Techcrunch blog!: Daily Crunch - Sleep tech conquers CES

Monday, January 13, 2020 • By Anthony Ha

Happy Monday

Sleep devices were all over this year’s CES, India investigates Flipkart and Netflix receives an impressive 24 Oscar nominations. Here’s your Daily Crunch for January 13, 2020.

CES was a snoozefest

Brian Heater used a terrible pun headline for his exploration of a booming category in tech: namely, sleep.

At this year’s just-wrapped Consumer Electronics Show, sleep seemed to be everywhere, with devices falling into three broad categories — those designed to simply track sleep, those designed to train the brain into sleeping better and those designed to change the sleep environment. (Extra Crunch membership required.)

Image Credits: Nico De Pasquale Photography / Getty Images

Goldilocks Principle: Verify your customers with just the right amount of friction

India orders investigation into alleged anti-competitive practices by Amazon and Walmart's Flipkart

India’s local antitrust body highlighted a variety of issues (including the arrangements between smartphone vendors and e-commerce platforms to sell certain handsets exclusively online, as well as e-commerce firms supposedly giving preferential treatment to certain sellers) and said these allegations merit an investigation.

Netflix gets the most Oscar nods of any studio, with 'Irishman' and 'Marriage Story' nominated for Best Picture

"The Irishman" received 10 nominations, including Best Picture, Director (Martin Scorsese), Actor in a Supporting Role (Al Pacino and Joe Pesci), Adapted Screenplay (Steven Zaillian) and Visual Effects. But Todd Phillips’ “Joker” (a movie I hated) was the most-nominated film of the year.