In the last two years, Unilever acquired Carver Korea for $2.7 billion. Estee Lauder purchased Too Faced Cosmetics for $1.45 billion. CVC Capital Brands bought PDC Brands for $1.43 billion. L’Oreal purchased a trio of skincare brands for $1.3 billion, and also  IT Cosmetics for $1.2 billion. E.l.f. Beauty did an IPO.
Venture capitalists didn’t invest in any of these beauty… Read More
Source: TechCrunch
Show Us Yours: Greg Patan, the son of a jazz musician, has an insane apartment filled to the rafters with high-end audio gear. Check it out.
Source: CNET
U.S. startup investors were good at putting capital to work this past quarter. They weren’t as good at getting it back. Read More
Source: TechCrunch
The thorny issue of tracking of location data without risking individual privacy is very neatly illustrated via a Freedom of Information (FOI) request asking London’s transport regulator to release the “anonymized” data-set it generated from a four week trial last year when it tracked metro users in the UK capital via wi-fi nodes and the MAC address of their smartphones as… Read More
Source: TechCrunch
The Traeger Timberline 850 has tremendous potential, but its flaws are tough to stomach.
Source: Wired
Google Assistant gets a tiny new device designed to be placed anywhere.
Source: CNET
The Google Home Mini sounds better and looks better than the Echo Dot — but Google needs to innovate if it wants to catch Alexa.
Source: CNET
Opinion: Violent footage uploaded from conflict zones can be crucial for prosecuting war criminals.
Source: Wired
Ignore the exhaust tips on the back. Those are just to throw off casual onlookers. According to our friends at Autoblog, there’s a good chance this is the electric car Porsche hopes to throw down against Tesla. Called Mission E in previous concepts, Porsche has talked about this car for several years though this is one of the first photos of the production car. The photos show a car void… Read More
Source: TechCrunch
After the iPhone X, iPhone 8 and ARKit launches, it’s clearer than ever that Apple owns the four waves of augmented reality. But Google’s launch of ARCore has the startup CEOs, corporates and VCs Digi-Capital works with confused (not to mention Facebook Camera Effects). While there are technical/performance differences between the platforms, they’re more alike than different… Read More
Source: TechCrunch