Daily Crunch: Apple adds new iPhone parental controls
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1. The iPhone’s new parental controls can extent who kids can call, content and FaceTime and when
With a recover of iOS 13.3, relatives will for a initial time be means to set boundary over who kids can speak to and content with during certain hours of a day. These boundary will request opposite phone calls, Messages and FaceTime.
In practice, this means relatives could stop their child from texting friends late during night or during a propagandize day. It also allows relatives to conduct a child’s iCloud contacts remotely.
2. Pear, whose seed-stage bets are followed closely, only lifted $160 million for a third fund
That’s some-more than twice a $75 million that a organisation lifted for a second account in 2016 and triple a $50 million it lifted for a entrance account behind in 2013.
3. Uber guarantees space for skis and snowboards with Uber Ski feature
Starting on Dec 17 in name cities, an Uber Ski idol will cocktail adult on a app, permitting passengers to sequence a float with reliable additional space or a ski/snowboarding rack. Nundu Janakiram, Uber’s conduct of supplement experience, pronounced to design some-more facilities like this.
4. Accel and Index behind Tines, as a cybersecurity startup adds another $11M to a Series A
Founded in Feb 2018 by ex-eBay, PayPal and DocuSign confidence operative Eoin Hinchy, Tines automates many of a repeated primer tasks faced by confidence analysts so they can concentration on other high-priority work.
5. How Station F is boosting a French tech ecosystem
Three years after phenomenon Station F during Disrupt, a director, Roxanne Varza, came behind to a theatre to yield an refurbish on a world’s biggest startup campus, where there are now 1,000 companies during work.
6. Hyperproof wants to make it easier to approve with GDPR and other regulations
As companies try to figure out how to approve with regulations like GDPR, ISO or Sarbanes Oxley, Hyperproof is rising a new product to workflows that will concede them to benefit correspondence in a some-more orderly way.
7. Introducing ‘Dear Sophie,’ an recommendation mainstay for US-bound newcomer employees
Dear Sophie is a collaborative forum hosted by Extra Crunch and curated by Sophie Alcorn, who is approved as a dilettante profession in immigration and nationality law by a State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization.
