TechCrunch Disrupt

The following post was written and/or published as a collaboration between Benzinga’s in-house sponsored content team and a financial partner of Benzinga. With TechCrunch’s annual Disrupt conference going entirely virtual this year, its typical themes of leveraging technology to improve...

Benzinga is highlighting nominees for the fifth annual Benzinga Global Fintech Awards ahead of the event Nov. 19 in New York City.  The Company Noonum is a financial and economics data SaaS for institutional investors and asset managers. Background Noonum comes into the picture...

Airbnb recently came under fire at TechCrunch's Disrupt competition, where a protester from CodePink held up a banner that read "Airbnb hosts apartheid [emphasis omitted]." Airbnb has allowed users to list properties on land that Israel occupied and displaced Palestinians. Critics have blasted the...

Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) announced a handful of new apps and features last month, bringing a piece of Twitter, Amazon and Snapchat to the world's largest social network. "I would say Facebook is becoming more like Twitter through these kinds of innovations, rather than Twitter becoming...