Crypto 2.0, accessibility, and Apple’s future strategy

From Extra Crunch

• Jon Evans

  has a crypto-2-0/">comprehensive look at the most compelling futures for “

  crypto 2.0

  .” With the trading frenzy out of the way (at least for the time being), engineers and product designers can now get back to the real world of improving these systems.
• Digital accessibility expert

  Beth Franssen

  has a piece on how to

  improve accessibility

  for websites. Handling this well can improve the quality of a product for all users, while limiting legal liability.
• We’ve published our post-

  Apple extravaganza

  Apples-media-transformation/">conference call transcript with TechCrunch editor-in-chief

  Matthew Panzarino

  . Lots of nuggets in here about the future of Apple’s strategy.

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Stories from outside the 280/101 corridor

• Can you

  buy your own train

  ? Apparently, yes, but as with all things, it is complicated.

• Ken Doctor

  does his thing with a deep dive into the

  LA Times’ transformation

  into a (hopeful) digital media powerhouse.
• I talk about CFIUS a lot these days, and here is a story of how it is blocking the acquisition of gay dating app

  Grindr

  by a

  Chinese game company

  .

• Nikkei

  has a great deep dive into the expansion of low-cost mobile services in India with

  Reliance’s

  Jio service. We talked a bit about this with

  James Crabtree

  a few weeks back.
• Speaking of which,

  Y Combinator

  is going to be conducting a set of interviews for their next batch from

  India

  .

• Naspers

  is going to list its

  Tencent

  shares (roughly a third of the company) on Euronext Amsterdam.

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