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CBS is today launching another streaming network, this time focused on entertainment news. The service, which is called ET Live, was developed by CBS Interactive and CBS TV&Entertainment Tonight& news magazine, and will be available both as a standalone app as well as a part of the CBS streaming app aimed at cord cutters, CBS All Access.

The new service will deliver 24/7 coverage of entertainment news, including breaking news, celebrity interviews, features, behind-the-scenes, red carpet coverage, plus trends stories across celebrity fashion, beauty and lifestyle.

The content isn&t just a rehash of the &Entertainment Tonight& on-air broadcast, the network claims. Instead, it will feature original programming and a roster of new hosts, including Lauren Zima, Denny Directo, Cassie DiLaura, Tanner Thomason, Jason Carter and Melicia Johnson.

The flagship showcurrent hosts &Nancy O&Dell, Kevin Frazier, Nischelle Turner and Keltie Knight & will make regular appearances, however, to promote whatup next and other exclusives.

At launch, the service is available on its own website at ETLive.com and through an ET Live app on iOS, Android, Apple TV, and Amazon Fire TV, with more platforms expected in the future.

Italso being integrated into CBS All Accesslive feed across platforms, and as feed within CBSN, the network24/7 streaming news service.

The new streaming network is the latest of several launches aimed at bringing more CBS content to a new generation of viewers who no longer tune in to traditional pay TV.

A few months ago, CBS debuted a portfolio ofstreaming services under the brand CBS Local. These help deliver local news to cord cutters and other digital media consumers, including its CBS All Access subscribers. It also operates news network CBSN, which it added to CBS All Access last year. And it launchedstreaming sports news service, CBS Sports HQ, earlier this year. This can now also be found in CBS All Access.

Like CBSN, CBS Sports HQ, and your local CBS News (where available), the new ET Live feed is available in the &Live& section of the CBS All Access app. Users can toggle between the various live streams with a tap, then can choose to watch live or jump back to watch previous segments on-demand.

ETbrand made sense to be the next to transition to reach over-the-top viewers because of its existing reach, including on digital platforms. The TV show has nearly 5 million daily viewers, while the ETonline.com website averages 20 million monthly U.S. uniques, per comScore. Its social audience is even larger, with over 70 million U.S. users monthly, the network says.

&From CBS All Access to CBSN and CBS Sports HQ, we are dedicated to bringing consumers best-in-class streaming services,& said Rob Gelick, Executive Vice President and General Manager, CBS Entertainment Digital for CBS Interactive, in a statement about the launch.

&ET Live is a natural expansion of our strategy and expertise in this area. We have the great advantage of being able to apply key learnings from our leading digital entertainment properties and marry that with the #1 entertainment brand in ‘Entertainment Tonight& to create a new offering for the next generation of entertainment consumers, those that are platform-agnostic and expect content to be accessible anytime, anywhere,& he said.

Titan could put an end to stock market FOMO. The app chooses the best 20 stocks by scraping top hedge fund data, adds some shorts based on your personal risk profile and puts your money to work. No worrying about market fluctuations or constantly rebalancing your portfolio. You don&t have do anything, but can get smarter about stocks thanks to its in-app explanations and research reports. Titan wants to be the easiest way to invest in stocks for a mobile generation that wants an affordable coach to guide them through the market themselves.

&Our goal is to take things that aren&t accessible [in wealth management] and make them accessible, starting with hedge funds,&says Titan co-founder Joe Percoco. That potential to democratize one of the keys to financial mobility has won Titan a $2.5 million seed round from Y Combinatorco-founder Paul Graham, president Sam Altman and partners including Gmail creator Paul Bucheit. The rest of the capital comes fromMaverick Ventures, BoxGroup and Liquid2 Ventures.

&Titan is where investing meets virality,& says Graham. &Those are two very powerful forces.& Since TechCrunch broke the news of Titanlaunch in August, itdoubled its assets under management to $20 million and hired its first non-founder engineer.

Now itlaunching in-app educational videos so stock market dummies can get up to speed if they want to understand where their moneygoing amidst a swirling see of financial news. &There are so many different headlines telling so many different narratives,& Percoco tells me. &Everyone is searching for explanations in a voice they trust. An ‘ETF& can&t talk back. Sometimes a human face is better than writing. A video can really help people make choices.& Hereits two-minute video about FacebookQ2 earnings a few months ago, explaining why the share price crashed 25 percent:

Percoco and Clayton Gardner met on their first day of Wharton business school, while their third co-founder was earning a hedge fund patent and studying computer science at Stanford. They went on to work at hedge funds and private equity firms like Goldman Sachs, but got fed up just growing the fortunes of the already rich.

So they started Titan to invent a modern, mobile version of BlackRock, the investment giant founded in the 1980s. Titan uses the public disclosures of hedge funds to find consensus around the 20 best performing stocks. With as little as $1,000, users can let Titan robo-manage their investments for a 1 percent fee on assets. Users provide some info on how big they want to gamble, and Titan personalizes their portfolio with more or less conservative shorts to hedge their bets.

Titansimplicity combined with the sense of participation could help it grow quickly. It sits between do-it-yourself options like Robinhood or E*Trade, where you&re basically left to fend for yourself, and totally passive options like Wealthfront and Betterment, where you&re so divorced from your portfolio that you&re not learning. Managed hedge funds and fellow active investment vehicles like BlackRock with a human advisor can require a $100,000 minimum investment thattoo steep for millennials.

&Even the best hedge fund in the world is only going to send you a PDF every 90 days,& Percoco explains. But Titan doesn&t want you nervously checking your portfolio non-stop. &Our median user checks the app once per day.& That seems like a healthy balance between awareness and sanity. It thinks its education and informative push notifications make it worth a higher required investment and fees than Wealthfront charges.

Essentially, Titan is a stock trading auto-pilot merged with a flight simulator so you improve your finance skills without having to fear a crash. Percoco tells me the sense of accomplishment that engenders is why clients say they&re telling friends about Titan. &When I invest, I look for companies that are growing quickly and making a huge positive impact on the world. Titan is one of those companies,& investor Altman says. &I think they could improve the financial well-being of an entire generation.&

Lime, the electric scooter and bike-share startup, has pulled some of its scooters from the streets of Los Angeles, San Diego and Lake Tahoe. Thatbecause of two hardware challenges the company has experienced, Lime wrote in a blog post last night.

In August, Lime says it became aware of a potential issue with some of its Segway Ninebot scooters. Specifically, Lime identified a problem with one of the two batteries in some of its earlier scooter versions.

&In several isolated instances, a manufacturing defect could result in the battery smoldering or, in some cases, catching fire,& Lime wrote on its blog. &We took this issue very seriously. Immediately upon learning of the defect, we worked with Segway Ninebot to create a software program to detect the potentially affected batteries. We then worked independently to create an even more thorough software program to ensure that no potentially faulty scooters remained in circulation. When an affected battery was identified — with a red code — we promptly deactivated the scooter so that no members of the public could ride or charge it.&

Lime says it then removed those scooters from circulation and &at no time were riders or members of the public put at risk.& But fast forward to more &recently,& and Lime has received another report that one of its Segway Ninebot scooters may be vulnerable to battery failure. In total, Lime says less than 0.01 percent of its scooter fleet is affected.

In addition to potential battery failures leading to fire, Lime has experienced issues with scooter manufacturer Okai. Specifically, Lime says itreceived reports that the baseboards can break after repeated abuse.

&Itpossible for Okai baseboards to crack or break if ridden off a curb at high speed,& Lime said. &We are currently studying this issue and incorporating these learnings into our design process.&

Itnot clear if Lime will continue to work with Segway, which it partnered with a few months agoaround a next generation of scooters. Italso not clear if Lime will continue to use scooters from Okai. I&ve reached out to Lime to learn more.

Other electric scooter companies rely on SegwayNinebot, including Bird.

&Upon reading the Washington Post news article pertaining to Limerecall, we contacted Segway Ninebot to obtain their verification that all scooters purchased by Bird are free of any manufacture defects found in Limeearlier model scooters,& a Bird spokesperson told TechCrunch. &We have conducted our own initial investigation of the reported claims and believe that none of the vehicles Bird purchased from Segway Ninebot are affected.At Bird, our number one priority is the safety of our riders, chargers, mechanics, and all others who interact with our vehicles&

TechCrunch has reached out to Segway for comment.

Itworth noting that in San Francisco, operators Skip and Scoot do not use Segway scooters. Skip modifies the Speedway Mini436V 21Ah while Scoot works with Telepod.