 |  | | Monday, February 03, 2020 • By Anthony Ha | |
Happy Monday Hulu’s CEO departs, a BlackBerry handset partnership ends and Skyrora successfully tests its 3D-printed rocket engines. Here’s your Daily Crunch for February 3, 2020. | | | |
| Hulu CEO Randy Freer is stepping down from his role as part of a major restructuring of Disney's streaming business. The move signals Disney's plans to streamline its direct-to-consumer operations, which also include Disney+ and ESPN+. Disney took control of Hulu last year following its acquisition of 21st Century Fox and a subsequent deal with the service’s other owner, NBCUniversal. However, the company had largely left Hulu alone to operate as usual — until now. Read more | |  Image Credits: Dia Dipasupil / Getty Images | | |
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| BlackBerry and TCL announced that they would end their four-year brand licensing and tech support partnership in August 2020, with TCL ceasing to make new models of BlackBerry handsets after that point. Read more | | | |
| Skyrora's rocket engines are novel not only in their use of 3D printing, but also because the fuel that powers them is developed from plastic waste — a new type of fuel called "Ecosene" the startup says makes its launch vehicles greener and more ecologically sound than the competition. Read more | |  Image Credits: Skyrora | | |
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| Nigeria has become a magnet for venture capital, a hotbed for startup formation and a strategic entry point for Silicon Valley. Still, Jake Bright acknowledges that as a frontier market, there is volatility to the country's political and economic trajectory. (Extra Crunch membership required.) Read more | |  | | |
| Some of these ads come from tech giants like Amazon and Facebook, which have hired big stars to promote their products. Meanwhile, Dashlane found a fun way to remind viewers of the nightmare of life without a password manager, while Squarespace enlisted Winona Ryder to build a website on the platform. Read more | | | |
| The latest full episode of Equity features a discussion of why Kleiner Perkins is investing its latest fund of $600 million at a rapid pace, while the Monday news roundup looks at the global market’s response to coronavirus fears. And over at Original Content, we review the Netflix cheerleading documentary “Cheer.” Read more | | | |
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