Daily Archives: April 6, 2020

Business at Tushy is booming. While the circumstances that led to the boom are sobering, the bidet company needed to adapt its strategy after seeing an uptick in business amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Other companies in this cohort include video conferencing service Zoom, meal kit service Blue Apron and Facebook, thanks to its social network, […]

Bidet startup Tushy scales up to meet demand amid toilet ...

This entry was posted in Gadgets Growth Startups TC on April 6, 2020 by Megan Rose Dickey

Starting today, some U.S. Facebook users will see a new pop-up on the app asking them to complete a survey about COVID-19. The survey, from Carnegie Mellon University’s Delphi epidemiological research center, is one of many new symptom mapping projects that seek to anticipate where the next wave of the virus will hit as COVID-19 […]

Facebook starts prompting US users to fill out a COVID-19 ...

This entry was posted in Health Social TC and tagged facebook on April 6, 2020 by Taylor Hatmaker

Looks like things haven’t gone completely smoothly with Quibi‘s launch. The issue appears to have been resolved, but the Quibi customer support account tweeted this afternoon that “some users may be experiencing problems with the Quibi app,” only to add an hour later that “Users should once again be able to use the Quibi app […]

Quibi had a launch day outage

This entry was posted in Apps Entertainment Media Mobile Startups on April 6, 2020 by Anthony Ha

“The U.S. and Germany are pushing the growth," says CEO Thibaud Hug de Larauze. "They are the main two drivers of the boom of Back Market."

COVID-19 crisis spurs triple-digit growth for refurbishing startup Back Market

This entry was posted in Amazon Column eCommerce Europe Gadgets Growth hardware Paris retail smartphone Startups and tagged apple on April 6, 2020 by Walter Thompson

It has the simplest name but the sort of shadowy overtones that national security writers lust after. Team Telecom, a mostly informal working committee of the Departments of Defense, Homeland Security, and Justice (along with affiliated agencies) has for years been quietly tasked with evaluating and maintaining the security of America telecom infrastructure in concert […]