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Some posts from Tech Crunch

• Detroit to be first to deploy Abbott Lab’s 5 minute Covid-19 test, mayor says April 2, 2020
  Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan said today on Wolf Blitzer’s CNN show that the city of Detroit is on track to be the first city to deploy Abbott Lab’s 5 minute Covid-19 test. The mayor said that the test would be available for first responders. The goal, he said, was to allow those first responders who […]
• Mobile payments firms in India are now scrambling to make money April 1, 2020
  Vijay Shekhar Sharma, founder and chief executive of India’s most valuable startup, Paytm, posed an existential question in a recent press conference. “What do you think of the commercial model for digital mobile payments. How do we make money?” Sharma asked Nandan Nilekani, one of the key architects of the Universal Payments Infrastructure that created […]
• Original Content podcast: ‘Star Trek: Picard’ launches with a bumpy, memorable season April 1, 2020
  Star Trek TV shows generally take a while to get good — but if any of them was going to have a strong start, you’d think it’d be “Star Trek: Picard.” After all, it returns Patrick Stewart to the role that made him famous, that of one-time Starfleet captain Jean-Luc Picard. Plus, the writing team […]
• ‘Content network effect’ makes TikTok tough to copy April 1, 2020
  Many TikTok videos don’t start from scratch, so neither can its competitors. TikTok is all about remixes, where users shoot a new video to recontextualize audio pulled from someone else’s clip, or riff on an existing meme or concept. That only works because TikTok’s had time to build up an immense armory of content from […]
• In a significant change, Apple customers can now buy or rent titles directly in the Prime Video app April 1, 2020
  A recent update from Amazon has made it easier for Apple customers to buy or rent movies from its Prime Video app. Before, customers using the Prime Video app from an iOS device or Apple TV would have to first purchase or rent the movie elsewhere — like through the Amazon website or a Prime […]