Articles by Techcrunch from February 2017

 Skype, the Microsoft-owned service that helped pioneer and popularize the rise of voice and video calls over the internet, is killing off one of the features that it added in later years to try ...

 Since Yahoo disclosed two mega-breaches late last year, its executives have met almost daily with CEO Marissa Mayer for working sessions focused on improving the company’s cybersecurity po...

 Record labels refuse to allow streaming of remixes and hour-long DJ sets unless copyright owners get paid for every little sample. Dubset just raised $4 million to handle that legal mess so Spot...

 Elon Musk promised some SpaceX news today, and it looks like it just made its way out: the company is going to send two people on a trip around the moon. But don’t go get fitted for your s...

 Elon Musk promised some SpaceX news today, and it looks like it just made its way out: The company is going to send two people on a trip around the moon. But don’t go getting fitted for yo...

 Mozilla has bought content time-shifting app Pocket for an undisclosed amount, the companies announced simultaneously on their blogs. What started out as a handy Firefox plug-in for saving artic...

 Boston Dynamics’ wheeled Handle robot received much fanfare earlier this month when DFJ partner Steve Jurvetson slipped us an early video from a company Keynote. Today we have more details...

 Not a fan of Trump? Can’t stand country music? Think selfie culture is the worst? Wouldn’t go camping if someone paid you? Bonding over the things you hate can be more powerful than ...

 Uber’s SVP of engineering, Amit Singhal, left the company earlier today after UberCEO Travis Kalanick asked him to step down, Recode reports. According to Recode, Singhal failed to disclos...

 There is now less than 24 hours to register for the next Startup Battlefield event. The application process takes just a few minutes. All you have to do is fill out some fields, upload a video d...

 More than two years ago we wrote about what we learned from the 20 campaigns our startups had run. Fast-forward to 2017: The B2C startups HAX has invested in now count more than 75 successful ca...

 There are four automotive manufacturers at the Mobile World Congress 2017 in Barcelona this year: Daimler, BMW, Ford, and Peugeot. And if CES is any indicator, expect more to follow in the next ...

 Samsung just released a press statement declaring its Galaxy S7 edge aswinning the best smartphone award at Mobile World Congress 2017.That didn’t happen. This is what really happened, and...

 Once in a while I come across a company that seems like a complete no-brainer. An idea that induces a ‘why hasn’t this beendone already’ moment. That was certainly the case whe...

 Facebook’s new video app is now available on Samsung Smart TVs – which makesSamsung the first platform to feature the social network’s latestapplication. Facebook had announced...

 When you think of the biggest cloud players in the world, one company you might not consider is Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce giant that held a record $25 billion U.S. IPO in 2014. Alibabaente...

 Every year, Google mixes up its presence at MWC a bit. After a few years of handing out smoothies and Android pins inside one of the halls here in Barcelona, Google made the move outside in rece...

 Uber-owned Otto’s co-founder Anthony Levandowski must be mightily relieved after an onstage Q&A here at the Mobile World Congress tradeshow passed by with zero awkward moments. For exa...

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 Conversational AI is pushing deeper into enterprise with Workfit, a new startup promising to make conference call follow-ups and mid-meeting CRM updates as easy as playing a song or checking the...

 You know what people like? Lights. Brightly colored, flashing lights. Lights for notifications and lights for fun. Lights for all occasion. So, so many shiny lights. Lights like the lights on th...

 This is the race car of the future. It’s an autonomous vehicle, builtto be raced by just computersand was designed specifically with that in mind. Rather than retrofitting an existing race...

 Some concept cars aren’t really cars and stop at the concept part. But Peugeot’s new Instinct concept car has a couple of interesting ideas. In particular, the interior will change d...

 “Everybody and their mother is out to create their own specialized voice-activated devices,” IBM fellow and CTO for its Watson project Rob High told me during an interview at MWC. IB...

 Oppo’s big Mobile World Congress announcement wasn’t an actual phone. Sure it arrived in a prototype roughly the size and shape of a phone, but it wasn’t really. It was proof o...

 Google and Comcast announced a new deal this morning that will see the YouTube application installed on Comcast’s Xfinity X1 set-top boxes nationwide later this year. The integration will ...

 With a new $50 million investment from private equity giant KKR, IT service management company Cherwell Software becomes the latest business in the firm’s growing tech portfolio. The inves...

 Mobile World Congress kicked off over the weekend with press conferences from Samsung, Sony, LG and Motorola. But all anyone seems to care about is a 17-year-old device. A reboot. A candy bar fe...

 Amazon-owned video game streaming site Twitch announced this morning that it will now sell games directly on its platform – a not entirely surprising expansion forthe servicewhere develope...

 The world of mobile development is a hairy one. You can code things yourself and hurt your brain on React Native or you can use a drag-and-drop editor and get locked into one platform forever. B...

 Low-Earth orbit is a prime candidate for explosive commercial growth, but it’s also aspace where the risk of actual explosions resulting from debris impact is a legitimate concern for busi...

 Developing a software that tracks user behavioracross apps and websites, and generates targeted marketing emails for thoseusers has garnered the San Diego-based technology company Cordial $6 mil...

 While Google is using MWC to show off some of its advances in native apps on mobile devices — specifically in chat apps — the world’s biggest chat app company is doing somethin...

 Samsung is set to announce the Galaxy S8 smartphone in late March, but the two videos and a couple images embedded here appear to show working units. The videos show the phone’s refin...

 The news happens before the convention really starts. That’s the rule of thumb for covering tech show. The big companies scramble all over one another to make their announcements at overla...

 Mobile OS maker Jolla, whose Sailfish platform remains one of the few smartphone alternatives in play these days, has signed an exclusive license to a Chinese consortium to develop a Sailfish-ba...

 Anyone who’s seen Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son give a keynote speech will know he rarely sticks to the standard industry conference playbook. And his turn on the stage at Mobile World Congre...

 Ford might have just solved aquestion that puzzled the automotive industry for eons: Where does one store a travel pillow in a car? On the floor? In the trunk? In an NPR totebag in the backseat?...

 When Microsoft launched the Surface line back in 2012, its combination of a tablet and keyboard cover (married with a smart kickstand), was innovative. With it, Microsoft surely hoped to kicksta...

 Open Garden, the company behind the FireChat offline messenger, is now the mesh networking tech behind its apps available for all developers. The company today announced the launch of its MeshKi...

 For all of its consumer electronics prowess, mobile has always been a tough proposition for Sony. The Android market is overcrowded for one, and the company hasn’t really done all that muc...

 The next decade will be one of immense change. The future of humanity will be decided – do we go to space or stay put, do we survive the changes coming? Further, many establishments will d...

 So this isn’t the Oscar moment that everyone’s talking about, but it’s also kind of big deal: Manchester by the Sea and The Salesman, bothdistributed by Amazon Studios, won a c...

 Foxconn is taking over SoftBank’s Asia-based tech investment fund. The manufacturing giant, which is responsible for producing Apple’s iPhone among many other tech products, has agre...

 Ahead of Snap’s eagerly-awaited IPO, Line, one of the U.S. tech IPO highlights of2016, hasdoubled down on sister service and Snapchat clone Snow. Line and Snow both share the same parent c...

 SoftBank is being linked with an investment that could value WeWork at more than $20 billion. CNBC reported that the Japanese telco giant is gearing up to make an initial investment of $2 billio...

 This post is about a better world brought by human ingenuity. It’s about a human opportunity, an invitation to founders and investors in advanced economies to come and help us change the l...

 The idea of a cashless society is one of the topics that stirs up a heated debate when it comes to the digitalization of banking and society. While the anonymity of cash acts as an enabler for t...

 Turns out there might actually be money in VR hardware. Since going on sale just four months ago, Sony details to the NYT that the company has sold 915 thousand of its virtual reality headset, t...

 Turns out there might actually be money in VR hardware. Since going on sale just four months ago, Sony details to the NYT that the company has sold 915 thousand of its virtual reality headset, t...

 After thecorporate garbage fire that was the Note 7 reveal, Samsung has been left with a smartphone business with far less certain success in its future. After months of awful press and the wors...

 Mobile World Congress is underway in Barcelona. By most metrics it’s the largest conference in the world dedicated mostly to mobile technology and gadgets. And Samsung just punted. Mobile ...

 Samsung’s mobile virtual reality effort, the Gear VR, has been an important product to the company in terms of drumming up excitement around the company’s innovation on next-gen plat...

 We knew Samsung would be launches a tablet or two at tonight’s big Mobile World Congress kick off event, but it turns out the company also had a couple of other surprises of its sleeve. Th...

 Last week I caught up with Andy Hertzfeld, a Silicon Valley legend who really shouldn’t need an introduction. Read More ...

 Forward, a new type of futuristic doctors office launched its first location in the heart of San Francisco’s financial district at the beginning of this year. Some in the health industryha...

 The gadget world is stale and boring now. Phones look the same. Action cameras copy GoPro, headphone companies copy Beats. Most electronic companies are overly cautious about going to far. Vapor...

 Mobile World Congress could have been Samsung’s big moment to put 2016 behind it once and for all with a brand new flagship handset. Instead, the company is using the world’s biggest...

 A very happy Mobile World Congress to you and yours. The world’s largest smartphone show is still a couple of daysfrom its official kick off, but there’s plenty of news to be had thi...

 Samsung’s press conference at MWC in Barcelona is happening today. The conference starts at 7 PM CET (6 PM GMT, 1 PM EST, 10 AM PST). You can also check out our liveblog to get our comment...

 Today at Mobile World Congress HMD held a press conference in Barcelona to showcase its newestNokia-branded phones. Nokiaalso provided an update on its Ozo VR camera and its smart home business....

 Ten years ago, Nokia and BlackBerry were flying high. Both were among the most trusted and purchased names in mobile, only to have those numbers drop off a cliff, when a single handset came alon...

 From ‘Hey Alexa’ to ‘Hello Moto’… Motorola has announced a partnership with ecommerce giant Amazon that will see the latter’s voice assistant tech embedded na...

 HMD hopes that its licensing of theNokia brand brings in the punters for what might otherwise be viewed as three very vanilla Android phones, but at the same time it’s also announcing anot...

 Nokia, the mobile phone brand that arguably created as well as led the mobile phone market for many years, once died a tragic death, first the victim of its own arrogance at being the early lead...

 2016 was another year of impressive growth in the Enterprise cloud software space: Last year there were 31 cloud software companies that were publicly held and commanded a market capitalization ...

 Say goodbye to Withings. It’s been less than a year since Nokia completed its acquisition of the French smart devicesmaker and now itthe Withings brand is about to be sunset. Withings̵...

 The enterprise category is a no-brainer for the world’s largest drone manufacturer. Sure, it’s not as sexy as the consumer and cinematography categories with which the company is mos...

 HMD is holding a press conference at MWC in Barcelona to showcase some of its first Nokia-branded phones. The conference starts at 4:30 PM CET (3:30 PM GMT, 10:30 AM EST). Get ready for the Noki...

 If you’re bored of the same old monotone/metallic smartphone color choices, Chinese mobile maker Huawei has been thinking a little differently for its just announced P10 and P10 Plus flags...

 Oh boy, I miss Frontback. The mobile app created an interesting photo format with two square-ish pictures to share what you have in front of you and a selfie. While you can still download the ap...

 When people ask me what this column’s theme is, my usual response is, tongue-in-cheek, “Whatever has annoyed me about the tech industry during the last week.” This is not alway...

 Smartwatches are hard. Recent numbers certainly reflect that fact. Motorola bowed out and Pebble simply evaporated. This week at Mobile World Congress, Huawei continues the good fight with the s...

 HMD is holding a press conference at MWC in Barcelona to showcase some of its first Nokia-branded phones. The conference starts at 4:30 PM CET (3:30 PM GMT, 10:30 AM EST). Get ready for the Noki...

 Huawei’s press conference at MWC in Barcelona is about to begin. The conference starts at 2 PM CET (1 PM GMT, 8 AM EST). The company has already said that it’ll unveil the P10, its n...

 Bigger screens don’t cut it anymore. Now, we need taller screens. I’ve been playing with the LG G6 for the past 24 hours. In many ways, it is just another phone. But the company is t...

 LG just announced a new phone. It’s like the last one but slightly better looking, a bit faster, and it will be available sometimeand cost money to buy it.The company took the wraps off th...

 The modular G5 was a novel device, but novelty alone doesn’t sell phones. So LG went back to the drawing board for its followup, and the result is, on a whole, a fairly straightforward fla...

 The modular G5 was a novel device, but novelty alone doesn’t sell phones. So LG went back to the drawing board for its followup, and the result is, on a whole, a fairly straightforward fla...

 Google continues its march to expand its placein the mobile ecosystem, anchored by the fact thatits Android OSisby far the most ubiquitous smartphone platform in the world. Today, the company an...

 The big news about the LG G6 is its screen. Not big in the phablet sense (which isn’t to say, of course, that 5.7 inches isn’t substantial), but big as in wide, with an unusually lar...

 LG’s press conference at MWC in Barcelona is today. The conference starts at 12 PM CET (11 AM GMT, 6 AM EST). Rumor has it that LG is about to announce a new flagship phone, the LG G6. Thi...

 Remember when Research in Motion’s BlackBerry smartphones set the bar? My first smartphone was a BlackBerry 7130e. I loved the phone. And then my son gave it a bath in a ginger ail. The 71...

 LG’s press conference at MWC in Barcelona is today. The conference starts at 12 PM CET (11 AM GMT, 6 AM EST). Rumor has it that LG is about to announce a new flagship phone, the LG G6. Thi...

 A couple of days ago, the New York Times wrote a story that aims to explain why Snap founders Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy haveretained such a hold on voting powerin the company— power th...

 Boston-based Drizly used to be known as the on-demand delivery app for alcohol. More recently, the company evolved into a marketplace that helps brick-and-mortar liquor stores to connect with an...

 In recent years, we’ve seen an increasing number of so-called “intelligent” digital assistants being introduced on various devices. Although the technology behind these applica...

 A very happy Mobile World Congress to you and yours. The world’s largest smartphone show is still a couple of daysfrom its official kick off, but there’s plenty of news to be had thi...

 Uber employees have flocked to an anonymous workplace app called Blind as a sort of catharsis since ex-Uber engineer Susan Fowler Rigetti posted about being propositioned and discriminated again...

 If you thought the BlackBerry Mercury had a bit of a codename vibe to it, you weren’t wrong. Today at Mobile World Congress, TCL officially took the wraps of its first true BlackBerry hand...

 As America’s cities continue to grow, they face mind-boggling challenges: worsening traffic, increasing pollution, expensive housing, aging infrastructure and strained services. These chal...

 The Gillmor Gang — Michael Arrington, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, Frank Radice, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, February 24, 2017. Plus the latest G3 with Elisa Camahort Page, Franc...

 TCL, the company that now makes BlackBerry phones, is holding a press conference at MWC in Barcelona. The conference starts at 7 PM CET (6 PM GMT, 1 PM EST, 10 AM PST).We already got a sneak pee...

 TCL, the company that now makes BlackBerry phones, is holding a press conference at MWC in Barcelona. The conference starts at 7 PM CET (6 PM GMT, 1 PM EST, 10 AM PST).We already got a sneak pee...

 Former Uber engineer Susan Fowler Rigetti’s story of sexual harassment and HRcomplicity at the company has drawn a lot of attention from the outside world as manyrelate to her frustrations...

 It’s safe to say that Veeva is not a household name, but 10 years ago this month the company launched the first of a set of enterprise tools, like content management and CRM, designed for ...

Waymo is suing Otto and Uber for allegedly stealing its trade secrets, Layer gets more funding and acquires Cola, a major Cloudflare bug leaked sensitive data from customers’ websites and Elon M...

 Cloudflare revealed yesterday that a bug in its code caused sensitive data to leak from some of the major websites that use its performance enhancement and security services. Uber, Fitbit, OkCup...

 You can add the cult classic Super Smash Bros Melee to the list of games soon to be dominated by AIs. Research at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory has produced...

 This past weekend, something kind of incredible happened; basketballaficionados from across the globe were able to don high-techgoggles to live-stream stereoscopic virtual reality of a highly pa...

 This past weekend, something kind of incredible happened; basketballaficionados from across the globe were able to don high-techgoggles to live-stream stereoscopic virtual reality of a highly pa...

 Afterthe success of the Startup Battlefield Scholarship Fund at Disrupt SF and Disrupt London, we are pleasedto announce that we will once again be offering scholarships to Startup Battlefield c...

 Uber is under attack once again today as the Twittersphere quickly concluded it was behind a smear campaign against a former engineer for the company, Susan Fowler Rigetti, who dropped a scathin...

 Entrepreneurs who pitch on ABC’sShark Tanktypicallymakepackaged goods and apparel. Occasionally, the high tech breaks through. XCraft, the company behind the PhoneDrone Ethos, scored a rar...

 Technology has always been a critical force deeply intertwined with the evolution of cities. The development of smart cities builds upon this strong historical foundation with a digital foundati...

 Want to attendDisrupt NY 2017 but missed the early bird ticket deadline? You’re in luck! We’re giving you a few extra days to get your hands on deeply-discounted extra early-bird Dis...

 When Apple decided to strip its flagship phones of the headphone jack, certain people were angry. Those relying on the headphone jack for non-music things were grumpy, but so were those of us wh...

 Tech companies are preparing to go to bat for transgender rights when the Supreme Court takes on the issue next month. As Axios reports, led by Apple, a number of prominent companies will filea ...

 Michael Sayman was just 17 when Facebook hired him, but he’d already built 5 apps. Now 7 years after his first launch, the Facebook product manager has just released Show and Tell, which t...

 While there is much ink spilled over the hunt for VR’s “killer app,” over the past year a number of social apps have emerged out of the VR community that seek to highlight the ...

 FCC Chairman Ajit Pai announced his intention today to block a privacy rule adopted by the Commission late last year. Citing its disharmony with existing FTC rules, Pai intends to prevent its co...

 U.S. healthcare might learn a thing or two from the modus operandi of Google’s fleet of autonomous vehicles — the information and skills that self-driving vehicle systems must share ...

 Online finance startup SoFi got its start refinancing student loans but gradually has been adding other services to members. To expand into new regions and move closer to becoming a full-service...

 Tesla CEO Elon Musk has shared the results of his own investigation into factory working conditions at the carmaker, following accusations by employee and union advocate Jose Moran made in a Med...

 Tech news was heavy this week. Uber is facing a sexual harassment claim as well as a lawsuit from Google, NASA discovered planets with what could prove to be Earthlike conditions, and more infor...

 If you’ve read the latest headlines about Britain’s tech industry, you’d think the country hadn’t been rocked by the greatest political and economic uncertainty since the...

 Layer, the messaging platform that won TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield back in 2013, is making two big announcement today: It’s raised $15 million in Series B funding, and it’...

 The e-Golf, Volkswagen’s electric version of its popular compact car, officially gets around 50 percent more range this year than it did in the previous model. That means it now has an EPA...

 If you’re looking to attendthe hottest startup show in the Big Apple, you’re going to want to act fast. Today is the final day to get extra early-bird Disrupt tickets for just $1,795...

 Self-driving trucking startup Embark is revealing its tech for the first time, showing off a competitor for Uber’s Otto that uses neural networks and deep learning to teach trucks how to d...

 Following accusations of sexism being ingrained into the culture of ride-hailing company Uber, after a female ex-employ detailed her experience in a blog post earlier this week, CEO Travis Kalan...

 TechCrunch is holding a Mini-Meetup during Mobile World Congress, on Tuesday Feb. 28. We will hold a “Pitch-Off” of startups at the event. Tickets are sold out but you can go on the ...

 So much for sticking “nuclear weapons” in carriers’ dumb pipes. Shine, last year’s enfant terrible of mobile ad blocking is pivoting (again!) — in both tone of voic...

 Stayzilla, an Airbnb for homestays in India, is closing down its service. The company was founded six years ago and had raised $34 million from investors, including a $20 million Series B in 201...

 Zalora, the Rocket Internet-backed online fashion store, is continuing its retreat from Asia. The firm sold off its businesses in Vietnam and Thailand last year, and now it is withdrawing from t...

 Whilemessaging apps like WhatsApp, Messenger, Snapchat and WeChat rake in ever more users, features and relationships with key brands,and Apple’s iMessage continues to play strong with iPh...

DevianArt gets acquired by Wix, AirMap raises $26 million, Airbnb buys Tilt, Google releases perspective for comment toxicity rating and more. All this on Crunch Report. Read More ...

 Cloudflare revealed a serious bug in its software today that caused sensitive data like passwords, cookies, authentication tokens to spill in plaintext from its customers’ websites. The an...

 People in government are organizers and hustlers with deep industry knowledge and skills that are applicable across a variety of roles in tech. Read More ...

 At World View’s new headquarters in Tucson, Arizona, the paint is barely dry on a gleaming new structure located near the airport, and just down the road from defense contractor Raytheon. ...

 The FCC ordered today to reduce the reach of a net neutrality rule that requires broadband providers to share data on their services. Originally, providers with less than 100,000 subscribers wer...

 Apple has been working on a very annoying iPhone shutdown bug and it says that it has come up with a fix of sorts that should mitigate the problem on a majority of iPhone 6 and 6S devices. Read ...

 Wow – Bitcoin just hit an all-time high. The digital currency is currently trading at around $1,186– which is about $20 more thanit’s previous all-time high of ~$1,165, which i...

 Waymo, the Alphabet-owned self-driving company that began life as Google’s self-driving car project, has filed suit against self-driving trucking company Otto, and its parent Uber. Waymo s...

 What makes it better than other 4K laptops is its decent battery life and healthy selection of ports. If Windows is your jam and you need full-size screen, this is the notebook to get. The lates...

 I really like Gboard. It’s been my primary iOS keyboard since Google launched it back in May of 2016, and it’s pretty much the only third party iOS keyboard that I’ve stuck wit...

 This is a first. MyKronoz just introduced the ZeTime, a hybrid smartwatch with arms those found on traditional watches. Essentially the company put a watch movement behind the touchscreen, drill...

 This is a first. MyKronoz just introduced the ZeTime, a hybrid smartwatch with armslikethose found on traditional watches. Essentially the company put a watch movement behind the touchscreen, dr...

 This is a first. MyKronoz just introduced the ZeTime, a hybrid smartwatch with armslikethose found on traditional watches. Essentially the company put a watch movement behind the touchscreen, dr...

 Freada Kapor Klein and Mitch Kapor, two early investors in Uber, are feeling “disappointed” and “frustrated” in light ofUber’s response to claims of sexual harassme...

 Food delivery startup Thistle was never been in the business of making meal kits, those boxes of pre-measured ingredients and recipes to help customers cook at home. The startup’s married ...

 Diverse teams perform better. First Round Capital found that, over 10 years, teams with at least one female co-founder performed 63 percent better than male-only teams. Racially diverse teams al...

 Mark Zuckerberg believes we should be “coming together not just as cities or nations, but also as a global community.” That’s why Facebook’s latest feature feels a bit co...

 Privacy Labs, a stealth-stage startup that wants to enableinternet users to “regain control” of their personal data, has landed a $4 million seed funding round. The company doesnR...

 Once again, techcompanies are again finding themselves in the midst of a culture war in response to action by the Trump administration. On Wednesday, the administration rescinded guidance for tr...

 Once again, techcompanies are again finding themselves in the midst of a culture war in response to action by the Trump administration. On Wednesday, the administration rescinded guidance for tr...

 Have you ever wanted to feel smack of the punches coming at you from sweaty aliens? The whang of bullet hitting your guts? The feeling of hitting the deck as pirates stream over the virtual bow?...

 A young Silicon Valley venture firm is taking the wraps off a piece of software that it says makes it a cinchfor founders to figure out which VCs are worth approaching, based on stage, sector, a...

 Revcontent, a self-funded companypowering content recommendations for publishers like Forbes and The Atlantic, has acquired Rover.That’s not Rover the pet-sitting marketplace, but rather t...

 Like all great programmers I get most of my code from StackOverflow questions. Can’t figure out how to add authentication to Flask? Easy. Want to shut down sendmail? Boom. Now, thanks to a...

 FOSSA wants to help developers manage the tricky terrain of open source license management, and today it announced a $2.2 million seed round. The company also announced that its license manageme...

 Facebook today announced it’s begun testing ad breaks that interrupt on-demand video with a small set of partners, who will earn a 55% ad revenue share while Facebook keeps 45%. That could...

 Hiatus, a New York-based startup that helps you identify (and potentially cancel) your monthly reoccurring subscriptions, has raised $1.2M in seed funding. Founded in 2015, Hiatus first connects...

 Spotify is expanding its podcast selection today, with the announcement that it’s adding three new original podcast series on its service, with plans for more originals to arrive later thi...

 Late last year, it was revealed that Amazon’s Echo had become a key piece of evidencein an on-going murder investigation in Arkansas dating back to 2015, as police sought access to voice r...

 Security researchers at the CWI institute in Amsterdam working with a team from Google Research say they have found a faster way to compromise the SHA-1 hash algorithm — announcing what th...

 After a very successful two-year run, we’re going to be changing the way that contributions work on TechCrunch. When we started the Crunch Network experiment, the goal was to bring a wide ...

 TodayPolitwoops, the service thattracks politicians’ deleted tweets in an effort to hold elected officials accountable for the statements they’ve made on social media, announced it&#...

 Tonight is the night! The Miami Meetup + Pitch-off kicks off at 6pm and this is your last chance to get in on the fun! If you have no idea what I’m talking about, then please let me explai...

 If you read stuff on the internet (and obviously you do because hi, you’re reading a blog) then you know the golden rule: never read the comments. Scrolling past the end of a story is an a...

 Born out of technology designed to help price a musician or band’s live performance, based on their social media presence, SocialWall aims to be a smarter way for brands to display social ...

 There is generally a lack of data in the criminal justice system. At the national level, for example, there is very little data about police behavior and criminal sentencing. That’s why Go...

 Samsung is about to release a version of the S8 with an even bigger screen than the Note 7. According to this leaked spec page, the S8+ will have a 6.2-inch curved screen. That’s about the...

 Samsung is about to release a version of the S8 with an even bigger screen than the Note 7. According to this leaked spec page, the S8+ will have a 6.2-inch curved screen. That’s about the...

 Lyft said it was going to grow fast in 2017, and on Thursday it doubled down on that promise with a launch across 54 cities in the U.S. The launch is the largest simultaneous expansion for the r...

 SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft, which launched on Sunday and is filled with 5,500 pounds of supplies and experiment materials for the crew of the International Space Station has successfully d...

 As pollution, extreme weather, and over-population threaten the viability of large, outdoor farms, a startup called Bowery Farming Inc. has raised $6.3 million in venture funding to grow food in...

 As pollution, extreme weather, and over-population threaten the viability of large, outdoor farms, a startup called Bowery Farming Inc. has raised $7.5 million in total venture funding to grow f...

 Media metadata company Gracenote is looking to be the one-stop data provider for TV providers, device manufacturers and various media distribution services. To do so, the company has unified its...

 White AirPods are fine. I guess. If you like boring. But for the rest of us, ColorWare is now offering its aftermarket painting service for Apple’s wireless earbuds and there’s a mul...

 Wix.com has made another acquisition to build out the tools that it provides to users to build and administer websites: it has acquired DeviantArt, an online community for artists, designers and...

 Lower airspace isn’t crowded with drones quite yet. But as drones become more pervasive, a startup called AirMap is building software and systems to help drone operators fly only where it&...

 The near-future of VR is definitely mobile, and for the time-being nobody has morecontrol of the guts of mobile devicesthan Qualcomm does. It’s definitely in the company’s best inter...

 K2 Global is announcing a $183 million venture capital fund targeted at early stage startups with global aspirations. The fund is closing significantly larger than the $58 million the firm initi...

 Messaging app Viber is today announcing a new feature that taps into the bigger trend of messaging apps becoming multi-functional platforms, and also its ownership by e-commerce company Rakuten....

 Messaging app Viber is today announcing a new feature that taps into the bigger trend of messaging apps becoming multi-functional platforms, and also its ownership by e-commerce company Rakuten....

 Printerous, an Indonesia startup that is bringing the country’s printing industry into the digital era, has raised $1.4 million. The round was led byGolden Gate Ventures with participation...

 On January 25, the Trump administration injected a whole new level of uncertainty into the already-fragile EU-US data flow agreement, known as the Privacy Shield. With the stroke of a pen, Presi...

 Monzo, one of a number of so-called “challenger” banks in the U.K. aiming to re-invent the current account, has disclosed details of its new funding round — confirming our scoo...

 Indonesia-based early-stage investment firmKejorahas announced the first close of a secondfund which is targeted at $80 million for investments in Southeast Asia. Kejora, which is known for its ...

 Less than a month after Vodafone confirmed it is in talks to merge withIdea Cellularand create India’s largest mobile operator, one piece of M&A has been confirmed in that space. Bhart...

 Less than a month after Vodafone confirmed it is in talks to merge withIdea Cellularand create India’s largest mobile operator, one piece of M&A has been confirmed in that space. Bhart...

Apple’s new campus will open in April, never-ending turnover at Twitter, Instagram adds a carousel feature and Snapdeal to lay off 500-600 people. All this on Crunch Report. Read More ...

 Airbnb has finalized its deal to buy social payments startup Tilt, TechCrunch has confirmed.We first reported the acquisitiontalks last month, but now everything has been made official. We are t...

 Already a hit in the limited California regions that it serves, doctor-on-demand startupHealis planning to take its house call service to more cities across the country. Today, the company annou...

 A pair of studies, one from Stanford and another from the University of Geneva, exemplify the speed with which brain-computer interfaces are advancing; and while you won’t be using one ins...

 For the better part of the last year, tech pundits have been writing about the demise of the app. Once thought to be the savior of consumer-facing software, apps are now ubiquitous, underused, u...

 Amobee just announced that it has agreed to acquire adtech companyTurnfor $310 million. Amobee used to bea mobile ad startup itself, beforea 2012 acquisitionby Singtel, where it remains a subsid...

 With national immigration policies in flux, tech’s privacy advocates aren’t wasting any time rallying around common causes. This week, the Center for Democracy & Technology annou...

 A new report by the Intercept provides some compelling specificson collaborationbetween Palo Alto’s secretive big data shop Palantir and the intelligence agencies that it keeps on itsclien...

 Tesla CEO Elon Musk addressed alleged efforts on behalf of employees at its Fremont factory to unionize on the company’s earnings call on Wednesday. Musk said that he’s going to publ...

 Headphone startup Earin announced today that it’s scored $3.5 million in funding, hot on the heels of announcing its second-generation wireless earbuds back at CES. The new round will go t...

 Tesla has begun offering customers in Asia a package that includes the cost of insurance and maintenance in the purchase price, the company noted on its earnings call today. This is how theyR...

 SocialRank co-founder Alex Taub classifies most brand interactions on social media into two broad categories. They’re either broadcasting to all of their followers or, if they’re com...

 Tesla announced on its earnings call that CFO Jason Wheeler has decided to leave the company in April to pursue opportunities in public policy. He’ll be replaced by Deepak Ahuja, who was T...

 Among the tidbits found in Fitbit’s disappointing new financial filing is the fact that it apparently picked up Pebble’s assets for a relative song. Although the company didn’t...

 While Twitter continues to struggle as a public company, Jack Dorsey’s other business seems to be doing pretty well. Today payments company Square announced earnings, beating the street wi...

 Half of theweb’s traffic is now encrypted, according to a new report from the EFF released this week. The rights organization noted the milestone was attributable to a number of efforts, i...

 Waze’s Carpool ridesharing features might be coming to a city near you relatively soon. The Google-owned crowdsourced navigation app piloted carpooling features first in its home country o...

 Knotel announced today that it has raised $25 million in Series A funding.Founded in 2015, the company offerswhat co-founder and CEO Amol Sarva described as “headquarters as a service̶...

 Images of the LG G6 leaked today and overall it looks like a solidphone with soft lines, very little bezel and a face on the backside made up of the dual lenses and power button. It looks surpri...

 The FCC has given several companies the go-ahead to activate a wireless technology called LTE-U in their base stations; if all goes as planned, devices will be able to communicate cellular data ...

 NASA has discovered seven planets with Earth-like qualities orbiting a nearby star making them among the strongest candidates in the continued search for extraterrestrial life among known exopla...

 Snapdeal, one of India’s bigonline marketplaces, is feeling the pinch of competition from Flipkart, Amazon and a host of startups that have emerged withthe rise of e-commerce in the countr...

 2016 was the year hacktivists disrupted cyberspace like never before. The December launch of the new movie Rogue One: A Star Wars Story was well-timed — epitomizing outsiders banding toget...

 Machine learning has the potential to solve many of our regular human problems, like for instance having too few nightmarish, oddlycat-filled crude imagesto gaze upon. Luckily, Christopher Hesse...

 For many promising young startups, displaying in the Startup Alley at TechCrunch Disrupt is one of the best decisions they can make. At Disrupt NY 2017, we’re giving startups the opportuni...

 A new mobile app called Tap, launching today, introduces a differentway to read stories on your phone: as text message-likechats. The app is the latest from Wattpad, asocial publishing platform ...

 AMD is launchingthree new Ryzen 7 processors on March 2 the will attempt to take the crown for fastestPC processors in the world from rival Intel. AMD’s new processors are all 8-core affai...

 Twitter this morning is launching a new customer service feature for businesses using its service, which will allowagents to respond to direct messages using custom profiles. That is, their name...

 Sometime around 2013 and 2014, deep learning was going through a revolution that required pretty much everyone to reset their expectations as to how things worked, and leveled the playing field ...

 One of President Trump’s first moves in office was to order a sweeping hiring freeze across the federal government,preventing hiring for all jobs except for narrow exemptions in national s...

 Clinc hopes its AI personal assistant Finie will one day reduce the complexity and barriers many consumers face when attempting to understand their finances. The company claims the voice-control...

 Twitter can’t seem to stop the management bleeding, which is complicating its attempts to pull off a turnaround after a tough year of layoffs and sinking share price. Yesterday its head of...

 Drones provide very useful services, especially for hard-to-reach areas, but flying expensive metal and objects into places where getting them back afterwards might be difficult isn’t alwa...

 Following the allegations of sexual harassment at Uber, angry customers have once again been tweeting the #DeleteUber hashtag – a tag that indicates they’reremoving the app from thei...

 MobileIron, which went public in 2014, has been known mostly for helping large companies manage mobile devices, especially in a time when people tend to bring their own. Today it announced it wa...

 Getting product lock-in is key in the world of startups. Your app, service or products needs a hook that brings your users back time and time again.How about a startup that hangs its hook on dai...

 Today, the OpenStack Foundationis launching the latest version of its platform that allows enterprises to run an AWS-like cloud computing platform in their data centers.Ocata, as the 15th releas...

 Instagram wants you to share a more complete picture of your experiences in its classic feed, not just its Snapchat Stories clone. Today, Instagram launches the ability to share up a mix of up t...

 Disrupt NY is but a few short weeks away, and the agenda is shaping up to be pretty awesome. Today, I’m pleased to announce that we will be joined by Ford CTO Raj Nair and WayUp CEO Liz We...

 In its continued effort to divide and conquer, About.com is launching yet another standalone media brand in the form of The Spruce, a site dedicated to home improvement and food.The new site bri...

 Voice-powered artificial intelligence is not something that’s easy to set up for just any business, even if it might havereal benefits in terms of driving sales or improving customer exper...

 Voice-powered artificial intelligence is not something that’s easy to set up for just any business, even if it might havereal benefits in terms of driving sales or improving customer exper...

 A GPS error prevented SpaceX’s Dragon supply ship from mating with the ISS early this morning. The craft was less than a mile away from the space station when the docking had to be ab...

 This grand opening has been years in the making. Apple’s new campus now has a name and an opening date. It’ll be called Apple Park and the first employees will move in April 2017.As ...

 Mailgun, a Y Combinator-incubated email delivery service that was acquired by Rackspace in 2012, today announced that it is being spun our of Rackspace and that it has raised $50 million. Racksp...

 Internet of Things startup Toymail, which sells connected plush toys to parents of younger kids who want them to have a playful alternative to a mobile phone, has now launched an app store. Read...

 I’m not saying your head is oddly-shaped, per se, but if you have trouble finding glasses that fit then a team from Cambridge, Massachusetts has a pair for you. Their Falcon I glasses are ...

 MakieLab, a London-based startup that 3D printed and sold custom dolls, has officially shuttered, with a partial exit to Disney. TechCrunch understands that the U.S. entertainment company acquir...

 500 Startups is rebooting its efforts in Greater China after it hired a new head of business for the region, which covers mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Edith Yeung, a former executive wi...

 Would you tell Facebook you’re happy to see all the bared flesh it can show you? And that the more gratuitous violence it pumps into your News Feed the better? Read More ...

 Microsoft has retooled Skype,the messaging service synonymous with business users, for people living in emerging markets. Today, at itsFuture Decoded event in India, Microsoft took the wraps off...

 More new VC money sloshing around Europe. This time it comes courtesy of Berlin-based Project A, which has previously invested in companies such as WorldRemit, Lost My Name, and ZenMate. The Ger...

Baidu is charging up its video content push after iQiyi, its YouTube-style service in China, raised$1.53 billion from the sale of convertible notes to investors. The deal appears to end speculation th...

Verizon is finally buying Yahoo, Jay Z is planning a VC fund, Uber investigates sexual harassment claims, Boeing doubles down on satellites and Skurt offers on-demand rental cars. All this on Crunch R...

 This week, Uber has taken steps to let employees — and the broader world — know that it plans to address its cultural failings as a company. Read More ...

 Consumer VRhasbeen around for a nearly a year and there are a tonof questions floating around that still boggle even the sharper minds in the industry.One that’s been answered (to some deg...

 If you were lucky enough to get your hands on an NES Classic Edition this last holiday season, you were probably impressed (as was I) with the quality of the emulation — so much so you wis...

 It looks like Apple has finally picked up one of the last remaining pieces of internet property linked to one of its key service brands: the iPhone and Mac giant has quietly taken over ownership...

 Android Wear 2.0 was boundto be a disappointment. There was just too much hanging on the second generation of the wearable operating system. After all, a significant chunk of declining smartwatc...

 As the TV show ‘Silicon Valley‘ has shown, the tech community there is ripe for satire. So it’s not surprising that the next ‘product’ to be born into this sat...

 Stanford University is regularly credited for playing a key role in the economic and technological success story that is Silicon Valley. So what should universities elsewhere be doing to emulate...

 Following a scathing report of sexual harassment at Uber over the weekend, CEO Travis Kalanick hosted an all-hands meeting today, along with board member Arianna Huffington and Chief Human Resou...

 One of the remarkable things about the roadshow presentations for hotly-anticipated IPOs — where they’ll make a pitch to investors and answer questions — is that they are often...

 Uber pinned hopes on runningits self-driving fleet in San Francisco but motored off to Arizona two months ago when that plan ran up against some localred tape. Now, just as Uber is dealing with ...

 A startup called Exyn Technologies Inc. today revealed AI software that enables drones to fly autonomously, even in dark, obstacle-filled environments or beyond the reaches of GPS. A spin out of...

 Aerospace company Boeing is in the process of changing the way satellites are built and made operational, according to the Wall Street Journal, with an eye toward automating much of the process ...

 A Swiss startup, Terpon SA, is making virtual reality webcams specifically for the adult entertainment industry. The cameras aren’t available for purchase, but customers can rent them for ...

 As our societycontinues to devalue facts and statistics, Data.world, a two year old data collaboration startup out ofAustin, Texas, is fighting back with its passionate community of data nerds. ...

 The amount of money U.S. users are spending on iPhone apps is steadily climbing, but one category in particular saw significant growth last year: Entertainment apps. The category – home to...

 A week after Michael Flynn’s abrupt fall from grace, President Trump will smooth things over with a national security adviser that at least some people can agree on. Called everything from...

 Jay Z invested in Uber in 2011 and today it’s worth 200X more. Now he’s getting serious about investing in startups with plans to create his own venture capital firm, according to re...

 Technology has already upended the current brokerage model and millennials, the largest generation in U.S. history, won’t settle for anything less than a service that puts their interests ...

 The Tampa-Hillsborough Expressway Authority (THEA) has partnered with Savari and Brandmotion to create a vehicle-to-everything infrastructure pilot program to help ease commuting and make it saf...

Britain’s tech sector faces a ‘triple whammy’ hit to its workforce without government action, according to two new report. Firstly from a critical fall-off in STEM skills in its own ...

 Britain’s tech sector faces a “triple whammy” hit to its workforce without government action, according to a new report. Firstly, from a critical fall-off in STEM skills in its...

 Devices that compile, analyze and store electronic information are everywhere. Known as the Internet of Things, the number of devices connected to the internet is already double the number of hu...

 Three months ago, Google announced that itwould launch support for high-end graphics processing units (GPUs) for machine learning and other specialized workloads in early 2017. It’s now ea...

 Skurt, the Los Angeles-based rental car delivery startup, has raised $10 million in Series A funding. The round was led byUpfront Ventures (which alsoled a $1.3 million seed round), and included...

 Do you dig getting creative in virtual reality? Well, your options for doing so got a little less limited today, as Google has made Tilt Brush available on Oculus Rift. The virtual painting appl...

 If there’s one word that can describe Viva Technology (or “VivaTech” for short), it’s ginormous. While it was just the first edition last year, 45,000 people made their w...

 As we age, the hair cells in our ears – like the rest of us – slowly die (how’s that for a bummer of an opening). That damage to the approximately 15,000 hair cells per ear, wh...

 MobiTV, one of the first companies(est. 1999) to bringTV services to mobile devices, has raised some funding as it moves into a late-stage pivot to bring its technology to the living room. The c...

 MobiTV, one of the first companies (est. 1999) to bring TV services to mobile devices, has raised some funding as it moves into a late-stage pivot to bring its technology to the living room. The...

 Tonight is the night! The Washington D.C. Meetup + Pitch-off is tonight and we have quite the show in store for you. We’ll kick off the evening with a fireside chat with Facebook security ...

 In just a couple months, Disrupt will have landed in the greatest city in the world, New York. And with it, comes some of the brightest minds in the world.Disrupt is the biggest tech startup con...

 In just a couple of months, Disrupt will have landed in the greatest city in the world, New York. And with it comes some of the brightest minds in the world. Today, I’m pleased to announce...

 Researchers at MIT have created a power supply for small electronic devices that “sips” energy by turning devices on with packets of energy rather than a steady stream. Most power co...

 Facebook today launched an update to Analytics for Apps, its cross-platform analytics platform for developers who want to track how their users engage with their sites, bots and apps. The promis...

 Headphones are a gadget that peopleoften fail to fully appreciate. In the face of all the latest tech trends, headphones remain just as versatile as ever. They’re virtual reality devices l...

 Last September, Atlassian co-CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes flew from Sydney to New York to have lunch with Trello CEO Mike Michael Pryor. The two met at a Mexican restaurant not too far from Trello...

 In an attempt to better compete with low-cost airlines, major air carriers like American Airlines, Delta and United have been rolling out “basic”economy fares – no-frills fares...

 On a blueberry farm outside of Tampa, Florida, on Monday, UPS tested the use of drones for residential delivery for the first time. The logistics juggernaut specifically launchedan octocopter, o...

 Google’s own wireless service called Project Fi has rolled out Voice over LTE service for a subset of its users, the company confirmed this week viaan announcement in Google’s produc...

 BuildDirect has developed a name for itself as an online store for home improvement products. One issue with selling these products online is that you also must build a logistics backend that al...

 In the startup world, opening a real-world, physical store can seem a bit quaint. Who wants to deal with the sky-high rents charged in prime, urban locations, not to mention getting locked into ...

 BMW and Mobileye are working together, with the automaker employing Mobileye’s Road Experience Management (REM) software in its vehicles from 2018 onward. The tech, which Mobileye also rec...

 Kirill Tatarinov has seen computing from bottom to top. As a student in the USSR he wrote programs on punch cards to manage the cutting edge hardware clones that Russia was churning out and now,...

 Samsung created C-Lab (that’s Creative Lab) half a decade ago as an attempt to incubate employee creativity within the larger confines of its corporate culture. Among the decided benefits ...

 Horizon Zero Dawn appeared unique from the start – a PlayStation 4 exclusive, a novel setting, with an all-new franchise, combining survival game elements with cover shooter mechanics and ...

 Influencer marketing is red hot right now. Whether you realize it or not, a materialpercentage of your Instagram feed today is probably content postedby people getting paid….a lot.It’...

 New York-basedScoutwants to take the pain out of hiring, by automatingsearch and outreach for companies. The company is able to reduce friction associated with recruiting by presenting hiring ma...

 Kubernetes, the Google-incubated open source container orchestration system, is quickly becoming the de facto standard for managing large container deployments. Microsoft launched a preview of s...

 European Union data protection authorities continue to have privacy-related concerns about Microsoft’s Windows 10 operating system, despite the company making some tweaks to privacy settin...

 After the disclosure of two massive data breacheslast year, today Yahoo and Verizon finally confirmednew terms forthe sale of Yahoo to Verizon: Verizon will pay $350 million less than originally...

 Cosmunity is a new social network for people who want to keep the experience of Comic Con (or another geek event of your choosing) going all year long. Co-founder and CEO Cole Egger recalled att...

 When it launched Android Things back in December, Google announced a handful of hardware partners for its Android-based internet of things operating system, including Intel Edison, NXP Pico and ...

 Selfie app and phone company Meitu has unveiled its latest smartphone, which doubles down its focus on selfie cameras and beautification. Meitu went public in December with a Hong Kong listing t...

 Meltwater, the self-described ‘media intelligence’ company, has acquired Wrapidity, a U.K.-based AI startup that has built technology to automate the extraction of data from unstruct...

 It’s the beginning of the end for smartphone apps as we have known and tapped on them, reckons Gartner. The analyst is calling the start of a “post-apps” era, based on changes ...

 Alibaba affiliate Ant Financial ismaking yet another M&A deal. The firm is investing $200 million into a fintech project belonging to Kakao, the $5 billion firm that runs Korea’s domin...

 Uber CEO Travis Kalanick sent a memo to employees today following allegations of sexual harassment from former Uber engineer Susan Fowler.In the memo, obtained by TechCrunch, Kalanick said the c...

 Last year was rough on just about everyone. Samsung seemed to get it especially bad, as the Note 7 saga stretched out over several months and two separated recalls. Somewhere in there, the elect...

 On Sunday, a former female Uber engineer detailed her experiences of sexual harassment during her one-year stint at the multibillion-dollar company. The engineer, Susan Fowler, said she experien...

 Leasing commercial space in San Francisco is as expensive as ever, but prices are mostly holding steadyfor the first time in a long time — not rising. That shift has landlords offering mor...

 Anumber of smaller,paid applicationsscoreda spot on the App Store’s Top Grossing chart over the weekend in what mayhave been either the test of a new App Store algorithm or a fairly signif...

 A number of smaller, paid applications scored a spot on the App Store’s Top Grossing chart over the weekend in what may have been either the test of a new App Stor...

 Privacy advocates aren’t happy with proposals for enhanced digital prying at U.S. borders, and now that issue couldbe taken up in the Senate.In a letter to Homeland Security Secretary John...

 Kim Dotcom, founder of Mega and Megaupload, has suffered another defeat in court. In the latest ruling, New Zealand High Court judge Murray Gilbert upheld an earlier decision finding that Dotco...

 It takes about 15 minutes to fill out an application for Startup Battlefield and they’re due in a week. Stop procrastinating and submit your startup. Applications for Startup Battlefield a...

 Alienware’s latest offering is a sort of fresh start for the company. The 13 R3 is extremely compact for a VR-compatible system, but portability comes at a premium. Even so, the laptop has...

 By a lucky coincidence, I had a chance to drive both the 2017 Prius Prime and the 2017 Hyundai Ioniq in the same week. The Prius Prime is a plug-in hybrid with a futuristic vibe; the Hyundai Ion...

 If you’re trying to build the Instagram for exercise, it helps to have the guy building Instagram for Instagram. That’s why Strava has added Instagram head of product Kevin Weil to i...

 When Donald Trump pulled off a stunning victory to win the U.S. presidency, the entire world began to speculate about what a Trump administration will look like. As the chief executive of a nati...

 I like Digital Reader editor Nate Hoffelder. He is one of the few bloggers about publishing who doesn’t suck up to the industry nor does he particularly gild the lily. He basically believe...

 The IEEE unearthed a fascinating 2013 study that showed that a cute dog tail does more than just amuse – it can communicate. The study, created by Ashish Singh and James Young, posited tha...

 WhatsApp could put the brakes on Snapchat’s international growth with today’s launch of WhatsApp Status, a new tab for sharing decorated photos, videos and GIFs that disappear after ...

 This year’s CES didn’t offer much in the way of mobile excitement. No surprise, really. The past several years have seen many of the biggest players in the space opt for their own st...

 Monzo, one of a number of new digital only or so-called ‘challenger’ banks in the U.K. aiming to re-invent the current account, is closing in on new Series C funding, which could be ...

 Monzo, one of a number of new digital-only, or so-called “challenger,” banks in the U.K. aiming to re-invent the current account, is closing in on new Series C funding, which could b...

 Project CSX was a nice enough idea. Get the smartphone community engaged and excitedand maybe even gather some good, outside-the-box ideas for mobile devices along the way. In a sense, the proje...

 Once you’re done ordering pizza and locking and unlocking your front door, what’s left to do with your Echo? Starting today, HealthTap users will be able to use Amazon’s connec...

 Snap wants to prove to investors in its upcoming IPO that Spectacles can earn money for its business, not just be a brand stunt. So today, Snap begins selling its video-recording sunglasses Spec...

 Temasek, Singapore’s state-owned investment firm, hasjumpedinto China’s on-demand cycle war after it backed MoBike. China’s ride-sharing war is last year’s news. The big ...

 Temasek, Singapore’s state-owned investment firm, hasjumpedinto China’s on-demand cycle war after it backed Mobike. China’s ride-sharing war is last year’s news. The big ...

 Alibaba affiliate Ant Financial has again extended its global reach after it completed its maideninvestment in the Philippines. The company, which manages payment service Alipay and Alibaba̵...

 Dah Makanhas become the first food delivery startup to raise significant capital in Southeast Asia this year, bringing somefire back to what has been a popular niche for local investors. The com...

 After more than a decade of being in the popular tech lexicon, people kind of get the idea of “the cloud,” but most probably only understand a bit of it. That’s because the clo...

 Susan Fowler, a formersite reliability engineer for Uber and current engineer at Stripe, accused the company of rampant sexual harassment and human resources negligence in a blog post published ...

 Susan Fowler, a formersite reliability engineer for Uber and current engineer at Stripe, accused the company of rampant sexual harassment and human resources negligence in a blog post published ...

 We’ve entered crunch time for getting all of those last minute teasers out before the kick of Mobile World Congress, the year’s biggest smart phone show. Some have been cagey around ...

 Freshly-launched startups don’t often have the funding for a fully formed security team, but a data breach or a privacy overreach can be deadly for a new company. That’s why Facebook...

 Deep in a rural village in India outside the city of Jhansi, children play on dirt roads where goats and cows roam. The humble and colorful homes have mud floors, and women collect drinking wate...

 Flyingfrom SF to LA every week sucks, and so Sriram Krishnan is leaving a big financial opportunity at Snap to ditch the commute. The former Facebook Audience Network executive spent the last ye...

 Money doesn’t necessarily mean freedom. Yet the ability to maneuver in response to business challenges is the one thing a startup founder needs most. Some of these decisions are minor; oth...

 While the iPhone 8 isn’t going to be announced until September, this week has been packed with rumors on the upcoming device. And it looks like the display is going to be the main star of ...

 Success all around for today’s SpaceX mission. The company successfully launched a Dragon spacecraft that is on its way to the International Space Station. SpaceX also successfully landed ...

 While the year continues to be dominated by headlines touting the universal appeal of Alexa, there’s another givesa glimpse of what the big next step in human-computer interaction will be:...

 About twice a year, I get involved in a project that requires me to do some Android development; so, about twice a year, I re-launch Google’s so-called integrated development environment, ...

 Sunday seems like a fine day to launch a rocket into space. Yesterday, SpaceX rescheduled the CRS-10 mission. There was an issue with the the positioning of an engine nozzle that’s respons...

 Magic Leap, the augmented reality startup that has raised $1.4 billion in funding but has yet to release a product, has made an acquisition to expand its work in computer vision and deep learnin...

 Here’s how it felt in the weeks before I resigned from my last startup: I couldn’t sleep. I couldn’t eat. Resting pulse at 120. I had reached a point where I couldn’t agr...

 When conservationists put drones to work in field research, they typically function as flying eyes that gather imageryof the habitat and wildlife below. Now, ornithologists from Gettysburg Colle...

 Oh, how the tables can turn. After suing San Francisco, New York City and Anaheim, Airbnb has found itself on the other side of a lawsuit. Apartment Investment & Management Company (Aimco), ...

 Autonomous vehicles were one of the most talked about technologies in 2016. Ever since Tesla, Google and Uber put these vehicles on the consumer trend map, I’ve been daydreaming of the day...

 Ford has invested $1 billion in a joint venture with Argo AI, a Pittsburgh-based company with ties to Carnegie Mellon. The goal is to completely outfit Ford vehicles with self-driving technology...

 Update:SpaceX aborted the launch with 13 seconds to go, citing the issue with the positioning of an engine nozzle that’s responsible for steering the rocket in the second stage as the caus...

Samsung’s vice chairman is arrested on bribery charges, Beepi closes down and sells off its operations and reports show that Theranos might be winding down. All this on Crunch Report. Read More ...

 Yes, after pulling herself out of her 1950’s rutas a swimsuit model to become everything from a doctor, lawyer, computer scientist, astronaut and even the president of the United States, B...

 Before renowned venture capitalist Brad Feld embarked on adigital sabbath,he stopped by aSan Franciscoevent hosted by this editor, where he talked with fellow investor Semil Shah about a wide ra...

 Why is it important to invest via VCs, and do they add value further to the money they invest into a growth business? Furthermore, what role do physical transport links play in terms of business...

 MuleSoft is thelatest “unicorn” to file for an IPO.The company, which helps businesses like Netflix and Spotify with theirAPIs, has unveiled its financials to the public in an S-1 fi...

 We’re excited to announce that Bradley Tusk, head of Tusk Ventures and former Deputy Governor of the state of Illinois, will be joining us at our Meetup and pitch competition in DC next we...

 In fall 2015, the National Labor Relations Board filed a complaint against delivery service Postmates which challenged the legality of the company’s mandatory arbitration agreement between...

 This week, the CRISPR-Cas9 patent case came to a close, an encrypted messaging app went open source and Facebook announced some big changes to its video product. These are some of the notable st...

 New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and his team haverevealed the designsfor the 250,000 square foot Union Square Tech Hub. The hub, which was first announced in December, will include58,000 squa...

 Self-driving fleets of cars might be sharing the streets with human drivers sooner than many thought; Reuters reports that GM will field “thousands” of self-driving test electric tes...

 Remember the unsecured Android handset that newly minted President Trump gave up, but then apparentlydidn’t actually give up? Things had seemingly gone silent on that front as the world to...

 It probably comes as no surprise Theranos, the blood testing technology company once worth billions, is struggling to survive. A new reportfrom the Wall Street Journal says the company had just ...

 There are three key ingredients for a game or pastime to become a sport: playing, competing and viewing. The ability to play and compete are necessary steps in the transformation from game to sp...

 Twitter has been picking up live-streaming deals left and right these days, including most recently for rugby matches, and before that with Dick Clark Productions. Today, the company announced a...

 Twitter has been picking up live-streaming deals left and right these days, including most recently for rugby matches, and before that with Dick Clark Productions. Today, the company announced a...

 Snap is about to embark on its investor roadshow as it prepares to go public at the beginning of March. And a new video gives a glimpse athow they will be trying to persuade Wall Street to buy s...

 Anyone surprised by this? The growth of politically-focused mobile apps has been booming since November, with the top five politicalapps receiving a combined 300,000 downloads across iOS and And...

 There’s no shortage of women’s beauty brands, yet formany millennial women in particular, one young outfit— the cosmetics company Glossier — seems to stand out. Having pr...

 A green-screen effect, or chroma keying, is nothing new. But it’s not really consumer technology — mainly because of the need for an actual green screen, a static camera and studio-q...

 Mobileye’s long-game is focused on autonomous driving, but some of the tech that feeds into that can have an impact now, including advanced collision avoidance systems. The company announc...

 The TC Meetup + Pitch-off is headed to D.C. and Miami next week, and it’s finally time to introduce you to our esteemed judges. The pitch-off will consist of sixty-second presentations fro...

 Tesla actually makes a lot of data available to vehicle owners via APIs and other endpoints, but it’s not always easy to find and make use of that info. Enter Teslab, a new app that tracks...

 EasilyDo’s simply named “Email” application is one of the most popular productivity appson iOS, because it closely resembles the look-and-feel of Apple’s default Mail app...

 WayUp is making its first acquisition — it’s buying the similarly-focused Looksharp. Both companies have created job listing sites for college students and recent graduates, but WayU...

 Apple appears to be moving forward with plans to begin assembling its phones in India, but that doesn’t necessary mean that its prices will drop in the country. India’s Economic Time...

 Before I make a product-driven case for Snap Inc. achieving a $100B market cap by 2020, I should note that I’ve been a Snapchat bear for much of the company’s existence. That guy at ...

 The woolly mammoth is long extinct, but it’s beginning to look like they might make a comeback – or a comeback of sorts, as a hybrid elephant genetically edited to display many mammo...

 The woolly mammoth is long extinct, but it’s beginning to look like they might make a comeback – or a comeback of sorts, as a hybrid elephant genetically edited to display many mammo...

 Thailand-based casual game studio Playlab has turned investor after it invested $1 million intoCupcake Entertainment, a Brazil-basedgame-maker. The deal is a little different to the usual in tha...

 Meal kit delivery startups, at this point, are nothing new. They send pre-measured ingredients in an insulated package right to a subscriber’s door, and promise to alleviate the inconvenie...

 Instead of acting like a traditional publishing site, DriveTribe has woven social media deep into the infrastructure of what it does. This is a site slightly reminiscent of Pinterest, but with t...

 Nvidia’s business is increasingly the business of artificial intelligence, and its latest partnership fits with that new role. The graphics processing maker is supplying the Tokyo Institut...

 AsSpotify continues its reign as the world’s biggestconsumer music streaming business, a startup from its backyard in Stockholm (and even backed by Spotify itself) has raised alarge growth...

 Yesterday I caught up with Tom Blomfield, co-founder and CEO of digital-only or ‘challenger’ bank Monzo. In our call, we talked about why Blomfield and his 80-plus team are building ...

 Yesterday I caught up with Tom Blomfield, co-founder and CEO of digital-only or ‘challenger’ bank Monzo. In our call, we talked about why Blomfield and his 80-plus team are building ...

 Samsung vice-chairman/heir-apparent Jay Y. Lee has been arrested in Korea on charges of corruption.Lee is accused of paying bribes to an advisor of PresidentPark Geun-hye in exchange for politic...

Apple’s WWDC moves to San Jose, an update on Elon Musk’s tunnel project, Google makes an update that plays piano duets and Google Home steps on Alexa’s turf. All this on Crunch Repor...

 He might not want to run for office any time soon, but Mark Zuckerberg has perfected the time-honored political art of talking a lot without saying anything.In a sprawling letter consistingmostl...

 Yet more developments for Beepi, the used car marketplace that had raised $150 million but then went bust: The company has completely shut down and has been sold off in parts to repay creditors....

 The good news: the 80+ new Pokmon that were supposed to hit Pokmon GO “later this week”? They just went live. I caught a Chikorita!The bad news: If you were a player in the early day...

 According to Loom founder Chase White, there’s a familiar cycle that tech entrepreneurs go through: When they’re first getting started, they sell equity to angel investors, then they...

 Betsy DeVos was barely confirmed last week as the new Secretary of Education –- or should I say bearly.In her welcome address to the Department of Education on Wednesday, Secretary DeVos m...

 Facebook wants to give you the power to define what is and isn’t objectionable, and influence the local defaults who don’t choose voluntarily. You’ll be able to select how much...

 Many studies have been done on the potential effects of semi trucks being able to travel in platoons. It could be more fuel efficient, it could be safer, it could be easier on the drivers. And n...

 Mike Rothenberg has been in a heap of trouble over a series of purportedly fraudulent transactions within his investment firm Rothenberg Ventures and his virtual reality startup River Studios. N...

 Twitter will no longer notify you about replies in conversations started by people you’ve either blocked or muted, Twitter said today. Twitter made this decision after hearing“consis...

 Meetup, the site that helps people organize get-togetherslike hiking trips and cooking classes, is taking a very solid political stance in the face of the new administration’s policies her...

 LG is doing a downright terrible job keeping the lid on the G6 ahead of its launch at Mobile World Congress in a couple of weeks. Numerous leaks involving the handset have popped up recently, an...

 “Are we building the world we all want?” That’s a question often reserved for the lips of presidents and religious leaders, and too rarely asked by CEOs. But technology has ris...

 The short answer for why Snap lowballed its initial valuation for its initial public offeringis that it probably won’t be that low for long. Normally these prices are set by expectations t...

 I’ll be honest, hearing about what Raybaby does made me happy I don’t have kids. The mere thought ofneeding a device to monitor a child’s breathing stresses me out. But it̵...

 Less than 24 hours after his first pick to head the Department of Labor withdrew his nomination overintense scrutiny ofhis various professional and personal controversies, President Trump is rea...

 One percent of the world’s population, approximately 70 million people, are blind.[/tc_dropcap] That is not a huge number when you think of it in terms of a potential use base for a consum...

 When Google launched Project Loon a few years ago, the plan was toprovide internetaccess to underserved areas with the help of a series of balloons that would constantly circumnavigate the earth...

 When Google launched Project Loon a few years ago, the plan was toprovide internetaccess to underserved areas with the help of a series of balloons that would constantly circumnavigate the earth...

 Most consumer drones available on the market today fit in one of two categories: full-fledged UAVs like DJI’s Inspire, Phantom or Mavic, or portable “selfie”drones like Hover t...

 Have you ever wondered why the snack bowls on the second floor of your fancy startup office never runs out of snacks? Your office manager is most likely in charge of all of this, and sometimes i...

 If you’re building drones, personal delivery vehicles, or robots that can perform surgery, a desk in acoworking community likeWeWork or RocketSpace probably won’t be enough for you. ...

 The new MacBook Pro’s Touch Bar arrived with some pretty strong first-party support, but it was clear that it would take some key partners to really make the secondary Retina Display sing....

 Twitter is putting online bulliesin “time out.” As one of the company’s many new anti-abuse measures, users whose accounts have been identified engaging in abusive behavior wil...

 YotaScale, a graduate ofAlchemist’s enterprise accelerator, is announcing a $3.6 million venture round today from Engineering Capital, Pelion Ventures and angels Jocelyn Goldfein, Timothy ...

 If I gave you my phone right you’d be able to figure out a lot of stuff about me. If I didn’t unlock it you’d see some of the news I read, the apps I use, and even some of the ...

 The growth of fintech is challenging governments to devise new regulations to meet the demands of the burgeoning industry. The U.S. currently draws the largest amount of fintech investment and i...

 When Google rolled out its automatic captioning service for YouTubeback in 2009, theresults were far from great.Since then, Google’s speech recognition technology hasmade massive strides, ...

 Google today launched a fun new machine learning experiment: A.I. Duet. This new web-based experiment lets you play melodies on your computer’s keyboard (or a supported MIDI keyboard you p...

 Canadian satellite startup Kepler Communications has contracted its first launch, with launch operationsbe provided by Netherlands-based Innovative Space Logistics (ISL), and the launch itself t...

 Snap is three things, and everyone else is two of them. There are plenty of chat apps, and Stories is being copied successfully by Instagram with more Facebook clones on the way. But Snapchat...

 Opera just released a new build of its desktop browser in the developer stream. And this is an interesting one as the company just unveiled a brand new project codenamed “Reborn” ...

 Cervin Ventures, under the direction of Preetish Nijhawan andNeeraj Gupta, is announcing its latest $56 million fund. Built on the success of previous angel and micro-venture portfolios,Cervin i...

 Coursera has emerged as a formidable competitor in the online education space, racking up 24 million registered learners with access to 1,900 courses. But with that growth in volume comes new ch...

 Planting its first flag in the effort to make autonmous electrified vehicles accessible nationwide, GM’s car sharing business,Maven,is giving Los Angeles drivers an electric new way to get...

 The Google Assistanton Google Home is getting a new feature today that may sound rather familiar to anybody who has ever owned an Amazon Echo. You can now use your Home to ordereveryday essentia...

 In what could either be a paperwork-saving decision or a thinly veiled gesture of defiance, the Environmental Protection Agency has put a mirror of its own website online — a “snapsh...

 Forget about Yahoo for a minute. Verizon just announced it has acquired Skyward, a drone operations and management company based out of Portland, Oregon for an undisclosed amount. Verizon says S...

 Elon Musk really is starting a tunnel digging company, and it really is called The Boring Company – TBC for short, which he says could also mean “to be continued.” The Tesla an...

 The fashion industry isn’t necessarily racing into the future, but some startups and even some big brands are taking steps toward technology that not only help end-users but also help the ...

 Whether you agree or disagree with his policies, one thing is certain: making someone’s Tweets look like they were written by a third-grader is really funny. The folks at the Daily Show pr...

 Snap, the parent company of Snapchat, has set avaluation rangeof $16.2 billion to $18.5 billion for its upcoming IPO. That’s according to an updated filing which revealed that Snap shares ...

 You may have seen the startupBrightwheel scoring an investment from Mark Cuban and Chris Sacca on Sharktank last year. Or you may know Brightwheel if you have kids in preschool, daycare, or othe...

 Aston Martin CEO Dr. Andy Palmer was on stage at the Canadian International Auto Show on Thursday in Toronto, kicking off the event with the North American unveil of the AM-RB 001, Aston Martin&...

 Some of the biggest financial services firms in the world are coming together to back a small New York-based technology company called OpenFin with aspirations to become the “operating sys...

 Dating app Tinder is looking to get into video. The company announced today it’s acquiring an L.A.-based startup called Wheel, which had developed a social network for sharing “video...

 The Shell Oil-sponsored Ocean Discovery XPrize moves to the semi-finalist stage this week with21 teams from 25countries, including Canada, China, France, Germany, Ghana, India, Japan, New Zealan...

 Mike Hirshland has been aBoston-based investor for 17 years, first with the venture firmPolaris Partners and, for the last five years, at the firm heco-founded, Resolute Ventures, which has offi...

 YC-backed Verbling, a language learning business that’s been active for around five years, has finally launched native Android and iOS apps, along with a refreshed brand and look for its w...

 Apple just announced that its Worldwide Developers Conference is going to move back to San Jose after a long run at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. It’s going to happen on June 5-9, 2...

 3Doodler’s getting out ahead of Toy Fair with the release of a whole bunch of new products, including a handful of kits and a pair of pens that mark some big licensing deals for the New Yo...

 Over the summer, smart lock maker August announced its first integration with Amazon’s smart home assistant Alexa. It was pretty basic – letting users check whether unit was locked o...

 IBM is today taking the wraps offits new Internet of Thingsheadquarters in Munich — a $200 million project at overone yearin the making. And to underscore its IoT push, IBM is announcing a...

 What if our photographs and social media updates could be turned into memories we – or our children – could later access just by asking a virtual assistant, like Amazon’s Alexa...

 TechCrunch is partnering with Matrix Partnersfor February’s Include Office Hours Program. PartnersAnoushka Vaswani and Ilya Sukhar will be meeting with underserved and underrepresented fou...

 There’s a new venture fund in Michigan and it aims to have deep pockets. Grand Ventures is the result of longtime Michigan businessman McKeel Hagerty teaming up with Huron River Venture co...

 Truebil, a marketplace for selling used cars in India, has closed a $3 million post-Series A funding roundfrom China’sShunweiCapital. Its $5.5 million Series A was raised in January 2016. ...

 Another mobile carrier, Telenor, has partnered with Google to roll out a next-gen SMS tech — this time targeting Android users in Europe and Asia. Read More ...

 Chances are that your current company is collecting a ton of data about your customers every second. It’s a goldmine and it often sits there in a corner, unused. Vize is a business intelli...

 Baidu is furthering its push into artificial intelligence after it announced the acquisition of Raven Tech, a Chinese startupthat developed an AI voice assistant platform. Baidu confirmed it has...

 Atomico has closed its fourth fund with $765million, making it one of Europe’s single largest venture capital funds. The firm began raising the fund eleven months ago(we’d flagged it...

Verizon is reportedly getting a $250 million discount on its Yahoo deal, judge rules CRISPR-Cas9 belongs to the Broad Institute and not UC Berkeley, Pixar teaches the art of storytelling on Khan Acade...

 Twitter co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey spoke on stage with COO and CFO Anthony Noto at the Goldman Technology Conference in San Francisco on Wednesday. The leaders of the social media giant reit...

 The decision of who owned the rights to a hotly disputed CRISPR gene editing patent came down in favor of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard today so you’d think the mood would be sour...

 Deep in the Valley this afternoon, 500 Startups’ 19th demo day drew to a close at the Computer History Museum. Business-to-business software, fashion and beauty products made up the larges...

 Google and Kaggle today announced a new machine learning challenge that asks developers to find the best way to automaticallytag videos.The challenge, which comes with a $30,000 prize for the fi...

 The front page of reddit is a good place to catch up on the latest internets, or so an increasing number of users think. To broaden the appeal of the site to lurkers and first-time visitors, the...

 U.K. startup PawSquad is expanding coverage for an on-demand service that brings vets to pets — offering convenience and reduced stress for pet owners willing to stump up a little more tha...

 Last year, Huawei leapfrogged a couple of fellow Chinese hardware companies to secure its spot as the third largest smartphone maker worldwide. As the company takes aim at the number two spot, i...

 Tesla CEO Elon Musk addressed Trump’s immigration ban on Muslim majority nations directly via Twitter on Wednesday, sayingthat the order is “not right” and refers to it as a &#...

 Tesla CEO Elon Musk addressed President Trump’s immigration ban on Muslim majority nations directly via Twitter on Wednesday, sayingthat the order is “not right” and refers to ...

 It’s no secret that the criminal justice system in the United States is broken. With 2.2 million people behind bars in prisons and jailsin the country, the U.S. hasthe largest prison popul...

 There are a few beautiful lines in Wilson Rawls’ Where the Red Fern Grows that came to me when I saw that Nokia – or whatever shambling shell of Nokia remains – is re-releasing...

 LinkedIn has neglected two big opportunities Facebook is now capitalizing on: helping lower skilled workers and people who aren’t actively looking for a job. Today Facebook is rolling out ...

 Valentine’s Day is over, but if you’re looking for a way to make those fleeting expressions of vestigial patriarchy more permanent, Rare Carat has the service for you. Read More ...

 Valentine’s Day is over, but if you’re looking for a way to make those fleeting expressions of vestigial patriarchy more permanent, Rare Carat has the service for you. Read More ...

 Following a high-profile and very heated court hearing over ownership of the patents for gene-editing technology CRISPR-Cas9, judges at the United States Patent and Trademark Office in Alexandri...

 There are many toys on the market today that promise to teach kids programming skills, and a good percentage require the use of a connected tablet or smartphone. At a time when parents are alrea...

 If you’re freaking out about Facebook starting to autoplay videos with sound by default, at least it won’t pause or play on top of music you’re already listening to through app...

 The college textbook industry has no shortage of startups, from ebook company RedShelf to big players like rental service Chegg all the way to Amazon itself. But a SF-based company called Verba,...

 Security researchershave wanted a peek at Wickr’s code since the secure messaging app launched in 2012, and now they’re finally getting that chance. Wickr is publishing its code for ...

 This year’s E3 promises to be a big show – if only thanks to the fact that the gaming convention’s organizers are opening it up to the masses. As expected, Microsoft is going t...

 BlackBerry suing Nokia is 2017 is a bit Rocky/Apollo Creed fight in Rocky III – two once mighty champions doing battle one more time, with a heck of lot fewer people looking on. Also, ther...

 In October, Google announced it would begin highlighting fact-checked resources in its Google News vertical, allowing readers to more easily find links to reputable sources of factual informatio...

 Microsoft has made available a beta version of an advanced virtual world for training autonomous drones, as well as other gadgets that move on their own. The software, which is available on GitH...

 Yahoo is continuing to issue warnings to users aboutseveral security incidents as it moves toward an acquisition by Verizon. Users are receiving notifications today about unauthorized access to ...

 Whether it’s Uber or someone else that dominates the land grab for newly unlocked media time, the components of an in-car media future are materializing. Today it’s smartphones; tomo...

 Ever-shifting camera tech company Lytro has raised major cash to continue development and deployment of its cinema-level camera systems. Perhaps the company’s core technology, “light...

 TechCrunch is pleased to bring you 500 StartupsDemo Daytoday, February 15th at 12:00pm to 3:00pm PST. If you are just tuning in, 500 Startups is an accelerator and seed fund headquartered in Sil...

 Deaths resulting from motor vehicle crashes are at their highest in nearly a decade, according to preliminary data released by the National Safety Council on Wednesday. The increase for 2016 com...

 Badass is not generally a word associated with VR, but when FX wanted to bring viewers into the ridiculous world of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia to experience Mac’s serial video...

 On-demand laundry has proven a tough business for some. Washio folded up its business last year, selling its assets into competitor Rinse. At the time Washio’s founder Ajay Prakash told Te...

 MakerBot is laying off 30 percent of its staff as part of an ongoing effort to adapt to a changing market, the company announced in a blog post today. Read More ...

 Verizon and Yahoo are closeto reaching a new acquisition deal, with a price tag that’s $250 million lessthan the $4.8 billion agreed upon last year,according to a Bloomberg report.A Verizo...

 Comcast islaunchinga new app called Xfinity Stream, which will replace its olderXfinity TV app on mobile devices, as well as deliver a host of features for cablesubscribers, including access to ...

 Investors are seemingly growing more excited about L.A. by the day. The newest sign comes via a $40 million fund that L.A.-based Fika Ventures is announcing today. That’s none too shabby f...

 Adtech startups like to announce when they’ve hit $100 million in annualized revenue, but mobile ad startup Vungle is doing a bit better than that — it says it’s now reached a ...

 There are few organizations in the world that can claim more expertise when it comes to storytelling than Pixar. The Disney-owned animation studio is known for its ability to consistently create...

 Twitter’s recently launched “Explore” sectionwill now feature live videos sourced from Periscope withinits “Top Trends,” the company announced yesterday. The move w...

 StockX, a marketplace for sneakers, has announced that they’veclosed a $6M round from a group of high-profile investors like Mark Wahlberg, Scooter Braun, and Wale. They join existing inve...

 Josephine, the startup that lets people cook meals inside their homes and sell them to neighbors, is sponsoring a recently-introduced homemade food bill in California that aims to legalize the s...

 Planet, the company that recently acquired Google’s satellite Earth imaging business, just pulled off another monumental feat – launching 88 satellites into orbit at once,as part of ...

 Walmart this morning announced it’s acquiring aleading outdoor retailer Moosejaw for approximately $51 million in an all-cash deal. Headquartered in Madison Heights, Michigan, the retailer...

 Honda is extending its courtship of startups through its Xcelerator program with a new partnership announced Wednesday with DRIVE, a new startup hub in Tel Aviv, Israel that focuses specifically...

 IBM wants to bring machine learning toits traditional mainframe customers, and eventually to any technology with large data stores hidden behind a companyfirewall in what IBM calls a “priv...

 Developers have Stripe for payments, Mixpanel for analytics, and Twilio for communications, but what about location.That’s where Radar comes in.Radar was founded by Nick Patrick, former Fo...

Groupon, the daily deals platform that has been restructuring itself and trying to shift into more profitable areas of e-commerce, today reported its Q4 earnings. They were mixed. The company beat on ...

 Groupon, the daily deals platform that has been restructuring itself and trying to shift into more profitable areas of e-commerce, today reported its Q4 earnings. They were mixed. The company be...

 Groupon, the daily deals platform that has been restructuring itself and trying to shift into more profitable areas of e-commerce, today reported its Q4 earnings. The company reportedsales of $9...

 HTC will offer a mobile VR solution, and it’ll work with the company’s new top-end smartphone, the U Ultra, but it’ll be more than just a headset that lets the smartphone do mo...

 MiDrive, a U.K. startup that helps you learn to drive with a driving test app and instructor marketplace, has lost Scott Taylor as CEO, after he departed the company last month. He’s been ...

 Employees throughout the world are are struggling to compete in a fast-moving and dynamic global job market, thanks to an unprecedented number of technological advancements and highly linked inf...

 Mozilla-backed Cliqz, a German startup building an anti-tracking browser with a built-in private search feature powered by aggregated usage of its products, is acquiring the consumer assets of a...

 “When is another generation of Pokmon coming to Pokemon GO?!” It’s a question that the game’s players (including myself) have been shouting since… well, pretty much...

 Another Brexit bump: Microsoft has increased the cost of its Surface Book laptops for UK consumers. Read More ...

 An impetuous 20-something year old team of startup founders may not automatically reach out to the AARP to bring its products to market. Ignoring the aging population isn’t the sharpest mo...

 It’s safe to say that we had a blast last year at our Tel Aviv meetup. To nobody’s surprise, we’re holding a TechCrunch Meetup + Pitch-Off again in June. Save the date as June ...

 Health startups are pulling inmoney in Southeast Asia. A week after wellness-focused insurance brokerage CXAdrew $25 million from investors, fellow Singapore-based startup mClinica has announced...

 London and Copenhagen-based fintech startup Pleo, which offers a card and app to manage company expenses, has closed an additional $3.25 million in funding. The round was led by European VC firm...

 Australia-based payment firm PromisePay, which raised $10 million last year, has a double shot of news this week: it has rebranded to Assembly Payments and inked a major partnership deal with Gu...

 As publishers — scrambling for revenues and audiences in a rapidly changing media industry — try to get a grip onhow to make the best use of social platforms like Facebook and Twitte...

 It’s hard to fathom that the work ofReverend Thomas Bayes is still coming back to drive cutting edge advancements in AI, but that’s exactly what’s happening. DARPA-backedGamalo...

Apple shows us trailers for its first original shows, YouTuber Pewdiepie gets in trouble over some anti-Semitic remarks in some of his videos, Microsoft wants a digital Geneva Convention and Twitter d...

 In a first for in-car convenience features, Jaguar is teaming up with Shell to launch a new payment feature that lets you use Apple Pay or PayPal (with Android Pay coming later on) to easily pay...

 Twitter is fighting to disclose how manytimes the government has secretly accessed its users’ data — and a judge may soon allow the company to do so. Twitter’s fight has been o...

 Making women like your technology starts with listening to the women working on it. That’s not what former VP of marketing at Magic Leap Tannen Campbell says she experienced while on the j...

 Japan’s SoftBank has made another acquisition to widen both its business strategy and its portfolio of investments. Today the company announced it would pay $3.3 billionin cash to acquire ...

 A startup called Caavo thinks it has a solution to the too-much-TV problem, with a device that brings together all the different streaming boxes and TV services you subscribe to. The company, wh...

 Yelp is releasing a new feature with the simple, self-explanatory name Questions and Answers.Well, mostly self-explanatory. This is distinct from Talk, a feature where Yelp users can ask an incr...

 VC investment in dating startups declined over the past year, with smaller average rounds and fewer funded companies, according to Crunchbase company profile data. Read More ...

 Since 2001, impact VC firms have raised $13 billion to invest in companies that provide a social or environmental benefit as part of running their for-large-profit business. Indeed, $10 billion ...

 For $2 billion, Caltrain electrification would wire the line between San Francisco and San Jose and buy new high-performance electric trains, reducing local travel time by twenty minutes, and ye...

 PayPal has agreed to buy bill payment management company TIO Networks for $233 million in cash.The deal will allow PayPal to gain access to a market of customers who pay their utility and cable ...

 Many things that used to be trueprimarily of the public market now happen within the world of private company investing, including the participation of mutual fund investors.Now, you can add equ...

 Open Whisper Systems, creator of encrypted communication platform Signal, released an update today as an open beta to enable encrypted video calling. The app previously offered fully end-to-end ...

 Startup life istough and hectic. You’re busy. We get it. That’s why we extended the Startup Battlefield Applications for TechCrunch Disrupt New York. You now have until February 28th...

 In the first of a new series focusing on city eco-systems, TechCrunch Editor-at-large Mike Butcher gets under the skin of one of Europe’s hottest startup cities. Being thrown into the fire...

 Linode has been in the virtual private server (VPS) game for longer than most, but in recent years, companies like DigitalOcean and Vultr have taken quite a bit of mindshare from the company. No...

 At CODE Media today, Facebook VP of partnerships Dan Rose said combatting fake news is “something that’s really important to us,” but acknowledged that the company is “ju...

 A drone recently crashed into a Boeing 737 as it approached a landing strip in Mozambique. The damage to the aircraft was extensive. Over the last year, drone crashes have been reported at a nuc...

 There’s nothing quite like the atmosphere of a college hackathon. Amidst the free t-shirts and apps to help you find parties on campus always lie a few hidden gems for those with the patie...

 Facebook wants its users to upload and consume more videos, and it’s making a couple of changes to the way that it displays and distributes those videos. Today at CODE Media, Facebook VP o...

 The adorable little Smart cars you see on North American roads from here on out will likely be primarily electric, as the company has decided to cease sales of its gas-powered Fortwo and Fortwo ...

 Twitter earlier this month announced a series of changesaimed at silencing abuse on its network, but a recent change to its service – which was quickly reversed following user feedback ...

 Etsy just announced what it’s calling its first marketplace in 11 years — Etsy Studio, where businesses can sell supplies to other Etsy users.CEO Chad Dickerson told me that while cr...

 Entoro Group today announced that it has acquired OfferBoard, a company that removes barriers from the process of raising capital. OfferBoard isn’tAngellist nor FundersClub. It’s a p...

 Disrupt NY 2017 is just a few short months away. Soon, thousands of entrepreneurs, investors, innovators and other tech enthusiasts will make their way from around the world to Manhattan’s...

 Google today announced the beta launch of Cloud Spanner, a new globally distributed database service for mission-critical applications. Cloud Spanner joins Google’s other cloud-based datab...

 Intuition Robotics, maker of elder care assistant ElliQ, announced today that it has raised $6 million in funding from iRobot and equity crowdfunding platform OurCrowd. With the funding, the Jer...

 As the public grows more concerned with state-sponsored hacking, Microsoft is calling on tech companies to form a so-called “Digital Geneva Convention” by promising to protect users ...

 Back in 2015 we were intrigued by the launch of a brand new take on online learning. It was driven by mobile and also ‘gamed’ users into learning. That was the idea behind SmartUp.io...

 Instapaper says today it has fully recovered from its extended outage, which caused the service to be down for over a day last week, then saw it return in a limited capacity. The popular bookmar...

 DigitalOcean today announced the launch of its new load balancing service for developers who run their applications on its platform. Read More ...

 YouTube says it’s cancelling the second season of vlogger star PewDiePie’s reality show, and has booted his channel from its premium advertising program. The announcement comes short...

 Hardware Battlefield favorite Wiivv has announced a $4 million Series A funding and an acquisition. Not too shabby for a shoe company. But remember: this isn’t just any shoe company. Found...

 Autonomous vehicle system startup Drive.ai is ready to show off its technology in use for the first time, with a video showing the company’s test vehicle making its way through the streets...

 A growing number of companies are looking at the viability of airborne, autonomous taxis as a way to ease urban congestion and transportation woes, but the city of Dubai could leapfrog those wit...

 Venture Capital is key to ensuring the digital transformation of government becomes long-term sustainable and successful reality. If we want to see an increased activity in the number of GovTech...

 San Francisco startup Sense.ly has raised $8 million in a Series B round of venture funding to bring its virtual nurse technology to clinics and patients of every kind. The company’s app h...

 Apple is finally pulling the curtains on its original TV shows. The company has revealed the first trailer for its upcoming non-scripted reality TV show called ‘Planet of the Apps’ a...

 Nintendo’s new Switch console is set to launch in less than a month, and easily its biggest headline launch title is Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Nintendo just announced that this debut game...

 Nest is shipping a new build of the Nest app this morning, and with it comes a few new tricks. Most notably, they’re bubbling up some more computer vision smarts. With this update, Nest Aw...

 HTC’s latest financials make for another fairly dismal read for the mobile device and VR headset maker, though — crumbs of comfort — it’s making a slightly smaller year-o...

 Samanage, makers of customer service software in the cloud, had a couple of major announcements today. For starters, they got a $20 million investment, and they also announced a major step: the ...

 Payoneer,a provider of payment technologies that let vendors sell to international customers in local currencies — allowing for easier cross-border payments, is launching an API. The move ...

 Just in time for Valentine’s Day (ugh, sorry), dating app OK Cupid is getting a makeover. Psych! Just kidding, the company is introducinga new version of its mobile app today, but OK Cupid...

 Soldo, the London-based fintech startup founded by Carlo Gualandri, who previously helped create Italy’s first online bank, is rolling out a new product in the U.K. today aimed at business...

 Disney has cut ties with YouTube’s most popular star after he posted a series of videos featuring anti-Semitic clips and messages. PewDiePiehas 53 million subscribers on YouTube, is part o...

 Amazon has taken the wraps off ofits own Skype competitor.Chimeis a new video conferencing and communicationsfrom AWS that’s focused on business users. Beyond VoIP calling and video messag...

 Amazon Prime has driven growth for the e-commerce company for years now. But Amazon has traditionally been cagey about disclosing too many details regardingthe popularservice. In a 10-K filing s...

 I wanted to review the 2017 Infiniti Q60 Red sports coupe, in particular its technology, because Infiniti is usually ahead of the curve when it comes to tech. This was my second test of the Q60;...

 Apple is making a deeper pushinto producing its own stable of original TV shows, butit probably won’tcompete with originals being produced by Netflix or Amazon.At theCODE Media conference ...

Musical.ly releases Ping Pong, a new video messenger app, PAL-V is pre-selling its flying car, Elon Musk talks about the symbiosis of mind and machine and Apple might be contemplating wireless chargin...

 There was a palpable energy in downtown San Francisco today as hundreds of tech workers from LinkedIn, Cisco, Apple and other tech companies came together to talk about the plight of the America...

 You don’t have to have perfect vision to enjoy VR, but brother, it helps. Otherwise you’re looking at having to worry about accommodating glasses, eye tracking not working, ocular di...

 Blume Ventures, an early-stage fund that’s becoming a major player in India’s burgeoning tech scene, has joined the Draper Venture Network, the investors announced on Monday. Members...

 It’s a tiny-but-still-annoying part of almost every meeting and phone call — once you agree to meet someone or call them, there’s still another flurry of emails as you try to d...

 Yik Yak crashed and burned after raising $73.5 million… then laying off most of its employees as users ditched its anonymous message board app. But now Yik Yak appears to be taking another...

 Nikon’s plan to restructure in the face of challenges to the digital imaging space has proven more costly than expected in more ways than one. A rough quarter means the company will not on...

 Everyone loves being in pictures taken by a professional photographer. Because as good as our iPhone cameras are these days, there’s just no comparison to a picture taken by a professional...

 It’s becoming harder and harder to read the news. We’ve gone around the bend from carefully balanced op-ed pieces from clearly identified special interest parties to a president whos...

 For the celebrity-obsessed, augmented reality may offer the bizarre opportunity to get closer than ever to pop culture’s most recognizable stars and performers. For the last several years,...

 Video How it works The idea is simple: A ring with a panic button sends emergency alerts via Bluetooth to pre-set list of contacts on your phone, including friends, family members, first re...

 Making payments and sending money to friends and family in Nigeria can be cumbersome. Y Combinator-backed Kudi, which recently launched in Nigeria, is aiming to make it easier for people to pay ...

 How can Facebook and Instagram make their amateur videos more interesting than those you see on Twitter or Snapchat? A killer soundtrack. That’s why Facebook is now pressing record labels ...

 The Humble Bundle is a reliable source of good deals on games, usually organized around some theme or another. This week’s bundle, however, is not only one of the best gaming deals of all ...

 Since Yelp opened its bug bounty to the public six months ago, the company has paid out more than $17,000 to hackers who have discovered vulnerabilities in its products. But the bug bounty progr...

 MIT announced today that it’s developed a speech recognition chip capable of real world power savings of between 90 and 99 percent over existing technologies. Voice technologyhas, of cours...

 Yahoo, model Apache Spark citizen and developerofCaffeOnSpark, which made it easier for developers building deep learning models in Caffe to scale with parallel processing, is open sourcing a ne...

 When you look at the size of the cloud market, it’s astonishing that AWS is the undisputed leader, and probably will be for the foreseeable future. Considering the competition is the likes...

 Twitter continues to bleed cash and its advertising business has begun shrinking, so it’s time for a change. Twitter will pare down three areas of its ad product, according to sources who ...

 As we look to the next evolution of our digital ecosystem, it seems certain that virtual goods will play a much larger role. From vanquishing new breeds of digital monsters to defining a modern ...

 Practical use of self-driving cars requires changes to existing regulatory frameworks – or at least that’s what GM and Toyota are prepared to tell U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday, at a pan...

 Yahoo may be a troubled company, with its multiple data breaches, SEC investigation, and delayed acquisition* proceedings, but its Yahoo Mail product still has 225 million monthly active users. ...

 For better or worse, drones are about to become a lot more prevalent in US airspace. The FAA expects sales of drones to spike domestically from 2.5 million last year to 7 million by 2020. Now, a...

 Pitching a bird’s eye view of customer feedback based on social media comments, BirdEye (get it?) has raised $25 million in new financing. The software developer can thank new investor Wor...

 Pitching a bird’s eye view of customer feedback based on social media comments and push surveys from the company, BirdEye (get it?) has raised $25 million in new financing.The software dev...

 Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have created a form of ransomware that can hit us where it really counts: the water supply. Their program installed itself in a model water pla...

 YouTube Kids, the appoffering a curated selection of age-appropriate videos sourced from YouTube, is launching its own original programming, the company announced today. The four new shows are a...

 Volkswagen and Mobileye have signed an agreement to see Mobileye’s Road Experience Management (REM) mapping service integrated into VW-brand vehicles starting in 2018. The service from pro...

 The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has put out a fresh call for tech companies to push for reform of the surveillance regime in the U.S., warning of the added urgency given new U.S. Presi...

 Subscription beauty service Birchbox islaunching a new, pricier tier to its service, offering customers the ability to better customize their monthly box of products, along with other perks. The...

 If you still feel like you were somehow “promised” flying cars based onPopular Science magazine covers in the 1960s then you’re in luck, because Dutch company PAL-V is now acce...

 Finding financial data, particularly for private companies, is no small task. It usually requires a solidBS detector for researching online and a network ofknowledgeable sources to bounce number...

 In what amounts to one of the purest and most interesting experiments in assessing value of Mac OS’s App Store the founder of Rogue Amoeba posted a description of what happened when he pul...

 Famous people! In cars! Singing! Bonus: Shaq at a donut shop in a funny hat and Will Smith lying on a lady’s wedding dress, for some reason! The trailer for Apple Music’s new series ...

 The D.C. and Miami meetups are just on the horizon, and it’s about time that we introduce you to the companies presenting their products in the rapid-fire pitch-off. We’ll be visitin...

 Musical.ly, the tween and teen focused lip-syncing app, has just dropped another app onto the App Store. Days ago, thecompany launched a video messaging app called Ping Pong on the App Store, in...

 Dopamine Labs, a small startup in Los Angeles, not just creates tools that can hook users to an app… the company is now also giving people a way to kick their app habit.Formed by two neuro...

 How do you avoid getting made obsolete by artificial intelligence in a time when resources and research are largely being funnelled toward improving that area of tech? By merging with the machin...

 Apple is now a member of the Wireless Power Consortium. As spotted by 9to5mac, the website has recently been updated to feature Apple as one of the 213 members. This update fuels recent rumors t...

 IBM CEO Ginni Rometty addressed both Donald Trump’s travel ban and her continued participation on his White House business advisory council in an email shared internally with staff and obt...

 Pretty much every company, to some extent, has to power their algorithms with data and machine learning if they’re going to be competitive with anyone else in their space. The challenge th...

 TheTake, a site which launched as a way for consumers to buy that thing they saw in that movie, is set to begin selling an automated version of its service directly to businesses. The New York-b...

 What are you up over President’s Day weekend? If you didn’t answer “searching for exoplanets,” it’s time to seriously reconsider your priorities and head on over to...

 What technology is popular with acquirers, helps save enterprises from expensive breaches, and could even curtail the third-leading cause of death?If you answered identity management, congratula...

 Dyson is expanding its footprint in Singapore, with a new Technology Centre opened today by the maker of vacuums and other smart home electronics. The UK company will be investing $561 million a...

 Last Fall when Salesforce introduced Einstein, its artificial intelligence initiative, it debuted with some intelligence built into the core CRM tool, but with a promise that it would expand int...

 Google Maps is today rolling out a new feature to all users on iOS and Android devices that will allow you to make lists of places that you can star, save and share with friends. There...

 When people are released from prison, it is often hard for them to reintegrate into society because of their “criminal” history. To that end, finding a job is almost impossible when ...

 As people continue to think abouthow the rise of “fake news”, psychometric big data, and other developments in the tech world could have influenced big elections this year, a new sta...

 We tried out a prototype of Nura’s custom headphones over the summer and liked what we heard. Apparently we weren’t alone in that, as the Australian startup scored a massive $1.8 mil...

 Uber’s Southeast Asia rival Grab is in the process ofbuying upIndonesia-based online payment startup Kudo in its first majoracquisition. A source close todiscussions confirmed toTechCrunch...

 DatePlay, a new dating app co-founded by The Apprentice finalist Vana Koutsomitis, is gearing up for a public Beta launch, which TechCrunch understands could be as soon as tomorrow. The concept,...

 Another tech firm is raising its prices in the UK by up to 25 per cent following the June 2016 Brexit referendum vote which triggered a massive drop in the value of pound sterling. Read More ...

 Jaguar Land Rover’s venture arm is launching a new accelerator targeting startups in the mobility and transportation space — part of its wider bid to avoid innovator’s dilemma....

 Hey Barcelona! Here’s a reminder! TechCrunch is holding a Mini-Meetup during Mobile World Congress, on Tuesday Feb. 28. We will hold a “Pitch-Off” of startups at the event. Gra...

 Uber is beginning to map roads in Asia for the first time as it aims to improve its service in the region. The company said today that it has deployed mapping cars in Singapore, the first such c...

 Immigration into the U.S. is a hot political topic right now, but, unlessyou’re Native American, pretty much everyone here has a family history involving some sort of immigration story. No...

 When I hear about the need to push gender diversity in tech and improve gender disparity in the industry, it takes me a second to appreciate the full reality of the situation. When the industry&...

 Long ago, people believed that the eye emitted invisible rays that struck the world outside, causing it to become visible to the beholder. That’s not the case, of course, but that doesn...

 Some very big brands outside the tech space have been stepping in to acquire technology companies as the pressure to keep up with consumer-powered digital trends touches more industries. Add in ...

 In 2016, blockchain startups raised some $200 million in Initial Coin Offerings, a new form of crowdfunding based on cryptocurrency tokens. Some of the startups have raked in millions of dollars...

 Bradley Tusk has long been known in political circles. He was once deputy governor of Illinois, working for the now-incarcerated former governorRod Blagojevich. He also worked for Michael Bloomb...

 Bradley Tusk has long been known in political circles. He was once deputy governor of Illinois, working for the now-incarcerated former governorRod Blagojevich. He also worked for Michael Bloomb...

 Let’s talk about something non-awful that Donald Trump has done. (Shouldn’t take long, right? Ba-dum-bump-wince.) Specifically, let’s talk about the draft executive order float...

 Mobile surveillance by ad-sponsored smartphone apps is intrusive and creepy — and it can easily compromise your enterprise’s data. Read More ...

 The turn of the calendar is cathartic for entrepreneurs — there’s something about starting a new year that inspires folks to launch a new startup, build a new product or raise capita...

 The Gillmor Gang — Doc Searls, Keith Teare, Frank Radice, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, February 10, 2017. Plus the latest G3 (below) with Halley Suitt Tucker, Elisa Camahort Pa...

 Statsbot is giving companies a new way to look at their data — in their chatrooms on Slack.Co-founder and CEO Artyom Keydunov said that the product was inspired by his previous work leadin...

 It’s clear Republicans hitched their wagon to a demographic they have successfully exploited at historic levels the last couple of decades. Yet in doing that they’ve still lost six o...

 Hellocar, a new car buying website out of the UK, has secured a 1m investment round. The round was led by JamJar Investments, the Innocent Drinks founders’ venture capital fund, and Alex C...

Today’s StoriesPrince returns to Spotify and Napster this weekendWhatsApp now supports two-step authenticationAmazon’s Tap speaker gets a hands-free update in defiance of its nameBeats X b...

 Tech companies continued to rally against Trump’s immigration ban, Android Wear 2.0 finally launched, Airbnb bought up another company and Zenefits laid off 45 percent of its workforce. Th...

 Donald Trump’s executive orders targeting Muslims, immigrants and refugees are moves that pander to the dangerous forces of racism and xenophobia. Read More ...

 On the surface, many internet businesses might not have much in common; internally, we’ve converged around one single metric that’s applicable to almost all consumer and/or marketpla...

 In the face of criticism around its new FOIA process, the FBI moved to clarify some questions surrounding the online portal that will replace its existing process starting March 1. The FOIA chan...

 Encrypted messaging app Wire has now published an external audit of its crypto protocol, Proteus, and the implementation of the protocol across its various apps. Read More ...

 It’s always good to hear that scientists are bringing the latest technology to the fight against cancer, but virtual reality doesn’t seem like an obvious addition to the arsenal. Yet...

 Carl Bass is sitting at his desk at Autodesk today, but he’s no longer CEO of the publicly traded design software company. He stepped down earlier this week in a move that some associated ...

 You know how old you are. You know how old your friendsthink you are. Heck, youeven know how old Microsoft thinks you are.But at the end of the day, does anyone other than Amazon really matter? ...

 The ancient craft of wine making conjures romantic notions of hand picked vines, and bare feet crushing grapes. However, wine production today is a thoroughly high-tech affair.Degree programs in...

 Last year Xiaomi’s market share slid notably in its native China, as the smartphone maker moved from first to fifth place(and tellingly avoided publishing its own sales figuresfor the firs...

 Lucid’s Air is a 1,000 HP electric dream car, which is still in the early stages of real-world testing, but which already has more than a few EV fans excited. Now, the company is showing o...

 In a world defined by trends, we’ve been beset by a highly worrying one: There is an undeniable lack of IPOs. In 2015, 164 companies entered the public markets, which is just over half the...

 You know that Twitter is getting serious about live streaming when the company starts signing deals for rugby matches just for French users. The company announced that it would stream the next 4...

 It’s hard to say precisely what took Beats X so long to arrive. Unlike Apple’s own house-branded AirPods, the company didn’t really start from scratch. Sure, it’s a somew...

 The California DMVhas added Subaru as the latest member of itslist of companies clear to test autonomous driving technology on state roads, bringing the exclusive club to 22 members in total.Sub...

 Quora, a crowdsourced Q&A site that’s generally smarter than Yahoo Answers, is making a big change to how anonymity works on its service. Most notably, it will begin cracking down on s...

 Wednesday night, at a StrictlyVC eventin San Francisco, venture capitalist Aileen Lee took the stage to interview Amy Chang, a former eBay product manager turned head of Google Analytics turned ...

 Following multiple admissions last year that it had been misreportingsome of its adnumbers, Facebook just announced that it has committed to an audit by the Media Rating Council “to verify...

 With the rise of algorithmic stock trading it’s gotten harder and harder for humans to actually trade strategically. However, now that Trump’s chaotic twitter feed can make or break ...

 WhatsApp has rolled out two-step verification to all of its user base, the company quietly announced through an updated FAQ on its website. The additional security measure allows you to protect ...

 I usually don’t like to post Kickstarters unless I’ve seen the product firsthand but I also love dash cams. What was I to do? Luckily Vava was able to supply a demo unit so I can rep...

 Read-it-later bookmarking service Instapaper, owned by Pinterest since last year’s acquisition, was hit by an extended outage this week. The service came back online yesterday, February 9,...

 What’s a six year old startup doing entering Y Combinator? Plotting a new growth trajectory after a pivot. Pilot may be a veteran in Silicon Valley startup terms but it reckons the freelan...

 Nissan has a Star Wars-themed version of its Rogue SUV that capitalizes on its name’s relation to Star Wars, and Rogue One in particular. The full-size modified vehicle adds exterior ̵...

 Those looking to mourn Prince’s passing with a music marathon last April came away disappointed if they happened to (as most no doubt do) subscribe to any music service but Tidal. Now, nea...

 Chromebooks hit a key milestone last May, outselling Macs in the US for the first time ever, by IDC’s account. It was a pretty big win for a category oft maligned at launch for its relativ...

 Starbucks is furthering its push into China after it consummated its partnership with Tencent to introduce coffee gifting via WeChat, China’s top messaging app. WeChat, which recently reve...

 Now that Snapchat‘s parent Snap has signalled its intention to go public (in early March, is the date that we’ve heard through the grapevine), it’s stepping up a gearto show th...

Today’s StoriesTwitter’s advertising business is stallingZenefits is laying off 45% of its workforceAirbnb is buying Luxury Retreats for around $200MFacebook can now replace your weather a...

 Swiftype started out helping publishers like TechCrunch offer better site search, but it’s been expanding into other areas like customer support and e-commerce. Now it’s making its b...

 We all read the daunting statistics about single motherhood and teen pregnancy but we don’t always get to read stories that humanize the individuals going through these paths. As we contin...

 We all read the daunting statistics about single motherhood and teen pregnancy, but we don’t always get to read stories that humanize the individuals going through these experiences. As we...

 NeuroQorewants to shootmagnetic pulses into your brain to try and treatmental disorders such as anxiety and depression. Most doctors will give patients a number of drugs to treat these disorders...

 Long before any mission to another planet is undertaken, NASA and other space agencies commission reports on why and how we might want to go about it. The latest such report was issued this week...

 Surely everyone who picked up a pair of Nike’s limited-edition HyperAdapt self-lacing shoes had at least some small desire to rip them open to find out how they worked. But at $700 a pop, ...

 A pitch competition highlighting companies with female founders is crossing the pond for the first time: The next Women Startup Challenge will be held in London and open to companies anywhere in...

 Since President Trump took office, there have been protests large and small across the United States and around the globe. Esri, the big-data collection and analysis company, has helped communit...

 Jose Moran, a personclaiming to be Tesla employee working at the company’s Fremont, California assembly facility, took to Medium on Thursdayto detail working conditions at the company, and...

 Internet music giant Pandora fell4% in initial after hours trading after the company released its fourth quarter 2016 earnings results. Pandora actually beat expectations, but this was already w...

 Hyperloop One had a messy break-up with CTO and co-founder Brogan BamBrogan that ended in a settlement with terms agreed upon by both parties last November. But now the former SpaceX engineer is...

 Valentine’s Day is fast-approaching, so we polled TechCrunch to find the best gifts and tech-inspired ideas to make this year’s Valentine’s Day more fun. Because nothing ruins ...

 Oculus wants to one day let you fingerpaint, act like a super hero, and even type in virtual reality. Oculus already has its Touch controllers that are great for wielding virtual guns or picking...

 Bipedal robots are one of the most intensely researched areas of mechanical engineering, and while it’s a notoriously difficult problem, there’s no shortage of material from which to...

 Most people and most companies understand the term and concept of outsourced development. True to tech, we’ve coined a new term, with a twist: insourced development. Before the term insour...

 In the battle of the virtual assistants, Microsoft’s Cortana just scored. The company today is rolling out new functionality that will allow the assistantto remind you about things you hav...

 Twitch’s push to broaden the scope of its video game streaming site to include more types of content continues today with the launch of a new section on its site called “Communities....

 As a father I try to remember two things: my biological mission is complete and I am essentially fodder for the grave and my kids will probably destroy my smartphone. That’s why Pixlplay i...

 Greycroft Partners, the venture firm co-founded by industry veteran Alan Patricof, is announcing their second growth equity fund. They will have about $250 million in capital to deploy, an incre...

 Greylock Partners, the Silicon Valley venture firm, has hired a “growth advisor in residence” to help goose growth at its portfolio companies. Casey Winters— who spentnearly th...

 A few years ago, using containers to run your applications came with a number of security tradeoffs compared to using virtual machines. As enterprises started adopting various container technolo...

 Being a new parent can become an isolating experience, where you’re thrust into a world of playdates over happy hours – a change that can lead to dwindling time spent with friendswho...

 Virtual reality is coming to the web. Using VR on your phone has always been a pretty deliberate decision, you slot your phone into a headset, navigate the internal menus and home screens and la...

 The Analogue Nt Mini is the NES console you’d create in your imagination if you were dreamingone up today, without concern for cost and with a focus on most perfectly recreating the Ninten...

 TechCrunch is pleased to bring you IndieBio’sAccelerator’s Demo Daytoday, February 9th at 3:00pm to 5:00pm PSTLocated in heart of San Francisco, IndieBio is the largest seed-stage bi...

 Alejandro Chahin knows pants. His family runs Intermoda in the Honduras and he graduated with a degree in engineering from the University of Michigan and an MBA from NYU. Now he’s making j...

 A new study published by the data science team at Hired, a jobs marketplace for tech workers, shows why it’s becoming harder for software engineers to afford life in San Francisco, even wh...

 SAP is about as traditional a legacy vendor as you are likely to find, delivering complex on-prem ERP solutions for the largest organizations on the planet. But like everyone else, SAP sees a fu...

 The rise in popularity of eSports has mainly been focused around leagues that play games like League of Legends, Dota and Counter-Strike – all games that aren’t actually sports-relat...

 Amazon’s Tap set itself apart from its Echo brethren with better sound – positioned more as a Bluetooth speaker with Alexa functionality than an Alexa device that happened to have a ...

 Zenefits, which just earlier this week announced Jay Fulcher as its new CEO, is laying off 45% of its workforce, BuzzFeed reported earlier today. That means Zenefits will let go about 430 people...

 GM’s Maven car-sharing service has now launched in Atlanta, its 17th North American city, where it’ll offer a fleet of 50 cars spread across 20 pick-up locations. Maven launched in J...

 Airbnb may have been founded on the premise of renting out sparesofa or bed space as a cheap alternative to hotels, but the company has moved upmarket in a big way, and is about to take that up ...

 Things have been rough for wearables of late. Companies like Fitbit are struggling, while Jawbone is apparently looking for the next big move away from the consumer category. And then there̵...

 In addition to the $2 billion Snap committed to spending on Google cloud infrastructure over the next five years, the company also revealed today in an amended filing that it expects to spend $1...

 Tesla is pausing production at its California assembly plant in Fremont in order to prepare for Model 3 production, the company announced on Wednesday, and Reuters reports via separate sources t...

 When it was on the air,Deep Space Ninealways seemed to be overshadowed by other Star Trek spinoffs — in the words of showrunner Ira Steven Behr, it was the “bastard stepchild” ...

 AsJawbone continues to work towards a pivot, the Up device maker also continues to talentthatmay not be core to itsfuture. In the latest departure, Kelvin Kwong, who had been the Jawbone’s...

 iPhone rumor season is upon us — as if it ever ends — and the latest claims that the next iPhone will cost upwards of $1000 (at least, for the most expensive model). To be clear, tha...

 Twitter’s advertising business is stalling, but the company is trying to focus on some flashes of improvement among the service — which it’s attributing to product changes, and...

 Shopify CEO Tobias Ltke penned an open letter in response to the ongoing barrage of communication being received by himself and other Shopify employees about their continued decision to host the...

 Hair color startup Madison Reed is on a tear. Over the past year, the San Francisco-based company quietly raised $13 million in new venture funding, landed its products on the television shoppin...

 As Twitter’s growth continues to stall and increasingly become an issue, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s double-time running both Twitter and Square has become a big question mark — ...

 Code.org, which started offering an advanced placement computer science principles this school year in partnership with The College Board, couldmore than double the number of underrepresented mi...

 Twitter may have re-oriented itself and laid off part of its workforce to streamline its business, but it still doesn’t look like it is bringing in enough money to keep Wall Street happy.H...

 Twitter may have re-oriented itself and laid off part of its workforce to streamline its business, but it still doesn’t look like it is bringing in enough money to keep Wall Street happy.H...

 While delivery drones might be an excellent PR vehicle for Amazon’s Prime membership brand, they will not be an excellent vehicle for very much else — at least not in the short term....

 Nokia, once the world’s biggest handset maker, really wants the world to know that it’s a software company now. And today it made a big acquisition to that end: it is buying Comptel,...

 Xeneta, the Oslo, Norway-based startup that offers a crowdsourced price comparison service for ocean freight, has raised $12 million in Series B funding. Read More ...

 Alibaba affiliate Ant Financial announced a surprise deal to acquire international payment service MoneyGram for $880 million last month, but that looks like being just the start of its M&A ...

 Singapore sovereign wealth fund Temasek has led a $55 million investment in India’s CarTrade, a listings site for selling automobiles in the country. CarTrade didn’t confirm the iden...

HBO NOW passes 2 million subscribers, Trident Capital Cybersecurity raises a $300 million fund, Pinterest adds new visual search features and Y Combinator now takes recommendations from anyone. All th...

 As a child I always lusted after the Armatron robotic arm. Oh, the amazing things I would have done! I could have assembled miniature cars! Pinched my sister remotely! Gently squashed bugs to pa...

 Facebook is rolling out a useful new feature which puts a full weather forecast inside its mobileapp and desktop site. The feature is accessiblefrom News Feed or the mobile app’s “Mo...

 Until October, John Podesta was most known as a diehard Democratic campaigner who worked in the White House under Bill Clinton and served as the chairman of Hillary Clinton’s presidential ...

 Feeling in the mood to do a little remixing of classic pieces of art? You’re in luck: The Metropolitan Museum of Art has just made hundreds of thousands of pieces available under the Creat...

 Plagued by terror attacks, distracted by volatility from within and by neighboring civil issues, Turkey has made quite a few headlines recently. These have been happening to a country, which was...

 Intel’s latest press conference was its most well-appointed yet. The chipmaker’s CEO Brian Krzanich announced his company’s newest initiative in a tasteful if traditional space...

 An arms race in patents. A surge in high-cost patent litigation. And the emergence of unscrupulous patent trolls who use the threat of lawsuits to extort nuisance settlements. These are the cost...

 Facebook announcedin November that it would stop advertisers from targeting users by race for ads that focused on housing, employment, and credit opportunities, in response to a report that foun...

 Self-driving cars require self-driving car software, and Udacity’s helping to feed that need with its nanodegree program in the field. Now, the online education company is also making avai...

 Rothenberg assigned the firm the nameFrontier Tech Ventures in September2016 after a series of events tarnished the brand, starting with an SEC investigation, which opened in July of 2016. What ...

 Rothenberg assigned the firm the nameFrontier Tech Ventures in September2016 after a series of events tarnished the brand, starting with an SEC investigation, which opened in July of 2016. What ...

 SpaceX has a new date for its next launch – February 18, when it’s hoping to make its first launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at pad LC-39A. The first launch from the Flo...

 A password may soon be required to enter the country — the applicant’s Facebook password, that is. Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly suggested the measure to the House Homeland ...

 While creating content for kids on tablets has been largely the preserve of smash games like Clash of Clans, there is more than one way to skin a cat, and another way may be to wrap it in hardwa...

 GM-owned Cruise Automation wants you to be able to see the progress it’s making with its self-driving car tests, in a way that’s more tangible than looking at boring lists of disenga...

 Facebook’s stripped-down but speedy Lite app is growing fast and adding countries so it can keep connecting people and building the company’s business in the low-bandwidth world wher...

 Samsung has seemingly put its on-going Galaxy Note 7 issues behind it, courtesy of a couple of recalls, an expensive investigation and promises to implement stricterstandards. But the company...

 Londoners in the unfun position of needing to find a new flatmate — and lacking the easy options of friends or family to move in with — can get a little algorithmic help from a UK st...

 Pinterest is looking to continually decrease the friction from finding something they’re interested in and drilling further into newer products and ideas, and it now has another product to...

 After years of accepting tipsfrom alumni, Y Combinator has decided to open up its recommendation network to everyone. The goal is to help increase the number of startups connected to YC by allow...

Jonathan Budd sees solar power as a money-making opportunity. His new company, Powur, essentially lets people add solar to their homes with no upfront costs. While there isn’t much technology in...

 Slowly but surely, Revolut is getting closer to building an actual bank. The startup just announced the launch of current accounts — you can now get a personal IBAN, and the company plans ...

 Pinterest said today it’s launching three new products today that will point out specific elements in pictures — whether viewed live through a camera or through a typical image searc...

 Very little productivity seems to be taking place in VR on the consumer side right now, and to keep that trend alive, Hulu is updating its VR app to ensure that you can watch Seinfeld alongside ...

 Beginning with 2013’s Snowden leaks, the Obama administration publicly wrestled with various thorny issues at the intersection of technology and government surveillance. When, how, and for...

 Google is officially launching Android Wear 2.0 today — the biggest update to the company’s wearable operating system since its launch in 2014. Ifyou’re not a Wear aficionado w...

 The next time you go to your favorite restaurant or cocktail bar, talk with the manager about bookkeeping. Chances are that they’ll tell you that they waste a ton of time collecting and re...

 After months of waiting, Android Wear 2.0 is finally upon us. And it’s arrived with two ambassadors in tow – both designed by LG. The Watch Style and Sport are two sides of the same ...

 Box decided early on it wanted to be a platform on top of which which developers can build applications using Box services. Today, it introduced several new tools designed to make it easier for ...

 Android Wear watches are an interesting breed. Because Google mostly locks the operating system down, there are only so many ways the hardware manufacturers candifferentiate themselves from the ...

 LG’s two new smartwatches might be the centerpiece of today’s Android Wear 2.0 launch, but Google’s making sure to spread the love, bringing its long-awaited wearable OS update...

 As Airbnb, Uber and Snap gear up for potential, and actual, IPOs, public investors are asking a key question: Can these former startups build more than one breakout product? What will determine ...

 The smartwatch landscape is dramatically different from the one that greeted the first batch of Android Wear devices in the summer of 2014. It’s a lot harder to be bullish about the whole ...

 Subscription-based toy company Pley.com entered the Disney accelerator last year with atoy rental business that would ship out toys like Lego, American Girl or Hot Wheels, whichcouldbe played wi...

 Netflix has decided that I was wrong to think The OA ended exactly as it should’ve after its first series, and has renewed the show for a second season. We don’t know much more than ...

 Signal, the encrypted chatapplication praised by Edward Snowden, is looking to move beyond just messaging. A new beta version of the app, now in testing, has enabled voice and video calling feat...

 Signal, the encrypted chatapplication praised by Edward Snowden, is looking to move beyond messaging and into video. A new beta version of the app, now in testing, has enabled “next genera...

 Hayo’s pitch video is much better this time out. The New York-based startup had a bit of a misfire last time with a goofy and confusing promo tied to the announcement of an otherwise fairl...

 500 Startups’ last class will be presenting next week, which means the firm is already underway getting another new class up and running.The majority of the startups in the 20thbatch consi...

 Facebook gave Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren a voice late last night when her Senate colleagues attempted to silence her on the floor. As Democrats rally against many of Trump’s ca...

 Trident Capital Cybersecurity has raised $300 million to invest in new technology companies tackling security threats around the internet of things, payment technologies, identity management, pr...

 Augmented reality glasses may be stuck in the dorky phase for the foreseeable future butsmartphone-based augmented reality is only going to grow more popular moving forward. Outside of Pokemon-c...

 No surprise, really, that connected home sales experienced a surge last year. Between the seemingly exponential number of new players and driving pushes from major companies like Apple, Google a...

 Ford saw some significantyear-over-year growth in its plug-in hybrid sales in 2016, despite gas prices that on average saw historic lows throughout the year. The total number of hybrids sold by ...

 If you’ve been thinking about subscribing to The New York Times, this could be the moment to do it, since The Times just announced a special offer that also includes free access to Spotify...

 Startedin 2014, Include is TechCrunch’s diversity program, facilitating opportunities for underrepresented groups in tech to take their startups to the next stage. Applynow for TechCrunch ...

 With the surge of the smart home appliancesand gadgets, the Brilliant Control is aSan Mateo, California-based startup’s answer for theall-in-one smart home control panel. The Control is de...

 HBO’s streaming service for cord cutters, HBO NOW, has grown to over 2 million subscribers in the U.S., parent company Time Warner announcedon Wednesday, as part of the company’s qua...

 Bill Nye Saves The World, the new Netflix show that’s possibly best described as a science variety show, is arriving on the streaming service on April 21, with all 13 episodes of the show ...

 The Jawbone/Fitbit ugliness appears to be continuing on unabated, even the rival fitness companies work to deal with their own financial struggles and concerns around the health of the wearable ...

 Flipboard is releasing a big update today, which introduces “Smart Magazines” — a new way for people to find news stories and other content tied to their interests. CEO Mike Mc...

 Instead of sending thoughts and prayers to crisis victims, Facebook now lets you share food, transportation, and shelter. You know…things that will actually help. Today Facebook is expandi...

Getting to display for free in Startup Alley at Disrupt NY 2017iskind of like a dream.Well, for several startups out there, that dream is about to become a reality.We rolled out Industry Pavilions at ...

 The cloud was supposed to solve the file access problem. The trouble is that when you work for a big company, some of your files may live in the cloud and others on-prem. How do you access all o...

 Square has a new approach to retail customers it’s launching today, with abrand new Square Retailapp that complements a comprehensive backend package of tools that include complete coverag...

 Few tech categories are growing faster than cybersecurity market, as organizations of all shapes and sizes seek to keep out their data out of the hands of increasingly sophisticated hackers. To ...

 They did it for Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. Now they’ve cooked something up for Valentine’s Day. Read More ...

 European consumers will be able to make use of digital subscriptions as they travel around the 28-Member State bloc in future, after EU negotiators agreed a deal on service portability. Read Mor...

 Amazon’s Dash button is a mad genius-level exploit of consumer behavior, but one programmer decided to put its frictionless functionality to better use: Donating to the ACLU. Inspired by a...

 For the past several years,HackerOne has been helping customers build bug bounty programs to find vulnerabilities in their software, and today it hauled in a big bounty of its own — a $40 ...

 If you’re finding the vision of Trump’s visage with a smile on it generating ‘uncanny valley’ levels of unease and creepiness you’d be right. The smile is FAKE NEWS...

 CXA, a Singapore-based startup insurance brokerage — if such a thing canexist — has scooped up $25 million to expand its service thatprovide policies with a focus on wellness across ...

 It turns out that Asian dating app Paktor’s quiet acquisition of Downwas more than just a one night stand. The deal, which TechCrunch broke news of last week, was part of a number of acqui...

 Earlier this week smart TV maker Vizio settled an FTC charge for nefariously collecting ofdata from its customers, but that isn’t deterring China’s LeEco from completing a $2 billion...

 The Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, a non-profit medical research organization started by Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg (and not to be confused with the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, a limi...

Twitter rolls out updates to combat abuse on its platform, YouTube launches mobile live stream and Super Chat exits beta, Waze Carpool grows in the Bay Area, Apple Beats are expected to drop February ...

 On her personal Facebook account Tuesday, COO Sheryl Sandbergannounced an update to the company’s employee benefits, which are newlyenhanced to ease the lives of new parents and grieving e...

 While onstage at the 10th annual Crunchies Awards last night, Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson talked a bit about a new initiative to connect people with their government representatives. The program, cal...

 Amid allegations at the highest levels that all is not right with America’s voting system, it seems strange that legislation would be proposed that eliminates an organization created speci...

 Nine months ago, Kansas City, Missouri, announced that it would be investing $15 million in a public-private partnership with Cisco to make a two-mile streetcar corridor smart — like, Inte...

 Researchers at the University of California Irvine have created a chip for use in medical imaging and other applications that’s as powerful as it is tiny. The pint-size millimeter-wave rad...

 Twilio has announced in its quarterly earnings report that it has acquired Beepsend, aSweden-based SMS messaging provider. The startup has been acquired to “enhance the capabilities of the...

 With all the noise in the electric skateboard market, new boards need to have a unique or better approach to the category of “last-mile vehicles” to attract new riders. Yet, despite ...

 Though some upsides to Trump’s IT policy may emerge, a lack of internal structure in the White House is adding to the uncertainty that began on the campaign trail. The president’s te...

 Sometimes it’s best to just be blunt — to ask a company, “why is this a thing I want?” It’s an important question — perhaps the most important question in con...

 TechCrunch is holding a Mini-Meetup during Mobile World Congress, on Tuesday Feb. 28. We will hold a “Pitch-Off” of startups at the event.Grab tickets here.You can apply to pitch you...

 TechCrunch is holding a Mini-Meetup during Mobile World Congress, on Tuesday Feb. 28. We will hold a “Pitch-Off” of startups at the event.Grab tickets here.You can apply to pitch you...

 Dick Kramlich, the co-founder of NEA, is launching a new $130 million early-stage fund called Green Bay Ventures with partner Anthony Schiller. The fund is geared toward companies Series B and d...

 Google today launched a new tool for its business customers called Google Cloud Search, which will allow users to search across G Suite products, including Drive, Gmail, Sites, Calendar, Docs, C...

 Between Venmo, Square Cash and even Snapcash,no one can argue that it’s hard to send money to a friend. But it wasn’t always this way. Paper checks used to be the de facto method of ...

 Robots are invaluable tools in the workplace, but they often still require a specialist to train in anything more than elementary tasks. Rethink Robotics is helping improve that situation with a...

 The social norms of in-person communication clearly don’t exist online, and Facebook is limited by constraints of design, structure and algorithms — constraints that don’t exis...

 After expanding to the Bay Area in a pilot last September, Waze Carpool is now officially open to all in the nine counties that make up the region, and also in Northern California from Sacrament...

 Photo-printing services abound online, from dot-com-era brands like Shutterfly to services launched through the years by Apple, Amazon, Costco and Walgreens. Startups keep cropping up, too ̵...

 Don’t we all love developer conferences. Facebook just opened the (virtual) doors of its annual F8 event on April 18-19. You’ll need to apply before February 21. And if you get selec...

 Dropbox today said it has namedNicholas Jitkoff — former lead designer for Google’s Material Design team— as its VP of design.This comes on the heels of a suite of announcement...

 Twitter’s VPof diversity and inclusion Jeffrey Siminoff is leaving the company at the end of the month and its chief human resources office Renee Atwood has already left, TechCrunch has co...

 Finding free and legal images to accompany your web content has never been difficult, thanks to Creative Commons. The nonprofit organization offers copyright licenses that creators can use to sh...

 Nate MacDonald andJohn Schuster spent more than a decade in schools looking to teach students some basic principles of circuitry and engineering — but realized that just giving them a batt...

 Nate MacDonald andJohn Schuster spent more than a decade in schools looking to teach students some basic principles of circuitry and engineering — but realized that just giving them a batt...

 Last summer, Microsoft announced Surface as a Service, a alliterative program aimed and introducing Surface hardware into the enterprise through a lease that also involved subscriptions to servi...

 It’s been couple of years since we’ve heard from Moment, which makes a series of mobile phone cases and lenses for photographyenthusiasts. Today thecompany is announcing its latest i...

 Another legal challenge to a data transfer authorization mechanism relied upon by Facebook and thousands of other companies to legally move user data from the European Union to the U.S. for proc...

 London-based Airsorted wants to make the lives of Airbnb hosts easier. The startup says it now manages 1,000 homes, a four-fold increase in the past six months. Read More ...

 Major power producerAES Corp. is ramping up the use of drones with an eye toward shielding workers from industry hazards. Rather than buy all their own unmanned aerial systems, they’ve eng...

 Two French startups liked each other so much that they’re now starting to see a future working together. PayFit wants to modernize the good old paychecks in France, while Alan wants to tur...

 Netflix’s last Marvel series focused on a member of supergroup The Defenders is here, and it gives us our first extended look at the world of Danny Rand, aka Iron Fist. It’s a world ...

 Just ahead of the holidays, Apple announced the further delay of its Beats X wireless earbuds, pushing their launch back to an unspecified time in February. Meantime, the company managed to get ...

 As we carom into the future, eyes blazing with neon heat and our minds racing through millions of permutations as the Matrix embeds itself into our brain stems I think we’re all going to g...

 Los Angeles-based GOAT has raised another $25 million in funding led by Accel Partners to hire up and expand its distribution capabilities. Read More ...

 PayPal this morning is launching a new bot aimed at making it easier for Slack users to send money without ever leaving their preferred work chat platform. This is the first time PayPal has laun...

 The weather and its many faces have served as aninspiration for many musicians, who have crooned about the London fog, the Sun coming out,stormy weather, and the clothes you wearfor a season. No...

 Jon Zornow, the founder of Sewbo, made waves in September after announcing that he had built the first robot to sew a t-shirt without human intervention. Using a robot arm and an automatic sewin...

 The last time Logitech released a webcam, Obama was still president. Which, fine, to be fair, wasn’t all that long ago. It was September, in fact. But the last time before the last time it...

 Shortly after a Bloomberg report indicating that PayPal and Amazon have been discussing ways to work together on payments, Amazon unveiled a new milestone for its own payments business. The reta...

 Over the years, Druva has developed services for protecting and managing data and tools for governance and compliance. Today, it took thatidea one step further when it added ransomware and anoma...

 The 3DRudder began its peculiar life as a foot-powered mouse, designed by an architectural student looking for an alternate input for created designed in CAD programs. By the time it hit the mar...

 Connected car dongle maker Automatic started out as a consumer-focused company that sought to help give customers more insight into their driving habits, with the aim of helping to gamify things...

 Just about everyone can benefit from an extra ear listening in at the right time. And while an ear dedicated to helping me remembertheitems my housemate asked me topickup at the store last week ...

 Some car makers are experimenting with putting Alexa in their vehicles, making it possible for drivers to access Amazon’s voice assistance while driving, but Logitech has a new feature tha...

 Twitter hinted last week that it would soon more thoroughly address the issues of safety and abuse on its network, and today it has announced a series of changes to its service as a result. The ...

 WaystoCap is an e-commerce firm taking part in the current Y Combinator program.Wait…“E-commerce, meh, done to death…” I hear you say….True in part. Yes, in the U.S...

 Hootsuite, the startup and platform that lets marketers manage company’s interactionsacross a range of social media networks, is getting into the business of paid content. Today, itis anno...

 Here’s the thing about online dating: Not all of us are good at it.But if you, like me,suspect that you couldbenefit from a helping hand, a startup called Onais offering professional suppo...

 DreamHost today announced the launch of Remixer, its new website click-to-editwebsite builder for users whosimply want an easy-to-maintain website without having to touch any code. The new platf...

 Google’s video powerhouse YouTube istoday takingits latest step to compete with Facebook Live and Twitter’s Periscope to bethe go-to platform for live video streaming, specificallyof...

 Tesla’s P100D variant Model S has hit a new low – a record lowtimefor a 0 to 60 mph acceleration, that is, in a new test conducted by Motor Trend using a stock vehicle with Ludricous...

 Dutch startup Revue, which offers a tool to create and send your own personal newsletter, is launching a new product today to make it easier to discover other newsletters to subscribe to. Read M...

 Brad Stone’s new book, The Upstarts, recounts the surprising rise – and possible fall – of the sharing economy. By looking at Uber and AirBnB, Stone brings life and drama to th...

 HPEtoday announced that it has sign a global reseller agreement with Mesosphere to bring that company’s container-centric DC/OS platformto its customer’s data centers.HPE’s int...

 SnapRoute, a startup that builds open source software that enables network engineers to customize commodity networking switches and routers to meet their exact requirements, announced a $25 mill...

 French startup Keymetrics just raised $2 million from Alven Capital and Runa Capital to build the best monitoring tool for your Node.js infrastructure. The startup’s founder and CEO Alexan...

 The dark art of search engine optimization could be next in line for software-powered automation — potentially putting hundreds of thousands of ‘SEO consultants’ out of a job. ...

 Since first being unbundledback in 2015in the U.S., Alexa Voice Service — the voice-response software that powers theAmazon Echo and Echo Dot — has been one of Amazon’s chief t...

 India’s TravelTriangle, a marketplace for finding and booking travel and holidays, has closed a $10 million Series B funding round. The four-year-old companyis focused on bringing India...

 Frontline Ventures, an early-stage VC firm with offices in Dublin and London, has closed a new 60 million fund — capital it will deploy by investing in B2B software companies at the pre-se...

 Tis the season for new ride-sharing services, it seems. A day after Uber launched multi-trip bookings in India, its rival in Southeast Asia — Grab — has introduced privatebuses. R...

 Icebreaker, a new 14 million VC fund based in Helsinki, is de-cloaking today with a remit to back early-stage startups and what it calls “pre-founders”. Read More ...

 Slack‘s team communications platform — put in other words, a really fancy and well done chat room — is an integral part of many (most?) teams in tech. Even if you don’t u...

 Otto, winner of the hot new startup award at the 10th Annual Crunchies Awards, had a whirlwind year. The company came out of stealth in May 2016, revealing its plan to develop self-driving techn...

 The Silicon Valley startup scene gathered in San Francisco tonight to celebrate the 10th AnnualCrunchies Awards — and if there’s one kind of person the startup scene lionizes, itR...

 Project Include set out in 2016 to change the way the tech industry approaches diversity. Rather than identify underrepresented groups that are often the target of unfair hiring practices or the...

 It’s that time of year again. Silicon Valley has exchanged its standard hoodie-based uniform for something a bit more festive and has made its way over to the War Memorial Opera House to c...

100 companies file opposition to Trump’s immigration order, Zenefits gets a new CEO, Snap partners with BBC to get Planet Earth II on its platform and DARPA’s SideArm simplifies military d...

 As tech-savvy governmentefforts like18F and the USDS take technological strides forward, other parts of the government are abandoning modern technology altogether. Starting next month, the FBI w...

 A bill set to update online privacy laws dating back three decades just cruised through the House by unanimous vote for the second time. The bipartisan bill known as the Email Privacy Act (H.R. ...

 TV maker Vizio will pay $2.2 million to settle a lawsuit after it was shown that for years the company has been secretly collecting viewing data and selling it to third parties. The penalty may ...

 If you’re looking for a great camera with interchangeable lenses, then I would immediately advise you tolook at Canon and Sony offerings so you canstart building personal expertise. But if...

 The rise of tech startups around San Francisco has contributed to a rise in rents that’s pushing families out of the Bay Area. Crooked landlords use legal loopholes to evict families so th...

 Nearly100 companiesfiled an amicus brief stating their opposition to President Trump’simmigration ban on Feb. 5. Zendesk intendsto join those companies in a court filing this afternoon, so...

 Nearly100 companiesfiled an amicus brief stating their opposition to President Trump’simmigration ban on Feb. 5. Zendesk intendsto join those companies in a court filing this afternoon, so...

 Optometrists don’t make it easy to buy new lenses for a favorite old pair of glasses or shades. Especially shades! Who even does that? Lens replacements through an optometrist can cost mor...

 We’re hearing from sources that Kuaishou — a hot photo-sharing application in China — is planning on going public in the U.S. later this year. Sources tell us the app has more ...

 Desktop Metal has raised $45 million in a Series C round of venture funding to develop desktop 3-D printers that make metal objects. The company aims to bring metal making capabilitiestosmaller ...

 Desktop Metal has raised $45 million in a Series C round of venture funding to develop desktop 3D printers that make metal objects. The company aims to bring metal-making capabilitiestosmaller b...

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 One of Snapchat’s more cleverideas was not its disappearing messages, but that the smartphone camera should be a toy. Along those same lines, but on a lesser scale,a new app called OOO is ...

 It’s easy to forget that even with the fanciest ofmachine learning models, we still need humans in the trenches cleaning input data. Descartes Labs,a startup that combines satellite imager...

 Military-style fixed-wing drones are easy to launch, but difficult to land; DARPA aims to change that with SideArm, a portable drone-grabbing system that snatches the fast-moving craft right out...

 Google today is rolling out a change to its AMP integration in Google Search that will let you view, copy and sharethe publisher’s ownlink to the webpage in question, instead of the AMP UR...

 Google today is rolling out a change to its AMP integration in Google Search that will let you view, copy and sharethe publisher’s ownlink to the webpage in question, instead of the AMP UR...

 Fintech is rapidly being adopted in China and is spurring consumption, both domestically in China and internationally. I interviewed the CEOs of three companies in China that are using fintech t...

 Sous vide Kickstarter darling Anova announced over the weekend that Swedish appliance giant Electrolux has agreed to purchase the cooking hardware startup for $250 million. The Anova brand will ...

 Late last month, Samsung continued its prolonged Note 7 apology tour with a global press conference detailing months of internal and third-party research, coupled withplans to increase its safet...

 The International Space Station will get a first commercially funded airlock, created by supplier NanoRacks in partnership with Boeing, with a planned launch and integration timeframe of 2019. T...

 Harmonix has finally revealed when you can get your hands on Rock Band VR (virtually and physically, as it were): The game is set to debut on Oculus Rift on March 23, and fans can pre-order toda...

 Zenefits officially has a new boss in town. Jay Fulcher, the former CEO of Ooyala and Agile Software, is taking over for David Sacks, the Wall Street Journal first reported. Fulcher is the third...

 Now that we’re halfway through winter, what better time to unveil a pair of smart skis? The prototype is the product of a collaboration between two French companies — PIQ and Rossign...

 At last year’s Google I/O developer conference, Googleintroduced a new Awareness API that would allow for smarter applications that could understand where you were, what you were doing, wh...

 Super Bowl LI may have made history as the first Big Game to go into overtime, but that may not have translated into record ratings, or, as it turns out, record social media engagement, either. ...

After getting its proposed merger with O2 blocked by regulators last year, today Three UK announced another strategy for increasing its presence in the market, specifically by growing spectrum capacit...

 The Moto Z might not have transformed the smartphone world yet, but Motorola’s been doing a solid job generating some interest around its modular smartphone by opening the system up to all...

 War. Famine. Drought. Imagine Dragons. The world is full of horror and what better way to assuage that grief then by watching this M&M and Skittles sorting machine do its amazing work in rea...

 It was only a year ago that many in the Venture Capital industry were predicting that “winter was coming” and to be fair the author of this post was chief amongst them. Yet as we ent...

 You’re not losing a CubeSensor. You’re gaining a Klevio! Or something. CubeSensors, the company created by Ales Spetic, has folded itself into a wireless access company called Klevio...

 This is the new BlackBerry – software licensing powerhouse. With its latest signing, the once dominant smartphone maker now blankets the globe with its manufacturing deals, a completion of...

 Google Maps is getting an upgrade today aimed at putting the information you need most oftenwithin easier reach in the app’s interface. With a swipe up from the home screen, you’ll n...

 Valve’s Portal series is one of the more beloved in PC gaming, thanks to its debut of unique puzzle mechanics to inject some fresh life in the tired first-person action genre. The game loo...

 Here’s some unusual news:the Cloud Native Compute Foundation (CNCF) today announced that it has acquired the RethinkDB copyright and assets, including its code, and contributed it to The L...

 Attention, startups. The day you’ve been waiting for has finally arrived! Registration is now open for startups looking to display in Startup Alley or Hardware Alley at Disrupt NY 2017, an...

 Netflix is previewing the follow-up season to one of its most surprising and appealing hits, the eerie and bizarre Stranger Things. Stranger Things 2 isn’t going to land until Halloween 20...

 After many months of speculation about a potential acquisition by IBM or private equity firms, today, finally some official news from point-of-sale payments company Revel Systems. The company an...

 Over Black History Month TechCrunch is working with the Breaking Into Startups Podcast to share stories of innovators making a difference. The podcast is a platform that features inspiring stori...

 Uber is making moves to expand the scope of its flying car experiment – the company just hired NASA engineer Mark Moore, who worked at the federal agency as an advanced aircraft engineer a...

 Snapchat may be facingslowingusergrowth, and relativelyno revenues, outside of the U.S. at the moment, but it is also tapping the international opportunity in other ways. Today, its IPO-bound pa...

 Stratoscale, a startup that gives enterprises AWS-compatible environments inside their data centers, has acquired Tesora, a database-as-a-service company that runs on top of the OpenStack platfo...

 Uber is introducing hire cars in a new pilot program in India. That’s hire cars staffed with a driver who handlesmultiple journeys, not hire carsthat require customers to drive themselves....

 The first round of the French presidential election is due to be held in April. So it’s no coincidence that Google and Facebook are stepping up efforts locally to combat the circulation of...

 N26 is iterating at an incredible pace these days with a ton of new product features and geographical expansions to build the most modern bank in Europe. But the new features always follow the s...

 Some chopping and changing is afoot in the world of payments in Europe. Today, Klarna, the payments startup out of Sweden, confirmed that it has acquired BillPay, a payments company based inGerm...

 Lenovo’s Yoga line has offered some of the most innovative tablet form factors around, from modular projectors to digitizing pads of paper. The A12 borrows the latter from its predecessor ...

 In a tradition that’s become almost as storied as the game itself, companies spent big dollars to push big stars and — this year more than ever — a more political agenda at the...

 Oppo isnot a namethat is anything like as familiar as Apple, Xiaomi or Huawei worldwide, but there’s further proof that it is most definitely oneto watch, according the findings of a new r...

 “We have the opportunity to make the new generation the healthiest generation in history” – Alex Gorsky, CEO, Johnson & Johnson Read More ...

 Although Amazon ran a Super Bowl adfor Echo, its deliverydrones stole the show. The e-commerce titan’sSuper Bowl spotfeatured a woman and a mansitting on a couch with a bowl of Doritos bet...

 Everyone, even our new president, seems to be talking about “fake news” — just look at how Google searches have spiked over the past few months. But what does fake news actuall...

After more than a decade of being in the popular tech lexicon, people kind of get the idea of “the cloud,” but most probably only understand a bit ofit. That’s because the cloud isn&...

 Twitter and other tech companies, including Netflix, Salesforce, Uber, Pinterest, Airbnb and AppNexus, plan to file an amicus brief tonight voicing opposition to President Trump’s executiv...

 Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and other tech companies filed an amicus brief tonight voicing opposition to President Trump’s executive order on immigration on the grounds that it is ...

 Happy Black History Month! Tech companies aren’t the best with diversity and inclusion, with many of the big playersemploying very few black people. Facebook, for example, is just 2% black...

 There were300 drones dancing behind Lady Gaga during the Super Bowl halftime show. They’re called Shooting Stars and were previously used in a holiday show at Disney World. These hundreds ...

 “Category kings,” defined as market-share leaders in particular business sectors, often wind up creating the majority of the market value relative to their competition. This advantag...

 Messaging apps can amassa lot of user data over time including everything from personal photos and videos users have sharedto records of who they talk to most, where they’ve been, and what...

 When it comes to obtaining financing to grow your app or game business, there are several options from which to choose that take a debt-based approach, rather than giving away equity in your bus...

 In what is being billed as a “multi-million pound” acquisition, San Francisco-headquartered Nextdoor is purchasing the “assets” of U.K. local social network Streetlife. R...

 Everywhere I look, I see the magic number: 3%. On the right, a whole quasi-militia movement is named that. On the left, activists report “it takes 3.5% of a population engaged in sustained...

 If you’re an average American, your pension fund is likely backing venture capital funds — and subsidizing our massages, dinners and Uber rides. Pension funds are a huge source of ca...

 A U.S. judge has ordered Google to hand over emails stored outside the country in order to comply with an FBI search warrant. The warrant in question pertains to a domestic fraud probe. Read Mor...

 It is critically important for the founders of a company to intimately understand the company’s key performance indicators (KPIs). Founders cannot hope to grow a company in any meaningful ...

 The Gillmor Gang — Michael Arrington, Dan Farber, Doc Searls, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor.Recorded live Friday, February 3, 2017. Celebrity CEOs, does the Startup Valley have a path for...

 Elon Musk only noted very briefly that there had been “progress” on the matter of the immigration order made during his meeting with Donald Trump’s economics advisory council o...

Travis Kalanick quits the Trump advisory board, Domino’s updates its Facebook Messenger bot in time for the Super Bowl, GoPro and Amazon have a rough day on Wall Street and Medium plans to monet...

 President Trump’s executive order banning travelers from seven countries could be over just one chaotic week after its hasty introduction. That’s because a federal judge from Seattle...

 It beganshortly after lunch. The texts appeared,first a trickle. It wasn’t long beforethe deluge began in earnest. “A friend* added you on ChitChat,” they said. “Tap here...

 After failing to secure another round of funding and shutting down my startup, Katch, I’ve been thinking about candor. While failure isn’t a unique story in our industry, talking abo...

 Connections between the Obaman administration and Silicon Valley abound, but particularly for Josh Kushner. The latest? Kushner’s venture firm Thrive Capital just hired Josh Miller,a membe...

 The FCC giveth, and the FCC taketh away… from itself. Chairman Ajit Pai has ordered the revocation of several papers and findings issued by the Commission before the turnover to the new ad...

 Make way for one morepivot from Jawbone. The fitness band maker thatoriginally started out in headsets and later made speakers, has abandoned selling and supporting consumer hardware following a...

 Greenlight, a three-year-old, Atlanta, Ga.-based startup is trying to solve a problem that any parent of an elementary or junior high school student can well understand: how to give kids money w...

 There’s a new FCC in town and it isn’t wasting any time. Mobile carriers can rest easy today knowing that the Federal Communications Commission is no longer pursuing an investigation...

 Ford opened a location that it’s calling the FordHub in the Westfield World Trade Center mall this week — but you won’t be able to buy any cars there. Instead, the locationincl...

 Conductor is launching a new mobile app that co-founder and CEO Seth Besmertnik described as a way to get quick access to “the voice of the customer.” The New York-based company star...

 Unlike the decline of the media in the west brought about by smartphones and the internet, the situation in India could not be more different. The value of the Indian newspaper industry has grow...

 Snap Inc. files for its +$25 billion IPO, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick quitsTrump’s advisory council and the tech industry reacts to Trump’s immigration ban. These are the biggest tech s...

 Google will sell its Terra Bella business, which includes a group of SkySat Earth imaging satellites, to Planet Labs, the companies confirmedon Friday after TechCrunch’s Ingrid Lunden firs...

 Good riddance to one of the worst places to socialize on the internet. Amazon-owned IMDb announced today it will be closing down its discussion board later this month, and turning off the abilit...

 While any Mac user can play with GarageBand and iMovie for free, it has been quite expensive if you wanted to move to pro apps — especially if you’re a student. Apple released a new ...

 If you’re worried about the dissolution of western democracy as we know it, worry no more. There’s no safer place to be than by the side of Peter Thiel, the entrepreneurial scamp who...

 Slowing growth, huge losses, and no shareholder control could make Snap Inc’s IPO a perilous gamble for investors. What it does have going for it is an addicted user base, fast-growing rev...

 Slowing growth, huge losses and no shareholder control could make Snap Inc.’s IPO a perilous gamble for investors. What it does have going for it is an addicted user base, fast-growing rev...

 Facebook may be distancing itself from location-sharing between friends in its own app, but Facebook-owned WhatsApp appears tomoving inthis direction. A new feature spotted in the beta version o...

 I’ve been reading a lot of Neil Postman lately. It’s been one of those years and I’m writing a book about fake news. Postman, the nicest guy in cultural criticism, was a folksy...

 Hulu just released a trailer for its adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, a science fiction tale in which the U.S. government has been toppled by a theocratic authori...

 Domino’s is about to put itsordering bot, Dom, to a big test. Just ahead ofSuper Bowl weekend, the pizza chain is rolling out the ability to order off its full menu via Facebook Messenger ...

 Car makers are increasingly making data connections the default in new vehicles, and it’s having an impact in terms of usage: Chevrolet released numbers today that show in-car use of its O...

 Earlier this week, word got out that LG’s fancy new UltraFine 5K Display were having some serious issues, becoming “become unstable” and “unusable” when placed near...

 PlayStation 4’s next big software update is going out now to beta testers, and it adds a lot for owners of the console to get excited about. There’s support for external USB HDDs, wh...

 The dating game sure is tough to maintain. Zurich-based dating app Blinq has been acquired by a Swiss outdoor advertising firm, APG|SGA, with the latter coveting the team’s experience...

Snap files publicly for its massive IPO, Uber will pause its service in Taiwan starting February 12th, Pokmon GO crosses $1 billion in revenue, Facebook lets you search images by content and Licking C...

 Medium CEO Ev Williams announced today at Upfront Summit that his company will launch a consumer subscription product, with the first version coming this quarter. This could help develop an addi...

 Tesla CEO Elon Musk issued a statement about his participation in Donald Trump’s economic advisory council, and a scheduled meeting of the group tomorrow. Musk said that he and others on t...

 Drone racing as a sport is taking off, with teams, sponsors and television networks all getting in on the action of this developing scene. There’s a professional drone racing league, live ...

 Drone racing as a sport is taking off, with teams, sponsors and television networks all getting in on the action of this developing scene. There’s a professional drone racing league, live ...

 Snapchat parent Snap Inc. has finally revealed its long-awaited IPO filing. The social messaging company, which plans to go public in early March, just shared details about its growth trajectory...

 WhatsApp proved itself to be the most YOLO-crypto company of 2016 when it turned on end-to-end encryption by default last April for its more than 1billion users. (Facebook, WhatsApp’s pare...

 Most of today’s Snap coverage will be about its revenue and daily average usage numbers, butthere was one small tidbit that emerged which willmean big business forthe company’s cloud...

 Now that Snap is revealing its financial guts to the world in its filing for its initial public offering, we’re getting a small glimpse at how much the company is paying to acquire startup...

 Snapchat was flying high in early 2016, but the launch of direct competitor Instagram Stories coincided with a massive drop in how fast Snapchat was growing, judging by new stats in its IPO fili...

 Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan and businessman Dan Gilbert are set to announce Microsoft is moving downtown from the suburbs. TechCrunch has confirmed the move with several trusted sources and learne...

 Ousted Snapchat early employee Reggie Brown was paid $157.5 million in a settlement in September 2014 to close off a 2013 lawsuit he had brought against other co-founders Evan Spiegel and Bobby ...

 Snap Inc., the parent company of Snapchat and Spectacles, included in its filing to go public a brief tidbit on diversity.Unlike tech companies like Apple, Google, Twitter, Facebook and several ...

 Snapchat, which filed for its initial public offering today, sees potential risks to its business in cybersecurity and international regulation, particularly in China and the European Union.Secu...

 Snap, Inc. just released its IPO and there’s a lot to take away, but from a hardware perspective there’s not much present – which is actually telling in itself. The S-1 filing ...

 Snapchat parent Snap Inc. wanted to presenta growing and and highly engageduser base today in its bid to go public. But there are reasons for concern, especially when you look more closely at us...

 Evan Spiegel’s letter to investors would fit in a 10 second snap. The CEO’s penchant for minimalist design seems to have influenced the opening statement in today’s Snap Inc S-...

 Uber CEO Travis Kalanick has removed himself from Donald Trump’s economic advisory group, as first reported byboth Recode and the New York Times, and confirmed by TechCrunch. Kalanick was ...

 It’s here! Snap— which confidentially filed for its IPO late last year — has released its public filing through the Securities and Exchange Commission. This is another incremen...

 Progressive Web Apps, which are basically sophisticated web apps that are able to use features like push notifications and a local cache to give users a native-like experience, have been on Goog...

 When Amazon announced its earnings for its Amazon Web Services cloud division on Thursday, the results were hardly surprising. While AWS might not have the eye-popping growth percentagesof its r...

 GoPro today reported its fourth quarter and year-end earning results. And they weren’t good. The stock is currently falling like a recalled GoPro Karma drone. It’s down 10% in after-...

 Mixed facesinSeattle today as Amazon delivered itsQ4 2016 earnings. The e-commerce company reported lower than expected revenue of $43.74with better than expectedearnings per share of $1.54. Exp...

 Y Combinator’s recent mashup with the American Civil Liberties Union has raised some questions and concerns. The main concerns are around how YC and Silicon Valley influences will mix with...

 Normally, if the creators of an app claimed that it could look inside things and tell you their constituent parts, I would tell you to go peddle your snake oil elsewhere. But this app is from ve...

 The 10th Annual Crunchies Awards show is less than a week away, and it’s finally time to formally introduce you to the companies vying for Best Startup in 2016. Obviously, with these compa...

 As the dust settles from yesterday’s $500 million verdict against Oculus VR and Facebook, Oculus CTO John Carmack still has some things he wants to get off his chest. “Being sued suc...

 Elemeno Healthstarted building something akin to a personal assistant for hospital staff while in Y Combinator last summer. Ithelps hospitals gather best practices, checklists and videos doctors...

 The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) recently published a proposed rule to require all new vehicles to have vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication capabilities. It’s ...

 Startup ecosystems are taking root across the country, and they’re all looking to copy the formula Silicon Valley made so successful. While these startup ecosystems are growing, nothing co...

 Plex is getting voice-activated. The popular media player software maker just launched voice control through a newPlex Skill for Alexa-powered devices. That means you can ask Alexa via your conn...

 Maybe you enjoy sketching as a hobby, but you’re not so crazy about the work that goes into colouring in your work, or you’re just lacking in the talent department when it comes to t...

 Billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban spoke on stage at the Upfront Summit in Los Angeles on Thursday, where he voiced concern about the lack of tech IPOs recently. “I don’t understand...

 Applications for Startup Battlefield at Disrupt NY are now openand due on February 18. That’s just over two weeks away. We’re searching for new, up-and-coming startups to launch and ...

 Mozilla’s push to grow beyond browsers hit a major hurdle this week as the Firefox-maker dissolved its Connected Devices initiative, laying off what CNET reports as around 50 people in the...

 Mozilla’s push to grow beyond browsers hit a major hurdle this week as the Firefox-maker dissolved its Connected Devices initiative, laying off what CNET reports as around 50 people in the...

 UK-based indie free-to-play mobile games developer studio, Hutch, is gearing up to step on the gas and strap a bunch more players into its clutch of racing themed titles, fueled by a $5.5M expan...

 Spotify — the music streaming company with over 100million users (40 million of them paying) — has long been seen asone of the more likely candidates among larger tech startups to go...

 Microsoft launched a major update to Outlook for iOS today that, for the first time, brings add-ins to a mobile version of Outlook. While Microsoft prefers the word “add-ins,” these ...

 Apple shareholder Tony Maldonado is calling on Apple again to implement an “accelerated recruitment policy” in order to increase diversity at the senior management level and board of...

 Clarifai — a startup that gives companies and developers a way to implement visual search into their products — said today it was hiring former Google Brain developerAndrea Frome as ...

 Some Snap Inc stats have leaked ahead of its expected IPO filing today, and they show strong progress in earning money, but slowed user growth. The Information (paywalled) reports that Snapchat ...

 What’s the best way to get on the new president’s good side if you’re a tech company? Open a manufacturing plant in the States. Or at the very least, have someone report that y...

 Propulse Analytics is launching today with $1.4 million in seed financing to equip retailers with deep learning for product recommendations. Backed by Wobemail Online Services LLP andStradigi Ve...

 Microsoft isn’t ending its general opposition to Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration from last week, but it is more formally requesting the granting of immediate exceptions...

 There’s a bit of confusion over how cable operator Comcast will treat Roku devices on its network, in terms of thepricing. As Variety spotted when the new XfinityTV app went live earlier t...

 Last week,we learned that Dropcam cofounder Greg Duffy hasheaded over to Apple. Today, Felicis Ventures, the early-stage venture firm, is disclosing it has brought aboard Dropcam’s other c...

 IDrive is probably best known for its consumer and small business backup service, but the company has also long offered Vault, an enterprise version of its software and a matching hardware appli...

 MapAnything, a software service built on top of Salesforce for developinglocation-based workflows, announced a $33.1 million Series B funding round today.The round was led by Columbus Nova with ...

 Nintendo is selling a heck of a lot of NES Classics, its tiny retro Nintendo Entertainment System gadget with built-in games. The company revealed that it has sold more than 1.5 million to date,...

 Rocket Internet, the publicly-listed German company builder and investor, has quietly launched a new startup in Berlin called Pflegetiger (“care tiger”), joining a host of other upst...

 Apple is already using an ARM-based chip in the latest MacBook Pro with a Touch Bar and Touch ID sensor. According to a new report from Bloomberg, the company could go one step further and use t...

 In another interesting example of what happens when you don’t manage your backups correctly, the Licking County government offices, including the police force, have been shut down by ranso...

 Social media plays a large role in politics today, from the election of Donald Trump to those now resisting his policies, such as through the grassroots-born movement that was the Women’s ...

 Faraday Future is scaling back some of its ambitions, according to Reuters, taking its planed product portfolio from seven electric vehicles to just two, and also reducing the size of its planne...

 Initially usedto improve the experience forvisually impaired members of the Facebook community, the company’sLumos computer vision platform is now powering image content search for all use...

 August’s Smart Lock gets a bit more useful today, thanks to newfound integration with connected home app, Wink. The app is already compatible with a number of third-party smart home device...

 Disruptor Beamhas raised another $8.5 million to turn some of the best-known entertainment franchises into mobile games. It released its first title, Game of Thrones Ascent, in 2013, with Star T...

Just when you thought it was safe to slip your card in a slot ATM skimmers have gotten just a bit smarter. New devices called Shimmers can now read your card number and, in certain instances, access y...

 You have approximately four days to apply to the pitch-offs in D.C. and Miami. I tell you this because inevitably, at every single meetup, some founder walks up and asks if they can pitch becaus...

 Ahead of 2020’s Summer Olympic games in Tokyo, Japan will be asking members of the public to donate old phones and appliances, as it works to pull together enough material for the 5,000 br...

 The venture arm of Caterpillar Inc., a majormanufacturer of construction and mining equipment, has invested in San Francisco drone tech startup Airware. Rather than make its own unmanned aerial ...

 Here’s one more app you can delete from your iPhone: that QR code and barcode scanner you only occasionallyuse. With an update rolling out today, Google’s Chrome mobilebrowser can do...

 That’s kind of the thing about pilot programs – they don’t always result in a successful launch. Less than a year after beginning testing at select locations in the San Francis...

 European antitrust regulators have opened an investigation into the Steam games distribution platform operator, Valve, and five PC games publishers to determine whether geo-blocking agreements b...

 I was excited by the promise of Xnor.ai and its technique that drastically reduces the computing power necessary to perform complex operations like computer vision. Seems I wasn’t the only...

 While messaging app watchers are waiting for Snap Inc. to announce its IPO, another apphas appointed a new CEO. Viber — the messaging app that was acquired by Rakuten in 2014— has an...

 Sony’s PlayStationbusiness was one of afew bright spots from its latest financial report, which was over-shadowedby a near-billion dollar write-down for its film business. The Japanese tec...

 Uber issuspending its service in Taiwan following an ongoing stand-off with the government. The ride-sharing firm confirmed in a blog post that its service will be “paused” from Febr...

 Twitter isthe primary communication platform for U.S. President Trump, but that hasn’t stopped staff of the social media company from donating to one of the most prominent organizations op...

 Grab is upping its battle against Uber in Southeast Asia by announcing a flurry of new initiatives in Indonesia, the region’s largest economy and world’s fourth most populous country...

Kickstarter acquires video streaming company Huzza, Amazon is planning to build a $1.5 billion air cargo hub and MIT creates a robot with a soft touch. All this on Crunch Report. Read More ...

 Pokmon Go was 2016’s rocket ship — it broke download records and it racedto $500 million in revenue quicker than any app in history. Now it won yet another accolade,the fastest game ...

 Salesforce has made another acquisition that underscores how the CRM and cloud software giant is looking to sellmore services to its customers that complement the softwarethey are already buying...

 If you ask a mapping app for walking directions from point A to point B, it’ll do its best, but what if you happen to be in a wheelchair? The apps don’t have information on curb cuts...

 GoldenKey, which was previously known as SoloPro, wants to change how real estate agents and their clients do business. Typically, as a buyer or seller, you work with one agent, who then gets a ...

 Getting your taxes done ismiserable. It’s complicated, time-consuming and costly — particularly for people whose financial situation requires them to seek help from tax professionals...

 Sometimes when you’re looking at your Instagram selects and you can’t quite decide between a few options, or when you want to post something from your trip but also don’t want ...

 If you’ve ever seen a bat in flight, you know how impressive their aerial acrobatics can be — so impressive that we have yet to successfully imitate it the way we have with locomotio...

 Facebook will both pay video makers up front and through ad revenue sharing to get their content into its News Feed and video tab. And despite reports that it’s been in talks with TV studi...

 Reddit has banned the r/altright subreddit for “the proliferation of personal and confidential information.” That’s a rather clinical way of describing what’s often calle...

 Facebook’s push for video goes well beyond the News Feed. On today’s earnings call, Mark Zuckerberg said 400 million people are making audio and video calls each month, up swiftly fr...

 One of the biggestmisconceptions about artificial intelligence is the belief that today’s AIspossess generalized intelligence. We are really good atleveraging large datasets to accomplishs...

 ClearMotion, a company that’s building an alternative chassis for vehicle makers which replaces traditional physical shock absorbers with digital, software-driven adaptive actuators, has r...

 Facebook had another strong quarter in Q4 2016, earning $8.81 billion in revenue and $1.41 EPS. It pulled that from 1.86 billion monthly users, up 3.91% this quarter, or 70 million users, from 1...

 Online lending firm SoFiannounced today that it has acquiredZenbanx, a startup that offers up banking, debit, payments and money transfer services to users online and through a mobile app. Theco...

 ForeScout has filed confidentially for an IPO, TechCrunch has confirmed. The security company has submitted its S-1 and will be unveiling it to the public closer to its debut. The IPO is likely ...

 Facebook’s acquisition of Oculus just became a half billion more expensive. A jury in Dallas, Texas has awarded ZeniMax Media $500 millionafter finding that Palmer Luckey (and by extension...

 What does Brexit mean for UK data protection rules? Likely mirroring the major part of EU data protection law, according to UK digital minister Matt Hancock, who was giving evidence to a House o...

 The hot air around young and savvy tech startups is not going anywhere, despite dark prophecies that saw 2016 as the “winter is coming” year. Snapchat and Airbnb are warming up on th...

 Nintendo worried many a gamer two weeks ago with its announcement that online play on its new console, the Switch, would be a paid service. But at least the damage is reasonable: Nintendo Presid...

 French startup Yomoni is a promising fintech startup operating robo-advisors. It means that you can give the company some of your savings, and the startup automatically manages a portfolio for y...

 Slack took a big step in its evolution as a startup yesterday when it launched Slack Enterprise Grid, the enterprise version of its popular messaging platform.For Slack to continue its growth tr...

 Slack took a big step in its evolution as a startup yesterday when it launched Slack Enterprise Grid, the enterprise version of its popular messaging platform.For Slack to continue its growth tr...

 Alphabet subsidiary Boston Dynamics doesn’t have much to prove when it comes to producing the robots of your nightmares. Previous iterations of the company’s prototypes have been kic...

 Everyone can recognize great interior design. But it’s much harder to actually design a space and pick out all the items you need to make it look great. Hutch, a Los Angeles-based startup,...

 Sheryl Sandberg has been in the news lately for her opposition to the global gag ruleand her more recent comments on Trump’s highly controversial and discriminatory immigration ban. Today ...

 A new trends report published by the law firm Cooley report suggests that theventure marketremains largely healthy for now. In the fourth quarter, for example, Cooley handled 187 “disclosa...

 In tech, we often think a few steps further down the road. But sometimes, the present needs some serious addressing. This is one of those times.As we draw closer to the 10th Annual Crunchies Awa...

 Trying and failing to be clever on social media? Want your friends to think you’re naturally funny? A new app calledCapGenius aims to help. This fun little addition to your iPhone keyboard...

 At the recent World Economic Forum in Davos, one of the big topics of conversation was education. Despite billions poured into programmes in developing countries to educate booming populations, ...

 Waymo’s self-driving software had far fewer disengagements in 2016 than it did in 2015 in the state of California, despite a big increase in the number of miles driven overall. The Califor...

 New York State attorney general Eric Schneiderman isn’t mincing words in his State Super Court lawsuit against Charter’s Spectrum cable, the ISP formerly known as Time Warner Cable. ...

 Google announced several new products today aimed at luring IT pros who are using Windows in their data centers to the Google Cloud Platform. With that in mind, Google introduced support for Mic...

 iPhone 7 sales put Apple back on top as the world’s top smartphone vendor in the fourth quarter, according to a new report from Strategy Analytics, which attributed at least some of the gr...

 DigitalBridge is a U.K. startup based in Manchester and backed by John Lewis via the 150 year-old apartment store’s accelerator. The company is taking a different and, on the surface at le...

 Snap, Inc. is working on an updated version of its in-app Snapchat lensesthat would be able to recognize landscapes as well as faces, according to The Information, and intelligently overlay augm...

 Twitter’s employee resource group for African-Americans, Blackbirds, is launching a Twitter bot for Black History Month. The group is the first ERG at Twitter to use the tool, which Twitte...

 Reserve, a startup offering table and customer management tools for restaurants, is announcing that it has raised $10 million in Series B funding. When the company first launched in 2014, it bil...

 Facebook is testing a new section on mobile called “Discover People,” which encourages users to introduce themselves by updating their profile, then scroll through a list of upcoming...

 Facebook is rolling outa new section on mobile called “Discover People,” which encourages users to introduce themselves by updating their profile, then scroll through a list of upcom...

 Now that we’ve collectively signed up for billions of dollars of unused SaaS subscriptions it’s time to subscribed to a tool that helps us manage those subscriptions. Enter Cardlife,...

 Emojis — not just a fun way to avoid writing actual words, but also an opportunity for ?Well, Inmoji, a startupthat createsemoji-focused marketing campaigns, is announcing that it has rais...

 For most, wearables are little more than pedometers – ways of gauging how much one’s moved during the day and, hopefully, challenging them to do more in the future. It’s one of...

 WinkBeds, a direct-to-consumer mattress company that competes with other mattress startups like Casper and Tufts &Needle, is launching a mattress with built-in heating and cooling functional...

 The GoPro Karma drone is now available for purchase. The camera maker today announced the general availability of the drone and at writing, it’s available from GoPro.com, and other retaile...

 Amazon is building one of the largest internal logistics and shipping businesses in the world, and if you needed any more evidence this was the case, the company just revealed that it’s in...

 Tesla has officially changed its name to Tesla, Inc., from its previous official corporate title of Tesla Motors, Inc. The name change likely reflects the expanded nature of its business now tha...

 Teens and Snapchat? Instagram earning money finally? The impact of the fake news scandal? These are what we wish Facebook would talk about on today’s Q4 earnings call. Facebook’s bus...

 Popular video app Flipagram is getting acquired by Chinese company Toutiao for an undisclosed amount. Flipagram was once a social media darling but the startup has been quiet recently. Flipagram...

 Ripple – to some its delicious fortified wine. To others, one of the more accessible Grateful Dead tracks. To others still, it’s a Silicon Valley startup that makes milk out of peas....

 SpaceX just shared some promising news for those eager to see the private space company achieve its goal of re-flying a rocket it recovered from an earlier mission: It has succeeded in running a...

 Facebook is working on a video-focused app aimed at set-top boxes including Apple TV (and different entirely from its existing offering on Roku, which is essentially a variation on its current m...

 The abolition of mobile roaming charges across the European Union by the middle of this year looks almost certain now, after the region’s executive body, parliament and representatives of ...

 Some more consolidation is afoot in the gamingindustry.Take-Two Interactive, the games maker behind big titles likeGrand Theft Auto, Civilization and BioShock that once rebuffed a $2 billion acq...

 Some more consolidation is afoot in the gamingindustry.Take-Two Interactive, the games maker behind big titles likeGrand Theft Auto, Civilization and BioShock that once rebuffed a $2 billion acq...

Pinterest is adding another piece to its arsenal of advertising services, opening up search advertising to its partners and with companies advertising through the Kenshoo marketing suite. With Pintere...

 Couple of pieces of news out of Kickstarter headquarters this morning. First, the crowdfunding service has announced the acquisition of Canadian video streaming startup Huzza. The purchase follo...

 Google has won a long-standing battle in Japanthat drew parallels with Europe’s “right to be forgotten” ruling. The Japanese Supreme Court today dismissed four cases against th...

 MIT’s latest robot looks a bit like one of those claw machines you find at the front of an arcade, only instead of metal, the claws are made of a clear, membranous substance. And instead o...

 Khosla Ventures- and Y Combinator-backed open source Git repository GitLab is currently offline after suffering what appears to be a major backup restoration failure after accidentally deleting ...

 Seoul-based startupAIM has closed $1.6 million in seed funding to bring its artificial intelligence-poweredapp for financial investments to market in Korea, and potentially other parts of Asia. ...

 Samsung isn’t launching its upcoming Galaxy S8 flagship smartphone at Mobile World Congress, but it looks like the Korean firm will unveil a new tablet at the Barcelona show.Today, Samsung...

We are joined by the CEO of Product Hunt, which was just acquired by AngelList, the ACLU enrolls in Y Combinator, Daimler builds a self-driving car for Uber and top poker players lose to an AI develop...

 Criminal justice reform at the federal level is kind of up in the air, but local jurisdictions around the country are continuing to step up to ensure that we move in the right direction. And loc...

 If you’re willing to hunt for flawswithinits vast array of software and services, Google’s happy to pay up. Over the course of its2016 Vulnerability Rewards Program, the company paid...

 ForeScout has filed confidentially for an IPO, TechCrunch has confirmed. The security company has submitted its S-1 and will be unveiling it to the public closer to its debut. The IPO is likely ...

 ForesScout has filed confidentially for an IPO, TechCrunch has confirmed. The security company has submitted its S-1 and will be unveiling it to the public closer to its debut. The IPO is likely...

 Prominent venture firm Sequoia Capital has famously handled well its transitions from one powerful team of investors to the next. Founder Don Valentine handed the reins over to Doug Leone and Mi...

 Several tech leaders spoke out against President Trump’s executive order to ban immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries over the weekend. Sheryl Sandberg has now leaned i...

 The devices we’re sending into space are getting smaller and lighter, which means there’s less room for bulky and static components. Flexibility and compactness are coming into vogue...

 Online real estate serviceKnockis finishing up a$32 million Series A roundled byRRE Ventures. The new company, founded by former Trulia executives, promises to handle the details of home sales i...

 Online real estate serviceKnockis finishing up a$32 million Series A roundled byRRE Ventures. The new company, founded by former Trulia executives, promises to handle the details of home sales i...

 The Italian company that makes Vespa scooters and Moto Guzzi motorcycles, Piaggio, revealed its newest development this week, a personal delivery device or “cargo robot,” called the ...

 Piaggio, the Italian company that makes Vespa scooters and Moto Guzzi motorcycles, revealed its newest development this week: a personal delivery device or “cargo robot,” called the ...

 When you shell out around $1,000 for a monitor, it ought to ship with a minimal set of expectations. Like, say, being able to use the thing within arm’s reach of a router. LG’s Ultra...

 When you shell out around $1,000 for a monitor, it ought to ship with a minimal set of expectations. Like, say, being able to use the thing within arm’s reach of a router. LG’s Ultra...

 Apple just released its firstquarterly earnings report of the new year, and the company was quick to share that it wasa banner quarter for the company’s Services segment which topped $7.17...

 Withanother big holiday quarter behind it, Apple sawrevenues fromits flagship iPhone product rise to $54.4 billion, up from$51.6 billion a year earlier. That revenue growth came as Apple reporte...

 Apple’s latest quarter surpassed earnings expectations, sending the stock up about 3% in initial after-hours trading.Its fiscal first quarter of 2017 saw recordearnings of $3.36 per share,...

 When CNN picked up Casey Neistat’s Beme back in November of last year, it announced that the social video sharing app would go the way of the dodo by the end of January 2017. Now here we s...

 It looks like Apple’s big bet on building an array of services like iCloud, Apple Music and the App Store is starting to be the big business the company hoped it would be. Wall Street and ...

 Following a chaotic, divisive first week, President Trump is set to announce his pick for the Supreme Court tonight. Not one for tradition, the White House will broadcast the nomination on Faceb...

 For many U.S. startups and their foreign-born employees, a kind of back-up plan may be starting to sound like a good idea right about now. Yesterday, White House press secretary Sean Spicer conf...

 Comcast’s Xfinity TV application launched into beta today on Roku, offering bothlive and on-demand programming, including local broadcast stations as well aspublic access and government ch...

 While it seems “smart” everything is in full swing, the full realization of the Internet of Things is in essence still on standby mode. Homes are smarter than ever and VR, AR, person...

 This was all inevitable, of course. Fitbit has made its plans for Coin clear since it bought the mobile payment company back in May of last year. At the time, the wearable maker announced that i...

 UK property listings site Zoopla is splashing out 120 million in cash (~$150M) on a big purchase of its own — announcing its intention today to acquire real estate analytics firm Hometrack...

 Tact, the AI-driven sales tool that uses software smarts to simplify sales tasks, today announced integration with the newly announced Slack enterprise product, Slack Enterprise Grid. Tact, whic...

 Facebook is prioritizing “authentic” content in News Feed with a ranking algorithm change that detects and promotes content “that people consider genuine, and not misleading, s...

 Chevrolet is putting its electrified bets on the Bolt EV, asthe company announced today that it’s ending production of the Spark EV, the compact car with a relatively meager 82 miles of el...

 Google today announced that the code for Chrome for iOS is now part of its Chromium open source project. On iOS, Chrome has to use Apple’s WebKit rendering engine instead of Google’s...

 Donald Trump’s pick for U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao received the confirmation of the full Senate on Tuesday. That’s the last hurdle for Chao, whonow becomes the head...

 The French Government announced a new initiative today in order to promote gender equality in the tech ecosystem in France with the help of 15 organizations. Like in many other countries, there ...

 Slack, the business app that lets teams of userscommunicate, share files from other services, and work on them with each other, has taken off like wildfire since launching three years ago, with5...

 President Trump is expected to sign an executive order today on cybersecurity that will commission a review of the federal government’s capabilities and defenses, similar to reviews ordere...

 Facebook gave businesses the Like button connected to their Page, and now Snapchat is giving websites their own QR Snapcodes. With today’siOS update, users can create a unique Snapcode for...

 Google Earth Enterprise, which originally launched over ten years ago, was Google’s tool for businesses that wanted tobuild and host private versions of Google Earth and Google Maps for th...

 Academics from the cole Polytechnique Fdrale de Lausanne (EPFL) have created a working system that allows vehicles to drive autonomously at highway speeds, while navigating multi-lane traffic in...

 TechCrunch is getting ready to celebrate some of the most compelling startups and innovations of 2016 at the 10th Annual Crunchies Awards. Will you be joining us?The Crunchies are just one short...

 Zenefits today said it would be introducing new pricing tiers in an effort to simplify them, as well as add new tools for HR managers to ensure that employees are getting their documents in and ...

 Over three million businesses now pay for Google’s G Suite productivity apps. Today, the company is launching a number of new security features that aim to keep these businesses’ dat...

 Facebook today announced a laundry list ofupdates regardingits measurement partnership program,including expanded partnerships with Nielsen and comScore, and the addition of a new partner, Doubl...

 The American Civil Liberties Union will learn how to turn the $24 million it raised over the weekend into growth and progress with help from top Silicon Valley startup accelerator Y Combinator. ...

 When itlaunched late last year, the new MacBook Pro’s Touch Bar was largely reliant on first-party applications to show off what it could do. Since then, a number of other companies have j...

 Qvivr, a Silicon Valley-based FinTech startup originally known for building the SWYP programmable credit card, has raised $5M in Series A funding. The funding was led by Khosla Ventures, with pa...

 Daimler and Uber have announced a partnership that will see the automaker introduce its own self-driving cars for use on Uber’s ride sharing service. The team-up is the second alliance Ube...

 Juniper Square is a new web-based service for commercial real estate investment managers and the individual investors they work with. The service, which the company worked on for the last two ye...

 It’s time to update your firmware. An exploit that affects a number of Netgear routers can easily give hackers access to your wireless admin password which could lead to router lock-out or...

 Club Penguin may be shutting down, but there’s a new social network for kids arriving today from LEGO. The company known for its physical blocks and building sets is launching LEGO Life, a...

 Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has already weighed in on Donald Trump’s January 27 executive order on refugees in a LinkedIn post, but now the company has made public additional thoughts on t...

 FOX Sports just announced that they will be streaming Super Bowl highlights in “near real-time” in VR via their FOX Sports VR App. Specifically, the app will show somewhere highlight...

 The UK’s online supermarket, Ocado Ltd, has plans to test a new robotic arm for picking and packing groceries in some of its warehouses the company announced today. A grasping robot arm de...

 To be great at poker you gotta know when to hold them, know when to fold them, know when to walk away, and know when to core dump. That’s only part of the technique a new AI system created...

 Jason Nazar, the Los Angeles-based co-founder and chief executive of Comparably is aiming to unseat some of the web’s most successful tech companies in human resources and job search world...

 Club Penguin, the Disney-owned social network for kids, announced this morning it’s shutting down. In its place, the company will launch a new product for mobile, Club Penguin Island, whic...

 Some additional insight out of today’s Nintendo earnings. The gaming giant offered some key contextual information about Mario’s recent mobile debut. The title has racked upmore than...

 The FCC won’t be considering a proposal to open up access to pay TV services via third-party hardware under newly appointed commissioner Ajit Pai, Variety reports. The proposal, originally...

 Radish is officially launching its mobile apps for reading bite-sized chunks of serialized fiction — and it’s announcing that it has raised $3 million in seed funding. This isn’...

 In recent months, streaming media app Plex has expanded its focus from offering tools to organize and stream your home media collection of photos, TV shows and movies, to more directly targeting...

 Algorithmic commerce startupFeedvisoris growing quickly, now managing more than $2 billion ingoods sold throughmarketplaces like Amazon and eBay.To fuel that growth, the company has raised an ad...

 Nintendo has a whole bunch of mobile titles planned to capitalize on the success of Super Mario Run, but the success of that game and its anticipated launch plans for its next, Fire Emblem Heroe...

Many startups in FinTech are attempting to disrupt the banking world with consumer-focused apps, but the real prize and the most lucrative is going to be in the small business space. Especially since ...

 A couple of years ago Jobspotting, out of Berlin, decided job sites were dull and pretty useless (right?) so they put a modern search interface on top of results from third-party recruitment sit...

 As we kickoff 2017 with a surprise acquisition of what was planned to be the first big IPO of the year — Cisco snapping up AppDynamics for $3.7 billion, just days before its public listing...

 SoundHound has been around for 10 years and, before today, had raised around $40 million in financing as its worked to build a massive conversational AI platform.But today, the company is adding...

 Eventbrite, the billion-dollar event-management platform that some tip for an imminent IPO, has made another acquisition in Europe to build out its presence here, and to move deeper into ticketi...

 Nintendo only takes a fraction of the revenue from Pokmon Go, the smash hit game of 2016, but its popularity hascertainly boostedits own Pokmon games as evidenced by the company’s latest f...

 Seedcamp, an early backer of TransferWise, has sold part of its stake in the London-based money transfer startup, in a Secondarydealing that may well represent one of the best European seed exit...

 Walmart has just issued its strongest response to the growing Amazon threat, since its acquisition of e-commerce newcomer Jet.com last summer. Starting today, Walmart will begin offering fr...

Tech execs are matching donations to the ACLU, Starbucks unveils a virtual assistant, Dropbox touts a $1 billion revenue run rate, robots are making coffee and Fitbit cuts six percent of its workforce...

 It’s time to actually make the world a better place.Silicon Valley was birthed from an existential threat to the world. Nazi radar defense technology was decimating the Allied air forces. ...

 Senator Al Franken (D-Minn.) has written to newly appointed FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai in defense of net neutrality, vowing to “fight to protect it every step of the way.” Read More ...

 This is pretty much the definition of unnecessary, but then, that’s part of the fun of hack days. A quartet of Netflix designers have given the world “MindFlix,” by way of a sh...

 One year ago Facebook made the surprising announcement that it was shuttering Parse, the development platform that it purchased in 2013. While the company said they would keep the service online...