 |  | | Thursday, November 21, 2019 • By Anthony Ha | |
Happy Thursday PayPal makes its biggest acquisition ever, Alphabet’s internet balloon company signs a major commercial deal and Apple expands its Everyone Can Code program. Here’s your Daily Crunch for November 21, 2019. | | | |
| Currently, Honey's 17 million monthly active users take advantage of its suite of money-saving tools to track prices, get alerts, make lists, browse offers and participate in a rewards program called Honey Gold. The acquisition, which is PayPal's largest to date, will give the payments giant a foothold earlier in the customer's shopping journey. Instead of only competing on the checkout page against credit cards or Apple Pay, for example, PayPal will leap ahead to become a part of the deal discovery process, as well. Read more | |  | | |
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| Loon is Alphabet’s high-altitude balloon company that is using its stratospheric technology to provide internet connectivity on Earth. This is Loon’s third commercial contract, including one with Telkom Kenya which is also awaiting final regulatory sign-off, and an arrangement with Canadian company Telecast to develop a coordination system for a future planned low-Earth orbit satellite constellation. Read more | | | |
| The company says it has redesigned the "Everyone Can Code" curriculum with a focus on introducing coding to more elementary and middle school students, while also adding more resources for teachers, a new student guide and refreshed Swift Coding Club materials. Read more | |  | | |
| Unlike other grammar tools, Google's version utilizes a neural network approach to detect potential grammar issues in your text — similar to the techniques used for building effective machine translation models. The company is also bringing to Docs the same autocorrect feature it already uses in Gmail. Read more | | | |
| Our TC Early Stage events will be smaller (and more affordable) than Disrupt, with a focus on giving early-stage founders the information they need to be successful. The first will be in San Francisco on April 28, followed by one in Paris on October 28 and another in New York City (date TBA, but hey, we’re coming back to NYC!). Read more | |  | | |
| Snips, which had been developing dedicated smart device assistants that can operate locally (instead of relying on consistently round-tripping voice data to the cloud) could help Sonos set up a voice control option for its customers that has better privacy and is focused more narrowly on music control. Read more | | | |
| User-first products are driving rapid company growth in an era where individuals discover, adopt and share software they like throughout their organizations. This is great if you're a Slack, Shopify or Dropbox — but what if your company doesn't fit that profile? (Extra Crunch membership required.) Read more | | | |
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