The TechCrunch List is dead. Long live commodity capital

It’s been almost exactly a year since we launched The TechCrunch List, a curated directory of…

The NS1 EC-1

There are excruciatingly high stakes for software today. Trillions of dollars of market cap, billions of…

1 napkin and 22 lines of code, or how NS1 rewrote the rules of internet infrastructure

Kris Beevers, John Sullivan and Alex Vayl wanted to rebuild the core addressing system of the…

*** is NS1? It’s DNS, DDI, and maybe other TLAs

NS1 looks at DNS differently from the competition: It doesn’t consider it as just a conduit…

The fight for the future of DNS is white hot

Since its inception, one of the toughest challenges NS1 has faced is the simple fact that…

Outages, pandemics and the reengineering of traffic on the internet

Sales in enterprise infrastructure is all about meeting a customer’s requirements. But what happens if customers…

Dataminr’s first ever acquisition is UK-based geovisualization platform WatchKeeper

When it comes to detecting events transpiring anywhere in the world, few companies hold a candle…

Acrylic raises debut $55M solo GP fund to paint the future of crypto

It’s been quite the year for crypto capital, what with Coinbase’s blockbuster debut earlier this year…

Verizon demos THOR, its new vehicle for frontline rapid humanitarian response

The increasingly intense heats bearing down feverishly across the globe are accelerating the number, scale, and…

SoftBank buys perpetual Yahoo trademark license for $1.6 billion

As firework volleys launched out of New York City harbor last night, a very different celebration…