Daily Crunch - Apple adds iPhone parental controls

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Wednesday, December 11, 2019 • By Anthony Ha

Happy Wednesday Apple gives parents more controls over who their kids can call or text, Pear raises a $160 million fund and Uber adds a new feature for skiers. Here’s your Daily Crunch for December 11, 2019.

The iPhone's new parental controls can limit who kids can call, text and FaceTime and when With the release of iOS 13.3, parents will for the first time be able to set limits over who kids can talk to and text with during certain hours of the day. These limits will apply across phone calls, Messages and FaceTime. In practice, this means parents could stop their child from texting friends late at night or during the school day. It also allows parents to manage the child's iCloud contacts remotely. Read more Image Credits: Alys Tomlinson / Getty Images

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Pear, whose seed-stage bets are followed closely, just raised $160 million for its third fund That’s more than twice the $75 million that the firm raised for its second fund in 2016 and triple the $50 million it raised for its debut fund back in 2013. Read more

Uber guarantees space for skis and snowboards with Uber Ski feature Starting on December 17 in select cities, an Uber Ski icon will pop up on the app, allowing passengers to order a ride with confirmed extra space or a ski/snowboarding rack. Nundu Janakiram, Uber’s head of rider experience, said to expect more features like this. Read more Image Credits: Photo by Doug Pensinger/Getty Images / Getty Images

Accel and Index back Tines, as the cybersecurity startup adds another $11M to its Series A Founded in February 2018 by ex-eBay, PayPal and DocuSign security engineer Eoin Hinchy, Tines automates many of the repetitive manual tasks faced by security analysts so they can focus on other high-priority work. Read more

How Station F is boosting the French tech ecosystem Three years after unveiling Station F at Disrupt, its director, Roxanne Varza, came back to our stage to provide an update on the world's biggest startup campus, where there are now 1,000 companies at work. Read more

Hyperproof wants to make it easier to comply with GDPR and other regulations As companies try to figure out how to comply with regulations like GDPR, ISO or Sarbanes Oxley, Hyperproof is launching a new product to workflows that will allow them to gain compliance in a more organized way. Read more

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