Apple has a strong quarter despite the coronavirus, Impossible Foods is coming to Walmart and NASA launches a new rover on Mars. Here is your Daily Crunch for July 30, 2020.
The big story: Apple exceeds third quarter expectationsApple's latest earnings report suggests that the company is thriving despite COVID-19, with revenues of $ 59.69 billion in the third quarter of the fiscal year. It is significantly above the analysts' $ 52.25 billion forecast and reflects 11% year-over-year growth.
This isn't the first time Apple has reported profits since coronavirus became a part of our lives, but Q3 was its first quarter to occur entirely during the pandemic.
The company also announced a four-by-one stock split scheduled for late August, through which Apple investors will receive three more shares for each share they already own, with the individual shares becoming correspondingly cheaper.
The giants of technologyAmazon claims that police requests for customer data have increased - Figures show that in the first half of 2020, Amazon received 23% more lawsuits and search warrants than in the first half of 2019.
Checkout of the PayPal QR code and Venmo will reach 8,200 CVS stores in the fourth quarter - CVS will become the first national retailer to allow customers to pay using their PayPal or Venmo QR code in the register, without commissions.
Google is making autofilling on Chrome for mobile devices more secure. The new auto-fill experience on mobile devices will use biometric authentication for credit card transactions.
Startups, financing and venture capitalImpossible Foods starts selling at Walmart and expands the distribution of its new sausage product - Impossible Foods will now be available in over 2,000 Walmart stores across the country.
The Astra rocket launch startup is ready for orbital test flight as early as Sunday - The startup was incorporated only three years ago and is building its rockets in Alameda, California.
We have updated the ProWellTech List with 116 new VCs ready to write first and conduct startup checks - Thanks to readers' response and advice, the list continues to grow!
Extra Crunch tips and analysisSix major investors evaluate the panorama of telework startups - In our latest VC survey, we try to understand if the SaaS effort is real and where there is still open space in the world of telework.
Four keys to building your startup: Jess Lee from Sequoia's Insights, Initialized's Garry Tan, Floodgate's Ann Miura-Ko and Neo's Ali Partovi.
Jesus, SaaS and the digital tithe - Part 1 of a series on "church technology".
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All the restNASA successfully launches its Mars 2020 Perseverance rover using an Atlas V rocket - The Perseverance rover is equipped with sensors specially designed to help it find evidence of ancient and microbiotic life on Mars.
CBS All Access adds 3,500 new episodes before rebranding in 2021 - ViacomCBS previously announced plans to launch an expanded and renamed version of CBS All Access this summer to better compete with streaming offerings like Disney + and HBO Max.
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