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11:57 pm GMT - Fri, September 29, 2017
Techcrunch StackCommerce buys Joyus to focus on video and expand into fashion, shopping and beauty
 StackCommerce, which sells articles sponsored by brands and published on websites, has acquired the online video marketing companyJoyus in an all cash transaction to expand its advertising footp...
09:00 pm GMT - Fri, September 29, 2017
Techcrunch Building a Series A SaaS valuation estimator (2017 edition)
 I have financed nearly 50 early-stage companies and the question of proper valuation comes up in every financing. There is the obvious tension: Generally speaking, the existing shareholders woul...
08:55 pm GMT - Fri, September 29, 2017
Techcrunch Roku nearly doubles since IPO, up another 13% on day two
 Digital streaming business Roku has soared in its public debut. After pricing its IPO Wednesday at $14 per share, Roku finished its first day of trading at $23.50, up nearly 68%. And by the end ...
08:35 pm GMT - Fri, September 29, 2017
Techcrunch Some VCs want to jump into ICOs, but a host of challenges remain
 Venture capitalists are in a pickle. Companies have raised more than $1.7 billion through initial coin offerings, or ICOs, this year, by selling their own customized virtual currencies. For the ...
08:03 pm GMT - Fri, September 29, 2017
Techcrunch Researcher Emilio Ferrara talks about the rise of fake news and botnets
 Emilio Ferrara has been thinking about botnets for over a decade. As the first social networks climbed out of the mire, he noticed that they were very easy to game. Now, it seems, all of those e...
07:51 pm GMT - Fri, September 29, 2017
Techcrunch Former Oracle employees sue company for alleged pay discrimination
 Three female, former Oracle employees, Rong Jewett, Sophy Wang and Xian Murray, are suing Oracle for allegedly paying women less than men in similar jobs. The lawsuit, filed August 28, seeks a c...
06:02 pm GMT - Fri, September 29, 2017
Techcrunch Its time to give Firefox another chance
 If you’re like me, you switched your default browser over to Chrome years ago and never looked back. Chances are, before you made the switch, you used Firefox or — god forbid —...
05:54 pm GMT - Fri, September 29, 2017
Techcrunch Facebook tests facial recognition for account recovery
 Facebook has its own version of Apple’s Face ID. If you get locked out of your Facebook account, the company is testing a way to regain access by using your face to verify your identity. T...
05:54 pm GMT - Fri, September 29, 2017
Techcrunch Facebook can unlock your account with facial recognition
 Facebook has its own version of Apple’s Face ID. If you get locked out of your Facebook account, the company is testing a way to regain access by using your face to verify your identity. T...
05:34 pm GMT - Fri, September 29, 2017
Techcrunch Jet.com to launch its own everyday essentials grocery brand, Uniquely J
 Walmart’s Jet.com is going after millennials shoppers with the launch of its own grocery brand called Uniquely J, which is expected to arrive in a couple of months. The goal with the brand...
05:04 pm GMT - Fri, September 29, 2017
Techcrunch Heetch raises $12 million to reboot its ridesharing service
 French startup Heetch has been around for quite a few years. Although things were running smoothly, the company had to start over mostly from scratch. In March 2017, a court in Paris ruled that ...
05:00 pm GMT - Fri, September 29, 2017
Techcrunch Deadly Manners is a new podcast starring LeVar Burton, Kristen Bell, Anna Chlumsky and RuPaul
 Podcasts are a growing area of interest even for media companies that typically work in TV and other formats, and AMC/Sundance is extending its bet on making something of streaming audio. The sh...
04:15 pm GMT - Fri, September 29, 2017
Techcrunch Reactant is a new native framework for iOS apps
 Just when you thought it was safe to go back to Xcode, a small Czech team called Brightify has created Reactant, a framework that makes it easy to program iOS apps. The system is a Swift-based f...
03:43 pm GMT - Fri, September 29, 2017
Techcrunch Amazon is developing three new high-profile sci-fi TV adaptations
 Amazon Studios is on a quest – a quest to bring Jeff Bezos a ‘Game of Thrones’ of his very own. But the Amazon version may be found in the stars, rather than in a mythical fant...
03:41 pm GMT - Fri, September 29, 2017
Techcrunch Apple quietly acquired computer vision startup Regaind
 TechCrunch has learned that Apple has acquired a small French startup called Regaind, according to multiple sources. As always, Apple is very quiet when it comes to acquisitions, but it’s ...
03:06 pm GMT - Fri, September 29, 2017
Techcrunch Walmart Labs open sources its tool for bringing React Native to existing mobile apps
 Walmart is placing a big bet on React Native. With Electrode, the company’s Walmart Labs division open sourced the React-based framework that powers Walmart.com’s frontend and today ...
03:00 pm GMT - Fri, September 29, 2017
Techcrunch 8bitdos new wireless controllers are perfect for your new SNES Classic
 The SNES Classic Edition is out today, and is probably currently en route to those lucky enough to have scored a pre-order, and being picked up by bleary-eyed fans who set up early at game store...
02:30 pm GMT - Fri, September 29, 2017
Techcrunch Disney releases DisneyNow, a new app that combines live TV, on-demand, games and music
 Disney’s streaming service may still be years away, but the company this week has launched a new app for streaming Disney’s series, Disney Channel movies, live TV and music all under...
02:16 pm GMT - Fri, September 29, 2017
Techcrunch Alibaba is leading a $27M investment in open source database startup MariaDB
 Alibaba has spent 2017 pushing its cloud computing business and now it is preparing to make its first major investment in a Western startup in the space.The Chinese e-commerce giant has agreed t...
02:00 pm GMT - Fri, September 29, 2017
Techcrunch Equity podcast: Google goes shopping, and IPO madness
 Hello and welcome back toEquity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. Today’s episode was especially fun, coming during what...
01:37 pm GMT - Fri, September 29, 2017
Techcrunch Original Content explores the politics and space battles of Star Trek: Discovery
 Star Trek: Discovery, the first Trek TV show in more than 10 years, premiered on CBS this week before making the leap to the network’s new streaming service, CBS All Access (which is where...
01:28 pm GMT - Fri, September 29, 2017
Techcrunch FAA outlaws drone use around 10 US monuments and dams
 The Federal Aviation Administration announced new rules for drone use around key US landmarks including monuments and dams. Under the new restrictions, drones are not to fly within 400 feet of t...
01:11 pm GMT - Fri, September 29, 2017
Techcrunch With the Sphero Mini, you get a robotic ball for just $49.99
 It’s been a busy year for Sphero, with the release of products like R2-D2, Spider-Man and Lightning McQueen. But the robotic toy startup is still making non-licensed, non-tie in products t...
01:10 pm GMT - Fri, September 29, 2017
Techcrunch Watch Elon Musks keynote where he announced SpaceXs new rocket and Mars colonization
 Elon Musk gave a keynote address yesterday to the International Aeronautical Congress in Adelaide, Australia. During the 43 minute talk, which is embedded above, Musk laid out SpaceX’s fut...
10:45 am GMT - Fri, September 29, 2017
Techcrunch Uber CEO to meet London transport chief after license loss
 Uber’s new CEO DaraKhosrowshahi will go to London to meet with the city’s transport commissioner following the regulator’s decision to withdraw licensing. Read More ...
09:17 am GMT - Fri, September 29, 2017
Techcrunch Angry Birds maker Rovio sees a small pop of 6% to 12.20 in its trading debut
 Rovio, maker of the Angry Birds gaming franchise, saw a small pop of 6 percent in its first day of trading as a public company. After pricing its IPO at 11.50 per share — the top of its ra...
09:17 am GMT - Fri, September 29, 2017
Techcrunch After a 6% pop, Angry Birds maker Rovio drops below its 11.50 IPO price
 Rovio, maker of the Angry Birds gaming franchise, saw a small pop of 6 percent in its first day of trading as a public company, but like the very birds that get catapulted in Rovio’s origi...
09:17 am GMT - Fri, September 29, 2017
Techcrunch After a 4% pop, Rovio closes at a lackluster 11.50, level with its IPO price
 Rovio, maker of the Angry Birds gaming franchise, saw a small pop of 4.3 percent in its first day of trading as a public company, but like the very birds that get catapulted in Rovio’s ori...
08:00 am GMT - Fri, September 29, 2017
Techcrunch Apply today for a free exhibit table in Startup Alley at Disrupt Berlin 2017
 In just 66 days, the top tech startups, entrepreneurs, movers, shakers and investors across Europe will gather at Disrupt Berlin 2017. As if that’s not exciting enough, we’re looking...
06:09 am GMT - Fri, September 29, 2017
Techcrunch Everything SpaceX revealed about its updated plan to reach Mars by 2022
 “The future is vastly more exciting and interesting if we’re a space-faring species than if we’re not,” Musk said as he took the stage. “It’s about believing ...
05:47 am GMT - Fri, September 29, 2017
Techcrunch First China, now South Korea has banned ICOs
 South Korea has banned ICOs, the up-and-coming method of raising funding via crypto tokens, due to concerns over the potential for financial scams. China’s Central Bank became the first to...
05:44 am GMT - Fri, September 29, 2017
Techcrunch Crunch Report | GoPro Releases The Hero 6 Black
The GoPro Hero 6 and Fusion 360 camera are released, IKEA buys Instacart and Aston Martin is building a submarine. All this on Crunch Report. Read More ...
05:25 am GMT - Fri, September 29, 2017
Techcrunch SpaceX plans to use spaceships for Earth passenger transit
 Elon Musk was at IAC showing off his ambitious plan to ultimately make Earth an interplanetary species, and one of the new pieces of his plan he revealed was Earth-to-Earth transport using Space...
05:05 am GMT - Fri, September 29, 2017
Techcrunch SpaceX aims to replace Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy, and Dragon with one spaceship
 When Elon Musk took the stage at the International Astronautical Congress today to expand on the Mars plan he revealed at the event last year, he started where people had the most questions last...
04:02 am GMT - Fri, September 29, 2017
Techcrunch Lockheed Martins Mars Base Camp would stage Mars surface missions
 Lockheed Martin shared more information about its Mars Base Camp (MBC) architecture and operation plans at this year’s International Astronautical Congress, as reported by Space. The conce...
02:59 am GMT - Fri, September 29, 2017
Techcrunch Elon Musk shares images of Moon Base Alpha and Mars City ahead of IAC talk
 Elon Musk is giving us a sneak peak of what he’ll be talking about in just a few hours at the International Astronautical Congress in Australia. The SpaceX founder shared an image he capti...
02:24 am GMT - Fri, September 29, 2017
Techcrunch Apple would like to remind the FCC that it cant activate imaginary FM radios that iPhones dont have
 Apple responded today to FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai, who issued a statement that “urged” Apple to activate the FM chips that he claimed are in iPhones in the name of public safety. Th...
12:14 am GMT - Fri, September 29, 2017
Techcrunch This edible sensor could help keep food fresh
 Making sure fresh food is kept at the right temperature during transit is a harder problem than one might think — but the Swiss are on the job. Not only did they create robo-fruit to mix i...
11:58 pm GMT - Thu, September 28, 2017
Techcrunch Google is building a smart screen competitor to Amazons Echo Show
 Multiple sources tell TechCrunch that Google is building a tabletop smart screen for video calling and more that will compete with Amazon’s Echo Show. The device could help Google keep up ...
11:17 pm GMT - Thu, September 28, 2017
Techcrunch Here are the 12 startups in Techstars NYCs Summer 2017 class
 The 12 startups of Techstars NYC‘s latest class are taking over tonight’s NY Tech Meetup. This “community demo day” is part of Managing Director Alex Iskold attempt to re...
10:15 pm GMT - Thu, September 28, 2017
Techcrunch Uber adds a new feature for riders that teaches basic sign language
 Uber has added a new feature to its app this month to support its deaf and hard of hearing drivers, a group the company says number in the thousands across its service. Uber says that these driv...
09:58 pm GMT - Thu, September 28, 2017
Techcrunch Senate investigators learned about Jared Kushners private email server from the news
 The U.S. Senate’s Select Committee on Intelligence, which is investigating possible collusion between members of the White House staff and the Russian government in Russia’s attempts...
09:24 pm GMT - Thu, September 28, 2017
Techcrunch Moscow officially turns on facial recognition for its city-wide camera network
 Like many cities, Moscow has an enormous network of CCTV cameras, but unlike many cities, thousands of those cameras are now hooked up to a powerful facial recognition system that can track crim...
08:41 pm GMT - Thu, September 28, 2017
Techcrunch Twitter opens up on Russia after meeting with Congress
 Following its meeting with members of the Senate and House’s respective intelligence committees, Twitter has issued new details on the information it is providing to aid the congressional ...
08:17 pm GMT - Thu, September 28, 2017
Techcrunch The FDA has approved a blood sugar monitor that doesnt require a finger prick
 Further proof the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has been warming up to modern technology — it has just approved the first continuous blood sugar monitor that doesn’t require the ...
08:05 pm GMT - Thu, September 28, 2017
Techcrunch Accela gets acquired by Berkshire Partners as it looks to move govtech services to the cloud
 Boston-based private equity shopBerkshire Partners announced this afternoon that it is acquiring Accela — a nearly 20 year old startup that sellsregulatory management solutions to governme...
07:40 pm GMT - Thu, September 28, 2017
Techcrunch A quick look at the evolving software engineering jobs market
 Hired,a recruiting platform that connects companies with tech talent, published a new report this week on the state of software engineering jobs that suggests that contract workers can make more...
07:39 pm GMT - Thu, September 28, 2017
Techcrunch BlackBerry, yes BlackBerry, is making a comeback as a software company
 When you think about dead companies walking, BlackBerry was clearly one that came to mind, but under the leadership of CEO John Chen, the company is actually making a comeback as a software comp...
07:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 28, 2017
Techcrunch American Airlines teams up with Casper to offer new in-flight sleep products
 American Airlines and Casper are announcing a new partnership that could help passengers (like me) who have trouble sleeping on flights. They’re not going as far as putting Casper mattress...
06:52 pm GMT - Thu, September 28, 2017
Techcrunch Angry Birds-maker Rovio priced IPO, valuing company at $1 billion
 Angry Birds-maker Rovio Entertainment priced its IPO at 11.50 euros, at the top of its proposed range. It raises 30 million euros in proceeds.This values the company a little above $1 billion, j...
06:30 pm GMT - Thu, September 28, 2017
Techcrunch Keep calm and automate to unlock the opportunity in the vertical Internet of Things
 Since the term Internet of Things, or IoT, was coined in 1999, the industry has had its share of hype, consternation, successes, and now even twitter parody accounts (@InternetOfShit). Although ...
06:22 pm GMT - Thu, September 28, 2017
Techcrunch Heres how to watch Thursday Night Football on Amazon tonight
 When Amazon beat out Twitter and Facebook to stream the NFL’s Thursday Night Football this season, people were pretty surprised. The one year deal, which requires viewers be Amazon Prime m...
06:07 pm GMT - Thu, September 28, 2017
Techcrunch Alexas opt-in notifications go live, allowing skills to alert you with lights and chimes
 Alexa’s voice-activated apps will now have a new way to alert end users about updates and new content, Amazon announced today. Thanks to newly added Notifications functionality, Alexa skil...
06:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 28, 2017
Techcrunch Googles parental control software, Family Link, launches to public
 Family Link, Google’s parental control software for Android devices, is now exiting its beta testing period and is now generally available to anyone in the U.S. without the need for an inv...
05:35 pm GMT - Thu, September 28, 2017
Techcrunch Google Compute Engine now lets you play nesting dolls with your VMs
 Here is a cloud computing feature that may seem a bit odd at first but that does actually have its uses. Google’s Compute Engine today launched the beta of a new feature called “nest...
05:35 pm GMT - Thu, September 28, 2017
Techcrunch Fidelity CEO Abigail Johnson says the company is mining cryptocurrencies
 Fidelity Investments, one of the world’s largest investment firms with $2.3 trillion in managed assets, is taking a long look at cryptocurrencies.The firm has been experimenting internally...
05:07 pm GMT - Thu, September 28, 2017
Techcrunch Viro Media now makes it easier for React and Javascript devs to build AR apps
 When it comes to building AR/VR gaming titles, the folks at Unity and Epic Games have products that can’t be beat. They can both be a tad daunting outside the game development crowd howeve...
04:30 pm GMT - Thu, September 28, 2017
Techcrunch GoPros Hero6 Black launches today for $499
 Today, on a massive planetarium screen at San Francisco’s Academy of Sciences museum, GoPro CEO Nick Woodman revealed the next generation of the company’s venerable Hero action cam s...
04:30 pm GMT - Thu, September 28, 2017
Techcrunch GoPros Fusion 360 camera launches in November at $699
 GoPro’s first 360-degree camera, the Fusion, is hitting shelves in November at $699. The company showcased the new device and its 360 capabilities on a massive planetarium screen in San Fr...
04:22 pm GMT - Thu, September 28, 2017
Techcrunch Mercedes-Benz kicks off drone delivery pilot in Zurich
 Drone delivery may be closer than you think: Daimler’s Mercedes-Benz Vans teamed up with e-commerce startup siroop, and drone logistics provider Matternet to kick off a pilot in Zurich of ...
03:58 pm GMT - Thu, September 28, 2017
Techcrunch Roku surges 30% in stock market debut
 Roku is off to the races since going public on the stock market. After pricing its IPO shares at $14, the digital content streaming company began trading at $15.78 per share Thursday morning. It...
03:58 pm GMT - Thu, September 28, 2017
Techcrunch Roku closes up 68% in stock market debut
 Content streaming company Roku saw its shares surge 67.86% on its first day of trading. After pricing its IPO at $14 and then opening the day at $15.78, Roku shares closed at $23.50. This values...
03:52 pm GMT - Thu, September 28, 2017
Techcrunch Ikea has reportedly bought TaskRabbit
 TaskRabbit, the on-demand platform for hiring people to do everything from build furniture to stand in line for you at the Apple Store, has sold itself to Ikea, Recode reports. Financial terms o...
03:52 pm GMT - Thu, September 28, 2017
Techcrunch Ikea has bought TaskRabbit
 TaskRabbit, the on-demand platform for hiring people to do everything from build furniture to stand in line for you at the Apple Store, has sold itself to Ikea, Recode first reported. Ikea has s...
03:38 pm GMT - Thu, September 28, 2017
Techcrunch Stilforms Kosmos pen is a polished titanium delight
 I’m a pen and pencil person. There’s something lasting about the tactile experience when using a writing instrument. Writing with a pen or pencil feels real and I obsessively purchas...
03:27 pm GMT - Thu, September 28, 2017
Techcrunch Facebook partners with ZipRecruiter and more aggregators as it ramps up in jobs
 Facebook has made no secret of its wish to do more in the online recruitment market — encroaching on territory today dominated by LinkedIn, the leader in tapping social networking graphs t...
03:26 pm GMT - Thu, September 28, 2017
Techcrunch Alexas Routines will combine smart home control with other actions, like delivering your news and weather
 Along with yesterday’s announcementsof a half-dozen new gadgets, including new Echo devices, Amazon also detailed some of Alexa’s new abilities, due to arrive in the near future. One...
03:19 pm GMT - Thu, September 28, 2017
Techcrunch Watch the West go wild again in new Red Dead Redemption II trailer
 Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption II is probably one of the most hotly anticipated games of next year, and now there’s a trailer for it showing some actual visuals from the game. The tr...
03:17 pm GMT - Thu, September 28, 2017
Techcrunch Twitter is briefing Congress today in election probe
 Congressional investigations into Russia’s role in the 2016 U.S. presidential election are looking at the spread of misinformation on a number of online services — not just Facebook....
03:15 pm GMT - Thu, September 28, 2017
Techcrunch Tech giants pressured to auto-flag illegal content in Europe
 Social media giants have again been put on notice that they need to do more to speed up removals of hate speech and other illegal content from their platforms in the European Union. The blocR...
03:06 pm GMT - Thu, September 28, 2017
Techcrunch Review: The SNES Classic Edition and all 21 games on it
 Riding high on the success (and mind-boggling scarcity) of the NES Classic Edition, Nintendo surprised no one with the announcement of the SNES Classic Edition, a tiny version of the classic Sup...
02:34 pm GMT - Thu, September 28, 2017
Techcrunch Anchor raises $10 million for podcast platform
 A quarter of Americans listen to podcasts each month, but far fewer make them. Anchor is a startup that is looking to change that with its app that makes it easy to record and distribute content...
02:24 pm GMT - Thu, September 28, 2017
Techcrunch Snapchat launches sponsored 3D World Lenses, starting with Blade Runner
 Snapchat is taking its World Lenses augmented reality feature and opening them up to brands. Snap’s Imran Khan just announced the availability of the new advertising product on stage at Ad...
02:18 pm GMT - Thu, September 28, 2017
Techcrunch Spotifys newest personalized playlist, Your Time Capsule, is a blast from your past
 One of Spotify’s better features – and a competitive advantage for its app in the streaming music market – are its personalized playlists. These compilations have long since ex...
02:16 pm GMT - Thu, September 28, 2017
Techcrunch Used goods marketplace LetGo quietly raised $100M more at a $1B valuation
 LetGo, a startup that has built a marketplace for people to buy and sell used goods, is one of the fastest growing apps in the U.S. at the moment according to comScore, with some 75 million down...
02:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 28, 2017
Techcrunch Giphy wants you to put stickers on your favorite website
 It’s no secret that Giphy thinks the future of communication is visual. And of course stickers are a big part of that – Japanese chat app Line makes hundreds of millions of dollars a...
01:54 pm GMT - Thu, September 28, 2017
Techcrunch Varsity Tutors acquires First Tutors in the UK to start expanding internationally
 Varsity Tutors, the education platform that connects students with tutors, has today announced the acquisition of First Tutors in the UK. This marks the first major international expansion for V...
01:38 pm GMT - Thu, September 28, 2017
Techcrunch Google Assistant turns Nvidia Shield TV into a hands-free smart device
 Nvidia Shield TV, the Android TV-powered smart TV streaming box that offers 4K and more, now also includes built-in support for Google Assistant. Nvidia’s integration of Google Assistant w...
01:10 pm GMT - Thu, September 28, 2017
Techcrunch Airbus and HAX create an accelerator program for flying taxi tech
 Aeronautics industry giant Airbus is teaming up with hardware early-stage investment firm HAX to create a four-month accelerator program based in Shenzhen focused on a high-flying goal – &...
01:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 28, 2017
Techcrunch Mattels MindRacers set brings Hot Wheels to life on the iPad
 Toy making giant Mattel has been flirting with high tech for a number of years now, from 3D printers to hologram Barbies. The through line between many of their efforts is an attempt to marry th...
01:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 28, 2017
Techcrunch Stockpile raises $30 million to popularize fractional share investing
 Stockpile, thestartup brokerage that’s bringing fractional share investing to mainstream investors, has raised $30 million to continue its mission. The company received its latest cash inj...
01:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 28, 2017
Techcrunch Self-driving startup Drive.ai to open Singapore office with new Grab funding
 Autonomous vehicle technology startup Drive.ai has raised $15 million in a new round from Grab, Southeast Asia’s largest Uber rival. The added funding will help Drive.ai expand internation...
12:46 pm GMT - Thu, September 28, 2017
Techcrunch Aston Martins limited edition submarine is totally my next car
 Aston Martin has a new concept submarine designed in partnership with submarine maker Triton Submarines. The project is codenamed “Neptune,” and the concept designs envision a sleek ...
12:05 pm GMT - Thu, September 28, 2017
Techcrunch Daimler acquires German P2P carpooling startup Flinc
 Daimler — the German car giant that owns Mercedes Benz among other brands — has made one more acquisition to further its reach in ridesharing and what it sees as the next generation ...
12:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 28, 2017
Techcrunch Three-year old startup Vera scores huge deal to protect all of GEs IP
 When Box landed GE as a customer in 2014, it marked a turning point for the cloud content management company, giving them momentumahead of their IPO. Three years later,Vera, a data rights manage...
12:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 28, 2017
Techcrunch Roli adds a new Lightpad to its Blocks modular music system
 Roli’s Blocks are one of the most compelling products I’ve seen out of a hardware startup in the past year. The modular system is a unique take on music making by the company that ga...
11:29 am GMT - Thu, September 28, 2017
Techcrunch Toshiba chip business set for $18B sale to Bain-led group backed by Apple
 The long-running saga over the future of Toshiba’s memory chip business — the world’s second largest supplier of NAND memory used in phones and PCs — took a big step forw...
10:48 am GMT - Thu, September 28, 2017
Techcrunch Google tweaks search ads after EU shopping antitrust ruling
 Google has rolled out changes to how it displays search results for products in Europe to try to comply with an EU antitrust ruling against its Google Shopping search comparison service. Read Mo...
08:30 am GMT - Thu, September 28, 2017
Techcrunch Dont miss Off the Record sessions at Disrupt Berlin
 TechCrunch Disrupt brings top tech founders and investors to the stage for riveting interviews, but many attendees want more time with the experts. Introducing Off the Record (OTR), a new series...
08:10 am GMT - Thu, September 28, 2017
Techcrunch Confirmed: Korean crypto exchange Korbit sold to Nexon parent for $80M
 The parent company of games giant Nexon has confirmed that it acquired Korea’s second largest cryptocurrency exchange, Korbit, in a deal that values it at just over $120 million. A spokesp...
08:01 am GMT - Thu, September 28, 2017
Techcrunch CallDesk raises $2.5 million for its AI agent for customer support calls
 It’s time to put an end to these dumb automatic customer support calls that ask you to press 1, then press 4, then press 2, then say “yes” CallDesk is working on a virtual agen...
07:52 am GMT - Thu, September 28, 2017
Techcrunch HMDs revived Nokia 3310 classic mobile gets 3G
 Nokia brand licensee HMD Global is doubling down on the tech nostalgia card it pulled out back in February, by announcing a 3G version of the colorful candybar Nokia 3310— now with support...
07:47 am GMT - Thu, September 28, 2017
Techcrunch AllBright secures 1.85M Series A, as women-led ventures ramp up in the UK
 Unfortunately, most funding networks are often old boys’ clubs. But more women-led investor firms like BB Ventures, Kapor Capital and Backstage Capital in the U.S. and Allbright in the U.K...
07:47 am GMT - Thu, September 28, 2017
Techcrunch Naspers invests another $775M in food take-out giant Delivery Hero
 Naspers, the South African media and internet giant, has upped its stake inDelivery Hero, the Berlin based food-delivery giant that went public earlier this year and has a market cap of $6.8 bil...
07:04 am GMT - Thu, September 28, 2017
Techcrunch La French tech scene brings the noise to TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin this December
 The French tech scene — ‘La French tech’ as they like to call it — has been making waves recently, while France generally has been benefiting from the ‘Macron bounc...
06:51 am GMT - Thu, September 28, 2017
Techcrunch AdAsia snags another $2.5M led by listed Japanese newsreader firm Gunosy
 Japanese news app Gunosy, which listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange two years ago,has put its weight and money behind ambitious ad tech startupAdAsia.Singapore-based AdAsia,founded in April 2016 ...
06:18 am GMT - Thu, September 28, 2017
Techcrunch Following its $25M ICO, Omise lands strategic investment from Thai bank Krungsri
 Earlier this year Thailand-based Omise held a $25 million ICO to develop a next-generation decentralized payment network, and now the company has closed an undisclosed investment from Thai bankK...
06:07 am GMT - Thu, September 28, 2017
Techcrunch Uber rival Grab quietly backed dock-less bike service oBike
 Grab, Uber’s main rival in Southeast Asia, has made a move into dock-less bikes after the company quietly backed oBike. Singapore-based Grabinvested in oBike — which was started in S...
05:30 am GMT - Thu, September 28, 2017
Techcrunch Facebook helps blood donation go viral
 Facebook doesn’t just want to make it easy to sign up to be a blood donor from the News Feed. It’s also creating a special kind of post for requesting blood donations of a certain ty...
04:53 am GMT - Thu, September 28, 2017
Techcrunch Uber and Grab take their ride on-demand battle to Cambodia
 Cambodia is the newest battlefield for Uber and Grab’s ride on-demand battle after both companies expanded into the Southeast Asian country’s capital city Phnom Penh this week. Grab,...
03:00 am GMT - Thu, September 28, 2017
Techcrunch Crunch Report | Amazons New High-End Echo
Amazon reveals its high-end Echo, MIT’s CSAIL developed a robot that can wear different exoskeletons, Ford and Lyft tie the knot and Delta gives people free messaging on WhatsApp, Facebook Messe...
02:34 am GMT - Thu, September 28, 2017
Techcrunch Magic Leaps new website has some bizarre easter eggs for you to decipher
 Magic Leap very well could be one giant, well-funded performance art piece.Today, the augmented reality company (which, again, has yet to launch a product or share any details of a product despi...
11:52 pm GMT - Wed, September 27, 2017
Techcrunch Roku prices IPO at $14, valuing company at $1.3 billion
 Digital streaming business Roku has priced its IPO at $14 per share, raising close to $220 million. This values the company at about $1.3 billion. This is good news for Roku, which had proposed ...
11:50 pm GMT - Wed, September 27, 2017
Techcrunch Responding to a month-long string of disasters, RapidSOS makes its rescue and recovery app free
 The U.S. and its territories have been ravaged by storms in the past month. Maria, which destroyed Puerto Rico, has left 1.5 million American citizens without access to drinking water, while in ...
11:26 pm GMT - Wed, September 27, 2017
Techcrunch Btw, Echo Spot buyersyour Chumby still works
 So Amazon announced a smart alarm clock today, the $130 Echo Spot. It works like a smaller Echo Show, allowing you to make calls, including video calls, listen to music, and much more. It’...
11:14 pm GMT - Wed, September 27, 2017
Techcrunch Onfido raises $30M more for its AI-based identity verification technology
 Malicious hackers and security breaches that have exposed personal information of millions of people have pushed the issue of online security into the spotlight, not just for individuals but for...
10:47 pm GMT - Wed, September 27, 2017
Techcrunch Zuckerberg details Facebooks response to Puerto Ricos humanitarian crisis
 Tech companies — and the nation — have been slow to mobilize in response to the devastation wrought by last week’s catastrophic Hurricane Maria that decimated Puerto Rico, but ...
10:41 pm GMT - Wed, September 27, 2017
Techcrunch The Echo Spot is the best Echo
 The message of today’s big Amazon event was pretty clear: Echos for everyone, for every need in every room of every home. The company clearly has no desire to create one device to rule the...
10:19 pm GMT - Wed, September 27, 2017
Techcrunch NASA and Russia agree to work together on Moon space station
 At this year’s International Astronautical Congress, NASA and Russia’s space agency, Roscosmos, signed a joint statement expressing their intent to work collaboratively toward the de...
10:13 pm GMT - Wed, September 27, 2017
Techcrunch Mark Zuckerberg responds to Trumps claim that Facebook has always been against him
 What a country some of us live in. Earlier this morning, President Donald Trump said Facebook “was always anti-Trump.” Now, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has responded, posting on Fac...
10:07 pm GMT - Wed, September 27, 2017
Techcrunch Amazon launched a million things today but all I want is a new Kindle
 Amazon launched so much new stuff today that I can’t even remember what they all are (there might’ve been a fish in there, even), but there was a glaring omission in the slate of rev...
09:54 pm GMT - Wed, September 27, 2017
Techcrunch Amazon upgrades Fire TVs hands-free TV experience, powered by Alexa
 Along with Amazon’s numerous Echo-related announcements today regarding new devices, the company also said it would soon be extending and improving its hands-free TV viewing experience to ...
09:38 pm GMT - Wed, September 27, 2017
Techcrunch San Francisco sues Equifax on behalf of 15 million Californians affected by the breach
 Equifax is not only in deep for a class-action lawsuit over a breach exposing 143 million U.S. citizen’s social security numbers and a subpoena in New York, it’s now being sued by th...
09:38 pm GMT - Wed, September 27, 2017
Techcrunch Heres why Amazon made those weird Echo Buttons
 In a day full of Echo announcements, the Echo Button was a clear standout. Not because it was a better or more useful product than the rest, but because it’s just damn weird. Where most of...
09:27 pm GMT - Wed, September 27, 2017
Techcrunch Apples HomePod is set to have some weird competition
 Today, Amazon threw a lot of darts at the smart speaker board with new product offerings that are seeking to explore what smart speakers can even do. A report also emerged today from 9to5Google ...
09:18 pm GMT - Wed, September 27, 2017
Techcrunch The brilliance of Amazons Echo sh*tshow
 Whether you call it fragmentation or flexibility, there are now seven Amazon Echo devices from which to choose. Today Amazon launched a slew of new smart home devices, so there’s one for e...
09:00 pm GMT - Wed, September 27, 2017
Techcrunch Tesla, a great family brand
 Tesla talks a lot about safety, and rightfully so. They have beaten even the safest cars at their own game and thus have created a family brand in the process. In the spirit of safety and family...
08:59 pm GMT - Wed, September 27, 2017
Techcrunch Amazon just launched 6 new gadgets and none was over $150
 In the year of the $1000 iPhone Amazon just announced a scattering of new gadgets and none cost more than $150. Essentially, Amazon said “screws the margins” and are selling everythi...
08:52 pm GMT - Wed, September 27, 2017
Techcrunch How to enable 280 characters on Twitter right now
 Yesterday, Twitter announced it would for the first time expand the character count on its service from 140 characters to 280 – double the usual length. However, the functionality is still...
08:49 pm GMT - Wed, September 27, 2017
Techcrunch Amazons brightest new innovation might just be the smart home bundle
 Amazon went above and beyond today in terms of launching stuff – it debuted not one, not two, but six brand new devices at an event held at its HQ. One of the most interesting things it di...
08:40 pm GMT - Wed, September 27, 2017
Techcrunch Comparing all 8 Amazon Echos
 Which Amazon Echo is right for you? The new Echo 2, Plus, Spot, Connect and Buttons, or the existingDot, Show or Look? This handy chart lets you compare the functionality and pricing of Amazon&#...
08:32 pm GMT - Wed, September 27, 2017
Techcrunch Google Play seems to be following Apple to $20 4k movies
 As part of its iPhone unveil earlier this month, Apple also announced a new 4K Apple TV and topped it all off with $20 price tags for 4K HDR titles. In fact, Apple promised to automatically upgr...
08:03 pm GMT - Wed, September 27, 2017
Techcrunch Heres everything Amazon announced today
 Amazon held an event in Seattle today, and the announcements were non-stop. From a new high-end Echo to talking fish, they had all sorts of stuff to show.Don’t have time to catch up on all...
07:21 pm GMT - Wed, September 27, 2017
Techcrunch Amazon doubles down on its own Echo hardware, even as it increasingly relies on third parties
 The biggest surprise of today’s secret Amazon event in Seattle was the sheer breadth of Echo-related announcements. Over the past several months, it’s seemed as if Amazon the company...
06:54 pm GMT - Wed, September 27, 2017
Techcrunch N.Y. regulators issued Equifax with a subpoena, per report
 Equifax was issued a subpoena from New York state’s financial service regulators in regards to the massive data breach the company announced last month, Reuters reported today. The regulat...
06:49 pm GMT - Wed, September 27, 2017
Techcrunch MITs new robot can put on different exoskeletons to gain new powers
 MIT’s Computers Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) has created a new robot that’s designed to be as adaptable as possible, with the ability to use different “outfi...
06:33 pm GMT - Wed, September 27, 2017
Techcrunch Uber is shutting down its Xchange vehicle leasing business
 Uber has confirmed to TechCrunch that it will shut down its Xchange Leasing subsidiary, which provided vehicle leases to drivers on the service that couldn’t otherwise procure vehicles thr...
06:32 pm GMT - Wed, September 27, 2017
Techcrunch Amazon takes on the smart alarm clock with the $130 Echo Spot
 Many have tried and failed to bring the world a smart alarm clock (remember Chumby?), but no one has been better positioned than Amazon to deliver on the promise. In essence, the product is a ti...
06:28 pm GMT - Wed, September 27, 2017
Techcrunch This is Amazons new $70 Fire TV with 4K and HDR support
 If you were starting to feel like it’d been a while since Amazon upgraded the Fire TV (the company’s answer to things like the Chromecast and Apple TV), you wouldn’t be wrong. ...
06:23 pm GMT - Wed, September 27, 2017
Techcrunch Amazon introduces Echo Buttons for at-home trivia games using Alexa
 Along with the new Echo and a bunch of added Alexa functionality, Amazon showed off a fun new piece of hardware at today’s event: Echo Buttons. Available at $19 for a two pack, the new pro...
06:14 pm GMT - Wed, September 27, 2017
Techcrunch Amazons Echo Plus features a built-in smart home hub for $149
 Sure, the new Echo is a more premium (if lower cost) version of Amazon’s wildly popular home assistant. But Amazon had another big surprise up its sleeve. The Echo Plus features all of the...
06:11 pm GMT - Wed, September 27, 2017
Techcrunch This $35 add-on will let Amazon Echos place phone calls
 The Amazon Echo Connect will connect Echo devices to landline phones. Yes, a landline because safety. The thought is with this add-on Echo owners will be able to dial telephone numbers, like 911...
06:11 pm GMT - Wed, September 27, 2017
Techcrunch Amazons Alexa will now sing thorugh a talking fish
 Amazon’s virtual voice assistant Alexa can go virtually anywhere thanks to Amazon’s Gadgets API, but her next destination is still kind of surprising: It’ll (sort of) end up in...
06:02 pm GMT - Wed, September 27, 2017
Techcrunch BMW to bring Alexa to its cars starting in 2018
 Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant will be your cockpit companion in future BMWs: The automaker will offer Alexa in select cars starting in 2018, Amazon announced today at a special event reve...
05:52 pm GMT - Wed, September 27, 2017
Techcrunch Apple and Google are still the most valuable global brands, according to Interbrand
 Tech companies continue to dominate the Best Global Brands list created by Interbrand. The brand consultancy has been releasing the list annually since 2000, and it says the rankings are based o...
05:47 pm GMT - Wed, September 27, 2017
Techcrunch Amazon announces a high end $99 Echo to compete with Apples HomePod
 Today’s the big day at Amazon headquarters in Seattle. The company promised a day of big announcements, kicking things with the announcement of a high end Echo, a long awaited replacement ...
05:47 pm GMT - Wed, September 27, 2017
Techcrunch Amazon announces a high-end $99 Echo to compete with Apples HomePod
 Today’s the big day at Amazon headquarters in Seattle. The company promised a day of big announcements, kicking things off with the announcement of a high-end Echo, a long-awaited replacem...
05:33 pm GMT - Wed, September 27, 2017
Techcrunch 26 memorable quotes from Disrupt San Francisco 2017
 At Disrupt San Francisco 2017, top investors, tech figures and entrepreneurs took the stage in interviews with TechCrunch reporters. We heard from the likes of Sam Altman, Kevin Durant, Vitalik ...
05:26 pm GMT - Wed, September 27, 2017
Techcrunch Amazon Studios will now handle its own theatrical distribution, too
 Amazon Studios takes a very different approach to acquiring and releasing movies when compared to rival Netflix, and the most significant difference is that it releases major films in theaters b...
05:23 pm GMT - Wed, September 27, 2017
Techcrunch Uber switches gears to fight workers rights appeal
 Uber is in court in the UK today to appeal a ruling by an employment tribunal last Octoberwhich judged a group of drivers to be workers, rather than self-employed contractors. And if Uber can...
05:00 pm GMT - Wed, September 27, 2017
Techcrunch Hulus new deal with NBCU brings 30 Rock and other shows to its on-demand service
Hulu today announced a new deal with NBCU and New Media Distribution which will bring a number of popular, though not current, TV programs to its subscription video-on-demand service, including “...
04:44 pm GMT - Wed, September 27, 2017
Techcrunch 11 ways Facebook tried to thwart election interference in Germany
 Facebook may have dropped the ball with the U.S. presidential election, but it was much better prepared for last weekend’s federal election in Germany. Today Facebook outlined all its effo...
04:39 pm GMT - Wed, September 27, 2017
Techcrunch Chime raises $18 million for mobile banking without the fees
 It’s a bank account and debit card built for the digital age. Chime is raising $18 million in Series B financing for its mobile-first approach to banking. Cathay Innovation led the round w...
04:30 pm GMT - Wed, September 27, 2017
Techcrunch The VR show must go on
 Last month, about 300 fans of the electronic artistAsh Kooshagathered together at 10 o’clock on a West Coast Wednesday night to watch the musician perform a set of his critically acclaimed...
04:28 pm GMT - Wed, September 27, 2017
Techcrunch Delphis autonomous driving business is being renamed Aptiv
 Delphi is renaming the part of its business that’s focused on automated driving and electrification, calling the new entity Aptiv starting from March, when it will formalize the separation...
04:19 pm GMT - Wed, September 27, 2017
Techcrunch Trump calls Facebook anti-Trump so it goes soft on him
 Trump may have found a way to tie Facebook’s hands as it investigates Russian interference into the election.Without citing any evidence or even a reason, Donald Trump today declared that ...
04:03 pm GMT - Wed, September 27, 2017
Techcrunch Apples new privacy page drives home its product security advantage
 Today, Apple is launching a new version of its privacy page that presents security and privacy as a consumer feature set. This effort to position Apple as a provider of security and privacy serv...
04:00 pm GMT - Wed, September 27, 2017
Techcrunch Lyfts diversity efforts are not going unnoticed
 Before Tariq Meyers became head of inclusion and diversity at Lyft last September, the ride-hailing company had yet to release a diversity report — something many major tech companies have...
03:45 pm GMT - Wed, September 27, 2017
Techcrunch Twitters Apple Watch app has disappeared
 The big Twitter news currently may be the expansion of tweets to support 280 characters instead of just 140, but a number of Twitter users recently spotted another notable change, as well: the T...
03:15 pm GMT - Wed, September 27, 2017
Techcrunch Delta to offer free in-flight use of WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and iMessage
 Starting October 1, passengers on most Delta will have free access to WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and iMessage. To access the feature, a passenger will have to log into Delta’s in-flight ...
02:53 pm GMT - Wed, September 27, 2017
Techcrunch Microsoft becomes a sponsor of the Open Source Initiative
 Microsoft today announced that it has joined the Open Source Initiative (OSI) as a Premium Sponsor. The OSI, which launched in 1998, takes a relatively pragmatic approach to open source and advo...
02:36 pm GMT - Wed, September 27, 2017
Techcrunch Eden raises $10 million Series A to build out its office management marketplace
 Eden, the office management and tech support platform, has today closed $10 million in Series A funding led by Spectrum 28, with participation from Fifth Wall Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners...
02:12 pm GMT - Wed, September 27, 2017
Techcrunch Comcast appeals to cord nevers with launch of Xfinity Instant TV service
 Comcast’s own streaming service aimed at cord cutters and more so the ‘cord nevers’ who never sign up for cable, has now launched. The service,Xfinity Instant TV, is only avail...
02:00 pm GMT - Wed, September 27, 2017
Techcrunch Toyota Research Institute debuts its next-generation automated driving platform
 Toyota Research Institute (TRI) isn’t letting the grass grow long on its autonomous vehicle research platform: The research wing of carmaker Toyota is updating its self-driving test car to...
02:00 pm GMT - Wed, September 27, 2017
Techcrunch Luminars game-changing LiDAR makes its way to TRIs self-driving car
 When I ask around about who has the most potential to make big waves in the LiDAR industry, one name tops the list: Luminar, the startup that emerged from stealth earlier this year after five ye...
01:55 pm GMT - Wed, September 27, 2017
Techcrunch Surreal wants to be the one-stop shop for 3D virtual objects
 Don’t expect the ARKit app rush to end any time soon. MojiLala, the betaworks-backed marketplace for emojis and emoticons, is today launching their second app. Meet Surreal, a marketplace ...
01:16 pm GMT - Wed, September 27, 2017
Techcrunch Cloudflare moves into video with the launch of Cloudflare Stream
 Cloudflare has made a name for itself as a content delivery platform and security company, offering services to help keep websites up and running (sometimes running into a littlecontroversyin th...
01:00 pm GMT - Wed, September 27, 2017
Techcrunch Adobe wants to make every online retailer more analytical
 In its most recent earnings report, Adobe reportedrecord revenue, but CEO Shantanu Narayen admitted he was a bit disappointed with the Experience Cloud results. That’s the part of Adobe th...
01:00 pm GMT - Wed, September 27, 2017
Techcrunch UVifys zippy little Draco racing drone is now shipping
 We haven’t heard much out of camp UVify since it showed us its racing drone at CES back in early January. At the time, the company promised delivery by “as early as next quarter.R...
12:14 pm GMT - Wed, September 27, 2017
Techcrunch Ford and Lyfts new self-driving partnership likely to be a standard model
 Ford and Lyft are working together on self-driving vehicle technology, but the focus of the collaboration is around Lyft’s positioning of itself as an open platform for future autonomous o...
12:00 pm GMT - Wed, September 27, 2017
Techcrunch XO Group, owner of The Knot, acquires wedding photo app Veri
 XO Group has acquired Veri, a startup that allows users to automatically share photos of weddings and other important events.XO Group’sflagship property isThe Knot, which has been used by ...
11:47 am GMT - Wed, September 27, 2017
Techcrunch So why oh why is Twitter doing #280?
 Late yesterday Twitter announced the unthinkable for time-pressed journalists everywhere by revealing it is testing doubling the character length of tweets. Farewell sweet brevity of 140chars. H...
11:30 am GMT - Wed, September 27, 2017
Techcrunch Interviewing.io hopes to close the engineer diversity gap with anonymous interviews
 Take out your name, resume and any other identifying information then hop on the internet and show your skills to a recruiting manager. That’s the way Interviewing.io does it to ensure a t...
11:00 am GMT - Wed, September 27, 2017
Techcrunch Legion raises $10.5M to roll out an automated employee scheduling tool
 There’s a lot of talk about employees wanting much more flexible work schedules, and a lot of that is thanks to the emergence of companies like Lyft and Uber that allow people to work on t...
11:00 am GMT - Wed, September 27, 2017
Techcrunch Garmins new fitness tracker uses Disney characters to trick kids into exercising
 I’m never not going to feel a pang of sadness thinking about the fact that kids these days require activity trackers to move, but that’s just the world we live in. Garmin got into th...
11:00 am GMT - Wed, September 27, 2017
Techcrunch EBY, the undies subscription service from Sofia Vergara, goes live today
 Today, yet another subscription service joins the pack. Sofia Vergara and Renata Black’s EBY underwear enterprise has just gone live, letting users sign up to receive three pairs of new un...
09:26 am GMT - Wed, September 27, 2017
Techcrunch Ford becomes the latest automotive giant to work with Lyft on self-driving cars
 Unlike Uber and China’s Didi, Lyft isn’t developing its own self-driving cars. But the U.S. company sure is signing up major names to help it bridge the gap. This week it announced F...
07:42 am GMT - Wed, September 27, 2017
Techcrunch Hoop app for millennial parents secures 2.4M in a round led by BGF Ventures
 You’d think that parents being able to find stuff for their kids to do would have been a solved problem by now, but apparently not. Indeed, the trend is towards more on-demand content on p...
07:01 am GMT - Wed, September 27, 2017
Techcrunch Revolut launches cell phone insurance in the U.K.
 Fintech startup Revolut is trying so many things at once that it’s hard to keep track of everything. This time, the company is partnering with Simplesurance to launch a new insurance produ...
07:00 am GMT - Wed, September 27, 2017
Techcrunch Pi Labs, a pre-Series A property tech VC based in London, closes $10M second fund
 Property Innovation Labs (Pi Labs), an accelerator-turned-early-stage VC fund that invests in property tech startups ‘pre-Series A’, has closed a second fund of $10 million, from whi...
03:47 am GMT - Wed, September 27, 2017
Techcrunch Alibabas Ant Financial partners with Hutchison to develop its Alipay service in Hong Kong
 Ant Financial, the Alibaba affiliate that operates payment service Alipay and other digital finance products, has continued its Asia expansion with a move into Hong Kong. Alipay and Alibaba̵...
02:22 am GMT - Wed, September 27, 2017
Techcrunch Kik raises nearly $100M in highest profile ICO to date
 The highest profile ICOs from a consumer internet company to datehas come to a close after messaging app Kik raised nearly $100 million from its token sale. The exact amount is168,732 ETH —...
02:14 am GMT - Wed, September 27, 2017
Techcrunch Google suddenly removes YouTube access from the Amazon Echo Show
 YouTube pulled a no-show on Amazon’s Echo Show today.Google pulled the video service from the smart speaker this afternoon, a move Amazon doesn’t seem too happy about.Echo Show owner...
12:29 am GMT - Wed, September 27, 2017
Techcrunch The Inside, a maker of so-called fast furniture, lands $1.5 million from Forerunner
 Seventeen years ago, Christiane Lemieux created DwellStudio, a popular catalog and e-retailer that built one brick-and-mortar store in SoHo before getting acquired for undisclosed terms in 2013 ...
12:08 am GMT - Wed, September 27, 2017
Techcrunch Oculus will start refunding users for bad VR content
 Oculus wants people to keep buying VR content, but one bad experience with an overpriced piece of crap game can rub a user the wrong way.Today, the companyannouncedthat they’re putting for...
11:09 pm GMT - Tue, September 26, 2017
Techcrunch Antidilution: the other way VCs take more of your startups equity
 Startup funding may seem like a cut-and-dry affair. Money goes into a startup in exchange for shares in the startup. Easy enough, right?Not so much. There are plenty of complex terms, clauses, p...
09:18 pm GMT - Tue, September 26, 2017
Techcrunch The makers of the Solarin secure cellie are building a bitphone
 Bitcoin-powered cellphones — basically phones that can securely hold and send cryptocurrencies — have long been a fascinating if undeveloped concept in the crypto community. When pho...
09:08 pm GMT - Tue, September 26, 2017
Techcrunch Following AWS, Google Compute Engine also moves to per-second billing
 A week ago, AWS announced that it would soon move to per-second billing for users of its EC2 service. It doesn’t come as a huge surprise, then, that Google today announced a very similar m...
09:05 pm GMT - Tue, September 26, 2017
Techcrunch Signal update keeps your address book secret, keeps it safe
 No one would use a secure messaging service like Signal if you couldn’t find out who else was on it — but how can you trust Signal and others not to snoop when you submit your contac...
09:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 26, 2017
Techcrunch Twitter trials an expansion beyond 140 characters
 Twitter for the first time is expanding beyond its 140-character limit, the company announced today. The social network says it will now try out a longer limit of 280 characters in select langua...
09:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 26, 2017
Techcrunch Twitter trials expanding tweets from 140 characters to 280
 Twitter for the first time is expanding beyond its 140-character limit, the company announced today. The social network says it will now try out a longer limit of 280 characters in select langua...
08:47 pm GMT - Tue, September 26, 2017
Techcrunch Ataribox will be an open, Linux-based console priced starting at $249
 The upcoming Ataribox retro gaming console will indeed ship with a selection of classic Atari games, as many suspected when the thing was initially announced – but it’ll also have a ...
07:57 pm GMT - Tue, September 26, 2017
Techcrunch Roivant receives bad news and so does Softbank
 Last month, Softbank, through its massive Vision Fund, led the single biggest private financing round for a health care company ever — funneling$1.1 billion into the drug holding outfitRoi...
07:14 pm GMT - Tue, September 26, 2017
Techcrunch Google Cloud acquires cloud identity management company Bitium
 Google Cloud announced today that it has acquired Bitium, a company that focused on offering enterprise-grade identity management and access tools, such as single-sign on, for cloud-based applic...
07:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 26, 2017
Techcrunch How Europes changes to copyright law will affect America
 Europe is considering changing its copyright law. At first blush, you might think that this couldn’t possibly affect the way you debate thenews of the day online, upload family videos or r...
06:39 pm GMT - Tue, September 26, 2017
Techcrunch The Apple TV is back on Amazon
 The Apple TV is back for sale on Amazon after a two-year hiatus – a move that was expected following Apple CEO Tim Cook’s announcement in June that Amazon’s Prime Video app wou...
05:47 pm GMT - Tue, September 26, 2017
Techcrunch Uber is pulling out of Qubec due to regulatory issues
 Uber is planning to cease operations in Qubec next month due to some newly proposed regulations by the Ministry of Transportation. Uber’s last day of operations in Quebec will be October 1...
05:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 26, 2017
Techcrunch Yomee wants to take the guesswork out of culturing yogurt at home
 In a post-Juicero world, the bar has been set high for any piece of smart kitchen hardware that only makes one type of food. Enter Yomee, which bills itself as the Keurig of fresh yogurt and is ...
04:52 pm GMT - Tue, September 26, 2017
Techcrunch Dyson is working on an electric car set to launch by 2020
 Dyson, maker of high-tech vacuum cleaners and fans, has long been rumored to be getting into the car game. That’s no longer a rumor, as the company has confirmed that it’s working on...
03:59 pm GMT - Tue, September 26, 2017
Techcrunch Workplace, Facebooks enterprise edition, snaps up Walmart as a customer
 Workplace — Facebook’s bid to take on the Slack, Microsoft and the rest of the players in the market of business chat and collaboration — is getting a big push today by way of ...
03:31 pm GMT - Tue, September 26, 2017
Techcrunch Microsoft Excel is about to get a lot smarter
 Microsoft Excel users rejoice. Your favorite spreadsheet is about to get a lot smarter, thanks to the help of machine learning and a better connection to the outside world. As Jared Spataro, Mic...
02:59 pm GMT - Tue, September 26, 2017
Techcrunch Managed By Q, the office management system, acquires Hivy
 Managed by Q, the platform that helps office managers handle day-to-day operations, has made its first acquisition, picking up Y Combinator graduates Hivy for an undisclosed amount.Managed By Q ...
02:46 pm GMT - Tue, September 26, 2017
Techcrunch Yubico launches its smallest YubiKey yet
 Yubico has launched the smallest version of its popular YubiKey hardware authentication and encryption devices yet: the $60 YubiKey 4C Nano. Like the regularYubiKey 4Cdevice, this is a USB-C don...
02:40 pm GMT - Tue, September 26, 2017
Techcrunch Sketchfabs app might be the best way to try ARKit
 One of the big promises with iOS 11 is ARKit. This new framework makes it much easier to look at virtual objects in the real world using augmented reality. Sketchfab has been building the bigges...
02:33 pm GMT - Tue, September 26, 2017
Techcrunch Alibaba pays $807M to take majority ownership in logistics affiliate Cainiao
 Alibaba is getting serious about logistics after it agreed to invest RMB 5.3 billion ($807 million) in order to take majority ownership in subsidiary companyCainiao. Cainiao was created four yea...
02:15 pm GMT - Tue, September 26, 2017
Techcrunch The NFL partners with Facebook to distribute game highlights and recaps on the social network
 Facebook and the NFL this morning announced a new multi-year programming deal that will see the sports organization distributing official NFL video, including game recaps and official highlights...
02:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 26, 2017
Techcrunch Yelp is betting on home services, which accounts for 20 percent of revenue
 While many folks think of Yelp as a place to find a great place to eat, the company has been quietly infiltrating other categories. Home Services — stuff like plumbing, movers, mechanics, ...
02:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 26, 2017
Techcrunch Blue Origin selected as launch provider for satellite startup mu Space
 Thai space startup mu Space will launch its first geostationary satellite with Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin, the companies announced today at the International Astronautical Congress in Austral...
02:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 26, 2017
Techcrunch Plume Labs air quality tracker is now available for pre-orders
 Plume Labs wants to be the definitive startup when it comes to air pollution. The company has built an app, an API and now an air quality tracker. The Flow is a tiny Bluetooth device you pair wi...
01:44 pm GMT - Tue, September 26, 2017
Techcrunch Amazon adds Alexa voice control to the Amazon Music app
 Amazon today is bringing Alexa to the Amazon Music app on iOS and Android, allowing listeners to use voice controls with their music. The feature is available in the U.S., U.K., Germany and Aust...
01:33 pm GMT - Tue, September 26, 2017
Techcrunch Instagram now lets you choose who can comment on your posts
 Instagram is celebrating its milestone of reaching 800 million users on the platform, and 500 million using it daily, with new comment moderation tools that make it easier to silence anyone bein...
01:30 pm GMT - Tue, September 26, 2017
Techcrunch Equifax CEO Richard Smith has retired following huge data breach
 Just over a week afterEquifax’s chief security officer andchief information officer “retired,” the bungling company’s CEO has made the same move after a huge data breach ...
01:03 pm GMT - Tue, September 26, 2017
Techcrunch Zoom brings a dash of augmented reality and artificial intelligence to meetings in latest release
 At Zoomtopia, Zoom’s very first user conference this week, the company announced a series of enhancements to its popular meeting software including the introduction of augmented reality me...
01:03 pm GMT - Tue, September 26, 2017
Techcrunch Spielberg-backed VR startup grabs $20M led by AMC to bring headsets into movie theaters
 Though consumer VR is off to a slow start, many believe that location-based experiences could represent a more sustainable future for the industry, giving consumers higher-quality content in an ...
01:02 pm GMT - Tue, September 26, 2017
Techcrunch Eligo Bioscience raises $20 million to target the microbiome more precisely
 French startup Eligo Bioscience just raised $20 million to develop next-gen biotherapeutics. Khosla Ventures is leading the round. This is also Khosla Ventures’ first investment in a Frenc...
01:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 26, 2017
Techcrunch Investors can now make trades on Yahoo Finance
 It’s no longer just a place to look up stock market data and company news. Yahoo Finance is now introducing trading directly via its app. With 75 million monthly active users, Yahoo Financ...
01:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 26, 2017
Techcrunch Plex adds personalized, streaming news to its media player software
 Media player software maker Plex is today making good on its acquisition of streaming news startup Watchup from earlier this year with the integration of a dedicated news hub within its app. The...
12:56 pm GMT - Tue, September 26, 2017
Techcrunch Rocket Labs next private pad rocket launch to fly Planet and Spire satellites
 Rocket Lab is a startup aiming to break new ground in the world of commercial space business: The company hopes to be the first in the world to regularly offer commercial orbital launches of sma...
12:32 pm GMT - Tue, September 26, 2017
Techcrunch Daimler answers Elon Musks Twitter challenge on EVs
 Elon Musk uses Twitter to express his thoughts frankly and directly, and he just took issue with a USA Today story about the size of a rival automaker’s bet on electric vehicle technology....
12:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 26, 2017
Techcrunch Vimeo acquires Livestream, launches its own live video product
 After abandoning its plans to launch a subscription video-on-demand business earlier this year, IAC-owned streaming video siteVimeoannounced today that it’s acquiring the live video stream...
12:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 26, 2017
Techcrunch Splunk expands machine learning capabilities across platform
 Splunk has always been data central for IT operations info, but as the logs fill up with ever-increasing amounts of data, it has become impossible for humans to keep up. Recognizing this, Splunk...
11:30 am GMT - Tue, September 26, 2017
Techcrunch ProsperWorks raises $53M for its G Suite-centric CRM service
 ProsperWorks, a service that offers a set of Google-centric CRM tools, today announced that it has raised a $53 million Series C round led by Norwest Venture Partners, with participation from GV...
11:21 am GMT - Tue, September 26, 2017
Techcrunch Kanos next learn-to-code kit is a build-it-yourself laptop
 London-based Kano has another code kit in the works to add to its STEM targeting gamified educational line of build-it-yourself kids’ products ahead of the present-buying holiday season. R...
11:00 am GMT - Tue, September 26, 2017
Techcrunch IVP announces $1.5 billion venture fund
 IVP, one of the original late-stage venture capital firms, is announcing its sixteenth fund. And at $1.5 billion, it’s the largest yet. This brings the group’s total committed capita...
10:00 am GMT - Tue, September 26, 2017
Techcrunch Lively raises $4.2M as it adds investment capabilities for health savings accounts
 Lively co-founder Shobin Uralil likes to describe the health savings account as the “401(k) for healthcare” — but that it’s woefully underused as an investment vehicle li...
09:49 am GMT - Tue, September 26, 2017
Techcrunch Fairphone takes $7.7M to push for change across the electronics value chain
 European mobile device maker Fairphone, which designs modular smartphones with the aim of supporting repairability and encouraging sustainability, has taken in new investment of 6.5 million ($7....
09:00 am GMT - Tue, September 26, 2017
Techcrunch Transit raises another $5M from Accel to become a hub for public transportation
 Transit started off as a slick app that helped you get in a complex metro area with public transportation, but now CEO Jake Sion has higher ambitions than that: being the go-to spot for getting ...
06:34 am GMT - Tue, September 26, 2017
Techcrunch AI startup Appier hires Sean Chu from Microsoft to head its Asia growth strategy
 Appier, the artificial intelligence startup that recently raised a $33 million Series C from three of Asia’s biggest Internet companies, has hired former Microsoft Japan marketing senior d...
03:40 am GMT - Tue, September 26, 2017
Techcrunch Twitter says it hasnt deleted Trumps provocative North Korea tweet because of newsworthiness
 After North Korea’s top diplomat described President Donald Trump’s recent tweets about the country as a “declaration of war,” Twitter explained why it hasn’t delet...
03:00 am GMT - Tue, September 26, 2017
Techcrunch JD X taps Nvidia for drone deliveries, rescue and agricultural use
 GPU maker Nvidia has announced that it will work with retail giant JD.com to help with an outdoor robotics initiative that sprung out of JD X, the commerce company’s innovation lab. JDrone...
03:00 am GMT - Tue, September 26, 2017
Techcrunch Crunch Report | Apples Siri Embraces Google
Looking at Instagram’s growth numbers, SAP is buying Gigya for $350 million, Apple’s Siri switches from Bing to Google for web searches and Google and Levi’s connected jackets now on...
03:00 am GMT - Tue, September 26, 2017
Techcrunch Nvidia picks up Alibaba and Huawei as partners for smart city platform
 Nvidia’s Metropolis AI smart cities platform sounds like a story arc for DC’s superman comics, but it’s actually a GPU-based intelligent monitoring tool that can enable things ...
01:22 am GMT - Tue, September 26, 2017
Techcrunch Package delivery startup Doorman is shutting down
 Doorman, a startup delivering packages when you schedule them will be no more after October 6th, 2017.The startup sent a letter over the weekend letting customers know it would no longer be in b...
12:12 am GMT - Tue, September 26, 2017
Techcrunch Zuck and Bezos back seed stage scout fund Village Global
 Product Hunt’s first employee Erik Torenberg is ready to fund fresh new startups, not just reveal them to the world. Today is the soft launch of Village Global, a seed and pre-seed early s...
11:44 pm GMT - Mon, September 25, 2017
Techcrunch Groupons billionaire co-founder Eric Lefkofsky just raised $70 million for his new company
 Chicago billionaire Eric Lefkofsky has started five companies, none of which would seem to lead him to found a company that’s trying to cure cancer. Yet investors just gave his newest, two...
11:44 pm GMT - Mon, September 25, 2017
Techcrunch Groupons billionaire cofounder Eric Lefkofsky just raised $70 million for his new company
 Chicago billionaire Eric Lefkofsky has started five companies, none of which would seem to lead him to found a company that’s trying to cure cancer. Yet investors just gave his newest, two...
10:30 pm GMT - Mon, September 25, 2017
Techcrunch Exposure of your sensitive data isnt a bug, its a feature
 Another day, another breach. Equifax, SEC, Deloitte and the next one is coming soon. Nothing surprising there anymore, not for customers, not for the breached companies. So why does this keep ha...
10:27 pm GMT - Mon, September 25, 2017
Techcrunch Microsoft places its bets on quantum computing
 At its Ignite conference, Microsoft today put its stake in the ground and discussed its progress in building a quantum computer and giving developers tools to experiment with this new computing ...
09:23 pm GMT - Mon, September 25, 2017
Techcrunch Star Trek: Discovery presents a murkier vision of the classic franchise
 Star Trek: Discovery has a lot riding on it, both for CBS executives (who are counting on the show to help them launch their paid streaming service, CBS All Access) and Star Trek fans (who’...
09:00 pm GMT - Mon, September 25, 2017
Techcrunch Lyft adds 24/7 live driver phone support
 Lyft has added a few new driver-centric features to its app today, some of which are direct answers to things implemented by rival Uber as part of its ‘180 days of change’ campaign. ...
08:51 pm GMT - Mon, September 25, 2017
Techcrunch Microsoft CEO Satya Nadellas new book is more business text than memoir
 Any sitting CEO’s book about his own company is likely to be a bit of a disappointment. It’s no surprise then that Satya Nadella’s Hit Refresh, which officially launched at Mic...
08:18 pm GMT - Mon, September 25, 2017
Techcrunch A history of HTC in 12 devices
 HTC on Friday basically sold a huge portion of itself to Google, which is clearly hoping to use the company’s talent for hardware in its own push for self-branded devices. It’s the e...
08:06 pm GMT - Mon, September 25, 2017
Techcrunch WhatsApp blocked in China, though past bans proved temporary
 WhatsApp has been widely blocked in mainland China by the country’s government, with text messaging as well as photo and video sharing not currently functional. However, WhatsApp had previ...
08:00 pm GMT - Mon, September 25, 2017
Techcrunch Full coverage from Microsoft Ignite 2017
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07:56 pm GMT - Mon, September 25, 2017
Techcrunch Disrupt Berlin extends the Startup Battlefield application deadline
 Zgern sich. Roughly translated (and boy, do we mean roughly), that’s procrastinators rejoice. Why all the excitement? Early stage startup entrepreneurs now have an extra week to complete t...
07:21 pm GMT - Mon, September 25, 2017
Techcrunch Trump wants the Department of Education to commit $200 million per year to computer science education
 President Donald Trump will soon direct the Department of Education to commit $200 million every year to K-12 computer science education, which Code.org is marking as a victory for its nonprofit...
06:27 pm GMT - Mon, September 25, 2017
Techcrunch Waymo clarifies it actually wants $1.8 billion from Uber
 Last week, Uber’s legal team toldJudge William Alsup that Waymo was seeking $2.6 billion for an allegedly stolen trade secret related to the company’s autonomous vehicle efforts. Ove...
06:07 pm GMT - Mon, September 25, 2017
Techcrunch Target is adding Pinterests visual search tool to its app and website
 Pinterest today announced a partnership with Target to integrate its visual search technology known as Lens into Target’s apps, and later its desktop website. The deal, which represents th...
05:57 pm GMT - Mon, September 25, 2017
Techcrunch Traveler who refused to give device passwords to police found guilty of obstruction in UK court
 A UK court has reaffirmed the power for state agents to use sweeping counterterrorism legislation to require travelers hand over the passwords for their digital devices for their contents to be ...
05:26 pm GMT - Mon, September 25, 2017
Techcrunch Apple starts collecting browsing data in Safari using its differential privacy tech
 Today’s public release of macOS High Sierra brings with it some key updates to Safari — including the ability to disable cross-site cookie tracking and turn off autoplaying ads. Arri...
05:17 pm GMT - Mon, September 25, 2017
Techcrunch Researchers find that Twitter bots can be used for good
 According to Emilio Ferrara, a USC Information Sciences Institute researcher, not all Twitter bots are born bad. He should know. Ferrara created a “large-scale experiment designed to analy...
05:06 pm GMT - Mon, September 25, 2017
Techcrunch Uber rolls Driver Destinations back from six to two daily in four major cities
 Uber has been steadily releasing a series of updates to its driver-side product as part of its ‘180 Days of Change’ campaign, which kicked off with the introduction of in-app tipping...
05:03 pm GMT - Mon, September 25, 2017
Techcrunch YouTubes new ad tech automatically personalizes ads, can now target using Google Maps, app install data
 YouTube today introduced a series of new tools for marketers, one of the more notable being “Director Mix,” a technology that allows a company to create thousands of video ads tailor...
05:02 pm GMT - Mon, September 25, 2017
Techcrunch macOS High Sierra is available now as a free download
 The latest version of of macOS just went live on the Mac App Store as a free download. Apple’s other operating system has taken a bit of a backseat to its mobile counterpart in recent year...
05:00 pm GMT - Mon, September 25, 2017
Techcrunch macOS High Sierras biggest updates happen behind the scenes
 With all of the new features packed into iOS 11, High Sierra is something of a disappointment. It’s a bit like getting socks and underwear for Christmas. You know it’s necessary and ...
04:38 pm GMT - Mon, September 25, 2017
Techcrunch Jopwell raises $7.5 million to further its mission to diversify companies
 Jopwell, the recruiting startup focused on diversity, has raised a $7.5 million Series A round led by Cue Ball Capital, bringing its total funding up to $11.75 million. Founded by Porter Braswel...
04:25 pm GMT - Mon, September 25, 2017
Techcrunch Snapchats new Filters can transform the sky above your head
 Snapchat’s latest augmented reality feature is another implementation of the tech that applies to the world, rather than the faces found in frame when you take a picture. They’re cal...
04:10 pm GMT - Mon, September 25, 2017
Techcrunch Gem looks to CDC and European giant Tieto to take blockchain into healthcare
 The Venice, Calif.-based company Gem is bringing blockchain technology to a broader set of applications through work the company is conducting with the Centers for Disease Control and the Europe...
04:02 pm GMT - Mon, September 25, 2017
Techcrunch Apple switches from Bing to Google for Siri web search results on iOS and Spotlight on Mac
 Apple is switching the default provider of its web searches from Siri, Search inside iOS (formerly called Spotlight) and Spotlight in Safari on the Mac. So, for instance, if Siri falls back to a...
04:00 pm GMT - Mon, September 25, 2017
Techcrunch Mobile hardware lab Nanoport gets $7 million in seed funding
 Held at Moscone Center in San Francisco earlier this month, Mobile World Congress Americas was a pretty uninspiring show, but a few interesting startups stood out among the rows and rows of mobi...
03:58 pm GMT - Mon, September 25, 2017
Techcrunch Tech for good: Filling in the governments gaps
 While traditional industries can get away with ignoring broader social ills or hot-button political issues, tech companies big and small are increasingly expected to solve the former and speak o...
03:48 pm GMT - Mon, September 25, 2017
Techcrunch Instagram now has 800 million monthly and 500 million daily active users
 Instagram’s still growing at a rapid pace, having added 100 million new monthly active users in just a month since it last reported a new figure. It now has 800 million users engaging with...
03:35 pm GMT - Mon, September 25, 2017
Techcrunch Star Trek: Discovery debut led to record sign-ups for CBSs streaming service
 CBS’s big bet on “Star Trek: Discovery,” the first Star Trek TV series since “Star Trek: Enterprise” wrapped in 2005, is also serving the network’s big bet on...
03:22 pm GMT - Mon, September 25, 2017
Techcrunch We talk about hoofed spiders with the founder of Outlier clothing
 Outlier’s founder Abe Burmeister is a designer who joined the world of clothing manufacturing over five years ago. His clothing – creating with cutting edge fabrics – is touted...
02:23 pm GMT - Mon, September 25, 2017
Techcrunch Google and Levis connected jacket that lets you answer calls, use maps and more is going on sale
 Over a year after Google showed off its “connected” jean jacket designed for bike commuters at last year’s Google I/O developer conference, the company today is unveiling the f...
02:13 pm GMT - Mon, September 25, 2017
Techcrunch Fitbits Ionic smartwatch and bluetooth headphones go on sale October 1
 Those who’ve been eagerly awaiting Fitbit’s first real foray into the world of smartwatches will be able to get their hands on the thing in a matter of days. The company announced th...
02:00 pm GMT - Mon, September 25, 2017
Techcrunch Gillmor Gang: Gas Table
 The Gillmor Gang — Doc Searls, Denis Pombriant, Keith Teare, Frank Radice, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Sunday, September 24, 2017. Binge ignoring, EquiChain, NFL kneeling, UberEats. G...
02:00 pm GMT - Mon, September 25, 2017
Techcrunch Microsofts new Data Box lets you mail up to 100 TB to its Azure cloud
 Moving lots ofdata to the cloud can take a long time and cost quite a bit, even over fast connections. Like its competitors — and especially AWS — Microsoft has long allowed its Azur...
01:09 pm GMT - Mon, September 25, 2017
Techcrunch Uber CEO apologizes for mistakes after London license blow
 Uber’s new CEO Dara Khosrowshahi has written an open letter apologizing for “mistakes we’ve made” following the announcement on Friday by London’s transport regulat...
01:02 pm GMT - Mon, September 25, 2017
Techcrunch Microsoft launches new machine learning tools
 Microsoft, just like many of its competitors, has gone all in on machine learning. That emphasis is on full display at the company’s Ignite conference this where, where the company today a...
01:01 pm GMT - Mon, September 25, 2017
Techcrunch Microsoft finally starts doing something with LinkedIn by integrating it into Office 365
 Last year, Microsoft bought LinkedIn for $26.2 billion, but even though the acquisition has long closed, Microsoft hasn’t yet done much with all of the data it gets from the social network...
01:00 pm GMT - Mon, September 25, 2017
Techcrunch Microsoft looks to the cloud to expand its security offerings
 Ignite is Microsoft’s main annual conference for bringing together its enterprise users and IT community. It’s no surprise then, that security is one of the main topics at the event,...
01:00 pm GMT - Mon, September 25, 2017
Techcrunch Bing now means business
 Unless you’re a regular Bing user, chances are you haven’t thought about Microsoft’s search engine all that much in recent years. While Microsoft has kept adding features to th...
01:00 pm GMT - Mon, September 25, 2017
Techcrunch Microsoft 365 expands with new plans for schools and frontline workers
 Microsoft today announced a major expansion to its Microsoft 365 offerings. The idea behind Microsoft 365 is to provide a single integrated solution that combines subscriptions to Office 365, Wi...
01:00 pm GMT - Mon, September 25, 2017
Techcrunch Cloudflare now offers unmetered DDoS attack mitigation
 Cloudflare turns seven this week and it wants to give your network a present. Should your website come under Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, it will never charge you additional fees...
01:00 pm GMT - Mon, September 25, 2017
Techcrunch Azure gets more affordable with reserved instances and new cost management features
 In case you didn’t know, Microsoft is hosting its annual Ignite conference in Orlando, Florida this week and while a lot of the event focuses on the company’s productivity apps, it w...
01:00 pm GMT - Mon, September 25, 2017
Techcrunch Microsoft is going all in on Teams and plans to phase out Skype for Business
 Microsoft Teams, the company’s Slack competitor with deep integrations into the Office 365 apps, has seen a lot of pickup over the last few months, with over 125,000 organizations now usin...
12:47 pm GMT - Mon, September 25, 2017
Techcrunch Didi invests $200M in Chinese auto trading platform RenRenChe
 China’s Didi Chuxing is already well-known for making investments, but this time around the ride-sharing company has stepped beyond backing companies in its core industry with its latest d...
12:41 pm GMT - Mon, September 25, 2017
Techcrunch Elon Musk to detail updates and new uses for SpaceXs interplanetary rocket
 Elon Musk revealed the Spaceship Interplanetary Spaceship and Rocket at last year’s International Astronautical Congress (embedded below), detailing a very ambitious plan to get humans to ...
12:00 pm GMT - Mon, September 25, 2017
Techcrunch Accelo hauls in $9 million to digitize operations for project-driven small businesses
 Accelo, a six-year old startup, is trying to solve a big problem for project-driven small businesses like architects, accountants and designers. These companies, which typically have less than 1...
11:00 am GMT - Mon, September 25, 2017
Techcrunch How Major League Baseball is using Apples ARKit to increase fan engagement
 Last week, I slipped away from Disrupt for a couple of hours to watch a Giants game at nearby AT&T park — or, more precisely, watch a Giants game through an iPad. It was a small gather...
10:44 am GMT - Mon, September 25, 2017
Techcrunch Marketing startup Synup gets $6M Series A to help brands manage their online reputation
 Synup, a startup that helps marketers monitor where their brands are mentioned online, announced that it has raised $6 million in Series A funding led by Vertex Ventures. Existing investor Prime...
10:18 am GMT - Mon, September 25, 2017
Techcrunch Synthace raises a 7.3m Series A to bring open source to biotech
 Synthace, a UK startup using open source technology to make process in biotechnology move faster, has raises a 7.3m Series A round. New investors White Cloud Capital, Amadeus Capital Partners an...
08:25 am GMT - Mon, September 25, 2017
Techcrunch Inkitt, a reader powered book publisher, raises $3.9M to discover the next best-selling author
 Inkitt, which bills itself as “the world’s first reader-powered book publisher,” has raised $3.9 million in pre-series A funding, in a round led by Redalpine, with Frontline Ve...
08:19 am GMT - Mon, September 25, 2017
Techcrunch Photo marketplace Picfair raises 1.5M, aims to weaponise photographers
 Picfair, the London-based photo marketplace founded by ex-journalist Benji Lanyado, has raised 1.5 million in new funding — capital it plans to use to market its “fair trade photogra...
07:26 am GMT - Mon, September 25, 2017
Techcrunch Backed by Accel, GlowRoad helps Indian women build home businesses
 Indian e-commerce company GlowRoad is built on a simple premise. By connecting manufacturers with resellers and using drop shipping, it keeps everyone’s overhead costs low. The Bangalore-b...
11:00 pm GMT - Sun, September 24, 2017
Techcrunch TechCrunchs Startup Battlefield Australia joined by leading Aussie names
 As you’ve probably gathered TechCrunch is headed to Australia to find the most disruptive early-stage startups, in partnership with ELEVACAO. As we like to say these days, ‘all roads...
09:46 pm GMT - Sun, September 24, 2017
Techcrunch Report: Jared Kushner used a private email server for White House work
 President Donald J. Trump’s son-in-law and official White House adviser, Jared Kushner, used a private email server — set up after the election — to conduct White House busines...
09:13 pm GMT - Sun, September 24, 2017
Techcrunch SAP is buying identity management firm Gigya for $350M
 SAP, the German enterprise software giant, today announced an acquisition to strengthen its hybris e-commerce division. It has acquired Gigya, a firm that helps online properties manage customer...
04:30 pm GMT - Sun, September 24, 2017
Techcrunch The cambrian moment in our innovation economy
 According to Re-Imagine group chairman and serial tech entrepreneurPeter Hirshberg, we are at a decisive moment in our innovation economy. Silicon Valley – or, at least, the “ethos o...
02:11 pm GMT - Sun, September 24, 2017
Techcrunch The Startup Alley from this weeks TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco
 At TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco we always have a huge and varied array of companies presenting.Here’s a taster of the Startup Alley from this year, featuring companies from many of the...
01:30 pm GMT - Sun, September 24, 2017
Techcrunch The new electronic police state
 Although the Fourth Amendment protects us and our “effects” from “unreasonable searches and seizures,” Customs and Border Protection agents can take advantage of an excep...
01:00 pm GMT - Sun, September 24, 2017
Techcrunch The abyss of analytics
 I want to talk about a mistake I see client after client making. (I work at a tech consultancy. We have a lot of clients. Not all of them make this mistake! …But many do.) That mistake is ...
10:19 am GMT - Sun, September 24, 2017
Techcrunch Deliveroo raises $385M in new funding, now valued at over $2 Billion
 Deliveroo, the London headquartered restaurant food delivery startup, has raised $385 million in new funding, giving it a valuation of “over $2 billion,” according to the company. Re...
12:30 am GMT - Sun, September 24, 2017
Techcrunch How to announce a funding round
 Attracting investment is a milestone for any startup – it’s a vote of confidence from a respected outside expert in your space and a signal that your company is positioned for the fu...
08:35 pm GMT - Sat, September 23, 2017
Techcrunch Five billion-dollar businesses for the driverless future
 Massive opportunities in urban transportation are emerging as the industry transitions from per-vehicle to per-mile economicsGrowing up, I dreamed of owning cars I would be proud to wax, polish,...
07:34 pm GMT - Sat, September 23, 2017
Techcrunch Automakers accelerate their interest in startups
 It’s no secret that automakers have shown more interest in startups lately. Nor is it any secret what’s driving that surge, given the massive shifts the industry faces from the rise ...
07:11 pm GMT - Sat, September 23, 2017
Techcrunch Southeast Asia games firm Sea, formerly Garena, files for $1 billion US IPO
 Southeast Asia-based games and e-commerce firm Sea, formerly known as Garena, has officially filed for its much-anticipated U.S. IPO. The company, which is valued at over $3.75 billion, will lis...
07:00 pm GMT - Sat, September 23, 2017
Techcrunch Beats Studio 3 bring premium noise canceling and battery life at a premium price
 Beats had a handful of different sounds on hand to test the Studio 3 ahead of launch. The demo was designed to showcase the range of the headphones’ new adaptive noise-canceling technology...
05:02 pm GMT - Sat, September 23, 2017
Techcrunch This news-reading AI could scan for police shootings nationwide
 Ask how many people have been killed in the last couple decades by police officers, and results vary widely. Local and federal authorities may track them differently, likewise activist and resea...
04:30 pm GMT - Sat, September 23, 2017
Techcrunch Dont wait for the Apple Watch to dole out medical advice anytime soon
 Could the Food and Drug Administration classify the Apple Watch as a medical device? It’s a question many have asked over the past couple of years, but the stakes are now higher for the Wa...
04:13 pm GMT - Sat, September 23, 2017
Techcrunch Dispatches on diversity: Uber, sexual harassment and venture capital
 Racism. Sexism. Discrimination. Harassment. Those words often come up in questions pertaining to the state of diversity in Silicon Valley. Read More ...
03:33 pm GMT - Sat, September 23, 2017
Techcrunch Twitter is testing a Twitter Lite Android app, first in the Philippines
 Twitter today has nearly four times as many monthly active users outside the U.S. as it does in its home market — 260 million versus 68 million — and this week it quietly launched a ...
10:54 am GMT - Sat, September 23, 2017
Techcrunch Uber only has itself to blame for London license loss
 The tech industry’s over-processed supply of irony might not be enough to service all the ramifications of Uber being stripped of its London license by the city’s transport regulator...
01:57 am GMT - Sat, September 23, 2017
Techcrunch Russia targeted election systems in 21 states, successfully hacking some
 On Friday, the Department of Homeland Security notified nearly half of the U.S. states that their election systems were targeted by Russia-affiliated hackers in an attempt to influence the 2016 ...
01:27 am GMT - Sat, September 23, 2017
Techcrunch iPhone 8 teardown reveals few surprises, but more camera details
 The always hotly anticipated iFixit teardown of the iPhone 8 has arrived, and while it doesn’t harbor much in the way of surprises, there are a few tidbits you may want to know about hidin...
01:00 am GMT - Sat, September 23, 2017
Techcrunch Forget what youve been told about edtech
 Investors are incessant in their hunt for the next emerging market. The investment de jour? Edtech. The tastemaker in this case is an article from David Bainbridge claiming, “Edtech is the...
11:51 pm GMT - Fri, September 22, 2017
Techcrunch I have an SNES Classic Edition, and it rules
 Just in time for a weekend during which I had already planned to do nothing productive, a small package from Nintendo containing what will likely be its hottest item since the NES Classic Editio...
09:14 pm GMT - Fri, September 22, 2017
Techcrunch CRISPR breakthrough could drop miscarriage rates
 Gene-editing technology CRISPR has revealed a clue in how human embryos begin to develop, possibly reducing the risk of miscarriage in those crucial first few weeks of pregnancy. CRISPR Cas9 can...
09:06 pm GMT - Fri, September 22, 2017
Techcrunch iPhone 8 and 8 Plus cameras get top marks from testing outfit DxOMark
 If our review didn’t convince you that the cameras in the latest iPhones are something special, perhaps DxOMark’s lab-heavy evaluation process will do the trick. The camera testing s...
08:43 pm GMT - Fri, September 22, 2017
Techcrunch Facebook drops no-vote stock plan, Zuck will sell shares to fund philanthropy
 Mark Zuckerberg has gotten so rich that he can fund his philanthropic foundation and retain voting control without Facebook having to issue a proposed non-voting class of stock that faced shareh...
08:25 pm GMT - Fri, September 22, 2017
Techcrunch How tbh hit #1 by turning anonymity positive
 The innovation of tbh, teen-speak for To Be Honest, was getting rid of the typing. Whether asking or answering questions, open text fields invite abuse when combined with anonymity. Even an inno...
07:51 pm GMT - Fri, September 22, 2017
Techcrunch Google launches crowdsourced TV show and movie reviews, but only in India
 Google has added a new feature that allows web users to contribute their own movie and television reviews right within Google search results – a step towards the possible implementation of...
07:00 pm GMT - Fri, September 22, 2017
Techcrunch Automated telemedicine is coming, for everyone
 The irony of strict regulation is that while it drives up the quality of care, it also drives up costs, making it unreachable for those without health insurance. The fact that few for-profit scr...
06:58 pm GMT - Fri, September 22, 2017
Techcrunch TCs Original Content podcast watches the Emmys and goes to Disrupt
 This week, we’re mixing up the format on TechCrunch’s Original Content podcast. Your hosts Darrell Etherington and Anthony Ha were both at the Disrupt SF conference this week, which ...
06:24 pm GMT - Fri, September 22, 2017
Techcrunch iTunes finally offers 48-hour rentals in the US
 Praise the Apple gods. If you rent a movie on iTunes in the U.S., you now have 48 hours to watch it. And you can watch the movie as much as you want during that 48-hour window. As always, you ha...
06:00 pm GMT - Fri, September 22, 2017
Techcrunch How to run a token sale
 Seed funding is drying up. Accelerators are scrambling for revenue. Things are changing drastically in the startup ecosystem. So how do you raise money when your product needs more than some Dja...
05:54 pm GMT - Fri, September 22, 2017
Techcrunch Logitechs MX Ergo made me a trackball convert
 Some geeks of my vintage have a nostalgic fondness for trackballs, but I never managed to form such an association. Instead, I’ve been pretty much a dedicated mouse user since the mouse fi...
05:30 pm GMT - Fri, September 22, 2017
Techcrunch Despite all odds, Hyperloop One just raised another $85 million
 Hyperloop One, a three-year-old, L.A.-based company working to create near-supersonic trains that can whisk both passengers and cargo in giant pneumatic tubes at speeds of many hundreds of miles...
05:26 pm GMT - Fri, September 22, 2017
Techcrunch Netflix adds HDR support on iOS for iPhone 8, iPhone X and 2017 iPad Pro
 Netflix has updated its iOS application with HDR support for newer devices, including the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus, as well as the forthcoming iPhone X. It also works on the iPad Pro 12.9 and 10.5 fr...
05:03 pm GMT - Fri, September 22, 2017
Techcrunch Reelgoods app for cord cutters helps you find something new to watch
 Reelgood, a service aimed at helping cord cutters find new shows and movies to watch from across streaming services, is now available on mobile devices. The company this week launched on iOS ...
03:56 pm GMT - Fri, September 22, 2017
Techcrunch iPhone 8 and Apple Watch Series 3 hit stores today
 A week and a half after being unveiled on stage at the new Steve Jobs Theater, the iPhone 8/8 Plus and Apple Watch Series 3 have hit just hit store shelves. As ever, eager fans were queued up at...
03:42 pm GMT - Fri, September 22, 2017
Techcrunch Music and Muzak
 We are facing a firehose. Data spews at us from all angles, inundating us with ideas, culture, and creativity. We produce terabytes of information a year, changing the world as we know it. We ar...
03:15 pm GMT - Fri, September 22, 2017
Techcrunch Preschoolers get their own Pokmon game with launch of Pokmon Playhouse
 A new app called Pokmon Playhouse from the Pokmon Company, released this week, is bringing Pikachu and friends to preschoolers. Unlike the augmented reality game Pokmon Go, a collaboration betwe...
02:59 pm GMT - Fri, September 22, 2017
Techcrunch Ford is now designing cars in mixed reality using Microsoft HoloLens
 Ford is making cars using Microsoft’s HoloLens mixed reality headset, as part of a new test project the automaker is rolling out globally. The mixed reality design trial allows for rapid p...
02:53 pm GMT - Fri, September 22, 2017
Techcrunch The PocketBeagle is the tiniest and most whimsically-named single-board computer on the market
 Do you need a Linux machine about as big as a few quarters? Man, have I got something for you. It’s called the BeagleBoard PocketBeagle and it’s the smallest Linux computer you can b...
02:21 pm GMT - Fri, September 22, 2017
Techcrunch Target expands its next-day delivery service, now reaches 70 million customers
 Target’s next-day delivery service focused on everyday essentials, which has been in testing over the summer, is now expanding to eight major metros, making it available to over 70 million...
01:10 pm GMT - Fri, September 22, 2017
Techcrunch Live from Disrupt SF: Equity talks Slack, Lyft and flying cars
 Hello and welcome back toEquity, TechCrunch’s weekly venture capital-themed podcast where we work to unpack the numbers lurking behind the news.This week we have a special episode for you ...
12:00 pm GMT - Fri, September 22, 2017
Techcrunch BoJack Horseman gets picked up for a fifth season at Netflix
 Netflix’s narcissistic neigh-sayer is coming back yet again –BoJack Horseman will have a fifth season on the streaming service, as confirmed by a tweet from the official BoJack Twitt...
10:11 am GMT - Fri, September 22, 2017
Techcrunch Uber loses its license to operate in London
 In a huge blow to Uber in the UK London’s transport regulator has rejected its application to renew its license to operate in the city. In a statement today TfL said it has concluded that ...
08:00 am GMT - Fri, September 22, 2017
Techcrunch Startup Battlefield applications for Disrupt Berlin close this Monday
 Ach du lieber, menschen! The application deadline for your chance to compete in the Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin is this Monday, September 25 at 5 p.m. PT. It’s time to...
04:01 am GMT - Fri, September 22, 2017
Techcrunch Walmart partners with smart lock maker August to test in-home delivery of packages and groceries
 Walmart announced today it will begin testing a new service that will allow customers with August smart home devices, like the August doorbell and security cameras, to have their packages delive...
11:09 pm GMT - Thu, September 21, 2017
Techcrunch East Ventures closes new $30M fund to continue investing in Indonesia
 East Ventures is back at it again with another new fund to invest in early-stage companies in Indonesia, Southeast Asia’s largest economy and the world’s fourth most populous country...
11:09 pm GMT - Thu, September 21, 2017
Techcrunch East Ventures announces new $30M fund to continue investing in Indonesia
 East Ventures is back at it again with another new fund to invest in early-stage companies in Indonesia, Southeast Asia’s largest economy and the world’s fourth most populous country...
10:45 pm GMT - Thu, September 21, 2017
Techcrunch Database provider MongoDB has filed to go public
 MongoDB, a database software company based in New York, has filed to go public with the Securities and Exchange Commission as it continues to burn a ton of cash despite its revenue almost doubli...
10:21 pm GMT - Thu, September 21, 2017
Techcrunch Baidu announces $1.5B fund to back self-driving car startups
 Baidu is putting some serious cash behind its self-driving car push after it announced a $1.5 billion fund that’s focused on backing autonomous driving tech companies. The Chinese giant, b...
09:57 pm GMT - Thu, September 21, 2017
Techcrunch Microsoft confirms plans for a new flagship store in Regent Street opposite Apple
 Shopping may be turning into an increasingly virtual experience, with people buying goods online and through apps, but there is no denying the power of a physical in-store experience — a l...
09:45 pm GMT - Thu, September 21, 2017
Techcrunch Thoughts on Facebooks 9 plans to curb election interference
 Election meddling is Facebook’s next adversary, and it’s got a plan to attack it just like it did with fake news. Solutions to both these scourges come too late to prevent tampering ...
09:03 pm GMT - Thu, September 21, 2017
Techcrunch Facebook and Twitter play bigger role in Congressional election-hacking probe
 As Congressional investigations into Russia’s role in manipulating the election for U.S. president deepens, tech companies are assuming a more central role in the inquiries. Both Twitter a...
07:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 21, 2017
Techcrunch ipsy launches its beauty product e-commerce business Shopper as hit hits 3M subscribers
 ipsy, a subscription service that delivers a collection of products to its users every month, has spent the last six years building up a community with millions of people obsessed with beauty pr...
05:37 pm GMT - Thu, September 21, 2017
Techcrunch Freight startup Flexport soars from unsexy to $800M valuation
 Flexport handles the boring logistics of a trillion-dollar business: the tranport of shipping containers around the world. Because the work of freight forwarding seemed so bland, it was long ign...
04:52 pm GMT - Thu, September 21, 2017
Techcrunch Google Cloud adds support for more powerful Nvidia GPUs
 Google Cloud Platform announced support for some powerful Nvidia GPUs on Google Compute Engine today. For starters, the company is making Nvidia K80 GPUs generally available. At the same time, i...
04:51 pm GMT - Thu, September 21, 2017
Techcrunch Bose debuts new Google Assistant-optimized noise cancelling headphones
 Bose’s rumored QC 35 II noise-cancelling headphones are rumored no more: Bose made them official today, revealing the update to the company’s popular QC 35 premium noise-cancelling c...
04:39 pm GMT - Thu, September 21, 2017
Techcrunch Instagram adds face filters to live video
 Instagram is making its face filters available for live video streaming through the app, the company announced today. Instagram had introduced face filters, which add visual effects to detected ...
04:37 pm GMT - Thu, September 21, 2017
Techcrunch Google makes it easier for businesses to set up new phones for their employees
 Google is launching a new way for businesses to give new phones to their employees: zero-touch enrollment. Traditionally, when you want to give a new phone to an enterprise user, chances are som...
04:07 pm GMT - Thu, September 21, 2017
Techcrunch Tax on Internet ads among Europes proposals to plug digital tax gap
 Europe’s executive body has revealed more of its thinking on reforming digital taxation rules, issuing details of proposals it’s considering ahead of another meeting of EU ministers ...
04:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 21, 2017
Techcrunch Activehours raises $39 million for its new take on cash advances
 Nine months after raising $22 million for its unique take on the cash-advance business, Activehours has gone back to the venture capital well and pulled out another $39 million in financing.Led ...
03:16 pm GMT - Thu, September 21, 2017
Techcrunch Co-founder Brian Fenty becomes CEO at TodayTix
 There’s a new CEO at TodayTix, though he’s definitely not new to the company — Chairman Brian Fenty is becoming chief executive, while his co-founder (and the previous CEO) Mer...
02:58 pm GMT - Thu, September 21, 2017
Techcrunch London and Antwerp-based Hummingbird Ventures closes new $95M fund
 London and Antwerp-based Hummingbird Ventures, which counts Deliveroo and Showpad in its portfolio, has closed a new $95 million fund to invest in tech startups at the “late Seed and Serie...
02:53 pm GMT - Thu, September 21, 2017
Techcrunch Nvidia Shield TV gets a new, lower price ahead of Apple TV 4K launch
 Nvidia’s Shield TV, an Android TV-based device that’s currently the best option available for 4K streaming fans, is getting a price drop with a new package that leaves out the includ...
02:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 21, 2017
Techcrunch Pinterest opens up more than 5,000 interests for advertiser targeting through its Taste Graph
 Pinterest builds itself around visual discovery — the idea that you can come to the site or app, see something you like, and immediately dive down a rabbit hole. The company has built an e...
12:13 pm GMT - Thu, September 21, 2017
Techcrunch CCleaner supply chain malware targeted tech giants
 Malware that piggybacked on CCleaner, a popular free software tool for optimizing system performance on PCs, appears to have specifically targeted high profile technology companies and may have ...
12:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 21, 2017
Techcrunch Zenefits tries a rebrand and hands off insurance brokerage
 Zenefits co-founder Parker Conrad was shown the door in February last year, paving the way for then-COO David Sacks to take over the company and try to turn it around. After about a year of work...
11:50 am GMT - Thu, September 21, 2017
Techcrunch Apttus is putting artificial intelligence to work on contract management
 It seems AI and machine learning are quickly becoming a must-have for today’s software. Apttus, the quote-to-cash service is putting AI to work in contract processing in an effort to speed...
11:00 am GMT - Thu, September 21, 2017
Techcrunch With new funding, Tuition.io moves from student loan management to student loan repayments
 Back in 2014, Tuition.io was pitching itself as a management platform for student loan repayments. Now, three years later the company has raised $7 million in new financing as it moves from loan...
10:30 am GMT - Thu, September 21, 2017
Techcrunch Learning effects, network effects, and runaway leaders
 There’s a new economic force at work in the machine learning revolution that is capable of generating increasing returns to scale, much as network effects did in the internet revolution. T...
09:48 am GMT - Thu, September 21, 2017
Techcrunch Citymapper ties with Gett to launch shared taxi commuter route in London
 Urban transport navigator app Citymapper has announced a tie-up withGett’s UK black cab hailing app to run two commuter lines of shared taxis in London, morning and evenings, between Highb...
07:00 am GMT - Thu, September 21, 2017
Techcrunch DogBuddy, the European dog sitting marketplace, scores 5M Series A
 DogBuddy, a pan-European online marketplace for dog sitting, has closed 5 million in Series A funding, money it plans for further expansion. Backing the London-headquartered startup in this roun...
06:59 am GMT - Thu, September 21, 2017
Techcrunch HTC says it remains committed to Vive and its own smartphones after $1.1B deal with Google
 The $1.1 billion cooperation deal announced today between HTC and Google ended months of speculation, but prompted new questions. Chief among them is if the agreement and cash infusion can save ...
06:59 am GMT - Thu, September 21, 2017
Techcrunch HTC says it will prioritize Vive and its own smartphones after $1.1B deal with Google
 The $1.1 billion cooperation deal announced today between HTC and Google ended months of speculation, but prompted new questions. Chief among them is how exactly will the agreement affect HTC, w...
06:00 am GMT - Thu, September 21, 2017
Techcrunch Pointy, a startup that lets local retailers easily put stock online with a simple gadget, raises $6M
 Pointy, an Irish start startup that lets local retailers put their stock online so that they can be discovered via search engines, has raised $6 million in Series A funding. The round is being l...
03:00 am GMT - Thu, September 21, 2017
Techcrunch Crunch Report | Waymo Wants $2.6B for Trade Secret
Nest releases a new alarm system, the Nest Secure, SpaceX files trademark for name of internet service and Waymo wants $2.6 billion for allegedly stolen trade secret. All this on Crunch Report. Read M...
02:25 am GMT - Thu, September 21, 2017
Techcrunch Google, HTC sign $1.1B USD cooperation agreement to boost Googles hardware game
Google and HTC have entered into an agreement where certain HTC employees will join Google. As part of the transaction, HTC will receive $1.1B USD in cash from Google. Google will also receive non-exc...
01:58 am GMT - Thu, September 21, 2017
Techcrunch Pollys teen polling app piggybacks on Snapchat
 Snapchat doesn’t technically have a developer platform, but that hasn’t stopped other startups from taking advantage of its new feature for attaching links to your Snaps and Stories....
12:56 am GMT - Thu, September 21, 2017
Techcrunch ClassPass begins testing variable pricing as it expands beyond studio fitness
 On the heels of its $70 million Series C, an expansion to new markets, and a partnership with Blink Fitness, the popular workout subscription service ClassPass is now beginning to experiment wit...
12:41 am GMT - Thu, September 21, 2017
Techcrunch And the winner of Startup Battlefield at Disrupt SF 2017 is Pi
 Startups participating in the Startup Battlefield have all been hand-picked to participate in our highly competitive startup competition. They all presented in front of multiple groups of VCs an...
12:39 am GMT - Thu, September 21, 2017
Techcrunch Why women are coming forward about harassment and discrimination
 It’s been the talk of the summer in Silicon Valley. CEOs at Uber and SoFi lost their jobs after whistleblowers came forward, alleging sexism and harassment. Powerful venture capitalists, i...
11:47 pm GMT - Wed, September 20, 2017
Techcrunch Our favorite pitches from Alchemist Accelerators 16th batch
 Alchemist Accelerator, known for its specialty in working with enterprise startups, held its 16th demo day at Microsoft’s offices in Mountain View, California. 18 startups pitched ideas ra...
11:46 pm GMT - Wed, September 20, 2017
Techcrunch 21.co announces a token system to get people to join its paid messaging network
 Today at Disrupt, 21.co CEO and co-founder Balaji Srinivasan outlined his company’s unusual evolution and announced the launch of a new system for kickstarting the site’s user base b...
11:23 pm GMT - Wed, September 20, 2017
Techcrunch YC wants to let people invest in its startups through the blockchain
 ICOs — or initial coin offerings — are emerging as a route for startups to raise money from a wide pool of investors through cryptocurrency networks. Speaking at the TechCrunch Disru...
11:18 pm GMT - Wed, September 20, 2017
Techcrunch 10x, founded by the ex-CEO of Barclays, raises $46M to take on ancient banking infrastructure
 The fintech revolution continues apace, and while many startups are hoping that newer and better tech will help them take business away from traditional banks, today a company has received a lar...
11:12 pm GMT - Wed, September 20, 2017
Techcrunch Heres why professional sports teams are buying esports teams
 Today at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2017 we sat down withthree experts from the esports world to explain why you should start paying attention to the industry. To kick it off, Heather Garozzo, a form...
11:09 pm GMT - Wed, September 20, 2017
Techcrunch VC Kirsten Green talks shop including responding to criticisms of Bodega
 Earlier today at Disrupt, Kirsten Green, founder of the early-stage, San Francisco-based venture firmForerunner Ventures, sat down for a quick conversation about her work. Green has become one o...
11:02 pm GMT - Wed, September 20, 2017
Techcrunch Peter Thiel is being considered to chair Trumps intelligence advisory board
 In a fairly epic newVanity Fair profile, the magazine reports that Peter Thiel is the frontrunner to become the chair of thePresident’s Intelligence Advisory Board (PIAB), a meta intellige...
10:30 pm GMT - Wed, September 20, 2017
Techcrunch Rights management and content monetization company HAAWK raises $2.5 million
 There are tons of companies trying to solve the problem of managing, monitoring and paying musicians for the songs they make. The latest entrant into this competitive marketplace is HAAWK, which...
10:28 pm GMT - Wed, September 20, 2017
Techcrunch Bozoma Saint John says Uber didnt really poach her from Apple
 Uber’s first-ever chief brand officer,Bozoma Saint John, spoke today at TechCrunch Disrupt about the challenges ahead of her in her new role focused on transforming the Uber brand. The exe...
09:24 pm GMT - Wed, September 20, 2017
Techcrunch Albertsons snaps up meal kit startup Plated
 In a first for national grocery chains, Albertsons is buying the healthy meal kit delivery startup Plated for an undisclosed amount, brokered by Credit Suisse Group AG. Read More ...
09:24 pm GMT - Wed, September 20, 2017
Techcrunch Albertsons snaps up meal kit startup Plated for $200 million
 In a first for national grocery chains, Albertsons is buying the healthy meal kit delivery startup Plated for an undisclosed amount, brokered by Credit Suisse Group AG. Read More ...
09:12 pm GMT - Wed, September 20, 2017
Techcrunch Tesla said to be working on its own self-driving AI chip with AMD
 Tesla is reportedly developing its own processor for artificial intelligence, intended for use with its self-driving systems, in partnership with AMD. Tesla has an existing relationship with Nvi...
08:59 pm GMT - Wed, September 20, 2017
Techcrunch Delphi partners with BlackBerry QNX on its autonomous driving platform
 Delphi is planning to launch its own autonomous driving solution for car manufacturers and mobility service fleet operators in 2019, and it announced today that it will use BlackBerry QNX as the...
08:02 pm GMT - Wed, September 20, 2017
Techcrunch Facebook vows to manually review ad targeting after Jew-Haters scandal
 Facebook failed to forsee how turning user-written interests and employer information from profiles into ad targeting options could turn offensive. Now Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg has apologize...
07:40 pm GMT - Wed, September 20, 2017
Techcrunch Digital Ocean launches Spaces, its object storage service
 Digital Ocean today announced Spaces, its object storage service. This complements the company’s block storage service. Both of these services have different use cases, of course; unlike t...
06:58 pm GMT - Wed, September 20, 2017
Techcrunch SpaceX might name its satellite broadband internet service Starlink
 SpaceX has previously discussed its plans to put a satellite-based broadband Internet network into operation, as a way of supplementing its bottom line with a brand new revenue stream. Now, we k...
06:40 pm GMT - Wed, September 20, 2017
Techcrunch Senate Intelligence Committee wants Facebook to appear in a public Russia hearing
 According to its chairman, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence intends to call Facebook to a public hearing on Russia’s interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. North C...
06:31 pm GMT - Wed, September 20, 2017
Techcrunch Apple is working on a fix for Watch Series 3 LTE issues
 The new Apple Watch is mostly an iterative update over its predecessor, but for one major feature: LTE. The addition of cellular connectivity has been touted as everything from “nice”...
06:30 pm GMT - Wed, September 20, 2017
Techcrunch Uber says Waymo wants $2.6 billion for one allegedly stolen trade secret
 During a tense exchange, Judge William Alsup allowed an Uber lawyer to disclose that Alphabet’s Waymo is seeking $2.6 billion for a single allegedly stolen trade secret. There are currentl...
06:10 pm GMT - Wed, September 20, 2017
Techcrunch General Catalyst just hired its first female managing director: Holly Maloney McConnell
 Holly Maloney McConnell has joined the venture firm General Catalyst Partners as a managing director, operating out of its Boston office. McConnell joins the firm from North Bridge Growth Equity...
06:09 pm GMT - Wed, September 20, 2017
Techcrunch Tech giants told to remove extremist content much faster
 Tech giants are once again being urged to do more to tackle the spread of online extremism on their platforms.Leaders of the UK, France and Italy are taking time out at a UN summit today to meet...
05:55 pm GMT - Wed, September 20, 2017
Techcrunch Inside Embarks mission to make autonomous trucking a reality
 Autonomous trucking is an area where a growing number of companies are competing for talent and funding, but newcomer Embark is on a bit of a hot streak when it comes to funding, talent acquisit...
05:53 pm GMT - Wed, September 20, 2017
Techcrunch Fox will premiere its new show Ghosted on Twitter before it airs on TV
 Fox is partnering with Twitter to promote its fall TV shows by airing select episodes and other related content on Twitter’s social network. This includes the new comedy series “Ghos...
05:22 pm GMT - Wed, September 20, 2017
Techcrunch HubSpot acquires chatbot builder Motion AI
 HubSpot announced this morning that it has acquired chatbot startup Motion AI.Motion AI launched in 2015 and offers an editor for building chatbots that work on websites, Facebook Messenger, SMS...
05:11 pm GMT - Wed, September 20, 2017
Techcrunch Saudi Arabia opens itself to Skype, WhatsApp and other internet calling services
 Lifting a longtime ban, Saudi Arabia will open up the country to online calling services. Apps like Skype and WhatsApp will become functional in the country on Wednesday at midnight local time. ...
05:05 pm GMT - Wed, September 20, 2017
Techcrunch Pymetrics attacks discrimination in hiring with AI and recruiting games
 Identify the traits of your top performing employees and hire people like them, but without the discrimanatory bias of traditional recruiting. That’s the promise of Pymetrics, an artificia...
05:00 pm GMT - Wed, September 20, 2017
Techcrunch Nest announces the $499 Nest Secure, its new alarm system
 Nest announced a number of new security products today that all aim to keep your home safe from burglars and others you’d rather keep out. In addition to its new Nest Cam IQ Outdoor, the c...
04:59 pm GMT - Wed, September 20, 2017
Techcrunch Google Assistant is coming to Nest Cam IQ
 One more quick bit of news out of Nest’s press conference this morning: the company is adding support for Google’s voice-powered Assistant to the Nest Cam IQ line it debuted in March...
04:36 pm GMT - Wed, September 20, 2017
Techcrunch This is Nests new video doorbell
 We’re live at a Nest press conference in San Francisco, where the company is debuting new products rapid fire.The latest debut: Nest Hello, a smart video doorbell.If you’re familiar ...
04:35 pm GMT - Wed, September 20, 2017
Techcrunch Former AOL exec Seth Demsey joins Revcontent as an advisor
 As content recommendation company Revcontent plans to unveil new tools for online publishers, it’s also working with former AOL Platforms CTO Seth Demsey to develop its broader strategy. D...
04:34 pm GMT - Wed, September 20, 2017
Techcrunch You can now launch the Instagram app directly from Facebook
 Facebook is making it easier for users to access their Instagram profile directly from within the Facebook app. The company confirms it’s rolling out a new addition its main navigation men...
04:31 pm GMT - Wed, September 20, 2017
Techcrunch Nest launches a new $349 smart outdoor security camera
 Nest today announced its newest camera today: the Nest Cam IQ outdoor. This new outdoor camera brings the features of the company’s smart indoor camera to a more rugged outdoor version. As...
04:25 pm GMT - Wed, September 20, 2017
Techcrunch Google brings the $399 Android One Moto X4 to Project Fi (and the U.S.)
 Google today announced that the Android One Moto X4 is now available for pre-order on its Project Fi page. Like other Android One phones, the mid-range Moto X4, comes with a pure version of Andr...
04:21 pm GMT - Wed, September 20, 2017
Techcrunch Snapchats new partners attach instant apps and games to ads
 Snap wants its ads to open to something interesting rather than a boring mobile website. Today Snap announced 14 new ad Creative Partners that will help buildcustom games, interactive videos, gy...
03:58 pm GMT - Wed, September 20, 2017
Techcrunch Wall Street dings Apple after some reported LTE connectivity issues on the new Watch
 There are a lot of reports hitting the ‘net this morning in reviews of the Apple Watch Series 3, which indicate that there are some LTE connectivity issues — causing Apple to take a ...
03:47 pm GMT - Wed, September 20, 2017
Techcrunch Target rolls out Bluetooth beacon technology in stores to power new indoor maps in its app
 Target is adding an improved indoor mapping component to its mobile app, designed to help shoppers find their way through stores and locate the products they need, the retailer announced this mo...
03:45 pm GMT - Wed, September 20, 2017
Techcrunch Watch the final day of TC Disrupt SF live right here!
 All good things must come to an end, but we have one more full day of Disrupt for you to enjoy from home. The lineup today is jam-packed with all stars of the tech world. Kirsten Green from Fore...
03:30 pm GMT - Wed, September 20, 2017
Techcrunch Pluralsight IQ allows engineers to compare skills and proficiencies
 Pluralsight is announcing a new tool this morning to help satiate our innate desire to compare ourselves against one another. Pluralsight IQ is designed to assist developers in assessing their c...
03:18 pm GMT - Wed, September 20, 2017
Techcrunch Watch Nest unveil its next big thing right here
 Starting at 12:00 pm Eastern, Nest is set to unveil… something. There have been rumors and whispers and murmurs about what Nest could unveil but all will be revealed shortly. And then shor...
03:12 pm GMT - Wed, September 20, 2017
Techcrunch Apple bumps up the the over-the-air download limit for apps to 150 MB
 With the release of iOS 11, Apple is making it slightly easier for iOS device owners to download larger apps over a cellular connection by increasing the download limit. Before, Apple would requ...
03:00 pm GMT - Wed, September 20, 2017
Techcrunch Yahoos former VP of Mobile launches YaDoggie, a dog wellness startup
 Having successfully founded and exited a couple of software companies, Tomfoolery (sold to Yahoo) and Rally Up (sold to AOL), Sol Lipman has made his move into dog wellness with the launch of Ya...
01:43 pm GMT - Wed, September 20, 2017
Techcrunch ClearMetal gets $9M from Prelude Ventures and Eric Schmidts Innovation Endeavors for its logistics platform
 Logistics and supply chain management is a notoriously outdated and labor-intensive process. ClearMetal uses artificial intelligence to help manufacturers and retailers climb out from underneath...
01:30 pm GMT - Wed, September 20, 2017
Techcrunch Mira AR headset startup grabs $1M in new funding led by Greylock
 Though phone-based AR is the big news lately with the release of iOS 11 yesterday, Mira is still hoping to ensure that the iPhone opens up a world of hands-free headset AR to consumers as well. ...
01:09 pm GMT - Wed, September 20, 2017
Techcrunch HTC stock suspension adds fuel to Google acquisition rumors
 HTC is to suspend trading of its stock on the TWSE tomorrow, ahead of what it says will be the release of “material information” pertaining to its business. Read More ...
12:00 pm GMT - Wed, September 20, 2017
Techcrunch German dating app Lovoo is acquired for $70M by The Meet Group
 You’ve probably never heard of Lovoo but in German-speaking countries (Germany, Switzerland, and Austria) it’s the number one dating in terms of app store downloads. It’s also ...
11:08 am GMT - Wed, September 20, 2017
Techcrunch Kubernetes gains momentum as big-name vendors flock to Cloud Native Computing Foundation
 Like a train gaining speed as it leaves the station, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation is quickly gathering momentum, attracting some of the biggest names in tech. In the last month and a ha...
11:00 am GMT - Wed, September 20, 2017
Techcrunch The Apple Watch is still the one to beat
 The sheen has worn off of wearables. The pack has begun to thin, and even industry leaders like Fitbit felt the pinch. There are a few exceptions, of course. At the low end, companies like Xiaom...
10:24 am GMT - Wed, September 20, 2017
Techcrunch Ripio Credit Network launches, aiming to attack bank loan fees in emerging markets
 Ripio Credit (formerly BitPagos), the project that reached the finals at last year’s TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield in New York, is about to launch its new venture. The Ripio Credit Networ...
10:09 am GMT - Wed, September 20, 2017
Techcrunch Matternets autonomous delivery drones can now refuel and reload by themselves
 Matternet, a startup building autonomous drones for delivery, has been working to commercialize its tech via transportation of blood and pathology samples to labs.Taking traffic out of the equat...
09:51 am GMT - Wed, September 20, 2017
Techcrunch Amazon is working on smart glasses to house Alexa AI, says FT
 Amazon is working on building a pair of smart glasses to house its Alexa voice assistant, and a home security camera that could be linked to its existing Echo connected devices to further expand...
08:00 am GMT - Wed, September 20, 2017
Techcrunch Calling all international startups: sign up for a country pavilion at Disrupt Berlin
 Before you know it, thousands of startup fans will travel to Disrupt Berlin. The event attracts the best and brightest entrepreneurs, investors and influencers. We’re looking for internati...
05:00 am GMT - Wed, September 20, 2017
Techcrunch Announcing the TechCrunch Battlefield of Sub-Saharan Africa agenda
 TechCrunch and Facebook are collaborating to bring TechCrunch’s very first Startup Battlefield to Nairobi, on October 11. The pitch-off competition will feature startups from all over Afri...
03:00 am GMT - Wed, September 20, 2017
Techcrunch Crunch Report | iOS 11 Now Available to Download
iOS 11 is now available to download, First Miso Robotics flipping burger installed in a restaurant and Stack Overflow’s salary calculator. All this on Crunch Report. Read More ...
03:00 am GMT - Wed, September 20, 2017
Techcrunch Meet the six finalists at the Disrupt SF Startup Battlefield
 We’ve just watched 22 startups take the stage as part of TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield at Disrupt SF, where they showed off their technology and answered tough questions from expe...
01:18 am GMT - Wed, September 20, 2017
Techcrunch Electric scooter maker Gogoro raises $300 million for growth
 Electric scooter maker Gogoro has closed a massive $300 million Series C round to expand its service. The company has sold scooters in its native Taiwan since 2015, and it Europe it offers them ...
01:10 am GMT - Wed, September 20, 2017
Techcrunch Boundless helps you navigate the US immigration labyrinth for your partner
 Boundless is a Seattle based startup addressing the enormous issue of applying for immigrant status in the US. Founder Xiao Wang came to the US over when he was young from China. “My famil...
12:46 am GMT - Wed, September 20, 2017
Techcrunch Onva expands platform for child and elder care, housecleaning
 Trust is one of the most important aspects of selecting a caregiver and Onva believes that it has a vetting process that’s better than the rest. The San Francisco-based booking platform fo...
12:33 am GMT - Wed, September 20, 2017
Techcrunch Tomorrow looks to make it easier to draw up plans for a will and life insurance
 Talking about filling out a will and setting up life insurance is probably one of the more sensitive subjects you’ll tackle as you get older — but Dave Hanley says it’s somethi...
12:30 am GMT - Wed, September 20, 2017
Techcrunch What working on Pebble taught me about building hardware
 Building hardware is fun but tough. We worked on Pebble for a full four years before we launched on Kickstarter in 2012. We went on to sell over $230 million worth of Pebbles, or just over 2 mil...
12:28 am GMT - Wed, September 20, 2017
Techcrunch Verbal common sense will prevent AIs from harvesting kings and unlocking oranges
 If I hand you an apple, you know from experience that it isn’t something you can drive. And the tree it came from can’t be woven, or its seeds bandied. You know that’s nonsense...
12:26 am GMT - Wed, September 20, 2017
Techcrunch Here are the best ARKit apps for iOS 11 you should try right now
 Apple just released iOS 11 to the public, and a big feature is ARKit, the company’s SDK that lets developers easily create cool augmented reality apps. Even though Apple announced ARKit a ...
12:20 am GMT - Wed, September 20, 2017
Techcrunch Poshtel launches an international network of luxe pop-up shipping container suites
 Launching on the Disrupt 2017 Startup Battlefield stage, the Danish startup Poshtel is really, really into shipping containers. And with good reason. The modular, industrial train car-esque stru...
12:10 am GMT - Wed, September 20, 2017
Techcrunch M8 wants your friends to be the matchmaker
 Forget algorithms. M8 is a dating app that’s powered by human matchmakers. And these aren’t just any matchmakers, they’re your friends! M8 is unveiling its concept for a differ...
11:47 pm GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch Olfaguard is an electronic nose for smelling pathogens in food factories
 A recent deadly outbreak of salmonella has so far sickened more than 200 people throughout the Eastern and Southern United States. The culprit? Madrol papayas coming from three different distrib...
11:37 pm GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch By integrating with lenders and carriers, Matic makes it easier to buy homeowners insurance
 Matic, a company that wants to make the process of finding the right homeowner’s insurance easier and more efficient, is launching today at TechCrunch Disrupt. If you’ve ever shopped...
11:26 pm GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch Lilus compression bra aims to help nursing mothers pump more milk faster
 A startup called Lilu took the stage today at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco to show off their prototype bra designed to help breastfeeding mothers pump milk more efficiently, and hands-free. ...
11:12 pm GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch Augmedics is building augmented reality glasses for spinal surgery
 Meet Augmedics, an Israeli startup that is working on an augmented reality headsets for surgeons performing spinal surgery. The company is participating in the Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch ...
10:48 pm GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch Benchmark principal Kris Fredrickson leaves for another firm
 Amidst all the drama happening between former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick and Benchmark, Kris Fredrickson has left his role as principal at Benchmark to join Coatue Management, Recode reports. Benc...
10:09 pm GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch Future astronauts could feel alien ground with new space boots
 New technology developed by Draper labs could help astronauts actually feel the ground beneath them. The product in question is a boot, outfitted with sensors and feedback motors that generate t...
10:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch A bunch of Amazon customers were told about a purchase on their non-existent baby registries
 Something weird is going on over at Amazon. It seems the online retail giant is randomly telling some customers about purchases on their baby registry. The problem is these customers say they do...
09:47 pm GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch Citizens controversial crime tracker expands to SF, picks up $12 million from Sequoia
 The app formerly known as Vigilante isn’t going away. Today at TechCrunch Disrupt SF, the crime tracker now known as Citizen announced that its parent company Sp0n has raised a $12 million...
09:36 pm GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch Materialize.X is using machine learning to disrupt the $300B engineered wood industry
 What’s the next $300 billion industry to be disrupted by technology? Wood. Specifically, engineered wood. Materialize.X, launching today at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2017, has two new products...
09:35 pm GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch Apples huge App Store makeover arrives today in iOS 11
 Apple today is releasing its completely redesigned iOS App Store to the wider public, as part of the launch of the new iOS 11 operating system. First previewed at its Worldwide Developer Confere...
09:31 pm GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch Amazon inks exclusive TV deal with Stranger Things writer
 The next project for TV from Stranger Things writer and producer Justin Doble. The overall deal means that he’ll be producing television projects exclusively for Amazon Studios and Amazon&...
09:29 pm GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch Twitter replaces board member who left for Microsoft with ex-Google CFO
 Crossing the social media divides isn’t common in Silicon Valley, so it’s notable that Twitter and Microsoft have played a spot of musical chairs with their boards. Twitter board mem...
09:28 pm GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch Roots Studios Shutterstock for cultural art could transform rural communities
 Many of us have worn T-shirts or clothes bearing patterns which look “ethnic” in their design. Maybe you bought a really nice bed-spread with a design from India. Mostly we assume it...
09:25 pm GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch Does Siri sound different today? Heres why
 Did you notice that Siri sounds a little more sprightly today? Apple’s ubiquitous virtual assistant has had a little virtual work done on her virtual vocal cords, and her newly dulcet-ized...
09:10 pm GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch CryptoMove protects sensitive data by fragmenting it and moving it around
 CryptoMove thinks that data encryption is not enough. If you want to protect your data against hackers, the startup is using a new strategy by fragmenting your data, encrypting it and moving it ...
08:56 pm GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch EggXYt is bringing gene editing to poultry farms to save chicks and resources
 Poultry farms are focused on getting female eggs, but currently there’s no way for them to determine sex in a non-invasive way before going through the incubation process. EggXYt is tackli...
08:54 pm GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch Hulus new look and Live TV service arrive on Roku
 Good news, Hulu subscribers with a Roku. (Or bad news, maybe, if you’re not a fan of Hulu’s big makeover.) The streaming service announced today its new Live TV service is now availa...
08:50 pm GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch Googles Pixel 2 XL leaks in two colorways, reportedly priced at $849
 Google’s big Pixel 2 event is coming up very soon – it’s set for October 4. The Pixel 2 XL has leaked, however, with pictures of both a black and a white color option, and the ...
08:47 pm GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch Ourotech is taking the guesswork out of cancer treatment
 Every day spent with late stage cancer matters — that’s why it’s so important to get treatments right the first time. Unfortunately, despite having dozens of cancer treatments ...
08:38 pm GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch How NOT to invest in ICOs
 The early days of ICOs are even more speculative than the dot-com bubble, and Google ads clearly aren’t your friend. Read More ...
08:22 pm GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch O-Robotix spruces up its SeaDrone underwater robo-craft
 At last year’s Disrupt NY, SeaDrone made it to the Battlefield finals with its simple, robust and affordable underwater drone. With a few customers and a year of feedback under their belts...
07:41 pm GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch Walmart will allow EBT customers to order their groceries online
 This summer, Amazon debuted a new program that made it easier for those on government assistance programs to join Prime at a reduced cost. Today, rival Walmart is announcing a change that will b...
07:33 pm GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch Lets talk about Sebastian Thruns puppy
 Sebastian Thrun is one of the godfathers of autonomous driving. More importantly, he has a puppy named Charlie, which he brought to TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2017: We have very strong feelings about...
07:27 pm GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch See what Facebook ads you actually clicked in Recent Ad Activity
 You might think you’re impervious to Facebook’s ads, but you probably do get seduced every once in a while. But because ads aren’t always permanently available anywhere, it can...
07:18 pm GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch How living in Silicon Valley has made Kevin Durant a better investor
 Today at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2017, Warriors player Kevin Durant and his partner Rich Kleiman took the stage to tell the crowd about The Durant Company. While The Durant Company has made about ...
07:06 pm GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch This could be the Google Home Mini
 There have been rumors for weeks about Google nearing the release of a smaller version of the Google Home. DroidLife just posted what it claims is the upcoming Google Home Mini. If true, the des...
07:05 pm GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch Apples Lisa Jackson says the EPA hasnt changed, leadership has changed
 Apple’s Vice President Environment, Policy and Social Initiatives Lisa Jackson has a lot to say about the Environmental Protection Agency. She served as the administrator of the EPA during...
07:01 pm GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch A new ARKit app from Houzz brings 500,000 objects to moveable life
 With the launch of iOS 11 today from Apple, one of the most anticipated developments is the rush of new augmented reality apps that will be hitting the market, leveraging Apple’s new ARKit...
06:49 pm GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch Kevin Durant explains his Twitter meltdown
 Golden State Warriors small forward Kevin Durant had a bit of a scuffle on Twitter yesterdaycalling out his former organization, the Oklahoma City Thunder. Given his status as one of the most pr...
06:39 pm GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch The technology, benefits, risks and regulatory measures you need to know about ICOs now
 Organizations have raised more than $1.8 billion through initial coin offerings (ICO) since January 2017. For the first time, this June, Blockchain entrepreneurs raised more money through ICO th...
06:36 pm GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch Agent AI aims to turbocharge its AI tools by offering free CRM
 Agent AI is looking to automate more of the customer service process. To do that, it’s built its own customer relationship management product, as well as AI tools that sit on top — a...
05:52 pm GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch Luno raises $9M to bring its bitcoin wallet, exchange and services to Europe
 Luno, a bitcoin wallet and exchange based out of Singapore, is riding the crypto wave into Europe after it closed a $9 million Series B round for market expansion. The funding was led by new inv...
05:43 pm GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch Googles AI chief thinks reports of the AI apocalypse are greatly exaggerated
 John Giannandrea from Google had many great things to say about artificial intelligence at TechCrunch Disrupt SF. In particular, he thinks that people are too scared about general purpose artifi...
05:40 pm GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch Autonomous drivings godfather and tech investors say the world is ready for flying cars
 Autonomous driving is often considered the brainchild of Sebastian Thrun among a few other technologists — but Thrun is already looking to move on to the next mode of transportation, and h...
05:31 pm GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch Twitter claims tech wins in quashing terror tweets
 In its latest Transparency report, which covers requests it’s received from governments pertaining to content on its platform, Twitter has reported a big decline in the proportion of pro-t...
05:05 pm GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch Udacity adds a new Intro to Self-Driving Cars Nanodegree
 You likely won’t be surprised when I tell you that building a self-driving car is difficult and complex. Udacity has tried to help address that difficulty with flexible, online education f...
05:05 pm GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch You can learn to build aerial taxis with Udacitys new Flying Car Nanodegree
 Online education company Udacity is growing its new Nanodegree program yet again – it’s adding two entirely new programs to the roster, including a new entry-level self-driving Nanod...
05:04 pm GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch AR helmet startup Skully may have risen from the dead
 It seems Skully, the AR helmet company that crashed and burned in July of 2016 after the former CEO Marcus Weller refused to sign a confidentiality deal with investors is trying to make a comeba...
05:03 pm GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch WT2 real-time translation earpieces look to crowdfund first run
 This summer the TC team took a brief trip to Shenzhen, where I met Wells Tu, whose company TimeKettle has made an earpiece that translates spoken Chinese to English and vice versa in near real t...
05:02 pm GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch 15 neat hidden features in iOS 11
 After months and months of beta, iOS 11 is finally here — and it’s a huge update. In particular, Apple has tucked away many little features that you won’t see right away. If yo...
05:02 pm GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch iOS 11 is a fresh start for the iPad
 After reading back the preview I wrote back in June, the dominant tone was that iOS 11 is so different that it takes a while to get used to it:I’m not going to lie to you. It takes time to...
05:01 pm GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch iOS 11 is now available to download
 Apple has just released the final version of iOS 11. This update is packed with new features for the iPad and new core frameworks for the iPhone. The update is currently rolling out and is avail...
05:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch YouTubes Twitch-like Sponsorships open to all YouTube Gaming creators, expand to YouTubes main app
 YouTube today is taking on Twitch with the launch of a new program that will allow gamers to make money from their channels through the use of sponsorships. Like Twitch’s subscriptions, wh...
04:53 pm GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch GGVs Jenny Lee says Xiaomi doesnt need to come to the U.S.
 Xiaomi is one of the most valuable startups in the world and has become a big icon in smartphone design, sometimes suggested as an analog to Apple in China. The company’s flagship phones r...
04:30 pm GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch Former BBC Worldwide exec is taking the reins at mit, a digital media company focused on the Hispanic audience
 Chalk up another coup for digital media hiring as the media company mit, focused on digitally distributed content for Hispanic audiences, has managed to score the longtime entertainment executiv...
04:07 pm GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch Flippy, the hamburger cooking robot, gets its first restaurant gig
 Today at Disrupt SF, we got our first look at Flippy in its final form. Miso Robotics has been showing off its burger-flipping “robotic kitchen assistant”for several months now, but ...
04:05 pm GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch Amazon now lets Hilton Honors members shop with Points
 Hilton and Amazon have teamed up on a new initiative that will allow member of Hilton’s Honors loyalty program to shop Amazon using their points. This is the first time a hotel brand has o...
03:45 pm GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch Watch Day 2 of Disrupt San Francisco live right here!
 The best is yet to come, and babe, won’t it be fine? Disrupt Day 2 kicks off right now, and thanks to the live stream, no one will be left behind. Today, we’ll be joined by Sebastian...
03:26 pm GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch Stack Overflows developer salary calculator tells you how much money you should be making
 Stack Overflow, the popular developer community and job board, is launching a new tool for developers today that will allow them to find out what other developers in their area are making. The d...
03:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch Subscription art crowdfunder Patreon confirms $60M fundraise
 Patreon upgrades content creation from a passion to a profession by paying artists 95% of subscription payments from fans instead of 55% of skimpy ad revenue like Facebook and YouTube. Now Patre...
02:35 pm GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch Google Clouds Natural Language API gets content classification and more granular sentiment analysis
 Google Cloud announced two updates this morning to its Natural Language API. Specifically users will now have access to content classification and entity sentiment analysis. These features are p...
02:01 pm GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch Googles search app now makes suggestions of other things to read
 Google’s search app for iOS is today introducing a feature that will keep users browsing the web, instead of exiting back to their homescreen to use other mobile application. The app is be...
02:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch Nikola and Bosch team on powertrain design for hydrogen electric long-haul trucks
 Nikola Motor Company, the Utah-based company that is working on building heavy-duty transport trucks using hybrid hydrogen-electric powertrains, announced today that it’s partnering with g...
01:17 pm GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch TalkIQ raises $14 million Series A to give enterprises AI insights into voice communication
 There’s no shortage of startups building their brands around AI for enterprise. And within the enterprise, few spaces are as competitive as AI-powered voice analytics. TalkIQ is the latest...
01:11 pm GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch Minio scores $20 million Series A to build a neutral object storage layer
 Minio has a plan to become the neutral object storage layer, while still maintaining Amazon S3 object storage compatibility. That may seem like an odd strategy, but as CEO Anand Babu Periasamy, ...
01:11 pm GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch Fitbit still hasnt cracked the smartwatch code
 Struggling with a sputtering wearables market, plummeting stock pricing and increased competition on the low-end of the market, Fitbit threw a Hail Mary. It vacuumed up a trio of startups and go...
01:01 pm GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch 8fit, a health and fitness app that offers tailored workout and meal plans, closes $7M Series A
 8fit, a popular health and fitness app that offers tailored workouts and meals plan, has raised $7 million in Series A funding. Backing the round are VCs Creandum and Eight Road Ventures. It bri...
01:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch Real-time data analytics startup Incorta raises $15M Series B led by Kleiner Perkins
 Incorta, the startup that wants to speed up big data analytics by eliminating the need for data warehouses, has raised a $15 million Series B led by new investor Kleiner Perkins. Existing invest...
01:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch Adobe brings paid premium features for brands to its Spark design apps
 Adobe is launching a major update to its Spark graphic design apps today that brings paid premium features for companies and individuals that want to bring their own logo to the service as they ...
01:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch Amazons new tablet doubles as a cheap Echo Show with hands-free Alexa
 the company doesn’t really care how Alexa gets out into world, so long as it gets out there. The smart assistant has been available on the company’s Fire tablets for some time now, b...
01:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch Finnish marketing automation startup Smartly.io targets U.S. growth after $20M secondary funding
 Smartly.io, a Helsinki-based company that makes automated marketing software for Facebook advertisers, announced today that it has raised $20 million in secondary funding by selling existing sta...
01:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch Hinges new app lets your friends play matchmaker
 Hinge is launching a way for people in relationships to get in on the dating app craze alongside their single friends. No, not like that! The company today is introducing a new, standalone app c...
12:15 pm GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch MealPal gobbles $20M for its restaurant meal subscription service
 We’ve seen a huge wave of food-on-demand startups hit the market in the last several years: those who deliver restaurant food (like Postmates or Deliveroo), those who deliver meal kits to ...
12:05 pm GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch Salesforce Ventures launches $50 m fund to encourage AI development on Salesforce platform
 Salesforce Einstein, the AI toolset for Salesforce.com,turned one todayand to celebrateSalesforce Venturesannounced a $50 million fund to encourage startups to build AI-fueled applications on to...
12:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch Salesforce Einstein celebrates its first birthday with a couple of new features
 Salesforce launched Einstein, its artificial intelligence platform just one year ago this week. As it celebrates its first birthday, it’s worth taking a look back at the first year and loo...
12:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch Salesforce Einstein celebrates its first birthday with several new features
 Salesforce launched Einstein, its artificial intelligence platform just one year ago this week. As it celebrates its first birthday, it’s worth taking a look back at the first year and loo...
11:55 am GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch Wikileaks releases documents it claims detail Russia mass surveillance apparatus
 Wikileaks has released a new cache of documents which it claims detail surveillance apparatus used by the Russian state to spy on Internet and mobile users. It’s the first time the organiz...
11:30 am GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch Threat Stack snares $45 million investment as spotlight shines brightly on security
 Threat Stack, the Boston-based security startup that helps companies stay protected in the cloud, reeled in a $45 million investment today. It seems that they are in the right place in the right...
11:26 am GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch iZettle raises $36M from Europe, earmarked for AI and other new tech
 iZettle, the startup based out of Sweden that competes against the likes of Square and Paypal to provide card transaction services from smartphones and tablets, is adding a little more money to ...
11:02 am GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch Review: The iPhone 8 is a look into the augmented future of photography
 This is a camera review. There are a number of updates that should appeal in the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus, but the one question most upgraders are going to be asking is how good is the camera?The cam...
11:00 am GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch Raise gets $60 million for gift card marketplace
 Have you ever gotten a gift card for a store you don’t shop at? Or have you made a purchase and don’t know what to do with the remaining balance? It turns out you can sell and trade ...
11:00 am GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch Douxmatok lets you use 30 percent less sugar without affecting sweetness
 Our resistance to good nutrition is causing lasting problems within the population. Part of the problem is that the best-tasting food is usually the worst for our health, and bad eating habits b...
10:00 am GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch BP Ventures, BPs investment arm, leads $20M in private jet charter marketplace Victor
 Victor, which bills itself as the “largest ‘on-demand’ marketplace for private jet charter,” has raised $20 million in new funding, bringing total raised to date to $44.4...
10:00 am GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch Funnel raises $10M led by Balderton Capital to help companies analyse online marketing spend
 Funnel, a startup headquartered in Stockholm that sells a SaaS to help companies analyse the effectiveness of online marketing spend across multiple channels, has raised $10 million in Series A ...
09:30 am GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch Tech companies must do more to fight misogyny in the wider culture
 Over the past few months Silicon Valley’s treatment of women has made several headlines. Thanks to the incredible women who have found the courage to speak up, we are beginning to have the...
09:00 am GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch GoCardless, a fintech that makes recurring payments easy for subscription businesses, raises $22.5M
 Well, GoCardless co-founder and CEO Hiroki Takeuchi knows how to work a non-denial denial. When I interviewed him a few weeks ago for an extensive profile piece we ran yesterday, he wouldn’...
09:00 am GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch Acquia Javascript support lets developers build web apps that combine content, data
 Acquia, the commercial arm of the open-source Drupal web content management tool, has long offered a cloud-based user interface designed to make it easier for customers to build web sites. Today...
08:30 am GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch Twilio Studio lets you build communication services without having to code
 Twilio has long made a name for itself as a service that lets developers easily add audio, video and text communication to their applications, but with Twilio Studio, which is launching as a clo...
08:28 am GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch Before you update to iOS 11 heres how to check which apps wont work
 Before you hit the update button to grab iOS 11it’s worth checking which apps you’ll be consigning to the digital dustbin of history. All old 32-bit apps are incompatible which means...
04:31 am GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch August announces new smart locks and a smart doorbell
 August has updated its smart lock line with a new Pro version with Bluetooth, HomeKit, and Wi-Fi support, as well as the more basic model for $149. They’ve also announced the Doorbell Cam ...
04:09 am GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch At long last, Gmail starts converting addresses and contact info into links
 Gmail is packed with a lot of time-saving features, like Smart Replies for mobile users. So it’s a bit surprising to realize that Gmail will only now start to automatically convert address...
04:01 am GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch Younited Credit raises $47.8 million for its crowdlending platform
 French startup Younited Credit is building the biggest crowdlending platform in continental Europe. The company just raised $47.8 million (40 million) to launch in new countries, work on new pro...
04:00 am GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch MITs The Engine raises $200M to fund tough tech
 If you think that too many VCs these days are playing it safe and only looking to back sure bets rather than moonshots and more ambitious ventures, take a look over at what’s going on in B...
03:17 am GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch Music video AR app Blin.gy shuts down
 Blin.gy, the app that let users insert themselves into their favorite music videos, is shutting down. In a Medium post, co-founder and chief executive officer David Hyman wrote that the startup,...
03:00 am GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch Crunch Report | Slack Raises $250 Million
Slack raises a pretty big chunk of change from SoftBank, the DOJ is investigating an Equifax stock dump and Google debuts payments app Tez in India. All this on Crunch Report. Read More ...
02:23 am GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch Adan Medical is bringing technology to Epi-Pens
 Going into anaphylactic shock is terrifying. The last time I went into shock, called my mom first, injected myself with an Epi-Pen second, injected myself with a shot of epinephrine third, and 9...
02:21 am GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch Snap, Facebook, Pop: Sriram Krishnan joins Twitter as senior director of product
 In the ever-moving musical chairs that is the tech industry, Twitter has added a new person to its product team. Sriram Krishnan is now senior director of product at the social media platform. H...
01:25 am GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch Pokmon Go creators next game will incorporate audio into the AR experience
 Niantic, makers of the hugely popular mobile game Pokmon Go, is developing a new AR title that will incorporate audio cues into the gaming experience, according to company CTOPhil Keslin. The ex...
01:22 am GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch BeeLines simple navigation device keeps cyclists headed in the right direction
 Lets say you’re roaming the city on your bike. You know your final destination — but you don’t necessarily care how you get there, or if your route is the shortest possible one...
01:14 am GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch Steve Jurvetson on why he couldnt join the board of secretive Zoox
 Today at our TC Disrupt event in San Francisco, we had the chance to catch up with investor Steve Jurvetson about a wide number of things that are sweeping across the startup landscape (and migh...
01:01 am GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch Facebook design head loud on voice, silent on Alexa and hardware
 Facebook has been reportedly working on a video chat device and a smart speaker that would use a new voice interface, to compete against the likes of Amazon and Google in the race to control you...
12:51 am GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch Looxid Labs is combining brain waves and VR to build an analytics super engine
 Virtual reality is having a tough time breaching consumer markets and it’s not clear where the demand is exactly. But when it comes to research and analytics, gathering emotional responses...
12:43 am GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch Goodbye, photo studios. Hello, colormass virtual photoshoots
 Berlin-basedcolormass, one of the startups presenting today at TechCrunch Disrupt as part of the Battlefield, has developed a platform that lets you recreate an IKEA-style experience for your ow...
12:27 am GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch Index is a clean, colorful app for organizing your ideas and digital content
 The makers of Index are hoping they’ve created the only app you’ll need to access all your files, notes and links. “We’re giving people a full control panel for the digit...
12:16 am GMT - Tue, September 19, 2017
Techcrunch Red Sox may have used a Fitbit, not an Apple Watch, to snag Yankees signs
 In a major upset for Apple’s smartwatch brand, it appears that it was a Fitbit, not an Apple Watch, that the Red Sox used as a medium for their sign-stealing in a recent ball game. The new...
11:59 pm GMT - Mon, September 18, 2017
Techcrunch U.S. Senate votes to oust Russian security software vendor Kaspersky from federal use
 Following a directive from the Department of Homeland Security last week banning the use of Kaspersky Lab security software in the executive branch, the U.S. Senate has followed suit. On Monday,...
11:50 pm GMT - Mon, September 18, 2017
Techcrunch Chinas JD.com announces $500M e-commerce and fintech joint ventures in Thailand
 Roll up, roll up… there’s another e-commerce mega deal in Southeast Asia courtesy of a Chinese investor. Following on from Alibaba’s $1 billion deal with Lazada and a $1.1 bill...
11:10 pm GMT - Mon, September 18, 2017
Techcrunch Global Learning XPRIZE awards $1 million each to final five teams
 The Global Learning XPRIZE, an international competition to create educational software, has reached its penultimate stage: 5 teams out of an initial pool of nearly 200 have been selected to rec...
10:33 pm GMT - Mon, September 18, 2017
Techcrunch Equifax was reportedly hacked almost five months before its first disclosed date
 Equifax learned about a major breach in its systems in March, well before it disclosed a massive breach earlier this month thatincluded sensitive information for 143 million consumers, according...
10:32 pm GMT - Mon, September 18, 2017
Techcrunch Shasta Ventures launches a fund to accelerate AR and VR app development
 Apple and Google are ready for an augmented reality tidal wave, but what of developers? Over the past several months, the availability of ARKit and ARCorehave proven there’s plenty of inte...
10:30 pm GMT - Mon, September 18, 2017
Techcrunch After years of chasing brokers and bots, slow ticketing will help both artists and fans
 Since the advent of the modern ticket era, speed has been the name of the game. Whether it was the first person to get in line, or the first ping to hit the server, the winners in the world of t...
10:28 pm GMT - Mon, September 18, 2017
Techcrunch DFJs Steve Jurvetson thinks Elons Boring Co. will win with short tunnels first
 Noted Silicon Valley investor and SpaceX investor Steve Jurvetson is probably better positioned than most to know what Elon Musk is thinking with The Boring Company, his project to build a bette...
10:14 pm GMT - Mon, September 18, 2017
Techcrunch Essential Phone will get Android Oreo update soon
 Essential is bringing the latest version of Android to its first smartphone, the aptly named “Phone.” The Android 8.0 release is already available for Google’s own flagship Pix...
10:10 pm GMT - Mon, September 18, 2017
Techcrunch ICOs arent just about raising lots of money, say founders who raised lots of money from ICOs
 It’s impossible to ignore the rush of ICOs in venture capital land. The new fundraising dynamic has helped companies raise more than $1.7 billion this year to date. Huge sums of money tend...
10:05 pm GMT - Mon, September 18, 2017
Techcrunch Coinbase vulnerability is a good reminder that SMS-based 2FA can wreak havoc
 Two days ago, a friend who invested in Bitcoin asked me how secure her Coinbase investment was. She had plans to put her coins in cold storage, but as a security stopgap was relying on two-facto...
09:36 pm GMT - Mon, September 18, 2017
Techcrunch Pinterests new Sections feature begins beta testing, public launch in weeks
 Pinterest is rolling out a new feature inspired by its power users, said Pinterest CEO and co-founderBen Silbermann, speaking today at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco. The new addition, called ...
09:34 pm GMT - Mon, September 18, 2017
Techcrunch The Nuada smart glove gives your hand bionic powers
 In the future, said Andy Warhol, everyone will be bionic for fifteen minutes. I’m paraphrasing, but it looks like a Portuguese company called Nuada is about to give us that opportunity. Cr...
09:26 pm GMT - Mon, September 18, 2017
Techcrunch Facebook nabs Change.org COO Jennifer Dulski to lead Groups
 Facebook is serious about using Groups to propel its new mission to “bring the world closer together.” That’s why it’s made a big-name hire for the product leader for the...
09:22 pm GMT - Mon, September 18, 2017
Techcrunch Bridgefy lets developers build mesh networking into their apps
 Bridgefy, which is launching in our Disrupt SF Battlefield today, allows developers to build a mesh network into their mobile apps so that their users and apps can still communicate, even when t...
09:16 pm GMT - Mon, September 18, 2017
Techcrunch Future Family wants to make male fertility testing more accessible
 Back in June of this year, we wrote about a company called Future Family that aimed to simplify the world of female fertility testing, all while bringing down the cost of treatment options. But ...
08:58 pm GMT - Mon, September 18, 2017
Techcrunch Pi wants to extend the reach of wireless charging
 Wireless charging isn’t new — but with the new iPhones picking it up as a feature, it’s about to get a huge boost in visibility. But wireless charging is still pretty limited, ...
08:42 pm GMT - Mon, September 18, 2017
Techcrunch Watch industrial robots play traditional instruments
 Robots are stealing jobs, the narrative says, and, according to this video, robots are stealing the arts too. The video shows several industrial robotic arms playing the piano, guitar, drums and...
08:24 pm GMT - Mon, September 18, 2017
Techcrunch You can now disable Samsungs devoted Bixby button
 The Galaxy S8’s devoted Bixby button was one of the least popular features on an otherwise well received phone, owing in part to the fact that Samsung’s smart assistant was still hal...
08:00 pm GMT - Mon, September 18, 2017
Techcrunch Intel Capital has invested over $1 billion in companies focused on AI
 Intel’s putting its investment fund where its mouth is when it comes to artificial intelligence: The chipmaker announced today that it has funneled over $1 billion into AI startups via its...
07:16 pm GMT - Mon, September 18, 2017
Techcrunch Ethereum will replace Visa in a couple of years says founder
 The mind behind Ethereum, Vitalik Buterin, is matter-of-fact about the crypto. In short, he believes what interviewer Raval Navikant called “brain virus” is the true future of securi...
07:16 pm GMT - Mon, September 18, 2017
Techcrunch Ethereum will match Visa in scale in a couple of years says founder
 The mind behind Ethereum, Vitalik Buterin, is matter-of-fact about the crypto. In short, he believes what interviewer Naval Ravikant called “brain virus” is the true future of securi...
07:01 pm GMT - Mon, September 18, 2017
Techcrunch Vitalik Buterin explains Ethereum in his own words at Disrupt SF
 Today at Disrupt SF 2017 Vitalik Buterin sat down with AngelList founder Naval Ravikant to talk Ethereum. Because, well, Vitalik created Ethereum. Up front, Ravikant asked him to explain Ethereu...
06:58 pm GMT - Mon, September 18, 2017
Techcrunch Yuri Milners conservative predictions for the consumer Internet in 20 years
 Without even counting massive potential sea changes like artificial intelligence or “flying cars,” as DST founder Yuri Milner says, the consumer internet is still on track to grow in...
06:52 pm GMT - Mon, September 18, 2017
Techcrunch Signals Moxie Marlinspike calls out Pavel Durovs Trump logic
 Onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2017, Signal’s at times elusive privacy revolutionary Moxie Marlinspike spoke modestly about how his secure text message app is taking over the world. Marl...
06:41 pm GMT - Mon, September 18, 2017
Techcrunch Steve Cases Revolution backs Resolute Innovation to connect companies with R&D
 It can be hard for big companies to keep tabs on all the research and innovation in their industry. The search for the best patents can be both cumbersome and disorganized. That’s the idea...
06:39 pm GMT - Mon, September 18, 2017
Techcrunch The early days of ICOs are even more speculative than the dot-com bubble
 So… let’s talk about initial coin offerings. The buzziest buzz in certain corners of the entrepreneurial ecosystem these days, ICOs were the talk of the town at TechCrunch Disrupt SF...
06:27 pm GMT - Mon, September 18, 2017
Techcrunch AWS announces per-second billing for EC2 instances
 When Amazon launched the AWS EC2 cloud computing service back in 2006, per-hour billing was a big deal, but that scheme also meant that you’d pay for a full hour even if you only used an i...
05:48 pm GMT - Mon, September 18, 2017
Techcrunch U.S. Justice Department investigating Equifax execs who dumped shares before announcing breach
 The U.S. Justice Department is said to be investigating the questionable sale of stock by Equifax executives in advance of the company’s public announcement of its massive data breach. The...
05:48 pm GMT - Mon, September 18, 2017
Techcrunch US Justice Department investigating Equifax execs who dumped shares before announcing breach
 The U.S. Justice Department is said to be investigating the questionable sale of stock by Equifax executives in advance of the company’s public announcement of its massive data breach. The...
05:43 pm GMT - Mon, September 18, 2017
Techcrunch Sallie Krawchecks Ellevest just landed a big new round of Series C funding
 Ellevest, a nearly three-year-old, New York-based digital investment platform built for women and led by former Wall Street titan Sallie Krawcheck, has raised $34.6 million in fresh funding.The ...
05:39 pm GMT - Mon, September 18, 2017
Techcrunch Uber faces 2.9M fee to renew London license under new rules
 London’s transport regulator, Transport for London, has released details of a new more expansive and expensive system of tiered license feesfor private hire operators that will drive up th...
05:35 pm GMT - Mon, September 18, 2017
Techcrunch Apples iMessage-based mobile payments service wont be arriving tomorrow in iOS 11
 Apple’s upcoming iMessage-based mobile payments service, powered by Apple Pay, won’t arrive tomorrow with the release of the new operating system for Apple’s mobile devices, iO...
05:31 pm GMT - Mon, September 18, 2017
Techcrunch Cofactor Genomics pulls in $18 million with the aim to save lives through RNA research
 Cofactor Genomics has announced an $18 million Series A financing round led by Menlo Ventures, with participation from DCVC,Ascension Ventures, iSelect, Y Combinator, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich ...
05:28 pm GMT - Mon, September 18, 2017
Techcrunch Roku looks to raise $204 million in IPO
 Roku, the digital streaming business, is looking to raise about $204 million when it goes public later this month. According to a SEC filing revealed Monday, the company plans to price its share...
05:15 pm GMT - Mon, September 18, 2017
Techcrunch Lyft envisions future streets that actually reduce lanes to cut back traffic
 Lyft’s focus on future autonomy isn’t just about partnering with self-driving car companies like Drive.ai, or with providing an open network upon which an autonomous ride hailing ser...
04:46 pm GMT - Mon, September 18, 2017
Techcrunch Googles Heather Adkins thinks everybody is going to get hacked and you need to be ready
 Google’s Information Security Manager Heather Adkins has a pretty good track record. The company was last hacked in 2009, that’s why Adkins had some good advice for startups in the a...
04:43 pm GMT - Mon, September 18, 2017
Techcrunch A Google security chief considers the NSA a state-sponsored threat
 Today at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2017 Google’s Manager of Information Security Heather Adkins sat down for a fireside chat. Among the varying topics discussed, she spoke about what’s l...
04:36 pm GMT - Mon, September 18, 2017
Techcrunch Blavity acquires Travel Noire, a travel and discovery platform for black millennials
 Blavity, the media and events startup focused on black millennials and black culture, has acquired travel startup Travel Noire for an undisclosed amount. Travel Noire, which offers up traveling ...
04:06 pm GMT - Mon, September 18, 2017
Techcrunch Netflixs new teaser for The Punisher reveals killer survival skills
 Netflix’s The Punisher is coming to the streaming service later this year, starring Jon Bernthal in the title role reprising his role from Daredevil. The latest Marvel/Netflix team-up focu...
04:00 pm GMT - Mon, September 18, 2017
Techcrunch Announcing Startup Battlefield at Disrupt San Francisco
 Each year, TechCrunch selects early-stage startups from a pool of thousands across the globe, and selects the top innovators to compete in Startup Battlefield.Over the next three days at TechCru...
04:00 pm GMT - Mon, September 18, 2017
Techcrunch Waymo taps Intel for self-driving computers it develops entirely in-house
 Waymo has made a point of going in-house for the core technology of its self-driving system, which is something it has talked about specifically around its sensor suite in the past. The company ...
04:00 pm GMT - Mon, September 18, 2017
Techcrunch Google brings its resources for founders and startups to a single site
 Google launched “Startup with Google” today, a new site that brings together all the company’s resources for founders and their startups.As the name implies, the focus here is ...
04:00 pm GMT - Mon, September 18, 2017
Techcrunch Matroid picks up $10M Series A to automate video stream monitoring
 As computer vision and object recognition technology continue to mature, we’re edging closer to automating away the exceedingly boring task of monitoring closed circuit TV cameras. Matroid...
03:48 pm GMT - Mon, September 18, 2017
Techcrunch Ford and Mahindra explore strategic cooperation around car tech in India
 Ford and Indian automaker and mobility company Mahindra Group have entered into a new agreement to explore a potential strategic partnership focused on a number of different areas, including mob...
03:45 pm GMT - Mon, September 18, 2017
Techcrunch Tune in to Disrupt SF Day 1 right here!
 Buckle up, folks! It’s going to be one helluva week. Disrupt SF is about to kick off at 9 a.m., and for those of you who didn’t make it out to Pier 48, we’re bringing the show ...
03:10 pm GMT - Mon, September 18, 2017
Techcrunch Netflix and HBO cleaned up at last nights Primetime Emmys
 Hulu made Emmys history last night by becoming the first streaming service to win an Emmy for Best Drama (“The Handmaid’s Tale”), but it was Netflix that actually took home mor...
02:42 pm GMT - Mon, September 18, 2017
Techcrunch Avast reckons CCleaner malware infected 2.27M users
 Users of a free software tool designed to optimize system performance on Windows PCs and Android mobile devices got a nasty shock this morning when Piriform, the company which makes the CCleaner...
02:01 pm GMT - Mon, September 18, 2017
Techcrunch Keybase launches fully encrypted Slack-like communications tool and its free
 Keybase added to its encrypted tool kit today when it launched Keybase Teams, an open source, Slack-like communications tool with end-to-end encryption. Desktop and mobile versions areavailable ...
01:00 pm GMT - Mon, September 18, 2017
Techcrunch Videoblocks launches its stock photo service and changes its name to Storyblocks
 Stock imagery service Videoblocks made its name thanks to its flat-rate, unlimited video library and a marketplace that paid photographers a 100 percent commission. Over time, the service starte...
01:00 pm GMT - Mon, September 18, 2017
Techcrunch Video advertising took a big leap in Q2, according to Smaato
 Video was the fastest-growing ad format in recent months, according to a new report from mobile ad company Smaato. Smaato says it examined the more than 1.5 trillion ad impressions that it serve...
10:45 am GMT - Mon, September 18, 2017
Techcrunch Chilean startup ComparaOnline raises $14 million for its financial education tools for Latin America
 Venture investing in Latin America continues to pick up the pace, with new deals in financial technology services leading the way. One example of investors’ renewed interest in regional fi...
09:56 am GMT - Mon, September 18, 2017
Techcrunch Snap blocks Al Jazeera in Saudi Arabia to comply with local laws
 Snap has bowed to pressure from the government of Saudi Arabia to censor a news channel operated by the Qatar-based news broadcaster, Al Jazeera, from the Snapchat Discover section of its app. R...
09:00 am GMT - Mon, September 18, 2017
Techcrunch Waze and Spotify integration arrives on iOS
 Google-owned navigation app Waze announced a partnership earlier this year with music streaming service Spotify to put Spotify playlists right within the Waze app, and now the team-up is extendi...
08:00 am GMT - Mon, September 18, 2017
Techcrunch Only one week left to apply for Startup Battlefield at Disrupt Berlin
 Seven days, 168 hours or 10,080 minutes; you can crunch the numbers any way you like, but you still have only one week left to apply for the Startup Battlefield at Disrupt Berlin 2017. We get it...
07:15 am GMT - Mon, September 18, 2017
Techcrunch GoCardless CEO: I still feel like Im the same person
 It has nearly been a year since GoCardless co-founder and CEO Hiroki Takeuchi was involved in a serious road accident that left him paralysed below his chest, and unable to walk again. Based on ...
03:58 am GMT - Mon, September 18, 2017
Techcrunch SoftBank Group will buy a 5% stake in ZhongAn, Chinas first online-only insurance agency
 SoftBank Group has agreed to be a cornerstone investor in the initial public offering of ZhongAn, China’s first online-only insurance agency, on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange today. SoftBan...
03:20 am GMT - Mon, September 18, 2017
Techcrunch The Handmaids Tale wins Hulu its first Emmy Awards, including Best Drama
 Hulu’s science fiction series The Handmaid’s Tale won big tonight at the Primetime Emmy Awards, where it took home the awards for drama series, actress in a drama series (Elisabeth M...
03:19 am GMT - Mon, September 18, 2017
Techcrunch Slack raises a huge financing round from SoftBank valuing the company at $5.1B
 Slack has raised another huge new round of financing that values the company at more than $5 billion, this time led by Softbank — which seems to be investing in everyone at this point. Thi...
01:01 am GMT - Mon, September 18, 2017
Techcrunch Google debuts Tez, a mobile wallet and payments app for India
 After several weeks of speculation and leaked details, today Google officially unveiled its first big foray into mobile payments in Asia. The Android and search giant has launched Tez, a new mob...
01:01 am GMT - Mon, September 18, 2017
Techcrunch Google debuts Tez, a mobile payments app for India
 After several weeks of speculation and leaked details, today Google officially unveiled its first big foray into mobile payments in Asia. The Android and search giant has launched Tez, a new mob...
01:01 am GMT - Mon, September 18, 2017
Techcrunch Google debuts Tez, a mobile payments app for India that uses Audio QR to transfer money
 After several weeks of speculation and leaked details, today Google officially unveiled its first big foray into mobile payments in Asia. The Android and search giant has launched Tez, a free mo...
11:46 pm GMT - Sun, September 17, 2017
Techcrunch A cord cutters guide to watching tonights Emmy Awards
 This year, it’s finally easy to live stream tonight’s Primetime Emmy Awards if you’re a cord cutter. While you could always invest in a digital antenna to watch broadcast stati...
11:02 pm GMT - Sun, September 17, 2017
Techcrunch Who is to blame for algorithmic outrage?
 This week we saw a few high-profile demonstrations of the ability to target advertising to unsavory groups generated or suggested by major internet companies. Upon being alerted of these bafflin...
10:17 pm GMT - Sun, September 17, 2017
Techcrunch 8Bitdos SN30 Pro and SF30 Pro controllers available for pre-order
 8Bitdo’s retro Bluetooth game controllers are among the greatest gifts you can get a gamer, since they’re so versatile and so well-designed (especially for those who remember fondly ...
09:22 pm GMT - Sun, September 17, 2017
Techcrunch VC-in-Residence program aims to help underrepresented minorities break into venture capital
 There’s a shortage of women, non-binary people and men of color in the venture capital world. That’s why Pipeline Angels, an angel investing bootcamp for underrepresented people in t...
09:10 pm GMT - Sun, September 17, 2017
Techcrunch Alexa Shop Assist wins the Disrupt SF 2017 Hackathon Grand Prize
 Hundreds of engineers and designers got together to come up with something cool, something neat, something awesome. The only condition was that they only had 24 hours to work on their projects. ...
08:55 pm GMT - Sun, September 17, 2017
Techcrunch Proxytel wants to help business owners mask their phone numbers
 Every once in a while, an app comes along aiming to provide users with disposable number.Shuffle emerged a couple of years go do this; Burner has existed even longer. Now, software engineers Cha...
08:46 pm GMT - Sun, September 17, 2017
Techcrunch ARAD helps developers get ads in their augmented reality apps
 ARKit and other augmented reality tools are going to make the experience more and more popular among developers and users — but, like any new platform, there probably won’t be a soph...
08:43 pm GMT - Sun, September 17, 2017
Techcrunch Disaster relief hacks dominate the stage at the Disrupt SF 2017 Hackathon
 At the Disrupt SF 2017 Hackathon, an absolutely massive swath of the 102 companies that took the stage on Sunday presented hacks with disaster relief in mind. From ResQme to ResQMi to RescueMe, ...
08:37 pm GMT - Sun, September 17, 2017
Techcrunch To chat or not to chat? Shakespeare has the answer to your question
 Chatbots are vying to become one of the cornerstones of the messaging world: using AI tools like natural language and machine learning, developers are hoping to tap into the popularity of chat a...
08:25 pm GMT - Sun, September 17, 2017
Techcrunch Vocalytics analyzes your body language to make you a better public speaker
 Vocalytics, one of the many projects that came out of our Disrupt SF hackathon this weekend, wants to make you a better public speaker. The project uses machine learning to analyze videos of you...
08:24 pm GMT - Sun, September 17, 2017
Techcrunch Alexa Store Assistant directs you to the right aisle, answers product questions
 Can Alexa help shoppers in large, retail stores where store associates are spread out and often hard to find? That’s the premise behind the hack, “Alexa Store Assistant,” prese...
08:24 pm GMT - Sun, September 17, 2017
Techcrunch Alexa Shop Assistant directs you to the right aisle, answers product questions
 Can Alexa help shoppers in large, retail stores where store associates are spread out and often hard to find? That’s the premise behind the hack, “Alexa Shop Assist,” presented...
07:56 pm GMT - Sun, September 17, 2017
Techcrunch Park Rangr helps you avoid parking tickets and find your car with AR
 If you own a car in a major city, chances are you’ve gotten a parking ticket.Parking signs can get confusing, Park Rangr does the hard work for you in interpreting the signage while also e...
07:41 pm GMT - Sun, September 17, 2017
Techcrunch Crypto Asset Visualizer turns your bitcoin into an AR pile of cash
 Built in fewer than 24 hours at TC Disrupt SF 2017’s hackathon, CAV, or Crypto Asset Visualizer, does exactly what it sounds like – it makes it easier to visualize your cryptocurrenc...
07:30 pm GMT - Sun, September 17, 2017
Techcrunch Summer 17 A seismic shift for gender diversity in tech
 We may look back on the summer of 2017 as a watershed moment for gender diversity: the lava of simmering issues erupts, and once out, flows to reshape the landscape. However, what happened this ...
07:29 pm GMT - Sun, September 17, 2017
Techcrunch Odis brings Alexa voice commands to music production
 The home studio has arguably revolutionized the music industry more than any other single element. Sessions that once required devoted space and tens of thousands of dollars can now be recorded ...
07:22 pm GMT - Sun, September 17, 2017
Techcrunch SpeechCoach.ai helps you step up your public speaking game
 Public speaking can be terrifying. Before every TechCrunch Disrupt, moderators are required to go through mandatory speaker training to ensure we’re not flaming disasters on stage. Our bos...
07:16 pm GMT - Sun, September 17, 2017
Techcrunch Wificoin lets you buy hotspot access with cryptocurrency
 It’s infuriating to see a public wifi connection you’re not allowed to use, such as the ones from mobile carriers like T-Mobile and ISPs like Comcast. If you’re not a subscribe...
07:07 pm GMT - Sun, September 17, 2017
Techcrunch Doctor Hazel uses AI to try to determine if you have skin cancer
 Doctor Hazel spent the last 24 hours at TechCrunch Disrupt’s SF 2017 hackathon working on an interesting idea to use artificial intelligence to detect cancerous moles. Software engineer Mi...
06:54 pm GMT - Sun, September 17, 2017
Techcrunch MythQuiz builds Alexa tutor at Disrupt Hackathon
 Most people use Amazon’s Alexa to answer their questions, but what about using it to test what you already know? That’s the idea behind MythQuiz, an audio flashcard platform. Itwas c...
06:48 pm GMT - Sun, September 17, 2017
Techcrunch Air Map helps you navigate your city through the best air quality spots
 If you’ve walked down 4th Street in San Francisco these days, you’ve probably been hit with a massive dust cloud from all the construction — and seen a bunch of people trying t...
05:28 pm GMT - Sun, September 17, 2017
Techcrunch Porsches electric Mission E arrives in 2019, priced like Panamera
 Porsche’s first all-electric car will go on sale at the end of 2019, the car maker revealed at this year’s Frankfurt Motor Show, with pricing similar to the current Porsche Panamera,...
04:42 pm GMT - Sun, September 17, 2017
Techcrunch Zoe Quinn talks about online abuse and her new book, Crash Override
 Zoe Quinn went to the heart of Gamergate and has come back with a new book, Crash Override, a meditation on online communities and making the Internet safer. Quinn spoke with me for a few minute...
04:34 pm GMT - Sun, September 17, 2017
Techcrunch Waymo wants to postpone the self-driving car technology trial with Uber
 In light of the recent federal circuit ruling that Uber must hand over the due diligence report (the Stroz report) it conducted ahead of its acquisition of Otto, Waymo is requesting Judge Willia...
02:36 pm GMT - Sun, September 17, 2017
Techcrunch SpaceXs Dragon capsule successfully returns from 12th ISS resupply mission
 SpaceX has confirmed that the Dragon capsule used to ferry cargo including supplies and experimentation material has returned to Earth as planned, with a successful splashdown in the Pacific Oce...
01:00 pm GMT - Sun, September 17, 2017
Techcrunch The learned helplessness of Equifax
 Is there a formal name for the fallacy of assuming that the status quo is sane? Such a name would become more useful with each passing year. There are a shocking number of examples, but I give y...
10:30 am GMT - Sun, September 17, 2017
Techcrunch Save the International Space Station and give it to the private sector
 President Trump, early in his Administration, has an opportunity to take a “giant leap for mankind” with a simple executive action –- save the International Space Station (R...
01:21 am GMT - Sun, September 17, 2017
Techcrunch Instagram now autoplays video sound once turned on until you close the app
Autoplay audio can be annoying or convenient depending on the situation. Luckily Instagram has found a happy medium between defaulting autoplay video sound on or off. This weekend TechCrunch spotted t...
11:59 pm GMT - Sat, September 16, 2017
Techcrunch A closer look at the all-new 2018 Nissan Leaf
 Nissan’s new Leaf is the updated version of one of the pioneers of the modern all-electric consumer car, and the change is a promising one. The new vehicle offers 150 miles of range based ...
05:50 pm GMT - Sat, September 16, 2017
Techcrunch Twitter says a now-fixed bug allowed ad campaigns to target users with derogatory terms
 Add Twitter to the list of companies that have had to respond to questions around the ability to target ad campaigns against derogatory keywords in their advertising platform, though Twitter say...
05:00 pm GMT - Sat, September 16, 2017
Techcrunch A brief recent history of Apples product swerves
 Apple did not make the first personal computer, nor the first tablet computer, nor the first smartphone. Measuring it against what comes first is — to paraphrase Steve Jobs — a boneh...
05:00 pm GMT - Sat, September 16, 2017
Techcrunch Gillmor Gang: Staff Infection
 The Gillmor Gang — Doc Searls, Denis Pombriant, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, September 15, 2017. Topics: Bitcoin, Apple Watch 3, iPhone X, commodity c...
04:16 pm GMT - Sat, September 16, 2017
Techcrunch Users Guide to Disrupt SF 2017
 Disrupt SF approaches with just a couple days until we kick things off. Here are all the deets you need to make for a stellar conference experience.Checking-InDoors open to attendees at 7:00am o...
03:17 am GMT - Sat, September 16, 2017
Techcrunch Crunch Report | Patreon is raising a Series C at $450M
Patreon is raising at a $450 millon valuation, Chrome mutes autoplaying videos and Hulu is spending $2.5 billion for original content. All this on Crunch Report. Read More ...
03:02 am GMT - Sat, September 16, 2017
Techcrunch Chinas three largest bitcoin exchanges will all stop offering local trading
 Well, that didn’t take long. Yesterday, China’s longest running bitcoin exchange, BTC China, announced it will suspend its local trading service at the end of this month, and today t...
02:14 am GMT - Sat, September 16, 2017
Techcrunch Disrupt SF Hackathon Sponsor prizes and spectator tickets
 The Disrupt SF Hackathon kicks off this Saturday, September 16 at Pier 48. Check out these prizes being awarded from our partners, in addition to the overall “best of”prize awarded f...
01:49 am GMT - Sat, September 16, 2017
Techcrunch Nike and the NBA unveil connected jerseys and theyre super cool
 Nike just announced the “Nike NBA Jersey with NikeConnect”, a connected jersey that allows wearers to get highlight reels, scores, stats and exclusive content from and about their fa...
01:37 am GMT - Sat, September 16, 2017
Techcrunch Apple defends new ad-tracking prevention measures in Safari
 Apple isn’t backing down from a new approach that limits how web visitors can be tracked by online advertisers. The new feature in Safari, called Intelligent Tracking Prevention, was first...
01:30 am GMT - Sat, September 16, 2017
Techcrunch Report: Facebook gave special investigator Robert Mueller detailed info on Russian ad buys
 An official for Facebook told TechCrunch that the company is “continuing to cooperate with the relevant U.S. authorities,” as investigations into the Russian hack of last year’...
01:00 am GMT - Sat, September 16, 2017
Techcrunch FutureFuel.io adds new features to make paying off student loans easier
 FutureFuel.io, the company offering student loan payment management services as an employee benefit, is adding new features to make it easier for companies to manage the loan repayment process.T...
11:00 pm GMT - Fri, September 15, 2017
Techcrunch Corporate venture in Brazil gains steam as giants amp up startup investments
 What a difference one year makes. Since showing noteworthy signs of a maturing tech ecosystemlast summer, corporate venture in Latin America has begun to crescendo in just 12 months, led by Braz...
10:00 pm GMT - Fri, September 15, 2017
Techcrunch A look back in IPO: Apple, the early PC purveyor
 To wrap up our series of looks into the IPOs of tech’s Big 5, we turn to Apple. Being the first of five to go public, what can we learn from Cupertino’s debut? Heading back in time a...
09:49 pm GMT - Fri, September 15, 2017
Techcrunch Angry Birds IPO expected to value parent Rovio at $1 billion
 Remember Angry Birds? Well, apparently enough people are still playing it to justify an IPO.Rovio Entertainment, the Finnish parent of the popular smartphone game, is getting ready to go public ...
09:27 pm GMT - Fri, September 15, 2017
Techcrunch Equifax security and information executives are stepping down
 Top executives at Equifax are retiring effective immediately according to the WSJ.Susan Mauldin was the company’s chief security officer and David Webb was the chief information officer.Th...
09:15 pm GMT - Fri, September 15, 2017
Techcrunch A typical day for researchers on Googles Brain Team
 What do you and researchers on Google’s Brain Team have most in common? You both probably spend a lot of time triaging email. In a Reddit AMA, 11 Google AI researchers took time to share t...
09:05 pm GMT - Fri, September 15, 2017
Techcrunch Tencent tried to buy Spotify earlier this year
 Spotify has long been linked with going public in the U.S. — it is speculated to be preparing for an IPO-less listing next year — but it has emerged that the company rebuffed the opp...
09:00 pm GMT - Fri, September 15, 2017
Techcrunch How startups can avoid Bodegas PR disaster
 Oh, Bodega. The newly launched startup’s insensitivity hit some pretty tender nerves during a time when cultural and societal tensions are high. The first article published about Bodega re...
08:25 pm GMT - Fri, September 15, 2017
Techcrunch Tim OReilly thinks focusing less on shareholders just might save the world
 There’s no shortage of angst in Silicon Valley. Tech leaders are still reeling from the outcome of the U.S. presidential election. Their increasingly rich companies are coming to be viewed...
08:21 pm GMT - Fri, September 15, 2017
Techcrunch The AI ecosystem to be on display at Disrupt SF
 As artificial intelligence creeps deeper into each and every industry vertical, demand for experienced technical talent only continues to increase. Now online education tools like Udacity and Co...
08:18 pm GMT - Fri, September 15, 2017
Techcrunch South Park trolled Amazon Echo owners in the best way possible
 This is one of the minor dangers of owning an Amazon Echo. Most anyone can activate the device by just saying the wake word including Cartman. And in the season opener of South Park, that’...
08:07 pm GMT - Fri, September 15, 2017
Techcrunch Interview: Apples Craig Federighi answers some burning questions about Face ID
 Face ID is easily the most hot-button topic to come out of Apple’s iPhone event this week, notch be damned. As people have parsed just how serious Apple is about it, questions have rightly...
07:58 pm GMT - Fri, September 15, 2017
Techcrunch Original Content investigates the mysteries of Netflixs American Vandal
 American Vandal takes the investigative approach of shows like Making a Murderer and applies it to something a little less serious — not a murder, but the spraypainting of dicks on teacher...
07:29 pm GMT - Fri, September 15, 2017
Techcrunch Meet the startups that just pitched at EFs 8th Demo Day in London
 Entrepreneur First (EF), the company builder and “talent first” investor, has just held Demo Day for its eighth London cohort, seeing 14 newly-formed startups pitch their wares onsta...
07:28 pm GMT - Fri, September 15, 2017
Techcrunch Tesla files patent for mobile battery swapping rig
 Tesla is still exploring options to make swapping vehicle battery packs easier and faster. This patent filed in May reveals one option that would allow technicians to change out packs in less th...
06:27 pm GMT - Fri, September 15, 2017
Techcrunch Laurene Powell Jobs and Ron Conway will talk about investing in Americas youth at Disrupt SF
 The tech community and students need each other to thrive and compete and fuel innovation in this country. That’s why it is more important than ever to invest in America’s youth, and...
05:39 pm GMT - Fri, September 15, 2017
Techcrunch Credit Karma says it will offer credit monitoring for Equifax following this months huge breach
 Credit Karma said it will add Equifax to its credit monitoring service as part of its free product, which proactively notifies members of significant changes to their credit report. It includes ...
05:23 pm GMT - Fri, September 15, 2017
Techcrunch Hulu to spend $2.5 billion on content in 2017, add 7 more original series
 Hulu is spending around $2.5 billion on content this year, according to a report from Variety, citing remarks made by Hulu CEO Mike Hopkins at an event this week at the Paley Center for Media in...
05:13 pm GMT - Fri, September 15, 2017
Techcrunch Dharma hopes to solve health data collection for NGOs of the world
 Data scientist Michael Roytman and his statistician friend Jesse Berns were working on a non-government organization project together in Iraq that required a lot of the data to be in a central p...
04:33 pm GMT - Fri, September 15, 2017
Techcrunch US election agency seeks views on rule change for digital ad platforms
 The U.S. Federal Election Commission (FEC) has voted to seek public views on whether there should be a change to the rules for political ads that extends disclaimer requirements to ads shown on ...
03:47 pm GMT - Fri, September 15, 2017
Techcrunch Times streaming service gets rebranded as PeopleTV, passes 100M views in year one
 Time is giving its celeb and entertainment-filled streaming service a new name. Launched last year as the blandly and cumbersome “People/Entertainment Weekly Network,” the newly rebr...
02:00 pm GMT - Fri, September 15, 2017
Techcrunch Why Dropbox decided to drop AWS and build its own infrastructure and network
 There is always a tension inside companies about whether to build or to buy, whatever the need. A few years ago Dropbox decided it was going to move the majority of its infrastructure requiremen...
01:53 pm GMT - Fri, September 15, 2017
Techcrunch Upcoming versions of Google Chrome will let you permanently mute sites, block autoplaying videos
 One of the most annoying things about surfing today’s web – besides all those ads, of course – is landing on a site and getting blasted by a video that starts playing automatic...
01:10 pm GMT - Fri, September 15, 2017
Techcrunch Equity podcast: SoFi loses its CEO, big rounds for unicorns, and will this VC buy the iPhone X?
 Hello and welcome back toEquity, TechCrunch’s venture-capital themed podcast that we are bringing live to Disrupt SF next Wednesday. All the cool kids will be there to chat numbers and hec...
12:52 pm GMT - Fri, September 15, 2017
Techcrunch Europe says all options on table for taxing tech giants
 The European Commission is preparing a list of legal options on how to make digital multinationals such as Amazon, Facebook and Google pay more tax, Reuters reports. Read More ...
11:38 am GMT - Fri, September 15, 2017
Techcrunch WordPress to ditch React library over Facebook patent clause risk
 Automattic, the company behind the popular open source web publishing software WordPress, has said it will be pulling away from using Facebook’s React javaScript library over concerns abou...
09:42 am GMT - Fri, September 15, 2017
Techcrunch Didi adds Apple Pay support across core mobility services
 China’s ride-hailing giant Didi is this week adding support for Apple Pay to its core personal mobility services — includingDidiPremier,DidiExpress,DidiLuxe and ofo, a partner statio...
07:21 am GMT - Fri, September 15, 2017
Techcrunch Facebook halts ad targeting of profile details abused by users
 In a swift response to the news that advertisers were able to target anti-Semitic phrases on Facebook, the social network has shut down “self-reported targeting fields” in the ad sys...
07:19 am GMT - Fri, September 15, 2017
Techcrunch Renault-Nissan lays out plans for 12 new EVs and robo global ride-hailing service
 The future of cars is electric, and today the alliance that includes Renault, Nissan and Mitsubishi laid out plans of how it plans to be one of the leaders in that area as well as autonomous veh...
03:10 am GMT - Fri, September 15, 2017
Techcrunch Crunch Report | The Many Faces of SpaceX Explosions
SpaceX releases a fail video showing all of its explosions, marijuana delivery startup Eaze raises $27 million, Nestl buys a majority stake in Blue Bottle Coffee and BTC China is suspending trading. A...
02:40 am GMT - Fri, September 15, 2017
Techcrunch Facebook is the latest tech giant to hunt for AI talent in Canada
 Facebook is turning its attention to Canada with a new AI research office in Montreal. Google and Microsoft already have outposts in the city and countless other tech companies, including Uber, ...
02:30 am GMT - Fri, September 15, 2017
Techcrunch Battlefield Australia produces a striking group of founder applicants
 Applications are officially closed for TechCrunch’s Battlefield Australia,and the response exceeded expectations.There are 272 early-stage companies from Australia and New Zealand that are...
12:59 am GMT - Fri, September 15, 2017
Techcrunch Patreon raises big round at ~$450M valuation to get artists paid
 In an era where art is shared and streamed for free, Patreon offers new hope for turning content creation into a career. Illustrators, comedians, game makers, and musicians use Patreon to let fa...
11:53 pm GMT - Thu, September 14, 2017
Techcrunch Alphabet is reportedly mulling a $1B investment in Lyft
 It’s about as good a timing as any for Lyft to capitalize on the tidal wave of negative publicity that Uber is facing right now, and it looks like it might end up with a significant invest...
11:51 pm GMT - Thu, September 14, 2017
Techcrunch NYX Cosmetics, known for its digital-first marketing strategy, launches an app called Makeup Crew
 NYX Cosmetics describes itself as a “digital-first” brand, eschewing traditional ad buys in favor of customer selfies it shares on social media, including an Instagram account with 1...
11:23 pm GMT - Thu, September 14, 2017
Techcrunch CashShield raises $5.5 million to prevent credit card fraud
 Over $10 billion is wasted every year due to fraudulent e-commerce charges and that number is growing. This is not only costly and time-consuming for the businesses, but also the credit card com...
11:18 pm GMT - Thu, September 14, 2017
Techcrunch Breakout Ventures, spun out of Peter Thiels Breakout Labs, has closed its debut fund with $60M
 Lindy Fishburne has spent most of the last six years heading up Breakout Labs, a program that’s underwritten by Peter Thiel and that in 2011 began offering nascent science-focused startups...
10:30 pm GMT - Thu, September 14, 2017
Techcrunch SEC shows support for ICOs that are not obviously securities
 The SEC appears to have taken very thoughtful action on two crypto projects to date. Nay-sayers are predicting the end, while proponents of crypto dismiss the actions. Here’s a quick analy...
10:10 pm GMT - Thu, September 14, 2017
Techcrunch Hampton Creek rises again with new directors and patents for a new direction
 After what were likely several months of very one-sided board meetings, Hampton Creek has filled the empty seats that chief executive Josh Tetrick may have been talking to. No longer monologuing...
10:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 14, 2017
Techcrunch How to win in the autonomous taxi space
 The promise of self-driving cars is to create a world where anyone, anywhere can summon a car and travel safely to their destination, at close to zero cost. Companies creating autonomous taxi fl...
09:46 pm GMT - Thu, September 14, 2017
Techcrunch Facebooks generation of Jew Hater and other advertising categories prompts system inspection
 Facebook automatically generates categories advertisers can target, such as “jogger” and “activist,” based on what it observes in users’ profiles. Usually that̵...
09:28 pm GMT - Thu, September 14, 2017
Techcrunch Geoffrey Hinton was briefly a Google intern in 2012 because of bureaucracy
 Geoffrey Hinton is one the most famous researchers in the field of artificial intelligence. His work helped to kick off the world of deep learning we see today. He earned his PhD in artificial i...
08:27 pm GMT - Thu, September 14, 2017
Techcrunch The wireless chargers at Starbucks will get updated to support iPhone X and 8
 Yes, you should be able to charge your new iPhone X or iPhone 8 at Starbucks. Apple announced earlier this week that its new iPhones will include support for wireless charging through the Qi sta...
08:15 pm GMT - Thu, September 14, 2017
Techcrunch The Cassini Orbiters greatest images and discoveries
 The Cassini-Huygens mission launched from Cape Canaveral on October 15, 1997, and tomorrow, just a month shy of 20 years later, one of the most prolific purveyors of beautiful planetary science ...
07:54 pm GMT - Thu, September 14, 2017
Techcrunch Social Capital to take startups public without an IPO
 Silicon Valley venture firm Social Capital just completed the first step in its mission to take startups public without the IPO. The team has listed something called a special purchase acquisiti...
07:52 pm GMT - Thu, September 14, 2017
Techcrunch Essential Phone is getting a high-end audio accessory with a headphone jack
 While plenty of smartphone features have been sunsetted on the way to thinner profiles and sexier bezels, none have garnered the ire of consumers quite as much as the removal of the aged and dis...
07:44 pm GMT - Thu, September 14, 2017
Techcrunch Tiber Health wants to solve the worlds doctor shortage
 The medical school in Ponce, Puerto Rico seems like an unlikely place to start a revolution in education. While it may look unassuming, with its campus bordered by empty lots, low slung building...
07:13 pm GMT - Thu, September 14, 2017
Techcrunch Costanoa Ventures raises $175 million fund
 Costanoa Ventures has raised a $175 million fund, the third fund for the Palo Alto-based venture firm. With a focus on enterprise technology, Costanoa Ventures typically invests at seed stage an...
07:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 14, 2017
Techcrunch Tune in to IndieBio Accelerators Demo Day today
 TechCrunch is excited to bring you IndieBio Accelerator’s Demo Daytoday, September 14th at 3:00pm PT. Targeting the biotech industry, the IndieBio Accelerator hosts a four-month program. T...
06:58 pm GMT - Thu, September 14, 2017
Techcrunch Heres all the crazy hardware presented at HAXs 10th demo day
 We stopped by HAX’s demo day at the San Francisco Mint to check out all the hardware startups in the accelerator’s 10th batch. Many of the startups showcased creative combinations of...
06:55 pm GMT - Thu, September 14, 2017
Techcrunch This dental startup will straighten your teeth for less than Invisalign
 Healthy, well-aligned teeth shouldn’t just be for the wealthy. Candid, a direct-to-consumer teeth alignment company, aims to make straight teeth more accessible and more affordable than br...
06:34 pm GMT - Thu, September 14, 2017
Techcrunch Kuri, the cutest home robot, has learned how to dance
 Kuri’s definitely the most adorable home robot, even if that’s not that hard an honor to claim given the relatively sparse competitive field. But it’s even cuter now, because i...
05:25 pm GMT - Thu, September 14, 2017
Techcrunch BlaBlaCar expands its BlaBlaLines service to Paris area
 BlaBlaCar is currently trying to reinvent itself. And it starts with BlaBlaLines, a new ride-sharing service for daily commutes. The company first tested out the new service around Reims and Tou...
05:18 pm GMT - Thu, September 14, 2017
Techcrunch Hopper debuts Flex Watch, a personalized flight deal finder for flexible travel dates
 Hopper, the intelligent travel app that has made finding affordable flights a lot easier, is today rolling out a new feature calledFlex Watch, which will send you recommendations about flight de...
05:18 pm GMT - Thu, September 14, 2017
Techcrunch Facebook Messenger hits 1.3 billion monthly users, up from 1.2B in April
 Facebook Messenger continues its ascent, entrenching itself as the top cross-OS messaging app in the West. Messenger now has 1.3 billion monthly users, up from 1.2 billion in April and 1 billion...
05:18 pm GMT - Thu, September 14, 2017
Techcrunch Facebook Messenger Day hits 70M daily users as the app reaches 1.3B monthlies
 Facebook has finally revealed how its Snapchat Stories clone is doing, though it’s not seeing the same explosive growth as Instagram or WhatApp’s versions. Messenger Day now sees 70 ...
05:17 pm GMT - Thu, September 14, 2017
Techcrunch AWS now offers a virtual machine with over 4TB of memory
 Earlier this year, Amazon’s AWS groupsaid that it was working on bringing instance types with between 4 to 16TB of memory to its users. It’s now starting to fulfill this promise as t...
05:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 14, 2017
Techcrunch SparkLabs Group launches an agricultural tech accelerator called Cultiv8 in Australia
 SparkLabs Group, which claims to be the largest startup accelerator group in Asia, is stepping into agricultural tech with a new program created in partnership with the New South Wales Departmen...
05:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 14, 2017
Techcrunch DoorDash acquires delivery and logistics startup Rickshaw
 DoorDash is announcing the acquisition of Rickshaw, a Y Combinator-incubated startup that helps businesses offer same-day delivery by connecting them to a courier network and managing the logist...
05:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 14, 2017
Techcrunch Lyft adds more routes and commute scheduling to Shuttle service
 Lyft is expanding its shared Shuttle service with eight total routes in San Francisco and six in Chicago, its two launch markets for the trial. Shuttle provides fixed-fare shared travel along a ...
04:45 pm GMT - Thu, September 14, 2017
Techcrunch Nestl acquires a majority stake in Blue Bottle Coffee at a valuation north of $700M
 Blue Bottle Coffee, one of Silicon Valley’s favorite coffee projects, is selling a majority stake to Nestl in a big semi-acquisition this morning that’s no doubt going to validate a ...
04:41 pm GMT - Thu, September 14, 2017
Techcrunch Alan launches mobile app for its health insurance service of the future
 French startup Alan is trying the impossible by reinventing health insurance and life insurance. The company just launched its mobile app on iOS and Android. You can now send a bill, say that yo...
04:19 pm GMT - Thu, September 14, 2017
Techcrunch Google is bringing video reviews to Google Maps
 We’re still very far away from real-time Google Street View or satellite imagery on Google Maps, but Google is, for the first time, introducing video in parts of its mapping service. Users...
04:15 pm GMT - Thu, September 14, 2017
Techcrunch Snappr raises $2M to grow its on-demand photography service
 Snappr, the on-demand photography service that was part of YC’s Winter ’17 batch, has closed $2M in seed funding. Investors include Airtree Ventures (the largest VC fund in Australia...
04:13 pm GMT - Thu, September 14, 2017
Techcrunch Google Earth VR app gets support for Street View
 Google Earth VR is getting a little update today that brings your views to street-level in the world-exploring virtual reality app. The app is adding Street View into the app so that users can e...
04:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 14, 2017
Techcrunch Lookers latest looks to simplify data integrations
 Looker is holding its Join user conference this week, and these affairs often involve a new release to show off to customers. Today, the company released Looker 5, which they say will make it ea...
03:31 pm GMT - Thu, September 14, 2017
Techcrunch Facebook Snooze button temporarily hides people in your feed
 Sick of a friend’s non-stop vacation photos? Bored of hearing about some business Page’s big launch? One of your groups won’t shut up about their upcoming get-together? Now Fac...
03:30 pm GMT - Thu, September 14, 2017
Techcrunch Microsofts AI camera app Pix is now a business productivity tool
 Microsoft Pix, the iOS camera app that leverages A.I. to help you take better photos, is venturing beyond being a tool for consumers with an update that now sees it able to assist with photos of...
03:29 pm GMT - Thu, September 14, 2017
Techcrunch Ex-Googlers launch Bellgram, an AI-driven virtual assistant for the enterprise
 Three ex-Google engineers have banded together to launch what can only be described as a sort of replacement for a human PA, but one which can be used by a whole company to improve communication...
03:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 14, 2017
Techcrunch NFX Guild just showed 14 new companies to top investors in its latest demo day
 Yesterday, three-year-old,NFX Guild, a Silicon Valley-based, invite-only accelerator program that has now worked with 80 companies, hosted its newest demo day before 200 venture investors at the...
03:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 14, 2017
Techcrunch Fertility startup Carrot raises $3.6 million to make IVF and egg-freezing more affordable
 Two years ago, at the age of 34, Tammy Sun decided to freeze her eggs. Though larger tech companies like Apple and Facebook had started offering this service as a perk to retain female talent, i...
02:58 pm GMT - Thu, September 14, 2017
Techcrunch Brent Hoberman launches new $85M pan-European seed fund, firstminute capital
 Back in June Brent Hoberman, who famously founded and floated Lastminute.com, unveiled his new investment vehicle . The first $60m close for ‘firstminute Capital’ was announced then ...
02:54 pm GMT - Thu, September 14, 2017
Techcrunch Pinterest crosses 200 million monthly active users
 Pinterest said today it now has 200 million monthly active users, up from 150 million a little under a year ago.In April, the company said it hit 175 million monthly active users, so it seems it...
02:44 pm GMT - Thu, September 14, 2017
Techcrunch Essential Phone now on sale at Sprint stores
 Essential’s first phone, the aptly named Phone, is now available in Sprint retail stores. The retail availability follows pre-orders and sales via web and Essential’s own online stor...
02:35 pm GMT - Thu, September 14, 2017
Techcrunch Spotify launches an iMessage app for texting songs to friends
 Spotify has quietly launched its own iMessage application that let you text songs to friends with just a few taps. The new app hasn’t been officially announced, but appears to be similar i...
02:34 pm GMT - Thu, September 14, 2017
Techcrunch Apples Face ID will support only one registered face per iPhone at launch
 Apple’s forthcoming FaceID technology will support just one face registered per device, at least initially. This has been reported by multiple people who spoke to Apple at this week’...
02:24 pm GMT - Thu, September 14, 2017
Techcrunch Clinch raises $3M for personalized video ads
 Clinch aims to create video ads personalized for each viewer, and it’s raised $3 million to bring that technology to the United States. It’s not the only personalized video ad techno...
02:21 pm GMT - Thu, September 14, 2017
Techcrunch Watch this robot rock band destroy their instruments
 What happens when a mad scientist’s musicbots rebel against their own precision? You get “Automatica”, the latest video from Nigel Stanford, who scored 13 million views control...
02:11 pm GMT - Thu, September 14, 2017
Techcrunch Daimlers electric short-haul city trucks are coming to the U.S.
 Daimler’s Fuso eCanter trucks, which are fully electric and have a range of 60 miles per charge, are making their way to the U.S. for the first time (via Reuters) for customers in New York...
02:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 14, 2017
Techcrunch Product Hunt wants to help you ship your product with its new product Ship
 Product Hunt is hoping to make it easier for those who create products to market those products as well. Today, the platform where people vote up or down on startup products is launching a suite...
02:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 14, 2017
Techcrunch Yext looks to help businesses make their information more searchable by machines
 Yext has been known for helping businesses get all their information (like location, business hours, and such) lined up correctly on the right apps and websites — and now it’s lookin...
01:58 pm GMT - Thu, September 14, 2017
Techcrunch Metacerts Paul Walsh on ICOs, phishing, and the future of fake news
 Metacert is a company that hunts down and kills fake news. Created by Paul Walsh, it can assess whether or not a link is trustworthy and warn you before you click. Further, he’s found grea...
01:30 pm GMT - Thu, September 14, 2017
Techcrunch Hyperloop One and Colorado to conduct Hyperloop feasibility study
 Hyperloop One just announced 10 major finalists from its global competition to identify the best potential Hyperloop routes, but it’s already entering into a formal public-private partners...
01:30 pm GMT - Thu, September 14, 2017
Techcrunch Hyperloop One reveals 10 strongest potential Hyperloop routes in the world
 Hyperloop One wants to build a real, working Hyperloop – but it’ll need strong partners to make it a reality, across both industry and government. That’s why, in part, it held ...
01:23 pm GMT - Thu, September 14, 2017
Techcrunch Game of Thrones will spawn its own finale multiverse to avoid spoilers
 HBO isn’t leaving anything to chance when it comes to spoiler potential for its climactic Game of Thrones finale: The network will be shooting multiple endings for Season 8, the show’...
01:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 14, 2017
Techcrunch RealtyShares raises $28 million for commercial real estate investing
 Commercial real estate can be a lucrative investment, but it can be hard to come up with the money to buy a stake in the first place.That’s the idea behind RealtyShares, a platform which p...
01:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 14, 2017
Techcrunch Facebook centralizes its crisis response tools in a new hub called Crisis Response
 Facebook today is announcing a new feature called Crisis Response, designed to make it easier for people to find out more about recent crises and access various to tools to support recovery, inc...
01:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 14, 2017
Techcrunch HouseCanary raises $31 million to value residential real estate
 What if you could accurately predict the resale value of a homebefore buying it? A startup calledHouseCanary claims that its data can help you with that. Touting a system that can forecast a sal...
01:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 14, 2017
Techcrunch Snapchat brings Bitmoji to the real world with World Lenses
 Snapchat’s World Lens feature applies filters intelligently to the world around you using augmented reality and your smartphone’s camera, and now you the app is adding support for Bi...
12:18 pm GMT - Thu, September 14, 2017
Techcrunch Googles Pixel 2 is launching on October 4
 Google is launching the successor to its Pixel smartphone on October 4, as confirmed by a new advertising campaign and official landing page citing the date, and suggesting that anyone who is &#...
12:07 pm GMT - Thu, September 14, 2017
Techcrunch The first of Chinas top bitcoin exchanges has announced it will suspend trading
 A number of China’s top bitcoin exchanges are preparing to suspend their services following instructions from the government. BTC China, one of the country’s top three, became the fi...
12:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 14, 2017
Techcrunch Eaze is moving into recreational marijuana delivery with $27 million in new funding
 The cannabis industry has lit up in the last year, including weed delivery startup Eaze, which just raised $27 million in Series B financing and claims a 300 percent year-over-year increase in g...
11:30 am GMT - Thu, September 14, 2017
Techcrunch MissionU raises $8.5M to build an alternative one-year education program
 Adam Braun, a consultant-turned-educational non-profit founder, will say he’s had a lot of good fortune that’s helped him position himself in a way to see the education system from a...
11:30 am GMT - Thu, September 14, 2017
Techcrunch Twitch co-founder Justin Kan launches tech-enabled law firm for startups
 Justin Kan, co-founder of startups like Twitch.tv and Exec, is pulling the curtains off his new tech-enabled law firm. Atrium, co-founded by Kan, Augie Rakow and BeBe Chueh, is launching today t...
11:29 am GMT - Thu, September 14, 2017
Techcrunch Quick-charging battery startup StoreDot gets $60M on $500M valuation led by Daimler
 As we continue to see a proliferation of wireless connected devices make their way into the mainstream consumer electronics market, there has been growing attention on a key issue that will be c...
10:37 am GMT - Thu, September 14, 2017
Techcrunch Watch the many explosions that led to SpaceXs successful rocket landings
 SpaceX has now managed to land a total of 16 Falcon 9 first stage orbital boosters, and it’s been a while since it lost one in the attempt. But things didn’t always go so smoothly: I...
07:21 am GMT - Thu, September 14, 2017
Techcrunch Samsung launches $300M autonomous driving fund, puts $90M into TTTech
 Not to be outpaced in the connected car market by other tech giants, today the world’s largest smartphone maker, Samsung, announced two major pieces of news to further its place in the nex...
04:02 am GMT - Thu, September 14, 2017
Techcrunch Google is reportedly releasing a localized mobile payment service in India
 Google is increasing its focus on India with plans to introduce a localized digital payment service as soon as next week, according to a report from India-based news site The Ken. The publicatio...
03:55 am GMT - Thu, September 14, 2017
Techcrunch Conan jabs at the new iPhones facial recognition system
 The facial recognition system built into the iPhone X raises plenty of questions. Can I fool it with a photo? (No.) Will it work if I’m sleeping and someone puts my iPhone up to my face? (...
03:30 am GMT - Thu, September 14, 2017
Techcrunch Crunch Report | North Korean Hackers Target Bitcoin Exchanges
Facebook bans monetization of hate, porn, drugs and violence on its platform, some shake-ups happen at Baidu and WhatsApp, and North Korea is allegedly targeting bitcoin exchanges. All this on Crunch ...
02:36 am GMT - Thu, September 14, 2017
Techcrunch Magic Leap reportedly looking to raise even more cash, this time at a $6 billion valuation
 Investors may not be done shoveling money into Magic Leap’s augmented reality ambitions quite yet. The Plantation, Florida-based startupis reportedly in talks with Singapore-based Temasek ...
12:30 am GMT - Thu, September 14, 2017
Techcrunch Senator Franken asks Apple for privacy guarantees around Face ID data
 A friendly letter from Senator Al Franken (D-MN) to Apple requests that the latter provide a few more details on the tech behind its Face ID system, which allows users to unlock their iPhone X u...
11:46 pm GMT - Wed, September 13, 2017
Techcrunch Nintendo offers new Super Mario Odyssey details and demo of Squares intriguing Project Octopath Traveler
 Nintendo announced a few items today to hold gamers over until the holiday season — and to appease would-be SNES Classic buyers. It announced a few details of its most anticipated upcoming...
11:38 pm GMT - Wed, September 13, 2017
Techcrunch Tesla semi truck unveil event tentatively set for October 26
 Tesla had previously set September as the timeframe for their big unveiling of an all-electric semi truck created by the company. The big rig is now set to be shown off for the first time on Oct...
09:54 pm GMT - Wed, September 13, 2017
Techcrunch Security researchers find gross deficiencies on Equifax Argentina site
 As we close in on a week since Equifax announced the massive hack that could potentially have exposed the financial information of 143 million consumers in the US, we have been left with many qu...
08:52 pm GMT - Wed, September 13, 2017
Techcrunch US government bans Kaspersky software citing fears about Russian intelligence
 Three months after the General Services Administration removed Kaspersky Lab from a list of approved federal vendors, Homeland Security is banning the Russian security software maker outright. R...
08:37 pm GMT - Wed, September 13, 2017
Techcrunch YouTubes app is dominating mobile video by monthly users, time spent
 Americans spent nearly a billion hours watching YouTube videos on Android this past July, according to new data released today by App Annie. That’s the largest amount of time spent in any ...
08:13 pm GMT - Wed, September 13, 2017
Techcrunch Facebooks Eddie ONeil takes over Platform as Deb Liu grows Marketplace
 There’s a new czar running Facebook’s developer platform tools. Because Facebook’s classifieds feature Marketplace is growing, it will now command the full attention of Deb Liu...
08:10 pm GMT - Wed, September 13, 2017
Techcrunch TechCrunch has 100 tickets to see South of Market: the Musical v2
 After a sold-out run in 2016, South of Market: The Musical returns to San Francisco this fall with v2 of the musical revue that pokes fun at the year’s trends, issues and absurdities withi...
08:07 pm GMT - Wed, September 13, 2017
Techcrunch No, a chatbot cant automatically sue Equifax for $25,000
 Making the rounds today is a chatbot that claims it will let you sue Equifax for thousands of dollars in small claims court without using a lawyer. The Verge boldly stated you can claim up to $2...
07:57 pm GMT - Wed, September 13, 2017
Techcrunch SoftBank, Dragoneer, Didi close to finalizing investment in Uber
 Japan’s SoftBank Group, U.S. investment group Dragoneer, and Chinese ride-share giant Didi Chuxing are close to finalizing their investment in Uber via a joint venture, sources tell TechCr...
07:37 pm GMT - Wed, September 13, 2017
Techcrunch iOS 11 is a second chance for QR codes and NFC to hit it big
 Apple’s flashy new iPhones are hogging the spotlight right now, but iOS 11 is arriving before they do – on September 19, the major mobile software update will be available for existi...
07:02 pm GMT - Wed, September 13, 2017
Techcrunch Trump administration sued over warrantless smartphone searches at US borders
 With the border wall fight looming large in Congress, another kind of battle at the border is heating up. On Wednesday, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the American Civil Liberties ...
06:16 pm GMT - Wed, September 13, 2017
Techcrunch Infostellar raises $7.3M for its Airbnb for satellite antenna rental services
 Going beyond the bounds of our planet is the future. That explains whyInfostellar, a platform that enables antenna sharing to enable better communication for satellites and spacecrafts, exists &...
06:02 pm GMT - Wed, September 13, 2017
Techcrunch Learn how to play the business of Esports at Disrupt SF
 One of the perks of working in the technology world is that we get to watch entire industries grow from the ground up, often in just a few years. And that’s exactly what’s happening ...
06:00 pm GMT - Wed, September 13, 2017
Techcrunch Ford disguised a man as a car seat to research self-driving
 Yes, you read that correctly: Ford put a man in a car seat disguise so that a Ford Transit could masquerade a a true self-driving vehicle. Why? To evaluate how passers by, other drivers on the r...
06:00 pm GMT - Wed, September 13, 2017
Techcrunch How pro rata works in venture capital deals
 To the uninitiated, startup fundraising can be confusing. And even some of the resources designed to be approachable for the newcomer often raise more questions than they answer. So we’ve ...
05:56 pm GMT - Wed, September 13, 2017
Techcrunch YayPay raises $5.3 million for its accounts receivable service
 A couple of years after participating in TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield, YayPay is raising $5.3 million from QED Investors, Birchmere, Fifth Third Capital, as well as 500 Fintech Fund, A...
05:04 pm GMT - Wed, September 13, 2017
Techcrunch This battery-free cellphone runs on light and radio waves
 Who cares about an OLED and a notch when your phone can sip power from its surroundings, allowing you to make calls without ever having to charge your phone. This wild cellphone is part of a Goo...
05:00 pm GMT - Wed, September 13, 2017
Techcrunch Disrupt SF 2017 Hackathon Judges Announced
 Hi there. It’s your Disrupt Hackmasters, Reshma and Jeffery, and we’re here with the details on this year’s hackathon judges. If you’re in it to win it, you’ll want...
05:00 pm GMT - Wed, September 13, 2017
Techcrunch Heres your first look at Lore, Amazons new streaming horror show
 I wasn’t sure what to expect from the early descriptions of Lore, the new streaming show based on the popular podcast by Aaron Mehnke. But the “anthology series” looks sort of ...
04:58 pm GMT - Wed, September 13, 2017
Techcrunch Sling TV is now giving away digital antennas to those who prepay for its service
 Dish’s streaming service for cord cutters, Sling TV, is now offering consumers without access to local broadcasts channels the ability to add an over-the-air (OTA) antenna to their existin...
04:56 pm GMT - Wed, September 13, 2017
Techcrunch Oracle joins the Cloud Native Computing Foundation as a platinum member
 Oracle today announced that it is joining the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) as a platinum member. With this move, it’s joining companies like Amazon, Cisco, Google, IBM, Intel, ...
04:50 pm GMT - Wed, September 13, 2017
Techcrunch Judge rules Uber has to turn over the due diligence report to Waymo
 A federal circuit appeals judge ruled today that Uber must hand over the due diligence report it commissioned ahead of its acquisition of self-driving truck startup Otto. Alphabet’s self-d...
04:00 pm GMT - Wed, September 13, 2017
Techcrunch Apttus scores $55M as it closes in on an IPO
 Apttus, the unicorn quote-to-cash vendor built on the Salesforce platform, announced a $55 million round, which is likely its final private investment on the way to an IPO. While CEO Kirk Krappe...
03:34 pm GMT - Wed, September 13, 2017
Techcrunch iPhone Xs Face ID raises security and privacy questions
 Offering to gate the smorgasbord of personal content that lives on a mobile device behind a face biometric inevitably raises lots of security questions, even as always on face-scanning tech bein...
03:32 pm GMT - Wed, September 13, 2017
Techcrunch Apples new iPhone 8 and iPhone X support fast-charging
 Want to get 50 percent of your battery life back with just 30 minutes of charging? You can do that with the iPhone 8 (and 8 Plus) and iPhone X (via Engadget). These are the first phones put out ...
03:30 pm GMT - Wed, September 13, 2017
Techcrunch Bodega raises $2.5M to build a smart store kiosk in your apartment building
 If you’re in a big city like New York City, you’re probably used to walking around the block away from where you live to the corner shop and picking up a jug of milk or some dishwash...
03:30 pm GMT - Wed, September 13, 2017
Techcrunch Trello finally comes to the desktop
 It’s only taken six years, but the popular project management tool Trello — which was recently acquired by Atlassian — today launched its desktop apps for Mac, with the Windows...
03:25 pm GMT - Wed, September 13, 2017
Techcrunch 56.6 Million U.S. consumers to go without pay TV this year, as cord cutting accelerates
 Bad news for traditional pay TV: cord cutting is accelerating at a pace faster than previously estimated. According to a new industry report from eMarketer, there will be 22.2 million cord cutte...
03:25 pm GMT - Wed, September 13, 2017
Techcrunch 56.6 million US consumers to go without pay TV this year, as cord cutting accelerates
 Bad news for traditional pay TV: cord cutting is accelerating at a pace faster than previously estimated. According to a new industry report from eMarketer, there will be 22.2 million cord cutte...
03:19 pm GMT - Wed, September 13, 2017
Techcrunch ZenBook maker Asus launches $50M venture fund to bring Silicon Valley startups into Asia
 Asus, the Taiwanese hardware firm known for its ZenBooks, ZenFones and Zenbo the cute, humanoid robot, is stepping into the VC game with the launch of a $50 million venture capital fund. Managed...
02:18 pm GMT - Wed, September 13, 2017
Techcrunch Statespace, the Expa-backed training platform for gamers, launches out of stealth
 Nobody likes to lose. Especially gamers. But unlike other sports or activities, video games aren’t conducive to practice.Sure, you could play Destiny 2 until your thumbs bleed. But when it...
02:12 pm GMT - Wed, September 13, 2017
Techcrunch Why the iPhone X is the new iPhone youll want now
 The iPhone X is billed as a future-focused device with a lot of cutting edge tech, available at a premium. It kind of reminds me of the positioning of the original MacBook Air, or the new MacBoo...
02:10 pm GMT - Wed, September 13, 2017
Techcrunch As a relieved Tampa assesses its future, one of its millionaires plants a flag for VC and tech
 While Tampa Bay residents are beginning the process of removing the sandbags from their homes and getting back to the business of daily living in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma, the city’...
02:00 pm GMT - Wed, September 13, 2017
Techcrunch Heptio raises $25M Series B to help bring cloud-native computing to the enterprise
 Heptio, the startup founded by Kubernetes co-founders Craig McLuckie and Joe Beda, today announced that it has raised a $25 million Series B funding round led by Madrona Venture partners. Lights...
01:54 pm GMT - Wed, September 13, 2017
Techcrunch Facebook tries its hand at group video chat with Bonfire
 Facebook has been quietly testing a new group video chat app, called Bonfire, which allows up to eight friends to engage in conversation as well as use special effects, similar to those you̵...
01:54 pm GMT - Wed, September 13, 2017
Techcrunch Facebook tests Bonfire group video chat as app and in Messenger
 Facebook has been quietly testing a new standalone group video chat app, called Bonfire, which allows up to eight friends to engage in conversation as well as use special effects, similar to tho...
01:46 pm GMT - Wed, September 13, 2017
Techcrunch Its not hard to beat Rolex, Apple
 A collective Internet gasp went up yesterday when, once again, the Apple Watch beat most major watch companies in terms of revenue. It’s not surprising not that the Apple Watch outsold Rol...
01:36 pm GMT - Wed, September 13, 2017
Techcrunch Facebook bans monetization of violence, porn, drugs, hate
 Facebook wants content creators to earn money, but not at the expense of the family friendly social network it’s built, or the integrity of its advertising clients. So today Facebook estab...
01:32 pm GMT - Wed, September 13, 2017
Techcrunch I dont want the new iPhone X and I cant be alone
 Apple announced the latest iPhone yesterday. It’s thinner, faster and has a better screen than the previous model. But of course it does. That’s how these things go. But the phone al...
01:30 pm GMT - Wed, September 13, 2017
Techcrunch To control AI, we need to understand more about humans
 From Frankenstein to I, Robot, we have for centuries been intrigued with and terrified of creating beings that might develop autonomy and free will. And now that we stand on the cusp of the age ...
01:19 pm GMT - Wed, September 13, 2017
Techcrunch Ex-Sequoia Asia partner Yinglan Tan closes $25M fund and makes first investment
 More details about former Sequoia venture partner Yinglan Tan’s new fund have emerged after an SEC filing confirmed that it has raised $25 million for its maiden fund, and it made its firs...
01:00 pm GMT - Wed, September 13, 2017
Techcrunch New Affectiva cloud API helps machines understand emotions in human speech
 Affectiva, the startup that spun out of the MIT Media Lab several years ago with tools designed to understand facial emotions, announced a new cloud API today that can detect a range of emotion ...
12:49 pm GMT - Wed, September 13, 2017
Techcrunch Watch Netflixs trailer for Big Mouth, a star-studded puberty tale
 Fair warning: The above clip is filled with uncensored profanity and other content definitely not safe for work. The full trailer for Nick Kroll’s animated Big Mouth show, which is streami...
10:40 am GMT - Wed, September 13, 2017
Techcrunch North Koreas hackers are reportedly targeting bitcoin exchanges
 North Korea’s hackers have been linked with many attacks, including the 2014 Sony hack, but it looks like the totalitarian state is now targeting bitcoin, and crypto coin exchanges in part...
09:52 am GMT - Wed, September 13, 2017
Techcrunch The director of Baidus Silicon Valley AI Lab has departed
 Adam Coates, director of Baidu’s Silicon Valley AI Lab, has left the company, according to a recent LinkedIn update from Coates.Coates joined the Chinese search giant back in May of 2014 t...
09:37 am GMT - Wed, September 13, 2017
Techcrunch Indias Zomato completes long-rumored acquisition of logistics startup Runnr
 Zomato, the global restaurant guide and food on-demand service, has made an acquisition to shore up its delivery businesson home turf after it completed a deal for Runnr. The acquisition has bee...
09:29 am GMT - Wed, September 13, 2017
Techcrunch The iPhone X reveals why Tim Cook was so mad about Palm
 At the unveiling of Apple’s new flagship smartphone yesterday, the iPhone X, CEO Tim Cook said it was something the company’s staff had been working on for a decade. The new interfac...
08:00 am GMT - Wed, September 13, 2017
Techcrunch Gear up for Disrupt Berlins Startup Battlefield and apply today
 One dozen days. That’s how much time you have left to apply for the Startup Battlefield at Disrupt Berlin 2017. If you want to introduce your early-stage company to the world, there’...
08:00 am GMT - Wed, September 13, 2017
Techcrunch Balderton joins $30M Series D for big data biotech platform play, Sophia Genetics
 Switzerland based SaaS startup Sophia Genetics is hoping to give IBM Watson a run for its money in the healthcare diagnostics space. It’s built a big data analytics platform that harnesses...
07:03 am GMT - Wed, September 13, 2017
Techcrunch WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton is leaving to start a non-profit
 WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton is leaving the Facebook-owned messaging app to start his own non-profit business. Acton announced the decision on Facebook, of course: After 8 years at WhatsApp, ...
06:55 am GMT - Wed, September 13, 2017
Techcrunch The price of AppleCare coverage for iPhone Plus models has increased
 Heads up if you want to buy AppleCare+ for an iPhone Plus: you’ll be paying more. The price of AppleCare+ for the iPhone 6s Plus and iPhone 7 Plus has increased to $149, which is also how ...
06:32 am GMT - Wed, September 13, 2017
Techcrunch Indias OYO snags $10M strategic investment from hotel giant China Lodging
 Indian budget hotel startup OYO pulled in a big $250 million round led by SoftBank’s Vision Fund last week, but now it has topped that money up with a $10 million strategic investment from...
05:56 am GMT - Wed, September 13, 2017
Techcrunch Apple streamlines iTunes 12.7 by removing the App Store
 Apple has made a significant change to the latest version of iTunes for MacOS and Windows by removing the App Store. This serves two purposes. First, it means people need to usethe completely re...
04:40 am GMT - Wed, September 13, 2017
Techcrunch Kik could pave the way for more mainstream tech company ICOs
 ICOs have barely touched mainstream tech companies. But that all changes this week as Kik begins selling its Kin token in an ICO targeted at raising $125 million. The sale bucks ICO trends, and ...
04:04 am GMT - Wed, September 13, 2017
Techcrunch Bankers mistrust of bitcoin is still the greatest argument for it
 Earlier on Tuesday, at different conferences around New York, JPMorgan Chase chief executive Jamie Dimon took aim at bitcoin, calling the cryptocurrency “a fraud” and “worse th...
03:00 am GMT - Wed, September 13, 2017
Techcrunch Crunch Report | Everything Apple 2017
Apple releases the new iPhone X and iPhone 8, the latest version of the Apple Watch (Series 3) and Apple TV 4K. All this on Crunch Report. Read More ...
01:30 am GMT - Wed, September 13, 2017
Techcrunch Chinas ICO ban makes more sense in light of its history with fintech
 China’s decision to freeze fundraising through initial coin offerings continues to roil markets, but the regulatory decision may not be as controversial as the response from the bitcoin co...
12:34 am GMT - Wed, September 13, 2017
Techcrunch Animoji are dumb and I detest them
 Apple today announced the digital equivalent of a singing telegram, a perversion of the emoji concept that embodies the worst of both the company’s exclusionary philosophy and the worst of...
11:50 pm GMT - Tue, September 12, 2017
Techcrunch Full recap of the Apple iPhone event
https://techcrunch.com/tag/iphone-event-2017/ Read More ...
11:23 pm GMT - Tue, September 12, 2017
Techcrunch Modular, self-healing robot swarms are definitely a great idea
 Robots are going to have to work together if they want to destroy us, their soft, fallible masters. But the current paradigm of having a Skynet-like (or rather, Zerglike) overmind control a set ...
11:16 pm GMT - Tue, September 12, 2017
Techcrunch Apples LTE-enabled Watch could be a wearable watershed moment
 Apple’s Series 3 smartwatch may look the same on the outside as the previous generation (albeit with a new ceramic gray options and contrasting red-tipped digital crown) but what they have...
10:07 pm GMT - Tue, September 12, 2017
Techcrunch The Apple Watch Series 3 will transform a lot of workouts
 Apple’s played it a bit cautiously for the last few Apple Watch upgrades — like many others, the company no doubt understands the limitation of the smartwatch form factors. They̵...
10:06 pm GMT - Tue, September 12, 2017
Techcrunch Rolls-Royce planning autonomous naval ship for patrol, surveillance and mine detection
 Rolls-Royce is designing an autonomous naval ship capable ofpatrol, surveillance, mine detection and fleet screening.The latest version of the ship is 60m long and capable of traveling for 100 d...
09:54 pm GMT - Tue, September 12, 2017
Techcrunch The iPhone 8 is the Apple phone for the rest of us
 I heard some exchanges among attendees at today’s big Apple event that the iPhone 8 is a 7s in all but name. The sentiment isn’t too far off. Sure, it’s a bit of a dig, but it&...
09:30 pm GMT - Tue, September 12, 2017
Techcrunch Reid Hoffman on evolving product-market fit and sizing up talent
 In our new episode of the Founder’s Corner podcast, I spoke with my longtime friend and former colleague Reid Hoffman––the renowned entrepreneur and investor who co-founded Lin...
09:22 pm GMT - Tue, September 12, 2017
Techcrunch New Bluetooth vulnerability can hack a phone in ten seconds
 Security company Armis has found a collection of eight exploits, collectively called Blueborne, that can allow an attacker access to your phone without touching it. The attack can allow access t...
09:22 pm GMT - Tue, September 12, 2017
Techcrunch New Bluetooth vulnerability can hack a phone in 10 seconds
 Security company Armis has found a collection of eight exploits, collectively called BlueBorne, that can allow an attacker access to your phone without touching it. The attack can allow access t...
09:09 pm GMT - Tue, September 12, 2017
Techcrunch Im just an idiot, top YouTuber PewDiePie apologizes for racial slur usage
 Last week, the world’s most popular YouTuber said the n-word while live-streaming on a Twitch channel. Backlash was immediate and while his fans managed to make excuses for him, the YouTub...
09:09 pm GMT - Tue, September 12, 2017
Techcrunch Im just an idiot; top YouTuber PewDiePie apologizes for racial slur usage
 Last week, the world’s most popular YouTuber said the n-word while live-streaming. Backlash was immediate and while his fans managed to make excuses for him, the YouTuber told his more tha...
09:02 pm GMT - Tue, September 12, 2017
Techcrunch The iPhone X is Apples best phone ever
 All these years, it seems, Apple’s been holding something back. There are, after all, certain real-world applications one must take into account: mass manufacturing and pricing being the b...
09:01 pm GMT - Tue, September 12, 2017
Techcrunch Zoom, artificial bokeh and other phone camera features now figure in DxOMarks tests
 Testing cameras is what DxOMark does, but while many DSLRs and mirrorless systems have remained more or less the same for the last decade, one can hardly say the same for mobile phones. Dual len...
08:37 pm GMT - Tue, September 12, 2017
Techcrunch Apple brings face-tracking to ARKit on iPhone X
 While many expected Apple to push AR capabilities as the hallmark features for newly-introduced iDevices, in reality, ARKit was largely a footnote in today’s Apple event as the company foc...
08:33 pm GMT - Tue, September 12, 2017
Techcrunch Everything Apple announced at its iPhone X keynote
 Apple’s September event is always a big one. And this year is no different. There were new iPhones, a new Apple Watch and even a new Apple TV. Surprisingly, Apple announced not one, not tw...
08:30 pm GMT - Tue, September 12, 2017
Techcrunch Facebook-backed Telecom Infra Project adds a new focus on millimeter wave tech for 5G
 The Telecom Infra Project(TIP), the Facebook-backed open-source hardware and software group of over 450 telecom stakeholders like Broadcom, Intel, Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone, Telefonica, SK Tele...
08:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 12, 2017
Techcrunch The organic baby food wars heat up
 It’s a good time to be a baby. It’s also a great time to be a parent who wants to ensure that his or her baby is consuming healthy foods but doesn’t necessarily have the wherew...
07:37 pm GMT - Tue, September 12, 2017
Techcrunch The iPhone lineup just got really compleX
 Steve Jobs said “Simple can be harder than complex”, so it looks like Apple is taking the easy route. Customers will now have to choose between 8 different iPhones with today’s...
07:36 pm GMT - Tue, September 12, 2017
Techcrunch How Apple TV 4K could outpace competition from Roku, Amazon and more
 The Apple TV 4K is here, and it has both 4K resolution (as the name implies) and HDR support, which means it can work with the latest TVs, projectors and content formats for better picture, brig...
07:25 pm GMT - Tue, September 12, 2017
Techcrunch All the videos from Apples iPhone event
 In case you happened to miss the presentation of Apple’s latest iGear, we’ve got your back. The company today announced Apple Watch Series 3, a new 4K Apple TV, the iPhone 8 and iPho...
07:19 pm GMT - Tue, September 12, 2017
Techcrunch Apple slides through its iPhone X event without any major surprises for Wall Street
 We’ve noted before that Apple tends to follow a pretty consistent trend: the company has a big iPhone event, and the stock price doesn’t really do all that much because everyone know...
07:16 pm GMT - Tue, September 12, 2017
Techcrunch Apple is releasing macOS High Sierra on September 25
 Apple has been hard at work on four different operating systems — iOS, tvOS, watchOS and macOS. And the company just updated its website after its iPhone launch event. It now says that mac...
06:55 pm GMT - Tue, September 12, 2017
Techcrunch Apple reveals AirPower wireless charging pad coming in 2018
 Apple has a new wireless charging pad called the ‘AirPower’ which is essentially a mat with room for your new iPhone 8 or iPhone X, as well as your Apple Watch, and even AirPods with...
06:54 pm GMT - Tue, September 12, 2017
Techcrunch iPhone X basically has a Kinect on the front to enable FaceID
 It remains to be seen whether Apple’s FaceID will be as convenient as TouchID (it already failed on stage), but at the very least we can’t accuse Apple of not dedicating enough hardw...
06:53 pm GMT - Tue, September 12, 2017
Techcrunch Face ID is replacing Touch ID on the new iPhone X
 Apple just introduced the new iPhone X, and the full edge-to-edge screen means no more home button. No more home button means no more Touch ID, since that’s where Apple put the fingerprint...
06:53 pm GMT - Tue, September 12, 2017
Techcrunch Apple says the iPhone X battery lasts 2 hours longer than the iPhone 7
 Apple showed off the next-generation iPhone today, called the iPhone X, which included a slew updates and a big boost to its power and cameras — which, of course, would do some damage to y...
06:51 pm GMT - Tue, September 12, 2017
Techcrunch Apple announces a wireless charging case for the AirPods
 Apple announced the AirPods at the iPhone 7 launch event. A year later, Apple is already updating its wireless earbuds, well at least its case. Even though the AirPods are still backordered in m...
06:51 pm GMT - Tue, September 12, 2017
Techcrunch The iPhone X will include animoji, emojis animated based on your facial expressions
 Apple demonstrated a new type of emoji today at its press event unveiling the new iPhone 8 and iPhone X. The iPhone X includes a new facial camera system that allows for practical applications l...
06:44 pm GMT - Tue, September 12, 2017
Techcrunch FaceID will work with Apple Pay, third-party apps
 Goodbye fingers, hello faces. With the introduction of FaceID, and the removal of the TouchID button, Apple today confirmed speculation about its next generation of on-device authentication when...
06:34 pm GMT - Tue, September 12, 2017
Techcrunch Legendary investor Yuri Milner to talk about the future of the internet at Disrupt SF
 Yuri Milner has always looked past the present. The world-renowned investor, DST Managing Partner and billionaire has invested $100 million of his own money to look beyond our solar system in se...
06:20 pm GMT - Tue, September 12, 2017
Techcrunch The iPhone is officially getting wireless charging
 It’s been a long time coming, but it’s finally happening: the iPhone is getting wireless charging.Apple just announced as much while debuting the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus.Perhaps most int...
06:19 pm GMT - Tue, September 12, 2017
Techcrunch This is the iPhone X
 Ten years ago, the world got much bigger and much smaller, all in one fell swoop. Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone, the first internet-connected smartphone that put user experience above all, fi...
06:18 pm GMT - Tue, September 12, 2017
Techcrunch This is how much the new iPhones will cost
 At Apple’s big event today at the Steve Jobs Theater, Apple unveiled three new iPhones, the iPhone 8, the iPhone 8 Plus and the iPhone X.“No other devices in our lifetime have had th...
06:16 pm GMT - Tue, September 12, 2017
Techcrunch iOS 11 is coming out on September 19
 Apple is announcing several new iPhones today. But if you already have an iPhone or iPad, chances are you’ll also get something new. The company just announced at its press conference that...
06:16 pm GMT - Tue, September 12, 2017
Techcrunch Apples iPhone 8 Portrait Lighting lets mobile photographers mimic studio effects
 Apple has a new feature for its iPhone 8 camera called ‘Portrait Lighting’ that works in addition to its existing Portrait Mode. The feature uses machine learning to analyze the imag...
06:09 pm GMT - Tue, September 12, 2017
Techcrunch The new iPhone 8 has a custom GPU designed by Apple with its new A11 Bionic chip
 The new iPhone 8 camera packs a new chip called the A11 bionic, which is loaded with an upgraded amount of power with a 6-core chip — but that’s probably not the most important part ...
06:02 pm GMT - Tue, September 12, 2017
Techcrunch Apple announces the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus
 It comes in silver, space grey and a new gold finish that looks like a mix between gold and rose gold. These phones are sealed to be water and dust resistant. There’s a new retina HD displ...
06:01 pm GMT - Tue, September 12, 2017
Techcrunch New Apple Watch available in ceramic gray; orders begin September 15
 Apple Watch Series 3 was unveiled at the company’s annual event on Tuesday. The new version will have cellularand GPS capability, which means you can leave your phone at home when you go f...
05:57 pm GMT - Tue, September 12, 2017
Techcrunch The cellular-enabled Apple Watch has the SIM built in
 Apple has hidden an interesting twist inside the new Apple Watch: a built-in SIM card that isn’t a SIM card. It’s an eSIM, or embedded subscriber identity module. They’ve been ...
05:56 pm GMT - Tue, September 12, 2017
Techcrunch Apple is bringing live sports to the Apple TV 4K
 Apple today said it is bringing live sports to the new Apple TV 4K, though the details aren’t quite clear yet as to how it’s going to play out. The new Apple TV 4K has a dedicated sp...
05:48 pm GMT - Tue, September 12, 2017
Techcrunch Heres the new Apple Watch software
 In Apple’s big product show today in Cupertino at the new Steve Jobs Theater, Apple COO Jeff Williams unveiled Watch OS 4, which is largely focused on health and fitness. The new OS featur...
05:48 pm GMT - Tue, September 12, 2017
Techcrunch Apple will sell 4K movies via iTunes, and upgrade your HD purchases
 Apple is now selling and renting digital 4K movies via iTunes, in addition to its HD and SD resolution versions. The addition of 4K content, which you can stream as well as download, is mainly d...
05:44 pm GMT - Tue, September 12, 2017
Techcrunch Apples Watch 3 rolls out heart health and smart fitness features
 Today, Apple announced the new Apple Watch 3 will be rolling out several health and fitness features included with OS4 like smart activity coaching, new features for swimmers, Gym Connect and an...
05:44 pm GMT - Tue, September 12, 2017
Techcrunch The new Apple TV gets a 4K HDR upgrade
 The new Apple TV is here, and it offers 4K support. That’s the big reason to upgrade here, and given the growth of the 4K video content and TV hardware markets between now and the release ...
05:39 pm GMT - Tue, September 12, 2017
Techcrunch Apple watchOS 4, with better heart rate monitoring, arrives September 19
 The updated software powering the Apple Watch, watchOS 4, will be released on September 19, 2017, for all Watch customers, according to Apple COO Jeff Williams, speaking at Apple’s iPhone ...
05:29 pm GMT - Tue, September 12, 2017
Techcrunch The new Apple Watch Series 3 has cellular built-in
 The new Apple Watch is now official, offering one big highlight upgrade over the previous version: Built-in cellular support. Wireless cellular LTE connectivity provided by a built-in chip means...
05:12 pm GMT - Tue, September 12, 2017
Techcrunch Department of Transportation releases new self-driving vehicle guidelines
 Today, U.S. Depart of Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao released the DoT and National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration’s new guidelines for automated driving systems. This is v...
05:10 pm GMT - Tue, September 12, 2017
Techcrunch Congress demands answers from Equifax
 A strongly worded letter from the Democrats of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce questions Equifax on pretty much every aspect of its disastrous breach, from how such an immense securit...
05:10 pm GMT - Tue, September 12, 2017
Techcrunch IKEA Place, the retailers first ARKit app, creates lifelike pictures of furniture in your home
 The Swedish home goods giantIKEA has been a trailblazer when it comes to applying new technology to improve its products and overall retail experience. Today, it’s taking the latest step i...
05:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 12, 2017
Techcrunch With more than 6M daily users, Slack opens up cross-organization teams
 Slack today announced a slew of new updates, and also said that the company now has more than 6 million daily active users and has crossed $200 million in annual recurring revenue.Silicon Valley...
04:56 pm GMT - Tue, September 12, 2017
Techcrunch Live from Apples iPhone 8 / iPhone X event
 This is it, Apple’s big event. It’s iPhone day at the opulent newSteve Jobs Theater in Cupertino. We’ll have our respective butts planted firmly in those (reportedly) $14,000 s...
04:55 pm GMT - Tue, September 12, 2017
Techcrunch How to watch the live stream for todays Apple iPhone keynote
 Apple is holding a keynote today at the brand new Steve Jobs Theater on Apple Campus, and the company is expected to unveil new iPhone models, a new Apple Watch as well as a new Apple TV. At 10 ...
04:48 pm GMT - Tue, September 12, 2017
Techcrunch Equifax says that it will waive credit freeze fees for 30 days
 In response to public outrage over its ongoing bungled response, Equifax stated on Twitter that it will waive credit freeze fees for 30 days. With so much personal data running around out there ...
04:33 pm GMT - Tue, September 12, 2017
Techcrunch Dodles brings your doodles to life
 I’ve always wanted to create my own animations. One idea is simple. My characters would be born, live, fall in love, and die in real time in a 80 year long masterpiece of constant animatio...
04:31 pm GMT - Tue, September 12, 2017
Techcrunch NTSB says fatal Tesla Autopilot crash caused in part by resulting inattention
 The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) held a meeting today to discuss the results of its investigation into a 2016 crash in which a Tesla Model S with Autopilot engaged collided with a...
03:56 pm GMT - Tue, September 12, 2017
Techcrunch Camera IQ raises $2.3M to tap augmented realitys marketing potential
 How’s this for a prediction: “Camera media will be bigger than TV.” That’s according to Camera IQ CEO Allison Wood. By “camera media” she means filters, lense...
03:17 pm GMT - Tue, September 12, 2017
Techcrunch WeWork files complaint against UrWork for trademark infringement, unfair competition
 WeWork, the behemoth co-work company valued at $20 billion, has filed a complaint with New York’s Southern District Court, alleging that China-based UrWork is guilty of trademark infringem...
03:04 pm GMT - Tue, September 12, 2017
Techcrunch J.J. Abrams will direct Star Wars Episode IX
 Disney and Lucasfilm are going with a familiar name to close out the new trilogy of Star Wars films. The currently untitled Episode IX will be directed by J.J. Abrams, who previously directed an...
02:45 pm GMT - Tue, September 12, 2017
Techcrunch Pingpad update brings organizational layer to Slack
 One of the primary benefits of using Slack is the ability to communicate and share information across a company, but as usage scales it can sometimes lead to information overload and an inabilit...
02:36 pm GMT - Tue, September 12, 2017
Techcrunch Comcasts X1 cable boxes now serve up YouTube videos alongside traditional TV
 Comcast’s cable boxes are getting YouTube. The cable TV company and Google today announced the addition of a YouTube app across Comcast’sXfinity X1service nationwide, which will allo...
02:33 pm GMT - Tue, September 12, 2017
Techcrunch Soundcharts is an analytics tools for music artists and labels
 French startup Soundcharts is building a sort of App Annie for music artists. This service gives you a ton of data about what’s playing on the radio around the world, what’s popular ...
02:28 pm GMT - Tue, September 12, 2017
Techcrunch 23andMe confirms $250 million round led by Sequoia
 Genetics testing company 23andMe has formally announced that Sequoia Capital is leading an investment round in the company. This confirms the news we broke last week. The press release says that...
02:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 12, 2017
Techcrunch Facebook brings its Canvas ad format to Instagram Stories
 Instagram is announcing several new features for advertisers today. The biggest is probably the expansion of the Canvas ad format to Instagram Stories (which supposedly reach 250 million people ...
02:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 12, 2017
Techcrunch Programmers can now access Test IO code QA service in Jira development tool
 Software quality-assurance testing has sometimes taken a backseat in today’s rush-rush agile development environment. Into the breach has stepped on-demand testing startups like Test IO, g...
01:48 pm GMT - Tue, September 12, 2017
Techcrunch Honda will offered electrified option of all new vehicle models in Europe
 Honda will offer an electrified version of all of its new models launched in Europe from now on, the company announced at this year’s Frankfurt Motor Show. Honda CEO Takahiro Hachigo revea...
01:48 pm GMT - Tue, September 12, 2017
Techcrunch Honda will offer electrified option of all new vehicle models in Europe
 Honda will offer an electrified version of all of its new models launched in Europe from now on, the company announced at this year’s Frankfurt Motor Show. Honda CEO Takahiro Hachigo revea...
01:42 pm GMT - Tue, September 12, 2017
Techcrunch AT&T expands free HBO to both its unlimited wireless plans
 AT&T announced this morning it’s adding free HBO to all customers on its unlimited wireless plans, including bothUnlimited Plus and Unlimited Choice. The carrier in April had offered f...
01:30 pm GMT - Tue, September 12, 2017
Techcrunch Samsung touts 650k Note 8 pre-sales; 2.5x faster than Note 7 pre-orders
 Another tidbit pertaining to Samsung’s incoming Note 8, with the company hoping its premium phablet brand can rise phoenix like from the ashes of the Note 7 flaming battery debacle. Read ...
01:23 pm GMT - Tue, September 12, 2017
Techcrunch Audis Aicon concept ditches pedals and wheel in favor of full autonomy
 Audi’s looking ahead to the what its vehicles will look like once true self-driving technology is available and on the roads with the Aicon, a new concept vehicle it’s debuting at th...
12:54 pm GMT - Tue, September 12, 2017
Techcrunch BMWs i Vision Dynamics targets Tesla-topping range in a four-door coupe
 BMW has a new electric concept vehicle designed to show how it envisions occupying its electric model range between the i3 and the i8: The i Visions Dynamics. The four-dour luxury coupe has a he...
12:29 pm GMT - Tue, September 12, 2017
Techcrunch Hondas picture-perfect Urban EV concept car aims for 2019 production
 This new concept from Honda, the Urban EV, looks like something most automakers would show off as a distant vision of what cars might look like in five or ten years’ time. Honda, however, ...
12:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 12, 2017
Techcrunch Black Girls Code receives $255,000 from General Motors to launch in Detroit
 On the heels of turning down $125,000 from Uber and then quickly raising over $150,000 through crowdfunding, Black Girls Code has announced a partnership with General Motors, which includes a $2...
11:57 am GMT - Tue, September 12, 2017
Techcrunch Facebook has pulled Instant Articles off Messenger
 While Facebook preparesto offer readers a way to subscribe and payfor newsdirectly from inside its app, the social network continues to tinker with how it presents publishers’ content else...
11:51 am GMT - Tue, September 12, 2017
Techcrunch Jumia and Safaricom CEOs, Showmax and EchoVC heads top Battlefield Africa lineup
 TechCrunch’s Battlefield Africa competition is set for Nairobi, Kenya on October 11. Along with 15 startups vying to become “Sub-Saharan Africa’s Most Promising Startup,”...
10:52 am GMT - Tue, September 12, 2017
Techcrunch UK regulator says ICO investors should be prepared to lose your entire stake
 The UK’s markets regulator has added its voice to warning calls from across the world around the dangers of ICO investing.ICOs, also known as token sales, have brought in an estimated $1.7...
10:50 am GMT - Tue, September 12, 2017
Techcrunch Ahead of iPhone X day, Samsung teases 2018 foldable phone launch plan
 As Apple prepares to unbox its new iPhones, Samsung has teased that it’s aiming to launch a smartphone with a foldable screen next year… Read More ...
09:43 am GMT - Tue, September 12, 2017
Techcrunch Nintendo will revive the NES Classic and continue selling the SNES Classic in 2018
 Good news for old skool Nintendo enthusiasts — the company has said it will revive theNES Classic Edition next year, and it plans to continue selling theSNES Classic in 2018, too.The compa...
09:00 am GMT - Tue, September 12, 2017
Techcrunch Alteryx Promote puts data science to work across the company
 When Alteryx acquired Yhatin June, it was only a matter of time before the startup’s data-science management software began showing up in Alteryx. Just today, the company announced Alteryx...
08:22 am GMT - Tue, September 12, 2017
Techcrunch Zilingo raises $18M for its fashion e-commerce service in Southeast Asia
 Southeast Asia-based fashion marketplace Zilingo has closed an $18 million Series B funding round led by Sequoia Capital India and Burda Principal Investments. Zilingo was founded less than two ...
07:55 am GMT - Tue, September 12, 2017
Techcrunch Starling Bank launches Marketplace, intergrates with itemised receipt and rewards startup Flux
 Marketplace banking — the idea that your bank will provide access to various third-party money-related apps and services within its own app — seems an inevitability in the next coupl...
07:55 am GMT - Tue, September 12, 2017
Techcrunch Starling Bank launches Marketplace, integrates with itemised receipt and rewards startup Flux
 Marketplace banking — the idea that your bank will provide access to various third-party money-related apps and services within its own app — seems an inevitability in the next coupl...
07:01 am GMT - Tue, September 12, 2017
Techcrunch How to watch the live stream for todays Apple iPhone keynote
 Apple is holding a keynote today at the brand new Steve Jobs Theater on Apple Campus, and the company is expected to unveil new iPhone models, a new Apple Watch as well as a new Apple TV. At 10 ...
07:00 am GMT - Tue, September 12, 2017
Techcrunch Live from Apples iPhone 8 / iPhone X event
 This is it, Apple’s big event. It’s iPhone day at the opulent newSteve Jobs Theater in Cupertino. We’ll have our respective butts planted firmly in those (reportedly) $14,000 s...
06:12 am GMT - Tue, September 12, 2017
Techcrunch The most monocle-dropping tech acquisitions of the past five years
 This is a list of tech deals from the past half decade that were surprising because of their size, impact or seeming randomness. Some have paid off, while others (cough*Microsoft-Nokia*cough) re...
05:36 am GMT - Tue, September 12, 2017
Techcrunch Singapores Red Dot Payment closes $5.2M Series B round
 Singapore’s Red Dot Payment, a payment gateway startup founded by a team of ex Visa and MasterCard executives,has closed a $5.2 million Series B round to grow its business.Existing backers...
03:04 am GMT - Tue, September 12, 2017
Techcrunch The CEO of Social Finance will step down
 One month after reports of a sexual harassment and wrongful termination lawsuit against the online lending startup Social Finance came to light, the company has announced that its hard-charging ...
02:52 am GMT - Tue, September 12, 2017
Techcrunch Everything electric | Crunch Report
Today’s Stories What to expect from the iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus and iPhone X (plot twist there’s more bezel) China plans to ban sales of fossil fuel cars entirely Volkswagen to offer elect...
01:48 am GMT - Tue, September 12, 2017
Techcrunch This tiny sensor could sleep for years between detection events
 It’s easy enough to put an always-on camera somewhere it can live off solar power or the grid, but deep in nature, underground, or in other unusual circumstances every drop of power is pre...
01:00 am GMT - Tue, September 12, 2017
Techcrunch Facebook is testing a feature for mentorships between users
 Earlier this year, Facebook signalled a plan to move into LinkedIn’s territory with the launch of job advertising. Now it appears to be taking another step to help develop the professional...
11:36 pm GMT - Mon, September 11, 2017
Techcrunch Study finds Reddits controversial ban of its most toxic subreddits actually worked
 It seems like just the other day that Reddit finally banned a handful of its most hateful and deplorable subreddits, including r/coontown and r/fatpeoplehate. While the move was at the time deri...
10:54 pm GMT - Mon, September 11, 2017
Techcrunch The Jammy is a steel string guitar that fits in a pocket
 As a fan of electronic guitars — as opposed to plain-old electrics — the Jammy seems like a very interesting piece of kit. Designed to be played like a regular guitar, you fret on th...
10:28 pm GMT - Mon, September 11, 2017
Techcrunch Unity CEO John Riccitiello on Apples big event, privacy and the AR apps well see within the year
 Presumably, it would be good for business to speak onstage at an Apple event. But John Riccitiello, the CEO of Unity Technologies, says you won’t see him presenting at tomorrow’s App...
10:22 pm GMT - Mon, September 11, 2017
Techcrunch EEVO, a startup powering VR apps for the BBC and others, raises $1.3M
 EEVO’s goal, in the words of co-founder and CEO Alejandro Dinsmore, is “democratizing the creation and delivery of immersive experiences.” In other words, the Brooklyn startup ...
10:20 pm GMT - Mon, September 11, 2017
Techcrunch Facebook tests pre-loaded Instant Videos
 Facebook doesn’t want you to burn through your mobile data plan just to keep watching its videos. That’s why it’s testing a new feature called Instant Videos that downloads and...
09:02 pm GMT - Mon, September 11, 2017
Techcrunch Microsoft Azure gets a new VM family for bursty workloads
 Microsoft today announced the preview launch of a new family of virtual machines for its Azure cloud computing platform that’s specifically geared toward bursty workloads. Microsoft argues...
08:37 pm GMT - Mon, September 11, 2017
Techcrunch Darkstore wants to be the invisible retailer
 Darkstore, the on-demand fulfillment startup, recently partnered with T-Force Final Mile to expand to 33 additional markets across the nation. This brings Darkstore’s total list of markets...
08:36 pm GMT - Mon, September 11, 2017
Techcrunch As global startup exits grow, Europe sees its profile rise
 Looking at the number of exits produced and the total dollar volume those liquidityevents commanded, the European startup scene has shown growth over the past year. That fact comes from theStart...
08:05 pm GMT - Mon, September 11, 2017
Techcrunch Credit score company Equifax shares tumble another 8% after hack
 Credit score giant Equifax announced on Thursday that 143 million accounts were hacked. Since then, the stock has taken a nosedive as investors anticipate more fallout. The company saw shares fa...
08:05 pm GMT - Mon, September 11, 2017
Techcrunch Equifax shares tumble another 8% after hack
 Credit score giant Equifax announced on Thursday that 143 million accounts were hacked. Since then, the stock has taken a nosedive as investors anticipate more fallout. The company saw shares fa...
07:30 pm GMT - Mon, September 11, 2017
Techcrunch Senator says Equifax should offer customers free credit security freezes
 Equifax’s handling of the massive data breach that affected 143 million people has been ineffective, Senator Brian Schatz wrote in a letter today (embedded at bottom of post) to Equifax. H...
07:10 pm GMT - Mon, September 11, 2017
Techcrunch Venmo is offering users an (ugly) physical debit card
 After Square unveiled a free debit card that would be tied to their Square Cash App, it was only a matter of time until we saw Venmo do something similar. Now TechCrunch has learned that Venmo i...
06:21 pm GMT - Mon, September 11, 2017
Techcrunch Sequoia-backed CurioPets is Pokmon GO meets Tamagotchi
 CurioPets, short for curious pets, is a multi-player, augmented reality pet simulator that launches tomorrow on iOS. Built with Apple’s ARKit, the aim is to encourage real-world exploratio...
06:21 pm GMT - Mon, September 11, 2017
Techcrunch AR startup CurioPets is Pokmon GO meets Tamagotchi
 CurioPets, short for curious pets, is a multi-player, augmented reality pet simulator that launches tomorrow on iOS. Built with Apple’s ARKit, the aim is to encourage real-world exploratio...
06:16 pm GMT - Mon, September 11, 2017
Techcrunch Everything we expect from Apples big iPhone event
 Tomorrow’s the big day. Apple’s annual fall unveil kicks off at 10AM ET, christening the opulent new Steve Jobs Theater in the process. From the looks of it, there may not be all tha...
06:13 pm GMT - Mon, September 11, 2017
Techcrunch Zoox in talks with SoftBank to fund self-driving cars
 Autonomous vehicle startup Zoox is in talks with Japanese investment firm SoftBank to raise more funding. Building vehicles is a capital-intensive business, so it’s no surprise that Zoox w...
05:49 pm GMT - Mon, September 11, 2017
Techcrunch Volkswagen to offer electric versions of all of its vehicles by 2030
 Volkswagen is the latest carmaker to announce a move to electrify its entire range of automobile offerings: The carmaker will provide either hybrid or electric versions of every one of its 300 m...
05:38 pm GMT - Mon, September 11, 2017
Techcrunch Two new handhelds will help you relive the golden age of gaming
 Whether you’re an older gamer who remembers the Atari 2600 and Sega Genesis with great fondness or a doting grandparent who doesn’t remember exactly what the grandkids wanted (the Ni...
05:34 pm GMT - Mon, September 11, 2017
Techcrunch GM and Cruise announce first mass-production self-driving car
 Kyle Vogt, CEO and founder of Cruise Automation revealed very big news for his company and its owner GM, which acquired the startup last year. The news is that they’re ready to mass produc...
05:30 pm GMT - Mon, September 11, 2017
Techcrunch When modern day innovators begin to stray
 Qualcomm is leveraging this essential patent to distort the market for new smartphones by forcing companies that need to license the technology into paying unfair licensing fees and blocking com...
05:00 pm GMT - Mon, September 11, 2017
Techcrunch Google says its Safe Browsing tool now protects over 3 billion devices
 Google today announced that its Safe Browsing service, which keeps Chrome, Safari and Firefox users on the desktop and on mobile from visiting potentially dangerous sites, now protects more than...
04:01 pm GMT - Mon, September 11, 2017
Techcrunch Google files to appeal $2.73BN EU antitrust fine
 Google has filed a legal appeal against a record-breaking fine handed down by the European Commission this summer for anti-competitive behavior relating to the operation of its product search co...
04:00 pm GMT - Mon, September 11, 2017
Techcrunch Rackspace acquires Datapipe as it looks to expand its managed services business
 Rackspace today announced its intention to acquireDatapipe, one of its largest competitors in the managed public and private cloud services business. Rackspace expects the acquisition, which is ...
03:00 pm GMT - Mon, September 11, 2017
Techcrunch Company builder Entrepreneur First raises $12.4M led by Greylock, Reid Hoffman joins board
 Well, this is quite a coup. Entrepreneur First (EF), the London headquartered company builder that invests in individuals “pre-team, pre-idea” to help create new technology startups...
02:36 pm GMT - Mon, September 11, 2017
Techcrunch Mercedes-Benz will electrify its entire car lineup by 2022
 Mercedes-Benz is the latest automaker to embrace electrification, announcing that it will be electrifying its entire vehicle lineup by 2022. Get used to it: Car makers are going to be making the...
01:50 pm GMT - Mon, September 11, 2017
Techcrunch TechCrunch Disrupt SF spotlights fresh founders, not just hotshot CEOs
 The challenges of startup life don’t get the same attention as the funding rounds and blockbuster exits. We often only see tech executives on stage once they’ve already made it big. ...
01:26 pm GMT - Mon, September 11, 2017
Techcrunch Tesla begins Supercharger network city expansion with Chicago and Boston
 Tesla is ramping up its deployment of Supercharger stations across the U.S. and internationally as part of its commitment to addressing growing demand, especially in light of the Model 3 beginni...
01:06 pm GMT - Mon, September 11, 2017
Techcrunch Uber Advanced Technologies Group hires Oculus product lead Jon Thomason
 Uber’s Advanced Technology Group has hired Jon Thomason, who most recently acted as Head of Mobile and Product at Facebook’s Oculus virtual reality company. Thomason will lead ATG so...
01:06 pm GMT - Mon, September 11, 2017
Techcrunch Uber Advanced Technologies Group hires Oculus platform lead Jon Thomason
 Uber’s Advanced Technology Group has hired Jon Thomason, who most recently acted as Head of Mobile and Product at Facebook’s Oculus virtual reality company. Thomason will lead ATG so...
01:00 pm GMT - Mon, September 11, 2017
Techcrunch Data Artisans announces commercial Application Manager for open source Apache Flink
 Data Artisans, the business arm of open source tool, Apache Flink, announced an early-access release of the commercial version of their platform today that includes a new tool for managing strea...
01:00 pm GMT - Mon, September 11, 2017
Techcrunch This new solid-state thermal vision sensor could improve self-driving tech
 A new Far Infrared (FIR) sensor from Israeli company AdaSky could help bring vehicles with Level 3, 4 and 5 autonomy features to market faster. The solution is the first to offer an FIR camera w...
01:00 pm GMT - Mon, September 11, 2017
Techcrunch Microsoft Teams adds guest access and support for more developer tools
 Microsoft today announced that 125,000 organizations in 181 markets now useTeams, its Slack competitor for Office 365 subscribers. That’s up from the 30,000 organizations in 145 markets th...
12:48 pm GMT - Mon, September 11, 2017
Techcrunch Get ready for a new, much more powerful Apple TV
 The current Apple TV is nearly two years old. That’s why it’s not surprising to learn that Apple has been working on a new device for a while. This weekend, an upcoming build of iOS ...
12:31 pm GMT - Mon, September 11, 2017
Techcrunch France, Germany, Spain, Italy call for turnover tax for tech giants
 Several of the European Union’s major economies are calling for tax reform across the bloc that responds to where tech platforms generate revenue, not just where they book profit — a...
12:06 pm GMT - Mon, September 11, 2017
Techcrunch Facebook fined 1.2M for privacy violations in Spain
 Another privacy-related fine for Facebook in Europe: The Spanish data protection regulator has issued a 1.2M (~$1.4M) fine against the social media behemoth for a series of violations regarding ...
11:26 am GMT - Mon, September 11, 2017
Techcrunch Typeform, a platform for conversational data collection, raises $35M
 Filling out forms online and on mobile can be a tedious and bug-ridden — yet annoyingly necessary — experience. Today, a startup called Typeform has raised a significant round of cap...
11:25 am GMT - Mon, September 11, 2017
Techcrunch Bankin lets you save money on Yomoni
 French fintech startup Bankin is partnering with another fintech startup, Yomoni. Bankin brings all you your bank accounts together in a single, unified interface. It’s a sort of Mint, but...
10:47 am GMT - Mon, September 11, 2017
Techcrunch Xiaomi takes aim at Apple with a Macbook Pro rival priced from $858
 Xiaomi is shooting a number of arrows at Apple today. Smartphones aside, it just launched an affordable take on the Macbook Air that ships with Windows. The first Xiaomi laptop was a shot at the...
09:01 am GMT - Mon, September 11, 2017
Techcrunch Xiaomi unveils second bezel-less Mi Mix smartphone and new Mi Note phablet
 It’s the day before iPhone launch and Xiaomi is back at it again with the unveiling of the follow-up to last year’s highly-acclaimed and near-bezel-less Mi Mix smartphone. The Mi Mix...
09:00 am GMT - Mon, September 11, 2017
Techcrunch Apply to exhibit for free in Startup Alley at Disrupt Berlin
 Planning to attend Disrupt Berlin 2017? Don’t miss your chance to exhibit in Startup Alley. It’s one of the coolest and most energizing aspects of every TechCrunch Disrupt. In fact, ...
07:30 am GMT - Mon, September 11, 2017
Techcrunch With new Managing Director, Ghanas MEST scales as Pan-African incubator
 The MEST incubator has appointed Aaron Fu as its new Managing Director. This comes as the Accra based innovation hub scales up its presence across Africa. Founded in 2008, MEST operates as a tra...
05:52 am GMT - Mon, September 11, 2017
Techcrunch New Uber CEO departs New York Times board
 Dara Khosrowshahi, the recently named CEO of Uber, is leaving the New York Times Company’s board of directors. According to a government filing,Khosrowshahi notified the NYT board on Thurs...
05:17 am GMT - Mon, September 11, 2017
Techcrunch PewDiePie, the worlds most popular YouTuber, is back making more racist comments
 PewDiePie, the world’s most popular YouTube broadcaster with over 57 million subscribers, is back once again making racist comments. The broadcaster, real name Felix Kjellberg,lost a lucra...
01:38 am GMT - Mon, September 11, 2017
Techcrunch The downside of writing up demo days
 Tech writers are invited to a lot of demo days, as you might imagine. Sometimes, these presentations are very long, with many startup teams taking the stage to pitch to investors and the media. ...
11:30 pm GMT - Sun, September 10, 2017
Techcrunch Announcing the complete agenda for Disrupt SF, plus five reasons why you need to be there
 Our Disrupt SF(September 18-20) is just a week away, and we’ve made Disrupt SF more engaging and useful than ever for founders and investors alike, in addition to providing a pretty mind-b...
10:30 pm GMT - Sun, September 10, 2017
Techcrunch Shockingly, Congress acted responsibly in regulating autonomous cars So whats next?
 It didn’t get a lot of attention – it’s hard to compete these days with Harvey, Irma, Donald and Kim Jong Un — but the House Energy and Commerce Committee unanimously pas...
10:08 pm GMT - Sun, September 10, 2017
Techcrunch The New York Times and The National teamed up for a VR film with 100% more angst
 The kings of the alt-rock musical equivalent of a black and white photograph, The National,have a new virtual reality experience they’ve released with The New York Times. The VR documentar...
06:59 pm GMT - Sun, September 10, 2017
Techcrunch 24 hours to submit your startup for TechCrunch Startup Battlefield Australia
 Hey Australian startups! What can you do in the next 24 hours to radically change the trajectory of your business? Apply for Startup Battlefield Australia! 15 early stage startups will be select...
06:42 pm GMT - Sun, September 10, 2017
Techcrunch The promise of managing identity on the blockchain
 Blockchain, the secure distributed ledger technology first created to track bitcoin ownership, has taken on a number of new roles in recent years tracking anything of value from diamonds to real...
06:41 pm GMT - Sun, September 10, 2017
Techcrunch What you missed at the GrubHub trial about 1099 independent contractors
 In a windowless, 15th-floor courtroom in downtown San Francisco this week, GrubHub has been defending its 1099 independent contractor employment model for its delivery drivers. This specific tri...
05:36 pm GMT - Sun, September 10, 2017
Techcrunch Twitter has an unlaunched tweetstorm feature
 Subverting the 140 character limit by chaining tweets together into a cohesive “tweetstorm” takes some know-how, or you’ll screw it up. Luckily Twitter has built but not yet la...
05:02 pm GMT - Sun, September 10, 2017
Techcrunch Dont count on any Apple fireworks on Wall Street next week
 Barring Apple coming out with a delayed launch date for the next-generation iPhone, the guts of which are basically laid out on the Internet already, Apple’s shares are probably not going ...
04:30 pm GMT - Sun, September 10, 2017
Techcrunch Why LA 2028 will be the first truly digital Olympic Games
 In a recent interview at theFuturecastevent at Warner Bros Studios in Hollywood Casey Wasserman, the founder and chief executive of the Los Angeles based talent agencyWasserman Media Group, elab...
04:15 pm GMT - Sun, September 10, 2017
Techcrunch What to expect from the iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus and iPhone X
 So, what do we know so far? Typical of Apple leaks in recent years, we’ve heard trickles of information on just about every piece of the new device, but, as always, everything is still up ...
04:01 pm GMT - Sun, September 10, 2017
Techcrunch China plans to ban sales of fossil fuel cars entirely
 China’s big electric vehicle push is about to get even bigger: The country is planning to end the sale of fossil fuel-powered vehicles entirely, with regulators working currently on a time...
03:57 pm GMT - Sun, September 10, 2017
Techcrunch Were all Equif*cked
 Every company is a tech company, and that’s a big problem. Or rather, either every company is a tech company but most suck at it, or most aren’t tech companies but should be. Either ...
01:00 pm GMT - Sun, September 10, 2017
Techcrunch Technology, complexity, anxiety, catastrophe
 You wake up. Check your phone. Something happened overnight. People are upset. The actual news is uncertain, it’s too soon for context and understanding, but it’s not too soon for ev...
12:37 pm GMT - Sun, September 10, 2017
Techcrunch Zello tops US app store as the walkie-talkie for hurricane volunteers
 With Hurricane Irma hitting Florida’s southern islands as a category four storm, and more than 6.3 million being told to evacuate Florida, being able to stay in contact with the outside wo...
11:29 pm GMT - Sat, September 9, 2017
Techcrunch Tesla flips a switch to increase the range of some cars in Florida to help people evacuate
 Tesla has pushed an over-the-air update to some of its vehicles in Florida that lets those cars go just a liiiittle bit further, thus helping their owners get that much further away from the dev...
11:00 pm GMT - Sat, September 9, 2017
Techcrunch Is it exit season yet?
 Startup funding and exiting activity has been slow over the past few months in the U.S. Fewer companies closed rounds, IPO volumes were light, and not a lot of bigM&A deals got done. But tha...
07:25 pm GMT - Sat, September 9, 2017
Techcrunch 23andMes second act sits squarely in drug research and development
 The company first began making moves early in 2015, forging a partnership with Pfizer to conduct a bit of drug research using 23andMe’s genetic data. The pact was formed in the midst of or...
05:47 pm GMT - Sat, September 9, 2017
Techcrunch The next Apple Watch will have LTE cell service
 Last night an iOS 11 GM download link made its way onto Reddit, which 9to5Mac discovered and has been digging through. You can check out the full list of discoveries here, but one big thing that...
05:41 pm GMT - Sat, September 9, 2017
Techcrunch And now the names of Apples new iPhones look to have leaked
 We are but days away from the event of the Apple calendar year when the company pulls the curtain up on new iPhone models. And yet the leaks keep coming. Read More ...
04:50 pm GMT - Sat, September 9, 2017
Techcrunch Even more US adults now getting news from social media, says Pew
 New research by Pew suggests there has been another increase in the proportion of U.S. adults getting news via social media platforms. Read More ...
03:40 pm GMT - Sat, September 9, 2017
Techcrunch A perfect storm of corporate idiocy
 At this point in the game there should be a single page on every corporate website, preferably accessible from its front page, that includes the name and all contact details for the Chief Securi...
01:30 pm GMT - Sat, September 9, 2017
Techcrunch How we built a newspaper in 72 hours
 Earlier this year, Impossible Labs was commissioned by Jimmy Wales, to try to come up with a platform that could help combat that problem. In 72 hours.“I could have raised money from Silic...
12:14 pm GMT - Sat, September 9, 2017
Techcrunch Europes top court must rule on UK spies bulk powers, says tribunal
 The oversight court for the UK’s intelligence agencies has said Europe’s top court should rule on the legality of powers that give the country’s security and intelligence agenc...
09:57 am GMT - Sat, September 9, 2017
Techcrunch Animated 3D emoji coming to iPhone 8 per iOS 11 firmware leak
 Another iPhone 8 leakahead of Apple’s fall event next Tuesdaywhen it’s official expected to unveil its new flagships:9to5Mac has been digging through the Golden Master build of iOS 1...
09:57 am GMT - Sat, September 9, 2017
Techcrunch Tons of features of iPhone 8, iPhone X detailed in leaked iOS 11 build
 Another iPhone 8 leakahead of Apple’s fall event next Tuesdaywhen it’s official expected to unveil its new flagships:9to5Mac has been digging through the Golden Master build of iOS 1...
08:37 am GMT - Sat, September 9, 2017
Techcrunch Linxo raises $24 million for its app that brings bank accounts together
 French startup Linxo just raised $24 million (20 million) from three financial institutions — Crdit Agricole, Crdit Mutuel Arka and MAIF. The company is building a sort of Mint for the Fre...
01:01 am GMT - Sat, September 9, 2017
Techcrunch PSA: no matter what, Equifax may tell you youve been impacted by the hack
 Those hoping to find out if their Social Security number and other identifying info was stolen, along with a potential 143 million other American’s data won’t find answers from Equif...
12:56 am GMT - Sat, September 9, 2017
Techcrunch Equifax stock tumbles 14% after credit score hack
 Credit score business Equifax revealed Thursday that 143 million people were compromised in a cyber attack. Social security numbers and other personally identifying information were accessed. An...
12:24 am GMT - Sat, September 9, 2017
Techcrunch Zapping cobalt nanodots could lead to magnetic RAM
 Magnetic storage, and we’re talking tape here, is good for long-term storage because it’s cheap and stable — unlike solid state drives and volatile memory, which are quick but ...
12:12 am GMT - Sat, September 9, 2017
Techcrunch Virginia just decertified its most hackable voting machines
 Following a vote on Friday by the Virginia State Board of Elections, the state will take decisive action to ensure the integrity of its voting machines. Virginia’s election supervisors hav...
12:00 am GMT - Sat, September 9, 2017
Techcrunch Crunch Report | So About That Equifax Hack
 Today’s Stories Here comes the class action lawsuit after Equifax’s massive hack FBI probes Uber’s use of software to target rival Lyft Facebook plans to spend up to $1B on ori...
11:50 pm GMT - Fri, September 8, 2017
Techcrunch SpaceVR thinks VR-enabled robots are the future for colonizing space
 Mars: 2051. In the bitter cold of a martian winter, 30 remote controlled robots walk out of a holding bay across the icy terrain to begin their day in the mines. They pile in to the latest auton...
10:32 pm GMT - Fri, September 8, 2017
Techcrunch Facebook adds a dedicated Movies section offering showtimes and ticket sales
 Some Facebook users have noticed a new section called “Movies” appearing in the mobile app’s main navigation. The feature offers a way to see which movies are playing nearby, a...
10:04 pm GMT - Fri, September 8, 2017
Techcrunch Weibo users given one-week warning to provide real names
 The 340 million users of Sina Weibo, China’s popular microblogging service, have been given one week to link their accounts to a real name. The crackdown is being conducted in order to com...
09:27 pm GMT - Fri, September 8, 2017
Techcrunch Equifax says it wont bar consumers from joining breach-related lawsuits
 Equifax, which yesterday announced an enormous breach, will not require consumers to forfeit their right to join a class action lawsuit in order to receive credit protection. The company clarifi...
09:11 pm GMT - Fri, September 8, 2017
Techcrunch Startups focus on the microbiome as an organic solution to increase crop yields
 As the planet approaches adding another billion or more people, and as an increasing number of those people are wealthier than they’ve been before, the question of where our food comes fro...
09:00 pm GMT - Fri, September 8, 2017
Techcrunch Copycats versus disruptors in Latin America
A majority of the most successful startups coming out of Latin America have fallen under the “copycat” business model. On the other hand, there’s been a rise in truly disruptive idea...
08:18 pm GMT - Fri, September 8, 2017
Techcrunch Elon Musk shares first full-body photo of SpaceXs spacesuit
 Elon Musk has shared a photo of the SpaceX spacesuit the company has designed in-house. This is the second photo shared by Musk of the new spacesuit design created by the company, and the first ...
08:06 pm GMT - Fri, September 8, 2017
Techcrunch Tech Takes Action helps New Yorks tech community get involved with immigration and other key issues
 Many of you have strong personal and political beliefs (or so I hope) — but aside from tweeting angrily, what’s the most effective way to put those beliefs into action? Tech:NYC, a n...
07:24 pm GMT - Fri, September 8, 2017
Techcrunch A Stanford professors advice on surviving the a**hole at your startup
 If you’ve never worked for a complete jerk, consider yourself lucky. Roughly one in five people polled say they’ve experienced bullying in the workplace — and 61 percent of the...
06:57 pm GMT - Fri, September 8, 2017
Techcrunch Samsung is selling Note8 pre-orders faster than any Note before it
 In the aftermath of the Note 7 debacle, many wondered whether the Note line was done for good. It seems that the latest iteration — despite carrying a high starting price of $930 — h...
06:33 pm GMT - Fri, September 8, 2017
Techcrunch Meet the tech company that wants to make you even more addicted to your phone
 Dopamine Labs aims to give any app the same addictive power that Facebook, Zynga and others have spent millions to perfect. Now, armed with $1 million in seed funding and some initial data that ...
05:53 pm GMT - Fri, September 8, 2017
Techcrunch Airbnb urges housing reform in Berlin after court overturns permit rejection
 Airbnb is celebrating a partial win over a housing law change in Berlin thatlast year led to a total clampdown on the short term renting of entire homes to visitors to the city. City authorities...
05:37 pm GMT - Fri, September 8, 2017
Techcrunch WhatsApps first ads appear on Facebook and start convos with businesses
 WhatsApp is preparing to finally monetize, and its first move follows the same strategy as Facebook Messenger. TechCrunch has discovered code in Facebook’s ad manager that lets businesses ...
05:30 pm GMT - Fri, September 8, 2017
Techcrunch TechCrunch Include Office Hours with Greylock Partners
 TechCrunch Include Office Hours are back for September, this time with Greylock Partners. On September 15th from 2-4 pm PT, Greylock Partners’ investors — Sarah Guo, Matt Heiman and ...
05:26 pm GMT - Fri, September 8, 2017
Techcrunch YouTube launches HDR playback on select mobile devices
 Last November, YouTube began supporting HDR for those who watch its videos via their TV sets. Today, the company announced it’s expanding the technology to mobile, initially on select Andr...
04:37 pm GMT - Fri, September 8, 2017
Techcrunch GrubHub is not a food delivery company, says COO
 GrubHub COO Stan Chia took the stand today in the company’s trial surrounding its practices of employing 1099 independent contractors to make deliveries. In Chia’s testimony, GrubHub...
04:30 pm GMT - Fri, September 8, 2017
Techcrunch Google redesigns its privacy and security dashboard
 Google today announced a refresh of its privacy and security dashboard, its one-stop shop for checking and changing your privacy settings, opting out of personalized ads and seeing which third-p...
04:20 pm GMT - Fri, September 8, 2017
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04:13 pm GMT - Fri, September 8, 2017
Techcrunch HomeAway co-founder Brian Sharples takes the helm of Twyla (for now)
 Twyla, a nearly three-year-old, venture-backed startupthatcollaborates with artists to create exclusive prints for sale at its site, has a new CEO. In June, Brian Sharples — who founded th...
04:06 pm GMT - Fri, September 8, 2017
Techcrunch Bitcoin price drops following report that China is going to shut down local exchanges
 Another day, another crash and another Chinese ban. This time, as Reuters spotted, a single report from financial news site Caixin is saying that the Chinese government is considering banning cr...
04:01 pm GMT - Fri, September 8, 2017
Techcrunch Twitter enables account sharing in its mobile app, powered by TweetDeck Teams
 TweetDeck Teams – a feature that lets users share access to Twitter accounts, without having to share a password – will now work in the Twitter app for iOS and Android. This change w...
03:43 pm GMT - Fri, September 8, 2017
Techcrunch FBI probes Ubers use of software to target rival Lyft
 The ride-hailing giant’s use of a software program which tracked activity of a rival, Lyft, is being investigated by the FBI over whether it constituted an illegal interference with a comp...
03:26 pm GMT - Fri, September 8, 2017
Techcrunch Taxifys London launch halted after transport regulator mounts investigation
 So much for a smooth launch. Ride-hailing startup Taxify launched this week in London to a big PR-push and fanfare. Most of the coverage was about how this plucky startup was going to take on th...
03:05 pm GMT - Fri, September 8, 2017
Techcrunch Spotify is starting a music event as Apple ends its music festival
 Last week, Apple announced that it would stop its annual music festival in the U.K. While it seems like a coincidence, Spotify just announced that it is launching its own music event later this ...
03:00 pm GMT - Fri, September 8, 2017
Techcrunch Silicon Valley mockumentary Bubbleproof will premiere at Disrupt SF
 Bubbleproof | Series Trailer from BORRACHO on Vimeo. Reputation.com founder Michael Fertik is ready to give up on startup life. To lure him back, venture capitalist David Cowan raises a $20...
02:51 pm GMT - Fri, September 8, 2017
Techcrunch Zelle, the U.S. banks Venmo rival, will launch its mobile app on Monday
 Zelle, the PayPal rival backed by over 30 U.S. banks, is preparing to launch its standalone mobile app on Monday, September 12th. The move is meant to give the U.S. banking industry a foothold i...
02:51 pm GMT - Fri, September 8, 2017
Techcrunch Zelle, the U.S. banks Venmo rival, will launch its mobile app next week
 Zelle, the PayPal rival backed by more than 30 U.S. banks, is preparing to launch its standalone mobile app on Tuesday, September 12th. The move is meant to give the U.S. banking industry a foot...
02:32 pm GMT - Fri, September 8, 2017
Techcrunch Equifaxs stock is plummeting after it reported a massive security breach
 Shares of credit reporting service Equifax are collapsing — down more than 13% — in the morning trading hours after the company reporteda security breach yesterday that could involve...
02:15 pm GMT - Fri, September 8, 2017
Techcrunch Here comes the class action lawsuit after Equifaxs massive hack
 Yesterday, Equifax announced that a hacker obtained information about 143 million consumers. This data included social security numbers, birth dates, addresses and, in some cases, driver’s...
02:00 pm GMT - Fri, September 8, 2017
Techcrunch Original Content turns a Little Evil
 It’s a familiar story: Woman joins satanic cult, woman becomes mysteriously pregnant, child kills one boyfriend after another, child is probably the Antichrist. For the latest episode of T...
01:42 pm GMT - Fri, September 8, 2017
Techcrunch Its time to build our own Equifax with blackjack and crypto
 The private data of 143 million Equifax “customers” is now available for download. Have no doubt: This means you will be hacked. This means your SIM card can be spoofed. This means s...
01:34 pm GMT - Fri, September 8, 2017
Techcrunch Facebook plans to spend up to $1B on original shows in 2018
 Facebook could spend as much as $1 billion to fund original content initiatives for its new Watch video platform, according to a new report from the Wall Street Journal. The amount might seem fa...
01:25 pm GMT - Fri, September 8, 2017
Techcrunch Volvo acquires car valet startup Luxe to boost its digital services business
 After a pivot and months of speculation about the future of car valet and concierge startup Luxe, the company has finally found a home. Today, automaker Volvo Cars announced that it is acquiring...
01:10 pm GMT - Fri, September 8, 2017
Techcrunch Equity podcast: Roku is going public, 23andMe raises $200M and Juicero is dead
 Hello and welcome back toEquity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-themed podcast.This week Matthew Lynley, Katie Roof, and myself — Alex! — sat down withMicah Rosenbloom, an invest...
01:06 pm GMT - Fri, September 8, 2017
Techcrunch Red Cross to start testing drones in disaster relief efforts
 The American Red has teamed up with the UPS Foundation and drone manufacturer CyPhy Works to bring drones to sites of natural disasters. The goal is to use drones tethered to the ground to asses...
12:54 pm GMT - Fri, September 8, 2017
Techcrunch Heres how REDs holographic smartphone display will work
 Cinematic camera maker RED has a smartphone on the way – the Hydrogen, which boasts a great video camera as well as a “holographic display” that we know relatively little about...
12:14 pm GMT - Fri, September 8, 2017
Techcrunch Japanese startup plans one-stop ICO platform fueled by $25M from VCs and a $60M ICO
 China banned ICOs this week and it is investigating platforms that facilitate them. Over in nearby Japan, one company is hatching an ambitious plan to offer a one-stop-service to let companies a...
12:00 pm GMT - Fri, September 8, 2017
Techcrunch Seahawks QB Russell Wilson gets billionaire backing for his new app connecting celebrities and superfans
 RussellWilson, the superstar quarterback helming the Seattle Seahawks, has a pretty enviable life. His wife is the musician Ciara. He’s hung out with the Obamas at the White House. And he&...
11:51 am GMT - Fri, September 8, 2017
Techcrunch Uber plans to electrify uberX in London by 2019, entire city fleet by 2025
 Uber is looking to get in line with London’s forthcoming transport rules regarding the use of zero emissions vehicles for private hire car service in the city. London has set an aggressive...
11:20 am GMT - Fri, September 8, 2017
Techcrunch Equifax breach disclosure would have failed Europes tough new rules
 The US does not currently have a federal law requiring companies to inform the public about data breaches. Over the pond in the European Union it’s a different story, and Equifax could hav...
08:30 am GMT - Fri, September 8, 2017
Techcrunch Africa Roundup: eBay expands, Google CEO visits Lagos, Ghana enters space
 eBay opened up its U.S. platform to Africa through its partnership with MallforAfrica.com. Americans can now buy products on eBay from select vendors in six African countries, starting with merc...
06:31 am GMT - Fri, September 8, 2017
Techcrunch Chinas UrWork invests in Indonesias ReWork via $3M deal as WeWork rivalry heats up
 UrWork, the unicorn that is competing with WeWork in China, is following its American rival’s lead byextending its reach in Southeast Asia after it took part in a $3 million funding round ...
03:32 am GMT - Fri, September 8, 2017
Techcrunch Facebook is testing features to help you make new friends
 Facebook wants to show you more of what you have in common with potential new friends and make sure you don’t forget about your old ones either. The company is rolling out a feature that a...
02:11 am GMT - Fri, September 8, 2017
Techcrunch What happened to Equifax today
Today was a terrible day for the 143 million consumers impacted by the Equifax data breach. Many of these folks had Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses and driver’s license numbers c...
01:15 am GMT - Fri, September 8, 2017
Techcrunch Dan Gilbert confirms hes trying to get Amazon to build its second HQ in Detroit
 Dan Gilbert wants Amazon in Detroit. The real estate mogul confirmed to TechCrunch that he has formed internal and external teams to fully explore the possibility of Amazon locating its second H...
12:58 am GMT - Fri, September 8, 2017
Techcrunch Teralytics wants to tap telcos big data to help cities get smarter about Uber and Lyft
 Teralytics’s big data analytics platform is targeting government agencies and transport companies wanting to understand complex problems relating to human mobility — from how to reli...
12:14 am GMT - Fri, September 8, 2017
Techcrunch Final days to apply for Startup Battlefield Australia
 What could you do in the next three days to change your startup’s trajectory? Apply to Startup Battlefield Australia! Taking an hour today to apply could result in $25K AUD, an all-expense...
12:00 am GMT - Fri, September 8, 2017
Techcrunch Crunch Report | Marvel And Star Wars Going Exclusively To Disney Streaming
 Today’s Stories Disney’s streaming service will exclusively get Marvel and Star Wars movies Amazon is looking for a 2nd headquarter city, a ‘full equal to Seattle’ Spotif...
11:52 pm GMT - Thu, September 7, 2017
Techcrunch I called Equifax to find out if Id been affected but it just hung up on me, three times
 People haven’t had much successonlinetrying to find out it their social security number was included in a massive Equifax breach affecting possibly half the U.S. reported earlier today so ...
11:33 pm GMT - Thu, September 7, 2017
Techcrunch Former GrubHub employee testified drivers often complained about ghost orders
 GrubHub was back in court today in San Francisco over its use of 1099 independent contractors for food delivery. Tj O’Shae, a former GrubHub W-2 employee, echoed much of what plaintiff Rae...
11:10 pm GMT - Thu, September 7, 2017
Techcrunch Equifax execs dumped stock before the hack news went public
 In today’s edition of unfettered corporate greed, we bring you the Equifax managers who apparently sold almost $1.8 million in stock after the company became aware that it had a big proble...
10:37 pm GMT - Thu, September 7, 2017
Techcrunch Cloudera acquires AI research firm Fast Forward Labs
 Cloudera said today as part of its second-quarter earnings report that it is acquiring Fast Forward Labs, a startup that gives companies the latest information on how to apply machine learning a...
10:33 pm GMT - Thu, September 7, 2017
Techcrunch Equifax data breach help site leaves consumers with more questions than answers
 Equifax just announced a massive data breach that could affect 143 million consumers. It’s shaping up to be one of the largest hacks of all time. The information came mostly from U.S. resi...
10:22 pm GMT - Thu, September 7, 2017
Techcrunch AI that can determine a persons sexuality from photos shows the dark side of the data age
 Researchers have created an AI that is more accurate than humans in determining whether a person is gay or straight just from a handful of photographs. It relies on cues apparently more subtle t...
09:33 pm GMT - Thu, September 7, 2017
Techcrunch High-end iPhone to ship after standard models
 Apple is preparing to announce a new series of iPhone at an event next week. Two models are on tap and TechCrunch has learned from trusted sources the more expensive, fancier version will ship a...
09:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 7, 2017
Techcrunch Okta has a great earnings day on the back of strong international growth
 Okta kept its beat-streak alive today with a healthy earnings report. On the back of international growth and a healthy services business, Okta beat revenue expectations by nine percent and mana...
08:53 pm GMT - Thu, September 7, 2017
Techcrunch Lincoln reportedly plans to electrify entire lineup by 2022
 Ford’s Lincoln luxury brand is looking to field electrified powertrain options for all of its vehicles by 2022, according to a new Reuters report. That the third major piece of news about ...
08:49 pm GMT - Thu, September 7, 2017
Techcrunch Equifax data leak could involve 143 million consumers
 Data leaks have become so commonplace that it’s incredibly easy to become numb to them, but credit reporting service Equifax announced a doozy today that when all is said and done could in...
08:33 pm GMT - Thu, September 7, 2017
Techcrunch Blizzard will open its first U.S. esports stadium in Los Angeles next month
 The world’s best pedigreed esports developer is opening a state-of-the-art temple to its craft right in its own backyard. Blizzard Entertainment, creator of the fine-tuned esports hit Over...
08:10 pm GMT - Thu, September 7, 2017
Techcrunch A candid conversation about workplace sexism at Disrupt SF
 Women have been in the workforce for decades, yet many are still encountering frustrating obstacles when trying to move up the career ladder. These situations can happen in any industry, but the...
07:04 pm GMT - Thu, September 7, 2017
Techcrunch Fitbit is surging after it announced a big health partnership
 Fitbit today came out with some additional news that might give Wall Street some signs of life as it looks to compete with an increasingly complicated fitness tracking environment — and th...
07:02 pm GMT - Thu, September 7, 2017
Techcrunch Amazon files for arbitration against Kindle Direct authors and publishers
 Amazon has accused several book publishers, marketers and authors of using the Kindle Direct Publishing system to artificially inflate their sales numbers and has now filed for arbitration again...
06:59 pm GMT - Thu, September 7, 2017
Techcrunch Postmates expands Unlimited, a Prime-style subscription service, to 250k merchants
 Postmates, the $600 million35-minute delivery startup that lets you purchase restaurant food and other items from merchants through its app, today makes more than three million deliveries each m...
06:37 pm GMT - Thu, September 7, 2017
Techcrunch Google publishes its documentation style guide for developers
 Documentation is often an afterthought — especially for open-source projects. That can make it harder for newcomers to join a project, for example, and sometimes badly written documentatio...
06:33 pm GMT - Thu, September 7, 2017
Techcrunch Straight outta Siberia inDriver raises $5M for its flat-rate ride-hailing app
 You’d think all the business models around on-demand taxis and cars had been invested, but straight out of Siberia comes another one. Ride-hailing app inDriver has raised a $5 million Seri...
06:18 pm GMT - Thu, September 7, 2017
Techcrunch Canvas robot cart could change how factories work
We stopped by Andy Rubin’s Playground in Palo Alto to check out a new autonomous cart from Canvas Technologies. The startup aims to replace existing fixed and expensive factory infrastructure, l...
06:08 pm GMT - Thu, September 7, 2017
Techcrunch Fitbit is teaming up with Dexcom for glucose monitoring on the Ionic Smartwatch
 Wearable fitness makers are increasingly interested in tracking our vitals. Now Fitbit has announced a collaboration with glucose monitor company Dexcom to develop and market products to help th...
06:02 pm GMT - Thu, September 7, 2017
Techcrunch Pebbles founder is back on Kickstarter with an iPhone battery case that also charges AirPods
 Pebble’s founder and former CEO Eric Migicovsky is back with his first new product since the smartwatch maker got rolled up into Fitbit last year. The PodCase doesn’t have the same s...
05:42 pm GMT - Thu, September 7, 2017
Techcrunch Food exec John Foraker, long the CEO of Annies, has a new, stealth organic food startup
 John Foraker, who led the well-known organic food brand Annie’s for 17 years, is working on a new organic food startup in Berkeley, according to both his LinkedIn account and a recent repo...
05:36 pm GMT - Thu, September 7, 2017
Techcrunch Oracle breaks with tech industry in backing human trafficking bill
 Oracle is one of the few in the tech industry backing a bipartisan bill to hold websites facilitating human trafficking legally accountable. The Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act, sponsored by S...
05:14 pm GMT - Thu, September 7, 2017
Techcrunch Streamroot raises $3.2 million for its peer-to-peer video delivery technology
 French startup Streamroot just raised $3.2 million from Partech Ventures, Techstars Venture Capital Fund, Verizon Ventures* and R/GA. The company is taking advantage of WebRTC to make video stre...
04:53 pm GMT - Thu, September 7, 2017
Techcrunch Google launches Drive File Stream to replace the Google Drive desktop app for G Suite users
 Google today announced the launch of new desktop application for Google Drive users, called Drive File Stream, which is now available to G Suite customers. The app will serve as a replacement fo...
04:50 pm GMT - Thu, September 7, 2017
Techcrunch Facebook and Microsoft collaborate to simplify conversions from PyTorch to Caffe2
 Facebook and Microsoft announced ONNX, theOpen Neural Network Exchangethis morning in respective blog posts. The Exchange makes it easier for machine learning developers to convert models betwee...
04:46 pm GMT - Thu, September 7, 2017
Techcrunch Why I still wear the Apple Watch
 The starscape on view from James Ward Packard’s window in Warren, Ohio, was magnificent. In the summer, Draco, the dragon, would have wheeled above, clawing at Ursa Minor. Gemini would hav...
04:33 pm GMT - Thu, September 7, 2017
Techcrunch GoPro says things are looking great, sends stock soaring
 GoPro’s stock is up 12% [NASDAQ:GPRO] as of noon Eastern on Thursday. This jump was caused after the company released a statement stating that its revenue and gross margin will be at the t...
04:18 pm GMT - Thu, September 7, 2017
Techcrunch As Irma nears, Florida Governor tells residents to use Gas Buddy, Expedia, Google Maps & more
 Speaking at a press conference this morning, Florida Governor Rick Scott told state residents to turn to apps and other online resources, including Gas Buddy, Google Maps, Expedia and Comcast...
04:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 7, 2017
Techcrunch Google gives enterprises a private on-ramp to its cloud
 Google today launched a new networking option for large enterprises that want to connect their private networks directly to its cloud. These new dedicated interconnects, which are now in beta, a...
03:51 pm GMT - Thu, September 7, 2017
Techcrunch Tome Software and Trek Bicycle are looking to AI to make biking safer
 Tome Software has teamed up with Trek Bicycle to reduce the number of bike to vehicle collisions. To achieve this goal, the partners have turned to using artificial intelligence at the autonomou...
03:41 pm GMT - Thu, September 7, 2017
Techcrunch Disneys streaming service will exclusively get Marvel and Star Wars movies
 Bad news for Netflix: Disney CEO Bob Iger now says that Marvel’s forthcoming streaming service, which is set to debut in late 2019, will exclusively get Star Wars and Disney movies. This i...
03:40 pm GMT - Thu, September 7, 2017
Techcrunch Google Drive goes down and takes worldwide productivity with it
 Google Drive is having some major issues this morning. Starting around 7:30am PT, Google’s file storage service, which forms the backbone of much of Google’s G Suite, became either u...
03:40 pm GMT - Thu, September 7, 2017
Techcrunch Google Drive goes down and takes worldwide productivity with it (updated)
 Google Drive is having some major issues this morning. Starting around 7:30am PT, Google’s file storage service, which forms the backbone of much of Google’s G Suite, became either u...
03:13 pm GMT - Thu, September 7, 2017
Techcrunch HotelTonight to expand booking window to 100 days
 HotelTonight, the platform that lets you make last-minute bookings at hotels, is today announcing that they’re expanding their reservation to up to 100 days out. The change doesn’t t...
03:11 pm GMT - Thu, September 7, 2017
Techcrunch StatMuse lets you ask a sports question and hear a response from an NFL star
 StatMuse, the sports statistics database that can be queried using natural language inquiries, just announced that it’s become the second startup accepted into the NFL Players Association&...
03:07 pm GMT - Thu, September 7, 2017
Techcrunch Samsung is making Apple pay a small fortune for the iPhone 8 display
 Apple is about to unveil a brand new iPhone on September 12. For the first time, the company is likely going to switch from LCD displays to OLED displays, a newer technology that is causing some...
02:56 pm GMT - Thu, September 7, 2017
Techcrunch Jaguars new concept has a steering wheel you talk to and take with you
 Jaguar is envisioning a future that’s focused on self-driving and on-demand shared mobility with its new Future-Type concept car. The vehicle boasts fully autonomous or assisted manual dri...
02:43 pm GMT - Thu, September 7, 2017
Techcrunch Plexs Live TV service comes to the web and Fire TV
 Plex’s Live TV service, a service offering cord cutters a way to watch and record live television via an antenna,is now available to use via the web as well as on Amazon Fire TV. From the ...
02:24 pm GMT - Thu, September 7, 2017
Techcrunch Pendo acquires Insert to add mobile apps to its user analytics and engagement platform
 Pendo helps businesses understand and assist their customers with tools like analytics, polls and walkthroughs. Until now, however, CEO Todd Olson said the company has been focused on the web (b...
02:15 pm GMT - Thu, September 7, 2017
Techcrunch Favor, the on-demand service focused on Texas, picks up $22 million Series B
 The on-demand economy is great for consumers but hard for the companies that provide on-demand services. While many are still struggling to stabilize their business model and optimize their work...
02:09 pm GMT - Thu, September 7, 2017
Techcrunch SpaceX successfully launches mysterious X-37B spaceplane and recovers first stage
 SpaceX can add another first to its ever-increasing list: On Thursday, it successfully launchedthe U.S. Air Force’s X-37B experimental spaceplane for the first time. This makes it the only...
02:07 pm GMT - Thu, September 7, 2017
Techcrunch FanDuels new companion app makes player research easy
 If you’ve ever played daily fantasy sports you’re familiar with the standard workflow – you browse 5 or 6 sites to research players, switch over to the FanDuel or DraftKings ap...
02:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 7, 2017
Techcrunch Datadog acquires Logmatic.io to add log management to its cloud monitoring platform
 The popular cloud monitoring service Datadog today announced that it has acquired the Paris-based Logmatic.io,a platform-agnostic service for querying and visualizing logs to monitor and trouble...
01:51 pm GMT - Thu, September 7, 2017
Techcrunch Watch SpaceX launch the U.S. Air Forces secretive X-37B spaceplane live
 SpaceX is set to launch the U.S. Air Force’s X-37B spaceplane into orbit today, with a launch window that opens at 9:50 AM ET (6:50 AM PT). The Boeing-built uncrewed spaceplane most recent...
01:40 pm GMT - Thu, September 7, 2017
Techcrunch Speakables Contact Your Rep button lets users take a stand directly from a news article
 As we move deeper into the Trump presidency and these turbulent political times, folks are more engaged with the news than ever. But many leave their news binge feeling helpless, without much th...
01:40 pm GMT - Thu, September 7, 2017
Techcrunch BMW to offer 12 fully electric car models by 2025
 BMW says that it’ll have a total of 25 electrified vehicles in its lineup by 2025, with a full dozen of those being full-electric cars. These should have a usable range of up to 435 miles,...
01:31 pm GMT - Thu, September 7, 2017
Techcrunch Jaguars E-type Zero is a true classic with a future-proof electric powertrain
 Jaguar has a new electric vehicle – but it’s also a very old one. The new Jaguar E-type Zero pairs a car once described by Enzo Ferrari as “the most beautiful” in the wor...
01:05 pm GMT - Thu, September 7, 2017
Techcrunch Maestro gives gamers and big brands new tools to manage and control their live streams
 From Twitch to Facebook to Periscope, live streaming is a growing phenomenon that’s making some decent money for the people who own the platform. For the actual people recording the stream...
01:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 7, 2017
Techcrunch Microsoft and Adobe announce an expanded partnership around Adobe Sign and Microsoft Teams
 Almost exactly a year ago, Microsoft and Adobe announceda strategic partnership around Microsoft’s Azure cloud and Adobe’s Marketing Cloud. That, however, was only a first step for t...
01:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 7, 2017
Techcrunch Groupon debuts Groupon, voucherless meal deals with Visa and Mastercard
 Restaurant deals are some of the most popular offers on Groupon, the platform that lets you buy discounted experiences and goods from retailers near you. Today, the company is launching a new se...
01:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 7, 2017
Techcrunch Lyft and Drive.ai partner on Bay Area self-driving ride-hailing pilot
 Drive.ai is going to be operating some of its test fleet on Lyft’s open platform, which Lyft created to help carmakers and self-driving tech companies build and deploy autonomous vehicles ...
01:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 7, 2017
Techcrunch Nvidia and Avitas Systems partner on using AI to help robots spot defects
 Automated inspection company Avitas Systems, which is a GE Venture company, is using Nvidia’s DGX-1 and DGX Station to train its neural-network-based artificial intelligence to be able to ...
01:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 7, 2017
Techcrunch Atlassian launches Stride, its Slack competitor
 Atlassian has long offered a team communications service in the form of HipChat. Over the last few years, Slack has had an outsize influence on this space. The Atlassian team decided to go back ...
01:00 pm GMT - Thu, September 7, 2017
Techcrunch Reddit teams with Lucidworks to build new search framework
 Reddit revealed today that it has teamed with Lucidworks to provide a long-needed, modern search tool for the immensely popular online discussion platform. When you face the kind of scale that R...
12:59 pm GMT - Thu, September 7, 2017
Techcrunch Budget hotel network pioneer OYO raises $250M led by SoftBanks Vision Fund
 India-based OYO, a startup that pioneered and popularized the concept of budget hotel networks, has closed $250 million in new funding led by SoftBank’s Vision Fund. The startup was founde...
12:59 pm GMT - Thu, September 7, 2017
Techcrunch Spotify and Hulu partner on a discounted entertainment bundle, first aimed at students
 Hulu and Spotify announced a partnership today that will see the two companies working together to market entertainment bundles offering both services which will be jointly sold through a single...
12:54 pm GMT - Thu, September 7, 2017
Techcrunch Every Jaguar and Land Rover vehicle from 2020 on will have an electric option
 Jaguar Land Rover is joining the rising chorus of automakers embracing electric and fusion powertrain options, revealing that all new vehicles in both the Jaguar and Land Rover range will offer ...
12:21 pm GMT - Thu, September 7, 2017
Techcrunch New battery technologies are getting a charge from venture investors
 Venture capital investors once again are getting charged up over new battery technologies. The quest to build a better battery has occupied venture investors for nearly a decade, since the initi...
11:48 am GMT - Thu, September 7, 2017
Techcrunch Fully autonomous drone maker Airobotics nabs $32.5M, expands into defense
 Airobotics, a startup building autonomous drones for the enterprise sector that do not require humans to get involved in any aspect of operating them, has picked up $32.5 million in funding to e...
11:30 am GMT - Thu, September 7, 2017
Techcrunch LiDAR maker Innoviz raises $65M from Delphi, Magna and more
 Innoviz, a company making LiDAR sensors to support the development and deployment of autonomous driving, has raised a new $65 million in Series B funding, from strategic partners and leading aut...
11:03 am GMT - Thu, September 7, 2017
Techcrunch EU defense ministers take part in first cyber war game
 European Union defense ministers have been taking part in a simulated cyber attack exercise today for the first time to practice strategic decision making and crisis-management under pressure of...
11:00 am GMT - Thu, September 7, 2017
Techcrunch WuXi NextCODE aims for the genomics database gold standard with new $240 million
 A lot of money is being poured into genomics lately, including the genomic information company WuXi NextCODE (WXNC), which just announced it has closed on $240 million in Series B financing, led...
10:56 am GMT - Thu, September 7, 2017
Techcrunch Amazon is looking for a 2nd headquarter city, a full equal to Seattle
 Amazon has made a name for itself as a giant in e-commerce, logistics and cloud services both for businesses and consumers. Now it’s embarking on a big move to expand its corporate presenc...
08:07 am GMT - Thu, September 7, 2017
Techcrunch ICO funding hit a record $800 million in Q2 2017
 If a ban initiated by China’s central bank this week marks an end to the first era of ICOs — the early gold rush before the regulators arrive —then Q2 2017 may turn out to be a...
08:00 am GMT - Thu, September 7, 2017
Techcrunch European social eating platform VizEat acquires U.S.-based EatWith
 VizEat, the European “social eating platform” that connects travellers and local hosts around authentic food experiences — such as dining in a local’s home, cooking class...
05:30 am GMT - Thu, September 7, 2017
Techcrunch IBM and MIT pen 10-year, $240M AI research partnership
 IBM and MIT came together today to sign a 10-year, $240 million partnership agreement that establishes the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab at the prestigious Cambridge, MA academic institution. The lab wi...
05:24 am GMT - Thu, September 7, 2017
Techcrunch Square will apply for an industrial loan company license this week
 There’s been a lot of questions about whether or not Square aspires to become a bank. Now that speculation can be laid to rest. Square will file an application to become an industrial loan...
04:23 am GMT - Thu, September 7, 2017
Techcrunch Apple says its developer service was affected by a bug not a security breach
 Apple has explained that an issue that briefly affected developer accounts today was caused by a bug and not a security breach as some had speculated.Earlier today (Wednesday), handfuls of repor...
04:01 am GMT - Thu, September 7, 2017
Techcrunch Duolingo launches support for Korean
 The popular language learning service Duolingo today announced that has launched support for Korean to its iOS and Android apps. This marks the company’s second foray into teaching an Asia...
03:30 am GMT - Thu, September 7, 2017
Techcrunch Tech companies automate autocratic media in China around the world
 When big tech bends its principles to limbo into Chinese markets, it encourages other Western companies and institutions to do so as well. Read More ...
03:27 am GMT - Thu, September 7, 2017
Techcrunch After scraping Monsanto deal, Deere agrees to buy precision farming startup Blue River for $305M
 Five months after abandoning its proposed purchase of Monsanto’s precision planting subsidiary due to anti-trust concerns, agricultural equipment giant Deere and Company announced that it ...
03:27 am GMT - Thu, September 7, 2017
Techcrunch After scrapping Monsanto deal, Deere agrees to buy precision farming startup Blue River for $305M
 Five months after abandoning its proposed purchase of Monsanto’s precision planting subsidiary due to anti-trust concerns, agricultural equipment giant Deere and Company announced that it ...
12:53 am GMT - Thu, September 7, 2017
Techcrunch $40 keychain-size detector quickly alerts you of allergens in food
 If you’re someone with a horrible allergy that’s not often accommodated at restaurants or food producers, taking a bite means taking your life into your hands — or mouth, I sup...
12:17 am GMT - Thu, September 7, 2017
Techcrunch Yext touts 38% revenue growth as it adds retail locations to search
 Yext, the company that powers retail location search results, reported its earnings after the bell on Wednesday, its second report since going public in April. The company showed that for the qu...
12:00 am GMT - Thu, September 7, 2017
Techcrunch Crunch Report | Apple And Amazon Want Bond, James Bond
 Today’s Stories Apple and Amazon reportedly pursuing James Bond franchise rights U.S. House of Representatives passes new bipartisan self-driving car bill Kobo takes on Audible with its ow...
11:58 pm GMT - Wed, September 6, 2017
Techcrunch Hackers send silent commands to speech recognition systems with ultrasound
 Security researchers in China have invented a clever way of activating voice recognition systems without speaking a word. By using high frequencies inaudible to humans but which register on elec...
11:29 pm GMT - Wed, September 6, 2017
Techcrunch Given an assist, sports e-commerce giant Fanatics closes that $1 billion round led by Softbank
 Fanatics, the 17-year-old, Jacksonville, Fla.-based sports e-commerce company that helps leagues and teams sell their licensed apparel and fan gear directly to customers, has closed on $1 billio...
11:21 pm GMT - Wed, September 6, 2017
Techcrunch VR company Upload settles sexual harassment suit, though some still feel unsettled
 Upload, the virtual reality startup at the center of a sexual harassment and wrongful termination lawsuit filed earlier this year, has settled the case with its former employee and is aiming to ...
10:30 pm GMT - Wed, September 6, 2017
Techcrunch Is Symantec getting ready to buy Splunk?
 Yesterday, Symantec CEO Greg Clark flexed his M&A biceps, saying that Splunk could be an attractive target. Clark definitely plans to go whale hunting to regain Symantec’s long-lost se...
10:28 pm GMT - Wed, September 6, 2017
Techcrunch Instagram test feature lets users share Stories straight to Facebook
 To boost the popularity of Stories, Facebook could turn to its photo-centric sister app. In a new feature test first spotted by the Next Web’s Matt Navarra and Twitter user @mruiandre, som...
10:28 pm GMT - Wed, September 6, 2017
Techcrunch Judge dismisses inventor of email lawsuit against Techdirt
 A Massachusetts judge has sided with Techdirt, dismissing Shiva Ayyadurai’s $15 million lawsuit against the media company, its founder Mike Masnick and writer Leigh Beadon. The suit center...
09:43 pm GMT - Wed, September 6, 2017
Techcrunch Blackmoon to ICO its blockchain-based platform for tokenized investment funds
 As the Blockchain and Crypto world gathers pace, vehicles to allow for the creation, promotion and management of crypto investment funds are growing. The Iconomi Digital Assets Management Platfo...
09:36 pm GMT - Wed, September 6, 2017
Techcrunch Facebook sold more than $100,000 in political ads to a Russian company during the 2016 election
 Following its April post-mortem on its platform’s role in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Facebook is out with some juicy new details. Most noteworthy given the public’s intense...
09:23 pm GMT - Wed, September 6, 2017
Techcrunch You can get your own mini Mars rover for Earth through this new project
 Mars is a long way away, and super expensive to get to, so if you have the very specific dream of owning your own Mars rover, it’s probably not going to happen. But if you want an EARTH ro...
09:00 pm GMT - Wed, September 6, 2017
Techcrunch The secret language of chatbots
 Give a journalist a buzzword and you’ve fed him for a day. Give a journalist a topic to investigate and you feed the industry for years. Especially when the topic is a sci-fi trope like AI...
08:54 pm GMT - Wed, September 6, 2017
Techcrunch Ex-GrubHub driver testifies on ghost orders and the acceptance rate hustle
 On day two of Lawson v. GrubHub, plaintiff Raef Lawson returned to the stand to testify about his experience driving for GrubHub. GrubHub is defending its practices of employing delivery drivers...
08:32 pm GMT - Wed, September 6, 2017
Techcrunch The FCCs dangerous proposal to classify mobile as broadband hides a good idea
 There’s an FCC proposal that everyone is up in arms about, but it’s not net neutrality. Or the privacy thing. Or prison calling reform. This one proposes equating mobile and fixed br...
08:05 pm GMT - Wed, September 6, 2017
Techcrunch Twitter brings its dark Night mode theme to the web
 Twitter’s dark-toned ‘Night mode’ interface theme is now rolling out to its web client, after debuting first on its iPhone and Android apps. The dark theme will let you more ea...
07:48 pm GMT - Wed, September 6, 2017
Techcrunch EU states data retention laws still violating privacy rights, report warns
 A new report surveying the current status of EU legislation pertaining to the retention of communications data across the region has found that many of the 28 Member States are not adhering to w...
07:45 pm GMT - Wed, September 6, 2017
Techcrunch Cryptocurrencies have already recovered from last weekends crash
 When cryptocurrency markets crashed 20% a few days ago, I wrote “the next day or so will tell us if this was a temporary bump in the road or the start of the next major correction.”W...
07:16 pm GMT - Wed, September 6, 2017
Techcrunch Dont rely on Face Unlock to keep your phone secure
 With Samsung’s Galaxy Note 8 arriving in stores soon, here’s an important reminder: Face Unlock isn’t anywhere near as good at securing your phone as a fingerprint. If you foll...
05:56 pm GMT - Wed, September 6, 2017
Techcrunch Mesosphere adds Kubernetes support to its data center operating system
 Mesosphere, which was one of the early companies to adopt containers and which focuses on allowing businesses to run their big data and analytics workloads in the cloud, today announced that it ...
05:39 pm GMT - Wed, September 6, 2017
Techcrunch Apple just released iOS 11 beta 10 to developers
 Apple is pushing the limits of its beta program as the company just released the tenth beta version of iOS 11. If you have a developer account and want to try out the next version of iOS, you ca...
05:22 pm GMT - Wed, September 6, 2017
Techcrunch Off the Record sessions: Meet the AI, security and biotech experts at Disrupt SF
 Last week we announced the first round of our Off the Record (OTR) sessions — which are opportunities to go deep with our speakers and other topics on subjects like Cryptocurrencies, China...
04:39 pm GMT - Wed, September 6, 2017
Techcrunch 23andMe hits $1.5B pre-money valuation in latest huge funding round
 Following up on the news of 23andMe’s huge upcoming financing round, TechCrunch has learned that the company is raising the new financing at a $1.5 billion pre-money valuation. This compar...
04:35 pm GMT - Wed, September 6, 2017
Techcrunch U.S. House of Representatives passes new bipartisan self-driving car bill
 The U.S. House approved a bill called the SELF-DRIVE act, which was put together by both Democrats and Republicans – a rarity in today’s congressional goings-on. If it becomes law (w...
04:30 pm GMT - Wed, September 6, 2017
Techcrunch Nginx goes beyond its server roots and launches its application platform
 Nginx, in its commercial and open source forms, is one of the most popular load balancers, proxies, web and application servers on the internet today. But Nginx Inc, the company behind the proje...
04:04 pm GMT - Wed, September 6, 2017
Techcrunch Kobo takes on Audible with its own audiobook subscription service
 Kobo’s never had an issue taking on the bigwigs. It’s outlasted bigger names like Sony and Barnes & Noble in the devoted e-reader space, and now it’s ready to take a swipe ...
03:51 pm GMT - Wed, September 6, 2017
Techcrunch Zipwhip raises $22.5M to expand its text messaging platform for businesses
 As apps like WhatsApp, Facebook and Vibergear up to let businesses use their messaging apps to speak with their customers, there is a parallel track of development happening outside those walled...
03:32 pm GMT - Wed, September 6, 2017
Techcrunch What to expect from the Steve Jobs Theater at the new iPhone reveal
 For the very first time, Apple is opening up the brand new Steve Jobs theater to unveil new iPhones (and more, we think) on September 12. This Apple Campus has been in the works for quite some t...
03:30 pm GMT - Wed, September 6, 2017
Techcrunch Cap tables, share structures, valuations, oh my! A case study of early-stage funding
 For many entrepreneurs, especially first-time founders, raising outside capital can be daunting. Between all of the new vocabulary and the very real legal implications of the agreements being si...
02:49 pm GMT - Wed, September 6, 2017
Techcrunch Apple and Amazon reportedly pursuing James Bond franchise rights
 A new report from The Hollywood Reporter claims that Apple and Amazon are vying for the distribution rights for the next Bond films, right alongside current leading bidder Warner Bros. This repr...
02:30 pm GMT - Wed, September 6, 2017
Techcrunch Virtual science lab startup Labster bags $10M to accelerate its ed tech play
 Ed tech startup Labsterwhose software platform enables virtual simulations of laboratories for teaching life science to students, has closed a $10 million Series A round of funding led by early ...
02:11 pm GMT - Wed, September 6, 2017
Techcrunch Intel antitrust decision sent for review by Europes top court
 A 2009 European Union antitrust decision that hit Intel with an at-the-time record fined for — as the Commission saw it — abusing its No.1 position in the market for computer chips h...
02:00 pm GMT - Wed, September 6, 2017
Techcrunch Tenka Labs raises another $2M to get its kids LEGO engineering kits in retailers
 Tenka Labs co-founder John Schuster is no stranger to walking friends through building gadgets using Arduino, an open-source hardware controller — except they might be great software engin...
02:00 pm GMT - Wed, September 6, 2017
Techcrunch Axonius wants to help businesses manage all of their devices; raises $4M seed round
 Axonius wants to help enterprises manage their fast-growing number of mobile, compute and IoT devices that now use their networks and in the cloud. The idea here is to provide these companies wi...
01:42 pm GMT - Wed, September 6, 2017
Techcrunch Space Nation will tap NASA for global astronaut training program
 Democratizing access to space is going to take a lot of work, but Space Nation wants to help with the astronaut training bit of that equation. Now, the startup has announced it will have some he...
01:17 pm GMT - Wed, September 6, 2017
Techcrunch Scribd offers an Essential Student Bundle, including an NYT subscription, for $1.87 per week
 Scribd is giving college and graduate students access to its library of digital content, plus a subscription to The New York Times, at what it says is a 40 percent discount.CEO Trip Adler told m...
01:07 pm GMT - Wed, September 6, 2017
Techcrunch Microsoft Surface keynote coming at the end of October
 Microsoft will host an event in London at the end of October and beginning of November, the latest in its annual ‘Future Decoded’ series. The event will also feature a Surface-focuse...
01:00 pm GMT - Wed, September 6, 2017
Techcrunch HTT signs agreement to develop a Hyperloop in India
 Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT) has signed a memorandum of understanding with the government of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh to develop a Hyperloop transportation route between...
01:00 pm GMT - Wed, September 6, 2017
Techcrunch Roku launches its own channel featuring free, ad-supported movies
Roku, a company capitalizing on the cord cutting trend to the tune of a $100 million IPO, is today launching its own channel for users of Roku streaming players, sticks and TVs, which will connect cus...
01:00 pm GMT - Wed, September 6, 2017
Techcrunch Snowflakes newest cloud data warehouse takes aim at regulated industries
 Snowflake, makers of a cloud data warehouse service, announced a new virtual private product that should appeal to highly regulated companies like financial services and healthcare. In fact, the...
12:30 pm GMT - Wed, September 6, 2017
Techcrunch Amazons Souq acquires Wing.ae to expand Prime-style same and next-day delivery
 Earlier this year, Amazon jump-started its business in the Middle East by paying $580 million to acquire Souq.com, an Amazon-style marketplace based out of Dubai. Today, Amazon and Souq are maki...
12:00 pm GMT - Wed, September 6, 2017
Techcrunch Registration for Disrupt Berlin 2017 is now open
 TechCrunch Disrupt, the premier startup and technology conference, first took the European startup community by storm way back in 2013. Since then, the continent’s startup scene has mature...
12:00 pm GMT - Wed, September 6, 2017
Techcrunch Dataiku to enhance data tools with $28 million investment led by Battery Ventures
 Dataiku, a French startup that helps data analysts communicate with data scientists to build more meaningful data applications, announced a significant funding round today. The company scored a ...
11:55 am GMT - Wed, September 6, 2017
Techcrunch LinkedIn raises its ad tech game, launches Audience Network across tens of thousands of sites and apps
 Facebook has set the pace for how social networks can grow their advertising revenues by leveraging advances and ad tech and the information that they collect about users and their interests thr...
11:51 am GMT - Wed, September 6, 2017
Techcrunch Niantics postponed European Pokmon Go events will now take place in October
 Good news for Pokmon Go fans in Europe: Niantic has announced new dates for the events in Europe that were postponedfollowing the disastrous outcome of the first-everPokmon GO Fest in Chicago in...
11:42 am GMT - Wed, September 6, 2017
Techcrunch PSA Group and AImotive team up for French self-driving pilot
 Peugot automaker PSA Group will work with AImotive, a startup focused on developing autonomous vehicle tech, for a test of Level 4 AI-based autonomy on highways in France, the companies announce...
11:05 am GMT - Wed, September 6, 2017
Techcrunch Turo raises $92M and acquires Daimlers Croove car sharing business
 Turo has a new strategic partner in automaker Daimler, with ties solidified through both an investment by Daimler in the car sharing startup, and through the acquisition by Turo of Croove, Daiml...
10:47 am GMT - Wed, September 6, 2017
Techcrunch Verizons new opt-in rewards program requires users to share personal data for ad-targeting
 U.S. carrier Verizon has launched a new rewards program as it pushes for more lucrative ways to eke money out of a subscriber base that’s not growing as easily as it once was. Read More ...
08:07 am GMT - Wed, September 6, 2017
Techcrunch Chatbot startup founder sees Southeast Asia potential despite slow start worldwide
 Chatbots may have underwhelmed thus far, but the impact of the technology still has bags of potential in international markets where mobile messaging has been mainstream for years. That’s ...
08:00 am GMT - Wed, September 6, 2017
Techcrunch BandLab Technologies acquires Chew.tv, a video streaming service for DJs
 Chew.tv, a video streaming service for DJs to show off their mixing skills, has been acquired by BandLab Technologies, the Singapore-based ‘social’ music-making platform. Terms of th...
07:30 am GMT - Wed, September 6, 2017
Techcrunch Atomico promotes Tom Wehmeier, the European VC firms Head of Research, to Partner
 Atomico, the European VC fund founded by Skype’s Niklas Zennstrm, has made another promotion. Tom Wehmeier, the firm’s Head of Research and already an existing member of the investme...
05:51 am GMT - Wed, September 6, 2017
Techcrunch Remember when WhatsApp didnt want to make money?
 WhatsApp is preparing to make money by facilitating conversations between business and consumers. It’s a great move. Messaging is huge, and there is vast scope for bringing brands and busi...
03:15 am GMT - Wed, September 6, 2017
Techcrunch Crunch Report | Chinas Central Bank Puts a Ban on ICOs
China’s central bank puts a ban on ICOs, the next generation of the Lily drone is here, WhatsApp for Business is launching and Alphabet creates a new holding company to complete 2015 corporate r...
02:15 am GMT - Wed, September 6, 2017
Techcrunch Only Six Days Left to Apply for Startup Battlefield Australia
 Ready to give your Startup the global recognition it deserves? Founders, there are 6 more days to apply for the inaugural Startup Battlefield Australia. The deadline for submission is September ...
01:00 am GMT - Wed, September 6, 2017
Techcrunch The new 2018 Nissan Leaf offers 150 miles of EV range
 Nissan unveiled its new 2018 all-electric Leaf at a special event on Tuesday, and the much-anticipated successor to one of the earliest production EVs had some interesting tricks up its sleeve. ...
12:35 am GMT - Wed, September 6, 2017
Techcrunch Researchers propose Iron Man style flight for humanoid robot
 The way Iron Man flies may be cool, but it’s also impractical. Even if your core strength is off the chart, as I assume Tony Stark’s is (you’re basically planking the whole tim...
12:21 am GMT - Wed, September 6, 2017
Techcrunch 23andMe is raising about $200 million, led by Sequoia
 23andMe, the Mountain View-based genetic testing and analysis company, is raising close to $200 million in a funding round led by Sequoia Capital, multiple sources tell us. Sources say that Fide...
11:49 pm GMT - Tue, September 5, 2017
Techcrunch UKs FiveAI gets $35M to build a taxi service powered by its own self-driving car platform
 The race is on for autonomous vehicle technology, and now a startup out of the UK is the latest to throw its hat into the ring to help build it. Cambridge-based FiveAI — a partner in the U...
11:30 pm GMT - Tue, September 5, 2017
Techcrunch Smile, youre in augmented reality dentistry
 For someone getting major dental work or reconstructive surgery, it can be hard to visualize what they’ll look like afterwards. You can do casts and make wax molds, but that’s a bit&...
11:24 pm GMT - Tue, September 5, 2017
Techcrunch Betterview just raised $2 million to analyze drone footage for insurers
 Betterview, a 2.5-year-old, San Francisco-based company whose software can analyze detailed aerial footage captured by drones to help insurers better understand a property’s condition, has...
10:10 pm GMT - Tue, September 5, 2017
Techcrunch Watch Nissan debut its new 2018 LEAF electric car live right here
 Nissan’s new LEAF is making its official world premiere today at 5:30 PM PDT (8:30 PM EDT). That’s when we’ll get the first detailed look at the car, though we’ve seen so...
09:56 pm GMT - Tue, September 5, 2017
Techcrunch On Voyagers 40th anniversary, here are 20 of the missions best images and discoveries
 It’s been 40 years to the day since the Voyager mission commenced with the launch of Voyager 1 on September 5, 1977, with its twin Voyager 2 launching two weeks later. This groundbreaking ...
09:35 pm GMT - Tue, September 5, 2017
Techcrunch As trial begins, GrubHub looks to defend itself as a 1099 employer
 On day one of GrubHub v. Lawson, the first-ever case to go to trial in California regarding the debate involving 1099 contractors and W-2 employees in the gig economy, lawyers for both sides pre...
09:30 pm GMT - Tue, September 5, 2017
Techcrunch The Red Sox used an Apple Watch to steal signs from the Yankees
 Here’s another innovative use case Apple can mention when they announce the next Apple Watch: The device has reportedly played a key role in a baseball sign stealing scheme run by the Bost...
08:14 pm GMT - Tue, September 5, 2017
Techcrunch World Views stratospheric balloon spends a record 27 hours in flight
 World View’s most recent Stratollite mission broke some records for the high altitude aeronautics company: the balloon-based stratospheric vehicle managed to stay aloft for around 27 hours...
07:29 pm GMT - Tue, September 5, 2017
Techcrunch Facebook Watch original video tab launches to all U.S. users
 Today Facebook officially opened its new Watch tab of original video content to everyone in the U.S. after a limited rollout a month ago and expansion to some more users last week. Available on ...
07:01 pm GMT - Tue, September 5, 2017
Techcrunch Heres the complete list of tech CEOs supporting the repeal of DACA
 1)2)3)(There are none.)Meanwhile, here’s how the leaders of tech’s biggest companies have responded to the repeal.Drop us a comment below if you see any tech leader who supports the ...
07:01 pm GMT - Tue, September 5, 2017
Techcrunch Make your own 3D-printed mask that reacts to your emotions
 This wild mask which looks like a cross between Hello Kitty and a face-hugger is made of soft electronics and colored liquid. It is based on a Masters thesis project made by Sirou Peng, Adi Meye...
06:33 pm GMT - Tue, September 5, 2017
Techcrunch Google launches a new certification program for mobile web developers
 Google today launched a new certification program for mobile web developers. As the name implies, the Mobile Web Specialist Certification is meant to help developers show off their mobile web de...
06:25 pm GMT - Tue, September 5, 2017
Techcrunch Good games make good investments at Good Shepherd
 Game development is a risky business — in the literal sense, that is. Hoping a title becomes a million-seller and justifies its staff and years of gestation often leads to the ruin of game...
06:04 pm GMT - Tue, September 5, 2017
Techcrunch SpaceX opens applications for its 2018 Hyperloop Pod competition
 SpaceX confirmed at its second Hyperloop Pod design competition that there would definitely be a third, and now it’s opening up registration for that test, which is set to run next year. T...
06:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 5, 2017
Techcrunch Why TAM doesnt matter to me
 When you ask a VC what they look for in investments, you’re likely to get a response that involves going after a large “total addressable market.” On the surface, the use of TA...
05:29 pm GMT - Tue, September 5, 2017
Techcrunch Amazon Alexa now responds to certain questions with skills that can help you when Alexa cant
 Amazon is making it easier for Echo and Alexa-powered device owners to find voice apps that extend the functionality of its virtual assistant. The company recently launched a new feature that ha...
05:05 pm GMT - Tue, September 5, 2017
Techcrunch Watch Netflixs new trailer for The Magic School Bus Rides Again
 Netflix is ready to reboot The Magic School Bus, the classic kid-focused cartoon depicting far out field trips that probably made your grade school trips to the local pioneer village feel even m...
05:02 pm GMT - Tue, September 5, 2017
Techcrunch Tech leaders respond as the Trump administration announces plans to end DACA
 The tech community hasn’t minced words since the president announced that he was strongly considering ending the Obama era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy last week. S...
05:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 5, 2017
Techcrunch Tim Cook urges Congress to keep DACA alive in letter to Apple staff
 Over the weekend, Tim Cook reaffirmed his support for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), the Obama era policy that allows some illegal immigrants to defer deportation. After Attorney...
04:26 pm GMT - Tue, September 5, 2017
Techcrunch Scotland plans to phase out gas and diesel cars by 2032
 Another country is looking to get rid of gas-powered vehicles entirely: Scotland, which wants to “phase out” new gas and diesel-powered cars entirely by 2032 (via The Independent). T...
04:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 5, 2017
Techcrunch YouTube now lets you stream your iPhones screen, makes it easier to moderate chat
 YouTube today is rolling out several features to make itself more appealing to live streamers, including video game streamers, as the battle with rivals like Amazon’s Twitch and Microsoft&...
03:53 pm GMT - Tue, September 5, 2017
Techcrunch Facetune makers latest app, Quickshot, helps you take better photos
 Lightricks, the company behind the popular selfie-correcting app called Facetune, is adding to its line of mobile photography and editing tools with the recent launch of a new app called Quicksh...
03:28 pm GMT - Tue, September 5, 2017
Techcrunch Googles Street View cameras get a high-res update focused on AI
 Google has changed up the camera tech used in its roving fleet of Street View vehicles –the cars you sometimes see driving around with a spherical contraption atop their roofs. Wired repor...
03:24 pm GMT - Tue, September 5, 2017
Techcrunch WhatsApp announces free Business app, will charge big enterprises
 WhatsApp is gearing up to finally monetize its messaging app by charging large enterprise businesses for tools to better communicate with customers. WhatsApp will also offer a free app to small-...
03:03 pm GMT - Tue, September 5, 2017
Techcrunch Taxify launches in London, acquiring a cab firm to scale and discounting prices
 London’s long-suffering Black Cabs have yet another competitor to deal with, alongside Gett, and Uber.Estonian start-up Taxify has launched this week in the UK capital, after previously co...
03:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 5, 2017
Techcrunch Samsungs Galaxy Note 8 is a cautious return for the worlds best phablet
 Unveiled last month, the Note 8 is the product of a newly cautious company. It’s easy to see how Samsung’s relentless push to include all the latest bells and whistles might have con...
03:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 5, 2017
Techcrunch Samsungs Galaxy Note 8 excels as a premium productivity smartphone
 Samsung’s Galaxy Note 8 launches with more baggage than have previous smartphones in the lineup: Its predecessor’s recall problems ended up killing the phone entirely in most markets...
02:56 pm GMT - Tue, September 5, 2017
Techcrunch The Tortilla Drone is the flying robot weve all been waiting for
 You’ve seen it all before: a drone takes off in an open field, everything is clear. The drone flies straight up for a moment then, on the way down, it hits a tree. A moment later the whole...
02:10 pm GMT - Tue, September 5, 2017
Techcrunch The team behind Pixelmator is about to launch Pixelmator Pro
 While Photoshop is still the most famous image editing app out there, there are now plenty of alternatives. Pixelmator is quite popular on macOS for instance. It has been around for a few years ...
02:00 pm GMT - Tue, September 5, 2017
Techcrunch Allbirds plans to expand to new materials with $17.5 million in fresh funds
 You can’t walk outside your door in San Francisco these days without seeing some tech worker or VC wearing a pair of Allbirds. The eco-friendly wool shoes have taken over the tech world si...
01:55 pm GMT - Tue, September 5, 2017
Techcrunch Moleskines next paper planner will automatically sync with Google Calendar and Apples iCal
 I use a Hobonichi Techo Weeks as a daily planner. Like John found when reviewing planners, it’s the perfect size and has just enough space for my to-do list, appointments and a bit of jour...
01:45 pm GMT - Tue, September 5, 2017
Techcrunch Sony backs Acutronic Robotics hardware robot operating system
 Sony is investing in Acutronic Robotics‘ Series A round, via its Sony Innovation Fund. Sony will also adopt Acutronics Hardware Robot Operating System (H-ROS), for use in its own robotics ...
01:41 pm GMT - Tue, September 5, 2017
Techcrunch HPE scoops up Cloud Technology Partners to boost hybrid cloud consulting
 HPE has been mostly known in recent times for selling off pieces of its business, but it has quietly been on a little run this year buying up cloud companies in an attempt to build out a hybrid ...
12:46 pm GMT - Tue, September 5, 2017
Techcrunch Google is hiring AI talent from China even though its still blocked in the country
 Google’s core search service has been blocked in China for over seven years, but that isn’t stopping the internet giant from snapping up artificial intelligence and machine learning ...
12:07 pm GMT - Tue, September 5, 2017
Techcrunch Thailands Event Pop raises $2M to expand its ticketing service in Southeast Asia
 Event Pop, a two-year-old digital ticketing startup from Thailand, has raised a Series A round of over $2 million to expand its product and move into new markets. The round was led by Thai inves...
11:27 am GMT - Tue, September 5, 2017
Techcrunch Last chance for Disrupt Berlin 2-for-1 tickets
 Okay, European startup fans. You’ve procrastinated long enough. Tomorrow September 6 at 12pm CEST, we’ll be releasing our last batch of 50 pairs of tickets toDisrupt Berlin 2017, but...
10:16 am GMT - Tue, September 5, 2017
Techcrunch Hong Kong regulator concerned by ICO funding boom
 One day afterChina’s decision to ban ICOs pending an investigation, Hong Kong — the country that is aspecial administrative region of China — has voiced concern at the growth o...
10:07 am GMT - Tue, September 5, 2017
Techcrunch European court rules employees must be warned if comms are monitored
 In a landmark judgement concerning privacy in the workplace, the grand chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that companies must give employees prior warning if they are...
10:00 am GMT - Tue, September 5, 2017
Techcrunch Identity management startup ForgeRock snags $88 million Series D
 Used to be when we thought about identity as it relates to computers and software, it involved a person logging into an application or service. Increasingly though, you also have machines and se...
09:07 am GMT - Tue, September 5, 2017
Techcrunch Xiaomis first phone running stock Android looks impressive and costs less than $250
 Xiaomi’s newest flagship smartphone will launch the day before the next iPhone, but Chinese firm has offered another new arrival before that date — and it marks a departure from the ...
08:04 am GMT - Tue, September 5, 2017
Techcrunch Index Ventures is coming in force to TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin this December
 We are delighted to announce our next wave of speakers for Disrupt Berlin. And what a wave. Index Ventures is one the world’s leading international venture capital firms. And we are incred...
08:00 am GMT - Tue, September 5, 2017
Techcrunch Aifloo, a Swedish startup that sells a smart wristband to help care for the elderly, raises 5.1M
 Aifloo, a Swedish startup that combines hardware sensors and AI to offer a ‘smart wristband’ to help care for the elderly, has raised 5.1 million in new funding. The Series A round ...
07:00 am GMT - Tue, September 5, 2017
Techcrunch Lilium raises $90M Series B for all-electric flying taxi
 Imagine some time in the not-so-distant future. After making your way to the nearest “community landing strip,” you’ll pull out your phone, and, with a single tap, hail the nea...
03:58 am GMT - Tue, September 5, 2017
Techcrunch Most of 2017s tech IPOs are performing well
 It’s not all Blue Apron and Snap. Of the tech companies that have gone public this year, most are trading above their IPO price.But there haven’t been many of them, with just 15 tech...
01:39 am GMT - Tue, September 5, 2017
Techcrunch Startup Battlefield Australia Applications Extended to September 11
 All you procrastinators — fear not! Applications for Battlefield Australia have now been extended to September 11th at midnight AEST. Now you have an entire week to apply to pitch on the r...
11:52 pm GMT - Mon, September 4, 2017
Techcrunch Prowler.io nabs $13M for its new approach to decision making in AI
 As we continue to see a wide proliferation of artificial intelligence-based startups come to market, one of the persistent andbig questions has been is whether an AI system will ever be able to ...
10:44 pm GMT - Mon, September 4, 2017
Techcrunch If a Hillary-endorsed media platform is techs best solution for fake news then were screwed
 Social media sites have had a pretty interesting year when it comes to approaching filter bubbles and echo chambers and the real world effects that come when they effect something like a nationa...
09:07 pm GMT - Mon, September 4, 2017
Techcrunch At Burning Man while your startup burns
 There’s a difference between clearing your head, and ditching your dying startup to do drugs in the desert. If your ship is sailing smoothly, a vacation full of solitary introspection and ...
08:46 pm GMT - Mon, September 4, 2017
Techcrunch Ten years later, Sunshine remains one of the bleakest and most beautiful sci-fi movies ever made
 The first time I saw Sunshine, it was in a room full of men (in my memory, the audience was at least 90 percent male). Afterwards, my friend and I spent an extra 10 minutes on the floor, trying ...
07:58 pm GMT - Mon, September 4, 2017
Techcrunch Techs give back moment
 We now exist an interesting interstitial moment, one defined by big corporations producing much of the innovation and some of the world’s richest companies – Apple, Amazon, Uber, Fac...
07:08 pm GMT - Mon, September 4, 2017
Techcrunch Cryptocurrencies have crashed 20% in two days
 The cryptocurrency correction may have started. After months of unprecedented appreciation, almost every digital currency is seeing double digit losses over the last 48 hours. While a quick glan...
07:07 pm GMT - Mon, September 4, 2017
Techcrunch Kristoffer Lawson talks about a future where you zoom into work
 Kristoffer Lawson created one of the coolest things I’ve seen in a while: Solu, the social computer. His tiny device uses a unique UI and UX to allow you to connect with friends and collab...
06:00 pm GMT - Mon, September 4, 2017
Techcrunch Beats brings adaptive noise canceling to its Studio 3 headphones
 Last year’s big Beats announcements revolved around the addition of the W1 chip, the first real collaborative addition to the hardware line since the company was picked up by Apple in 2014...
05:43 pm GMT - Mon, September 4, 2017
Techcrunch At Pear demo day, a whos who of VCs, and plenty of fresh ideas
 Pear, a popular seed-stage venture firm whose early bets include Guardant Health, Memebox,and Branch, hosted its fourth demo day in Woodside, Ca., last Thursday, and though it was a scorchingly ...
05:30 pm GMT - Mon, September 4, 2017
Techcrunch Can robots help the U.S. get its economic mojo back?
 We only have to look at the top three most competitive countries to understand what’s driving economic growth for their businesses and prosperity for their citizens; the common thread is a...
05:29 pm GMT - Mon, September 4, 2017
Techcrunch This is what diversity is like at trash startup Rubicon
 It’s rare to see a tech company report higher than a ten percent black employee population, but that’s what Atlanta-based Rubicon Global just did.The trash and recycling company, whi...
05:00 pm GMT - Mon, September 4, 2017
Techcrunch Why you should be at the Disrupt SF Hackathon
 The hackathon atDisrupt SF 2017is so close we can almost taste it. Soon, thousands of investors, foundersand tech enthusiasts will flock to San Francisco’s Pier 48 for the best startup sho...
04:45 pm GMT - Mon, September 4, 2017
Techcrunch Twitters new random notifications are awful and I hate them
 About a month ago, Twitter rolled out a new feature that would show you a bunch of random shit in your notifications tab. For example, if a couple of people that you follow liked a tweet, itR...
03:49 pm GMT - Mon, September 4, 2017
Techcrunch How the Essential Phone won me over completely
 Still, Essential saw something missing in the now very mature smartphone market, and led by Android creator Andy Rubin, set out to address that gap.The Essential Phone (PH-1 by technical model n...
02:00 pm GMT - Mon, September 4, 2017
Techcrunch Health startup Qventus partners with Sutter Health with the aim to reduce drug costs
 Hospital logistics aren’t sexy, but they’re necessary to keep the place humming along during emergencies and to reduce errors and other costly issues. Qventus, a startup with a predi...
02:00 pm GMT - Mon, September 4, 2017
Techcrunch GetAccept raises $1.6M to help companies close sales leads faster
 GetAccept co-founder Mathias Thulin is very familiar with a common problem sales representatives have: they have a great meeting with a potential customer, fire off an email to follow up on that...
01:47 pm GMT - Mon, September 4, 2017
Techcrunch Google parent Alphabet forms holding company, XXVI, to complete 2015 corporate reorganization
 The company formerly known as Google — before it rebranded its “collection of companies” to Alphabet, in 2015, turning the main ad revenue business into a corporate unit wholly...
01:39 pm GMT - Mon, September 4, 2017
Techcrunch The Lily drone is kind of back
 Remember the Lily drone? It was the drone a person could launch by throwing it in the air and then it would follow the user gallivanting around Dolores Park. It was also the company that couldn&...
01:37 pm GMT - Mon, September 4, 2017
Techcrunch Elon Musk warns that vying for AI superiority could lead to WW3
 Elon Musk celebrated Labor Day with a dark premonition: Countries competing to be the best when it comes to artificial intelligence technology could “likely” be the case of WW3, acco...
12:00 pm GMT - Mon, September 4, 2017
Techcrunch Via raises $250M led by Daimler to bring its carpooling technology to Europe
 As outsized ridesharing companies like Uber and Lyft continue to build out their taxi-style marketplaces largely based around connecting individual passengers to individual drivers, a startup fo...
10:19 am GMT - Mon, September 4, 2017
Techcrunch Xiaomi aims to upstage the iPhone with successor to acclaimed bezel-less smartphone
 Xiaomi’s bezel-less Mi Mix smartphone grabbed a huge amount of attention when it launched last October. Now the Chinese phone maker is getting more opportunistic with the follow-up version...
08:00 am GMT - Mon, September 4, 2017
Techcrunch China has banned ICOs
 It is looking like a new era is coming for ICOs, at least those in China for now. The SEC has issued official warnings around the risks of ICOs, also known as token sales, but the Chinese govern...
06:00 am GMT - Mon, September 4, 2017
Techcrunch Alibaba debuts smile to pay facial recognition payments at KFC in China
 China is streets ahead when it comes to digital payments. The latest leap is facial recognition technology that allows a customer to pay by literally flashing a smile. Alibaba’s Ant Financ...
02:00 am GMT - Mon, September 4, 2017
Techcrunch Consumer internet startups go mainstream outside of Silicon Valley
 In the past year, New York has reached a tipping point as consumer-facing startups proliferate and similarly Los Angeles is gaining notice with the success of Snap and Dollar Shave Club among ot...
08:00 pm GMT - Sun, September 3, 2017
Techcrunch Jeff Bezos should totally buy a coffee startup
 The benefits of Amazon’s $13.7 billion acquisition of Whole Foods more or less went live this week, with price cuts out the wazoo as well as a bunch of Amazon Echo devices available for sa...
05:55 pm GMT - Sun, September 3, 2017
Techcrunch Tim Cook says he stands behind the 250 Dreamers currently working for Apple
 Tim Cook was among the top tech leaders who sat down with Trump ahead of inauguration in hopes of helping shape the new president’s tech policy. But like many of those who held a glimmer o...
01:00 pm GMT - Sun, September 3, 2017
Techcrunch Real news of fake reviews
 Goodhart’s Law, as phrased by Mary Strathern: “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.” Honored more in the breach than the observance, alas. Our algor...
07:54 am GMT - Sun, September 3, 2017
Techcrunch Habito, an app that helps you find the right mortgage, raises 18.5M Series B led by Atomico
 Habito, a London startup that is bringing the entire mortgage process online, has raised 18.5 million in Series B funding. Atomico, the European VC firm founded by Skype’s Niklas Zennstrm,...
08:45 pm GMT - Sat, September 2, 2017
Techcrunch Watch astronaut Peggy Whitson return to Earth after 288 days in space
 Record-setting astronaut Peggy Whitson is coming back from space as the cumulative record holder for longest time spent floating up among the stars and you can watch the live stream of her touch...
06:47 pm GMT - Sat, September 2, 2017
Techcrunch Twitters terms of service are making people mad but theyre not new
 Twitter is making some minor changes to its terms of service(ToS) for users outside of the U.S. this October and a lot of people are rather upset about them. What seems to be the trigger here is...
06:13 pm GMT - Sat, September 2, 2017
Techcrunch GrubHub trial could have major implications for the gig economy
 Next week, GrubHub will face two of its former drivers in court, which could set a precedent for future cases around the 1099, gig economy. The trial, which is the first of its kind in Californi...
05:00 pm GMT - Sat, September 2, 2017
Techcrunch IFA 2017s biggest announcements
 The September time frame positions the Berlin show perfectly as a launch pad for holiday products. As such, some of tech’s biggest names use it to debut some of their biggest products of t...
05:00 pm GMT - Sat, September 2, 2017
Techcrunch Gillmor Gang: Summer School
 The Gillmor Gang — Denis Pombriant, Keith Teare, John Taschek, Frank Radice, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Thursday, August 31, 2017.G3: Exit Interview recorded live Thursday, August 31...
05:00 pm GMT - Sat, September 2, 2017
Techcrunch Funding your bliss: mindfulness startups scale up
 The connected life is not necessarily the good life. Too often, it seems like we are squandering our time checking devices, losing touch with fellow humans and cultivating bad habits in the purs...
04:59 pm GMT - Sat, September 2, 2017
Techcrunch After Harvey, ignore the climate debate and focus on building better, more efficient cities
 In the intervening years since those storms, the nation has been continually pummeled by “historic” climatological events. While the country has been taking this beating from Mother ...
04:30 pm GMT - Sat, September 2, 2017
Techcrunch 10 of the most-funded startups to fail in 2017
 Startups rise and startups fall. 2017 has seen some prominent startups go under. What follows are 10 of the best-funded companies to close in the first nine months of 2017. Ultimately not all is...
04:00 pm GMT - Sat, September 2, 2017
Techcrunch The product design challenges of AR on smartphones
 AR is seductive. The more you think about it, the bigger you realize it is going to be, and the more great ideas you have that are completely new. The problem is that the tech or UX probably doe...
08:00 am GMT - Sat, September 2, 2017
Techcrunch Final 2-for-1 Disrupt Berlin ticket release happening Wednesday 9/6
 Alright, European TechCrunch fans, time to listen up — we’ll soon be releasing our final batch ofDisrupt Berlin 2017tickets at the deeply discounted rate oftwo for the price of one. ...
04:16 am GMT - Sat, September 2, 2017
Techcrunch GoGoVan becomes Hong Kongs first $1 billion startup following merger deal
 At our TechCrunch China event in June we discussed the bright future that Hong Kong’s startup scene has, despite some big challenges. This week the country passed a notable milestone as it...
03:00 am GMT - Sat, September 2, 2017
Techcrunch Crunch Report | Juicero Runs Out Of Juice
Juicero, the company that created the $400 juicer, is shutting down, Tinder hits top-grossing app on the App Store, and Google reveals the top things people want to find out how to do. All this on Cru...
12:56 am GMT - Sat, September 2, 2017
Techcrunch Understanding Rokus IPO and its growing platform revenues
 In a pleasant Friday surprise, Rokudropped its S-1 document today, detailing its financial performance and corporate strategy. The filing indicates that the company intends to raise $100 million...
11:23 pm GMT - Fri, September 1, 2017
Techcrunch Hackers claim to have personal info of millions of Instagram accounts, including celebs
 A group of hackers used a bug earlier this week to scrape the phone numbers and email addresses of six million Instagram accounts and are now selling that information on the web. The hackers mai...
09:30 pm GMT - Fri, September 1, 2017
Techcrunch What messaging means for the future of customer care
 Have you ever spent time on hold with an airline, a credit card company, or your insurance provider? Of course you have, I bet you’re still humming the tune from that hold music you had to...
09:08 pm GMT - Fri, September 1, 2017
Techcrunch SoFi responds to sexual harassment and wage lawsuits
 Last month, Social Finance, or SoFi, a startup centered around the refinancing of student loans, was sued by an employee. The senior operations manager who filed the lawsuits, Brandon Charles, s...
09:04 pm GMT - Fri, September 1, 2017
Techcrunch Roku files for $100M IPO
 Roku has filed for an initial public offering and is looking to raise up to $100M. The company will be listed on the NASDAQ appropriately under the ticker of ROKU. We reported in July that Roku ...
06:36 pm GMT - Fri, September 1, 2017
Techcrunch RIP Juicero, the $400 venture-backed juice machine
 It sounds like America’s favorite $400 juice machine will be no longer. “After selling over a million Produce Packs, we must let you know that we are suspending the sale of the Juice...
06:15 pm GMT - Fri, September 1, 2017
Techcrunch Twitter has a big bot problem
 Twitter bots – robots that interact with humans – have a long history. The Twitter API is fairly easy to use (I made a bot that plays Zork with a friend two years ago) and there is l...
05:35 pm GMT - Fri, September 1, 2017
Techcrunch Alexas flash briefing can now update you on the latest music news and events
 Amazon Alexa’s popular “Flash Briefing” skill, designed to give you the latest news and information from a series of customizable news sources, can now tell you about what̵...
04:32 pm GMT - Fri, September 1, 2017
Techcrunch Designed for iPhone 8, Weather Atlas is a great replacement for your stock weather app
 There’s no shortage of weather apps on the market, but you may have noticed that few of them are actually all that good. That’s where a new entry called Weather Atlas, from the devel...
03:59 pm GMT - Fri, September 1, 2017
Techcrunch Dell Foundation pledges $36 million to Harvey relief effort
 Michael and Susan Dell have doubled down on the tech industry’s commitmentto bail out Texas as it recovers from Hurricane Harvey. The couple pledged a whopping $36 million to the effort th...
02:52 pm GMT - Fri, September 1, 2017
Techcrunch Googles Search app on iOS gets a Twitter-like Trends feature, faster Instant Answers
 Google’s search app on iOS is adding a Trending Searches feature, similar to Twitter or Facebook’s Trends, with an update that rolled out later in the day on Thursday. According to t...
02:44 pm GMT - Fri, September 1, 2017
Techcrunch Ahoy.ai is a robot that can plan your schedule in Slack
 Ahoy, mateys! A Columbus, Ohio-based company called Ahoy.ai aims to schedule yer deck swabbing sessions with just one arrrrrmail or Slack. Ahoy is the brainchild of Jesse Rowe and Alex Ogorek. R...
02:24 pm GMT - Fri, September 1, 2017
Techcrunch TechCrunchs Original Content battles evil alongside Amazons new version of The Tick
 For the latest episode of Original Content, TechCrunch’s podcast covering the latest streaming shows and movies, we checked out Amazon’s new take on The Tick. You may remember the an...
02:00 pm GMT - Fri, September 1, 2017
Techcrunch Tinder hits top grossing app in the App Store on heels of Tinder Gold launch
 Tinder has hit number 1 in the App Store’s top grossing category for the very first time.Claiming top spot in the App Store likely has to do with the global launch of Tinder Gold, which le...
02:00 pm GMT - Fri, September 1, 2017
Techcrunch The coolest new Star Wars toys from Force Friday
 Today marks the second Force Friday. Disney started the tradition back in 2015 ahead of the release of The Force Awakens as an opportunity to build hype and announce a bunch of products without ...
01:10 pm GMT - Fri, September 1, 2017
Techcrunch Equity podcast: The Uber saga, delayed IPOs and just what is an ICO?
 Hello and welcome back to Equity, a social experiment regarding how many acronyms an audience can endure before passing out. Each week we dive into the world of venture capital, looking to under...
01:06 pm GMT - Fri, September 1, 2017
Techcrunch Google reveals the top things people want to find out How to do
 Google has a new website compiled using search data and built by its News Lab, working together with Xaquin G.V., an interactive visual data journalist. The site uses data related to searches ma...
12:30 pm GMT - Fri, September 1, 2017
Techcrunch The Windows 10 Fall Creators Update will launch on October 17
 Microsoft today announced that the Fall Creators Update, the next major release of Windows 10, will start rolling out to all users on October 17. That’s a little bit later than some pundit...
09:00 am GMT - Fri, September 1, 2017
Techcrunch Sign up for a free exhibitor table in Startup Alley at Disrupt Berlin
 Startup Alley is at the center of TechCrunch’s Disrupt events, and this year atDisrupt Berlin(4-5 December) we are going to feature some of the top startups in Europe. We are looking for 3...
08:22 am GMT - Fri, September 1, 2017
Techcrunch Amazon, Facebook, Google and other tech giants urge Trump to continue DACA program
 America’s tech industry has urged President Donald Trump and other political leaders to continue a program that allows undocumented young immigrants to remain in the country. Deferred Acti...
07:00 am GMT - Fri, September 1, 2017
Techcrunch Bragis Dash and Dash Pro wireless earbuds to get Amazon Alexa
 Bragi’s completely wireless earbuds, the Dash Pro (and the older Dash), will get access to Amazon’s Alexa virtual assistant via a software update coming in October. This is the first...
06:00 am GMT - Fri, September 1, 2017
Techcrunch Disrupt Berlin 2017 Startup Battlefield applications are now open!
 Startup Battlefield applications for Disrupt Berlin are nowopen. TechCrunch is hunting for innovative startups to launch on the famous Disrupt stage this December. Read More ...
03:00 am GMT - Fri, September 1, 2017
Techcrunch Crunch Report | Postmates Shows Signs of Hard Times
The first ICO unicorns have arrived, the Nest Thermostat E is a new cheaper, simpler thermostat, Postmates laid off all its city managers yesterday and the latest SanDisk microSD card can now hold 400...
03:00 am GMT - Fri, September 1, 2017
Techcrunch Crunch Report | Postmates delivers a personnel shift
The first ICO unicorns have arrived, the Nest Thermostat E is a new cheaper, simpler thermostat, Postmates laid off all its city managers yesterday and the latest SanDisk microSD card can now hold 400...
01:11 am GMT - Fri, September 1, 2017
Techcrunch Spotifys head of video and podcasts departs amid strategy shift
 Tom Calderone, Spotify’s head of video and podcasts, is departing the company amid a shift in content strategy. The news was first identified by Bloomberg. The digital streaming business, ...
01:02 am GMT - Fri, September 1, 2017
Techcrunch Googles Transformer solves a tricky problem in machine translation
 Machine learning has turned out to be a very useful tool for translation, but it has a few weak spots. The tendency of translation models to do their work word by word is one of those, and can l...
11:29 pm GMT - Thu, August 31, 2017
Techcrunch Please let The Friendship Code and its tech-savvy girls be the new Babysitters Club
 Okay, full disclosure, I never read any Babysitters Club book. But you know what I’m talking about, right? We all had some endless series we read where a few kids just like us navigated th...
11:29 pm GMT - Thu, August 31, 2017
Techcrunch Please let The Friendship Code and its tech-savvy girls be the new Baby-Sitters Club
 Okay, full disclosure, I never read any Baby-Sitters Club book. But you know what I’m talking about, right? We all had some endless series we read where a few kids just like us navigated t...
11:23 pm GMT - Thu, August 31, 2017
Techcrunch Basis Set Ventures gets real to get to the heart of AI startups
 Lan Xuezhao has spent the last few months pulling together $136 million for her new machine intelligence-focused venture capital fund, Basis Set Ventures. I met Xuezhao for tea on a park bench i...
11:10 pm GMT - Thu, August 31, 2017
Techcrunch Twitchs new extensions let streamers customize their channel, make money from Amazon sales
 Twitch today is introducing a suite of tools called Twitch Extensions that will allow its streamers to customize their channel pages with interactive features, including polls, leaderboards, tic...
10:11 pm GMT - Thu, August 31, 2017
Techcrunch Uber hires former Facebook exec and Firefox founder Blake Ross
 Uber has hired Firefox co-founder Blake Ross to work with them on product strategy. Ross will be working with the ridesharing company part-time from Los Angeles. He announced it on Facebook, whe...
09:14 pm GMT - Thu, August 31, 2017
Techcrunch Razers gunmetal Blade Stealth is like dressing a gaming laptop in a suit
 An all-black exterior, backlit triple snake logo and a keyboard with every color in the rainbow is often what kept corporate types and minimalists away from Razer’s laptop portfolio. Now f...
08:30 pm GMT - Thu, August 31, 2017
Techcrunch Nest invites press to a big announcement on September 20
 Earlier today Nest announced a new thermostat but it appears the company has more things to announce. Nest just sent invites to an event on September 20, saying it’s a big announcement. No...
08:06 pm GMT - Thu, August 31, 2017
Techcrunch First impressions of Essentials 360-degree camera attachment
 Essential has a unique port around back on its debut Phone, which can handle data and power transfer, and which attaches to accessories via magnets. The first such accessory is Essential’s...
07:31 pm GMT - Thu, August 31, 2017
Techcrunch Black Girls Code raises $154K after turning down six figures from Uber
 Last week, we reported Black Girls Code turned down a $125,000 grant from Uber in what Black Girls Code CEO Kimberly Bryant described to me as a multi-layered decision. Shortly after we broke th...
07:21 pm GMT - Thu, August 31, 2017
Techcrunch Samsung secures self-driving car testing permit for California roads
 Samsung got approval to test autonomous vehicles on state roads in California, according to the CA Department of Motor Vehicle’s website. The DMV maintains an ongoing list of companies and...
07:07 pm GMT - Thu, August 31, 2017
Techcrunch Facebooks new Watch video hub rolls out to U.S. users
 Facebook’s latest push into video is now live. On Thursday, the new Watch tab popped up for U.S. users as the feature begins its proper roll-out. The Watch tab sits in some premium Faceboo...
07:06 pm GMT - Thu, August 31, 2017
Techcrunch The White House has removed an important report on sexual violence from its website
 Since Trump took office, how many times have you asked yourself ‘What fresh hell is this?’ Today is one of those days I feel I’m asking every five minutes. Our current administ...
07:04 pm GMT - Thu, August 31, 2017
Techcrunch The Moto X4 has Alexa and a multi-device music streaming feature
 LG’s V30is clearly the most hyped handset at this year’s IFA, but Motorola’s got a surprise contender for the most interesting. While the Lenovo-owned company is clearly pumpin...
06:59 pm GMT - Thu, August 31, 2017
Techcrunch The littleBits Droid Inventor Kit lets you build an R2-D2 of your very own
 Ever wanted to build an R2-D2 to call your own? You could drop a few million dollars to get all the screen-used parts/props… Or you could spend a few weeks in the shop bangin’ on scr...
06:37 pm GMT - Thu, August 31, 2017
Techcrunch Uber catches a break in lawsuit involving alleged Hell program
 Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley has dismissed a lawsuit involving Uber’s alleged use of a program called “Hell.” The lawsuit was originally filed in April byMichael Gonzales, who...
06:28 pm GMT - Thu, August 31, 2017
Techcrunch The Destiny 2 live action trailer is out and its hilarious
 The Destiny 2 live action trailer is officially out, and it’s one of the most comical video game trailers ever. The live action trailer heralds the coming of the new game, which is set to ...
06:21 pm GMT - Thu, August 31, 2017
Techcrunch Sonys RX0 is a tiny camera with big ideas
 Sony just announced a new camera called the RX0, but breaking from the trend of lower number = fancier camera, this one is a tiny device that combines an action-cam form factor with some traditi...
06:10 pm GMT - Thu, August 31, 2017
Techcrunch Former Facebook brand marketing head is new Oculus CMO
 A long-time Facebook brand marketing exec has been tapped to lead marketing efforts at Oculus. Rebecca Van Dyck will be joining the virtual reality team as CMO.The hire, first noted on Twitter b...
06:00 pm GMT - Thu, August 31, 2017
Techcrunch Egyptian technology startups stand on the shoulders of giants
 With technology and curious minds, several founders not only built great products and companies, they created the foundation for a strong and resilient technology sector that has been an economi...
05:49 pm GMT - Thu, August 31, 2017
Techcrunch Documents detail DeepMinds plan to apply AI to NHS data in 2015
 More details have emerged about a controversial 2015 patient data-sharing arrangement between Google DeepMind and a UK National Health Service Trust which paint a contrasting picture vs the pair...
05:32 pm GMT - Thu, August 31, 2017
Techcrunch You can now catch a Lyft even in rural areas in 40 U.S. states
 All 50 states offer some form of Lyft service but now even rural areas in most states can catch a Lyft. According to a company statement out today, Lyft can now pick up customers in 94 percent o...
05:31 pm GMT - Thu, August 31, 2017
Techcrunch Apple defends the open internet in a letter to the FCC
 On the heels ofsetting the date for its big fall iPhone event, Apple is coming out swinging for net neutrality. In a letter to the FCC, Apple’s U.S. Vice President for Public Policy Cynthi...
05:28 pm GMT - Thu, August 31, 2017
Techcrunch Microsofts new Mixer Create app lets you live stream games from your phone
 Microsoft’s mobile game streaming app Mixer Create is launching out of beta testing today on iOS and Android, allowing gamers to broadcast the games they’re playing right from their ...
05:16 pm GMT - Thu, August 31, 2017
Techcrunch VR training startup Strivr Labs brings on new CTO, CFO
 Strivr Labs, a virtual reality training startup with some big partners, including Walmart and the NFL, has added some new talent to the team. The company has hired a new CFO and CTO to help the ...
05:15 pm GMT - Thu, August 31, 2017
Techcrunch Nobody is going to ask Cortana to talk to Alexa
 The future of conversational AI is not a league of anthropomorphic voice assistants that we address by name to handle our problems. We will not unlock our iPhones and ask for Alexa when we need ...
05:10 pm GMT - Thu, August 31, 2017
Techcrunch Dharma wants to let anyone borrow a small amount of cryptocurrency
 dApps, or decentralized apps, are open-source applications built on top of a blockchain.But here’s the thing – users usually can’t interact with these dApps unless they have to...
05:07 pm GMT - Thu, August 31, 2017
Techcrunch Pokmon GO gets three new Legendary Pokmon thatll move around the world each month
 Back in July, Niantic introduced a new concept to Pokmon GO: Legendaries. Meant to be some of the hardest to catch, Legendary Pokmon are ultra-strong, appear only for a limited time and require ...
05:05 pm GMT - Thu, August 31, 2017
Techcrunch Third round of Disrupt SF Hackathon tickets now available
 Miss out on the first two rounds of tickets to the hackathon at Disrupt SF 2017? Don’t fret. Today, we’re releasing a new batch of hackathon tickets, so everyone out there who has be...
05:02 pm GMT - Thu, August 31, 2017
Techcrunch Amazons noir fantasy series to lands Cara Delevingne in star role
 Amazon has a new fantasy series coming to its streaming service, which is “a fantasy-noir set in a neo-Victorian city,” according to Deadline. All eight episodes of the show, called ...
05:00 pm GMT - Thu, August 31, 2017
Techcrunch Facebook to open source LogDevice for storing logs from distributed data centers
 Facebook is planning to open source LogDevice, the company’s custom-built solution for storing logs collected from distributed data centers. The company made the announcement as part of it...
04:59 pm GMT - Thu, August 31, 2017
Techcrunch Facebook has a way to correct your crooked 360 photos
 As part of its Scale conference today in San Jose, Facebook’s computational photography team is announcing the completion of an internal research project dedicated to helping you clean up ...
04:53 pm GMT - Thu, August 31, 2017
Techcrunch Indias Treebo raises $34M for its budget hotel network
 Treebo Hotels, one of the most prominent members of India’s emerging budget hotel networks,has closed a $34 million Series C round. The deal was led by new backers Ward Ferry Management an...
04:21 pm GMT - Thu, August 31, 2017
Techcrunch AWS could pay a price for Amazons broader ambitions
 When Amazon decided to buy Whole Foods, it seemed straight-forward enough. Huge company sees an opening and spends a ton of cash to gain an edge with a brick and mortar business, but the deal mi...
04:15 pm GMT - Thu, August 31, 2017
Techcrunch Five years after its launch, website building platform Strikingly raises $6M Series A
 Half a decade after it was founded, website building platform Strikingly finally decided its time to raise a Series A. The Y Combinator alum announced that it closed a $6 million round from inve...
04:10 pm GMT - Thu, August 31, 2017
Techcrunch Apple sets iPhone event for September 12 at new Steve Jobs theater
 Apple just sent out invites for its annual iPhone event, which is taking place on September 12 at its new Cupertino HQ, at the Steve Jobs Theater it built there specifically to host special even...
04:07 pm GMT - Thu, August 31, 2017
Techcrunch Alexa and Google Assistant HomePod competitors are coming from Sony, Harman and more
 Berlin’s big IFA trade show doesn’t officially open until tomorrow, but the announcements have already started pouring out of the show that’s come to be known as the “CES...
04:00 pm GMT - Thu, August 31, 2017
Techcrunch Googles Stackdriver monitoring service for GCP and AWS gets improved logging features
 Stackdriver, Google’s monitoring, logging and diagnostics solution for applications that run on Google Cloud Platform and AWS, is getting a number of new logging features and expanded free...
04:00 pm GMT - Thu, August 31, 2017
Techcrunch XYZPrinting announces a $3,000 full-color 3D printer
 Full-color 3D printing at home has long been a wild-eyed dream of consumers and hobbyists alike. Thus far it’s been fun to print out little trinkets in a single color, but to create someth...
04:00 pm GMT - Thu, August 31, 2017
Techcrunch DJIs Mavic Pro and Phantom 4 Pro drones get new looks and features
 DJI has upgraded its Mavic Pro and Phantom 4 Pro drone hardware, and added new software features to the tiny DJI Spark, its smallest consumer drone. At IFA 2017, DJI revealed the new Mavic Pro P...
04:00 pm GMT - Thu, August 31, 2017
Techcrunch Marshall introduces its own Wi-Fi multi-room speaker system
 It seems like everyone these days has a multi-room speaker system – the latest entrant is Marshall, the amp maker that brought its signature style to portable consumer speakers in recent y...
04:00 pm GMT - Thu, August 31, 2017
Techcrunch Instagram Stories are coming to the web
 Instagram Stories, its Snapchat clone now used by daily more people than Snapchat itself, is coming to the web. Initially, the feature will allow desktop and mobile web users to view Stories pos...
04:00 pm GMT - Thu, August 31, 2017
Techcrunch Amazon adds parental consent to Alexa skills aimed at children, launches first legal kids skills
 Amazon today is launching the first Alexa skills specifically aimed at children, which will go live with a new Verified Parental Consent feature in order to operate within the confines of child ...
03:32 pm GMT - Thu, August 31, 2017
Techcrunch I had a Lightsaber battle with Kylo Ren in Lenovos new augmented reality headset
 Ah, the Lightsaber. The thing we’d all totally be carrying around if it weren’t for pesky physics getting in the way. Augmented and virtual reality are just about the only ways to br...
03:05 pm GMT - Thu, August 31, 2017
Techcrunch SanDisks 400GB microSD card is an Android phones best friend
 SanDisk has a new record-breaking microSD coming to market, which will deliver so much storage you might be at a loss as to what to do with it all. The new 400GB SanDisk Ultra microSDXC UHS-I ca...
03:00 pm GMT - Thu, August 31, 2017
Techcrunch Spheros new Star Wars toys include R2-D2 and a new droid from The Last Jedi
 Star Wars and Sphero were a match made in heaven. The company had spent a few years in relative startup obscurity when Disney came along with the design for a new droid. The resulting BB-8 remot...
02:19 pm GMT - Thu, August 31, 2017
Techcrunch The first ICO unicorns are here
 It was always like to happen, but the speed in which the first ICOs worth more than $1 billion have arrived is surprising. Today bothOmise GO (OMG) and Qtumpassed a $1 billion market cap today, ...
01:49 pm GMT - Thu, August 31, 2017
Techcrunch Disruptor Beams Walking Dead: March to War puts you in the middle of a zombified Washington, D.C.
 Disruptor Beam has already created games based on Star Trek and Game of Thrones. Next up is The Walking Dead, with the launch of The Walking Dead: March to War. To create the game, which was fir...
01:43 pm GMT - Thu, August 31, 2017
Techcrunch Which is the best daily planner for busy entrepreneurs?
 Keeping on track is hard. Over the years I’ve tried a number of personal information managers – PIMs, for short – from the original Palm V to my current iPhone/iCal/Vyte/phone ...
01:29 pm GMT - Thu, August 31, 2017
Techcrunch Bang & Olufsen and Sony launch AirPod rivals
 Everyone wants to get in on the wireless earbud rage and two firms just announced their entry into the market. Today at IFA 2017, B&O and Sony announced their first wireless earbuds that eac...
01:11 pm GMT - Thu, August 31, 2017
Techcrunch Cowboy is a new e-bike startup from founders of Take Eat Easy
 De-cloaking today is a new startup from two of the founders of defunct food delivery company Take Eat Easy. Dubbed Cowboy, the company is building a new electronic bicycle that it claims will ad...
01:08 pm GMT - Thu, August 31, 2017
Techcrunch Postmates laid off all its city managers yesterday
 While one on-demand delivery startupexpands this week, another is contracting a bit. TechCrunch has learned and confirmed that Postmateshas let go of all of its city managers, as it centralizes ...
01:00 pm GMT - Thu, August 31, 2017
Techcrunch This former CIA analyst has signed big deals and $40 million in new funding for his internet monitoring startup
 Tim Junio knew as a high school student that he wanted to join the CIA. He even wrote as much in his college application to Johns Hopkins University, where he would go on to nab both his undergr...
01:00 pm GMT - Thu, August 31, 2017
Techcrunch Podcast-focused media company HowStuffWorks spins out with $15M in new funding
 HowStuffWorks has changed owners more the once in the past few years. Discovery sold the companyto Blucora in 2014, and Blucora, in turn, sold it to digital advertising company System1 last year...
01:00 pm GMT - Thu, August 31, 2017
Techcrunch Google brings stickers and Bitmoji support to its Gboard for Android
Gboard for Android is getting support for stickers for all those times you just can’t find the right GIF. Words, after all, can’t always express how we really feel. Read More ...
12:52 pm GMT - Thu, August 31, 2017
Techcrunch You can now pre-order a brand new, working Street Fighter II SNES cartridge
 If you still have a functional SNES console, or one of the myriad third-party devices that plays actual SNES cartridges, you probably want to rush out and pre-order this Street Fighter II SNES c...
12:45 pm GMT - Thu, August 31, 2017
Techcrunch Salesforce, IBM deepen partnership with new app integrations
 Salesforce and IBM are joining forces again as they attempt to deepen the alliance between the two companies. The partnershipbegan last March when they agreed to sell each other’s artifici...
12:30 pm GMT - Thu, August 31, 2017
Techcrunch Ricohs new Theta V 360 camera offers 4K, spatial audio and more
 Ricoh has revealed a brand new version of its Theta 360-degree camera: The Theta V, which upgrades the video capture quality to 4K resolution, adds live streaming support, and immersive “s...
12:29 pm GMT - Thu, August 31, 2017
Techcrunch SpaceX runs its Tesla-powered pusher at 220 mph on Hyperloop test track
 Elon Musk apparently felt left out when student teams competed to achieve top speed on the SpaceX Hyperloop test track last weekend, because he decided to run the SpaceX pusher vehicle, which in...
11:28 am GMT - Thu, August 31, 2017
Techcrunch Same-day delivery startup Deliv expands to 1,400 cities, rivalling Amazons Prime Now
 As Amazon continues to expand its retail muscle beyond its own e-commerce portal, there’s been some activity among startups and businesses hoping to develop systems that can help others co...
11:15 am GMT - Thu, August 31, 2017
Techcrunch Sonys Xperia XZ1 will ship with Android Oreo and a camera that doubles as a 3D scanner
 It’s hard to shake the feeling that Sony’s Xperia line exists primarily as a method for getting its camera technology out in the world. It’s not that they’re not solid ph...
11:04 am GMT - Thu, August 31, 2017
Techcrunch Building health AIs should be UK ambition, says strategy review
 A wide-ranging, UK government-commissioned industrial strategy review of the life sciences sector, conducted by Oxford University’s Sir John Bell, has underlined the value locked up in pub...
11:00 am GMT - Thu, August 31, 2017
Techcrunch Garmin debuts three new wearables and a mobile payment solution
 Garmin has three new wearable devices it’s debuting at IFA 2017, including the vivosmart GPS-enabled activity tracker, the vivomove HR hybrid touchscreen smartwatch and the vivoactive 3, a...
10:00 am GMT - Thu, August 31, 2017
Techcrunch Magnas new MAX4 self-driving platform offers autonomy up to Level 4
 Top tier 1 automotive industry supplier Magna has introduced a new functional autonomous driving platform concept it’s showing off to automaker customers, which it says can work with any v...
08:18 am GMT - Thu, August 31, 2017
Techcrunch Ubers Asian rival Grab loses its head of engineering
 Grab may be in the process of raising a huge $2.5 billion investment round, with SoftBank, Didi and Toyota confirmed as participants,but Uber’s Southeast Asia-based rival has lost its head...
08:00 am GMT - Thu, August 31, 2017
Techcrunch Olympus makes a bid for beginners with the E-M10 Mark III
 Olympus makes extremely good mirrorless cameras. I’ve been using a first-generation OM-D for a number of years now, and I know a couple of TechCrunch staff members who swear by theirs. Two...
07:02 am GMT - Thu, August 31, 2017
Techcrunch Logitechs latest keyboard, The Craft, adds a smart knob called The Crown
 Smart knobs have a short and not very illustrious history, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t cool. That, at least, appears to be the thinking at Logitech, which has just added a smar...
07:00 am GMT - Thu, August 31, 2017
Techcrunch Libratone update will add Amazon Alexa voice control to its speakers
 Libratone, a Danish maker of snazzy high end wireless speakers, has announced its existing Zipp and Zipp Mini speakers will get support for Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant via a free app up...
07:00 am GMT - Thu, August 31, 2017
Techcrunch LGs V30 is another solid, camera-focused flagship
 LG gets a fraction of the love of heavier hitters like Samsung and Apple, but it’s not for lack of trying. The company makes good — and in many cases envelope-pushing — phones....
05:49 am GMT - Thu, August 31, 2017
Techcrunch Piums smart diffuser wants to design a new user experience for your nose
 When Google Home was unveiled, many people immediately noted the smart speaker’s striking resemblance to a home fragrance diffuser. Now there’s a smart home fragrance diffuser that l...
04:01 am GMT - Thu, August 31, 2017
Techcrunch This is the new, cheaper Nest Thermostat
 The rumor mill has been buzzing for a while now about a new, more affordable Nest Thermostat — and sure enough: it’s now official. They’re calling it the Nest Thermostat E. As ...
04:01 am GMT - Thu, August 31, 2017
Techcrunch Duolingos Tinycards comes to Android
 The popular language learning service Duolingo today announced that Tinycards, it flashcards app, is now available on Android. Tinycards, which marked Duolingo’s first foray beyond its fla...
03:58 am GMT - Thu, August 31, 2017
Techcrunch Early Uber investor Bill Maris suggests hed buy shares again, but all the sellers have disappeared
 While Bill Maris was the CEO of Google’s venture unit, GV, the outfit made a bet in 2013 that drew snickers: it poured $258 million into the ride-share company Uber at a roughly $3.7 billi...
03:45 am GMT - Thu, August 31, 2017
Techcrunch Crunch Report | Apple Might Be Getting Rid of the Home Button
Apple might be getting rid of the home button, Uber confirms that Dara Khosrowshahi is the new CEO, an Uber investor forgets he isn’t a Roman and Alexa and Cortana make friends. All this on Crun...
03:30 am GMT - Thu, August 31, 2017
Techcrunch Box shares down 4% despite what Levie calls one of our strongest quarters
 Cloud storage company Box reported second quarter earnings after the bell on Wednesday. And although the company beatexpectations on revenue and losses, it wasn’t enough to please Wall Str...
02:17 am GMT - Thu, August 31, 2017
Techcrunch Latest Magic Leap patent shows off prototype AR glasses design
 Magic Leap, an AR company best known for raising money, still owes consumers a product, or at least the hint of one. Thanks to a newly-released patent filing, we now have a new look at an old pr...
12:43 am GMT - Thu, August 31, 2017
Techcrunch Andy Rubin describes the taste of crow after Essential spills customer data
 Launching a product and company from scratch is hard, as fresh-faced entrepreneurs and Kickstarter successes often learn to their chagrin. And it turns out even heavy hitters like Andy Rubin and...