Matthew Lynley

Reporter, TechCrunch

Matt Lynley was a reporter at TechCrunch covering elements of the AI industry.

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Back when Dennis Woodside joined Dropbox as its chief operating officer more than four years ago, the company was trying to justify the $10 billion valuation it had hit in…

Dropbox is crashing despite beating Wall Street expectations, announces COO Dennis Woodside is leaving

After a largely successful IPO, Dropbox is adding another couple of hires today as it looks to continue its consumer-slash-enterprise growth playbook: bringing on a new VP of product in…

Dropbox hires a new VP of product and VP of product marketing

While some of the largest technology companies in the world are racing to figure out the next generation of machine learning-focused chips that will support devices — whether that’s data…

AI Chip startup Cerebras Systems picks up a former Intel top exec

Twilio today reported a positive quarter that brought it to profitability — on an adjusted basis — ahead of schedule for Wall Street, sending the stock soaring 16 percent in…

Twilio came ahead of expectations and the stock is going nuts

As employers duke it out over hiring the best possible candidates, especially ones coming out of school, they are starting to get a little bit more creative with their incentive…

Goodly looks to give companies student loan payments as an employee benefit

Stack Overflow and other various sites and tools have made it easy to Google search for solutions — or code snippets — to the easier parts of putting together an…

Optic wants to help developers drop boilerplate code into their development flow

ÆWhile we’re talking about companies like Apple getting alarmingly close to a $1 trillion market cap, both of Jack Dorsey’s companies — Twitter (at least before its earnings last week)…

Square’s crazy run this year dodges any major snags with a decent Q2

Apple is inching closer and closer to becoming a $1 trillion company today after posting third-quarter results that beat what analysts were expecting and bumping the stock another few percentage…

Apple nears a $1 trillion market cap as it clears another quarter ahead of expectations

Amazon’s web services AWS continue to be the highlight of the company’s balance sheet, once again showing the kind of growth Amazon is looking for in a new business for…

Amazon’s AWS continues to lead its performance highlights

Qualcomm today said it wouldn’t extend its offer to buy NXP for $44 billion today as part of its release for its quarterly earnings, and instead be returning $30 billion…

Qualcomm says it will drop its massive $44B offer to acquire NXP

Quantum computing may be a long ways off, but early applications of it aren’t as far off as you might think, according to longtime researcher and ColdQuanta founder Dana Anderson.…

ColdQuanta raises $6.75M to make it easier to spin up a limited use-case quantum computer

In a pretty substantial move into trying to own the entire AI stack, Google today announced that it will be rolling out a version of its Tensor Processing Unit —…

Google is making a fast specialized TPU chip for edge devices and a suite of services to support it

Riding on a wave of an explosion in the use of machine learning to power, well, just about everything is the emergence of GPUs as one of the go-to methods…

Snark AI looks to help companies get on-demand access to idle GPUs

Google is running its playbook again of releasing big new products (or redesigns) to its average users and then moving what works over to its enterprise services, G Suite, today…

Google’s big redesign for Gmail is now generally available for enterprise G Suite customers

Google today said it will be rolling out an enterprise version of its Google Voice service for G Suite users, potentially tapping a new demand source for Google that could…

Google is rolling out a version of Google Voice for enterprise G Suite customers

Christie Lagally spent half of a decade working on planes as an aerospace engineer — but now she’s trying to attack the food industry head-on with a hopeful attempt to…

Seattle Food Tech looks to replace the chicken nugget with a plant-based copycat

Recruiting, hiring and retention can be one of the most costly parts of a company’s entire operation, and there’s a class of startups and companies that are increasingly getting funded…

Guild Education raises $40M to offer employees education as a company perk

As Google pushes further and further into enterprise services, it’s looking to leverage what it’s known for — a strong expertise in machine learning — to power some of the…

Google announces a suite of updates to its contact center tools

Google is hosting its big cloud conference, Google Cloud Next, this morning over at the Moscone center in San Francisco. Obviously it’s not quite as large as its flagship event…

Watch the Google Cloud Next day one keynote live right here

Google was already worth more than $800 billion and, while well short of Apple, is now jumping into that batch of companies that are on their way to being a…

Google joins the race to $1 trillion

Sonos today took the next step in its initial public offering price, setting a range for the shares it intends to sell that will help calibrate the final amount of…

Sonos prices its IPO to raise as much as $105M

Over the course of a weekend we got a glimpse at some of the coming seasons and movies for various sci-fi, superhero, and other types of highly-anticipated fan-favorite franchises from…

Here are some of the movie and TV trailers to come out of San Diego Comic-Con 2018

Microsoft is capping off a rather impressive year without any major missteps in its final report for its performance in its 2018 fiscal year, posting a quarter that seems to…

Microsoft caps off a fine fiscal year seemingly without any major missteps in its last quarter

Let’s be real: you are most certainly never going to be as good as Steve Nash, Chris Paul, James Harden — or really any professional NBA player. But it probably won’t…

An app that uses AI to help you improve your basketball shot just raised $4 million

As Amazon looks to increasingly expand its cashier-less grocery stories — called Amazon Go – across different regions, there’s at least one startup hoping to end up everywhere else beyond…

Standard Cognition raises another $5.5M to create a cashier-less checkout experience

Netflix didn’t add as many subscribers as expected by a bunch of people on Wall Street who, on a quarterly basis, govern whether or not it’ll be more valuable than Comcast…

Netflix is falling off a cliff

For any company looking to spin up some kind of operation in a new region, one of the first steps may be finding contractors in the area that can actually…

Emptor looks to help companies more easily find contractors in the area

In recent months, we’ve seen more and more funding flowing into tools for mental wellness — whether that’s AI-driven tools to help patients find help to meditation apps — and…

Spring Health raises $6M to help employees get access to personalized mental health treatment

Finding the right talent is a make-or-break situation for any company — especially smaller ones, which might not have the robust tools (or pocket books) of larger companies like Google…

Intelligent recruiting platform Greenhouse picks up another $50M

Pinterest is trying to further tap its popularity as a place to plan events, this time adding ways for users to collaborate across boards that are baked directly into the…

Pinterest is adding a way for users to collaborate on boards