Daily Crunch - Goodbye Hipmunk

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Wednesday, January 15, 2020 • By Anthony Ha

Happy Wednesday My favorite flight booking site is shutting down, Google brings its security key capabilities to iPhones and Ev Williams’ venture firm raises a new fund. Here’s your Daily Crunch for January 15, 2020.

Four years after being acquired, Hipmunk is shutting down Founded by Adam J. Goldstein and Reddit co-founder Steve "spez" Huffman, Hipmunk was one of the first well-made "metasearch" travel sites. It scrounged up flights (and hotels/car rentals/etc.) from across myriad services like Expedia, Priceline, etc., presenting all the times and prices in one big, skimmable interface. Now the Hipmunk team says the website and app are both shutting down. Oh, and we’ve confirmed that Goldstein and Huffman tried to buy the company back from SAP Concur, but that doesn’t seem to have panned out. Read more

Brex's 2020 predictions for fintech Sponsored by Brex Combining anonymized data and their own fintech experience, Brex highlights 10 trends that will help your company plan for 2020 and beyond. Read more

Google finally brings its security key feature to iPhones Google said it'll bring the feature to iPhones in an effort to give at-risk users, like journalists and politicians, access to additional account and security safeguards, effectively removing the need to use a physical security key like a Yubico or a Google Titan key. Read more

Obvious Ventures closes an irrationally sized third fund The firm co-founded by Medium CEO and Twitter co-founder Ev Williams announced that it has closed its third fund, "OV3," at $271,828,182 — a number that the graphing calculator-owning among us may recognize as e, or Euler's number. Read more Image Credits: NurPhoto / Contributor / Getty Images

Don't be a selfless startup It might sound strange to describe WeWork or MoviePass as “selfless,” but Danny Crichton argues that despite their failures, they successfully introduced new and popular business models. (Extra Crunch membership required.) Read more

Microsoft and NSA say a security bug affects millions of Windows 10 computers Microsoft has released a security patch for a dangerous vulnerability affecting hundreds of millions of computers running Windows 10. The bug could allow attackers to spoof legitimate software, potentially making it easier to run malicious software on a vulnerable computer. Read more Image Credits: Getty Images

Dear Spotify, add rabbits to your pet playlists Spotify is introducing pet playlists, but Brian Heater has a very important request on behalf of his rabbit, Lucy. Read more

Announcing the agenda for Robotics+AI — March 3 at UC Berkeley For months we've been recruiting speakers from the ranks of the most innovative founders, top technologists and hard-charging VCs working in robotics and AI, and the speaker line-up will capture the remarkable acceleration across the field in the past year. Also: 2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the first use of the word "robot." Read more

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