capability "Power-Up," highlighting the ability for the company to enhance and upgrade a vehicle well into its lifecycle.

Snowflake is almost finished updating its headquarters in order to welcome employees back once it's safe enough to do so. The company has made myriad changes.

Thursday's weakness continues a brutal week for dogecoin, the cryptocurrency that started as a joke nearly a decade ago but has risen to prominence this year.

The blue-chip Dow is slated to extend Wednesday's steep losses. The cryptocurrency market tumbled after Tesla halted car purchases with bitcoin.

Gas prices just hit their highest level since late 2014, but two summer travel stocks should be able to manage that risk.

Full NXT UK preview for May 13, 2021, featuring a five-Superstar Gauntlet Match to determine the No. 1 Contender to NXT UK Women's Champion Kay Lee Ray, a Heritage Cup Rules Match between Nathan Frazer and Noam Dar, and more.

On a must-see edition of NXT UK, Emilia McKenzie, Xia Brookside, Dani Luna, Jinny and Isla Dawn will collide in what is certain to be an edge-of-your-seat Gauntlet Match to determine the No. 1 Contender to NXT UK Women’s Champion Kay Lee Ray.

One game we’ve all wondered about and can now officially circle in red sharpie is Week 4 when Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers travel to New England to face Bill Belichick and his former team of 20 years where Brady won six Super Bowls. He can become the fourth quarterback in league history […]

Michael Vick joins First Things First to share his thoughts on the situation in Green Bay with the Packers and their quarterback Aaron Rodgers. With the NFL schedule released, Vick breaks down whether he thinks the tension between Rodgers and the Packers can be fixed.

Corey Graves and Vic Joseph break down all of the exciting matches on deck for WrestleMania Backlash on this week’s WWE After the Bell.

Sheamus vs. Jeff Hardy: WWE Backlash 2020 (Full Match)

With the official NFL schedule released, Nick Wright explains why the Kansas City Chiefs have a clearer path to the Super Bowl than the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

The NFL schedule has been released and it looks like Tom Brady will return to Foxboro in Week 4 to lead the Tampa Bay Buccaneers against his former team, the New England Patriots. Brandon Marshall doesn't believe this game will define the legacy of Bill Belichick or Tom Brady, but explains why this will be […]

NXT Superstar Bronson Reed on Aussies in the WWE, the AFL, and home in Adelaide: WWE Now Down Under

The Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Seattle Mariners, 7-1, on Wednesday night to take both games of the short two-game home series. The defending World Series champions are now 20-17 and hope the sweep will help dig them out of their recent rut.

SpaceX’s bourgeoning Starlink satellite-based broadband internet service just got a big boost from a significant new partner: Google Cloud. Thanks to a new partnership between the two, SpaceX will now be locating Starlink ground stations right within Google’s existing data centers, providing the Starlink network with direct access to ground-based network infrastructure to help facilitate […]

Upsie, a consumer warranty startup, has raised $18.2 million in a Series A round led by True Ventures.  The financing brings the total raised for the St. Paul, Minnesota-based startup to $25 million since its 2015 inception. A large group of investors participated in the round, including Concrete Rose VC, Avanta Ventures, Kapor Capital, Samsung […]

Google has been fined just over €100 million (~$123M) by Italy’s antitrust watchdog for abuse of a dominant market position. The case relates to Android Auto, a modified version of Google’s mobile OS intended for in-car use, and specifically to how Google restricted access to the platform to an electric car charging app, called JuicePass, […]

Pomelo, a startup building a fintech-as-a-service platform for Latin America, has raised $9 million in a seed round of funding. The Buenos Aires-based startup’s new infrastructure aims to allow fintechs and embedded finance players to launch virtual accounts and issue prepaid and credit cards via “compliant” onboarding processes. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the adoption […]

Imagine if you could settle/rekindle domestic arguments by asking your smart speaker when the room last got cleaned or whether the bins already got taken out? Or — for an altogether healthier use-case — what if you could ask your speaker to keep count of reps as you do squats and bench presses? Or switch […]

Google Pay users in the U.S. can now send money to GPay users in India and Singapore, Google said on Tuesday, making its first push into the remittances market. The company has partnered with Western Union and Wise, both of which have integrated their services into Google Pay. Josh Woodward, director of Product Management at Google, […]

Google, which reaches more than half a billion people in India, is turning its services into tools to help the world’s second-largest internet market fight the pandemic. Google said on Monday it has rolled out a range of updates to its Search, Maps, YouTube and Google Pay services in India to display and boost authoritative […]

Sensor data from smartphones and wearables can meaningfully predict an individual’s ‘biological age’ and resilience to stress, according to Gero AI. The ‘longevity’ startup — which condenses its mission to the pithy goal of “hacking complex diseases and aging with Gero AI” — has developed an AI model to predict morbidity risk using ‘digital biomarkers’ […]

Months after Apple’s App Store introduced privacy labels for apps, Google announced its own mobile app marketplace, Google Play, will follow suit. The company today pre-announced its plans to introduce a new “safety” section in Google Play, rolling out next year, which will require app developers to share what sort of data their apps collect, […]

Chromebooks have been having banner quarter after banner quarter for the past year. While PC and tablet sales in general have been doing well as people shifted to remote working and learning, Google’s operating system has been leading the charge, in terms of the growth. That’s due in large part to the company’s wins in […]

YouTube today gave advertisers a sneak peek at its plans to make its video platform more shoppable. The company will soon be introducing a new interactive feature aimed at advertisers, called brand extensions, which will allow YouTube viewers to learn more about a product they see on the screen with a click of a button. […]

One the same day as Fortnite maker Epic Games goes to trial with one of the biggest legal challenges to the App Store’s business model to date, it has simultaneously announced the acquisition of the artist portfolio community ArtStation — and immediately lowered the commissions on sales. Now standard creators on ArtStation will see the […]

This week, we welcome guest Hana Mohan to our podcast Found. Hana is the co-founder and CEO of MagicBell, a new startup she created with Josue Montano that recently graduated from Y Combinator’s Winter 2021 cohort. MagicBell is a full-featured plug-and-play notifications inbox aimed at developers who want to build one into their own product, […]

A U.K. company behind digital addressing system What3Words has sent a legal threat to a security researcher for offering to share an open-source software project with other researchers, which What3Words claims violate its copyright. Aaron Toponce, a systems administrator at XMission, received a letter on Thursday from London-based law firm JA Kemp representing What3Words, requesting […]

Conventional wisdom over the last year has suggested that the pandemic has driven companies to the cloud much faster than they ever would have gone without that forcing event, with some suggesting it has compressed years of transformation into months. This quarter’s cloud infrastructure revenue numbers appear to be proving that thesis correct. With The […]

Restoring and preserving the world’s forests has long been considered one of the easiest, lowest-cost and simplest ways to reduce the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. It’s by far the most popular method for corporations looking to take an easy first step on the long road to decarbonizing or offsetting their industrial operations. […]

The European Commission has issued a formal ‘statement of objections’ against Apple, saying today that its preliminary view is Apple’s app store rules distort competition in the market for music streaming services by raising the costs of competing music streaming app developers. Apple has a period of 12 weeks to respond to the preliminary charges. […]

Google today announced the launch of 40,000 new developer scholarships in Africa. Google will offer the scholarships — created in partnership with tech talent companies Pluralsight and Andela — to developers spread across mobile and cloud development tracks. According to the statement released by the company, Google will give full scholarships (with certifications in Android and […]

Following November’s overhaul of Google Pay, which saw the service expanding into personal finance, the company today is rolling out a new set of features aimed at making Google Pay more a part of its users’ everyday lives. With an update, Google Pay will now include new options for grocery savings, paying for public transit […]

Google today announced the launch of Grow with Google Career Readiness for Reentry. The initiative — created in partnership with nonprofits The Last Mile, Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO), Defy Ventures, Fortune Society and The Ladies of Hope Ministries — is designed to offer job readiness and digital skill training for formerly incarcerated individuals. As […]

TiMi Studios, one of the world’s most lucrative game makers and is part of Tencent’s gargantuan digital entertainment empire, said Thursday that it has struck a strategic partnership with Xbox. The succinct announcement did not mention whether the tie-up is for content development or Xbox’s console distribution in China but said more details will be […]

The tabletop gaming industry has exploded over the last few years as millions discovered or rediscovered its joys, but it too is evolving — and The Last Gameboard hopes to be the venue for that evolution. The digital tabletop platform has progressed from crowdfunding to $4 million seed round, and having partnered with some of […]

Imagine if you could settle/rekindle domestic arguments by asking your smart speaker when the room last got cleaned or whether the bins already got taken out? Or — for an altogether healthier use-case — what if you could ask your speaker to keep count of reps as you do squats and bench presses? Or switch […]

Sweden’s Exeger, which for over a decade has been developing flexible solar cell technology (called Powerfoyle) that it touts as efficient enough to power gadgets solely with light, has taken in another tranche of funding to expand its manufacturing capabilities by opening a second factory in the country. The $38 million raise is comprised of […]

Apple’s new AirTag item trackers are pretty small, but not quite small enough to slip into most wallets without adding an obvious bit of bulk. Fortunately, as one talented AirTag owner has found, that’s nothing you can’t fix with a heat gun, a bit of soldering and an understanding that you could totally fry your […]

AI is fundamental to many products and services today, but its hunger for data and computing cycles is bottomless. Lightmatter plans to leapfrog Moore’s law with its ultra-fast photonic chips specialized for AI work, and with a new $80 million round, the company is poised to take its light-powered computing to market. We first covered […]

Autonomous vehicles rely on many sensors to perceive the world around them, and while cameras and lidar get a lot of the attention, good old radar is an important piece of the puzzle — though it has some fundamental limitations. Oculii, which just raised a $55 million round, aims to minimize those limitations and make […]

Halfway through my Monday afternoon workout last week, I got a message from a security researcher with a screenshot of my Peloton account data. My Peloton profile is set to private and my friend’s list is deliberately zero, so nobody can view my profile, age, city, or workout history. But a bug allowed anyone to […]

Of the many frustrations of having a severe motor impairment, the difficulty of communicating must surely be among the worst. The tech world has not offered much succor to those affected by things like locked-in syndrome, ALS and severe strokes, but startup Cognixion aims to with a novel form of brain monitoring that, combined with […]

Sony and Discord have announced a partnership that will integrate the latter’s popular gaming-focused chat app with PlayStation’s own built-in social tools. It’s a big move and a fairly surprising one given how recently acquisition talks were in the air — Sony appears to have offered a better deal than Microsoft, taking an undisclosed minority […]

After a steady stream of studio acquisitions in late 2019 and early 2020, Facebook has been a little quieter in recent months when its came to bulking up its VR content arm. Today, the social media giant breaks that stream, announcing their acquisition of Downpour Interactive, the developer of the popular VR first-person shooter Onward. […]

Huawei’s smartphone rivals in China are quickly divvying up the market share it has lost over the past year. Indeed, 92.4 million units of smartphones were shipped in China during the first quarter, with Vivo claiming the crown with a 23% share and its sister company Oppo following closely behind with 22%, according to market […]

Smartphones will be included in the scope of a planned “security by design” U.K. law aimed at beefing up the security of consumer devices, the government said today. It made the announcement in its response to a consultation on legislative plans aimed at tackling some of the most lax security practices long-associated with the Internet […]

Apple has unveiled a new, colorful iMac today with an Apple-designed M1 chip. But that was just part of the story as the company used that opportunity to release new Mac accessories. In addition to a Magic Trackpad and a Magic Mouse with multiple color options, Apple is bringing Touch ID to desktop Macs with […]

Research papers come out far too frequently for anyone to read them all. That's especially true in the field of machine learning, which now affects practically every industry and company.

Today, Apple is holding a (virtual) keynote at 10 AM PT (1 PM in New York, 6 PM in London, 7 PM in Paris). And you’ll be able to watch the event right here as the company is streaming it live. Rumor has it that Apple plans to unveil a brand new iPad Pro. In […]

If you’ve spent any time on TikTok lately, then you’ve probably seen a number of Popl’s ads. The startup has been successfully leveraging social media to get its modern-day business card alternative in front of a wider audience. Packaged as either a phone sticker, keychain or wristband, Popl uses NFC technology to make sharing contact […]

Are you 100% sure that your children are brushing their teeth properly? A New York-based startup called Willo has been working for several years on a device that should transform the tooth-brushing experience for children. Willo isn’t a new toothbrush — electric or not. It’s an oral care device that doesn’t look like a toothbrush […]

A startup tapping into the concept of the circular economy, where people don’t buy items outright but pay an incremental amount to use them temporarily, has raised some funding to scale its business in Europe and beyond. Grover, a Berlin-based startup that runs a subscription model where people can for set fees rent out consumer […]

Sometimes you’ve just got to confirm an unannounced product to put the rumors to bed, I guess. That was Google’s strategy this afternoon, following earlier rumors from Android Central that a chip shortage had put the kibosh on the mid-budget phone. In a comment to TechCrunch, a Google spokesperson noted, “Pixel 5a 5G is not […]

Assembling the perfect burger, or perfect sales model, is more complicated than it sounds, though. Here are some of the biggest do's and don'ts:

Retail giant Walmart announced this morning it’s acquiring the Tel Aviv-based startup Zeekit, which allows consumers to virtually “try on” clothing when shopping online. The company leverages a combination of real-time image processing, computer vision, deep learning and other A.I. technology to show shoppers how they would look in an item by way of a […]

BluBracket, an early stage startup that focuses on keeping source code repositories secure, even in distributed environments, announced a $12 million Series A today. Evolution Equity Partners led the round with help from existing investors Unusual Ventures, Point72 Ventures, SignalFire and Firebolt Ventures. When combined with the $6.5 million seed round we reported on last […]

Don't wait for laws preventing the use of NDAs. Companies should shape these policies on their own, rather than waiting for legislation to drag an ethical NDA policy out of them.

Blockset, the blockchain infrastructure platform for enterprises by BRD, announced early access to its Wallet-as-a-Service today. The white-label solution gives clients, like financial institutions, the ability to launch wallets that have the same features as BRD’s own mobile cryptocurrency wallet, which now has about 7 million users with over $20 billion assets under protection. Blockset’s […]

Upsie, a consumer warranty startup, has raised $18.2 million in a Series A round led by True Ventures.  The financing brings the total raised for the St. Paul, Minnesota-based startup to $25 million since its 2015 inception. A large group of investors participated in the round, including Concrete Rose VC, Avanta Ventures, Kapor Capital, Samsung […]

Nano Technologies, a startup that lets workers in Vietnam access their earned wages immediately through an app called VUI, has raised $3 million in seed funding. The oversubscribed round was led by returning investors Golden Gate Ventures and Venturra Discovery, and included participation from FEBE Ventures, Openspace Ventures and Goodwater Capital. Nano recently took part […]

Do you and your early-stage startup have what it takes to be a modern-day gladiator and compete in Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021? You won’t know unless you apply, and time is running out. You have only 48 hours left to throw your helmet into the ring. If you want to compete for glory, […]

My startup is considering individuals who live outside the U.S. for a few positions we are looking to fill. Does it make sense to sponsor them for a visa to work remotely from somewhere in the U.S.?

As the famous phrase goes, “software is eating the world” — and now software is eating dentistry. Or, perhaps more accurately, the arena of orthodontics — the specialty of dentistry that deals with things like braces — is slowly but surely being digitalized. To whit, Impress, a Southern European player in direct-to-consumer orthodontics, has raised […]

What drove the company's hugely unprofitable revenues and resulting net losses? Unit economics that were nearly comically destructive.

Planck, the AI-based data platform for commercial insurance underwriting, announced today it has raised a $20 million growth round. The funding came from 3L Capital and Greenfield Partners, along with returning investors Team8, Viola Fintech, Arbor Ventures and Eight Roads. This brings the New York-based startup’s total raised to $48 million, including a $16 million […]

You can't dismiss no- and low-code services as a fountain of technical debt and lukewarm dev projects. If you do, the market is kinda saying that you're just elitist and obstinate.

Cisco announced this morning that it intends to acquire Indianapolis-based startup Socio, which helps plan hybrid in-person and virtual events. The two companies did not share the purchase price. Socio provides a missing hybrid event management component for the company to add to its Webex platform. The goal appears to be to combine this with […]

As the app ecosystem rapidly expands beyond the borders of mobile, app developers and publishers would benefit immensely from identifying economical and secure ways of adopting more SDKs.

Atomized, an early-stage startup that wants to create a modern tool to help developers deploy infrastructure faster, announced the first step of its funding journey today, a $500,000 pre-seed round from Zing Capital, Y Combinator and several unnamed angels. Company co-founder and CEO Nik Kotov says developers are spending over 20% of their time on […]

Pomelo, a startup building a fintech-as-a-service platform for Latin America, has raised $9 million in a seed round of funding. The Buenos Aires-based startup’s new infrastructure aims to allow fintechs and embedded finance players to launch virtual accounts and issue prepaid and credit cards via “compliant” onboarding processes. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the adoption […]

Bird, the shared electric scooter startup that operates in more than 200 cities across three continents, said Wednesday it is going public by merging with special purpose acquisition company Switchback II with an implied valuation of $2.3 billion. The announcement confirms earlier reports, including one this week from dot.LA, that Bird intended to go public […]

"I think when money's chasing money, you don't want to be the last guy holding the money. You want to be the chase."

This morning Stampli, a software platform that optimizes corporate invoice management, announced a $50 million Series C financing round, led by Insight Partners with participation from Signalfire and Nextworld Capital. The company launched in 2015 with the goal of simplifying the process of invoice management. Why is that needed? Services and software are purchased by […]

Retail giant Walmart announced this morning it’s acquiring the Tel Aviv-based startup Zeekit, which allows consumers to virtually “try on” clothing when shopping online. The company leverages a combination of real-time image processing, computer vision, deep learning and other A.I. technology to show shoppers how they would look in an item by way of a […]

More money for the now very buzzy business of reshaping how people work: Worksome is announcing it recently closed a $13 million Series A funding round for its “freelance talent platform” — after racking up 10x growth in revenue since January 2020, just before the COVID-19 pandemic sparked a remote working boom. The 2017 founded […]

Upsie, a consumer warranty startup, has raised $18.2 million in a Series A round led by True Ventures.  The financing brings the total raised for the St. Paul, Minnesota-based startup to $25 million since its 2015 inception. A large group of investors participated in the round, including Concrete Rose VC, Avanta Ventures, Kapor Capital, Samsung […]

Nano Technologies, a startup that lets workers in Vietnam access their earned wages immediately through an app called VUI, has raised $3 million in seed funding. The oversubscribed round was led by returning investors Golden Gate Ventures and Venturra Discovery, and included participation from FEBE Ventures, Openspace Ventures and Goodwater Capital. Nano recently took part […]

What drove the company's hugely unprofitable revenues and resulting net losses? Unit economics that were nearly comically destructive.

Planck, the AI-based data platform for commercial insurance underwriting, announced today it has raised a $20 million growth round. The funding came from 3L Capital and Greenfield Partners, along with returning investors Team8, Viola Fintech, Arbor Ventures and Eight Roads. This brings the New York-based startup’s total raised to $48 million, including a $16 million […]

Cisco announced this morning that it intends to acquire Indianapolis-based startup Socio, which helps plan hybrid in-person and virtual events. The two companies did not share the purchase price. Socio provides a missing hybrid event management component for the company to add to its Webex platform. The goal appears to be to combine this with […]

This morning Stampli, a software platform that optimizes corporate invoice management, announced a $50 million Series C financing round, led by Insight Partners with participation from Signalfire and Nextworld Capital. The company launched in 2015 with the goal of simplifying the process of invoice management. Why is that needed? Services and software are purchased by […]

Divibank, a financing platform offering LatAm businesses access to growth capital, has closed on a $3.6 million round of seed funding led by San Francisco-based Better Tomorrow Ventures (BTV). São Paulo-based Divibank was founded in March 2020, right as the COVID-pandemic was starting. The company has built a data-driven financing platform aimed at giving businesses […]

This morning Treasury Prime, a banking-as-a-service startup that delivers its product via APIs, announced that it has closed a $20 million Series B. The capital comes around a year since the startup announced its Series A, and around 1.5 years since it raised its preceding round. For Treasury Prime, the new capital was an internal […]

Vacation rental startup Holidu has tucked $45 million in Series D funding into its suitcase — bringing its total raised since being founded back in 2014 to more than $120 million. The latest funding round is led by 83North, with participation from existing investors Prime Ventures, EQT Ventures, Coparion, Senovo, Kees Koolen, Venture Stars, Lios […]

SaaS-maker Birdie has closed an $11.5 million Series A round of funding led by Index Ventures. Existing investor Kamet Ventures also participated. The UK-based caretech startup has raised a total of $22.9M since being founded back in 2017 (a 2018 raise that was called a Series A at the time is now being classed as […]

Jamf, the enterprise Apple device management company, announced that it was acquiring Wandera, a zero trust security startup, for $400 million at the market close today. Today’s purchase is the largest in the company’s history. Using a set of management services for Apple devices, Jamf provides IT at large organizations. It is the leader in […]

The tabletop gaming industry has exploded over the last few years as millions discovered or rediscovered its joys, but it too is evolving — and The Last Gameboard hopes to be the venue for that evolution. The digital tabletop platform has progressed from crowdfunding to $4 million seed round, and having partnered with some of […]

SPACs are desperate and asset prices are high as media recovers some and digital ad sales spike. SPAC now or forever hold your peace.

Consumer credit reporting agency TransUnion recently announced it had invested an undisclosed sum in Spring Labs, which is building out a blockchain-based data-sharing platform. Now, TechCrunch has exclusive details on the size of that round and the nature of the relationship. First off, the fact that TransUnion, a public company with a $20 billion market […]

DataRobot, the Boston-based automated machine learning startup, had a bushel of announcements this morning as it expanded its platform to give technical and nontechnical users alike something new. It also announced it has acquired Zepl, giving it an advanced development environment where data scientists can bring their own code to DataRobot. The two companies did […]

Israeli security startup Cycode, which specializes in helping enterprises secure their DevOps pipelines and prevent code tampering, today announced that it has raised a $20 million Series A funding round led by Insight Partners. Seed investor YL Ventures also participated in this round, which brings the total funding in the company to $24.6 million. Cycode’s […]

There has been a flurry of investments in startups focused on acquiring third-party sellers on Amazon and helping them build their businesses. The latest is Acquco, which aims to stand out from the others in that it was formed by a pair of founders — Raunak Nirmal and Wiley Zhang — who actually worked at […]

Sweden’s Exeger, which for over a decade has been developing flexible solar cell technology (called Powerfoyle) that it touts as efficient enough to power gadgets solely with light, has taken in another tranche of funding to expand its manufacturing capabilities by opening a second factory in the country. The $38 million raise is comprised of […]

Domain Investing: A UDRP has been filed at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) against the high value ETC.com domain name. Created in 1992, ETC.com has been registered for nearly 30 years. The UDRP case is WIPO Case D2021-1467. On the homepage of ETC.com, there’s a note that states “Welcome to the Etcetera Technology Corporation […]

OnlineDomain.com: CentralNic has been awarded a project by Dot London Domains Limited, a subsidiary of London & Partners, the business growth and destination agency for London. London & Partners operates the .London top-level domain (TLD). London was one of the first cities in the world to get its own official TLD name, .London. Dot London […]

Domain Name Wire: Opera, maker of the namesake web browser, is among this week’s end user domain buyers. Sedo had some nice end user domain name sales this past week, led by Hina.com for $50,000 and SimplexTrading.com for $28,000. Here’s a list of some of the end user domain name sales that were just completed […]

DomainIncite: Donuts has launched a tool to show off its TrueName offering, which blocks potential phishing attacks at the domain registry level. It’s like a regular name spinner, but instead of showing you available domains it shows you visually confusingly similar domains — homographs — that it will block if you register said name in […]

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Domain Shane: I get comments from people saying that it would have been easier if they would have gotten in when the older domain investors got in. Let me tell you something. There has been more money to be made in the last 10 years than they ever dreamed of. One word dot coms, dot […]

DomainIncite: A chemicals company called Merck has beaten another chemicals company called Merck for the right to run .merck as a dot-brand gTLD. But it looks like we may be looking at an unprecedented case of a shared dot-brand. US-based Merck Registry Holdings and Germany-based Merck KGaA appear to have resolved their long-running battle over […]

Robbie Ferguson: Yesterday Elon Musk announced that Tesla would no longer accept Bitcoin as payment for their products, This came as a bit of a shock as it was only earlier in the year they announced they... The post Are you concerned about Tesla not accepting BTC? appeared first on Robbie's Blog online since 2011 […]

DNJournal: Summer isn't here yet but domain sellers are already enjoying sunny days thanks to a booming aftermarket. The post Domain Sales Explosion Continues – 7 Six-Figure Sales Totaling Over $2.9 Million Top New Chart appeared first on iGoldRush Domain News and Resources.

Robbie Ferguson: Six months ago, we listed the domain names owned by Intel Corporation as per this post here, at the time we got whois result records for just over 600 domain names, however, it appears the... The post Domain Names Owned by Intel appeared first on Robbie's Blog online since 2011 - Domain Names, […]

DomainGang: The former owner of James.com celebrated another big sale, that of the domain Club.io. The controversy over .io domains doesn’t stop domain investors from flipping dictionary words for four, five, and even six figures. This time around, James Booth picked $45,000 dollars for Club.io, making his honeymoon even sweeter. It’s not James’s first .io […]

TheDomains: 100% of .Tech Domain Sales Made Through GoDaddy, Domain.com & Namecheap to Go Towards Enhancing K-12 CS Curriculum .Tech Domains, the leading new domain extension for the tech ecosystem, recently announced that it is collaborating with Code.org, a nonprofit dedicated to expanding access to computer science in schools. The campaign, which is called #MyStartInTech, […]

Domain Name Wire: Complainants can (and sometimes should) withdraw their cybersquatting disputes after learning the domain owner’s identity. A World Intellectual Property Organization panelist has found Levio Consulting Inc. to have engaged in reverse domain name hijacking (RDNH) over the domain name Levio.com. The decision highlights an important aspect of UDRP since the EU’s General […]

Domain Name Wire: Stock trades lower after first quarter report. Website creator Wix (NASDAQ: WIX) reported strong growth and a narrower loss than expected in the first quarter of this year, but its stock is off 15% in trading today. Revenue in Q1 was $304.1 million, up 41% year over year. Collections (sales) clocked in […]

Morgan Linton: Not a week goes by that I don’t hear from a friend of mine in the startup world that a “squatter” as the domain name they want for their company. I usually respond the same way every time, “Oh, so you mean you Trademarked the name, started using it for your company, and […]

DomainIncite: The .eu ccTLD shrank a bit in the first quarter as a result of Brexit finally kicking in fully. Registry EURid reported that there were 3,681,337 registered .eu, .ею and .ευ domains at the end of March, down from 3,684,984 at the end of 2020, a dip of just a few thousand names. Domains […]

DomainGang: Domain investor and entrepreneur, Frank Schilling, sold the majority of his portfolio to GoDaddy last year, along with various assets of Uniregistry. Some of the remaining assets consisting of the Uni Naming & Registry TLDs were auctioned off recently, generating a reported $40 million dollars. There’s no doubt Frank Schilling’s business genius takes him […]

Domain Shane: A look at the final auction prices, closeouts and more from the domain auction list posted on May 11, 2021. If there is an asterisk (*) next to a price, it means that the name was at auction from a private seller (rather than an expiring name) and may have had a reserve.  I’m only […]

DomainGang: Domainer-centric aftermarket, DNWE, is building up its list of features. Just weeks after tweaking the process of listing domains to cut down on waiting time, the DNWE.com operators are bringing more to the plate. According to an announcement, Dutch auctions are coming soon, providing domain sellers and buyers with an alternate approach to selling […]

Domain Investing: Dapper Labs is the company behind the popular NBA Top Shot and CryptoKitties NFTs / digital collectibles and the Flow blockchain. Whois records show that the company recently acquired the Flow.com domain name, in what appears to have been a private acquisition. The registrant change was spotted this morning by Jamie Zoch, and […]