Apple in trouble with the DOJ

TechCrunch Newsletter [TechCrunch PM Logo]( By [Christine Hall]( Thursday, March 21, 2024 Good afternoon, and welcome to TechCrunch PM. Apple and Microsoft were all over the news today. The team has broken down a lot of it. We have an app that hopes to grab Mint users, and we look at how Reddit shares did today. We also cover some venture capital talk and show you that your next DoorDash delivery could be by drone. Let’s dig in! Did someone forward this to you? Sign up [here]( to receive the TechCrunch PM newsletter in your inbox. —[Christine]( [ image] Image Credits: Apple [Generate slides in seconds, with Canva Presentations]( Sponsored by [Canva]( [Rome wasn’t built in a day. But it often feels like your deck needs to be. Generate a Canva Presentation in seconds, with AI. Just describe your presentation in a few words; choose a style from the generated options; customize; and you’re done. Easy.]( [Start designing today]( TechCrunch PM Top 3 Normally, I bring you the top three stories of the day here, but who are we kidding? The TechCrunch team descended upon all of the Apple news to tell you what’s going on, who’s mad, who’s happy, and generally what to make of all of this. Some highlights: It all started this morning when the U.S. Department of Justice filed a lawsuit [accusing Apple of monopolistic smartphone practices](. Sixteen state attorneys general joined the federal department in the massive suit. [You can read the lawsuit here](. Is Apple a monopoly? Perhaps, but [not in the way Windows was a monopoly](, writes Matt Rosoff. Here are a few ways the DOJ considers Apple a monopoly: its [“complete control” over tap-to-pay transactions](, its [battle with Beeper](, the iMessage-to-Android solution and [all those green bubbles](! Meanwhile, Apple is not really having any of it. The consumer tech giant [dismissed this lawsuit](, saying, “This lawsuit threatens who we are and the principles that set Apple products apart in fiercely competitive markets.” [TechCrunch PM Top 3 image] Image Credits: Getty Images Afternoon must-reads [Copilot, but not that Copilot](: Mint is going away this week, and Copilot, a personal finance tracking app, has been busy. The founder told me the company grew more in the last four months than in the previous four years. [Reddit shares see that pop the IPO market likes](: Is it too early to call it a win for tech stocks? Shares of social forum giant Reddit opened at $47 per share, then quickly soared 60%. [The Browser Company raises $50 million](: Now valued at $550 million, the Arc browser maker is out to change the personal computer as we know it. Let’s talk about Microsoft: The tech giant made a number of announcements today, [many of them surrounding Copilot]((yes, that one), from [getting its own key]( to [Adaptive accessibility](. [Changes over at Redis](: The popular in-memory data store is switching away from the open source three-clause BSD license. Oh, and it made an acquisition. [Coast gets more funding](: In a spend management category dominated by the likes of Brex and Ramp, Coast is swooping in with another round of funding to target a different set of businesses — businesses with “real-world” field personnel and fleets to manage companies like those in trucking, plumbing, HVAC, or last-mile delivery. [DoorDash by drone](: Select users in Christiansburg, Virginia, ordering from their local Wendy’s will be able to look into the sky for their order. DoorDash is expanding its partnership with Alphabet’s Wing to bring its drone delivery pilot to the U.S. [AI can’t spell](: Yeah, we went there. [Afternoon must-reads image] Image Credits: Copilot Around the web I’m biased when I say our coverage of Apple today is top-notch, but [Verge had an interesting take]( on it that’s worth diving into. Meanwhile, [Business Insider writes that we are getting better at our jobs](. The proof? Productivity is up. And the first Neuralink patient can play chess in his mind! Insert “mind-blown” emoji here. [TheStreet has more](. TechCrunch Minute [All about Microsoft’s mega AI push after it hired Inflection AI’s co-founders](: Microsoft’s[latest gambit]( to snag much of the human talent from Inflection AI is causing waves this week. Redmond has previously invested in the company but is now absorbing much of its staff into a new division it created for just that purpose. On the pods On today’s [Chain Reaction](, Jacquelyn interviewed Tegan Kline, the CEO and co-founder of Edge & Node. The company is focused on creating and supporting decentralized applications (dApps) and protocols. It was also the initial team behind The Graph, an indexing and query protocol, or what some have referred to as the Google of web3, which aims to organize open blockchain data and make open data a public good. [Listen here](. [On the pods image] Image Credits: Bryce Durbin [Read more stories on TechCrunch.com]( Newest Jobs from Crunchboard - [Chief of Staff at OpusClip (United States)]( - [CFO/Investment Fund Raiser at Flipping Technologies Inc. (Riverside, CA, USA)]( - [Instructor at Oregon Institute of Technology (Wilsonville, OR, USA)]( - [Director of Engineering at GridX (Denver, CO, USA)]( - [VP of Data Management at RetireeFirst (Mount Laurel, NJ, USA)]( [See more jobs on CrunchBoard]( [Post your tech jobs]( and reach millions of TechCrunch readers for only $349 per month. [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Youtube]( [Instagram]( [Flipboard]( [View this email online in your browser]( [Privacy Policy]( | [Terms of Service]( | [Unsubscribe]( © 2024 Yahoo. 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