 |  | | Wednesday, January 15, 2020 • By Eric Eldon | |
Welcome to Extra Crunch Wednesday | | | This week, we’re analyzing deals and product announcements from CES 2020 —have we hit peak smartphone? Is the robot homecoming finally upon us? Also: a look inside Visa’s $5.3B Plaid acquisition, identifying opportunities in today’s saturated cybersecurity market, Instacart’s controversial new feature, and much more. | | | |
| |  | | We interviewed Yoav Leitersdorf, the founder of a seed-stage venture firm that invests narrowly in Israeli cybersecurity startups. Read more | | | |
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| |  Image Credits: Nico De Pasquale Photography / Getty Images | | Having utterly matured the world of wearable fitness devices, companies exhibiting at CES have moved on to the next bit frontier: sleep. | | | |
| |  | | Delivering follow-up hits is a nearly impossible task, which is why so many studios attempt to recapture lightning with a well-timed franchise sequel or spin-out. Read more | | | |
| |  | | No company spends nearly 74% of its gross profit on sales and marketing costs if it isn't hell-bent on expanding its business! Read more | | | |
| |  Image Credits: CES | | Quibi CEO Meg Whitman and founder/chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg spoke to TechCrunch about their vision for the new mobile video service. Read more | | | |
| |  Image Credits: David McNew / Getty Images | | 2019 sucked for smartphones, as did the year before. After what was nearly an ascendant decade, sales petered off globally with few exceptions. Read more | | | |
| |  Image Credits: eyecrave / Getty Images | | The internet of things (IoT) market is expanding at a rate where distinguishing it as a separate category is beginning to seem a bit absurd. Read more | | | |
| |  Image Credits: Robyn Beck / Getty Images | | For the first time, this year Delta Air Lines had a large presence at CES. Read more | | | |
| |  Image Credits: Bridget Bennett/Bloomberg / Getty Images | | There's a different tenor to the robots shown off at CES: they're designed for home use, and they're shipping products, not just concepts intended strictly for trade show glam. Read more | | | |
| |  Image Credits: SUNGJIN AHN PHOTOGRAPHY / Getty Images | | ExtraHop is a Seattle-based firm that deals with cloud analytics and a portion of the security world called "network detection and response." Read more | | | |
| |  Image Credits: Noel Hendrickson / Getty Images | | Given the scale of the deal, and the implied bet that Visa is making on the future of its market, the company prepared a presentation, which means we get to peer into its thinking regarding Plaid itself and the fintech market as a whole. Read more | | | |
| |  Image Credits: The Washington Post | | The Pickup rollout came just a day after Instacart shoppers unveiled their latest action to #DeleteInstacart, another step in the ongoing series of protests against the grocery startup's wage and tipping practices. Read more | | | |
| |  Image Credits: Bloomberg / Getty Images | | One of the enduring truths of big companies is that they aren't innovative. They are "innovative" in the marketing sense, but fail to ever execute on new ideas, particularly when those ideas cannibalize existing products and revenues. Read more | | | |
| |  | | It's easy to remember the big names in tech, but we often forget about the operators who helped them along the way. Read more | | | |
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