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Ingrid
@ingridlunden
Journalist. Mom. Wife. Traveler. Speaks English, American, Russian, Franglais, Spanglish, in metaphors. ex-TechCrunch ingrid.101 on Signal.
London
Joined February 2009
- Some tech PRs really know their shit. I mean really. Huge props to those of you out there.
- I think there is a lot of revisiting of older stories to be done. As a society, and specifically as the media industry, we have given anecdotes likes these a pass way too often.WATCH: @BetteMidler to Barbara Walters in an interview over 20 years ago. She says @GeraldoRivera and his producer shoved her into her bathroom, stuck poppers under her nose, and proceeded to grope her.
00:00 - Dear PRs (not all PRs): PLEASE stop giving story embargoes of one time to one outlet, and a later time to another without being transparent about it. It's sneaky + exploitative. Shame on you.
- The Airbnb ecosystem is alive and well.Guesty, a tech platform for property managers on Airbnb and other rental sites, raises $35M tcrn.ch/2U53RQg by @ingridlunden
- And with that... I'm not working for the rest of the week. Currently in hospital w/my brave and beautiful daughter who had a major operation yesterday to fix significant scoliosis. She has had absolutely stellar care here in London. Thank you NHS.
- Today in robotic PR pitches: 'Dear Ingrid, Would you like to meet Ida Tin in Berlin on Tuesday? She's being interviewed by Ingrid Lunden earlier in the day on stage.' 🙄
- Apple's biggest ever acquisition in terms of employees: 300 are joining. If you know how Apple typically buys small teams, this is a big deal for the company. tip @TechmemeApple is paying $300M in cash to buy a part of Dialog Semiconductor and expand its chipmaking in Europe tcrn.ch/2A3ppCg by @ingridlunden
- PowerPoint is not great, but it dominates the world of presentations. Now the folks who built Wunderlist (the to-do app acquired by Msft) are taking it on with something new, 'the Slack of presentation software' in the words of the CEO. Slack's also backing them... tip @TechmemePitch, from the founders of Wunderlist, raises $19M to take on Powerpoint in presentations tcrn.ch/2IM85Eu by @ingridlunden
- WFH is getting to everyone just a little. I just talked to a founder who I'm pretty sure just signed off our phone conversation with "I love you." He then laughed uncomfortably and I pretended not to hear and hung up. (Have never met this person in person.)
- So very proud to say my daughter is one of these 223!In December 1,150 online interviews took place over 10 days with 110 academics meeting more than 800 prospective St John’s undergrads. In a hugely competitive field, congrats to the 223 applicants that we have made a @Cambridge_Uni offer to & thank you to everyone who applied👏
- Handshake is taking on LinkedIn in targeting twenty-something users, and in addressing diversity, two areas where the MSFT-owned giant has tried but is not as strong as it should be. It's much smaller (14m vs 560m) but it's an interesting opportunity. tip @TechmemeHandshake, a LinkedIn for university students and diversity, raises $40M on a $275M valuation tcrn.ch/2RoIBjz by @ingridlunden
- I sat down with the 25-yo (25!) CEO of Bolt to talk about how being a late mover has helped it take on Uber in Europe, Africa and beyond. Also he confirmed they are raising more $$ to keep growing on the same low-cost biz model.Taxify rebrands as Bolt to expand its transport options beyond private cars by @ingridlunden techcrunch.com/2019/03/06/tax…
- Two years ago Android took 43% of smartphone profits (Apple 57%); today that's dropped to 11% (Apple 89%)
