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| The world’s biggest mobile trade show won’t happen this year, Andy Rubin’s smartphone company shuts down and a satellite broadband startup raises $90 million. Here’s your Daily Crunch for February 13, 2020. | | | |
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| “The GSMA has cancelled MWC Barcelona 2020 because the global concern regarding the coronavirus outbreak, travel concern and other circumstances, make it impossible for the GSMA to hold the event,” CEO John Hoffman said in a statement. Over the past few days, dozens of big name exhibitors announced they would skip this year's show. MWC usually attracts more than 100,000 attendees from 200 countries to Barcelona. Read more | |  Image Credits: Josep Lago / AFP / Getty Images | | |
| Essential was supposed to disrupt the smartphone industry, but it struggled with bad timing, broader industry issues and a founder embroiled in troubling allegations of sexual misconduct, ultimately failing to make it far beyond the launch of its first handset. Read more | | | |
| The funding will be used to help the company launch its first commercial satellites, which will be the bedrock of its future internet service offering, aimed at connecting the massive market of underserved populations around the world. The company’s focus on geostationary satellites — rather than satellites that hand off their connection through a kind of relay system — makes it different from many of the other entrants in the satellite internet race. Read more | |  | | |
| Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) has published a bill which, if passed, would create a U.S. federal data protection agency designed to protect the privacy of Americans, with the authority to enforce data practices across the country. Read more | | | |
| While there are more AR platforms than the big three mentioned in the headline, Digi-Capital’s Tim Merel argues that they represent the top of the pyramid for three different types of AR roadmap. (Extra Crunch membership required.) Read more | |  | | |
| Facebook has been left red-faced after being forced to call off the launch date of its dating service in Europe because it failed to give its lead EU data regulator enough advanced warning, and it failed to demonstrate it had performed a legally required assessment of privacy risks. Read more | | | |
| The company, best known for its ElliQ home robot for the elderly, also disclosed that it’s working with the Toyota Research Institute to bring its technology to the automaker's LQ concept. Intuition’s goal is to build digital assistants that can create emotional bonds between humans and machines. Read more | | | |
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