INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Sony announces a camera-centric phone, Microsoft offers more details about the next Xbox and a liquid biopsy startup raises $165 million
Here your Daily Crunch for February 24, 2020.
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Sony announces its first 5G flagship, the triple lens Xperia 1 II
Sony has announced its first 5G smartphone: The Xperia 1 II — for the
curious or confused, it pronounced &Xperia One, Mark Two.&
As ever with Sony — a major B2B supplier of image sensors to other smartphone
makers — it has made the camera a huge focus
The Xperia 1 II packs three lenses that offer a selection of focal lengths (16mm, 24mm and 70mm) for capturing different types of photos,
from super wide angle to portraits.
2
Microsoft offers a closer look at the next Xbox
The headline feature of the upcoming Xbox Series X is, naturally, a new processor
Built on top of AMD Zen 2 and RDNA 2 architecture, Xbox says the chip is able to deliver four times the processing power of the Xbox One.
3
Karius raises $165M for its liquid biopsy technology identifying diseases with a blood draw
Liquid biopsy technology has been widely
embraced in cancer treatments as a way to identify which therapies may work best for patients, based on the presence of trace amounts in a
patient bloodstream of genetic material shed by cancer cells
Karius applies the same principles to the detection of pathogens in the blood.
4
Europe Target Global raises new €120M early-stage fund
Dubbed &Early Stage Fund II,& the new vehicle will see the firm continue to back
early-stage tech companies across Europe and Israel, leading and co-leading seed and Series A rounds.
5
Sensors are the next big thing in space, not starships
&In 2020 I really, really look forward to and hope to see different, new creative
types of sensors that are utilizing low Earth orbit for benefits back on Earth,& Bessemer VP Tess Hatch told us in a recent interview
(Extra Crunch membership required.)
6
The Plaid ‘mafia& begins with John Whitfield joining student loan fintech startup Summer
So far this year, one of the most eye-popping
startup exits has been Visa $5.3 billion acquisition of fintech data services platform Plaid
Could this be the start of a brand new mafia born out of fintech, à la PayPal?
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This week TechCrunch podcasts
The latest full episode of Equity has a counter-intuitive message — equity isn&t always the answer for
companies looking to fundraise
Meanwhile, the shorter Monday segment looks at declining stocks around the world
And on Original Content, we review the new Netflix series &Locke - Key.&
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