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10:51 pm GMT - Thu, November 29, 2018
Techcrunch Nine companies will compete to help NASA astronauts return to the moon
NASA is ready to send astronauts back to the moon for the first time in more than 40 years. It wont be doing it alone, however. The agency is enlisting nine companies, large and small, to compete for ...
10:19 pm GMT - Thu, November 29, 2018
Techcrunch New AWS tool helps customers understand best cloud practices
Since 2015, AWS has had a team of solution architects working with customers to make sure they are using AWS services in a way that meets best practices around a set of defined criteria. Today, the co...
10:00 pm GMT - Thu, November 29, 2018
Techcrunch The attributes that define the increasingly critical Data-as-a-Service industry
Its now common in tech to describe data as the new oil or electricity -- a fuel that will power innovation and company growth for the foreseeable future. But data is far from a novel industry....
09:25 pm GMT - Thu, November 29, 2018
Techcrunch The White House will meet with tech execs to talk transformational ideas
Top tech executives from Google, Microsoft, Qualcomm and Oracle will head to the White House next Thursday to discuss bold, transformational ideas focused on U.S. innovation. The meeting, framed as a ...
08:34 pm GMT - Thu, November 29, 2018
Techcrunch AWS announces a slew of new Lambda features
AWS launched Lambda in 2015 and with it helped popularize serverless computing. You simply write code (event triggers) and AWS deals with whatever compute, memory and storage you need to make that wor...
08:00 pm GMT - Thu, November 29, 2018
Techcrunch Meet the five Startup Battlefield finalists at Disrupt Berlin 2018
Thirteen companies took the stage today at Disrupt Berlin, delivering six-minute pitches and demos, then answering free-for-all questions from expert judges. Now that the judges have given us their fe...
07:33 pm GMT - Thu, November 29, 2018
Techcrunch Nintendo Switch forecasted to outsell the PS4 in 2019
The Switch has been a monster hit for Nintendo by nearly every measure. The convertible console is precisely the success the company needed after a few years in the wildness following the Wii U flop a...
07:27 pm GMT - Thu, November 29, 2018
Techcrunch South Korea indicts group for allegedly leaking Samsung flexible display tech to Chinese company
Prosecutors in South Korea have indicted the chief executive and eight other employees of Toptec Co for allegedly selling information about Samsung’s flexible OLED displays to a Chinese company....
06:57 pm GMT - Thu, November 29, 2018
Techcrunch Hulu with Live TV adds Discovery Networks programming to its core and add-on packages
In September, Hulu and Discovery announced a partnership for live and on-demand programming that would see Discovery’s content coming to Hulu’s streaming service. Today, as promised, those...
06:24 pm GMT - Thu, November 29, 2018
Techcrunch AWS launches a managed Kafka service
Kafka is an open-source tool for handling incoming streams of data. Like virtually all powerful tools, it’s somewhat hard to set up and manage. Today, Amazon’s AWS is making this all a bit...
06:23 pm GMT - Thu, November 29, 2018
Techcrunch Analysts are still bullish on wearables
New numbers from Gartner this morning show solid projections for the wearable market, in spite of a few relatively lackluster years following the categorys initial explosion. The drivers for the proje...
06:01 pm GMT - Thu, November 29, 2018
Techcrunch Cruise Automation taps GM president Dan Ammann as its new CEO
Cruise Automation, the self-driving car subsidiary of GM, is getting a new CEO. The autonomous vehicle company, which was acquired by GM in 2016 and became subsidiary GM Cruise, has tapped Dan Ammann ...
05:54 pm GMT - Thu, November 29, 2018
Techcrunch Lyfts pink-wheeled shareable bikes will be available to rent soon
Today marks the close of Lyft's acquisition of Motivate, the New York City-based mobility company that owns a number of shareable bike services, like Citi Bike, Ford GoBike, Divvy, Bluebikes and Capit...
05:30 pm GMT - Thu, November 29, 2018
Techcrunch The crusade against open-source abuse
Theres a dark cloud on the horizon. The behavior of cloud infrastructure providers threatens the viability of open source. Thankfully, several leaders have mobilized to propose multiple solutions....
05:23 pm GMT - Thu, November 29, 2018
Techcrunch Nielsen: Americans are streaming 8 billion hours of content per month on connected TVs
With the rise of streaming services and the trend towards cord cutting, the way U.S. consumers are watching video is also changing. Today, over two-thirds of U.S. homes have devices that are able to s...
05:17 pm GMT - Thu, November 29, 2018
Techcrunch So crypto didnt kill venture capital after all
Last year, $7 billion followed into ICOs. Combined with 2018, the cryptocurrency-based funding mechanism is estimated to account for $20 billion. ICOs threatened to disrupt venture capital more widely...
05:00 pm GMT - Thu, November 29, 2018
Techcrunch Building a robot? Occipital wants to provide the eyes
A few years back, Occipital released a sensor that turned your iPad into a portable 3D scanner. Called the Occipital Structure, it packed lasers and cameras into a snap-on package that let the iPad be...
04:59 pm GMT - Thu, November 29, 2018
Techcrunch YouTube rolls out Stories to creators with over 10K subscribers
A year ago, YouTube launched its own take on Stories, with the addition of a new short-form video format called Reels. The feature, which was rebranded as “YouTube Stories” at last year...
04:50 pm GMT - Thu, November 29, 2018
Techcrunch Legacy freezes your sperm so you dont have to
Legacy is tackling an interesting problem: the reduction of sperm motility as we age. By freezing our sperm, this Swiss-based company promises to keep our boys safe and potent as we get older, a consi...
04:35 pm GMT - Thu, November 29, 2018
Techcrunch Koo! is a social network for short-form podcasts
Alexandre Meregan says that music, and audio in general, has always been core to his life. But one day on his five-minute commute to work, trying to listen to a podcast for the first time, he realized...
04:28 pm GMT - Thu, November 29, 2018
Techcrunch Rlay offers a blockchain-powered platform to help companies build better crowdsourced data sets
The team behind Rlay believes that blockchain technology can play a crucial role in helping businesses crowdsource their data-gathering tasks. Founder Michael Hirn said this is a problem he encountere...
04:14 pm GMT - Thu, November 29, 2018
Techcrunch Agtech startup Imago AI is using computer vision to boost crop yields
Presenting onstage today in the 2018 TC Disrupt Berlin Battlefield is Indian agtech startup Imago AI, which is applying AI to help feed the worlds growing population by increasing crop yields and redu...
04:00 pm GMT - Thu, November 29, 2018
Techcrunch MWM Immersive is finally combining virtual reality and location-based immersive theater
Using the time-worn and trusty narrative of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” as its platform, MWM Immersive, a division of Madison Wells Media, is finally taking location-based v...
03:58 pm GMT - Thu, November 29, 2018
Techcrunch Spike Diabetes applies social pressure to keep patients safe
It can be tough for diabetes patients to keep a constant eye on their glucose levels. Spike Diabetes lets family and doctors lend a hand by sending them real-time alerts about the patient’s stat...
03:47 pm GMT - Thu, November 29, 2018
Techcrunch Insurance app Lemonade prepares for European expansion
Lemonade this morning revealed plans to expand into the European market. The news marks the first international expansion for the AI-powered insurance app, which launched in New York City, back in 201...
03:26 pm GMT - Thu, November 29, 2018
Techcrunch Edtech unicorn Udacity lays off 125 people in global strategy shift
Learning platformUdacityis to axe a big chunk of its workforce — which looks to be between a fifth and a quarter — as part of a global reorganization effort, according to VentureBeat. It r...
03:18 pm GMT - Thu, November 29, 2018
Techcrunch Europes ride-hailing companies arent scared of Uber
Uber is speeding toward a historic IPOnext year that could value it as high as $120 billion, but that doesn’t scare its rivals that operate across Europe. Speaking on stage atTechCrunch Disrupt ...
03:08 pm GMT - Thu, November 29, 2018
Techcrunch Looking back at Readdles journey from zero to hero
Readdle launched its first app on the App Store ten years ago and recently celebrated 100 million downloads. Readdles Denys Zhadanov came to TechCrunch Disrupt to look back at the past ten years. I th...
03:00 pm GMT - Thu, November 29, 2018
Techcrunch Anchor wants a future where everyone reads Squarespace ads
In the future, everyone will get Blue Apron ad copy. Meantime, Anchors helping users monetize their shows with Sponsorships, a new program designed to match podcasters with advertisers.The feature is ...
03:00 pm GMT - Thu, November 29, 2018
Techcrunch Sinemia brings back physical debit cards for in-person, fee-free tickets
Sinemia announced this morning the return of its physical debit card for in-person movie ticket sales, by popular customer demand. The MoviePass competitor dropped the feature back in May, but the pus...
03:00 pm GMT - Thu, November 29, 2018
Techcrunch Robinhood hires CapitalG partner to lead operations
Robinhood's human resources department is keeping busy this month, announcing this morning that the zero-fee stock trading app and cryptocurrency exchange has hired CapitalG partner Gretchen Howard....
02:59 pm GMT - Thu, November 29, 2018
Techcrunch Plex teams with TIDAL to bring a discounted streaming music subscription to its media app
Media center app Plex today announced a partnership with streaming music service TIDAL, offering discounted access to TIDAL’s 60 million tracks and 244,000+ music videos for Plex Pass subscriber...
02:43 pm GMT - Thu, November 29, 2018
Techcrunch Sennheisers flawed headphone software opened PCs and Macs to HTTPS site spoofing
Headphone maker Sennheiser has patched its software after the company admitted a serious vulnerability that made it easy for hackers to impersonate any website even encrypted pages. The software, whi...
02:40 pm GMT - Thu, November 29, 2018
Techcrunch Rolling, hopping robots explore Earthly analogs of distant planets
Before we send any planet-trotting robot to explore the landscape of Mars or Venus, we need to test it here on Earth. Two such robotic platforms being developed for future missions are undergoing test...
02:38 pm GMT - Thu, November 29, 2018
Techcrunch Lucas Di Grassi says human drivers are the real competitors for Roborace
As Roborace accelerates its plans to build an autonomous racing league, the company is finding that its toughest competition are still human drivers. In this version of the John Henry story, the human...
02:13 pm GMT - Thu, November 29, 2018
Techcrunch Robotic Exoskeleton company Roam raises a $12 million Series A
Bay Area-based robotic exoskeleton company Roam announced this morning that it has secured a $12 million series A. The round, led by Yamaha Motors, with investments from Boost VC, Heuristics Capital P...
02:03 pm GMT - Thu, November 29, 2018
Techcrunch Facebook exempts news outlets from political ads transparency archive
Facebook pissed off journalists earlier this year when it announced that ads run by news publishers to promote their articles involving elected officials, candidates, and national issues would be incl...
02:03 pm GMT - Thu, November 29, 2018
Techcrunch Facebook exempts news outlets from political ads transparency labels
Facebook pissed off journalists earlier this year when it announced that ads run by news publishers to promote their articles involving elected officials, candidates, and national issues would have to...
02:00 pm GMT - Thu, November 29, 2018
Techcrunch Google Assistant will now be nicer if you say Please and Thank you
Is barking orders at our AI-powered voice assistants turning us into jerks? Are our kids growing accustomed to commanding the Google Homes and Siris of the world to turn on the lights without the poli...
01:35 pm GMT - Thu, November 29, 2018
Techcrunch Atomico unveils Angel Programme to activate the next generation of European investors
Atomico, the London-based venture capital firm co-founded by Skype founder Niklas Zennstrm, has launched a new program to find, mentor and back the next generation of angel investors across various hu...
01:16 pm GMT - Thu, November 29, 2018
Techcrunch Gravity Earth is using the blockchain to help refugees gain access to financial services
There’s considerable interest in the way blockchain technology could be used to manage personal data — so-called “self-sovereign ID” — but, to date, there are precious fe...
01:13 pm GMT - Thu, November 29, 2018
Techcrunch Germanys competition regulator to investigate Amazons marketplace
Germanys competition regulator (Bundeskartellamt) is opening an investigation against Amazon . In particular, the regulator is going to look at the relationship between Amazon and third-party sellers ...
01:04 pm GMT - Thu, November 29, 2018
Techcrunch Lime claims it didnt know controversial PR firm Definers would sling mud at rivals
Scooter startup Lime has confirmed it hired Definers but claimed it didn’t know the controversial PR firm would try to smear its rivals. The company was speaking during an on stage interview her...
01:00 pm GMT - Thu, November 29, 2018
Techcrunch Asana, a work management platform, nabs $50M growth round at a $1.5B valuation
Asana, a service that teams and individuals use to plan and track the progress of work projects, is doubling down on its own project: to shape the future of work, in the words of co-founder and CEO Du...
12:58 pm GMT - Thu, November 29, 2018
Techcrunch LocalGlobe co-founder Saul Klein says despite Brexit fears, the UKs startup kids should be all right
While Brexit’s effects are dominating headlines in the UK and around the globe, the nation’s startup industry should emerge from the chaos relatively unscathed, according to longtime Europ...
12:53 pm GMT - Thu, November 29, 2018
Techcrunch Check out Pragues Old Town in this 405 gigapixel photo
Jeffrey Martin takes massive panoramic photographs of the world and his photos let you go from from the panoramic to the intimate in a single mouse swipe. Now he’s truly outdone himself with a 9...
12:50 pm GMT - Thu, November 29, 2018
Techcrunch Polyteia launches to help European city governments put their data to work
Local governments collect a lot of data, but they aren’t always great at organizing and using it efficiently. Instead of letting useful municipal insights sit around in disparate databases, some...
12:47 pm GMT - Thu, November 29, 2018
Techcrunch Spin Analytics automates credit risk modeling for banks
Meet Spin Analytics, a startup that wants to leverage artificial intelligence to automatically write credit risk modeling regulation reports. The company is participating in Startup Battlefield at Tec...
12:24 pm GMT - Thu, November 29, 2018
Techcrunch Loros mounted wheelchair assistant puts high tech to work for people with disabilities
A person with physical disabilities can’t interact with the world the same way as the able, but there’s no reason we can’t use tech to close that gap. Loro is a device that mounts to...
11:57 am GMT - Thu, November 29, 2018
Techcrunch The Coinmine One is a box that mines crypto at home
For $799 you can start mining cryptocurrencies in your home, a feat that previously either required a massive box costing thousands of dollars or, if you didn’t actually want to make any money, ...
10:36 am GMT - Thu, November 29, 2018
Techcrunch V2X Network gives developers the keys to in-vehicle data
Data is king. But if there isn’t a way to capture, sort and use it, then there it sits an untapped resource. V2X Network, a German-based startup presenting onstage Thursday during Startup Battl...
10:31 am GMT - Thu, November 29, 2018
Techcrunch How a startup mindset can help the refugee crisis
Startup entrepreneurs have a crucial role to play in building a more agile response to the global refugee crisis and also helping to change the narrative around displaced people, TechCrunch Disrupt Be...
10:25 am GMT - Thu, November 29, 2018
Techcrunch Apoll01 wants to remake education by decentralizing the diploma
Dan Genduso spent nearly a decade working in consulting before landing on the Disrupt Berlin stage to launch his first startup, Apoll01 — a small company with a big idea about how to solve Ameri...
10:13 am GMT - Thu, November 29, 2018
Techcrunch Kalepso looks to break into the crowded encrypted database space
Databases might be the least sexy thing in tech. Second to that might be encryption. That isn’t stopping Kalepso, a Montreal, Canada-based encrypted database startup that’s trying to fill ...
09:57 am GMT - Thu, November 29, 2018
Techcrunch WiARframe wants to make building AR experiences easy
Augmented reality has been a buzzword for years, but for the most part, it has remained a novelty. WiARframe, which is competing in our Startup Battlefield competition today at Disrupt Berlin, believe...
08:53 am GMT - Thu, November 29, 2018
Techcrunch Easyship, a Stripe for global e-commerce shipping, raises $4M
Easyship, a Hong Kong-based startup that aims to make international shipping for e-commerce as easy as payments, has closed a $4 million Series A round. The company was founded in 2015 by former Lazad...
08:02 am GMT - Thu, November 29, 2018
Techcrunch Announcing Startup Battlefield at Disrupt Berlin
We’re here at TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin 2018, with the newest batch ofStartup Battlefieldcompanies. Each year, TechCrunch chooses a select number of innovative startups to compete in Startup Bat...
07:59 am GMT - Thu, November 29, 2018
Techcrunch Watch Disrupt Berlin Day One live right here!
Disrupt Berlin Day 1 starts now, and we have quite a show in store for you. Well kick the day off with an interview with Roborace’s Lucas di Grassi, and follow it up with conversations with spea...
06:32 am GMT - Thu, November 29, 2018
Techcrunch Microsoft wins $480M military contract to outfit soldiers with HoloLens AR tech
Microsoft is readying its HoloLens augmented reality tech for combat. The company just won a $480 million military contract with the U.S. government to bring AR headset tech into the weapon repertoire...
06:01 am GMT - Thu, November 29, 2018
Techcrunch Revolut is ready to launch in Singapore and Japan
Fintech startup Revolut has been teasing Asian market expansions for more than a year, but it sounds like it might finally happen. The company has secured licenses to operate in Singapore and Japan. I...
06:00 am GMT - Thu, November 29, 2018
Techcrunch Announcing the latest set of judges for Startup Battlefield Africa 2018
Startup Battlefield Africa is right around the corner. This year it’s in Lagos, Nigeria on December 11. As usual, we have a stellar lineup of panels that will include investors and founders disc...
05:35 am GMT - Thu, November 29, 2018
Techcrunch Chinas iQiyi to offer $500M convertible note as content costs balloon
Chinese video streaming service iQiyi is raising new cash as it feels the squeeze from surging content costs. The video business, which is owned by China’s online search giant Baidu, said on Wed...
02:21 am GMT - Thu, November 29, 2018
Techcrunch Facebook staff discussed selling API access to apps in 2012-2014
Following a flopped IPO in 2012, Facebook desperately brainstormed new ways to earn money. An employee of unknown rank sent an internal email suggesting Facebook charge developers $250,000 per year fo...
11:33 pm GMT - Wed, November 28, 2018
Techcrunch The Inventor, a documentary about Theranos and the psychology of deception, will premiere at Sundance
Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney "will tell a Silicon Valley tale that [is] too good to be true," in one of two films in the works documenting the Theranos saga. ...
11:25 pm GMT - Wed, November 28, 2018
Techcrunch Nintendos Switch fortunes persist
The Nintendo Switch continues to prove itself as quite the formidable little console. Today, Nintendo shared a press release of victory lap brags from its Thanksgiving weekend sales. The company detai...
11:19 pm GMT - Wed, November 28, 2018
Techcrunch Up close and hands-on with DJIs Osmo Pocket gimbal
Ill admit that Ive warmed up pretty quickly to the Osmo Pocket. The original post from earlier today is pretty skeptical, owing in no small part to the price point. And while I stand by the earlier as...
10:30 pm GMT - Wed, November 28, 2018
Techcrunch Qualcomm Ventures is dedicating $100M to AI investments
Qualcomm is betting big on on-device artificial intelligence. ...
09:59 pm GMT - Wed, November 28, 2018
Techcrunch Following report on sluggish demand, Apple VP says iPhone XR is its most popular model
In the wake of a report from the WSJ last week that detailed low demand for Apple’s latest iPhones was prompting the company to cur orders for the devices, particularly the iPhone XR, an Apple V...
09:13 pm GMT - Wed, November 28, 2018
Techcrunch Jam City is setting up a Toronto shop by buying Bingo Pop from Uken Games
The Los Angeles game development studioJam Cityis setting up a shop in Toronto with the acquisition of Bingo Pop from Uken Games. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. The deal is part of a broad...
09:12 pm GMT - Wed, November 28, 2018
Techcrunch Indias Drivezy raises $20M for its on-demand vehicle rental service
It’s been a year for on-demand services in India.Drivezytoday became the latest to refuel after it raised a $20 million Series B. The round was led byexisting investor Das Capital, with particip...
08:55 pm GMT - Wed, November 28, 2018
Techcrunch Instagram is using object recognition tech to describe photos for visually impaired users
Instagram is a visual service; it’s a feed of photos and videos and memes that users take in, but the company is rethinking how to optimize a visual service for users with visual impairments via...
08:00 pm GMT - Wed, November 28, 2018
Techcrunch Audis e-tron GT concept is an all-electric sedan with some Porsche DNA
Audi is making room in its electric future for more than SUVs or crossovers. After a string of teasers, the German automaker finally unveiled the Audi e-tron GT concept, a four-door all-electric coupe...
07:54 pm GMT - Wed, November 28, 2018
Techcrunch AWS is bringing the cloud on prem with Outposts
AWS has always been the pure cloud vendor, and even though it has given a nod to hybrid, it is now fully embracing it. Today in conjunction with VMware, it announced a pair of options to bring AWS int...
07:15 pm GMT - Wed, November 28, 2018
Techcrunch DJI goes pocket size for its latest gimbal
Hand-held gimbals have largely been the realm of pro videographers. But DJI is looking to change things up with an ultra-portable take on its popular Osmo line. The Osmo Pocket is a four-inch-tall ver...
07:00 pm GMT - Wed, November 28, 2018
Techcrunch ACLU asks court to release a secret order forcing Facebook to wiretap Messenger
Earlier this year, the U.S. government tried to force Facebook to secretly recode its Messenger app to allow the feds to listen into an encrypted, real-time voice call on suspected members associated ...
06:47 pm GMT - Wed, November 28, 2018
Techcrunch AWS launches Amazon Forecast to make time series predictions easier
Amazon’s AWS today launched Amazon Forecast, a new pre-built machine learning tool that will make it easier for developers to generate predictions based on time-series data. While predictions ar...
06:47 pm GMT - Wed, November 28, 2018
Techcrunch Amazon debuts a scale model autonomous car to teach developers machine learning
Amazon today announced AWS DeepRacer, a fully autonomous 1/18th scale race car that aims to help developers learn machine learning. Priced at $399 but currently offered for $249, the race car lets dev...
06:44 pm GMT - Wed, November 28, 2018
Techcrunch AWS makes Amazon.com personalization service available to all
AWS announces Amazon Personalize, a new service that helps developers buildpersonalization andrecommendationmodels....
06:42 pm GMT - Wed, November 28, 2018
Techcrunch AWS Textract brings intelligence to OCR
One of the challenges just about every business faces is converting forms to a useful digital format. This has typicallyinvolved using human data entry clerks to enter the data into the computer. Stat...
06:42 pm GMT - Wed, November 28, 2018
Techcrunch Amazon Textract brings intelligence to OCR
One of the challenges just about every business faces is converting forms to a useful digital format. This has typicallyinvolved using human data entry clerks to enter the data into the computer. Stat...
06:17 pm GMT - Wed, November 28, 2018
Techcrunch Amazon Elastic Inference will reduce deep learning costs by ~75%
AWS today announced Amazon Elastic Inference, a new service that lets customers attach GPU-powered inference accelerationto any Amazon EC2 instance....
06:14 pm GMT - Wed, November 28, 2018
Techcrunch Amazon launches an automated labeling service for its SageMaker machine learning tool
You can’t build a good machine learning model without good training data. But building those training sets is hard, often manual work, that involves labeling thousand and thousands of images, fo...
06:13 pm GMT - Wed, November 28, 2018
Techcrunch AWS announces new Inferentia machine learning chip
AWS is not content to cede any part of any market to any company. When it comes to machine learning chips, names like Nvidia or Google come to mind, but today at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas, the compan...
06:00 pm GMT - Wed, November 28, 2018
Techcrunch TechCrunch returns to Berkeley this April for TC Sessions: Robotics AI
Who doesnt love robotics? And who doesnt love robotics and AI together for the first time? Take it all in at TC Sessions: Robotics + AIat UC Berkeleys Zellerbach Hall on April 18, 2019. Get your ticke...
05:45 pm GMT - Wed, November 28, 2018
Techcrunch Amazon gets into the blockchain with Quantum Ledger Database & Managed Blockchain
Amazon last year dismissed the idea of getting into the blockchain with AWS, but today that’s changed. The company announced a new service called Amazon Quantum Ledger Database or QLDB, which is...
05:41 pm GMT - Wed, November 28, 2018
Techcrunch AWS launches a managed blockchain service
It was only a year ago that AWS CEO Andy Jassy said that he wasn’t all that interested in blockchain services. Clearly something has changed over the course of the last year because today, the c...
05:38 pm GMT - Wed, November 28, 2018
Techcrunch AWS launches new time series database
AWS announced a new time series database today at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas. The new product called DynamoDB On-Demand is a fully managed database designed to track items over time, which can be part...
05:27 pm GMT - Wed, November 28, 2018
Techcrunch AWS launches Security Hub to help customers manage security & compliance
AWS unveiled a new security product today at AWS re:Invent, the company's annual conference for cloud storage enthusiasts....
05:14 pm GMT - Wed, November 28, 2018
Techcrunch AWS Lake Formation makes setting up data lakes easier
The concept of data lakes has been around for a long time, but being able to set up one of these systems, which store vast amounts of raw data in its native formats, was never easy. AWS wants to chang...
04:56 pm GMT - Wed, November 28, 2018
Techcrunch Skype co-founder snags $105M for fintech lending venture in Southeast Asia
A fintech whale quietlygoing about its business in Southeast Asia has come out from under the radar after Oriente, a Hong Kong-based business headed by Skype’s first employee, announced that it ...
04:55 pm GMT - Wed, November 28, 2018
Techcrunch AWS tries to lure Windows users with Amazon FSx for Windows File Server
Amazon has had storage options for Linux file servers for some time, but it recognizes that a number of companies still use Windows file servers, and they are not content to cede that market to Micros...
04:54 pm GMT - Wed, November 28, 2018
Techcrunch YouBionic adds creepy hands to SpotMini, the creepy robot dog
If you’ve ever wanted to add creepy, 3D-printed hands to your creepy robot dog, YouBionic has you covered. This odd company is offering an entirely 3D-printed arm solution for the Boston Dynamic...
04:43 pm GMT - Wed, November 28, 2018
Techcrunch AWS announced Glacier Deep Archive to replace tape archives
At its re:Invent developer conference in Las Vegas, Amazon’s AWS today announced a new storage service that is meant for deep archival data that is only needed very infrequently but can’t ...
04:38 pm GMT - Wed, November 28, 2018
Techcrunch Facebook must police Today In, its local news digest launching in 400 cities
Facebook has a new area of its app it will have to police for fake news and biased sensationalism. Facebook is launching “Today In”, its local news aggregator it began testing in January, ...
04:03 pm GMT - Wed, November 28, 2018
Techcrunch YouTube Originals will become free and ad-supported by 2020
YouTube is preparing to move its original programming out from behind its paywall. According to reports from The Hollywood Reporter and Variety on Monday, which the company confirmed, Google’s v...
04:00 pm GMT - Wed, November 28, 2018
Techcrunch Google Fi now officially supports most Android devices and iPhones
Google is making a major move to expand the availability of its Fi wireless service. It’s been a few years since Google launched Project Fi with the promise of doing things a bit differently tha...
03:59 pm GMT - Wed, November 28, 2018
Techcrunch It turns out some Google staff do believe in controversial plan to re-enter China
Google’s controversial plan to launch products custom made for China has been panned by politicians, free speech advocates, ex-staff and many others, but there appears to be some support within ...
03:55 pm GMT - Wed, November 28, 2018
Techcrunch Justice Department indicts two Iranians over SamSam ransomware attacks
U.S. federal prosecutors have indicted two Iranian nationals for creating and deploying the notorious SamSam ransomware. Faramarz Shahi Savandi, 34, and Mohammad Mehdi Shah, 27, were indicted by a fed...
03:39 pm GMT - Wed, November 28, 2018
Techcrunch Steemit, a decentralized sharing system, lays of 70% of staff
Steemit, a distributed app designed to reward content creators, has laid off 70 percentof its staff citing “the weakness of the cryptocurrency market, the fiat returns on our automated selling o...
03:39 pm GMT - Wed, November 28, 2018
Techcrunch Steemit, a decentralized sharing system, lays off 70% of staff
Steemit, a distributed app designed to reward content creators, has laid off 70 percentof its staff citing “the weakness of the cryptocurrency market, the fiat returns on our automated selling o...
03:38 pm GMT - Wed, November 28, 2018
Techcrunch Philippines fintech business Voyager raises $215M in Tencent-led round
One of the year’s largest fintech investments in Southeast Asia has closed afterPhilippines-based Voyager announced it raised$215 million. The bulk of the deal comes via a previously announced i...
03:04 pm GMT - Wed, November 28, 2018
Techcrunch The Alexa-enabled Big Mouth Billy Bass is real and now for sale
In September, Amazon launched its Alexa Gadgets Toolkitinto beta, allowing hardware makers to build accessories that pair with Amazon Echo over Bluetooth. Today, one of the most memorable (and quite r...
03:04 pm GMT - Wed, November 28, 2018
Techcrunch The Alexa-enabled Big Mouth Billy Bass and other twerking toys go on sale
In September, Amazon launched its Alexa Gadgets Toolkitinto beta, allowing hardware makers to build accessories that pair with Amazon Echo over Bluetooth. Today, one of the most memorable (and quite r...
02:22 pm GMT - Wed, November 28, 2018
Techcrunch Ubers bill for 2016 breach and cover-up rises by $1M on EU fines
The legal bill for Uber’s 2016 data breach, whichaffected some 57 million customers, revealing names, email address and phone numbers, has increased by more than a million dollars. Two months ag...
02:21 pm GMT - Wed, November 28, 2018
Techcrunch Googles Sundar Pichai will face Congress next week
Google may have dodged a raised right hand moment on the Hill this year as top executives from Twitter and Facebook faced Congress, but the company will now have its own time in the hot seat. First re...
02:02 pm GMT - Wed, November 28, 2018
Techcrunch Phiar raises $3 million for an AR navigation app for drivers
Augmented reality is a very buzzy space, but the fundamental technologies underpinning it are pushing boundaries across a lot of other verticals. Tech like machine learning, object recognition and vis...
02:00 pm GMT - Wed, November 28, 2018
Techcrunch Hackers are using leaked NSA hacking tools to quietly hijack thousands of computers
More than a year after patches were released to thwart powerful NSA exploits that leaked online, hundreds of thousands of computers are unpatched and vulnerable. First they were used to spread ransomw...
02:00 pm GMT - Wed, November 28, 2018
Techcrunch LearnLux raises $2M from Sound Ventures, Marc Benioff to help employees make financial decisions
LearnLux offers businesses access to itsfinancial wellness platform, a digital product that helps employees make important financial decisions....
01:01 pm GMT - Wed, November 28, 2018
Techcrunch Australian scheduling software company Deputy brings in $81M amid rapid growth
Deputy, an under the radar Australian company, has 90,000 customers in 80 countries....
12:52 pm GMT - Wed, November 28, 2018
Techcrunch Elon Musks Boring Co. drops LA Westside tunnel plan
The Boring Companys big dig plans hit a snag this week, as the Elon Musk-led project announced that it would abandon plans to dig a massive tunnel beneath Los Angeles 405 freeway and Sepulveda Bouleva...
12:12 pm GMT - Wed, November 28, 2018
Techcrunch Chinas Didi adds driver training program to counter sharp decline in rides
Didi Chuxing, China’s largest ride-hailing company by number of users, has been struggling to recover from a major setback following the deaths of two passengers earlier this year. On Wednesday,...
11:18 am GMT - Wed, November 28, 2018
Techcrunch LG replaces the head of its struggling mobile business after just one year
Mission impossible:a new executive at LG is charged with fixing the company’s long-time loss-making smartphone division following a leadership change. Hwang Jeong-hwan took the job as president ...
11:07 am GMT - Wed, November 28, 2018
Techcrunch Second Home closing in on new 20M funding round to bring its creative workspace to more locations
Second Home, the “creative workspace” company co-founded by Rohan Silva, a former tech and startup policy advisor for then British Prime Minister David Cameron, is closing in on a new fund...
11:00 am GMT - Wed, November 28, 2018
Techcrunch Users Guide to Disrupt Berin 2018
Disrupt Berlin approaches with just a few days until things kick things off. We have an all-star lineup that only TechCrunch can assemble, and were expecting our largest number of attendees yet. Check...
09:05 am GMT - Wed, November 28, 2018
Techcrunch SimbaPay launches Kenya to China payment service via WeChat
Jake Bright Contributor Jake Bright is a writer and author in New York City. He is co-author of The Next Africa. More posts by this contributor Africa’s agtech wave gets $10 million richer as Tw...
09:00 am GMT - Wed, November 28, 2018
Techcrunch Disrupt Berlin 2018 starts tomorrow
Disrupt Berlin 2018s two program-packed days of startup mania kicks into high gear tomorrow, 29 November. And that, dear readers, can mean only one thing. This is your absolute last chance to buy a pa...
09:00 am GMT - Wed, November 28, 2018
Techcrunch ChargePoint raises $240 million to serve an anticipated flood of electric vehicles
Electric vehicle charging network ChargePoint has raised $240 million in a Series H funding round that attracted a diverse group of investors from the automotive, energy, financial, venture capital, u...
08:53 am GMT - Wed, November 28, 2018
Techcrunch Apply for a free ticket to Startup Battlefield Africa 2018
Startup Battlefield Africa 2018 takes place in less than two weeks, and we have a classic good news/bad news situation to share with all you startup fans. First up, the bad news. We are completely sol...
07:37 am GMT - Wed, November 28, 2018
Techcrunch China leaves Huawei founder off honor roll marking 40 years of economic success
In the lead up to China’s 40th anniversary of reforms and opening up, People’s Daily, the mouthpiece of the ruling Communist Party, published a list on Monday commending 100 extraordinary ...
06:24 am GMT - Wed, November 28, 2018
Techcrunch Amazons newest service uses machine learning to extract medical data from patient records
Amazon has launched a new service that uses machine learning to extract key data from patient records and can potentially help healthcare providers and researchers save money, make treatment decisions...
05:01 am GMT - Wed, November 28, 2018
Techcrunch 30 European startup CEOs call for better stock option policies
Thirty European tech CEOs of big startups signed a letter about stock options in Europe. Other tech CEOs can join the group and sign the letter before it is sent to policymakers on January 7. As you c...
02:33 am GMT - Wed, November 28, 2018
Techcrunch Watch Audi, Italdesign and Airbus design and test an autonomous flying taxi
Germany automaker Audi, Airbus and Italdesign presented Tuesday a scaled-down version of its vision of the future: a drone that can pluck the cab off of an autonomous electric vehicle and then fly off...
01:27 am GMT - Wed, November 28, 2018
Techcrunch Rivian debuts an electric pickup and SUV designed to look good while getting dirty
Rivian has kept a relatively low profile since the automotive startup with Midwestern roots launched in 2009. Those days are over. CEO and founder RJ Scaringe unveiled two all-electric vehicles this w...
10:13 pm GMT - Tue, November 27, 2018
Techcrunch Social music app Playlist lets you listen to music with others in real time
A new app called Playlist aims to make music a more social experience than what’s offered today by the major music platforms like Apple Music, Pandora or Spotify, for example. In Playlist, you c...
10:00 pm GMT - Tue, November 27, 2018
Techcrunch The innovation supply chain: How ideas traverse continents and transform economies
Realizing the true potential of any idea takes time and requires input from diverse cultures and perspectives. Technological innovation is no exception....
09:52 pm GMT - Tue, November 27, 2018
Techcrunch Khosla GP launches Bling Capital to help seed-stage startups build products
Ben Ling, a Khosla general partner until next month, is closing in on $60 million for his debut fund....
08:46 pm GMT - Tue, November 27, 2018
Techcrunch Turos new dongle will let customers instantly find and unlock cars
Turo, the peer-to-peer car-sharing company described as the “Airbnb of cars,” is rolling out a new product that will let users locate and unlock cars right from the app. The new product, c...
08:38 pm GMT - Tue, November 27, 2018
Techcrunch AWS launches a base station for satellites as a service
Today at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas, AWS announced a new service for satellite providers with the launch of AWS Ground Station, the first fully managed ground station as a service. With this new servi...
07:00 pm GMT - Tue, November 27, 2018
Techcrunch For a small fee, entrepreneurs can now manage their own fleet of Bird e-scooters
Bird wants to help you start your own electric scooter business. ...
06:27 pm GMT - Tue, November 27, 2018
Techcrunch Spaceflights 64-satellite rideshare launch takes off tomorrow on a Falcon 9
Seattle-based launch coordinator Spaceflight is gearing up for its biggest operation yet: Smallsat Express, deploying a staggering 64 separate satellites from 34 different clients all from a single F...
06:15 pm GMT - Tue, November 27, 2018
Techcrunch Former Facebook manager says the company is failing black people
Facebook “has a black people problem,” according to Mark Luckie, a now-former manager of partnerships at Facebook. Luckie,whose last day at Facebook was earlier this month,just posted an i...
05:27 pm GMT - Tue, November 27, 2018
Techcrunch Urban Massage exposed a huge customer database, including sensitive comments on its creepy clients
Urban Massage, a popular massage startup that bills itself as providing “wellness that comes to you,” has leaked its entire customer database. The London, U.K.-based startup now known as ...
05:00 pm GMT - Tue, November 27, 2018
Techcrunch Netflix will create a story universe based on the work of Roald Dahl
Netflix and The Roald Dahl Story Company announced today that they’ve signed a deal for the streaming service to create a slate of animated “event series” based on a long list of tit...
05:00 pm GMT - Tue, November 27, 2018
Techcrunch Googles Pixel Slate arrives Thursday
Googles last major piece of hardware for the year is finally shipping this week. A number of pre-orders have already begun receiving shipping notifications for the Pixel Slate, and the company just po...
05:00 pm GMT - Tue, November 27, 2018
Techcrunch Google Pixel Slate review
First, a dirty little secret about product reviews: Youd love to integrate every product into your daily use, but it just isnt possible. Especially when youre dealing with the volumes we deal with her...
04:54 pm GMT - Tue, November 27, 2018
Techcrunch Meet Bitski, the single sign-on wallet crypto desperately needs
The mainstream will never adopt blockchain-powered decentralized apps (dApps) if it’s a struggle to log in. They’re either forced to manage complex security keys themselves, or rely on a c...
04:51 pm GMT - Tue, November 27, 2018
Techcrunch Robinhood hires 20-year Amazon veteran to CFO role as high-flying startup eyes IPO
Robinhood, thezero-fee stock trading app and cryptocurrency exchange, is bringing on a former Amazon finance exec to help the company prepare for an eventual public debut. The startup has hired Jason ...
04:39 pm GMT - Tue, November 27, 2018
Techcrunch The problem is Facebook, lawmakers from nine countries tell Zuckerbergs accountability stand-in
A grand committee of international parliamentarians empty-chaired Mark Zuckerberg at a hearing earlier today, after theFacebook founder snubbed repeat invitations to face questions about malicious, ab...
04:06 pm GMT - Tue, November 27, 2018
Techcrunch Red Hat acquires hybrid cloud data management service NooBaa
Red Hat is in the process of being acquired by IBM for a massive $34 billion, but that deal hasn’t closed yet and, in the meantime, Red Hat is still running independently and making its own acqu...
04:00 pm GMT - Tue, November 27, 2018
Techcrunch YC alum Make School gains rare accreditation for 2-year applied CS bachelors degree
Higher education is a mess. College students spend years learning arcana and quaint academic theories, only to be thrust into the harsh light of the workplace where they are ill-equipped to handle eve...
03:26 pm GMT - Tue, November 27, 2018
Techcrunch Amazons Cyber Monday was the biggest shopping day in the companys history
Amazon said on Tuesday it just had its biggest shopping day in the company’s history on Cyber Monday (Monday, November 26), based on the number of products sold worldwide. That means the shoppin...
03:19 pm GMT - Tue, November 27, 2018
Techcrunch Source: Canadas Corel is acquiring virtualization specialist Parallels in an all-cash deal
Some consolidation is afoot in the world of business software. TechCrunch has learned that Parallels, the virtualization specialist with millions of users, is getting acquired by Corel, the Canadian c...
03:19 pm GMT - Tue, November 27, 2018
Techcrunch Canadas Corel is acquiring virtualization specialist Parallels in an all-cash deal
Some consolidation is afoot in the world of business software. TechCrunch has learned that Parallels, the virtualization specialist with millions of users, is getting acquired by Corel, the Canadian c...
03:02 pm GMT - Tue, November 27, 2018
Techcrunch Google faces GDPR complaint over deceptive location tracking
A group of European consumer watchdogs has filed a privacy complaint against Google — arguing the company uses manipulative tactics in order to keep tracking web users’ location, for ad-ta...
02:47 pm GMT - Tue, November 27, 2018
Techcrunch Alexa can now help you donate to Toys for Tots and other charities
Fresh off its biggest shopping day in history, Cyber Monday 2018, Amazon today is making it easy for Alexa owners to participate in Giving Tuesday, the international day of charitable giving that foll...
02:29 pm GMT - Tue, November 27, 2018
Techcrunch Recapping the TechCrunch China Shenzhen 2018 event
This year we returned to Shenzhen, the Chinese city known as the world’s ‘Silicon Valley for hardware,’ for an event that was packed full of future-looking discussions, innovative st...
02:14 pm GMT - Tue, November 27, 2018
Techcrunch Topica raises $50M for its online learning services in Southeast Asia
Vietnam’s startup ecosystem is making forward progress. Just a week after 500 Startups’ local entity closed a $14 million fund for early-stage investments, one of the country’s elder...
02:12 pm GMT - Tue, November 27, 2018
Techcrunch Alibaba-backed parenting site Babytree starts taking orders for downsized IPO
A lot of Chinese millennials may be delaying or opting out of childbearing, but those who have committed to parenting often go all out to ensure their children grow up healthy and do well in school. O...
02:00 pm GMT - Tue, November 27, 2018
Techcrunch Facebook launches Watch Party for all, tests Live PiP commentating
Facebook Watch has failed to capture viewers with its content, so its hoping to differentiate through the companys core strength: social. Today Facebook fully launches Watch Party, its co-viewing feat...
02:00 pm GMT - Tue, November 27, 2018
Techcrunch YouTube and YouTube Music launch discounted subscriptions for students
YouTube today is launching lower-cost subscription plans for students who want to enjoy an ad-free version of YouTube or its music streaming service, YouTube Music. The new plans are the first signifi...
02:00 pm GMT - Tue, November 27, 2018
Techcrunch VW turned its electric cargo van concept into a race support vehicle
VW Group has put a new spin on its all-electric I.D. Buzz Cargo van concept. This time, the German automaker has reimagined the concept as a support vehicle for theVolkswagen I.D R, the electric vehic...
01:39 pm GMT - Tue, November 27, 2018
Techcrunch Review: The PlayStation Classic takes you back to the 90s, for better and for worse
Lifelong PlayStation fans have probably decided already if they’re interested in buying the PlayStation Classic particularly since Sony has already released a list of the 20 games preloaded on ...
12:30 pm GMT - Tue, November 27, 2018
Techcrunch Quip raises another $40 million for dental care products and services
Quip, the dental care startup that got its start selling electric toothbrushes directly to consumers, has raised $40 million. The money comes in the form of equity and debt financing, with about half ...
09:50 am GMT - Tue, November 27, 2018
Techcrunch Late registration discounts to Disrupt Berlin 2018 end tomorrow
Were in the home stretch ofDisrupt Berlin 2018. The conference kicks off in just two days, and if you want to attend, the time is officially now oclock late registration closes tomorrow on 28 Novembe...
09:29 am GMT - Tue, November 27, 2018
Techcrunch AWS launches Arm-based servers for EC2
At its re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, AWS today announced the launch of Arm-based servers for its EC2 cloud computing service. These aren’t run-of-the-mill Arm chips, though. AWS took the st...
07:25 am GMT - Tue, November 27, 2018
Techcrunch Mars Lander InSight sends the first of many selfies after a successful touchdown
Last night’s 10 minutes of terror as the InSight Mars Lander descended to the Martian surface at 12,300 MPH were a nail-biter for sure, but now the robotic science platform is safe and sound an...
05:43 am GMT - Tue, November 27, 2018
Techcrunch AWS Transit Gateway helps customers understand their entire network
Tonight at AWS re:Invent, the company announced a new tool called AWS Transit Gateway designed to help build a network topology inside of AWS that lets you share resources across accounts and bring to...
05:13 am GMT - Tue, November 27, 2018
Techcrunch WeChat e-wallet teams up with Line to target Japans 7M Chinese tourists
China’s biggest chat app WeChat is set to make its payments service more ubiquitous in Japan, a popular outbound desitnation for Chinese tourists. On Tuesday, the Tencent-run messenger unveils a...
04:40 am GMT - Tue, November 27, 2018
Techcrunch AWS Global Accelerators helps customers manage traffic across zones
Many AWS customers have to run in multiple zones for many reasons including performance requirements, regulatory issues or fail-over management. Whatever the reason, AWS announced a new tool tonight c...
03:07 am GMT - Tue, November 27, 2018
Techcrunch Lime launches electric-assist bikes in its first UK city
Lime launched in the United Kingdom today, starting with a group of dockless electric-assist bikes in a Milton Keynes shopping center. The San Francisco-based startup says it plans to expand into more...
01:43 am GMT - Tue, November 27, 2018
Techcrunch WhatsApps chief business officer is leaving
Neeraj Arora was widely believed to be the frontrunner to replace former CEO Jan Koum, who left the company shortly after co-founder Brian Acton earlier this year....
01:00 am GMT - Tue, November 27, 2018
Techcrunch Enterprise messaging startup Eko Communications raises $20M for its European expansion
After focusing on Asian markets, particularly in Southeast Asia, Bangkok-based Eko Communications is getting ready to take on Slack, Microsoft Teams, and other enterprise messaging apps in Europe. The...
10:57 pm GMT - Mon, November 26, 2018
Techcrunch Facebook denies report that election war room was disbanded
Facebook’s election war room monitors and dashboards remain, since so does the threat of election interference. Facebook has confirmed to TechCrunch that its election war room that it paraded re...
09:30 pm GMT - Mon, November 26, 2018
Techcrunch Apple launches app development program for female entrepreneurs
Apple is looking to better support female-identifying founders through its new Entrepreneur Camp, a technology lab that focused on app development. The free two-week camp, which kicks off in January, ...
09:07 pm GMT - Mon, November 26, 2018
Techcrunch That night, a forest flew: DroneSeed is planting trees from the air
Wildfires are consuming our forests. The institutions and technologies to keep these environments healthy have suffered decades of neglect. DroneSeed is a Seattle-based startup that aims to combat thi...
09:07 pm GMT - Mon, November 26, 2018
Techcrunch That night, a forest flew
Wildfires are consuming our forests. The institutions and technologies to keep these environments healthy have suffered decades of neglect. DroneSeed is a Seattle-based startup that aims to combat thi...
07:36 pm GMT - Mon, November 26, 2018
Techcrunch Apple to host free coding sessions at stores, rolls out new material for teachers
Apple today opened registration for thousands of free “Hour of Code” sessions taking place at its Apple Store locations around the world from December 1st through the 14th. The sessions ar...
06:34 pm GMT - Mon, November 26, 2018
Techcrunch Amazon launches a cloud-based robotics testing platform
Amazons kicking off Re:Invent week with the launch of AWS RoboMaker. The cloud-based service utilizes the widely deployed open source software Robot Operating System (ROS) to offer developers a place ...
06:07 pm GMT - Mon, November 26, 2018
Techcrunch GM plans to cut more than 14,000 jobs, close factories as downturn looms
First, came the voluntary buyouts. Now, GM is ramping up its belt-tightening measures with cuts to factory and white-collar workers, plant closures in North America and the elimination of several car ...
05:57 pm GMT - Mon, November 26, 2018
Techcrunch Last minute Cyber Monday deals
Listen, I know youre tired of deals. I get it. You already woke up at 1AM on Black Friday to head to Best Buy in your pajama pants. But if we just stick together and follow the rules, well get through...
05:57 pm GMT - Mon, November 26, 2018
Techcrunch Last-minute Cyber Monday deals
Listen, I know youre tired of deals. I get it. You already woke up at 1AM on Black Friday to head to Best Buy in your pajama pants. But if we just stick together and follow the rules, well get through...
05:44 pm GMT - Mon, November 26, 2018
Techcrunch Google Maps biz reviews can now include hashtags
Google Maps has quietly rolled out a new feature aimed at helping users discover places others have recommended: it now supports hashtags in reviews. For example, if you’re reviewing a restauran...
05:43 pm GMT - Mon, November 26, 2018
Techcrunch Amazon says its making freely available the same machine learning courses that it uses to teach its own engineers
It’s Cyber Monday and Amazon has a one deal for its customers that’s a little unexpected. The company just announced that it has made available, for free, the same machine learning courses...
05:43 pm GMT - Mon, November 26, 2018
Techcrunch Amazon opens its internal machine learning courses to all for free
It’s Cyber Monday and Amazon has one deal for its customers that’s a little unexpected. The company just announced that it has made available, for free, the same machine learning courses t...
04:52 pm GMT - Mon, November 26, 2018
Techcrunch Corvus Insurance lands a fresh $8 million to turn sensor data into actionable info for its food and pharma customers
Corvus Insurance, a two-year-old, Boston-based insurance company that uses data across more than 50 criteria to predict and prevent losses for its corporate customers in the food and pharmaceutical in...
04:52 pm GMT - Mon, November 26, 2018
Techcrunch Corvus Insurance lands a fresh $10 million to turn sensor data into actionable info for its food and pharma customers
Corvus Insurance, a two-year-old, Boston-based insurance company that uses data across more than 50 criteria to predict and prevent losses for its corporate customers in the food and pharmaceutical in...
04:43 pm GMT - Mon, November 26, 2018
Techcrunch Watch NASAs InSight Mars lander touch down live
The mysteries lying beyond our planet have puzzled and inspired scientists throughout the centuries. But today, the scientific community (and many others) have their eyes on Mars, where NASA’s I...
04:43 pm GMT - Mon, November 26, 2018
Techcrunch Watch NASAs InSight Mars lander touch down live (Update: Landed!)
Update: Insight has landed on the surface of Mars! It’ll be a little bit before we know for sure that everything is A-OK, but the most dangerous part you know, entering the atmosphere of a dist...
04:41 pm GMT - Mon, November 26, 2018
Techcrunch Red Dead Online launches in beta tomorrow
A month after launching to universal acclaim, Red Dead Redemption 2 is finally getting its online component. Red Dead Online launches in beta this week, with access opening for users starting tomorrow...
04:12 pm GMT - Mon, November 26, 2018
Techcrunch Banuba raises $7M to supercharge any app or device with the ability to really see you
Regardless of whether its immediate future is obvious or not, AR has a future if the amount of investment pouring into the space is anything to go by. In 2016 AR and VR attracted $2.3 billion worth of...
04:11 pm GMT - Mon, November 26, 2018
Techcrunch Amazon closes its restaurant delivery service in London
Amazon is shutting down its two-year old restaurant delivery service in London, according to a report by the Evening Standard, which an Amazon spokesperson confirmed. Customers were sent emails which ...
04:02 pm GMT - Mon, November 26, 2018
Techcrunch Coinbase leads $12.75M investment in project to create digital security offerings
Coinbase, the $8 billion crypto exchange giant, is one of a bevy of big namecrypto investors backing a project aimed to revolutionize the U.S. securities industry using blockchain technology. Brian Ar...
04:02 pm GMT - Mon, November 26, 2018
Techcrunch Coinbase and others invest $12.75M in project to create digital security offerings
Coinbase, the $8 billion crypto exchange giant, is one of a bevy of big namecrypto investors backing a project aimed to revolutionize the U.S. securities industry using blockchain technology. Brian Ar...
03:50 pm GMT - Mon, November 26, 2018
Techcrunch Cyber Monday projected to hit $7.8B in online sales
Cyber Monday 2018 is projected to be the highest selling day of the holiday season this year, with $7.8 billion in online sales. And its no wonder: after a weekend of people juggling shopping online w...
03:50 pm GMT - Mon, November 26, 2018
Techcrunch Cyber Monday projected to hit $7.8B in online sales, $2B spent via smartphones
Cyber Monday 2018 is projected to be the highest-selling day of the holiday season this year, with $7.8 billion in online sales. And its no wonder: after a weekend of people juggling shopping online w...
03:24 pm GMT - Mon, November 26, 2018
Techcrunch Amazon exec Dave Stephenson tapped to lead Airbnb to the public markets
Airbnb has poached another Amazon executive. This time, it's Dave Stephenson, who's been hired to lead its upcoming IPO as Airbnb's chief financial officer. ...
03:22 pm GMT - Mon, November 26, 2018
Techcrunch Black Friday drove half a million new users to the top shopping apps
More U.S. consumers were shopping on mobile devices on Black Friday this year, with $2.1 billion in sales coming from smartphones. This trend was also reflected across the U.S. App Store. According to...
02:59 pm GMT - Mon, November 26, 2018
Techcrunch Samsung apologizes, promises compensation for factory conditions
Weeks after reaching a settlement, Samsung issued an apology over factory conditions leading to the illness and death of workers. “We offer our sincere apology to our workers who have suffered w...
01:43 pm GMT - Mon, November 26, 2018
Techcrunch The US Postal Service exposed data of 60 million users
A broken US Postal Service API exposed from over 60 million users and allowed a researcher to pull millions of rows of data by sending wildcard requests to the server. The resulting security hole has ...
01:43 pm GMT - Mon, November 26, 2018
Techcrunch US Postal Service exposed data of 60 million users
A broken U.S. Postal Service API exposed more than 60 million users by allowing a researcher to pull millions of rows of data by sending wildcard requests to the server. The resulting security hole ha...
10:57 am GMT - Mon, November 26, 2018
Techcrunch Hospital in China denies links to worlds first gene-edited babies
News of the world’s first ever gene-edited human babiesbeing born in China caused a huge stir on Monday after theMIT Technology Review and theAssociated Pressbrought the project tolight. People ...
08:45 am GMT - Mon, November 26, 2018
Techcrunch Cyber Monday Special: Buy a pass to Disrupt Berlin 2018 and snag a $200 gift
Disrupt Berlin 2018 kicks off in just three days, the holidays are upon us, and we here at TechCrunch are feelin the season. What better way to celebrate both events than to share the spirit of entrep...
04:50 am GMT - Mon, November 26, 2018
Techcrunch CRISPR scientist in China claims his teams research has resulted in the worlds first gene-edited babies
In a dramatic development for CRISPR research, a Chinese scientist from a university in Shenzhen claims he has succeeded in helping create the worlds first genetically-edited babies. Dr. Jiankui He to...
04:50 am GMT - Mon, November 26, 2018
Techcrunch UPDATED: CRISPR scientist in China claims his teams research has resulted in the worlds first gene-edited babies
Update: The story is getting even more convoluted. When contacted by TechCrunch’s Rita Liao, a representative at the hospital that supposedly approved Jiankui He’s study stated “what...
03:21 am GMT - Mon, November 26, 2018
Techcrunch Google reportedly paid 4,000 to settle a racial discrimination lawsuit in the UK
Google paid 4,000 to settle a discrimination lawsuit that claims it did not do enough to protect a contractor from being racially profiled while working on an undercover project for Google Maps in sho...
10:48 pm GMT - Sun, November 25, 2018
Techcrunch That Logitech and Plantronics deal is now dead
In a statement issued today, Logitech International said that while it had engaged in discussions with Plantronics about a potential transaction, it had terminated the negotiations. Over the weekendwe...
06:31 pm GMT - Sun, November 25, 2018
Techcrunch Tech giants offer empty apologies because users cant quit
A true apology consists of a sincere acknowledgement of wrong-doing, a show of empathic remorse for why you wronged and the harm it caused, and a promise of restitution by improving ones actions to ma...
05:47 pm GMT - Sun, November 25, 2018
Techcrunch Ohio becomes the first state to accept bitcoin for tax payments
Starting Monday, businesses in Ohio will be able to pay their taxes in bitcoin — making the state that’s high in the middle and round on both ends the first in the nation to accept cryptoc...
04:23 pm GMT - Sun, November 25, 2018
Techcrunch UK parliament seizes cache of internal Facebook documents to further privacy probe
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg may yet regret underestimating a UK parliamentary committee that’s been investigating the democracy-denting impact of online disinformation for the best part of ...
02:00 pm GMT - Sun, November 25, 2018
Techcrunch Glimpses of Chinas parallel tech universe
What can we learn from DETECTIVE CHINATOWN 2? Quite a lot, actually. The 11th biggest box-office hit of the year, it vastly outgrossed the likes of SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY, A STAR IS BORN, and CRAZY R...
02:28 am GMT - Sun, November 25, 2018
Techcrunch Bitcoin sinks below $4,000 as the crypto market takes another hefty beating
As we hang out with family and friends this holiday season, it’s interesting to look back on the Bitcoin mania that we endured one Thanksgiving ago. Aunts and uncles asking about internet money ...
09:42 pm GMT - Sat, November 24, 2018
Techcrunch LinkedIn violated data protection by using 18M email addresses of non-members to buy targeted ads on Facebook
LinkedIn, the social network for the working world with close to 600 million users, has been called out a number of times for howit is able to suggest uncanny connections to you, when it’s not e...
08:45 pm GMT - Sat, November 24, 2018
Techcrunch Logitech is reportedly offering $2.2 billion to bring Plantronics headsets into its hardware empire
Logitech, the manufacturer best known for its computing peripherals like keyboards and web cameras, is in talks to buy Plantronics, a maker of bluetooth-enabled headsets, according toReuters. The comp...
03:10 pm GMT - Sat, November 24, 2018
Techcrunch Upflow turbocharges your invoices
Meet Upflow a French startup that wants to help you deal with your outstanding invoices the company first started at eFounders. If youre running a small business, chances are youre either wasting a t...
11:16 pm GMT - Fri, November 23, 2018
Techcrunch Cards Against Humanity is selling diamonds and TVs for 99% off and totally winning (?) Black Friday
Half of my family (and half of the Internet, it seems) all has eyes and phones locked on the same Black Friday sales page right now and, likely to the disappointment of the big retailers, it’s ...
10:33 pm GMT - Fri, November 23, 2018
Techcrunch New U.S. report says that climate change could cost nearly $500 billion per year by 2090
A new report from the U.S. government on the impacts of climate change on society indicates that unless action is taken, climatological events could cost the country nearly half a trilliondollars annu...
10:33 pm GMT - Fri, November 23, 2018
Techcrunch New US report says that climate change could cost nearly $500B per year by 2090
A new report from the U.S. government on the impacts of climate change on society indicates that unless action is taken, climatological events could cost the country nearly half a trilliondollars annu...
06:03 pm GMT - Fri, November 23, 2018
Techcrunch Daily Crunch: Black Fridays online sales are projected to hit $5.9B
The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. (This one’s a little shorter than usual it’s a holiday weekend in the United States.) If you̵...
05:04 pm GMT - Fri, November 23, 2018
Techcrunch Facebook policy VP, Richard Allan, to face the international fake news grilling that Zuckerberg wont
An unprecedented international grand committee comprised of 22 representatives from seven parliaments will meet in London next week to put questions to Facebook about the online fake news crisis and t...
05:04 pm GMT - Fri, November 23, 2018
Techcrunch Facebook policy VP Richard Allan to face the international fake news grilling that Zuckerberg wont
An unprecedented international grand committee comprising 22 representatives from seven parliaments will meet in London next week to put questions to Facebook about the online fake news crisis and the...
04:43 pm GMT - Fri, November 23, 2018
Techcrunch BlueCargo optimizes stacks of containers for maximum efficiency
Meet BlueCargo, a logistics startup focused on seaport terminals. The company was part of Y Combinators latest batch and recently raised a $3 million funding round from 1984 Ventures, Green Bay Ventur...
02:32 pm GMT - Fri, November 23, 2018
Techcrunch Amazon warehouse workers in Europe stage we are not robots protests
Amazon warehouse workers in several countries in Europe are protesting over what they claim are inhuman working conditions which treat people like robots. It’s the latest in a series of worker a...
02:10 pm GMT - Fri, November 23, 2018
Techcrunch Equity podcast: A Thanksgiving-ish special episode
Hello and welcome back toEquity, TechCrunchs venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. It’s the day after Thanksgiving, so if you are reading this in Ame...
01:57 pm GMT - Fri, November 23, 2018
Techcrunch Black Friday predicted to hit $5.9B in online sales, $645M spent so far
After a record-breaking Thanksgiving with $3.7 billion in digital sales across desktop and mobile devices, it looks like Black Friday will also pull in a bumper year for e-commerce. Adobe — whic...
01:57 pm GMT - Fri, November 23, 2018
Techcrunch Black Friday predicted to hit $6.4B in online sales, $643M spent so far
After a record-breaking Thanksgiving with $3.7 billion in digital sales across desktop and mobile devices, it looks like Black Friday will also pull in a bumper year for e-commerce. Adobe — whic...
01:57 pm GMT - Fri, November 23, 2018
Techcrunch Black Friday to hit $6.2B in US online sales, mobile accounting for nearly half of all sales
After a record-breaking Thanksgiving with $3.7 billion in digital sales across desktop and mobile devices, it looks like Black Friday will also pull in a bumper year for e-commerce. Adobe — whic...
01:57 pm GMT - Fri, November 23, 2018
Techcrunch Black Friday hits $6.2B in US online sales, smartphones accounted for $2.1B
After a record-breaking Thanksgiving with $3.7 billion in digital sales across desktop and mobile devices, Black Friday pulled in a bumper year for e-commerce. Adobe — which tracks trillions of ...
10:12 am GMT - Fri, November 23, 2018
Techcrunch Meituan, Chinas everything app, walks away from bike sharing and ride hailing
A major player in the race to transport Chinese people around is losing steam. Meituan Dianping, the Tencent-backed all-encompassing platform for local services, continues to put the brakes on bike-sh...
09:15 am GMT - Fri, November 23, 2018
Techcrunch Silentmodes PowerMask is a $200 connected relaxation mask
I barely slept, the second night in Chunking Mansions. The loud neighbors, the hot Hong Kong air, the landlord banging on the door after midnight. None of these things are particularly conducive to a ...
08:01 am GMT - Fri, November 23, 2018
Techcrunch Black Friday only: 2-for-1 Innovator passes to Disrupt Berlin 2018
We love a great deal almost as much as we love early-stage startups. So, we decided to combine both into an awesome Black Friday mashup for Disrupt Berlin 2018. Europes premier tech startup conference...
01:59 am GMT - Fri, November 23, 2018
Techcrunch Soundbrenners wearable metronome gets a modular upgrade
It took all of 14 minutes for the Soundbrenner Core to hit full funding. Not too shabby. Last week, the wearable maker closed out its campaign with more than 10x its $50,000 goal. A few days later, we...
05:53 pm GMT - Thu, November 22, 2018
Techcrunch Thanksgiving e-commerce spend to top $3.5B, mobile accounting for one-third of sales
The 2018 holiday season is predicted to be a bumper year for e-commerce, helped by economic forces like lower unemployment and underlying trends like an ever-growing proportion of shoppers opting to s...
05:53 pm GMT - Thu, November 22, 2018
Techcrunch Thanksgiving e-commerce spend to top $3.7B, mobile accounting for one-third of sales
Thanksgiving, a day when brick-and-mortar stores tend to be closed, has become a big one for online spending, and when all is tallied, US consumers will have spent $3.7 billion for the day, according ...
05:53 pm GMT - Thu, November 22, 2018
Techcrunch Thanksgiving online spend hits a record $3.7B, mobile accounted for one-third of sales
Thanksgiving, a day when brick-and-mortar stores tend to be closed, has become a big one for online spending, and this year did not disappoint, with a surge of consumers rushing to digital platforms t...
05:36 pm GMT - Thu, November 22, 2018
Techcrunch Be a Thanksgiving security hero with these family-friendly tips
If youre reading this, chances are youre: Pretty good at tech stuff Spending time with your family for Thanksgiving Bored because youre reading this article right now You may not celebrate Thanksgivin...
05:20 pm GMT - Thu, November 22, 2018
Techcrunch Zizoo, a booking.com for boats, sails for new markets with $7.4M on board
Berlin-based Zizoo— a startup which self describes as booking.com for boats — has nabbed a 6.5 million (~$7.4M) Series A to help more millennialsfind holiday yachts to mess about taking se...
04:37 pm GMT - Thu, November 22, 2018
Techcrunch MQT builds classy Swiss watches for the truly debonair
Ah, wonderful to see you again, sir. The usual? Kool-Aid Grain Alcohol Martini with a twisty straw. Of course. And I see you’re wearing a new watch. The MQT Essential Mirror. Quite striking. I s...
04:28 pm GMT - Thu, November 22, 2018
Techcrunch Google lays outs narrow EU election advertiser policy ahead of 2019 vote
Google has announced its plan for combating election interference in the European Union, ahead of elections next May when up to 350 million voters across the region will vote to elect 705 Members of t...
04:28 pm GMT - Thu, November 22, 2018
Techcrunch Google lays out narrow EU election advertiser policy ahead of 2019 vote
Google has announced its plan for combating election interference in the European Union ahead of elections next May when up to 350 million voters across the region will vote to elect 705 members of th...
03:58 pm GMT - Thu, November 22, 2018
Techcrunch Gift Guide: 16 fantastic computer bags
Give the gift of organization this year. Bags are often ignored but are a critical part of anyone’s mobile gear. They’rethe outward representations of our techie styles, and we put far too...
01:37 pm GMT - Thu, November 22, 2018
Techcrunch Amazon reverses tax-triggered block on US shop in Australia
Amazon has reversed a decision it madesix months ago to shut off its US ecommerce site to Australian shoppers.Reuters reports that the U-turn comes after a customer backlash. Since July shoppers in Au...
01:17 pm GMT - Thu, November 22, 2018
Techcrunch Chinas Geek raises $150M to build robots for warehouses and logistics
One of the most immediate — and already live — applications for robotics and artificial intelligence in general has been in using unmanned robots in warehouses and other environments, wher...
01:11 pm GMT - Thu, November 22, 2018
Techcrunch Wluper, a London-based startup building a better conversational AI, picks up $1.3M seed
Wluper, the London-based tech startup building a conversational AI to power domain specific voice assistants, has raised $1.3 million in seed funding. Leading the round is “deep tech” VC I...
09:45 am GMT - Thu, November 22, 2018
Techcrunch October lets 11 public companies borrow money on its platform
French crowd-lending platform October (formerly known as Lendix), wants to educate more people about new ways to borrow money. Thats why the company is launching a project called Grandir Ensemble (gro...
09:03 am GMT - Thu, November 22, 2018
Techcrunch Only one week left until Disrupt Berlin 2018 begins
Heiliger Strohsack! Holy smokes Disrupt Berlin 2018 kicks off in exactly one week! Were beyond excited to welcome thousands of startup movers, shakers and makers to Europes premier tech startup confe...
09:02 am GMT - Thu, November 22, 2018
Techcrunch As Taiwan prepares to vote on LGBTQ issues, a homophobic group is running ads before kids videos on YouTube
This Saturday, several issues related to LGBTQ equality, including marriage, are up for referendum in Taiwans mid-term elections. A little more than a year after the countrys top court ruled in favor ...
08:00 am GMT - Thu, November 22, 2018
Techcrunch Movinga, the European house removals platform, raises further 15M
Movinga, the European house removals and relocation platform, has closed 15 million in further funding. The round was led by London-based growth investor ETF Partners, with participation from existing...
04:27 am GMT - Thu, November 22, 2018
Techcrunch Cross-border fintech startup Instarem raises $20M for global expansion
Instarem, a Singapore-based startup that helps banks transfer money overseas cheaply, has raised a Series C round of over $20 million for global expansion. The round is led by MDI Ventures — the...
04:00 am GMT - Thu, November 22, 2018
Techcrunch Tencent e-wallet is following Alibaba to Hong Kong subways
China’s payments giants have taken their battle to Hong Kong. Less than a week after Ant Financial announced adding QR codes to the city’s MTR public transport network of rail and buses, T...
01:52 am GMT - Thu, November 22, 2018
Techcrunch Teaching STEM through the wonders of larva harvesting
Theres hardly enough room to turn around in Livin Farms office. Pretty standard, really, in Central, Hong Kong, where space is at a perpetual premium. Its a small operation for the HAX-backed startup ...
12:10 am GMT - Thu, November 22, 2018
Techcrunch With no moving parts, this plane flies on the ionic wind
Since planes were invented, they've flown using moving parts to push air around. Sure, there are gliders and dirigibles, which float more than fly, but powered flight is all about propellers (that's w...
08:34 pm GMT - Wed, November 21, 2018
Techcrunch Theyre making a real HAL 9000, and its called CASE
Don't panic! Life imitates art, to be sure, but hopefully the researchers in charge of the Cognitive Architecture for Space Exploration, or CASE, have taken the right lessons from 2001: A Space Odysse...
08:24 pm GMT - Wed, November 21, 2018
Techcrunch LinkedIn cuts off email address exports with new privacy setting
A win for privacy on LinkedIn could be a big loss for businesses, recruiters and anyone else expecting to be able to export the email addresses of their connections. LinkedIn just quietly introduced a...
08:24 pm GMT - Wed, November 21, 2018
Techcrunch Facebook is still facing intermittent outages for advertisers ahead of Black Friday and Cyber Monday
One day after experiencing a massive outage across its ad network, Facebook, one of the most important online advertising platforms, is still seeing “intermittent” issues for its ad produc...
08:01 pm GMT - Wed, November 21, 2018
Techcrunch Apple puts its next generation of AI into sharper focus as it picks up Silk Labs
Apple’s HomePod is a distant third behind Amazon and Google when it comes to market share for smart speakers that double up as home hubs, with less than 5 percent share of the market for these d...
08:00 pm GMT - Wed, November 21, 2018
Techcrunch Driven to safety its time to pool our data
We need to create industry and regulatory environment in which autonomous vehicle companies compete based upon the quality of their technology -- not just upon their ability to spend hundreds of milli...
07:36 pm GMT - Wed, November 21, 2018
Techcrunch Thanksgiving travel nightmare projected to hit these US cities the worst
The latest data from Inrix paints a dismal picture for folks traveling Wednesday (that’s today!) ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday. Drivers in Boston, New York City and San Francisco will see th...
06:57 pm GMT - Wed, November 21, 2018
Techcrunch Facebook has poached the DoJs Silicon Valley antitrust chief
Facebook has recruited Kate Patchen, a veteran of the U.S. Department of Justice who led its antitrust office in Silicon Valley, to be a director and associate general counsel of litigation. Patchen t...
06:26 pm GMT - Wed, November 21, 2018
Techcrunch Google Assistant iOS update lets you say Hey Siri, OK Google
Apple probably didnt intend to let competitors take advantage of Siri Shortcuts this way, but you can now launch Google Assistant on your iPhone by saying Hey Siri, OK Google . But dont expect a flawl...
06:00 pm GMT - Wed, November 21, 2018
Techcrunch Drone.io, Packet team on free continuous delivery service for open-source developers
Drone.io, makers of the open-source Drone continuous integration/continuous delivery tool (CI/CD), announced Drone Cloud today, a new CI/CD cloud service that it’s making available for free to o...
04:45 pm GMT - Wed, November 21, 2018
Techcrunch Facebook appeals UK data watchdogs 500k Cambridge Analytica fine
Facebook has said it will appeal against a 500,000 penalty issued by the UK’s data watchdog this summer following a lengthy investigation into the Cambridge Analytica data misuse scandal. Facebo...
04:10 pm GMT - Wed, November 21, 2018
Techcrunch Affetto is the wild-boy-head robot of your nightmares
Affetto is a robot that can smile at you while it pierces your soul with its endless, dead state. Created by researchers at Osaka University, this crazy baby-head robot can mimic human emotions by scr...
04:07 pm GMT - Wed, November 21, 2018
Techcrunch Amazon admits it exposed customer email addresses, doubles down on secrecy
Amazons renowned secrecy encompasses its response to a new security issue, withholding info that could help victims protect themselves. Amazon emailed users Tuesday, warning them that a it exposed an ...
04:07 pm GMT - Wed, November 21, 2018
Techcrunch Amazon admits it exposed customer email addresses, but refuses to give details
Amazons renowned secrecy encompasses its response to a new security issue, withholding info that could help victims protect themselves. Amazon emailed users Tuesday, warning them that it exposed an un...
03:12 pm GMT - Wed, November 21, 2018
Techcrunch CV Compiler is a robot that fixes your resume to make you more competitive
Machine learning is everywhere now, including recruiting. Take CV Compiler, a new product by Andrew Stetsenko and Alexandra Dosii. This web app uses machine learning to analyze and repair your technic...
02:12 pm GMT - Wed, November 21, 2018
Techcrunch Quantum Machines raises $5.5M to build control and operational layer for quantum computers
Quantum Machines, an Israeli startup launched by three Ph.D. physicists, wants to build the operational and control layer for quantum computing. Today, it announced a $5.5 million seed investment led ...
01:14 pm GMT - Wed, November 21, 2018
Techcrunch Facebook failed to stop a child bride being auctioned on its platform
Facebook failed to prevent its platform being used to auction a 16-year-old girl off for marriage in South Sudan. Child early and forced marriage (CEFM) is the most commonly reported form of gender-ba...
11:49 am GMT - Wed, November 21, 2018
Techcrunch Googles News Initiative heads to APAC with grants of up to $300K for media orgs
Google is expanding its efforts to support media to Asia Pacific after the search giant brought its Google News Initiative to the region. Known as GNI, the program is designed to “help quality j...
10:36 am GMT - Wed, November 21, 2018
Techcrunch WeWork is getting serious about China
Since its entry into China in 2016, WeWork has extended from four to around 60 locations across the country’s megacities like Shanghai, Beijing, and most recently, Shenzhen. That’s one-six...
10:00 am GMT - Wed, November 21, 2018
Techcrunch African investors and founders to judge Startup Battlefield competition in Nigeria
TechCrunch will soon be returning to Africa to hold its Startup Battlefield competition dedicated to the African continent, in Lagos, Nigeria, on December 11th. The event will showcase the launch of 1...
09:47 am GMT - Wed, November 21, 2018
Techcrunch Berlin-based Wind Mobility raises $22M for its e-scooter rental service
Wind Mobility, a Berlin-based mobility startup that offers “dockless” e-scooter (and electric bicycle) rentals, has raised $22 million in seed funding, throwing its hat into the European c...
08:02 am GMT - Wed, November 21, 2018
Techcrunch As the FDA moves to ban most flavored e-cigs sold in stores, Juul pushes back harder on copycats
Love Juul or hate it, you can probably appreciate why the e-cigarette company is frustrated. It has grown like gangbusters since the first Juul vaporizer was introduced in 2015, leaving competitors &#...
05:07 am GMT - Wed, November 21, 2018
Techcrunch Walmart in China is now testing same-day grocery delivery from Dada via WeChat
Walmart has just begun testing same-day grocery delivery called Walmart To Go in one of its stores in China, months after the American retail titan expanded grocery delivery in its homeland. The servi...
02:28 am GMT - Wed, November 21, 2018
Techcrunch Internal Facebook memo sees outgoing VP of comms Schrage take blame for hiring Definers
TechCrunch has obtained an internal memo published by Facebook’s outgoing head of public policy Elliot Schrage in which he blames himself for hiring PR firm Definers. He admits to having the com...
02:10 am GMT - Wed, November 21, 2018
Techcrunch Zuckerberg wont step down as Facebook chairman
In a short but amply-hyped interview with CNN, Facebook’s founder and chief executive again responded to criticism over the company’s most recent crisis. The interview, excerpted from a lo...
12:58 am GMT - Wed, November 21, 2018
Techcrunch Kindreds robots help retailers handle fulfillment centers and take on Amazon
Since taking the reins as chief executive of Kindred at the beginning of the year, Jim Liefer has been focused on commercializing his companys autonomous robots. But unlike forward-projecting use-case...
12:36 am GMT - Wed, November 21, 2018
Techcrunch Five years and one pivot later, Trueface emerges with a promise for better facial recognition tech
Shaun Moore and Nezare Chafni didn’t initially intend to develop a new standalone facial recognition technology, when they first got started developing the technology that would become their new...
11:50 pm GMT - Tue, November 20, 2018
Techcrunch Our 3 favorite startups from Morgan Stanleys 2nd Multicultural Innovation Lab Demo Day
The Morgan StanleyMulticultural Innovation Lab,Morgan Stanleys in-house accelerator focused on companies founded by multicultural and female entrepreneurs, hosted its second Annual Showcase and Demo D...
11:28 pm GMT - Tue, November 20, 2018
Techcrunch 11 moments from the International Space Stations first 20 years
It was November 20, 1998, when an unprecedented international coalition of astronomers, engineers, and rocket scientists saw years of collaboration come to fruition with the launch of the Internationa...
11:08 pm GMT - Tue, November 20, 2018
Techcrunch Autodesk agrees to buy PlanGrid for $875 million
Autodesk announced plans to acquire PlanGridfor $875 million today. The San Francisco startup helped move blueprints from paper to the iPad when it launched in 2011. This digitization of construction ...
10:00 pm GMT - Tue, November 20, 2018
Techcrunch Can Bitcoin find its practical use case as a currency in Latin America?
Eduardo Gomez started with Bitcoin in 2012, though he didnt quite understand what he was getting himself into nor how it would change his life....
09:29 pm GMT - Tue, November 20, 2018
Techcrunch Piano teams up with True[x] to combine advertising and paywalls
Nearly every online publisher has launched or announced a paywall but of course, even the ones that are successful won’t convince every reader, or even the majority of readers, to sign up. Now ...
09:08 pm GMT - Tue, November 20, 2018
Techcrunch Apples holiday ad is an animated short film
Apple always has an interesting ad for the holiday season. This time, its a cute little animated short film. It feels like a hybrid between a Pixar movie and a Wes Anderson creation. Named Share Your ...
09:05 pm GMT - Tue, November 20, 2018
Techcrunch How a small French privacy ruling could remake adtech for good
A ruling in late October against a little known French adtech firm that popped up on the national data watchdog’s website earlier this month, is causing ripples of excitement to run through priv...
08:26 pm GMT - Tue, November 20, 2018
Techcrunch WTF is happening to crypto?
Four days ago the crypto markets were crashing hard. Now they’re crashing harder. Bitcoin, which hasn’t fallen past $6,000 for months, has dumped to $4,413.99 as of this morning, and nearl...
07:57 pm GMT - Tue, November 20, 2018
Techcrunch Elon Musks extracurricular antics reportedly spark a NASA safety probe at SpaceX
Elon Musk’s dabble with the doobage in a September radio interview may have sparked more than just an outpouring of adulation from his acolytes (and a fairly interesting conversation around arti...
07:43 pm GMT - Tue, November 20, 2018
Techcrunch Half a million Android users tricked into downloading malware from Google Play
More than half a million users have installed Android malware posing as driving games from Google’s own app store. Lukas Stefanko, a security researcher at ESET, tweeted details of 13 gaming ap...
07:37 pm GMT - Tue, November 20, 2018
Techcrunch LinkedIn launches its own Snapchat Stories: Student Voices
The social media singularity continues with the arrival of Snapchat Stories-style slideshows on LinkedIn as the app grasps for relevance with a younger audience. LinkedIn confirms to TechCrunch that i...
07:37 pm GMT - Tue, November 20, 2018
Techcrunch LinkedIn launches its own Snapchat Stories. Heres why it shouldnt have
The social media singularity continues with the arrival of Snapchat Stories-style slideshows on LinkedIn as the app grasps for relevance with a younger audience. LinkedIn confirms to TechCrunch that i...
06:33 pm GMT - Tue, November 20, 2018
Techcrunch Gift Guide: Black Friday tech deals that are actually pretty good
Black Friday is, for the most part, bad. People are awful, retailers pull all sorts of shenanigans to make it seem like you’re getting a better deal than you are and a lot of people end up buyin...
06:00 pm GMT - Tue, November 20, 2018
Techcrunch The highest flying consumer tech stocks have lost $1 trillion
Another day, another stock market setback for once high-flying technology companies,which have lost roughly $1 trillion in the latest stock market slide. Shares of the core group of consumer technolog...
06:00 pm GMT - Tue, November 20, 2018
Techcrunch The highest-flying consumer tech stocks have lost $1 trillion
Another day, another stock market setback for once high-flying technology companies,which have lost roughly $1 trillion in the latest stock market slide. Shares of the core group of consumer technolog...
05:43 pm GMT - Tue, November 20, 2018
Techcrunch FedEx is adding 1,000 Chanje vans to electrify its fleet
FedEx isturning to a relatively new and unknown startup as itramps up its efforts to electrify its fleet of delivery vans.The company announced Tuesday plans to add 1,000 electric delivery vehicles fr...
05:32 pm GMT - Tue, November 20, 2018
Techcrunch Facebook is finally rolling out its how long do I spend on Facebook dashboard
15 weeks after Facebook announced its “Your Time On Facebook” tool that counts how many minutes you spend on the app, the feature is finally rolling out around the world. Designed to help ...
05:12 pm GMT - Tue, November 20, 2018
Techcrunch Valve is discontinuing the Steam Link, at least the hardware part
Valve has quietly updated the Steam page for the Steam Link. The message says that Valve is discontinuing the Steam Link. The device will become unavailable once all units have been sold. When Valve i...
04:00 pm GMT - Tue, November 20, 2018
Techcrunch On Black Friday, youll be able watch the entire Lego Movie in a YouTube ad
On Black Friday, YouTube says it’s teaming up with Warner Bros. Pictures to allow viewers to watch “The Lego Movie” for free, as part of a promotion for the upcoming sequel. YouTube ...
04:00 pm GMT - Tue, November 20, 2018
Techcrunch On Black Friday, youll be able to watch the entire Lego Movie in a YouTube ad
On Black Friday, YouTube says it’s teaming up with Warner Bros. Pictures to allow viewers to watch “The Lego Movie” for free as part of a promotion for the upcoming sequel. YouTube r...
03:00 pm GMT - Tue, November 20, 2018
Techcrunch Cloud communications platform Agora closes $70M Series C to create new developer tools
Agora, a developer of cloud communication APIs, will create products for new markets and verticals after raising a $70 million Series C led by Coatue Management. Existing investors SIG, Morningside Ca...
03:00 pm GMT - Tue, November 20, 2018
Techcrunch Uber aims to offer more wheelchair-accessible rides with shorter wait times
Uber has long received flack for its lack of widely available wheelchair-accessible rides. Today, Uber is taking steps to ensure riders who rely on wheelchairs can get rides when they need them, and w...
02:58 pm GMT - Tue, November 20, 2018
Techcrunch With investors knocking, PlayVS opens the door to a $30M Series B
PlayVS, the company bringing esports infrastructure to high schools across the country, has today announced the close of a $30.5 million Series B financing. The round was led by Elysian Park Ventures,...
02:05 pm GMT - Tue, November 20, 2018
Techcrunch Korean e-commerce firm Coupang raises $2 billion from SoftBanks Vision Fund
Just days after a CIA report concluded thatSaudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, SoftBank’s Vision Fund — the gargantuan investment vehic...
02:00 pm GMT - Tue, November 20, 2018
Techcrunch Eventbrite adds two more women to its C-suite
Eventbrite has hired a chief commercial officer and chief data strategy officer....
12:50 pm GMT - Tue, November 20, 2018
Techcrunch Argent, a smart crypto wallet app with a banking look, raises $4M from Euro VCs
One of the biggest problems for the mainstream adoption of crypto is the need for memorizing seed phrases, the inability to get your cryptocurrency back if something goes wrong, the list goes on. Unti...
09:01 am GMT - Tue, November 20, 2018
Techcrunch Last Chance to get a table in Startup Alley at Disrupt Berlin
Going once, going twice for tables in Startup Alley! Disrupt Berlin is less than two weeks away, and registration is about to close for startups looking to showcase their product or company to thousan...
09:00 am GMT - Tue, November 20, 2018
Techcrunch HyperSurfaces turns any surface into a user interface using vibration sensors and AI
Imagine any surface, such as a wooden table, car door or glass wall, could be turned into a user interface without the need for physical buttons or a touch screen. That’s the ambition of HyperSu...
08:00 am GMT - Tue, November 20, 2018
Techcrunch Cloud canteen startup Feedr raises 1.5M to provide office workers with a healthier lunch
Feedr, a food tech startup that delivers healthy and personalised meals to office workers as an alternative to companies setting up their own canteens, has picked up just over 1.5 million in pre-Serie...
07:30 am GMT - Tue, November 20, 2018
Techcrunch Tumblr booted from App Store due to child porn
Tumblr’s app was booted out of the iOS App Store a few days ago due to an issue with child pornography getting its way past the app’s filtering technology, according to a report from CNET,...
07:00 am GMT - Tue, November 20, 2018
Techcrunch 500 Startups Vietnam grabs $14M to invest in local companies
Vietnam is one of the most rapidly-expanding tech ecosystems in Southeast Asia....
06:17 am GMT - Tue, November 20, 2018
Techcrunch Amazon Echo devices can now make Skype calls
Video chat was always one of Echo Show and Spots biggest selling points. But until now, the products have been tethered to Amazons own software. This week, however, the company took another big step i...
05:50 am GMT - Tue, November 20, 2018
Techcrunch Elon Musk just renamed SpaceXs Big F** Rocket
BFR, the monster rocket that will cost SpaceX roughly $5 billion to develop, has a new name. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk tweeted late Monday night that he has renamed the company’s largest (and yet to ...
05:43 am GMT - Tue, November 20, 2018
Techcrunch The WT2 in-ear translator arrives in January, with real-time feedback coming soon
Timekettle was eager to show us the progress its made on the WT2 since it first showed us its wearable translation device at TechCrunch Shenzhen, this time last year. Unlike their 3D printed state at ...
03:45 am GMT - Tue, November 20, 2018
Techcrunch Read the mud-slinging pitches Facebooks PR firm sent us
Facebook’s latest PR crisis has cast a lurid spotlight on a GOP-led publicity firm called Definers Public Affairs, after aNew York Times investigation revealed last week the firm had sought to d...
03:39 am GMT - Tue, November 20, 2018
Techcrunch Xiaomi gobbles up selfie phone brand Meitu as revenue jumps 49%
Xiaomi is diversifying into a new range of phones as theChinese smartphone maker announced impressive growth with its latest financials. The company announced it will take over selfie app maker Meitu&...
03:26 am GMT - Tue, November 20, 2018
Techcrunch A closer look at HTCs blockchain phone, the Exodus 1
The Exodus 1 didnt make its global debut on stage at TechCrunch Shenzhen. That was the plan, but stuff, as the saying goes, happens. It simply didnt make its way from Hong Kong to China in time. I won...
02:30 am GMT - Tue, November 20, 2018
Techcrunch One billion 3D views and counting
Alice Lloyd George Contributor Alice Lloyd George is an investor at RRE Ventures and the host of Flux, a series of podcast conversations with leaders in frontier technology. More posts by this contrib...
12:38 am GMT - Tue, November 20, 2018
Techcrunch First ever drone-delivered kidney is no worse for wear
Drone delivery really only seems practical for two things: take-out and organ transplants. Both are relatively light and also extremely time sensitive. Well, experiments in flying a kidney around Balt...
11:54 pm GMT - Mon, November 19, 2018
Techcrunch iHeartMedia to acquire radio adtech company Jelli
Radio giant iHeartMedia announced today that it’s reached an agreement to acquire Jelli, a company bringing programmatic ad-buying to radio broadcasters. In fact, iHeartMedia was already working...
11:35 pm GMT - Mon, November 19, 2018
Techcrunch Half-Life turns 20, and we all feel very old
The only thing that's crazier than the fact that Half-Life was released exactly 20 years ago is that I wrote up its 10th anniversary on this very website... well, 10 years ago. We've both aged well, I...
11:09 pm GMT - Mon, November 19, 2018
Techcrunch Ticketmaster and Fanatics link up to sell merch and tickets on each others platforms
In a blockbuster deal for Fanatics and Ticketmaster, the two companies have agreed to sell verified tickets and merchandise on each others’ sites. According to a statement from the two companies...
11:05 pm GMT - Mon, November 19, 2018
Techcrunch Cloud stocks take a beating
It was a stormy Monday for cloud stocks today with the general trend pointing way down. Okta stock took the biggest beating, down over 15 percent to $48.67, and even mighty Salesforce had its worst da...
10:39 pm GMT - Mon, November 19, 2018
Techcrunch Interest rates and fears of a mounting trade war send tech stocks lower
Shares of technology companies were battered in today’s trading as fears of an increasing trade war between the U.S. and China and rising interest rates convinced worried investors to sell. The ...
09:17 pm GMT - Mon, November 19, 2018
Techcrunch Move over Le Creuset? A new cookware startup founded by and for millennials is getting down to business
Sometimes, it’s hard to imagine a product or industry that a new e-commerce startup hasn’t tried to remake already, fromslipperstomattresses, fromluggagetolipstick. Yet two childhood frien...
09:15 pm GMT - Mon, November 19, 2018
Techcrunch Today in brighter crypto news: SEC says tokens are securities
Crypto news got a little boost last week after a dark month of crashes, stablecoins and birthdays. The SEC ruled that two ICO issuers, CarrierEQ Inc. and Paragon Coin Inc., were in fact selling securi...
08:02 pm GMT - Mon, November 19, 2018
Techcrunch Microsoft acquires FSLogix to enhance Office 365 virtual desktop experience
Back in September, Microsoft announced a virtual desktop solution that lets customers run Office 365 and Windows 10 in the cloud. They mentioned several partners in the announcement that were working ...
07:47 pm GMT - Mon, November 19, 2018
Techcrunch NASA chooses the landing site for its Mars 2020 rover mission
Five years and sixty potential locations later, NASA has chosen the Jezero Crater as the landing site for itsMars 2020rover mission. Slated to launch in July the Mars 2020 rover mission will touch dow...
07:17 pm GMT - Mon, November 19, 2018
Techcrunch Inboard opens general availability of its premium electric scooter
Inboard, the startup that sells a range of electric scooters and skateboards, has just opened sales of its first premium scooter — just in time for the holiday season. The company has already so...
06:00 pm GMT - Mon, November 19, 2018
Techcrunch Instagram kills off fake followers, threatens accounts that keep using apps to get them
Instagram is fighting back against automated apps people use to leave spammy comments or follow then unfollow others in hopes of growing their audience. Today Instagram is removing inauthentic follows...
05:50 pm GMT - Mon, November 19, 2018
Techcrunch Virgin Orbit successfully takes its 747 flying launchpad out for a spin
In the next step on its path to getting its low earth orbit payload launch system up and running, Virgin Orbit successfully took its LauncherOne system out for a spin with an actual rocket attached un...
04:49 pm GMT - Mon, November 19, 2018
Techcrunch BuzzFeed News launches a paid membership program (and yes, theres a tote bag)
BuzzFeed News is giving readers a new way to support its journalism by paying a monthly or yearly fee. BuzzFeed might not seem like the most obvious publication to ask readers for financial support, ...
04:30 pm GMT - Mon, November 19, 2018
Techcrunch Office 365, Azure users are locked out after a global multi-factor authentication outage
Good morning! Except if you’re a hosted Microsoft customer who’s locked out of your account right now. Microsoft’s cloud-based multi-factor authentication services went down across t...
03:54 pm GMT - Mon, November 19, 2018
Techcrunch Amazon Comprehend adds customized language lists to machine learning tool
Last year Amazon announced Comprehend, a natural language processing tool to help companies extract common words and phrases from a corpus of information. Today, a week ahead of its Re:invent customer...
03:47 pm GMT - Mon, November 19, 2018
Techcrunch GMs self-driving unit Cruise is expanding to Seattle
Cruise, the self-driving company acquired by GM in 2016, is expanding to Seattle as it seeks out more engineering talent to develop its technology. The company doesn’t have any plans right now t...
03:44 pm GMT - Mon, November 19, 2018
Techcrunch Now eight parliaments are demanding Zuckerberg answers for Facebook scandals
Facebook’s founder is facing pressure to accept an invite from eight international parliaments, with lawmakers wanting to question him about negative impacts his social network is having on demo...
03:00 pm GMT - Mon, November 19, 2018
Techcrunch Airbnb is using what3words to list stays with Mongolian nomads
Putting a new spin on the term ‘digital nomad’, UK addressing platform what3words has partnered with Airbnb to list stays withMongolian nomads. The startup’ssimplified addressing sys...
02:33 pm GMT - Mon, November 19, 2018
Techcrunch Carbo brings its light and peppy electric bike to the U.S.
The Carbo is a new electric bike that weighs a mere 27 pounds and can pep up your morning commute. Created by the Montreal-based team that successfully shipped the Veco, this crowdfunded electric bike...
02:33 pm GMT - Mon, November 19, 2018
Techcrunch Carbo brings its light and peppy electric bike to the US
The Carbo is a new electric bike that weighs a mere 27 pounds and can pep up your morning commute. Created by the Montreal-based team that successfully shipped the Veco, this crowdfunded electric bike...
02:30 pm GMT - Mon, November 19, 2018
Techcrunch Pandora Premium arrives on Echo and other Alexa devices
Pandora Premium is finally available on Echo devices. The streaming music company this morning announced its top-level paid subscription tier will launch across Alexa-powered devices, including the Am...
02:14 pm GMT - Mon, November 19, 2018
Techcrunch Snap launches a certification program for AR shops to craft branded lenses
Snap has announced a partner program intended to make it easer for brands to get on board with — and pay for — its augmented reality ‘lenses’ by helping advertisers find certif...
02:00 pm GMT - Mon, November 19, 2018
Techcrunch Peer tutoring platform Knack raises $1.5M from Charles Hudson, Jeff Vinik
Knack, a peer tutoring platform aimed at college students, is taking a different approach than some online tutoring marketplaces have in the past. As a result, the Florida-based startup has raised a $...
01:59 pm GMT - Mon, November 19, 2018
Techcrunch Genies brings lifelike avatars to other apps with $10M from celebrities
Genies is emerging as the top competitor to Snapchat’s wildly popular Bitmoji as Facebook, Apple, and Google have been slow to get serious about personalized avatars. Over one million people hav...
01:59 pm GMT - Mon, November 19, 2018
Techcrunch Wonolo, a staffing platform for blue-collar and labor contractors left behind by Silicon Valley, raises $32M
A recent survey found that around 20 percent of all jobs in the US are held by contractors — people who take on work based on a particular project or fixed-term period, not as full-time, permane...
01:00 pm GMT - Mon, November 19, 2018
Techcrunch Lidar startup AEye raises $40M Series B led by the Taiwanese governments investment firm
Lidar technology developer AEye will scale its operations globally through manufacturing partnerships after raising a $40 million Series B. The round was led by Taiwania Capital, the investment firm c...
12:49 pm GMT - Mon, November 19, 2018
Techcrunch Lightfoot gets $4M to nudge more drivers to go smooth with a Fitbit for cars
UK car tech startup lightfoot, which sells a telematics system that gives real-time feedback to drivers combined with a rewards platform to further incentivize good driving, has picked up 3.2 million ...
10:59 am GMT - Mon, November 19, 2018
Techcrunch Plastiq raises $27M at 2X value to let you pay for anything on credit
I wasnt asking to pay in Bitcoin! Plastiq CEO and co-founder Eliot Buchanan recalls with a laugh. I went to pay part of my tuition at Harvard and I was told that they didnt (and never would) accept cr...
09:05 am GMT - Mon, November 19, 2018
Techcrunch SoftBanks Deepcore and accelerator Zeroth team up to hunt early stage AI opportunities
Two early stage AI programs are joining forces because, even in the world of artificial intelligence, two heads are better than one. Hong Kong-based accelerator Zeroth — which recently grabbed a...
09:05 am GMT - Mon, November 19, 2018
Techcrunch SoftBanks Deepcore and accelerator Zeroth team up to hunt early-stage AI opportunities
Two early-stage AI programs are joining forces because, even in the world of artificial intelligence, two heads are better than one. Hong Kong-based accelerator Zeroth — which recently grabbed a...
09:00 am GMT - Mon, November 19, 2018
Techcrunch A closer look at Royoles foldable display
Youd be forgiven if Royole doesnt ring any bells. Even here China, its far from a household name. Still, the Shanghai-based startup recently secured an undisclosed Series E, vaulting its valuation to ...
08:43 am GMT - Mon, November 19, 2018
Techcrunch GoEuro is adding ferries to its multi-modal travel planner mix
European multi-modal travel planning platform, GoEuro, is adding another transport option to its ‘compare and book’ proposition by introducing ferries to the existing mix of trains, planes...
04:00 am GMT - Mon, November 19, 2018
Techcrunch Google report: Southeast Asias digital economy to triple to $240 billion by 2025
It may sit in the shade of China and India, but tech has real growth potential in Southeast Asia. Home to a cumulative 650 million people, the region’s digital economy is forecast to triple in s...
11:00 pm GMT - Sun, November 18, 2018
Techcrunch VOI Technology, the e-scooter startup from Sweden, raises $50M led by Balderton Capital
VOI Technology, an e-scooter startup headquartered in Sweden but with pan-European ambitions, has raised $50 million in Series A funding, confirming our earlier scoop. As I previously reported, London...
07:00 pm GMT - Sun, November 18, 2018
Techcrunch Original Content podcast: The disappointment of House of Cards and its final season
It seems like Netflix’s “House of Cards” had a real opportunity for a fresh start with season six. Granted, the behind-the-scenes turmoil probably made this season particularly chall...
05:30 pm GMT - Sun, November 18, 2018
Techcrunch Gillmor Gang: Nation State
The Gillmor Gang Keith Teare, Esteban Kolsky, Frank Radice, Michael Markman, and Steve Gillmor . Recorded live Saturday November 17, 2018. Democracy saved, fiat currency, and Facebook rope-a-dope. Pr...
05:18 pm GMT - Sun, November 18, 2018
Techcrunch Google looks to former Oracle exec Thomas Kurian to move cloud business along
Diane Greene announced on Friday that she wasstepping down after three yearsrunning Google’s cloud business. She will stay on until the first of the year to help her successor, Thomas Kurian in ...
02:00 pm GMT - Sun, November 18, 2018
Techcrunch The slow corrosion of techno-optimism
Two weeks from now, the Swahilipot Hub, a hackerspace / makerspace / center for techies and artists in Mombasa, Kenya, is hosting a Pwani Innovation Week, “to stimulate the innovation ecosystem ...
12:51 pm GMT - Sun, November 18, 2018
Techcrunch Vision Direct reveals breach that skimmed customer credit cards
European online contact lens supplier Vision Direct has revealed a data breach which compromised full credit card details for a number of its customers, as well as personal information. Compromised da...
08:30 pm GMT - Sat, November 17, 2018
Techcrunch Cities that didnt win HQ2 shouldnt be counted out
Brooks Rainwater Contributor Share on Twitter Brooks Rainwater is the director of the Center for City Solutions and Applied Research at the National League of Cities. More posts by this contributor As...
06:03 pm GMT - Sat, November 17, 2018
Techcrunch Microsoft to shut down HockeyApp
Microsoft announced plans to shut down HockeyApp and replace it with Visual Studio App Center. The company acquired the startup behind HockeyApp back in 2014. And if youre still using HockeyApp, the s...
05:37 pm GMT - Sat, November 17, 2018
Techcrunch Chinas hottest news app Jinri Toutiao announces new CEO
You may not have heard of ByteDance, but you probably know its red-hot video app TikTok, whichgobbled up Musical.lyin August. The Beijing-based company also runs a popular news aggregator called Jinri...
05:30 pm GMT - Sat, November 17, 2018
Techcrunch Quantum computing, not AI, will define our future
William ("Whurley") Hurley Contributor Share on Twitter William Hurley, commonly known as whurley, is an American entrepreneur and the founder of Chaotic Moon Studios, Honest Dollar, and Equal...
05:15 pm GMT - Sat, November 17, 2018
Techcrunch WhatsApp could wreck Snapchat again by copying ephemeral messaging
WhatsApp already ruined Snapchat’s growth once. WhatsApp Status, its clone of Snapchat Stories, now has 450 million daily active users compared to Snapchat’s 188 million. That’s desp...
04:30 pm GMT - Sat, November 17, 2018
Techcrunch How cities can fix tourism hell
A steep and rapid rise in tourism has left behind a wake of economic and environmental damage in cities around the globe. In response, governments have been responding with policies that attempt to li...
04:15 pm GMT - Sat, November 17, 2018
Techcrunch Microsoft could release a disc-less Xbox One
According to a new report from Thurott, Microsoft has been working on a new console in the Xbox One family. This cheaper model could play regular Xbox One games, but there would be no Blu-Ray drive. T...
01:11 pm GMT - Sat, November 17, 2018
Techcrunch SparkLabs Taipei closes initial $4.25M for its first fund, adds Jeremy Lin as an advisor
SparkLabs Taipei, part of SparkLabs Group, the global network of accelerator programs and funds that works with emerging startup ecosystems, has raised $4.25 million in an initial close led by CTBC Gr...
04:20 am GMT - Sat, November 17, 2018
Techcrunch YouTube quietly added free, ad-supported movies to its site
YouTube quietly added around 100 ad-supported Hollywood movies to its site, beginning last month, according to a new report from AdAge. The titles include a mix of classics like “Rocky” an...
04:00 am GMT - Sat, November 17, 2018
Techcrunch Blockchain gaming gets a boost with Mythical Games $16M Series A
Mythical Games is betting user-generated content andintimate ties between players, content creators, brands and developers is the future of entertainment....
03:16 am GMT - Sat, November 17, 2018
Techcrunch Walmart passes Apple to become No. 3 online retailer in U.S.
Walmart has overtaken Apple to become the No. 3 online retailer in the U.S., according to a report this week from eMarketer. While Amazon still leads by a wide margin, accounting for 48 percent of e-c...
01:07 am GMT - Sat, November 17, 2018
Techcrunch The Boring Company goes brick-and-mortar with The Brick Store
Elon Musk has shot out some crazy, unbelievable tweets over the last year, but he wasnt joking about the bricks. Musk has started a company called The Brick Store LLC to produce and sell bricks, accor...
12:06 am GMT - Sat, November 17, 2018
Techcrunch Unicorns arent special anymore
There are 145 "active unicorns" today worth an aggregate valuation of $555.9 billion. In 2013, there were just 39....
11:30 pm GMT - Fri, November 16, 2018
Techcrunch Feeling left out of a hot market? This new outfit has a fund with shares of 30 top unicorns to sell you
When Equidate, a venture-backed secondaries marketplace based in San Francisco, closed its most recent round of funding with $50 million four months ago, it was hardly a surprising bet on the part of ...
11:24 pm GMT - Fri, November 16, 2018
Techcrunch Kairos founder countersues his own company for $10 million
The turmoil continues at facial recognition startup Kairos . Last night, Kairos founder Brian Brackeen filed a counter lawsuit against Kairos and its interim CEO Melissa Doval that seeks $10 million i...
09:59 pm GMT - Fri, November 16, 2018
Techcrunch Pitching a $99 tax advisory service for the masses, Visor has raised $9 million
The only sure things in this life, according to Ben Franklin, are death and taxes. And a new startup calledVisorhas just raised $9 million in financing to make one of them as painless as possible. Unl...
09:32 pm GMT - Fri, November 16, 2018
Techcrunch The Criterion Collection is launching its own streaming service
When WarnerMedia announced last month that it would be shutting down its streaming service FilmStruck, the team at the Criterion Collection said it would be looking for a new digital home. Today, Crit...
09:27 pm GMT - Fri, November 16, 2018
Techcrunch Tesla has opened up Model 3 orders to customers in China
Tesla is now taking orders for the Model 3 from customers in China, according to its website. Reuters was the first to report that Tesla is taking orders in China. Tesla won’t confirm or comment...
08:43 pm GMT - Fri, November 16, 2018
Techcrunch Gift Guide: The best gear for that friend who wants to start a podcast
How do I start a podcast?As the producer of the TechCrunch podcast Equity, I get this question all the time. Fortunately, it's easier than ever to get your voice out there....
07:26 pm GMT - Fri, November 16, 2018
Techcrunch Stoop aims to improve your news diet with an easy way to find and read newsletters
Stoop is looking to provide readers with what CEO Tim Raybould described as “a healthier information diet.” To do that, it’s launched an iOS and Android app where you can browse thro...
07:12 pm GMT - Fri, November 16, 2018
Techcrunch Cryptocurrency chill causes mining speculator Nvidias stock to plunge
The cryptocurrency market is an exciting one, but it's also unpredictable and when things go south, they take related businesses with them. Nvidia, a hardware giant that has been riding the cryptocur...
06:45 pm GMT - Fri, November 16, 2018
Techcrunch Reading List: Podcasting
I argued in my recent post Whats Next for Podcasting? that were at a pivot point where podcasting is becoming a mainstream content format for all types of shows and creators as Hollywood enters the fr...
06:03 pm GMT - Fri, November 16, 2018
Techcrunch Former Oracle Exec Thomas Kurian to replace Diane Greene as head of Google Cloud
Diane Greene announced in a blog post today that she would be stepping down as CEO of Google Cloud and will be helping transition former Oracle executive Thomas Kurian to take over early next year. Gr...
06:00 pm GMT - Fri, November 16, 2018
Techcrunch Weather Ups app can give you forecasts for your calendar events
There are plenty of weather apps to choose from on the App Store, but the newly released Weather Up app is doing something different. Instead of just offering the daily weather, it will now offer Even...
05:58 pm GMT - Fri, November 16, 2018
Techcrunch Airbnb made more than $1 billion in revenue last quarter
Ahead of Airbnb’s expected initial public offering next year, the home-sharing startup announced more than $1 billion in revenue during Q3 2018. Airbnb says this was its strongest quarter to dat...
05:51 pm GMT - Fri, November 16, 2018
Techcrunch UN warns over human rights impact of a digital welfare state
The UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights has raised concerns about the UK’s rush to apply digital technologies and data tools to socially re-engineer the delivery of public ...
04:00 pm GMT - Fri, November 16, 2018
Techcrunch CodeStream lets you collaborate and talk directly in VS Code
Adding comments to your code is nothing new. But what if you could @-mention your coworkers and start a thread about a specific part of your code? Meet CodeStream, a Y Combinator-backed startup that w...
03:00 pm GMT - Fri, November 16, 2018
Techcrunch Mailchimp teams up with Square to launch shoppable landing pages
Mailchimp, the popular email newsletter service and marketing platform, today announced a partnership with Square that will allow its users to create landing pages with built-in e-commercefeatures. Th...
02:47 pm GMT - Fri, November 16, 2018
Techcrunch Facebook Messenger is building a Watch Videos Together feature
Netflix and chill from afar? Facebook Messenger is now internally testing simultaneous co-viewing of videos. That means you and your favorite people could watch a synchronized video over group chat on...
02:10 pm GMT - Fri, November 16, 2018
Techcrunch Ubers financials, Qualtrics $8B exit and whats going on at WeWork
Hello and welcome back toEquity, TechCrunchs venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week we had the excellent Connie Loizos on the air, we had Danny Cr...
01:53 pm GMT - Fri, November 16, 2018
Techcrunch Popular Chinese selfie app Meitu now includes 3D editing
You’ve probably had the experience of posing awkwardly for a photo while everyone else looks great. Now China’s top photo-editing firm Meitu has a solution that helps you resist the urge t...
10:45 am GMT - Fri, November 16, 2018
Techcrunch BlackBerry is buying Cylance for $1.4 billion to continue its push into cybersecurity
BlackBerry was best known for keyboard-totting smartphones, but their demise in recent years has seen the Canadia firm pivot towards enterprise services and in particular cybersecurity. That strategy ...
10:25 am GMT - Fri, November 16, 2018
Techcrunch Musca is the winner of TechCrunch Battlefield Tokyo 2018
TechCrunch is in the heart of Japan and we’ve been hearing from some of Tokyo’s brightest entrepreneurs competing to win the Battlefield startup competition here. We’ve whittled down...
10:00 am GMT - Fri, November 16, 2018
Techcrunch Facebook has other ties to Definers, the GOP-led opposition research group
In the wake of a fairly catastrophic behind the scenes glimpse into Facebook’s high-level decision making, one question remains: Who brought a controversial Republican opposition research firm i...
09:53 am GMT - Fri, November 16, 2018
Techcrunch Chinas Craigslist continues growth after netting 100 million small-town users
58.com, the Craiglist of China,is making a massive push to pick up rural users as it hedges China’s economic uncertainties. During the third quarter, revenuesgrew 33.2 percent to $527 million an...
08:58 am GMT - Fri, November 16, 2018
Techcrunch Court filings accidentally reveal charges against Julian Assange
In a turn of events that reads like a plot point from an unreleased Coen Brothers script, information has surfaced revealing that prosecutors have charged embattled Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange. ...
07:30 am GMT - Fri, November 16, 2018
Techcrunch Africas agtech wave gets $10 million richer as Twiga Foods raises more capital
Jake Bright Contributor Jake Bright is a writer and author in New York City. He is co-author of The Next Africa. More posts by this contributor Nigerian data analytics company Terragon acquires Asian ...
07:26 am GMT - Fri, November 16, 2018
Techcrunch The Orbital 2 is like a Surface Dial that works with Mac
This little peripheral is one of the more interesting new pieces of hardware floating around the halls of TC Tokyo this week. The product, created by local startup Brain Magic, is best described as a ...
06:38 am GMT - Fri, November 16, 2018
Techcrunch Hong Kong is adding QR code payments to its subway stations
A new dispatch from our ‘QR Codes Are Very Much Alive In Asia’ reporting program: Hong Kong’s subway system will soon allow its commuters to pay by scanning QR codes thanks to a deal...
06:04 am GMT - Fri, November 16, 2018
Techcrunch Alibaba and Amazon move over, we visited JD.com connected grocery store in China
The arms race to build the future of grocery stores is heating up in China. To no one’s surprise, the main contestantsare the country’s ecommerce titans Alibaba and JD.com, which are turni...
06:04 am GMT - Fri, November 16, 2018
Techcrunch Alibaba and Amazon move over, we visited JDs connected grocery store in China
The arms race to build the future of grocery stores is heating up in China. To no one’s surprise, the main contestantsare the country’s ecommerce titans Alibaba and JD.com, which are turni...
06:03 am GMT - Fri, November 16, 2018
Techcrunch The Timbuk2 Never Check sold me on the importance of a good travel backpack
For some who travels a lot, I can be downright reckless when it comes to packing sometimes. Ive found myself hurling clothes, toiletries and assorted cables into bags on more early mornings than I car...
05:27 am GMT - Fri, November 16, 2018
Techcrunch Sheryl Sandberg claims she didnt know Facebook hired agency behind abhorrent anti-Soros campaign
Sheryl Sandberg has denied that she obstructed early investigations intoelectionmeddling and claimed thatshe was unaware Facebook was involved with an agency that ran “abhorrent” anti-Semi...
04:53 am GMT - Fri, November 16, 2018
Techcrunch Tidal arrives on the Amazon Echo
One key thing the HomePod has on the competition: streaming service synergy. Its an important advantage at the heart of the premium smart speaker. While both Amazon and Google have their own streaming...
04:47 am GMT - Fri, November 16, 2018
Techcrunch Tinder tests Swipe Surge in US to connect users during peak times
Tinder today announced the test of a new in-app experience it’s calling “Swipe Surge,” that will send notifications to users when there’s a spike in Tinder usage in their area....
04:47 am GMT - Fri, November 16, 2018
Techcrunch Shyft raises $6.5M to help retail and service workers swap shifts
Ignition Partners and Madrona Venture Group have invested in the app for workers....
03:31 am GMT - Fri, November 16, 2018
Techcrunch Amazon launches Alexa-hosted skills for voice app developers
Amazon on Thursday launched a new service aimed at Alexa developers that automatically provisions and helps them to manage a set of AWS cloud resources for their Alexa skill’s backend service. T...
02:55 am GMT - Fri, November 16, 2018
Techcrunch Walmart and Target embrace in-store mobile checkout for the holidays
Two of the U.S.’s largest brick-and-mortar retailers, Walmart and Target, are launching new mobile checkout systems in their stores to accommodate the influx of shoppers expected during the 2018...
12:31 am GMT - Fri, November 16, 2018
Techcrunch A leaky database of SMS text messages exposed password resets and two-factor codes
A security lapse has exposed a massive database containing tens of millions of text messages, including password reset links, two-factor codes, shipping notifications and more. The exposed server belo...
12:25 am GMT - Fri, November 16, 2018
Techcrunch E3 slouches towards irrelevance again as Sony announces its skipping the show
I like E3. I really do. But it's also monumentally dumb: game companies spending millions to show off essentially faked content to an increasingly jaded audience. And it's increasingly out of step wit...
11:22 pm GMT - Thu, November 15, 2018
Techcrunch Cassette decks from Crosley take aim at tape-hoarding nostalgia-seekers
Crosley, makers of the "good enough" record players you see in Urban Outfitters and Target, have turned their retro novelty eye on the next obvious format: cassettes. These two new decks from the comp...
11:00 pm GMT - Thu, November 15, 2018
Techcrunch Overnight success now requires a little more time
Building a great consumer company is harder these days. Try anyway....
10:50 pm GMT - Thu, November 15, 2018
Techcrunch FCC approval of Europes Galileo satellite signals may give your phones GPS a boost
The FCC's space-focused meeting today had actions taken on SpaceX satellites and orbital debris reduction, but the decision most likely to affect users has to do with Galileo. No, not the astronomer ...
10:42 pm GMT - Thu, November 15, 2018
Techcrunch Tesla acquires trucking companies to squeeze in more deliveries before Dec. 31
Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted Thursday that the electric automaker had “acquired trucking capacity,” a move aimed to boost deliveries of its Model 3 vehicles before the federal tax credit be...
09:58 pm GMT - Thu, November 15, 2018
Techcrunch Uber joins Linux Foundation cementing commitment to open source tools
Uber announced today at the 2018 Uber Open Summit that it was joining the Linux Foundation as a Gold Member, making a firm commitment to using and contributing to open source tools. Uber CTO Thuan Pha...
09:58 pm GMT - Thu, November 15, 2018
Techcrunch Uber joins Linux Foundation, cementing commitment to open-source tools
Uber announced today at the 2018 Uber Open Summit that it was joining the Linux Foundation as a Gold Member, making a firm commitment to using and contributing to open-source tools. Uber CTO Thuan Pha...
09:51 pm GMT - Thu, November 15, 2018
Techcrunch Apple partners with A24, the studio behind Moonlight and Hereditary
Apple has signed a multi-year agreement with A24, which will see the film studio producing multiple movies for Apple. Not much else is known about the deal yet not the number of films, their genres o...
08:21 pm GMT - Thu, November 15, 2018
Techcrunch Facebook changes algorithm to demote borderline content that almost violates its policy
Facebook has changed its News Feed algorithm to demote content that comes close to violating its policies prohibiting misinformation, hate speech, violence, bullying and clickbait so it’s seen b...
08:21 pm GMT - Thu, November 15, 2018
Techcrunch Facebook will change algorithm to demote borderline content that almost violates policies
Facebook will changed its News Feed algorithm to demote content that comes close to violating its policies prohibiting misinformation, hate speech, violence, bullying, clickbait so it’s seen by ...
08:10 pm GMT - Thu, November 15, 2018
Techcrunch Zuckerberg denies knowledge of Facebooks work with GOP opposition research firm
Today in a call with reporters preceded by a frantic if fairly uneventful distraction-pushing media blitz, Facebook responded to a damning New York Times story published yesterday that cited interview...
08:09 pm GMT - Thu, November 15, 2018
Techcrunch Citrix pays $200M to acquire Sapho, which connects legacy software with micro apps
As large organizations grapple with adopting modern work practices without throwing out all of their legacy software, a company that works with them is making an acquisition that it hopes will help wi...
07:56 pm GMT - Thu, November 15, 2018
Techcrunch Wonder Ventures aims to dazzle L.A. startups with its new seed-stage fund
Dustin Rosen thinks L.A. has a problem, aside from its famously car-choked highways. There aren’t enough investors willing to write small checks. Why not? The way he sees it, most of the so-call...
07:43 pm GMT - Thu, November 15, 2018
Techcrunch Canonical plans to raise its first outside funding as it looks to a future IPO
It’s been 14 years since Mark Shuttleworth first founded and funded Canonical and the Ubuntu project. At the time, it was mostly a Linux distribution. Today, it’s a major enterprise player...
07:30 pm GMT - Thu, November 15, 2018
Techcrunch SpaceX gets FCC approval to add 7,518 more satellites to its Starlink constellation
SpaceX's application to add thousands of satellites to its proposed Starlink communications constellation has been approved by the FCC, though it will be some time before the company actually puts tho...
07:14 pm GMT - Thu, November 15, 2018
Techcrunch Facebook will pass off content policy appeals to a new independent oversight body
Facebook doesn’t want to be the arbiter of decency when it comes to content policy decisions, similar to how it looked to third-party fact checkers rather than becoming an arbiter of truth. Toda...
06:47 pm GMT - Thu, November 15, 2018
Techcrunch OpenStack regroups
Only a few years ago, OpenStack was the hottest open-source project around, with a bustling startup ecosystem to boot. The project, which gives enterprises the tools to run the equivalent of AWS in th...
06:37 pm GMT - Thu, November 15, 2018
Techcrunch Facebook reports a massive spike in government demands for data, including secret orders
Facebook has published the details of 13 historical national security letters it’s received for user data. The embattled social media giant said that the letters dated between 2014 and 2017 for ...
06:18 pm GMT - Thu, November 15, 2018
Techcrunch What the FDAs restriction of e-cig flavors means for Juul
FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb has revealed his plans to combat underage use of e-cigs and nicotine, which has grown 78 percent among high school students from 2017 to 2018. The commissioner today an...
06:10 pm GMT - Thu, November 15, 2018
Techcrunch After first commercial launch, Rocket Lab announces $140 million in funding
When it rains, it pours. And when you're a successful space startup, it pours money. Rocket Lab, the New Zealand-based launch provider, is still on cloud nine from having completed its first fully com...
06:06 pm GMT - Thu, November 15, 2018
Techcrunch Meet Ubers newly promoted chief product officer, Manik Gupta
Manik Gupta got his first taste of solving logistics nightmares when, fresh out of college, he was delivering Palm Pilots around Singapore. He’d started a precursor to Groupon called BuyItTogeth...
06:00 pm GMT - Thu, November 15, 2018
Techcrunch Apples Final Cut Pro X just got a big update. Heres whats new
Apple’s pro-grade video editing tool Final Cut Pro X is getting a big update today. While much of FCPX is getting polished up in this release, the biggest change is what it allows for moving for...
06:00 pm GMT - Thu, November 15, 2018
Techcrunch Apples Final Cut Pro X just got a big update heres whats new
Apple’s pro-grade video editing tool Final Cut Pro X is getting a big update today. While much of FCPX is getting polished up in this release, the biggest change is what it allows for moving for...
05:30 pm GMT - Thu, November 15, 2018
Techcrunch Google partners with MotherCoders to bring tech training to moms in New York City
Diversity and inclusion is a topic that all too often starts and ends with white women. MotherCoders, while targeting women, aims to support moms of all backgrounds — whether they be LGBTQ, sing...
04:51 pm GMT - Thu, November 15, 2018
Techcrunch Lyft launches default tipping, rating protections and more to keep drivers happy
Until autonomous vehicles are here, ride-hailing companies like Lyft and Uber have to attract and retain human drivers if they hope to sustain their businesses. Lyft announced Thursday a half dozen ne...
04:31 pm GMT - Thu, November 15, 2018
Techcrunch Facebooks weapon amid chaos and controversy: misdirection
The New York Times’ bombshell report into the past three years at Facebook paint a grotesque picture of the company’s attempts to navigate a string of high-profile controversies by using u...
04:25 pm GMT - Thu, November 15, 2018
Techcrunch Facebook under pressure over Soros smear tactics
Facebook is facing calls to conduct an external investigation into its own lobbying and PR activities by an aide to billionaire George Soros. BuzzFeed reports that Michael Vachon, an advisor to the ch...
04:16 pm GMT - Thu, November 15, 2018
Techcrunch Raspberry Pi 3 Model A is a compact yet powerful Raspberry Pi
The Raspberry Pi Foundation just announced a brand new model. The Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+ is basically a flagship Raspberry Pi on a smaller printed circuit board, with a few compromises. It costs $25,...
04:00 pm GMT - Thu, November 15, 2018
Techcrunch Rookout launches its live Kubernetes debugger
Rookout, a startup that offers debugging tools for applications that run on modern container and serverless platforms, is launching a new feature today that brings the equivalent of breakpoints to Kub...
03:14 pm GMT - Thu, November 15, 2018
Techcrunch RPA startup Automation Anywhere nabs $300M from SoftBank at a $2.6B valuation
The market for RPA — Robotic Process Automation — is getting a hat trick of news this week: Automation Anywhere has today announced that it has raised $300 million from the SoftBank Vision...
03:02 pm GMT - Thu, November 15, 2018
Techcrunch Propel accelerates with $18M Series B to manage product lifecycle
We hear so much about managing the customer relationship, but companies have to manage the products they sell too. Propel, a Santa Clara startup, is taking a modern cloud approach to the problem, and ...
02:26 pm GMT - Thu, November 15, 2018
Techcrunch Italic launches its marketplace for affordable luxury goods from top manufacturers
A new startup called Italic says it’s already received more than 100,000 signups for a marketplace where you can buy handbags, eyewear and other luxury products directly from the manufacturers w...
02:05 pm GMT - Thu, November 15, 2018
Techcrunch Spotify alums create Canopy content suggester that wont steal your data
Personalization comes at a steep price. All your data gets sucked up into a company’s servers where they can do whatever they want with it. But Canopy is a new content discovery startup thatR...
02:01 pm GMT - Thu, November 15, 2018
Techcrunch Review: Microsoft Surface Studio 2
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02:00 pm GMT - Thu, November 15, 2018
Techcrunch These Bluetooth earbuds double as a charging cord
As I write this, Im somewhere in Asia, with a bag full of assorted cables and devices. Ive gotten better at packing light, but Ive still got a ways to go. Certainly theres something to be said for tho...
02:00 pm GMT - Thu, November 15, 2018
Techcrunch WeWork hires Prabhdeep Singh to lead operations for its startup program WeWork Labs
WeWork has hired Prabhdeep Singh to serve as the first global head of operations for its startup program WeWork Labs. It’s a program that relaunched earlier this year, providing early-stage star...
02:00 pm GMT - Thu, November 15, 2018
Techcrunch Apex.ai raises $15.5 million for autonomous vehicle software
Apex.ai is emerging out of stealth today with quite the claim — an operating system for autonomous vehicles that will never fail Founded by long-time automated systems engineers Jan Becker and D...
02:00 pm GMT - Thu, November 15, 2018
Techcrunch Apex.AI raises $15.5 million for autonomous-vehicle software
Apex.AIis emerging out of stealth today with quite the claim — an operating system for autonomous vehicles that will never fail. Founded by long-time automated systems engineers Jan Becker and D...
02:00 pm GMT - Thu, November 15, 2018
Techcrunch Rokus voice-powered wireless speakers and tabletop remote start shipping
In July, Roku unveiled its entry into the voice-powered speaker market, with a pair of Roku TV Wireless Speakers designed to work with the companys lineup of partner-built smart TVs. Those speakers wi...
01:33 pm GMT - Thu, November 15, 2018
Techcrunch Docker inks partnership with Mulesoft as Salesforce takes a strategic stake
Docker and Mulesoft have announced a broad deal to sell products together and integrate their platforms. As part of it, Docker is getting an investment from Salesforce, the CRM giant that acquired Mul...
01:05 pm GMT - Thu, November 15, 2018
Techcrunch LocalGlobe, the London seed-stage VC, is raising a new fund aimed at Series B
LocalGlobe, the seed-stage venture capital firm founded by father and son duo Robin and Saul Klein, and one of the most active firms in the U.K., is gearing up to launch a new separate fund aimed at S...
01:00 pm GMT - Thu, November 15, 2018
Techcrunch Tech giants take seats on Homeland Securitys new supply chain task force
Homeland Security’s supply chain task force is finally off the ground.. The public-private coalition, set up earlier this year, now has representatives from more than two dozen companies and ind...
01:00 pm GMT - Thu, November 15, 2018
Techcrunch Bunch scores $3.8M to turn mobile games into video chat LAN parties
The best parts of gaming are the jokes and trash talk with friends. Whether it was four-player Goldeneye or linking up PCs for Quake battles in the basement, the social element keeps video games excit...
12:30 pm GMT - Thu, November 15, 2018
Techcrunch Standard Cognition raises $40M to replace retailers cashiers with cameras
The Amazon Go store requires hundreds of cameras to detect who’s picking up what items. Standard Cognition needs just 27 to go after the $27 trillion market of equipping regular shops with auton...
12:27 pm GMT - Thu, November 15, 2018
Techcrunch EnduroSat CEO to talk about making satellites more affordable at Disrupt Berlin
It has never been easier to launch a satellite into space. But EnduroSat wants to make it even easier by making CubeSats more affordable thanks to a unique platform. Thats why Im excited to announce t...
11:40 am GMT - Thu, November 15, 2018
Techcrunch Online SWATer will face 20 years in prison
Tyler Barriss aka SWAuTistic caused almost 100 SWATing attacks by calling the police on perceived online enemies and claiming that they were holding hostages and were heavily armed. One of these, in S...
11:34 am GMT - Thu, November 15, 2018
Techcrunch Plus-sized clothing startup Dia&Co gets another $70M from Sequoia, USV
Dia&Co co-founder and CEO Nadia Boujarwah wants to change the retail market for plus-sized women....
11:17 am GMT - Thu, November 15, 2018
Techcrunch Mozilla adds website breach notifications to Firefox
Mozilla is adding a new security feature to its Firefox Quantum web browser that will alert users when they visit a website that has recently reported a data breach. When a Firefox user lands on a web...
11:06 am GMT - Thu, November 15, 2018
Techcrunch Airtable, maker of a coding platform for non-techies, raises $100M at a $1.1B valuation
If data is the new oil, you might think of apps are the cars that need it to move. Now, a startup that has built a platform to let everyone — not just those with technical expertise — make...
11:00 am GMT - Thu, November 15, 2018
Techcrunch Googles annual Thanksgiving report tells you the best times to avoid traffic jams
Google has released its annual Thanksgiving traffic and search trends report, created by analyzing data from last years holiday season. It breaks down the best and worst times to travel by state and a...
10:30 am GMT - Thu, November 15, 2018
Techcrunch Ezra raises $4M to diagnose cancer with MRIs, not painful biopsies
1 in 41 men will die of prostate cancer. But sticking a needle through your rectum into your prostate to screen for cancer brings along a ton of bacteria and terrible side effects like pain, infection...
10:26 am GMT - Thu, November 15, 2018
Techcrunch Bitcoin and the crypto market is once again crashing hard
It’s not been a pretty year for anyone who owns Bitcoin, but the last 24 hours has been a period to forget as the cryptocurrency dropped below $100 billion in market cap for the first time in mo...
09:56 am GMT - Thu, November 15, 2018
Techcrunch Lies, damn lies, and HQ2
There are few things certain in our world except for the uplifting tendencies of technology. I’ve spent the past few years trying to prove this to myself, at least, by interviewing hundreds of t...
09:00 am GMT - Thu, November 15, 2018
Techcrunch Snap up a spectator ticket to Startup Battlefield Africa 2018
Dont miss your chance to bear witness as a cohort of sub-Saharan Africas exceptional entrepreneurs launch their early-stage tech startups to the world. Startup Battlefield Africa 2018, our premier pit...
08:01 am GMT - Thu, November 15, 2018
Techcrunch 48-hours only: Early-bird prices for Disrupt Berlin 2018
Das ist super geil this is awesome! Early-bird prices for Disrupt Berlin 2018 passes have returned to the roost. But you need to act fast, because our time-sensitive offer expires in just 48 hours. T...
08:00 am GMT - Thu, November 15, 2018
Techcrunch Urban Massage re-brands to Urban as it launches wellness services beyond massage
Urban Massage, the London-headquartered startup that lets you book a vetted massage therapist “on-demand”, is expanding into new wellness services in addition to changing its name. Now sim...
07:22 am GMT - Thu, November 15, 2018
Techcrunch Google is closing its Schaft robotics unit after failing to find a buyer
Sad news for anyone into giant robots: Google is closing downSchaft, its secretive unit that develops bipedal robots aimed at helping out in disaster efforts and generally looking badass. The news was...
07:15 am GMT - Thu, November 15, 2018
Techcrunch Legrand acquires smart home startup Netatmo
French hardware startup Netatmo got acquired by the biggest manufacturer of switches and sockets in the world, Legrand. Terms of the deal are undisclosed. Legrand and Netatmo already collaborated toge...
06:09 am GMT - Thu, November 15, 2018
Techcrunch Welcome to the awkward future of the open office
I have seen the future in fact, I have worn it. Its big and awkward kind of digs into the top of your head with little metal bars designed to hold it in place. I was like 95 percent sure Wear Space w...
04:30 am GMT - Thu, November 15, 2018
Techcrunch New York politicians push back on Amazon HQ2 plans
Amazons HQ2 process was bound to polarize (though I do enjoy a good dueling op-ed on these pages) no matter how it landed. But the decision to set up shop in New York City is likely ruffling more feat...
04:30 am GMT - Thu, November 15, 2018
Techcrunch Sweet Escape connects travelers to photographers for truly Insta-worthy holiday pics
The rise of smartphone cameras and social media in recent years has fuelled a new level of marking and sharing memories using photos, but one startup is betting that people are prepared to go the next...
04:19 am GMT - Thu, November 15, 2018
Techcrunch These temporary electronic tattoos could redefine wearables
Wearables are great, sure, except you have to wear them. Wouldn't it be nice if that functionality was printed right onto your skin? Well, even though it's not for everybody, it sounds like it might s...
03:52 am GMT - Thu, November 15, 2018
Techcrunch Indiegogos guaranteed shipping provides refunds for failed campaigns
For all the potential upsides of crowdfunding, backing a project always feels like a gamble. And some fairly high profile campaigns over the last few years have helped removed some of the models luste...
03:01 am GMT - Thu, November 15, 2018
Techcrunch Dolby releases branded wireless headphones
Dolbys been making a bigger push for consumer recognition in the last few years, so it was really just a matter of time before it released a branded product. As far as those things go, headphones make...
12:41 am GMT - Thu, November 15, 2018
Techcrunch Sweetgreen is officially a unicorn
Salad startup and retailer Sweetgreen recently raised a $200 million Series H round led by Fidelity that valued the company at more than $1 billion. This round brings Sweetgreen’s total amount o...
12:00 am GMT - Thu, November 15, 2018
Techcrunch Pirate Studios raises $20M from Talis Capital for its self-service tech-enabled music studios
Pirate Studios, the music technology company that operates fully automated and self-service 24 hour music studios, has secured $20 million. The investment was led by Talis Capital, the London-based VC...
11:01 pm GMT - Wed, November 14, 2018
Techcrunch Airbnb hosts offer free housing to evacuees displaced by California wildfires
With California’s recent cluster of devastating wildfires destroying homes and claiming lives, Airbnb is offering some shelter to displaced residents in its home state. This week, the company ad...
10:39 pm GMT - Wed, November 14, 2018
Techcrunch RFID stickers could signal contaminated food
If a food item isn't safe to eat, it's best to find that out before someone eats it. But manual testing of every jar and bottle isn't possible, even when a threat, like the recent baby food scare, is ...
10:29 pm GMT - Wed, November 14, 2018
Techcrunch The Correspondent launches campaign to bring its ad-free journalism to the US
De Correspondent, a Dutch news organization aiming to “unbreak the news,” is planning to launch in the United States next year as The Correspondent. To fund its efforts, it’s hoping ...
10:22 pm GMT - Wed, November 14, 2018
Techcrunch Facebook Messenger starts rolling out Unsend; heres how it works
Facebook secretly retracted messages sent by CEO Mark Zuckerberg, TechCrunch reported seven months ago. Now for the first time, Facebook Messenger users will get the power to unsend too so they can re...
09:58 pm GMT - Wed, November 14, 2018
Techcrunch Government denies Oracles protest of $10B Pentagon JEDI cloud RFP
When Oracle filed a protest in August with the Government Accountability Office (GAO) last August that the Pentagon’s $10 billion JEDI RFP process was unfair, it probably had little chance of su...
09:28 pm GMT - Wed, November 14, 2018
Techcrunch With Rivals Week, Tinder tests an expansion of its well-performing Tinder U
Starting this weekend, Tinder will allow college students on its Tinder U service to match with others outside their own university for the first time. The dating app is positioning this market test o...
09:00 pm GMT - Wed, November 14, 2018
Techcrunch Uber continues to lose money as it scales scooters, bikes and other newer businesses
Uber, which is expected to go public sometime next year, just released its Q3 2018 financial results. Uber’s net losses increased 32 percent quarter over quarter to $939 million on a pro forma b...
08:06 pm GMT - Wed, November 14, 2018
Techcrunch Gift Guide: 10 suitcase-friendly gifts for frequent flyers
Ive been traveling a lot this year more than any year in the past. Its been both a blessing and a curse, so thanks TechCrunch for that. Honestly, I should probably be packing for Asia instead of writ...
07:03 pm GMT - Wed, November 14, 2018
Techcrunch Meet Jennifer Tejada, the secret weapon of one of Silicon Valleys fastest-growing enterprise software startups
PagerDuty, an eight-year-old, San Francisco-based company that sends companies information about their technology, doesnt receive a fraction of the press that other fast-growing enterprise software co...
07:01 pm GMT - Wed, November 14, 2018
Techcrunch iBanFirst raises $17 million to help companies move money around the world
French startup iBanFirst is raising another $17 million (15 million) from Serena Capital and Breega Capital, with existing investor Xavier Niel putting in more money, as well. iBanFirst solves a very ...
06:09 pm GMT - Wed, November 14, 2018
Techcrunch No display for your Mac Mini? No problem.
Astropads Luna Display isnt just for your MacBook. It turns out that you can take advantage of that tiny little red dongle to turn your iPad into your one and only Mac Mini display. The Luna Display w...
05:32 pm GMT - Wed, November 14, 2018
Techcrunch Heres the teaser trailer for Niantics Pokmon GO-style Harry Potter game
The good news: Niantic/WB Games/Portkey has released a trailer for “Wizards Unite,” the Harry Potter game built in the same spirit as Pokmon GO. The bad news: It… doesn’t show ...
05:15 pm GMT - Wed, November 14, 2018
Techcrunch MacBook Pro with updated GPU is now available
Apple recently unveiled a bunch of new products during a press event in New York. But the company also quietly shared a press release with new configurations for the 15-inch MacBook Pro. Customers can...
05:11 pm GMT - Wed, November 14, 2018
Techcrunch Convercent wants to make it easier for companies to measure ethical behavior
It’s not always easy to do the right thing or to make ethical decisions in a complex business environment. People get lost inside large organizations and group think can overwhelm even normally ...
05:05 pm GMT - Wed, November 14, 2018
Techcrunch Wreck-It Ralph is getting a warehouse-sized VR game at Disney parks
For the last year or so, Disney has been dabbling with massive virtual reality experiences that let players strap on a portable VR rig and run around in a warehouse-sized environment. In partnership w...
05:05 pm GMT - Wed, November 14, 2018
Techcrunch Wreck-It Ralph is getting a warehouse-sized VR experience at Disney parks
For the last year or so, Disney has been dabbling with massive virtual reality experiences that let players strap on a portable VR rig and run around in a warehouse-sized environment. In partnership w...
05:00 pm GMT - Wed, November 14, 2018
Techcrunch Google My Business app revamp challenges Facebook Pages
Google is giving its business customers a new way to reach their customers. The company is today starting the rollout of a revamped Google My Business mobile application for iOS and Android that will ...
04:54 pm GMT - Wed, November 14, 2018
Techcrunch Zuckerberg rejects facetime call for answers from five parliaments
Facebook has declined once again to send its CEO to the UK parliament — this time turning down an invitation to face questions from a grand committee comprised of representatives from five inter...
04:46 pm GMT - Wed, November 14, 2018
Techcrunch Judge orders Amazon to turn over Echo recordings in double murder case
A New Hampshire judge has ordered Amazon to turn over two days of Amazon Echo recordings in a double murder case. Prosecutors believe that recordings from an Amazon Echo in a Farmington home where two...
04:09 pm GMT - Wed, November 14, 2018
Techcrunch ServiceTitan raises $165M for its home services software, now valued at $1.65B
ServiceTitan, a startup out of Glendale, Calif. that has built a software platform for home services businesses — in areas like air conditioning, plumbing and electrical repairs — to manag...
04:05 pm GMT - Wed, November 14, 2018
Techcrunch Mozilla ranks dozens of popular smart gift ideas on creepiness and security
If you're planning on picking up some cool new smart device for a loved one this holiday season, it might be worth your while to check whether it's one of the good ones or not. Not just in the quality...
03:47 pm GMT - Wed, November 14, 2018
Techcrunch Amazon did exactly what it should have with its HQ2 process
I love my colleague Jon Shieber, hes a great guy. But his arguments against Amazons HQ2 process are just wrong, and are part of an increasingly poisonous atmosphere around employment growth and prospe...
03:45 pm GMT - Wed, November 14, 2018
Techcrunch Unicorn shoe startup Allbirds debuts a high top sneaker
Allbirds, the shoe startup that entered the unicorn club last month following a $50 million funding round, has unveiled its latest feet holders. Dubbed the Tree Topper, the high top sneaker marks Allb...
03:45 pm GMT - Wed, November 14, 2018
Techcrunch Unicorn shoe startup Allbirds debuts a high-top sneaker
Allbirds, the shoe startup that entered the unicorn club last month following a $50 million funding round, has unveiled its latest feet holders. Dubbed the Tree Topper, the high-top sneaker marks Allb...
03:14 pm GMT - Wed, November 14, 2018
Techcrunch Another crypto exchange goes old school as KuCoin raises $20M from VCs
I’ve said it before but I’ll say it again: one of the biggest trends in crypto this year is companies raising money the old fashioned way through venture capitalists. Hot on the heels of B...
03:00 pm GMT - Wed, November 14, 2018
Techcrunch Self-flying camera drone Hover 2 hits Kickstarter
Two years after launching the original Hover, Zero Zero Robotics has returned for the sequel. In spite of landing a $25 million Series A back in 2016, the startup is going to the crowdfunding well on ...
02:25 pm GMT - Wed, November 14, 2018
Techcrunch UK watchdog has eyes on Google-DeepMinds health app hand-off
The shock news yesterday that Google is taking over a health app rolled out to UK hospitals over the past few years by its AI division, DeepMind, has caught the eye of the country’s data protect...
02:11 pm GMT - Wed, November 14, 2018
Techcrunch Baidu leads $300M investment to bring its search smarts to elevator ads
China’s largest search engine Baidu is getting an offline revenue boost after it led a $300 million strategic round in Xinchao Media, a company that shows people ads when they’re waiting f...
02:05 pm GMT - Wed, November 14, 2018
Techcrunch Uber launches rider loyalty Rewards like credits & upgrades 9 cities
Ubers new loyalty program incentivizes you not to check Lyft or the local competitor. Riders earn points for all the money they spend on Uber and Uber Eats that score them $5 credits, upgrades to nice...
02:02 pm GMT - Wed, November 14, 2018
Techcrunch Tencent returns to profit growth despite concern around games
Chinese internet giant Tencent bounced back from a disappointing previous quarter, but for once the company didn’t have its gaming business to thank. Tencent may be best known for conjuring up W...
02:00 pm GMT - Wed, November 14, 2018
Techcrunch Google Assistant picks up a few new tricks
Google Assistant, the voice-driven AI that sits inside Google Home (plus Android phones, newer Nest cameras, and a bunch of other devices) and awaits your “Hey, Google” commands, is alread...
02:00 pm GMT - Wed, November 14, 2018
Techcrunch Tinders head of product has left
Brian Norgard will pursue early-stage investing. His first investment is in a crypto startup called Coinmine....
02:00 pm GMT - Wed, November 14, 2018
Techcrunch Microsoft to acquire Xoxco as focus on AI and bot developers continues
Microsoft has been all in on AI this year, and in the build versus buy equation, the company has been leaning heavily toward buying. This morning, the company announced its intent to acquire Xoxco, an...
02:00 pm GMT - Wed, November 14, 2018
Techcrunch Amazons Fire TV Recast is a decent DVR for antenna users
Amazon’s Fire TV companion DVR, the Fire TV Recast, is available today to the public, after previously having been only offered for pre-order. The new device offers a way for Fire TV owners to e...
02:00 pm GMT - Wed, November 14, 2018
Techcrunch Home insurance provider Hippo brings in $70M amid a record year in funding for insurtech startups
Insurtech startups have raised a total of $1.8 billion in venture capital this year....
02:00 pm GMT - Wed, November 14, 2018
Techcrunch Wynd announces a new air purifier and desktop monitor
As far as goals for hardware startups go, you could do worse than ridding the air of allergens, pollutants and the like. Launched in 2016 as a Kickstarter project, Wynd is going back to the crowdfundi...
02:00 pm GMT - Wed, November 14, 2018
Techcrunch We tried Amazons bizarre Alexa microwave and werent convinced
I’m a fan of Alexa and of voice computing in general. But when Amazon said it was putting Alexa into a microwave, I wasn’t so sure. The value in voice computing is being able to get to new...
01:54 pm GMT - Wed, November 14, 2018
Techcrunch Locked in a Tesla patent suit, Nikola nabs $210M at $1.1B valuation for hydrogen trucks
Nikola, the hydrogen trucking startup currently suing Tesla for patent infringement (those are the actual names, sorry spirit of realNikola Tesla), today announced that it has raised $210 million in i...
01:22 pm GMT - Wed, November 14, 2018
Techcrunch Google gobbling DeepMinds health app might be the trust shock we need
DeepMind’s health app being gobbled by parent Googleis both unsurprising and deeply shocking. First thoughts should not be allowed to gloss over what is really a gut punch. It’s unsurprisi...
01:01 pm GMT - Wed, November 14, 2018
Techcrunch Software robot startup UiPath expands Series C to $265M at a $3B valuation
UiPath, a startup that works in the growing area of RPA, or robotic process automation — where AI-based software is used to help businesses run repetitive or mundane back-office tasks, to free u...
12:45 pm GMT - Wed, November 14, 2018
Techcrunch The great Amazon swindle
Amazon has confirmed that it will open two massive new offices in New York City and Crystal City, Va., to complement its already massive headquarters in Seattle. And the verdict on the company’s...
12:35 pm GMT - Wed, November 14, 2018
Techcrunch Netflix is testing a mobile-only subscription to make its service more affordable
Netflix is testing a cut-price mobile-only subscription as it explores new packages aimed at widening its appeal in Asia and other emerging markets. CEO Reed Hastings told Bloomberg last week that the...
12:30 pm GMT - Wed, November 14, 2018
Techcrunch Bain Capital Ventures has a fresh $1B to invest in startups
Bain Capital Ventures has raised $1 billion across three new funds....
12:17 pm GMT - Wed, November 14, 2018
Techcrunch SAM nabs $12M for cybersecurity aimed at home routers and devices connected to them
A wave of security startups have built solutions for enterprises that are meeting the challenges of “consumerization”, where IT organizations are tasked with securing a range of devices an...
12:09 pm GMT - Wed, November 14, 2018
Techcrunch This startup got $2.3M to identify physical objects using diamond dust
Imagine coating an expensive part with a layer of diamond dust the width of a human hair, capturing its light pattern as a unique identifier, then storing that identifier in a traditional database or ...
11:00 am GMT - Wed, November 14, 2018
Techcrunch Jam City signs mobile game development deal with Disney
Mobile gaming company Jam City is announcing a multi-year deal to create mobile games based on Pixar and Walt Disney Animation characters and films. As part of the agreement, Jam City is taking over d...
11:00 am GMT - Wed, November 14, 2018
Techcrunch Ford partners with Walmart and Postmates to test autonomous grocery delivery
Ford is partnering with Walmart and Postmates to test the business of delivering goods like groceries and pet food using self-driving vehicles. The pilot project is focused on Miami-Dade County, accor...
10:56 am GMT - Wed, November 14, 2018
Techcrunch The Da Vinci Drawmaton is a blast from the Renaissance
Robert Sabuda makes mechanical books – pop up books with mechanical features that make them move and change while you read them – and he’s made it to the top of the New York Times be...
08:41 am GMT - Wed, November 14, 2018
Techcrunch Discover the next messaging giant at Disrupt Berlin
Truecaller may already be a familiar name, but many of you probably dont know that its slowly becoming a significant messaging app. Thats why Im excited to announce that Truecaller co-founder and CEO ...
08:16 am GMT - Wed, November 14, 2018
Techcrunch Get your Startup Alley exhibitor table for Disrupt Berlin 2018
Its just two weeks until Disrupt Berlin 2018 kicks off for two full days dedicated to the early-stage startup universe. On 29-30 November, youll have a front row seat to the most innovative and exciti...
08:15 am GMT - Wed, November 14, 2018
Techcrunch Challenger bank Tandem partners with Stripe for upcoming Auto Savings feature
Tandem, the U.K. challenger bank, is gearing up to launch a new “Auto Savings” feature — a clever way to lower the barriers for Tandem app users who want to save for a rainy day R...
08:00 am GMT - Wed, November 14, 2018
Techcrunch Loans marketplace Mintos scores 5M Series A and plans to launch a debit card
Mintos, the Latvian fintech that operates a global loans marketplace to let you invest in loans from various loan originators, has raised 5 million in Series A funding. Backing the startup once again ...
08:00 am GMT - Wed, November 14, 2018
Techcrunch Withings launches a fitness tracker for some reason
Withings is back with, of all things, a fitness tracker. Its a bit of an odd addition, two months after the company re-launched, post-Nokia. The companys first product, the Steel HR Sport, picked up w...
07:14 am GMT - Wed, November 14, 2018
Techcrunch The forgotten Facebook of China is sold for $20M
Renren, which was once heralded as the ‘Facebook of China’ and later became China’s answer to MySpace after falling out of fashion among its core young users, is selling its social n...
05:49 am GMT - Wed, November 14, 2018
Techcrunch Snap is being probed over its IPO because some investors are salty about losing money
Here’s something I didn’t expect to read today. The U.S. Justice Department and Securities and Exchange Commission has subpoenaedSnap for details on its IPO apparently in connection with a...
01:11 am GMT - Wed, November 14, 2018
Techcrunch Meet Jennifer Tejada, the secret weapon of one of Silicon Valleys fastest-growing enterprise software startups
https://www.s28capital.com/ PagerDuty, an eight-year-old, San Francisco-based company that sends companies information about their technology, doesnt receive a fraction of the press that other fast-gr...
01:06 am GMT - Wed, November 14, 2018
Techcrunch Roivant Sciences, a four-year-old biotech holding company, just raised $200 million in fresh funding at a whopping $7 billion valuation
Roivant Sciences has had a bumpy couple of years, but that isn’t stopping investors from pouring more money into the four-year-old company, which aims to one day be a giant holding company for d...
01:06 am GMT - Wed, November 14, 2018
Techcrunch Biotech holding company Roivant Sciences raised $200M in funding at a whopping $7B valuation
Roivant Sciences has had a bumpy couple of years, but that isn’t stopping investors from pouring more money into the four-year-old company, which aims to one day be a giant holding company for d...
12:28 am GMT - Wed, November 14, 2018
Techcrunch Prolific swatter and bomb hoaxer who broke up FCCs net neutrality vote pleads guilty
It was a dramatic moment during the FCC's net neutrality proceedings last December when the Commission's public meeting was abruptly evacuated and bomb squads moved in all while thousands watched on ...
12:00 am GMT - Wed, November 14, 2018
Techcrunch Skincare startup Heyday raises $8M
Heyday, a startup aiming to make facials more affordable and personalized, announced today that it has raised $8 million in Series A funding. I first wrote about the company a year ago, when it raised...
10:49 pm GMT - Tue, November 13, 2018
Techcrunch Meet the Magecart hackers, a persistent credit card skimmer group of groups youve never heard of
There have been few hacker groups that have been responsible for as many headlines this year as Magecart. You might not know the name, but you probably haven’tmissed their work highly targeted ...
10:30 pm GMT - Tue, November 13, 2018
Techcrunch This $199 PS4 and Spider-Man Black Friday bundle has my bargain-sense tingling
I'm calling it this is the best deal of this year's Black Friday season. It's bonkers. Sony is selling a PlayStation 4 Slim with the new "Spider-Man" game for $199. That's way too little money....
10:23 pm GMT - Tue, November 13, 2018
Techcrunch Blue Apron lays off 4 percent of employees as it seeks profitability next year
Meal kit company Blue Apron announced small layoffs today as part of its Q3 2018 financial results. The layoffs, which affected four percent of Blue Apron’s workforce, are part of Blue ApronR...
09:05 pm GMT - Tue, November 13, 2018
Techcrunch Facebook Lasso app lead Brady Voss leaves for Netflix right after launch
Facebook Lasso has a steep uphill climb ahead as it hopes to chase the musical video app it cloned, China’s TikTok (which merged with Musically). Lasso lets you overlay popular songs on 15-secon...
09:00 pm GMT - Tue, November 13, 2018
Techcrunch Why the future of Chinese e-commerce is in its rural areas
China announced a mere 6.7 percent economic growth in July 2018, the lowest growth rate since 2016. Despite a slowdown in overall economic growth, Chinese e-commerce has only increased, accounting for...
08:00 pm GMT - Tue, November 13, 2018
Techcrunch Metacert Cryptonite can catch phishing links in your email
Metacert, founded by Paul Walsh, originally began as a way to watch chat rooms for fake Ethereum scams. Walsh, who was an early experimenter in cryptocurrencies, grew frustrated when he saw hackers du...
08:00 pm GMT - Tue, November 13, 2018
Techcrunch MetaCerts Cryptonite can catch phishing links in your email
MetaCert, founded by Paul Walsh, originally began as a way to watch chat rooms for fake Ethereum scams. Walsh, who was an early experimenter in cryptocurrencies, grew frustrated when he saw hackers du...
08:00 pm GMT - Tue, November 13, 2018
Techcrunch MetaCert can catch phishing links in your email
MetaCert, founded by Paul Walsh, originally began as a way to watch chat rooms for fake Ethereum scams. Walsh, who was an early experimenter in cryptocurrencies, grew frustrated when he saw hackers du...
07:55 pm GMT - Tue, November 13, 2018
Techcrunch Senators urge FTC to look into shady ad practices in apps for kids
For us jaded adults, the long-running trend towards making apps and games free to download but stuffing them with paid options is just an annoyance or perhaps a logical progression of the business mod...
07:13 pm GMT - Tue, November 13, 2018
Techcrunch Lime is debuting its line of shareable vehicles in Seattle this week
Lime will introduce "LimePods" in California in 2019....
07:05 pm GMT - Tue, November 13, 2018
Techcrunch Juul Labs reveals its plan to combat underage vape use
Juul will be removing non-tobacco flavored pods from all stores, including convenience stores and vape shops, according to a new plan the company released today. This comes exactly 60 days after the F...
06:57 pm GMT - Tue, November 13, 2018
Techcrunch DeepMind hands off role as health app provider to parent Google
DeepMind’s recent foray into providing software as a service to U.K. hospitals has reached the end of its run. The Google -owned AI division has just announced it will be stepping back from prov...
05:18 pm GMT - Tue, November 13, 2018
Techcrunch Tesla, GM and Nissan are all part of a new coalition aiming to extend the EV tax credit
Tesla, GM and Nissan are among a group of 15 companies that launched a new coalition aimed at reforming the electric vehicle tax credit. The group, called EV Drive Coalition, brings together a mix of ...
05:14 pm GMT - Tue, November 13, 2018
Techcrunch Facebook takes on LinkedIn as a career portal with e-learning, expanded mentorship and jobs features
Over the last year or so, Facebook has slowly been encroaching on LinkedIn’s territory as the go-to platform for people who want to leverage their networks of contacts to expand their career pro...
05:05 pm GMT - Tue, November 13, 2018
Techcrunch Canonicals Mark Shuttleworth says he has no plans to sell anytime soon
After IBM announced its plans to acquire Red Hat for $34 billion, pundits quickly started speculating about when Red Hat competitors like Suse and Canonical would sell, as well. Canonical founder Mark...
05:03 pm GMT - Tue, November 13, 2018
Techcrunch Zendesk shifts to platform play with Zendesk Sunshine launch
Zendesk has always been strongly focused on customer service in the cloud. They began to look at this more broadly in September when they purchased Base to move into sales automation and CRM. Today, t...
05:00 pm GMT - Tue, November 13, 2018
Techcrunch Googles Project Fi gets an improved VPN service
Google’s Project Fi wireless service is getting a major update today that introduces an optional always-on VPN service and a smarter way to switch between Wi-Fi and cellular connections. By defa...
04:45 pm GMT - Tue, November 13, 2018
Techcrunch RideCell expands funding round to $60 million
RideCell, a transportation software startup,has doubled its previously announced Series B funding round to $60 million, a sign that investors believe demand for cloud-based mobility platforms will gro...
04:44 pm GMT - Tue, November 13, 2018
Techcrunch Open sourcing analysis, plus US, China and HQ2
The big news today is that finally we have Amazons selection of cities for its dual second headquarters (Northern Virginia and NYC). Then some notes on China. But first, semiconductors and open sour...
04:44 pm GMT - Tue, November 13, 2018
Techcrunch WeRecover, the Kayak for addiction recovery, raises $2M
Los Angeles-based WeRecover raised the funds from Crosslink Capital, Box Group, Wonder Ventures, Struck Capital and others....
04:21 pm GMT - Tue, November 13, 2018
Techcrunch Fintonic users offered 0% interest on Amazon.es purchases
Personal finance management app makerFintonichas teamed up with ecommerce behemoth Amazon to offer users in Spain interest free purchases on the local Amazon .es marketplace. The 0% finance offer is b...
04:16 pm GMT - Tue, November 13, 2018
Techcrunch WeWork picks up ANOTHER $3B from SoftBank
WeWork has picked up another $3 billion in financing from SoftBank Corp, not to be confused with SoftBank Vision Fund. The deal comes in the form of a warrant, allowing SoftBank to pay $3 billion for ...
04:02 pm GMT - Tue, November 13, 2018
Techcrunch Movile raises $400 million for its iFood delivery business
The Brazilian technology conglomerate Movile has just raised one of the largest rounds ever recorded for a Latin American startup, pulling in an additional $400 million for its iFood subsidiary from e...
04:02 pm GMT - Tue, November 13, 2018
Techcrunch In one of Latin Americas largest deals, Movile raises $400 million for its iFood delivery business
The Brazilian technology conglomerate Movile has just raised one of the largest rounds ever recorded for a Latin American startup, pulling in an additional $400 million for its iFood subsidiary from e...
04:01 pm GMT - Tue, November 13, 2018
Techcrunch Digital ad spending grew to $49.5B in the first half of 2018, according to IAB
The online advertising business continues to grow at double digit rates, according to the latest report from the Interactive Advertising Bureau (a trade group for online advertisers and publishers). A...
04:00 pm GMT - Tue, November 13, 2018
Techcrunch Former Beats Music CEO is back with an electric scooter startup
About a year ago, David Hyman, former Beats Music CEO and co-founder of music startup Mog that eventually sold to Beats Music, did something that was “very abnormal for me — career-wise,&#...
04:00 pm GMT - Tue, November 13, 2018
Techcrunch Atolla uses machine learning to address your skin care needs
Atolla, a skin care startup that got its roots at MIT, is launching a Kickstarter campaign to to help people achieve their skin goals. Atolla uses machine learning to identify skin health issues and t...
03:59 pm GMT - Tue, November 13, 2018
Techcrunch Spotify officially launches its Apple Watch app
Following reports of its testing, Spotify today has launched its long-awaited Apple Watch app. The app allows users to control the playback of Spotify’s streaming service from their Watch’...
03:07 pm GMT - Tue, November 13, 2018
Techcrunch Live streaming studio, Culture Genesis, launches its first show, the quiz-based Trivia Mob
A new generation of entrepreneurs is emerging to refashion the Los Angeles studio system for the digital age forming companies that combining live-streamed video, podcasts, and the newfound social med...
03:03 pm GMT - Tue, November 13, 2018
Techcrunch Amazons Alexa Fund invests in on-demand parking service, ParkWhiz
ParkWhiz, a startup that’s something of an Open Table for available parking spots, is adding $5 million in new equity to its recently announced Series D round.The new funds come from strategic i...
03:00 pm GMT - Tue, November 13, 2018
Techcrunch 1-877-KARS4KIDS had a data breach
Bad news: 1-877-KARS4KIDS had a data breach. Worse news: now you’ll have that awful jingle stuck in your head all day. The New Jersey-based charity has plagued the American airwaves for years wi...
02:59 pm GMT - Tue, November 13, 2018
Techcrunch Amazon confirms NYC and Arlington, VA as the site of its dual new HQ
After months of deliberations, data dumps, short lists andwish-lists, Amazon has finally announced the location of its second headquarters, HQ2, and as it has been widely reported, “2” is ...
02:59 pm GMT - Tue, November 13, 2018
Techcrunch Amazon confirms NYC and Arlington, VA as the site of its new dual HQ
After months of deliberations, data dumps, short lists andwish-lists, Amazon has finally announced the location of its second headquarters, HQ2, and as it has been widely reported, “2” is ...
02:30 pm GMT - Tue, November 13, 2018
Techcrunch Meditation app Simple Habit raises $10 million Series A
Five-minute meditation app Simple Habit announced today that it has raised a $10 million Series A, led by Foundation Capital. The round brings the developers total funding up to $12.5 million, followi...
02:30 pm GMT - Tue, November 13, 2018
Techcrunch Cognigo raises $8.5M for its AI-driven data protection platform
Cognigo, a startup that aims to use AI and machine learning to help enterprises protect their data and stay in compliance with regulations like GDPR, today announced that it has raised an $8.5 million...
02:00 pm GMT - Tue, November 13, 2018
Techcrunch Facebook bug let websites read likes and interests from a users profile
Facebook has fixed a bug that let any website pull information from a user’s profile including their ‘likes’ and interests without that user’s knowledge. That’s the fin...
02:00 pm GMT - Tue, November 13, 2018
Techcrunch Snapchat launches Bitmoji merch and comic strips starring your avatar
Snapchat is doubling down on its biggest differentiator by turning its personalized avatar Bitmoji into a revenue stream and a new source of content. Snapchat is launching a Bitmoji merchandise store ...
02:00 pm GMT - Tue, November 13, 2018
Techcrunch Pandora brings its Genome technology to podcast recommendations
Earlier this year, Pandora challenged Spotify’s personalization capabilities by using its Music Genome technology to create dozens of customized playlists for its users. Today, it will begin lev...
02:00 pm GMT - Tue, November 13, 2018
Techcrunch Mercaux bags $4.5M to help bricks-and-mortar retail tool up to sell more
Retail tech SaaS platform Mercaux has closed a 3.5 million (~$4.5M) Series A funding round led by European VC fundNautaCapital. The 2013 founded London-based startup sells software for retailers to ta...
02:00 pm GMT - Tue, November 13, 2018
Techcrunch Netskope raises $168.7M at a $1B valuation for its cloud security platform
As organizations continue to grapple with security risks posed by employees using a range of apps and devices in the workplace, a startup that has built a platform to help them to this has raised a si...
01:30 pm GMT - Tue, November 13, 2018
Techcrunch Poynt raises $100M for its smart payment terminal
Palo Alto-based Poynt was launched in 2014 by the former head of Google Wallet and longtime PayPal executiveOsama Bedier....
01:00 pm GMT - Tue, November 13, 2018
Techcrunch Rent tech focused RET closes first fund; pours $5M into management platform SmartRent
Today, Real Estate Technology Ventures (RET) Ventures announced the final close of $108 million for its first fund. RET focuses on early-stage investments in companies that are primarily looking to di...
01:00 pm GMT - Tue, November 13, 2018
Techcrunch Wattpad launches a new program offering paid access to exclusive stories
Steve Jobs famously once said that people don’t read anymore, but it turns out younger people are, in fact, reading quite a lot – just in different ways than expected. Case in point: 70 mi...
12:47 pm GMT - Tue, November 13, 2018
Techcrunch Flipkart CEO Binny Bansal resigns over allegations of serious personal misconduct
Flipkart, the India-based e-commerce firm owned by Walmart, has lost its Group CEO Binny Bansal after he resigned from the company following an investigation into “serious personal misconduct.&#...
12:30 pm GMT - Tue, November 13, 2018
Techcrunch Calm heads to the airport, invests $3 million in XpresSpa
Wellness app Calm has today announced a $3 million equity investment in XpresSpa Group, a fast-spa service you may have noticed in your local airport. Calm sees the investment as a way to expand its o...
11:42 am GMT - Tue, November 13, 2018
Techcrunch Chinas NetEase raises $600M for its music streaming business
As Tencent Music, China’s largest streaming firm, reportedly stalls on its proposed U.S. IPO, one of its closest challengers is doubling down. NetEase Cloud Music, a rival operated by games and ...
11:22 am GMT - Tue, November 13, 2018
Techcrunch Kaspersky starts processing threat data in Europe as part of trust reboot
Security firm Kaspersky Labs has opened its first self-styled ‘Transparency Center’ and begun processing threat-related data from European users in data centers located in Switzerland R...
11:08 am GMT - Tue, November 13, 2018
Techcrunch Sojern raises another $120M led by TCV to expand its travel marketing platform
Travel continues to be one of the biggest verticals online, projected to be worth over $1 trillion by 2022, and today a startup that helps travel-related businesses connect the dots between their prod...
11:00 am GMT - Tue, November 13, 2018
Techcrunch Sustainable clothing startup For Days raises $2.8M for its closed-loop manufacturing process
For Days, a clothing startup that wants to reduce the enormous amount of textile waste created annually, announced today that it has raised $2.8 million in seed funding. The round led by Rosecliff Ven...
10:43 am GMT - Tue, November 13, 2018
Techcrunch How machine learning systems sometimes surprise us
This simple spreadsheet of machine learning foibles may not look like much but it’s a fascinating exploration of how machines “think.” The list, compiled by researcher Victoria Krako...
10:20 am GMT - Tue, November 13, 2018
Techcrunch Chinese WeWork rival Ucommune raises $200M to go after international growth
China’s Ucommune, the country’s largest rival to WeWork, has been on a busy acquisition spree to build out its domestic business and now it is looking at overseas opportunities after it cl...
10:00 am GMT - Tue, November 13, 2018
Techcrunch Announcing the agenda for TechCrunch Startup Battlefield Africa
Were bringing Startup Battlefield back to Africa on December 11, and were excited to announce our jam-packed agenda that highlights the best and brightest startups in the region. For months weve been ...
08:39 am GMT - Tue, November 13, 2018
Techcrunch 11/11 shows biometrics are the norm for payments in China
Chinese consumers were quick to adopt digital payments, and a recent shopping binge showed they are ready for another leap: biometric payments. On November 11, Alibaba wrapped up Singles’ Day &#...
08:15 am GMT - Tue, November 13, 2018
Techcrunch Anorak raises 5M Series A for its life insurance advice platform
Anorak Technologies, the U.K. startup building a life insurance advice platform, has raised 5 million in Series A funding. Notably, the round is led by previous backer Kamet Ventures, the tech incubat...
08:07 am GMT - Tue, November 13, 2018
Techcrunch Universal Robots snags 20 Rethink refugees after bot maker goes belly up
A mind is a terrible thing to waste, they say, and in the aftermath of Rethink Robotics shutting down last month there were plenty of good minds looking avoid that fate. Fortunately Universal Robots h...
08:00 am GMT - Tue, November 13, 2018
Techcrunch Fluidly, the intelligent cashflow management SaaS for SMEs, picks up 5M Series A
Fluidly, the London-based fintech that offers an “intelligent” cashflow management SaaS for SMEs, has raised 5 million in Series A funding. The round is led by New-York based Nyca Partners...
03:11 am GMT - Tue, November 13, 2018
Techcrunch Report: NYC and Arlington, VA win the contest for Amazons split East Coast headquarters
New York City and Arlington, Virginia have reportedly won Amazons lengthy and highly-publicized pageant for the locations of its new headquarters, beating out 238 other contestants. According to the W...
01:53 am GMT - Tue, November 13, 2018
Techcrunch YouTube VR finally lands on the Oculus Go
Today, Google’s YouTube VR app arrives on the $199 Oculus Go, bringing the largest library of VR content on the web to Facebook’s entry-level VR device. YouTube brings plenty of content in...
11:31 pm GMT - Mon, November 12, 2018
Techcrunch Tinder to roll out expanded set of gender options in India
Tinder is preparing to roll out more gender options in its app in India. The company will announce shortly that users will be able to edit their profile in order to choose a different option for their...
11:01 pm GMT - Mon, November 12, 2018
Techcrunch Analysts weighing in on $8B SAP-Qualtrics deal dont see a game changer
SAP CEO Bill McDermott was jacked up today about his company’s $8 billion Qualtrics acquisition over the weekend. You would expect no less for such a big deal. McDermott believes the data Qualtr...
10:53 pm GMT - Mon, November 12, 2018
Techcrunch These antique phones are precious, private Alexa vessels
Amazon's Alexa may be in ten thousand different devices now, but they all have one other thing in common: they're new. So for those of us that prefer old things but still want to be able to set timers...
09:50 pm GMT - Mon, November 12, 2018
Techcrunch GM is going to allow Ford vehicles and other competitors on its Maven car-sharing platform
GM’s car-sharing subsidiary Maven is undergoing another expansion. This time, it’s not just to a new city. Maven plans to open up its new peer-to-peer car rental service to allow owners to...
09:49 pm GMT - Mon, November 12, 2018
Techcrunch Airbnb ends forced arbitration days after Google, Facebook did the same
Uber and Lyft put an end to forced arbitration earlier this year....
09:24 pm GMT - Mon, November 12, 2018
Techcrunch Whats next? The top media executives on the job market
Keep an eye out for the next moves by these entrepreneurs and executives. A number of the biggest names in media left their jobs over the last year (or announced they will be leaving soon), including ...
08:45 pm GMT - Mon, November 12, 2018
Techcrunch Comics legend Stan Lee has died
Stan Lee, likely the best-known and most beloved comics writer of all time, has died at the age of 95. “Stan Lee was as extraordinary as the characters he created,” said Disney CEO Bob Ige...
08:13 pm GMT - Mon, November 12, 2018
Techcrunch Okay, one final Form D note
Some more comments from readers on the changing culture around startups filing their Form Ds with the SEC, and then a short update on SoftBank and a bunch more article reviews. We are experimenting wi...
06:29 pm GMT - Mon, November 12, 2018
Techcrunch Twitter, those verified bitcoin-pushing pillocks are pissing everyone off
Elon Musk’s tweets piss me off for two reasons. When he’s not accusing actual heroes of sex crimes or trolling the federal government, it’s what comes after that drives me batshit. T...
05:00 pm GMT - Mon, November 12, 2018
Techcrunch BlaBlaCar to acquire Ouibus and offer bus service
French startup BlaBlaCar is announcing plans to acquire Ouibus, the bus division of Frances national railway company SNCF. For the first time, BlaBlaCar is moving beyond carpooling and plans to offer ...
05:00 pm GMT - Mon, November 12, 2018
Techcrunch Chappy, the Bumble-backed dating app for gay men, inks partnership with GLAAD
Chappy, the dating app for gay men, has today announced a partnership with GLAAD. As part of the partnership, Chappy will make a donation to GLAAD for each conversation initiated on the dating app, fr...
04:30 pm GMT - Mon, November 12, 2018
Techcrunch With the Paris Call, Macron wants to limit cyberattacks
French President Emmanuel Macron gave a speech at the Internet Governance Forum at UNESCO in Paris. While the IGF has been around for a while, it hasnt been as active as some would have hoped. Thats w...
04:20 pm GMT - Mon, November 12, 2018
Techcrunch Enterprise shopping season starts early with almost $50B in recent deals
Black Friday may still be 10 days away, but shopping season started early in the enterprise this year. We have seen acquisitions totaling almost $50 billion in the last couple of months alone, topped ...
03:56 pm GMT - Mon, November 12, 2018
Techcrunch Audioburst turns the best part of podcasts into personalized news briefs
Tel Aviv-based Audioburst has been developing a search engine for audio news, which allows users to locate audio content within podcast and other talk radio programs. Today, the company is capitalizin...
03:49 pm GMT - Mon, November 12, 2018
Techcrunch Lyft is launching a rider loyalty program in December
Ride-sharing service Lyft is today announcing its new plan to encourage repeat use: the launch of a loyalty program for riders, Lyft Rewards. The program, which will begin rolling out next month to se...
03:00 pm GMT - Mon, November 12, 2018
Techcrunch Tiger Global returns with a $3M investment to help restaurants deal with delivery apps
Tiger Global has returned to backing early-stage Indian startups after it wrote a $3 million check for CheckMate, a U.S.-Indian startup the helps restaurant deals with the pain of multiple food orderi...
03:00 pm GMT - Mon, November 12, 2018
Techcrunch Firefoxs newest Test Pilot experiments help you track prices and email links
Test Pilot is Mozilla’s program for experimenting with some of its more outlandish ideas for Firefox and beyond. Some of those experiments make it into the browser itself, some become stand-alon...
02:31 pm GMT - Mon, November 12, 2018
Techcrunch Facebook to let French regulators investigate on moderation processes
Facebook and the French government are going to cooperate to look at Facebooks efforts when it comes to moderation. French regulators will launch an informal investigation on algorithm-powered and hum...
02:00 pm GMT - Mon, November 12, 2018
Techcrunch Kofax to buy Nuances imaging division for $400M in cash
Some consolidation and subsequent divestment are in play in the worlds of imaging and voice recognition. Today, Kofax and Nuance announced that Kofax would be acquiring Nuance’s imaging division...
02:00 pm GMT - Mon, November 12, 2018
Techcrunch eBay adds home services to its site via new partners Handy, Porch and InstallerNet
eBay shoppers will now be able to buy installation services along with their purchases. The company this morning announced new partnerships withHandy,PorchandInstallerNetwhich will allow online shoppe...
01:53 pm GMT - Mon, November 12, 2018
Techcrunch Sony filed a patent for a touchscreen-equipped PlayStation controller
According to a patent application continuation filed in 2017 and published recently, Sony may have tentative plans to build out a touchscreen-equipped PlayStation controller. Whether the value added f...
01:01 pm GMT - Mon, November 12, 2018
Techcrunch Vista snaps up Apptio for $1.94B, as enterprise companies remain hot
It seems that Sunday has become a popular day to announce large deals involving enterprise companies. IBM announced the $34 billion Red Hat deal two weeks ago. SAP announced its intent to buy Qualtric...
12:15 pm GMT - Mon, November 12, 2018
Techcrunch Five reasons why you should be at Disrupt Berlin this November
Are you ready to experienceDisrupt Berlin 2018? Our premier tech startup conference takes place on 29-30 November and draws international participants from more than 50 countries across Europe, Asia a...
12:00 pm GMT - Mon, November 12, 2018
Techcrunch Framer, the interactive design platform, scores $24M Series B led by Atomico
Framer, the Amsterdam-based startup behind interactive design platform Framer X, has raised $24 million in Series B investment. The round is led by European VC firm Atomico, with participation from Ac...
11:43 am GMT - Mon, November 12, 2018
Techcrunch Londons transport regulator looks to startups to help fix urban mobility
London’s transport regulator, TfL has announced a partnership with Bosch for its forthcoming co-working space in Shoreditch. The civic tech project is intended to run for 18 months as a pilot &#...
11:30 am GMT - Mon, November 12, 2018
Techcrunch Nigerian data analytics company Terragon acquires Asian mobile ad firm Bizense
Jake Bright Contributor Jake Bright is a writer and author in New York City. He is co-author of The Next Africa. More posts by this contributor Africa Roundup: Local VC funds surge, Naspers ramps up a...
11:07 am GMT - Mon, November 12, 2018
Techcrunch Clearbanc raises $70M to give startups ad money for a rev share
Selling equity to buy Facebook and Google ads is a bad deal for startups. Clearbanc offers a fundraising alternative. For fast-growing businesses reliably earning sales from their marketing spend, Cle...
10:45 am GMT - Mon, November 12, 2018
Techcrunch Alibaba rival JD sees Singles Day revenue jump 27% thanks to offline push
Alibaba may have pioneered the concept of Singles’ Day, the world’s largestshopping day based on sales, but it very much not the only e-commerce giant involved. JD.com, Alibaba’s big...
08:00 am GMT - Mon, November 12, 2018
Techcrunch The Ceph storage project gets a dedicated open-source foundation
Ceph is an open source technology for distributed storage that gets very little public attention but that provides the underlying storage services for many of the world’s largest container and O...
03:40 am GMT - Mon, November 12, 2018
Techcrunch SAP agrees to buy Qualtrics for $8B in cash, just before the survey software companys IPO
Enterprise software giant SAP announced today that it has agreed to acquire Qualtrics for $8 billion in cash, just before the survey and research software company was set to go public. The deal is exp...
03:25 am GMT - Mon, November 12, 2018
Techcrunch Alibaba made a smart screen to help blind people shop and it costs next to nothing
Just a few years ago, Li Mengqi could not have imagined shopping on her own. Someone needed to always keep her company to say aloud what was in front of her, who’s been blind since birth. When s...
12:06 am GMT - Mon, November 12, 2018
Techcrunch Travel startups are taking off
The second wave of Internet-era travel companies has captured the attention of venture capitalists....
11:30 pm GMT - Sun, November 11, 2018
Techcrunch In venture capital, its still the age of the unicorn
Howie Xu Contributor Share on Twitter Howie Xu is the vice president of artificial intelligence and machine learning at Zscaler. He previously co-founded TrustPath and served as an entrepreneur in res...
10:32 pm GMT - Sun, November 11, 2018
Techcrunch A tale of two scooter cities
The kids in Madrid’s El Retiro Park are loving their new on-demand joyriding toys. Lime launched its scooters in the Spanish capital this summer. Spending a weekend in the city center last month...
09:15 pm GMT - Sun, November 11, 2018
Techcrunch Microsoft adds RPG makers InXile and Obsidian to Xbox developer stable
Microsoft is continuing to invest in a broad spectrum of developers for its Xbox gaming ecosystem with the acquisition of Obsidian and InXile, makers of complex RPGs primarily aimed at PC users. The t...
09:03 pm GMT - Sun, November 11, 2018
Techcrunch Facebook Portal needs more. At least it just added YouTube
To offset the creepiness of having Facebooks camera and microphone in your house, its new Portal video chat gadget needs best-in-class software. Its hardware is remarkably well done, plus Messenger an...
07:23 pm GMT - Sun, November 11, 2018
Techcrunch Facebook simulates itself up a better, more gradual product launch
When you're launching a new social media product, like an image-sharing app or niche network, common wisdom is to make it available to everyone as soon as it's ready. But simulations carried out by Fa...
06:14 pm GMT - Sun, November 11, 2018
Techcrunch Alibaba sets new Singles Day record with $31B in sales, but growth is slowing
Alibaba scored another blockbuster Singles’ Day after customers around the world shopped in stores and online on the tenth edition of its November 11 shopping festival. That puts this year’...
04:10 pm GMT - Sun, November 11, 2018
Techcrunch How issues of microtransit, congestion and parking are closing in on cities
Earlier this week in a new experimental newsletter Ive been helping Danny Crichton on, we briefly discussed transit pundit Jarrett Walkers article in The Atlantic arguing against the view that ridesha...
03:24 pm GMT - Sun, November 11, 2018
Techcrunch Bubble lets you create web applications with no coding experience
Meet Bubble a bootstrapped startup that has been building a powerful service that lets you create a web application even if you dont know how to code. Many small and big companies rely on Bubble for t...
02:30 pm GMT - Sun, November 11, 2018
Techcrunch Placing bets beyond the venture hubs of New York and Silicon Valley
Roy Bahat Contributor Share on Twitter Roy Bahat is the head of Bloomberg Beta. More posts by this contributor For founders and investors, it’s time for some ‘real talk’ about money ...
02:00 pm GMT - Sun, November 11, 2018
Techcrunch Mattereum, perhaps the worlds weirdest and most daring startup, intends to own literally everything
How’s this for eyebrow-raising? In London, for the last year and a half, a team of lawyers, cryptographers, software engineers, and/or former military consultants have been brewing a bizarre and...
02:00 pm GMT - Sun, November 11, 2018
Techcrunch eBay adds home services to its site via new partners Handy, Porch and InstallerNet
eBay shoppers will now be able to buy installation services along with their purchases. The company this morning announced new partnerships withHandy,PorchandInstallerNetwhich will allow online shoppe...
01:00 pm GMT - Sun, November 11, 2018
Techcrunch Cloudflare rolls out its 1.1.1.1 privacy service to iOS, Android
Months after announcing its privacy-focused DNS service, Cloudflare is bringing 1.1.1.1 to mobile users. Granted, nothing ever stopped anyone from using 1.1.1.1 on their phones or tablets already. But...
08:00 am GMT - Sun, November 11, 2018
Techcrunch Nested, the online estate agent that makes home sellers chain-free, raises further 120M
Nested, the London-based “data-driven” estate agency that provides a cash advance to help you buy a new home before youve sold your old one, has raised a further 120 million in funding. Th...
12:49 am GMT - Sun, November 11, 2018
Techcrunch Xbox One will work with keyboard and mouse as of November 14th, starting with Fortnite
We knew the Xbox One was set to get keyboard and mouse support eventually, but now we know exactly when....
05:09 pm GMT - Sat, November 10, 2018
Techcrunch The top 10 cities for $100M VC rounds in 2018 so far
Crunchbase News recently profileda selection of U.S. companies largest VC raised in 2018, and no surprise here: the 10 largest rounds all topped out well north of $100 million....
12:41 am GMT - Sat, November 10, 2018
Techcrunch Growing pains at venture-backed Moogsoft lead to layoffs
Moogsoft has laid off 30 employees and completed two C-suite hires. Its new COO Amer Deeba recently resigned from Qualys following SEC charges of insider trading....
12:35 am GMT - Sat, November 10, 2018
Techcrunch Can the startup building a Fortnite for VR become the Fortnite of VR?
Virtual reality hasn’t proven itself to be the lucrative escape of the every-man, but the medium has done a fairly good job enticing the gaming community and keeping that niche (mostly) happy. W...
11:53 pm GMT - Fri, November 9, 2018
Techcrunch Gift Guide: The best security and privacy tech to keep your friends safe
Libertarian on lockdown? Privacy minded or paranoid? Security is more front of mind today than ever befroe. If it’s not a company vacuuming up your data or nation states trying to hack your emai...
11:05 pm GMT - Fri, November 9, 2018
Techcrunch Mary Meeker is said to be raising up to $1.25 billion for her new growth fund
Mary Meeker, who revealed in September plans to leave Kleiner Perkins after an eight-year run with the venture firm, is reportedly looking to raise up to $1.25 billion for her debut fund. So says Busi...
10:52 pm GMT - Fri, November 9, 2018
Techcrunch Limiting social media use reduced loneliness and depression in new experiment
The idea that social media can be harmful to our mental and emotional well-being is not a new one, but little has been done by researchers to directly measure the effect; surveys and correlative studi...
10:34 pm GMT - Fri, November 9, 2018
Techcrunch Why youre about to see a lot of drifting Tesla Model 3 videos
Tesla Model 3 owners who opted for the Performance variant now have a reason to go to the track. Or, if history is a guide, they’ll skip the track and try the newly released Track Mode software ...
10:33 pm GMT - Fri, November 9, 2018
Techcrunch Facebook launches Lasso, its music and video TikTok clone
Done cloning Snapchat, Facebook is now chasing Chinese short-form video sensation TikTok with the launch of its knock-off Lasso. Available now for iOS and Android, Lasso is Facebook’s answer to ...
08:46 pm GMT - Fri, November 9, 2018
Techcrunch PayPal shuts down accounts for Proud Boys and founder McInnes as well as antifa groups
PayPal has shut down several accounts, including those for far-right group the Proud Boys and their founder, Gavin McInnes, for the promotion of "hate, violence, or other forms of intolerance." Severa...
08:41 pm GMT - Fri, November 9, 2018
Techcrunch Pure Bit, a South Korean exchange, pulls a $2.8 million exit scam
Another day, another exit scam. This time it comes to us from South Korea, where an exchange, Pure Bit, has completely shut down after raising $2.8 million in Ethereum from investors. The exchange, wh...
08:15 pm GMT - Fri, November 9, 2018
Techcrunch Listen to the music of a Martian sunrise
Two researchers, Dr. Domenico Vicinanza of Anglia Ruskin University and Dr. Genevieve Williams, have “sonified” a video of the 5,000th Martian sunrise captured by the Mars rover, Opportuni...
07:52 pm GMT - Fri, November 9, 2018
Techcrunch Rocket Labs big Its Business Time launch targets this weekend for takeoff
Upstart launch provider Rocket Lab aims to finally launch its first fully commercial payload to orbit this weekend after months of delays. The small Electron rocket will take six satellites from four ...
07:45 pm GMT - Fri, November 9, 2018
Techcrunch Hackers stole income, immigration and tax data in Healthcare.gov breach, government confirms
Hackers siphoned off thousands of Healthcare.gov applications by breaking into the accounts of brokers and agents tasked with helping customers sign up for healthcare plans. The Centers for Medicare a...
07:09 pm GMT - Fri, November 9, 2018
Techcrunch Amazon expands its assortment of Apple inventory, including the latest devices
Amazon has signed a new deal with Apple that will allow the retailer to increase the selection of Apple products on its site, according to a report from CNET, which Amazon also confirmed. The deal wil...
06:58 pm GMT - Fri, November 9, 2018
Techcrunch Sonys PlayStation Classic uses an open-source emulator to play its games
The worm has turned, it seems. Emulators, which let people run old console games on their computers, were once the scourge of the gaming industry. Now Sony is using one of the very pieces of software ...
04:56 pm GMT - Fri, November 9, 2018
Techcrunch Everything you missed from the Startup Battlefield Latin America
The tech scene in So Paulo is an absolute delight, and we’re honored to have seen such an amazing turnout at the Startup Battlefield Latin America. In case you missed it, we’ve put togethe...
04:52 pm GMT - Fri, November 9, 2018
Techcrunch Utah man pleads guilty to causing 2013 gaming service outages
A Utah man has pleaded guilty to computer hacking charges, after admitting to knocking several gaming services offline five years ago. Austin Thompson, 23, launched several denial-of-service attacks a...
04:14 pm GMT - Fri, November 9, 2018
Techcrunch Rakuten has SoftBank in its sights
This week, Ive tried to do something new at TechCrunch with this experimental column getting obsessed about a topic broadly in tech and writing a continuous stream of thoughts and analysis about it. ...
03:49 pm GMT - Fri, November 9, 2018
Techcrunch Disney to invest in more original content for Hulu, expand service internationally
In addition to plans to launch its own Netflix rival, Disney+, next year, the company says it also plans to increase investment in its other streaming service, Hulu. Thanks its buyout of 21st Century ...
03:41 pm GMT - Fri, November 9, 2018
Techcrunch This magician brings some serious tricks to the iPad Pro
iPad magic pro#iPad #magic #mac #apple #iphone #magician #gadget # # # #art # #Tokyo #iPadpro pic.twitter.com/DdfNupZhQE — Shinya Uchida() (@shinyamagician) November 7, 2018 TechCrunch editor Ma...
03:11 pm GMT - Fri, November 9, 2018
Techcrunch LinkedIn Learning now includes 3rd party content and Q&A interactive features
LinkedIn, the Microsoft-owned social network for the working world with some 580 million users, took a big step into professional development and education when it acquired Lynda.com for $1.5 billion ...
03:05 pm GMT - Fri, November 9, 2018
Techcrunch Singles Day: Chinas $25 billion shopping festival explained
This Sunday is November 11, an auspicious date within the Chinese tech community because it marks Single’s Day, the world’s largest online shopping day. This year is particularly poignant ...
02:24 pm GMT - Fri, November 9, 2018
Techcrunch Burgerbot startup Creator hires inventor of Boston Dynamics Big Dog
Disney Imagineering animatronics wizard Dr. Martin Buehler is a legend in the robotics world. His work leading development of the galloping Big Dog quadruped at Boston Dynamics both inspired and terri...
02:00 pm GMT - Fri, November 9, 2018
Techcrunch Sneaker marketplace GOAT announces an AR-centric Black Friday giveaway
Black Friday giveaways have become a tradition for online sneaker marketplace GOAT. Today it’s announcing the details of this year’s campaign, which will be its first to incorporate augmen...
02:00 pm GMT - Fri, November 9, 2018
Techcrunch SoftBanks debt, Ford buys Spin, and Chinese coffee is huge money
Hello and welcome back toEquity, TechCrunchs venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week was a blast. Connie and I were in the studio with our guest, T...
02:00 pm GMT - Fri, November 9, 2018
Techcrunch SoftBanks debt, Ford buys Spin and Chinese coffee is huge money
Hello and welcome back toEquity, TechCrunchs venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week was a blast. Connie and I were in the studio with our guest, T...
01:57 pm GMT - Fri, November 9, 2018
Techcrunch New UnitedMasters deal will enable its artists get play across NBA properties
UnitedMasters came out of stealth about a year ago with a plan to help artists have a more direct relationship with their customers and fans and, more importantly, retain more control over their actua...
01:27 pm GMT - Fri, November 9, 2018
Techcrunch Children are being datafied before weve understood the risks, report warns
A report by England’s children’s commissioner has raised concerns about how kids’ data is being collected and shared across the board, in both the private and public sectors. In the ...
09:34 am GMT - Fri, November 9, 2018
Techcrunch David Attenborough to voice Netflixs nature conservation series, Our Planet
Netflix has persuaded everyone’s favorite naturalist, David Attenborough, to voice its forthcoming original nature documentary series, Our Planet, which is slated to put conservation squarely in...
09:04 am GMT - Fri, November 9, 2018
Techcrunch Win a shot to compete in Startup Battlefield at Disrupt Berlin 2018
Still crying in your Red Bull because you missed the deadline to compete inStartup Battlefield at Disrupt Berlin 2018? Dont despair. You have one more chance to step onto the Main Stage and go head-to...
06:35 am GMT - Fri, November 9, 2018
Techcrunch Xiaomi is opening a retail store in London as it extends its Europe push
Xiaomi’s expansion into Europe continues at speed after the Chinese smartphone maker announced plans to open its first retail store in London. The company is best known for developing quality An...
04:12 am GMT - Fri, November 9, 2018
Techcrunch Calling all hackers! Join us for TechCrunch Chinas Shenzhen Hackathon on Nov 17
Attention coders, designers andall other builders:the TechCrunch China Hackathon is returning to Shenzhen, the city known as the hardware capital of the world, this month and we want you to take part!...
01:21 am GMT - Fri, November 9, 2018
Techcrunch Walmart is building an AI lab inside one of its store
Walmart has just announced its plans to launch what it’s calling an Intelligent Retail Lab inside one of its stores in Levittown, New York. The idea is to test both associate and customer experi...
01:21 am GMT - Fri, November 9, 2018
Techcrunch Walmart is building an AI lab inside one of its stores
Walmart has just announced its plans to launch what it’s calling an Intelligent Retail Lab inside one of its stores in Levittown, New York. The idea is to test both associate and customer experi...
12:05 am GMT - Fri, November 9, 2018
Techcrunch All I want for Christmas are these kitschy VC trading cards
TouchBase is selling a line of VC trading cards, featuring Paul Graham, Marc Andreessen, Mary Meeker and Bill Gurley....
11:54 pm GMT - Thu, November 8, 2018
Techcrunch SpaceXs Starlink aims to put over a thousand of its communications satellites in super-low orbit
SpaceX's planned communication satellite constellation, known as Starlink, will now be targeting a much lower orbit than originally planned, at least for over a thousand of the satellites, the company...
11:40 pm GMT - Thu, November 8, 2018
Techcrunch Google walkout organizers arent satisfied with CEOs response
Organizers of the massive walkouts at Google last week are — rightfully so — not letting up on their demands. Earlier this morning, Google CEO Sundar Pichai responded to some of their dema...
11:00 pm GMT - Thu, November 8, 2018
Techcrunch Three challenges facing blockchain technology
Blockchain technology will eventually impact many industries, but there is still a long way to go before blockchain technology can realize its true potential. Here are the three most important challen...
10:49 pm GMT - Thu, November 8, 2018
Techcrunch Roku expands its free streaming channel with entertainment and live sports
Roku’s ad-supported free streaming channel is expanding. No, not to more platforms — it already did that. But rather, it’s expanding its content lineup. While before the channel offe...
10:22 pm GMT - Thu, November 8, 2018
Techcrunch Disneys new streaming service will be called Disney
We knew Disney was building its own on-demand streaming service, la Netflix or HBO GO, but we didn’t know the name. Now we do. Disney’s new streaming service will be called Disney+. While...
09:30 pm GMT - Thu, November 8, 2018
Techcrunch Gift Guide: 11 picture perfect gifts for your photographer friends
Photographers are tricky to get gifts for because every one of them has preferences they may already have spent years indulging. But we have blind spots, we photographers. We will spend thousands on l...
09:16 pm GMT - Thu, November 8, 2018
Techcrunch Virgin Hyperloop One has a new CEO and board chairman
High-speed futuristic transportation company Virgin Hyperloop One is changing up its leadership. CEO Rob Lloyd has left after three years at the helm and Jay Walder, who ran bike-sharing operator Moti...
09:13 pm GMT - Thu, November 8, 2018
Techcrunch National Grid unveils $250M corporate venture capital arm
Former Intel Capital managing director has launched National Grid Partners....
09:13 pm GMT - Thu, November 8, 2018
Techcrunch AdRoll expands its B2B data and tech by acquiring Growlabs
AdRoll Group announced today that it has acquired Growlabs, a two-year-old startup with business-to-business sales tools and data. While AdRoll is best known for its retargeting technology for consume...
08:57 pm GMT - Thu, November 8, 2018
Techcrunch Vine co-founder plans to launch successor Byte in Spring 2019
Vine the much loved and mourned short video hosting platform will return, kind of, sort of. Co-creator Dom Hofmann announced on Twitter today that its spiritual success is set to arrive next spring....
08:52 pm GMT - Thu, November 8, 2018
Techcrunch Olho do Dono is the winner of Startup Battlefield Latin America
Fifteen startupsspent the day presenting onstage in So Paulo, Brazil. For the finalists, that meant presenting twice once in the initial rounds, then again for our finalist judges. This was all part ...
08:02 pm GMT - Thu, November 8, 2018
Techcrunch Facebook removed 14 million pieces of terrorist content this year, and the numbers are rising
Facebook must exert constant vigilance to prevent its platform from being taken over by ne'er-do-wells, but how exactly it does that is only really known to itself. Today, however, the company has gra...
06:50 pm GMT - Thu, November 8, 2018
Techcrunch Charge card startup Brex aims for decacorn success
By now, Brex, the young startup that is trying to reinvent corporate credit and charge cards, is well-known in Silicon Valley. The tender age of the companys co-founders, Henrique Dubugras and Pedro F...
06:01 pm GMT - Thu, November 8, 2018
Techcrunch Facebook Portal isnt listening to your calls, but may track data
When the initial buzz of Portal finally dies down, its the timing that will be remembered most. Theres never a great time for a company like Facebook to launch a product like Portal, but as far as opt...
06:00 pm GMT - Thu, November 8, 2018
Techcrunch Chrome adds new security features to stop mobile subscription scams
Google today announced that Chrome will soon get a new feature that aims to stop mobile subscription scams. Those are the kind of sites that ask you for your phone number and that then, unbeknownst to...
05:59 pm GMT - Thu, November 8, 2018
Techcrunch 81% of VC firms dont have a single black investor BLCK VC wants to change that
There's a new group focused on supporting black investors. ...
05:58 pm GMT - Thu, November 8, 2018
Techcrunch Material Impact, a new fund focused on materials technology, just closed its debut fund with $110 million
Material Impact, a Waltham, Ma.-based firm that says it “transforms materials into companies that make an impact,” has closed its debut fund with $110 million in capital commitments from a...
05:16 pm GMT - Thu, November 8, 2018
Techcrunch Abbyy looks to RPA to breathe new life in to scanning and workflow
Abbyy has been around for a long time helping companies with scanning and workflow tools, but like many older vendors it has been looking for ways to extend its traditional business model. One way to ...
05:16 pm GMT - Thu, November 8, 2018
Techcrunch Abbyy looks to RPA to breathe new life into scanning and workflow
Abbyy has been around for a long time helping companies with scanning and workflow tools, but like many older vendors it has been looking for ways to extend its traditional business model. One way to ...
05:01 pm GMT - Thu, November 8, 2018
Techcrunch Facebook Dating arrives in Canada and Thailand
On the heels of Tinder’s plans to go more casual, Facebook is today expanding access to its own dating service, Facebook Dating. First launched two months ago in Colombia for testing purposes, t...
05:01 pm GMT - Thu, November 8, 2018
Techcrunch Google CEO highlights corporate changes following walkouts
This time last week, Google employees held massive walkouts across the country to protest the companys handling of sexual harassment in the wake of a damning New York Times piece. This morning, CEO Su...
05:00 pm GMT - Thu, November 8, 2018
Techcrunch YouTube arrives on the Nintendo Switch
Nintendo has sold over 22 million Switch consoles since launch, with plans to sell another 20 million this fiscal year. That said, Nintendo hasn’t seemed too focused on building out its portfoli...
04:43 pm GMT - Thu, November 8, 2018
Techcrunch Self-driving Mercedes-Benz S Class sedans are coming to San Jose
Another autonomous ride-hailing test project has popped up in the U.S. This time, Daimler and Bosch,one of the largest automotive tech and hardware suppliers in the world, are partnering to pilot a ro...
04:18 pm GMT - Thu, November 8, 2018
Techcrunch Amazon launches Alexa app for Windows 10 PCs
Amazon today launched an Alexa app for Windows 10 PCs. Available on the Microsoft Store, the voice application allows PC owners to speak to Alexa to set reminders, timers and alarms; create lists and ...
04:00 pm GMT - Thu, November 8, 2018
Techcrunch Datacoral raises $10M Series A for its data infrastructure service
Datacoral aims to make it easier for enterprises to build data products by abstracting away all of the complex infrastructure to organize and process data. The company today announced that it has rais...
04:00 pm GMT - Thu, November 8, 2018
Techcrunch Google Cloud wants to make it easier for data scientists to share models
Today, Google Cloud announced Kubeflow pipelines and AI Hub, two tools designed to help data scientists put the models they create to work across their organizations. Rajen Sheth, director of product ...
03:47 pm GMT - Thu, November 8, 2018
Techcrunch IAC reorg makes Vimeo and DotDash standalone segments, adds new acquisition Robokiller
IAC is changing the way its business is organized, the company reported during its Q3 2018 earnings on Wednesday. The company’s video platform Vimeo and DotDash (previously About.com) will becom...
03:40 pm GMT - Thu, November 8, 2018
Techcrunch Japan is cracking down on SoftBanks revenue
First, a couple of quick follow-ups to our coverage of Form Ds yesterday, and then a deeper dive into the challenges SoftBank is facing with regards to its revenue in Japan. Finally, some notes on rec...
03:15 pm GMT - Thu, November 8, 2018
Techcrunch Theres a new PS4 Pro and its much quieter than the original
There’s a new Sony PS4 Pro and it’s much quieter than the original. Right now, it’s only available in a Red Dead Redemption bundle but eventually, it will likely be available as a st...
03:07 pm GMT - Thu, November 8, 2018
Techcrunch Sonys new noise-canceling headphones are great traveling companions
I’ll admit that I’ve been caught up in the Bose hype. I’ve worn qBoseSony WH-1000XM3, a pair of wireless/wired cans that truly give everything else I’ve tried a bad name. These...
03:00 pm GMT - Thu, November 8, 2018
Techcrunch Bonobo AI raises $4.5M seed round to help companies turn interactions with customers into valuable data
Bonobo AI, an AI-based platform that helps companies get insights from customer support calls, texts, and other interactions, announced today that it has raised $4.5 million in seed funding led by G20...
02:42 pm GMT - Thu, November 8, 2018
Techcrunch Spotify debuts an analytics service for music publishers
Spotify’s artist dashboard already allows musicians and their managers a way to track the success of their tracks and album releases, as well as view other data about their fans. Now, the stream...
02:04 pm GMT - Thu, November 8, 2018
Techcrunch So I sent my mom that newfangled Facebook Portal
“Who am I going to be worried about? Oh Facebook seeing? No, I’m not worried about Facebook seeing. They’re going to look at my great art collection and say they want to come steal i...
02:00 pm GMT - Thu, November 8, 2018
Techcrunch Security flaw in DJIs website and apps exposed accounts to hackers and drone live feeds
It took about six months for popular consumer drone maker DJI to fix a security vulnerability across its website and apps, which if exploited could have given an attacker unfettered access to a drone ...
02:00 pm GMT - Thu, November 8, 2018
Techcrunch Facebook Portal review
The Portal is a head scratcher. Its a chat app that manifested itself into a hardware through sheer force of will. The first commercially available product from Building 8 isnt as instantly iconic a p...
01:28 pm GMT - Thu, November 8, 2018
Techcrunch Travel activities startup KKday lands investment from Alibaba and Line
Taiwan’s KKday, a startup in the increasingly competitive travel activities space, has pulled in an undisclosed funding round that adds two strategic investors to its business: Chinese e-commerc...
01:14 pm GMT - Thu, November 8, 2018
Techcrunch Electric flying taxi service Lilium poaches key hires from Audi, Airbus
Lilium, the developer of a new, electric, vertical take-off and landing vehicle for a novel flying taxi service, has poached some pretty big former executives from Airbus and Audi as it builds out its...
01:00 pm GMT - Thu, November 8, 2018
Techcrunch The scooters arrive in Australia
Lime has launched its e-scooters and e-bikes in Melbourne and Sydney....
11:49 am GMT - Thu, November 8, 2018
Techcrunch Mexican venture firm ALL VP has a $73 million first close on its latest fund
Buoyed by international attention from U.S. and Chinese investors and technology companies, new financing keeps flowing into the coffers of Latin American venture capital firms. One day after the Braz...
11:48 am GMT - Thu, November 8, 2018
Techcrunch White House shares manipulated Infowars video to justify CNN press ban
Read this slowly: The White House’s press secretary has tweeted a manipulated video shared by the editor-at-large of conspiracy theorist outlet Infowars to attempt to justify its decision to sus...
11:46 am GMT - Thu, November 8, 2018
Techcrunch Grab lands $50M from Thailands Kasikorn Bank to further its fintech push
Southeast Asia ride-hailing firm Grab is continuing to add strategic investors to its ongoing Series H round — which is targeted at over $3 billion — after it revealed Thai bank Kasikorn p...
11:29 am GMT - Thu, November 8, 2018
Techcrunch RealtimeBoard, a visual collaboration platform for companies, raises $25M led by Accel
RealtimeBoard, a visual collaboration tool particularly suited to distributed teams, has picked up $25 million in Series A funding. Accel led the round, with participation from existing investor AltaI...
11:00 am GMT - Thu, November 8, 2018
Techcrunch Corporate travel startup TripActions raises $154M at $1B valuation
Co-foundersAriel Cohen and Ilan Twig wow'd investors with TripActions 700% annual growth rate....
10:26 am GMT - Thu, November 8, 2018
Techcrunch Here are the startups and the agenda for the TCs first Startup Battlefield Latin America
In just a half hour, we’ll be starting Startup Battlefield LATAM in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Along with interviews with Nubank, Movile, Yellow, and a keynote from Facebook (TC’s partner for the ...
10:26 am GMT - Thu, November 8, 2018
Techcrunch Here are the startups and agenda for Startup Battlefield Latin America
In just a half hour, we’ll be starting Startup Battlefield LATAM in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Along with interviews with Nubank, Movile, Yellow, and a keynote from Facebook (TC’s partner for the ...
09:07 am GMT - Thu, November 8, 2018
Techcrunch CrunchMatch for everyone at Disrupt Berlin 2018
In just about three weeks, on 29-30 November, literally thousands of startup fans will flock to Deutschlands edgiest city to experience Disrupt Berlin 2018 Europes premier tech conference focused on ...
09:00 am GMT - Thu, November 8, 2018
Techcrunch Infarm expands its in-store farming to Paris
Infarm, the Berlin-based startup that has developed vertical farming tech for grocery stores, restaurants and local distribution centres to bring fresh and artisan produce much closer to the consumer,...
08:35 am GMT - Thu, November 8, 2018
Techcrunch Lets take off with the European Space Agency at Disrupt Berlin
A few years ago, nobody would have bet that space exploration would become so exciting again. But everybody is talking about space again, from Mars to satellites, launchers and observation. Thats why ...
08:11 am GMT - Thu, November 8, 2018
Techcrunch Tesla picks telco executive Robyn Denholm to replace Elon Musk as chairman
Elon Musk’s replacement as the chair of Tesla has been named and it is Robyn Denholm, an Australian executive who has been a director with the electric vehicle firm since 2014. Denholm is curren...
05:01 am GMT - Thu, November 8, 2018
Techcrunch Facebook starts shipping Portal, clarifies privacy/ad policy
Planning to get in early on the Portal phenomenon? Facebook announced today that it’s starting to ship the video chat device. The companys first true piece of devoted hardware comes in two confi...
03:04 am GMT - Thu, November 8, 2018
Techcrunch Despite a strong Q3 earnings report, Squares Q4 forecast disappoints investors
Despite a strong third-quarter earnings report, Squares forecast for the final quarter of this year gave investors pause, sending its share price down 6 percent in after hours trading before it gradua...
01:37 am GMT - Thu, November 8, 2018
Techcrunch 20 startups take center stage at Berkeley SkyDecks demo day
A robot that can clean your house, a blockchain-powered social network and 18 other startups presented to investors at SkyDeck's 8th demo day....
01:03 am GMT - Thu, November 8, 2018
Techcrunch The Muse, a popular recruitment site for millennial women, has made its second acquisition
The Muse, a New York-based, content-rich recruitment site that matches job seekers and all kinds of information about different career paths, as well as with companies that are hiring, has made it sec...
01:03 am GMT - Thu, November 8, 2018
Techcrunch The Muse, a popular recruitment site for millennials, has made its second acquisition
The Muse, a New York-based, content-rich recruitment site that matches job seekers and all kinds of information about different career paths, as well as with companies that are hiring, has made it sec...
12:00 am GMT - Thu, November 8, 2018
Techcrunch Zopa, the U.K. P2P lending company, closes 60M round on path to launching a bank
Obtaining a banking license and then launching an actual new retail bank requires capital. A lot of capital. Enter Zopa, the U.K. peer-to-peer lending company that wants to become a bank, which today ...
12:00 am GMT - Thu, November 8, 2018
Techcrunch Zopa, the UK P2P lending company, closes 60M round on path to launching a bank
Obtaining a banking license and then launching an actual new retail bank requires capital. A lot of capital. Enter Zopa, the U.K. peer-to-peer lending company that wants to become a bank, which today ...
11:09 pm GMT - Wed, November 7, 2018
Techcrunch Georgias secretary of state Brian Kemp doxes thousands of absentee voters
Georgia’s secretary of state Brian Kemp andcandidate for state governor in the midterm election, has taken the unusual, if not unprecedented step of posting the personal details of 291,164 absen...
10:50 pm GMT - Wed, November 7, 2018
Techcrunch Samsungs dual-screen folding phone is very strange and probably doomed
Let me just say that I love the idea of a folding phone/tablet device. I was a Courier fanboy when Microsoft floated that intriguing but abortive concept device, and I'm all for unique form factors an...
09:47 pm GMT - Wed, November 7, 2018
Techcrunch Heres what Samsungs whacky folding phone looks like in action
As rumored, Samsung showed off a prototype of a folding display today. Folded, it’s a smartphone. Unfolded, it’s a tablet. Neat! Less neat: the company sort of went out of its way to not r...
09:47 pm GMT - Wed, November 7, 2018
Techcrunch Heres what Samsungs wacky folding phone looks like in action
As rumored, Samsung showed off a prototype of a folding display today. Folded, it’s a smartphone. Unfolded, it’s a tablet. Neat! Less neat: The company sort of went out of its way to not r...
08:00 pm GMT - Wed, November 7, 2018
Techcrunch Ford buys electric scooter startup Spin
Ford is buying electric scooter startup Spin, Axios reports. Spin currently operates its scooters in Coral Gables, Fla., Washington, D.C., Charlotte, N.C., Durham, N.C., Lexington, Ky., Denver, Colo.,...
07:38 pm GMT - Wed, November 7, 2018
Techcrunch Samsung shares a glimpse of its folding Infinity Flex Display smartphone
After hyping its unveil of its long-rumored folding smartphone, Samsung kind of delivered an announcement, revealing a dual-screen folding phone prototype. “How can we make the screen bigger wit...
07:32 pm GMT - Wed, November 7, 2018
Techcrunch Netflixs hackathon produces a way to navigate its iOS app with ARKit and Face ID
Netflix’s internal hackathons have consistently produced fun and often silly hacks, from that “Netflixtendo” hack a few years ago that let you run Netflix on the original NES to the ...
06:54 pm GMT - Wed, November 7, 2018
Techcrunch Harley-Davidson bets its future on the LiveWire electric motorcycle
It’s been a four-year wait since Harley-Davidson first showed off a concept electric motorcycle. Now, the production-ready bike called the Harley-Davidson LiveWire is finally here. Well, almos...
06:45 pm GMT - Wed, November 7, 2018
Techcrunch With a new deal for customers and a fresh $23 million, Mayvenn extends its hair care business
Pitching customers a new, all-inclusive service for buying and installing hair, Mayvenn is looking to significantly expand its haircare business and just raised $23 million in a new round of funding t...
06:43 pm GMT - Wed, November 7, 2018
Techcrunch Google is adding Android support for foldable screens
Big day for developer events. As Samsung was onstage getting ready to talk about its upcoming foldable phone, Google spilled the beans a bit at its own Android Developer Summit. The company briefly de...
06:42 pm GMT - Wed, November 7, 2018
Techcrunch Samsung opens its Bixby assistant to developers
Samsung has been suffering through a lot of catch-up in the voice assistant race, but at its annual developer conference the company placed a major emphasis on how it’s expanding the scale and e...
06:15 pm GMT - Wed, November 7, 2018
Techcrunch Android developers can now force users to update their apps
At its Android Dev Summit, Google today announced a number of new tools and features for developers that write apps for its mobile operating system. Some of those are no surprise, including support fo...
06:08 pm GMT - Wed, November 7, 2018
Techcrunch Flickr says it wont delete Creative Commons photos
Flickr will spare both the Flickr Commons and Creative Commons photos from deletion, the now SmugMug-owned company announced today. However, its new storage limitations on free accounts may impact its...
05:30 pm GMT - Wed, November 7, 2018
Techcrunch CircleCI launches Orbs, a package manager for software delivery automation
DevOps platform CircleCI today announced a new partner program that will open up its platform and allow third-party tools to integrate with it. In addition, the company is launching Orbs, which it des...
05:10 pm GMT - Wed, November 7, 2018
Techcrunch TwelveSouth put a wireless charger in a picture frame
TwelveSouth is one of the most innovative Mac accessory companies out there. From its PlugBug adapter to the AirFly bluetooth headphone receiver, the company makes clever, well-produced products. But ...
05:00 pm GMT - Wed, November 7, 2018
Techcrunch Join us tomorrow for Startup Battlefield Latin America 2018
One. More. Day. Thats how long you have until the regions very best early-stage startup founders compete head-to-head in the first Startup Battlefield Latin America 2018. Those founders have been honi...
04:47 pm GMT - Wed, November 7, 2018
Techcrunch Tinder doubles down on its casual nature, as Match invests in relationship-focused Hinge
Tinder has never really shaken its reputation among consumers as a “hook up” app, instead of one designed for more serious dating. Now, it seems Tinder is planning to embrace its status as...
04:25 pm GMT - Wed, November 7, 2018
Techcrunch Guardian Circle upgrades with a decentralized alert network
Chris Hays and Mark Jeffrey wanted to create a way for everyone to be able to tell their loved ones if they were in trouble. Their first product, Guardian Circle, did just that, netting a mentiona few...
04:12 pm GMT - Wed, November 7, 2018
Techcrunch Facebook is facing an EU data probe over fake ads
The UK’s privacy watchdog has asked Facebook’s lead EU regulator to look into ongoing data protection concerns about its ad platform — including how its platform is being used to tar...
03:50 pm GMT - Wed, November 7, 2018
Techcrunch Amazon Echo and Alexa arrive in Mexico
Alexas path to AI global domination continues apace with the addition of Mexico to its growing list of markets. Amazon today opened up pre-orders for the Echo, Dot, Plus, Spot and Smart Plug. The devi...
03:39 pm GMT - Wed, November 7, 2018
Techcrunch Meet the speakers in Q&A Sessions at Disrupt Berlin 2018
Disrupt Berlin 2018 (29-30 November) will be here before you know it and we’re excited to announce a few of the participants in the Q&A Sessions at the event. If you’ve been to a Disru...
03:21 pm GMT - Wed, November 7, 2018
Techcrunch Spotify Connect speakers will soon work with its free-tier
Spotifys ad-supported tier has long been one of the services differentiators. Naturally, the models not nearly as feature rich as its paid counterpart, though the companys removing one of those key di...
03:21 pm GMT - Wed, November 7, 2018
Techcrunch Spotify Connect speakers will soon work with its free tier
Spotifys ad-supported tier has long been one of the services differentiators. Naturally, the models not nearly as feature-rich as its paid counterpart, though the companys removing one of those key di...
03:07 pm GMT - Wed, November 7, 2018
Techcrunch Sling TVs growth further slows in Q3, but still leads rivals in terms of subscribers
It appears Dish’s live TV streaming service, Sling TV, has been impacted by the increased competition from rivals like YouTube TV, Hulu with Live TV, AT&T’s DirecTV Now, and others. Sl...
02:57 pm GMT - Wed, November 7, 2018
Techcrunch The disappearing Form D
We are experimenting with new content forms at TechCrunch. This is a rough draft of something new – provide your feedback directly to the authors: Danny at [email protected] or Arman at Arman...
02:46 pm GMT - Wed, November 7, 2018
Techcrunch The cost of energy storage has stalled adoption of renewable power. Energy Vault has a solution.
Since solar and wind power arenow cheaper to produce than energy from fossil fuels, the only obstacle that remains to the mass adoption of renewable power is the amount of money utilities need to spen...
02:42 pm GMT - Wed, November 7, 2018
Techcrunch Instacart expands a pickup option for grocery orders across the US
Online grocery delivery service Instacart has expanded the availability of a ‘click and collect’ pickup service it’s been trialing for a few months in the U.S. — now offering i...
02:31 pm GMT - Wed, November 7, 2018
Techcrunch This tiny house grows with your family
Tiny houses are all the rage but once you put more than a few people in one you have a problem: Where can you go from there? Nowhere. Exactly. What you do is, if you need that extra push over the clif...
02:21 pm GMT - Wed, November 7, 2018
Techcrunch Brooklinen launches a pop-up shop in NYC
Brooklinen, the direct-to-consumer bed linens brand, has today announced the opening of a four-month pop-up shop in NYC. The company has been around for four years thus far, and recently hit $100 mill...
02:00 pm GMT - Wed, November 7, 2018
Techcrunch Anti-fraud startup Fraugster score $14M Series B
Fraugster, the Berlin-based startup that uses artificial intelligence to prevent fraud for online retailers, has raised $14 million in a Series B funding. The round is led by CommerzVentures, the vent...
02:00 pm GMT - Wed, November 7, 2018
Techcrunch Anti-fraud startup Fraugster scores $14M Series B
Fraugster, the Berlin-based startup that uses artificial intelligence to prevent fraud for online retailers, has raised $14 million in a Series B funding. The round is led by CommerzVentures, the vent...
02:00 pm GMT - Wed, November 7, 2018
Techcrunch Storyblocks makes it easier for developers to integrate its stock media services
Storyblocks, formerly known as Videoblocks, is a stock media service that offers videos, images and audio for creatives. One feature that always made it stand out from the competition is its flat-rate...
01:54 pm GMT - Wed, November 7, 2018
Techcrunch WeChat reaches 1M mini programs, half the size of Apples App Store
They may not be widely known outside of China, but Tencent’s mini program initiative to develop ‘apps’ that live outside of app stores is bearing fruit after it clocked two notable l...
01:44 pm GMT - Wed, November 7, 2018
Techcrunch Monashees raises $150 million for its eighth Latin American fund
As technology investment and exits continue to rise across Brazil, early stage venture capital firm monashees today announced that it has closed on $150 million for its eighth investment fund. Commitm...
01:25 pm GMT - Wed, November 7, 2018
Techcrunch Social media content and analytics startup PressLogic raises $10M from popular Chinese selfie app Meitu
PressLogic, a Hong Kong-based social media content and data analytics startup, announced today that it has raised a $10 million Series A+ round from Meitu, developer of the popular Chineseselfie app. ...
11:29 am GMT - Wed, November 7, 2018
Techcrunch China can apparently now identify citizens based on the way they walk
China is hometo the world’s largest network of CCTV cameras — over 170 million — and its police have adopted Google Glass-like ‘smart specs’ to seek out suspects in crowd...
11:24 am GMT - Wed, November 7, 2018
Techcrunch Meet TechCrunchs Mike Butcher at #WebSummit at 4PM today
One Minute TechCrunch! Since it’s impossible, as a journalist, to crawl around all the stands at Web Summit in Lisbon, I thought it would be easier to stand in one place and meet people there! T...
11:21 am GMT - Wed, November 7, 2018
Techcrunch Wheres the accountability Facebook?
Facebook has yet again declined an invitation for its founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg to answer international politicians’ questions about how disinformation spreads on his platform and undermin...
09:00 am GMT - Wed, November 7, 2018
Techcrunch Volunteer at Disrupt Berlin 2018 and score a free Innovator pass
Looking for a way to experience Disrupt Berlin 2018, but your budget simply wont cooperate? Sign up as a volunteer, and well thank you with a complimentary Innovator pass good for both days of the sho...
09:00 am GMT - Wed, November 7, 2018
Techcrunch Portify raises 1.3M to help gig economy workers improve their financial wellbeing
Portify, a London fintech startup that offers an app and various financial products to help gig economy workers better manage their finances and in turn improve financial wellbeing, has raised 1.3 mil...
08:27 am GMT - Wed, November 7, 2018
Techcrunch TechCrunch returns to Shenzhen for our latest China event from November 19-20
We’re excited to announce our return to Shenzhen, which will host our next event in China later this month. Once again organized with our longtime local partner TechNode, the two-day event will ...
08:00 am GMT - Wed, November 7, 2018
Techcrunch Home Made raises further 2M for its premium online lettings agency
Home Made, the London premium online lettings agency, has raised a further 2 million in funding. The round is led by Athens-based venture capital firm VentureFriends, and follows the proptech startup&...
04:43 am GMT - Wed, November 7, 2018
Techcrunch Facebook connects Russia to 100 accounts it removed ahead of mid-terms
The 115 accounts Facebook took down yesterday for inauthentic behavior ahead of the mid-term elections may indeed have been linked to the Russia-based Internet Research Agency, according to a new stat...
04:22 am GMT - Wed, November 7, 2018
Techcrunch Alibaba rival JD.com plays the long-game on technology investment
Chinas JD.com has made it clear recently that its venturing into artificial intelligence and automation. Every few months over the past year, the online retailer Chinas second-largest by transactions...
02:44 am GMT - Wed, November 7, 2018
Techcrunch Chinas obsession with short videos has its internet giants worried
Take a subway ride in China and expect to see a lot of commuters’ eyes glued to TikTok videos on their phones. Video clips like TikTok’s are now consuming nearly nine percent of Chinese pe...
12:00 am GMT - Wed, November 7, 2018
Techcrunch Grab pulls in $250M from Hyundai as ongoing round reaches $2.7B
Grab, the Singapore startup that bought Uber’s Southeast Asia business earlier this year, continues to announce strategic investors for its ongoing Series H funding round. The latest edition rev...
11:16 pm GMT - Tue, November 6, 2018
Techcrunch Tinder now has 4.1M paying users, expects $800M in revenue this year
Tinder is leading growth for Match Group (NASDAQ: MTCH), which posted third-quarter earnings of 44 cents per share on Tuesday....
11:10 pm GMT - Tue, November 6, 2018
Techcrunch TWIICE One Exoskeleton furthers the promise of robotic mobility aids
Few things in the world of technology can really ever be said to be "done," and certainly exoskeletons are not among their number. They exist, but they are all works in progress, expensive, heavy, and...
10:00 pm GMT - Tue, November 6, 2018
Techcrunch Three ways to avoid bias in machine learning
At this moment in history its impossible not to see the problems that arise from humanbias. Now magnify that by compute and you start to get a sense for just how dangerous humanbiasvia machine learnin...
09:37 pm GMT - Tue, November 6, 2018
Techcrunch Jaquet Drozs Sports Watch is a high-end, heavy-duty chrono
Watchmaker Jaquet Droz makes luxury watches that cost more than some San Francisco apartments. Now, however, they’ve decided to go “downmarket” with their Sports Watch chronograph, a...
09:30 pm GMT - Tue, November 6, 2018
Techcrunch The ultimate guide to gifting STEM toys: tons of ideas for little builders
The holiday season is here again, touting all sorts of kids’ toys that pledge to pack ‘STEM smarts’ in the box, not just the usual battery-based fun. Educational playthings are nothi...
09:13 pm GMT - Tue, November 6, 2018
Techcrunch Watch biotech startups pitch at IndieBios demo day today
IndieBio, the biotech startup accelerator that's produced heaps of notable companies (including several that have graced the Startup Battlefield), is holding its twice-annual demo day today. An even d...
09:08 pm GMT - Tue, November 6, 2018
Techcrunch Original Content podcast: Were left a little cold by Netflixs new Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
It seemed like the ingredients were there for “The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” to win us over. After all, at least one of the hosts of the Original Content podcast is a fan of “R...
08:37 pm GMT - Tue, November 6, 2018
Techcrunch How to stream U.S. elections coverage if you dont have TV
You don’t need a TV to tune in to live coverage of the U.S. elections results today – and you don’t have to have Hulu or another live TV streaming service, either. Today, YouTube ann...
08:00 pm GMT - Tue, November 6, 2018
Techcrunch TransferWise partners with Dutch challenger bank Bunq
TransferWise, the European fintech unicorn that enables low-cost international money transfer, has always had ambitions of being a platform in the truest sense. In addition to its direct-to-consumer a...
07:22 pm GMT - Tue, November 6, 2018
Techcrunch FCC tells carriers they must adopt a system to detect scam robocalls by next year
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission is calling on the telecom industry to help put an end to scam robocalls. On Monday, FCC chairman Ajit Pai sent letters to the heads of voice providers, inclu...
06:37 pm GMT - Tue, November 6, 2018
Techcrunch This 3D printer squirts out wet paper pulp
Like a kid shooting spitballs, designer Beer Holthuis has figured out that sopping wet paper is the best material for making mischief. His 3D printer, a primitive RepRap clone that literally squirts o...
06:32 pm GMT - Tue, November 6, 2018
Techcrunch Vimeo adds a channel exclusively for holograms
Vimeo has long regarded itself as the video-sharing site for those that want to get experimental.Well, the company has found a new medium to get creators pumped about, and I think it’s fair to s...
06:25 pm GMT - Tue, November 6, 2018
Techcrunch Photomath raises $6 million for its math-solving app
Photomath just raised a $6 million funding round from Goodwater Capital, with Learn Capital also participating. Photomath has created a hugely successful mobile app for iOS and Android with 100 millio...
06:00 pm GMT - Tue, November 6, 2018
Techcrunch Luminar nabs former Uber executive to lead LiDAR startups business development
Luminar, the buzzy LiDAR startup founded by Austin Russell, has added another high-profile executive to its ranks. This time, Luminar has hired Uber executive Brent Schwarz as its head of business dev...
05:54 pm GMT - Tue, November 6, 2018
Techcrunch Google launches Cloud Scheduler, a managed cron service
Google Cloud is getting a managed cron service for running batch jobs. Cloud Scheduler, as the new service is called, provides all the functionality of the kind of standard command-line cron service y...
05:53 pm GMT - Tue, November 6, 2018
Techcrunch Fantasmo pivots to scooter cameras that keep them off sidewalks
GPS is too inaccurate to tell if a scooter is being driven or parked in off-limits area. But as scooter startups compete for permits from city governments, they need a way to prove their riders play b...
05:17 pm GMT - Tue, November 6, 2018
Techcrunch $30 wireless earbuds? Sure, why not?
I mean, I can think of a few reasons why not, but Xiaomi generally makes pretty reliable consumer electronics, and the companys rock-bottom prices have disrupted other markets, like fitness trackers. ...
05:08 pm GMT - Tue, November 6, 2018
Techcrunch GV partner Joe Kraus named Limes first COO
One week after Lime tapped David Richter as its first chief business officer, it's announced another addition to its c-suite....
05:05 pm GMT - Tue, November 6, 2018
Techcrunch Facebooks GraphQL gets its own open-source foundation
GraphQL, the Facebook -incubated data query language, is moving into its own open-source foundation. Like so many other similar open-source foundations, the aptly named GraphQL Foundation will be host...
05:00 pm GMT - Tue, November 6, 2018
Techcrunch Were two days away from Startup Battlefield Latin America 2018
Just 48 short hours to go until we kick offStartup Battlefield Latin America 2018. This is the first time were bringing our premier startup pitch competition to the region home to an impressive range...
05:00 pm GMT - Tue, November 6, 2018
Techcrunch Dropbox introduces Extensions for deeper integration with third-party tools
Dropbox has had APIs for years that enable companies to tap into content stored in their repositories, and they have had partnerships with large vendors like Adobe, Google, Autodesk and Microsoft. Tod...
04:30 pm GMT - Tue, November 6, 2018
Techcrunch Facebook must change and policymakers must act on data, warns UK watchdog
The UK’s data watchdog has warned that Facebook must overhaul its privacy-hostile business model or risk burning user trust for good. Comments she made today have also raised questions over the ...
03:52 pm GMT - Tue, November 6, 2018
Techcrunch Googles Doodle commands you to Go Vote
I know, youre cool. You dont do anything the corporate overlords command. But maybe, just this once, make an exception. Todays Google Doodle mixes up the ole rainbow color logo with a very simple mess...
03:39 pm GMT - Tue, November 6, 2018
Techcrunch SoftBanks debt obsession
We are experimenting with new content forms at TechCrunch. This is a rough draft of something new. Provide your feedback directly to the authors: Danny at [email protected] or Arman at Arman.Tabata...
03:28 pm GMT - Tue, November 6, 2018
Techcrunch Lydia launches mobile phone insurance
French startup Lydia is launching an insurance product for your mobile phone. For 4.29 per month ($4.89), you can insure your phone from the Lydia app. Lydia is one of the most popular peer-to-peer pa...
03:05 pm GMT - Tue, November 6, 2018
Techcrunch The Blockchain wallet plans a 125M air-drop of Stellar crypto to drive mainstream adoption
Blockchain, one of the world’s biggest crypto wallets, plans to give away a vast amout of cryptocurrency in a bold move to scale the adoption of crypto to a more mainstream audience. Blockchain ...
03:05 pm GMT - Tue, November 6, 2018
Techcrunch The Blockchain wallet plans a $125M airdrop of Stellar crypto to drive mainstream adoption
Blockchain, one of the world’s biggest crypto wallets, plans to give away a vast amount of cryptocurrency in a bold move to scale the adoption of crypto to a more mainstream audience. Blockchain...
03:00 pm GMT - Tue, November 6, 2018
Techcrunch Sinemia adds a weekday-only movie plan
As we head into the holiday movie-going season, the theater ticket subscription wars (or whats left of them) are set to heat up once again. Sinemia, which has recently emerged as the top contender to ...
02:47 pm GMT - Tue, November 6, 2018
Techcrunch Facebook still isnt taking Myanmar seriously
Facebook picked election evening in the U.S. to releasea major report on its role in Myanmar, where it is widely accused of failing to prevent its social network from being used to incite genocide. Th...
02:34 pm GMT - Tue, November 6, 2018
Techcrunch RapidSOS, an emergency response data provider, raises $30M as it grows from 10K users to 250M
Every day, there are around 650,000 emergency service callouts via 911 for medical, police and fire assistance in the US; and by their nature these are some of the most urgent communications that we w...
02:00 pm GMT - Tue, November 6, 2018
Techcrunch Precision farming startup Taranis gets $20M Series B for its crop monitoring tech
Taranis, an ag-tech startup that uses aerial scouting and deep learning to identify potential crop issues, announced today that it has raised a $20 million Series B led by Viola Ventures. Existing inv...
01:24 pm GMT - Tue, November 6, 2018
Techcrunch Engineer.ai raises $29.5M Series A for its AIHumans software building platform
SF-based Engineer.ai launched in an invite-only manner two and a half years ago, bootstrapped by its founders. Its platform combines AI with crowdsourced teams of designers and developers to build bes...
12:05 pm GMT - Tue, November 6, 2018
Techcrunch Africa Roundup: Local VC funds surge, Naspers ramps up and fintech diversifies
Jake Bright Contributor Jake Bright is a writer and author in New York City. He is co-author of The Next Africa. More posts by this contributor Tarform debuted new e-motorcycles but is there a U.S. ma...
12:03 pm GMT - Tue, November 6, 2018
Techcrunch Lizzie Chapman to talk about building a fintech startup in India at Disrupt Berlin
Fintech startups are growing rapidly in Europe. But it doesnt mean that the fintech revolution is limited to Europe. Thats why Im glad to announce that Lizzie Chapman from ZestMoney is coming to TechC...
11:00 am GMT - Tue, November 6, 2018
Techcrunch MacBook Air review
For three years, the MacBook Air was conspicuously absent. The ultraportable never left Apples site, of course, but we finished keynote after keynote wondering why Apple continued to neglect one of it...
11:00 am GMT - Tue, November 6, 2018
Techcrunch Mac Mini review
At last months Apple event, the Mac Mini was greeted like a returning hero. Maybe it was the over the top space advert or the fact that the company had packed the seats of the Brooklyn opera house ful...
10:23 am GMT - Tue, November 6, 2018
Techcrunch Study of political junk on Facebook raises fresh questions about its metrics
A midterms election study of political disinformation being fenced by Facebook’s platform supports the company’s assertion that a clutch of mostly right-leaning and politically fringe Page...
10:09 am GMT - Tue, November 6, 2018
Techcrunch VMware acquires Heptio, the startup founded by 2 co-founders of Kubernetes
During its big customer event in Europe, VMware announced another acquisition to step up its game in helping enterprises build and run containerised, Kubernetes-based architectures: it has acquired He...
08:01 am GMT - Tue, November 6, 2018
Techcrunch Aiden.ai raises a $1.6M seed round for its AI marketing analyst
Aiden.ai, a London based AI analytics startup, has raised a $1.6M seed round to develop its “AI-powered marketing analyst which, they claim, is like having an extra person on the marketing team ...
07:30 am GMT - Tue, November 6, 2018
Techcrunch Venture capital and the blockchain will be the talk at Startup Battlefield Africa
TechCrunch Startup Battlefield returns to Africa next month, and we have an agenda chock-full of interesting panels and our premier startup competition. Joining us in Lagos, Nigeria on December 11 for...
04:48 am GMT - Tue, November 6, 2018
Techcrunch Nikola Motor unveils a new hydrogen semi truck designed for Europe
Nikola Motor has started taking reservations for Tre, the startup’s firsthydrogen-electric truck built for the European market. Nikola Motor, which less than a year ago announced plans to build ...
04:33 am GMT - Tue, November 6, 2018
Techcrunch Hours before U.S. election day, Facebook pulls dozens of accounts for coordinated inauthentic behavior
Facebook has pulled the plug on 30 accounts and 85 Instagram accounts that the company says were engaged in “coordinated inauthentic behavior.” Facebook’s head of cybersecurity polic...
04:11 am GMT - Tue, November 6, 2018
Techcrunch Tink Labs, which gives free-to-use smartphones to hotel guests, is raising $300M
Tink Labs, a Hong Kong startup that develops smartphones that hotels provide to their guests for free, is raising a new round of up to $300 million to further its international footprint, TechCrunch h...
04:08 am GMT - Tue, November 6, 2018
Techcrunch Some online resources to help voters with disabilities on Election Day
After Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, more states and counties in the United States are returning to paper ballots from electronic voting machines. While this may help cybersec...
03:50 am GMT - Tue, November 6, 2018
Techcrunch Indias Meesho, which enables social commerce via WhatsApp, raises $50M
Meesho, a Bangalore-based social commerce startup, has closed a $50 million investment to grow its business in its Indian homeland ahead of future international expansion. This Series C round means th...
01:49 am GMT - Tue, November 6, 2018
Techcrunch One-year-old Bracket Capital is already an investor in Lyft, Bird, Airbnb and Coinbase
Two former private equity executives have entered the venture capital business via Bracket Capital....
01:30 am GMT - Tue, November 6, 2018
Techcrunch Bots Distorted the 2016 Election. Will the Midterms Be a Sequel?
Tiffany Olson Kleemann Contributor Tiffany Olson Kleemann is the chief executive officer of Distil Networks. She formerly served in executive roles at Symantec and FireEye and was deputy chief of staf...
12:33 am GMT - Tue, November 6, 2018
Techcrunch Automakers invest in Transit, the app that helps people get around without a car
Transit, a company that built a mobile app designed to help people in cities live without cars, has raised $17.5 million from two automakers in a Series B round. The round wasled by RenaultNissan-Mits...
12:12 am GMT - Tue, November 6, 2018
Techcrunch Pandora beats in Q3 with $417.6M in revenue, fast-growing subscription business
Streaming music service Pandora released its third quarter earnings today – the first since the news of its impending acquisition by SiriusXM, announced in September. The company reported a quic...
12:00 am GMT - Tue, November 6, 2018
Techcrunch You can ride Birds e-scooters in London starting today but only in Olympic Park
Due to ancient British legislation, Bird's scooters will only be available in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park....
11:30 pm GMT - Mon, November 5, 2018
Techcrunch AMC is raising Stubs A-List prices in 15 states
AMC Theatres is raising the price of its subscription movie plan Stubs A-List at least in a handful of states. Rather than simply charging $19.95 per month across-the-board, AMC will soon offer diffe...
10:41 pm GMT - Mon, November 5, 2018
Techcrunch A Swedish ISP has blocked Elseviers website in protest for forcing it to block Sci-Hub
A little known fact about Swedes: when they get angry, they will often scribble down a note on paper sometimes anonymously and leave it where it will be seen, rather than confront a person face-to-f...
10:39 pm GMT - Mon, November 5, 2018
Techcrunch Subterranean drone mapping startup Emesent raises $2.5M to autonomously delve the deep
Seemingly every industry is finding ways to use drones in some way or another, but deep underground it's a different story. In the confines of a mine or pipeline, with no GPS and little or no light, o...
09:44 pm GMT - Mon, November 5, 2018
Techcrunch SF fines two landords $2.25 million for illegal Airbnb rentals
San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrara is laying down the law — literally. Today, Herrara’s office announced a $2.25 million settlement with two property owners in the city. The landlo...
09:44 pm GMT - Mon, November 5, 2018
Techcrunch SF fines two landlords $2.25 million for illegal Airbnb rentals
San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera is laying down the law — literally. Today, Herrera’s office announced a $2.25 million settlement with two property owners in the city. The landlo...
07:47 pm GMT - Mon, November 5, 2018
Techcrunch Supreme Court denies broadband industry petition to scrub favorable net neutrality court decision from history
The Supreme Court today offered moral support for net neutrality activists and a soft setback for the current FCC’s agenda by declining to revisit a major case supportive of the 2015 rules. It e...
07:40 pm GMT - Mon, November 5, 2018
Techcrunch How to get to the polls for free at the 2018 midterm elections
In case you haven’t heard, polls will open Tuesday morning across the U.S. for the 2018 midterm elections. It’s a big deal, so go vote. And this year, there are more free ways to get to th...
07:21 pm GMT - Mon, November 5, 2018
Techcrunch Instacart nabs Google execs as VPs of engineering and corp dev, acquihires MightySignal
After raising$600 million at a $7.6 billion valuation a few weeks ago, Instacart is doubling down on expanding its talent pool to square up against Amazon and others with ambitions in online grocery o...
07:21 pm GMT - Mon, November 5, 2018
Techcrunch Instacart nabs Google execs as VPs of engineering and corp dev, acqui-hires MightySignal
After raising$600 million at a $7.6 billion valuation a few weeks ago, Instacart is doubling down on expanding its talent pool to square up against Amazon and others with ambitions in online grocery o...
07:20 pm GMT - Mon, November 5, 2018
Techcrunch 2018 Midterms: 4 resources every voter should know about
Voting in the U.S. can be confusing. By design, every state is different. On top of that, disinformation meant to discourage voting is rampant this election. Cut through the noise, arm yourself with t...
06:59 pm GMT - Mon, November 5, 2018
Techcrunch ABC News is covering the midterms in augmented reality
Augmented reality is certainly the gimmick du jour these days. Case in point: ABC News is covering tomorrow’s U.S. midterms using a custom-made 360-degree stage and AR technology. The media orga...
06:49 pm GMT - Mon, November 5, 2018
Techcrunch Apple rolls out watchOS 5.1.1 after earlier Apple Watch bricking issues
Apple has rolled out watchOS 5.1.1, less than a week after the company pulled its immediate predecessor, watchOS 5.1, following reports that the software was bricking some Apple Watches. The update al...
06:35 pm GMT - Mon, November 5, 2018
Techcrunch Instagram prototypes bully-proof moderated School Stories
Instagram is considering offering collaborative School Stories that only a certain school’s students can see or contribute to. And to make sure these Stories wouldn’t become bullying cessp...
06:35 pm GMT - Mon, November 5, 2018
Techcrunch Is it legal to post a votie in your state? Check this map
The midterms are tomorrow and in addition to exciting changes to the political landscape, the day promises to bring millions of voties, pictures of completed ballots posted to social media, and simult...
05:46 pm GMT - Mon, November 5, 2018
Techcrunch Hey look, its a new Barnes & Noble Nook in 2018
It’s true! It’s 2018, and Barnes & Noble just announced another Nook! You can preorder it today! All of these things are somehow simultaneouslytrue. The Nook line has basically been a ...
05:28 pm GMT - Mon, November 5, 2018
Techcrunch Facebook opens its first small biz pop-up stores inside Macys
Facebook is bursting out of the ones and zeros into the physical realm with nine brick-and-mortar pop-up stores that will show off goods from 100 small business and online brands. Facebook organized t...
05:02 pm GMT - Mon, November 5, 2018
Techcrunch Oath is dead. Long live Verizon Media Group/Oath
Friends, readers,internet browsers, lend me your ears; I come to bury Oath, not to praise it. The subsidiary brands that companies own live after them; Their terrible rebranding is oft interred with t...
05:00 pm GMT - Mon, November 5, 2018
Techcrunch Niantic overhauls Ingress to make it more welcoming for new players
Before there was Pokmon GO, there was Ingress. It was Niantic’s first game and while it never became the overwhelmingly popular phenomenon that GO did, it’s undeniably what allowed GO to ...
04:17 pm GMT - Mon, November 5, 2018
Techcrunch Daily Digest: Technology and tyranny, lying to ourselves, and Spotifys $1b repurchase
Yuval Noah Harari, the noted author and historian famed for his work Sapiens, wrote a lengthy piece in The Atlantic entitled Why Technology Favors Tyranny that is quite interesting. I dont want to add...
04:17 pm GMT - Mon, November 5, 2018
Techcrunch Daily Digest: Technology and tyranny, lying to ourselves and Spotifys $1B repurchase
Yuval Noah Harari, the noted author and historian famed for his work Sapiens, wrote a lengthy piece in The Atlantic entitled Why Technology Favors Tyranny that is quite interesting. I dont want to add...
04:04 pm GMT - Mon, November 5, 2018
Techcrunch Samsungs social logo teases a folding phone ahead of announcement
All of the major players have held events over the past few months, but hardware season still has a few last gasps left. The Samsung Developer Conference happening this week in San Francisco isnt like...
03:58 pm GMT - Mon, November 5, 2018
Techcrunch Security researchers have busted the encryption in several popular Crucial and Samsung SSDs
Researchers at Radboud University have found critical security flaws in several popular Crucial and Samsung solid state drives (SSDs), which they say can be easily exploited to recover encrypted data ...
03:45 pm GMT - Mon, November 5, 2018
Techcrunch Facebooks election interference problem exponentially worse on eve of midterms, study suggests
An analysis of political advertisers running extensive campaigns on Facebook targeting users in the United States over the past six months has flagged a raft of fresh concerns about its efforts to tac...
03:33 pm GMT - Mon, November 5, 2018
Techcrunch Bonobos and Nike get their own branded shops on Walmarts Jet.com
Last year, Walmart acquired menswear site Bonobos for $310 million in cash. Now the retailer is adding the brand to a Walmart-owned website. A few days ago, Walmart opened up an online shop for Bonobo...
03:04 pm GMT - Mon, November 5, 2018
Techcrunch Amazon opens yet another retail store, this time in Berkeley, CA
Halloweens over, that means retail is in full holiday mode. For Amazon, that also means a couple of new shipping offers and, apparently, the launch of a bunch of new brick and mortar locations. In Sep...
02:59 pm GMT - Mon, November 5, 2018
Techcrunch Bloqboard lets you lend others your hard-earned crypto
Vitaly Bahachuk wants you to share your crypto. His company lets you lend cryptocurrency peer-to-peer via smart contract, ensuring you can send your buds some red hot Ether and, in theory, they have t...
02:35 pm GMT - Mon, November 5, 2018
Techcrunch Spotify plans to buy back up to $1 billion in stock
In a move aimed at boosting its falling stock price, Spotify this morning announced it would buy back up to $1.0 billion worth of stock – up to 10 million in ordinary shares. The repurchase prog...
02:30 pm GMT - Mon, November 5, 2018
Techcrunch 7-Eleven is bringing cashier-less payments to its stores
7-Eleven is piloting a new mobile check-out process called Scan & Pay....
02:10 pm GMT - Mon, November 5, 2018
Techcrunch Yub nub! Students dress a bipedal robot up like an AT-ST
Students at Oregon State University dressed up their bipedal robot, Cassie, in a delightful AT-ST costume. This robot, which everyone said looked like one of the Empire’s two-legged walkers, any...
02:10 pm GMT - Mon, November 5, 2018
Techcrunch Yub nub! Students dress a bipedal robot like an AT-ST
Students at Oregon State University dressed up their bipedal robot, Cassie, in a delightful AT-ST costume. This robot, which everyone said looked like one of the Empire’s two-legged walkers anyw...
02:00 pm GMT - Mon, November 5, 2018
Techcrunch Pinterest taps former Athleta exec as first CMO
Andra Mallard, the former chief marketing officer of Athetla, has joined Pinterest as its first-ever CMO....
11:59 am GMT - Mon, November 5, 2018
Techcrunch Reverso launches synonyms app and service
Language learning company Reverso is launching a new product on the web and mobile. Reverso Synonyms is a thesaurus service that lets you learn new words and improve your vocabulary. You may have foun...
11:01 am GMT - Mon, November 5, 2018
Techcrunch Chinas frenzy over League of Legends championship sheds light on esports growth
When China’s Invictus Gaming defeated European squad Fnatic in the League of Legends 2018 finals this past Saturday, China’s social media platforms became awash in ecstasy and pride. ̶...
11:00 am GMT - Mon, November 5, 2018
Techcrunch Inside VW, Mobileyes deal to launch a autonomous ride-hailing service in Israel
In the world of autonomous vehicles, the news comes in repetitive short bursts with formulaic precision: Company X is launching a robotaxi fleet/test program in city Y by [insert date]. These announce...
11:00 am GMT - Mon, November 5, 2018
Techcrunch Inside VW, Mobileyes deal to launch an autonomous ride-hailing service in Israel
In the world of autonomous vehicles, the news comes in repetitive short bursts with formulaic precision: Company X is launching a robotaxi fleet/test program in city Y by [insert date]. These announce...
11:00 am GMT - Mon, November 5, 2018
Techcrunch Review: The iPad Pro and the power of the Pen(cil)
Laptop users have been focused for a very long time on whether the iPad Pro is going to be forced upon them as a replacement device. Depending on who you believe, Apple included, it has at one point b...
10:38 am GMT - Mon, November 5, 2018
Techcrunch UK to probe fairness of personalized pricing practices in online retail
The UK government has announced an investigation into personalized pricing practices in online retail following growing concerns that vulnerableconsumers are at risk of price discrimination through th...
10:07 am GMT - Mon, November 5, 2018
Techcrunch Amazon is offering free delivery in the US because its nearly Christmas
“Did you know Christmas is nearly here?” Now that it’s November, people will start telling you how many shopping days or weekends there are until Christmas. You can avoid them all yo...
09:07 am GMT - Mon, November 5, 2018
Techcrunch 24-hour flash sale: Get 2-for-1 Innovator passes to Disrupt Berlin 2018
If you havent purchased your pass to Disrupt Berlin 2018 yet, this is your lucky day. How so? Were holding a 24-hour flash sale, which means starting at midnight tonight, 5 November, and running throu...
09:00 am GMT - Mon, November 5, 2018
Techcrunch Atomico promotes Sophia Bendz to Partner where shell focus on Nordic investments
“I was hired when I was 8 months pregnant, so kudos to Niklas for betting on someone who was pregnant,” Sophia Bendz tells me. “That meant I was working a couple of hours per week in...
09:00 am GMT - Mon, November 5, 2018
Techcrunch Lime is putting $3 million toward electric scooter and bike safety
On the heels of Lime notifying the public about needing to recall some of its scooters due to fire concerns, Lime is putting $3 million toward a new safety initiative called “Respect the Ride.&#...
08:46 am GMT - Mon, November 5, 2018
Techcrunch SoftBank to wait on Khashoggi murder investigation before deciding on second Vision Fund
SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son says the company won’t walk away from its existing commitment with the Saudi Arabian royal family — the largest LP in its $100 billion Vision Fund — but th...
07:10 am GMT - Mon, November 5, 2018
Techcrunch Credit Karma acquires Noddle from TransUnion and expands to the UK
Credit Karma, the US startup with 85 million users that offers credit reports and a platform to browse and buy other financial services, has made an acquisition to help it kick-start its first oversea...
03:50 am GMT - Mon, November 5, 2018
Techcrunch Korean AI startup Skelter Labs raises $10M to expand to Southeast Asia
Korean AI startup Skelter Labs is expanding to Southeast Asia after it pulled in $10 million in new funding led by Singapore-based VC firm Golden Gate Ventures. Skelter Labs was founded in 2015 byfoun...
03:50 am GMT - Mon, November 5, 2018
Techcrunch Korean AI startup Skelter Labs lands strategic investment to expand to Southeast Asia
Korean AI startup Skelter Labs is expanding to Southeast Asia after it pulled in undisclosed funding from Singapore-based VC firm Golden Gate Ventures. Skelter Labs was founded in 2015 byfounded by Te...
11:30 pm GMT - Sun, November 4, 2018
Techcrunch Make people valuable again
Vint Cerf Contributor Share on Twitter Vinton Gray Cerf, a co-founder of i4j -- innovation for jobs, is widely hailed as one of "the fathers of the Internet". Cerf was a manager for the United States'...
10:21 pm GMT - Sun, November 4, 2018
Techcrunch Female founders have brought in just 2.2% of US VC this year (yes, again)
All-female founding teams have raised 2.2% of U.S. VC so far this year; mixed-gender teams have raised about 13%....
07:15 pm GMT - Sun, November 4, 2018
Techcrunch James Patterson released a work of interactive fiction on Facebook Messenger
The book's characters have Instagram accounts, too....
06:04 pm GMT - Sun, November 4, 2018
Techcrunch What does SoftBanks Masayoshi Son plan to say or do about its ties to Saudi Arabia? Were about to find out
Throughout October, it seemed that among others in tech, SoftBank might be forced to rethink its cozy relationship with Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, or MBS, who has charmed m...
04:40 pm GMT - Sun, November 4, 2018
Techcrunch Why we lie to ourselves, every day
Human action requires motivation, but what exactly are those motivations? Donating money to a charity might be motivated by altruism, and yet, only 1% of donations are anonymous. Donors dont just want...
04:40 pm GMT - Sun, November 4, 2018
Techcrunch Why we lie to ourselves every day
Human action requires motivation, but what exactly are those motivations? Donating money to a charity might be motivated by altruism, and yet, only 1% of donations are anonymous. Donors dont just want...
03:51 pm GMT - Sun, November 4, 2018
Techcrunch Boring Tunnel is on track for an opening party next month
Last night, super entrepreneur and Twitter addict Elon Musk posted some mesmerizing footage of the tunnel that his nearly two-year-old infrastructure company, Boring Company, is creating in Los Angele...
02:00 pm GMT - Sun, November 4, 2018
Techcrunch What if Google unionized?
Last week more than 20,000 Google employees walked out of their workplace to protest, and demand major changes in, how the company handles harassment and discrimination. Mass employee organization, de...
07:26 pm GMT - Sat, November 3, 2018
Techcrunch A blockchain firm bought asteroid mining company Planetary Resources
Heres a match made inI dont know, somewhere on the blockchain, I guess. Pioneering space startup Planetary Resources was acquired by, of all things, a blockchain firm this week. ConsenSys, a Brooklyn ...
06:48 pm GMT - Sat, November 3, 2018
Techcrunch Facebook reorganizes Oculus for AR/VRs long-haul
Facebook is again looking to whip Oculus into shape for its 10-year journey towards making virtual reality mainstream. According to two sources, Facebook reorganized its AR and VR team this week from ...
04:56 pm GMT - Sat, November 3, 2018
Techcrunch In a court filing, Edward Snowden says a report critical to an NSA lawsuit is authentic
An unexpected declaration by whistleblower Edward Snowden filed in court this week adds a new twist in a long-running lawsuit against the National Security Agency’s surveillance programs. The ca...
04:36 pm GMT - Sat, November 3, 2018
Techcrunch Amazon reportedly in advanced talks to open HQ2 in Virginia
These sorts of major decision no doubt take some time. And, of course, Amazon is clearly milking the decision making process for all its worth as cities across the States roll out the red carpet. Acco...
03:32 pm GMT - Sat, November 3, 2018
Techcrunch The iPhone is reportedly getting 5G in 2020
The first 5G phones are set to start arriving next year. Motorola plans to bring next-gen connectivity via a Mod for the Z3, and companies like LG and OnePlus have promised to deliver the tech baked i...
02:30 pm GMT - Sat, November 3, 2018
Techcrunch A long and winding road to new copyright legislation
Dave Davis Contributor Dave Davis joined Copyright Clearance Center in 1994 and currently serves as a research analyst. He previously held directorships in both public libraries and corporate librarie...
02:18 pm GMT - Sat, November 3, 2018
Techcrunch Amazon is letting users choose the day packages are delivered
Amazon Day looks like one of those options youll wonder how you ever managed to live without. The new feature, which is currently being tested for select Prime users, offers up a choice of deliver day...
12:19 am GMT - Sat, November 3, 2018
Techcrunch GM is getting into the electric bike business
General Motors said it plans to bring two new electric bikes to market next year one folding and one compact as the automaker makes a broader push into electrification and other ideas that try to mo...
10:23 pm GMT - Fri, November 2, 2018
Techcrunch Twitter removes thousands of accounts that tried to dissuade Democrats from voting
Twitter has deleted thousands of automated accounts posting messages that tried to discourage and dissuade voters from casting their ballot in the upcoming election next week. Some 10,000 accounts wer...
08:21 pm GMT - Fri, November 2, 2018
Techcrunch Sequoia leads $10M round for home improvement negotiator Setter
You probably don’t know how much it should cost to get your home’s windows washed, yard landscaped or countertops replaced. But Setter does. The startup pairs you with a home improvement c...
08:08 pm GMT - Fri, November 2, 2018
Techcrunch Elon Musk says Tesla wont make e-scooters, but might consider electric bikes
Tesla won’t be joining the scooter wars. But electric bikes? Yeah, maybe. During a lengthy podcast with Recode’s Kara Swisher, Tesla CEO Elon Musk talked about everything from AI and his f...
07:58 pm GMT - Fri, November 2, 2018
Techcrunch TikTok surpassed Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat & YouTube in downloads last month
Beijing-based ByteDance’s 2017 acquisition of tween and teen-focused social app Musical.ly is paying off. The company this year merged Musical.ly with its own short video app TikTok as a means o...
07:32 pm GMT - Fri, November 2, 2018
Techcrunch Village Globals accelerator introduces founders to Bill Gates, Reid Hoffman, Eric Schmidt and more
The VC fund backed by Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and other tech luminaries is offering early-stage startups access to its killer network....
07:03 pm GMT - Fri, November 2, 2018
Techcrunch Twitter hires God-is Rivera as global director of culture and community
Twitter has brought on its first-ever global director of culture and community, God-is Rivera. As global director of culture and community, Rivera will report to GlobalHead of Culture, Engagement and ...
06:57 pm GMT - Fri, November 2, 2018
Techcrunch The Minte raises $2.25 million in seed funding to bring hotel-style housekeeping to luxury residences
As an MBA student at the University of Chicago’s Booth school, Kathleen Wilson was struck with an idea while looking at businesses that provided daily housekeeping in one of her classes. Given t...
06:19 pm GMT - Fri, November 2, 2018
Techcrunch Tesla subpoenaed by SEC over Model 3 production forecasts
Tesla said Friday in a regulatory filing that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Department of Justice are investigating projections made last year about Model 3 production rates. The SEC...
05:24 pm GMT - Fri, November 2, 2018
Techcrunch Tencent is launching its own version of Snap Spectacles
Some were surprised to see Snap release a second version of its “face-camera” Spectacles gadget, since the original version failed to convert hype into sales. But those lackluster sales &#...
04:49 pm GMT - Fri, November 2, 2018
Techcrunch Flickrs new business model could see works deleted from Creative Commons
Following yesterday’s series of announcements about Flickr’s plans to revamp its site under its new owners, SmugMug, one major concern has been raised: its decision to now limit free accou...
04:48 pm GMT - Fri, November 2, 2018
Techcrunch Google finally adds consumer customer support with Google One
You may recall my tale of woe from last year when I recounted how I was locked out of my Google account for a month. It was a tough time, made all the more frustrating because there wasn’t any c...
04:41 pm GMT - Fri, November 2, 2018
Techcrunch Dynamic Yield, which builds Amazon-like personalisation for the rest of us, raises $38M
Amazon, one of the world’s largest companies, has transformed the face of commerce in part because it has managed at once to be “The Everything Store” but still with a route into its...
04:12 pm GMT - Fri, November 2, 2018
Techcrunch Match says Bumble is dropping its $400M lawsuit, but this battle isnt over
Bumble and Match’s ongoing legal battles are continuing today. According to a statement released by Match Group this morning, Bumble is dropping its $400 million lawsuit against Match, which had...
04:12 pm GMT - Fri, November 2, 2018
Techcrunch Bumble drops its $400M lawsuit against Match, but this battle isnt over
Bumble and Match’s ongoing legal battles are continuing today. According to a statement released by Match Group this morning, Bumble is dropping its $400 million lawsuit against Match, which had...
03:01 pm GMT - Fri, November 2, 2018
Techcrunch Vince Staples has fun with Google Maps in new video
Vince Staples’ latest record, FM!, drops today on Def Jam records — that’s some very good news from one of the best and brightest rappers in the game today. Staples is celebrating th...
02:50 pm GMT - Fri, November 2, 2018
Techcrunch The final season of House of Cards is out now
The ultimate chapter of the political drama House of Cards is officially out. The Netflix original series is in its sixth and final season, and without a new lead. Following sexual misconduct allegati...
02:37 pm GMT - Fri, November 2, 2018
Techcrunch Samsungs Bixby may finally get more third-party integration soon
Poor Bixby. We admittedly havent had a lot of nice things to say about Samsungs smart assistant since launch but thats not for lack of potential. The company has promised great things since day one, ...
02:31 pm GMT - Fri, November 2, 2018
Techcrunch World of Warcraft: Classic demo limited to 60 minutes of playtime
Put away the Jolt, Blizzard is limiting the time gamers will be able to play the World of Warcraft: Classic demo. Basically, after playing for an hour, players will be logged off and will have to wait...
02:08 pm GMT - Fri, November 2, 2018
Techcrunch MyPart finds that next def jam
Picture it: you have the perfect song for Kelly Clarkson. It’s a mix of genres and styles best described as “Since U Been Gone” meets “911 Is A Joke.” How do you get it i...
02:00 pm GMT - Fri, November 2, 2018
Techcrunch Apple News will launch a real-time election results hub on November 6
Apple is preparing to launch a new way for its customers to track election results. At 8 PM ET on November 6, the company will swap out the existing Midterm Elections section in the Apple News app and...
01:00 pm GMT - Fri, November 2, 2018
Techcrunch Fortnights funding royale, China struggles, and Coinbase gets a boost to $8 billion
Hello and welcome back toEquity, TechCrunchs venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week, we missed Alex Wilhelm, who was sunning himself somewhere (vi...
01:00 pm GMT - Fri, November 2, 2018
Techcrunch Fortnites funding royale, China struggles and Coinbase gets a boost to $8 billion
Hello and welcome back toEquity, TechCrunchs venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week, we missed Alex Wilhelm, who was sunning himself somewhere (vi...
12:59 pm GMT - Fri, November 2, 2018
Techcrunch The Zortrax Apoller safely smooths 3D prints
The Zortrax Apoller, a Smart Vapor Smoothing device that uses solvents to smooth the surface of 3D-printed objects. The resulting products look like they are injection molded and all of the little lin...
12:36 pm GMT - Fri, November 2, 2018
Techcrunch Alibaba cuts its revenue forecast as growth slackens
Alibaba’s long stretch of growth finally broke after the Chinese e-commerce giant reported somewhat underwhelming financial results for its Q2 2019 quarter. (A little confusing but Alibaba’...
12:00 pm GMT - Fri, November 2, 2018
Techcrunch Palm phone review: an idea whose time may never come
For such a tiny device, Palms got a heavy lift. On the face of it, the self-titled first product from the new startup with a familiar name isnt too radical a departure from the smartphone set. In fact...
10:09 am GMT - Fri, November 2, 2018
Techcrunch Announcing the companies in Startup Alley at Disrupt Berlin 2018
It wont be long now before thousands of startup fans the TechCrunch crew included head to Germany forDisrupt Berlin 2018, which takes place on 29-30 November.Were so excited we need to let off a bit...
09:39 am GMT - Fri, November 2, 2018
Techcrunch Hong Kong says it may regulate crypto exchanges
Hong Kong may become the next country to regulate crypto exchanges after its securities regulator announced that it is exploring ways to apply quality control and protectconsumers from the volatility ...
08:38 am GMT - Fri, November 2, 2018
Techcrunch Korean lending startup PeopleFund raises $11M led by chat app Kakaos payment unit
South Korean peer-to-peer lending startup PeopleFundis in the money itself after it raised an $11 million Series B funding round that was led by Kakao Pay, the fintech division of Kakao, Korea’s...
08:02 am GMT - Fri, November 2, 2018
Techcrunch Todays the last day for early-bird tickets to Disrupt Berlin 2018
I cant wait to pay up to 500more than necessary to go to Disrupt Berlin 2018 said no one EVER. Heed our call: the early-bird ticket price ends today, 2 November. Miss that deadline, and youll be one ...
11:11 pm GMT - Thu, November 1, 2018
Techcrunch Edo raises $12M to measure TV ad effectiveness
Edo, an ad analytics startup founded by Daniel Nadler and actor Edward Norton, announced today that it has raised $12 million in Series A funding. Nadler and Norton have both had startup success befor...
11:01 pm GMT - Thu, November 1, 2018
Techcrunch Reef-rejuvenating LarvalBot spreads coral babies by the millions
The continuing die-off of the world's coral reefs is a depressing reminder of the reality of climate change, but it's also something we can actively push back on. Conservationists have a new tool to d...
10:13 pm GMT - Thu, November 1, 2018
Techcrunch Apple will stop sharing numbers on how many devices its selling
Apple shared its latest quarterly earnings report today, but during its call with investors the company’s CFO Luca Maestri also delivered an unexpected announcement: it won’t be sharing un...
09:55 pm GMT - Thu, November 1, 2018
Techcrunch Elon Musk says soon Teslas will come when you call them
Tesla CEO Elon Musk promised in a series of tweets that an advanced version of its auto-parking technology Summon that will let ownersremotely control their car through their phones will be ready in s...
09:35 pm GMT - Thu, November 1, 2018
Techcrunch GoPro shares are tanking after disastrous Q3
GoPro stock is currently down 15% in after-hours trading and is falling after reporting its third quarter earnings. The company saw revenues dive 13%.3 percent. Overall GoPro reported a net loss of $2...
09:35 pm GMT - Thu, November 1, 2018
Techcrunch GoPro shares tank after reporting revenue dives 13%
GoPro stock is currently down 15% in after-hours trading and is falling after reporting its third quarter earnings. The company saw revenues dive 13%.3, while still managing to beat Wall Street revenu...
09:00 pm GMT - Thu, November 1, 2018
Techcrunch Agrifood the $8 trillion industry thats worth your salt
Cannabis-infuseddrinks. Burgersgrownin laboratories. Entiremeals in bottles. Consumers, retailers and farmers alike are hungry for the next generation of food, and investors are beginning to acquire t...
08:51 pm GMT - Thu, November 1, 2018
Techcrunch Apple beats on Q4 earnings thanks to price hikes, stock still falls 7% after-hours
Despite a beat on its Q4 quarterly earnings, Apple shares still managed to take a beating Thursday. Shares are down 7 percent in after-hours trading after the company released its Q4 quarterly earning...
08:51 pm GMT - Thu, November 1, 2018
Techcrunch Apple beats on Q4 earnings thanks to price hikes, stock still falls 7% after hours
Despite a beat on its Q4 quarterly earnings, Apple shares still managed to take a beating Thursday. Shares are down 7 percent in after-hours trading after the company released its Q4 quarterly earning...
08:36 pm GMT - Thu, November 1, 2018
Techcrunch Grit author Angela Duckworth on working smart versus working too hard, when its okay to pivot, and the impact of tech on grit
Today, in San Francisco, at an inspriring gathering of roughly 400 women investors and founders organized by the months-old nonprofitAllRaise —a large and growing group of female funders and fou...
08:03 pm GMT - Thu, November 1, 2018
Techcrunch Apple, Amazon, Google and others sign letter opposing Trumps attempt to redefine gender
A list of 50-plus companies, including some of techs top names, joined forces this week to pen a letter calling out the Trump administration over a reported plan to narrow gender definitions. Apple, G...
08:03 pm GMT - Thu, November 1, 2018
Techcrunch Instagrams next cash cow: instant Promote ads for Stories
Instagram hopes dollars from long-tail of small businesses and social media stars can help it pull its weight in the Facebook family. A new ad type called Promote for Stories allows Instagram business...
07:53 pm GMT - Thu, November 1, 2018
Techcrunch Zume reportedly snags $375 million from SoftBank for its robotic food operations
Zume, the robotics and logistics company that got its start slinging out pizza, just raised $375 million from SoftBank, the WSJ first reported.SoftBank is also reportedly looking to invest an addition...
07:31 pm GMT - Thu, November 1, 2018
Techcrunch Thomas Reardon and CTRL-Labs are building an API for the brain
Alice Lloyd George Contributor Alice Lloyd George is an investor at RRE Ventures and the host of Flux, a series of podcast conversations with leaders in frontier technology. More posts by this contrib...
07:30 pm GMT - Thu, November 1, 2018
Techcrunch Google walkout organizer: I hope I still have a career in Silicon Valley after this
Upwards of 1,000 people gathered in San Francisco Thursday to protest Google's handling of sexual harassment and misconduct....
06:32 pm GMT - Thu, November 1, 2018
Techcrunch Walmart adds an AR scanner to its iOS app for product comparisons
Walmart is giving augmented reality a shot. The retailer today announced the launch of a new AR scanning tool in its iPhone application which will help customers with product comparisons. However, unl...
06:27 pm GMT - Thu, November 1, 2018
Techcrunch FabFitFun surpasses $200 million in revenue as it hits million-customer milestone
At least one million people will be receiving the next FabFitFun box as the Los Angeles company surpasses $200 million in revenue and continues its run as one of the startups to watch in the Los Angel...
06:27 pm GMT - Thu, November 1, 2018
Techcrunch FabFitFun surpasses $200 million in revenue as it hits million-subscriber milestone
At least one million people will be receiving the next FabFitFun box as the Los Angeles company surpasses $200 million in revenue and continues its run as one of the startups to watch in the Los Angel...
06:25 pm GMT - Thu, November 1, 2018
Techcrunch Campaign tool supplied to UKs governing party by Trump-Pence app dev quietly taken out of service
An app that the UK’s governing partylaunched last year— for Conservative Party activists to gamify, ‘socialize’ and co-ordinate their campaigning activity — has been quie...
06:25 pm GMT - Thu, November 1, 2018
Techcrunch Campaign tool supplied to UKs governing party by Trump-Pence app dev quietly taken out of service thanks to GDPR
An app that the UK’s governing partylaunched last year— for Conservative Party activists to gamify, ‘socialize’ and co-ordinate their campaigning activity — has been quie...
06:15 pm GMT - Thu, November 1, 2018
Techcrunch Soyuz bounces back after failure: Crewed mission to Space Station launches early next month
The high profile but fortunately non-lethal failure of a crewed mission atop a Soyuz rocket in October has been investigated thoroughly enough that American, European, and Russian space agencies are w...
06:12 pm GMT - Thu, November 1, 2018
Techcrunch Super Smash Bros. Ultimate gets new characters and a social video platform
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate isnt out until December 7, but Nintendos been doing an admirable job milking the fighting game for announcements since it was unveiled back at E3. The company held another N...
06:00 pm GMT - Thu, November 1, 2018
Techcrunch Foursquare partners with TripAdvisor
Foursquare, the former location-based social network turned enterprise location data platform, has today announced a new partnership with TripAdvisor. TripAdvisor will be using Foursquare’s Pilg...
05:33 pm GMT - Thu, November 1, 2018
Techcrunch Hulu launches add-on bundles focused on entertainment and Spanish programming
Earlier this month, Hulu CEORandy Freer said the company would be revamping its Live TV service by dropping some entertainment channels and adding on smaller bundles. Now, that change has come about. ...
05:19 pm GMT - Thu, November 1, 2018
Techcrunch Retail-as-a-service provider Leap raises $3M and launches first store
The past decade in retail has been the golden age of direct-to-consumer (D2C) and digitally native vertical brands (DNVBs) that usethe internet to communicate with customers, execute transactions, han...
05:19 pm GMT - Thu, November 1, 2018
Techcrunch The Autoblow A.I. brings machine learning to your lap
Dearest Martha, I write to you from the cold wastes of Earth on the first day of the New Year, 2023, the third year of war, and so close to your own child’s decanting date that it pains me to th...
05:18 pm GMT - Thu, November 1, 2018
Techcrunch Asana launches $19.99 Business tier to help managers handle multiple projects
Asana, the platform where people can create and track the progress of work projects, made its name originally as a place where individuals and smaller teams can create and track the progress of a spec...
05:02 pm GMT - Thu, November 1, 2018
Techcrunch Peak Theory lines up media partners and funding as Cubcoats becomes a phenomenon
With a planned cartoon series coming up, partnerships in place with Major League Baseball, NBCUniversal and other media companies of heroic proportions, the founders creating the kids clothing phenome...
04:20 pm GMT - Thu, November 1, 2018
Techcrunch Tool up for the midterms with this Facebook junk news aggregator
With the US midterms fast approaching purveyors of online disinformation are very busy indeed spreading their hyper-partisan junk on Facebook . Their goal:Skewing democratic outcomes by putting out mi...
04:00 pm GMT - Thu, November 1, 2018
Techcrunch HashiCorp scores $100M investment on $1.9 billion valuation
HashiCorp, the company that has made hay developing open source tools for managing cloud infrastructure, obviously has a pretty hefty commercial business going too. Today the company announced an enor...
03:46 pm GMT - Thu, November 1, 2018
Techcrunch Google employees across the globe are walking out now to protest sexual harassment
Googlers are fed up with the company's treatment of sexual harassment and misconduct. ...
03:35 pm GMT - Thu, November 1, 2018
Techcrunch Netflix changes its release model, with exclusive theatrical runs for Roma and others
Netflix is finally changing its long-held policy around the theatrical release of its original films. In the past, the streaming service has been willing to release its films in theaters, but it refus...
03:32 pm GMT - Thu, November 1, 2018
Techcrunch Flickr revamps under SmugMug with new limits on free accounts, unlimited storage for Pros
Flickr is making some big changes, following its acquisition by SmugMug earlier this year. The company announced this week it’s addressing a series of issues on the site, including spam, custome...
03:17 pm GMT - Thu, November 1, 2018
Techcrunch Rockset launches out of stealth with $21.5 M investment
Rockset, a startup that came out of stealth today, announced $21.5M in previous funding and the launch of its new data platform that is designed to simplify much of the processing to get to querying a...
03:03 pm GMT - Thu, November 1, 2018
Techcrunch DeepMap, a maker of HD maps for self-driving, raised at least $60M at a $450M valuation
As car and tech companies continue to make inroads on vehicles and services to build autonomous driving systems, a startup that is creating high-definition maps to help these vehicles move around has ...
03:00 pm GMT - Thu, November 1, 2018
Techcrunch Uber Eats launches its new platform for corporate accounts
Uber Eats is expanding to enterprise customers with the launch of Uber Eats for Business. The new service allows companies to manage their employees food orders and positions Uber Eats to compete more...
03:00 pm GMT - Thu, November 1, 2018
Techcrunch A pair of new Bluetooth security flaws expose wireless access points to attack
Security researchers have found two severe vulnerabilities affecting several popular wireless access points, which if exploited could allow an attacker to compromise enterprise networks. The two bug...
02:36 pm GMT - Thu, November 1, 2018
Techcrunch Nope!
Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope.Alexa isn’t going in my shower. Nope....
02:30 pm GMT - Thu, November 1, 2018
Techcrunch As elections loom, companies weigh the benefits of civic time off
With the mid-term elections looming, the pressure across all parties and organizations to get people to the polls is more prevalent than ever before. Yet, as the number of eligible voters increases, w...
02:27 pm GMT - Thu, November 1, 2018
Techcrunch Sonos delays Google Assistant integration until 2019, private beta to launch in 2018
Sonos today announced that Google Assistant will not be available on its products until at least 2019. The service was supposed to launch in 2018 but the company said in a blog posting it needs a bit ...
02:23 pm GMT - Thu, November 1, 2018
Techcrunch Folding screens are here, and they look crappy
I dunno, man. Maybe its 2018 getting me down. Maybe Ive just been at this for too long. Maybe it’s the flu shot I just got. Whatever the case, count me among the unsurprised when some long-await...
02:14 pm GMT - Thu, November 1, 2018
Techcrunch How to build STEM toys
On chilly Saturday mornings my father would fire up the kerosene heater and get the back of our garage warm. He’d turn on the old radio, constantly tuned to the local public radio station, and W...
02:12 pm GMT - Thu, November 1, 2018
Techcrunch Microsofts game streaming service Mixer adds more ways for streamers to make money
Microsoft today is rolling out a new version of its game streaming service, Mixer, which it’s calling “Season 2” to reflect the fact that the changes are ongoing, not a one-day relea...
02:12 pm GMT - Thu, November 1, 2018
Techcrunch Defakto releases the stunning Mitternacht minimalist watch
Last year, Defakto released the limited edition Stille Nacht (Silent Night) in collaboration with artist Friederike Bellman. The watch featured a hand-painted star field throughout the dial. Now, the ...
01:41 pm GMT - Thu, November 1, 2018
Techcrunch Spoke enhances AI engine to power help desk ticketing system
Spoke, a startup that wants to simplify the way companies add and process help desk tickets using artificial intelligence underpinnings, announced it has enhanced its AI engine to allow for more compl...
01:09 pm GMT - Thu, November 1, 2018
Techcrunch Monzo launches interest-earning savings accounts
Well, you have to admire a staggered PR plan. Monzo, the U.K. challenger bank that just announced 85 million in Series E funding and its entrance into the fintech unicorn club, is rolling out a new fe...
01:00 pm GMT - Thu, November 1, 2018
Techcrunch Anti-fraud startup Shape Security raises $26M in Series E round to drive global expansion
Shape Security, a fraud-fighting cybersecurity company, has closed a $26 million round of Series E funding. This will be the fifth round of funding more than $130 million since the Mountain View, Ca...
01:00 pm GMT - Thu, November 1, 2018
Techcrunch Mens wellness startup HIMS has launched a line of womens health products called HERS
HIMS has a new women's brand offering birth control, the 'female viagra,' shampoo, skin care and more....
01:00 pm GMT - Thu, November 1, 2018
Techcrunch VICIS completes $28.5M Series B and launches its first youth helmet
Aaron Rodgers has invested in VICIS, a developer of high-tech helmets for professional and youth football players....
01:00 pm GMT - Thu, November 1, 2018
Techcrunch Carpooling startup Scoop partners with Lyft
Lyft is partnering with carpooling service Scoop to supplement Scoop’s offering to its customers from companies like LinkedIn, Workday, Samsung T-Mobile and Symantec. With Scoop,trips are pre-sc...
12:25 pm GMT - Thu, November 1, 2018
Techcrunch HPE and NASA make supercomputer on ISS available for experiments
Last year, HPE successfully built and installed a supercomputer on the International Space Station that could withstand the rigors of being in space. Today, the company announced that it is making tha...
12:00 pm GMT - Thu, November 1, 2018
Techcrunch Custom eyewear startup King Children raises $2 million
Eyewear can be a statement-making, attention-grabbing fashion accessory — if done right. King Children, a custom eyewear startup emerging from stealth today, aims to give everyone unique, custom...
11:53 am GMT - Thu, November 1, 2018
Techcrunch Baidu hits the gas on autonomous vehicles with Volvo and Ford deals
China’s search engine giant Baidu is continuing its partnership spree for Apollo, its open development platform for autonomous driving, after it inked a deal with Swedish automaker Volvo to deve...
11:25 am GMT - Thu, November 1, 2018
Techcrunch Spotify posts $1.35B in Q3 sales; MAUs up 28% to 191M with 87M paying users
Spotify, the streaming music company that went public earlier this year, posted its quarterly results today, and while it’s continuing to grow, it appears to just about be meeting analyst expect...
11:25 am GMT - Thu, November 1, 2018
Techcrunch Spotify stock slumps on $1.35B in Q3 sales; MAUs up 28% to 191M with 87M paying users
Spotify, the streaming music company that went public earlier this year, posted its quarterly results today, and while it’s continuing to grow at a modest pace, it appears to be just about meeti...
11:00 am GMT - Thu, November 1, 2018
Techcrunch Neo4j nabs $80M Series E as graph database tech flourishes
Neo4j has helped popularize the graph database. Today it was rewarded with an $80 million Series E to bring their products to a wider market in what could be the company’s last private fundraise...
10:00 am GMT - Thu, November 1, 2018
Techcrunch Only half of the Fortune 500 use DMARC for email security
When Homeland Security told all federal government departments last year to roll out a new email security policy to cut down on incoming spam and phishing emails, three-quarters of all federal domains...
09:01 am GMT - Thu, November 1, 2018
Techcrunch Dont miss out on tickets to Startup Battlefield Africa 2018
On December 11, just slightly more than a month away, up to 15 exceptional startups will arrive in Lagos, Nigeria to compete in Startup Battlefield Africa 2018. Dont miss your opportunity to watch fou...
08:48 am GMT - Thu, November 1, 2018
Techcrunch Faraday Future loses the last of its founding executive team as problems deepen
There were five. And now, there are none. Faraday Future, the once-buzzy Chinese electric vehicle startup that has delivered lots of promises and fanfare, but has struggled to deliver an actual produc...
08:10 am GMT - Thu, November 1, 2018
Techcrunch Rafal Modrzewski to talk about launching microsatellites at Disrupt Berlin
ICEYE CEO Rafal Modrzewski is obsessed with SAR satellites. Hes so obsessed that his company plans to launch dozens of satellites into space. According to him, ICEYE satellites should be much better t...
08:01 am GMT - Thu, November 1, 2018
Techcrunch 48 hours left to save on early-bird tickets to Disrupt Berlin 2018
Do you thrive on looming deadlines? Do you make your best decisions at the last minute? Hey, we dont judge. We just want to make sure youre clear that you have only 48 hours left to score early-bird t...
04:01 am GMT - Thu, November 1, 2018
Techcrunch U.S. declines in internet freedom rankings, thanks to net neutrality repeal and fake news
If you need a safe haven on the internet, where the pipes are open and the freedoms are plentiful you might want to move to Estonia or Iceland. The latest “internet freedoms” rankings are...
01:09 am GMT - Thu, November 1, 2018
Techcrunch Chinas Youon expands into Europe as other bike startups backpedal worldwide
A little known Chinese bike company is riding into Europe as its peer Ofo has applied the brakes to its global expansion strategy in recent months. Youon, which gets by manufacturing public bikes for ...
12:30 am GMT - Thu, November 1, 2018
Techcrunch Tarform debuted new e-motorcycles but is there a U.S. market?
With more failures in the electric motorcycle industry than going concerns and a contracting American motorcycle market, now would seem to be an odd time to launch a new bike into the EV arena. ButTar...
11:39 pm GMT - Wed, October 31, 2018
Techcrunch Social Capitals Chamath Palihapitiya says we need to return to the roots of venture investing
In a letter publicly released by Social Capital, Palihapitiya divulges on the VC industry's biggest problems. ...
10:40 pm GMT - Wed, October 31, 2018
Techcrunch Twitter tests homescreen button to easily switch to reverse chronological
Twitter is digging one of its most important new features out of its settings and putting it within easy reach. Twitter is now testing with a small number of iOS users a homescreen button that lets yo...
10:08 pm GMT - Wed, October 31, 2018
Techcrunch GM looks to cut costs by offering buyouts to 18,000 employees
General Motors has offered voluntary buyouts to 18,000 salaried employees in North America who have at least 12 years of experience, as the automaker looks to cut costs all while investing in its elec...
09:53 pm GMT - Wed, October 31, 2018
Techcrunch Watch this little robot transform to get the job done
Robots just want to get things done, but it's frustrating when their rigid bodies simply don't allow them to do so. Solution: bodies that can be reconfigured on the fly! Sure, it's probably bad news f...
09:50 pm GMT - Wed, October 31, 2018
Techcrunch Some law enforcement drones are dropping out of the sky
The U.K.’s Civil Aviation Authority is cautioning police departments and other emergency services to suspend operations of a specific drone model after some of the devices lost power unexpectedl...
09:47 pm GMT - Wed, October 31, 2018
Techcrunch Influencer marketing startup Mavrck raises another $5.8M
Mavrck has raised another $5.8 million in funding, bringing its total raised to $13.8 million. When the company raised its Series A back in 2015, it was focused on helping brands work with “micr...
09:47 pm GMT - Wed, October 31, 2018
Techcrunch Fitbit earnings beat expectations on strength of smartwatch sales
Fitbit is slowly righting its financial ship, courtesy of a successful push into smartwatch category. The wearable company reported a profit (when adjusted for items such as stock-based compensation) ...
09:40 pm GMT - Wed, October 31, 2018
Techcrunch Xiaomi doesnt want Lyft using its electric scooters
Xiaomi, the electric scooter manufacturer that a handful of the shared electric scooter services in the U.S. (like ones from Uber, Lyft, Spin and Bird) rely on, has sent a cease-and-desist letter to L...
09:19 pm GMT - Wed, October 31, 2018
Techcrunch Snapchats PR firm sues influencer for not promoting Spectacles on Instagram
Influcencer marketing could get a lot more accountable if Snapchat’s PR firm wins this lawsuit. Snapchat hoped that social media stars promoting v2 of its Spectacles camera sunglasses on its big...
09:19 pm GMT - Wed, October 31, 2018
Techcrunch The tactics behind The Athletics breakout success in sports subscriptions
Local newspapers may be shuttering and people may be consuming most news on social media, but don’t tell Alex Mather that a subscription news publication can’t grow like a unicorn startup....
09:16 pm GMT - Wed, October 31, 2018
Techcrunch A look at all the companies participating in 500 Startups 24th accelerator program
50 percent of the companies have a back, mixed-race or Latinx founder....
07:34 pm GMT - Wed, October 31, 2018
Techcrunch After canceling Rift 2 overhaul, Oculus plans a modest update to flagship VR headset
Facebook’s virtual reality arm may soon find itself in the unfamiliar position of playing catch-up with hardware competitors. Last week, TechCrunch reported that Oculus co-founder Brendan Iribe ...
07:18 pm GMT - Wed, October 31, 2018
Techcrunch SpaceX shuffles Starlink leadership, hoping to accelerate launch
SpaceX is changing the lineup at the Seattle-based offices of Starlink, the company's nascent satellite broadband division. A Reuters report depicts a whirlwind visit by CEO Elon Musk as a middle mana...
07:02 pm GMT - Wed, October 31, 2018
Techcrunch CBS launches a streaming entertainment network, ET Live
CBS is today launching another streaming network, this time focused on entertainment news. The service, which is called ET Live, was developed by CBS Interactive and CBS TV’s “Entertainmen...
06:46 pm GMT - Wed, October 31, 2018
Techcrunch Lime recalls some scooters due to fire concerns
Lime, the electric scooter and bike-share startup, has pulled some of its scooters from the streets of Los Angeles, San Diego and Lake Tahoe. That’s because of two hardware challenges the compan...
06:37 pm GMT - Wed, October 31, 2018
Techcrunch Scared to trade stocks? Titan algorithmically invests for you
Titan could put an end to stock market FOMO. The app chooses the best 20 stocks by scraping top hedge fund data, adds some shorts based on your personal risk profile and puts your money to work. No wo...
05:25 pm GMT - Wed, October 31, 2018
Techcrunch Lendix is now called October
French startup Lendix is changing its name to October. The company is using this opportunity to redesign its branding assets and refresh the design of the website for new users. The product remains th...
05:22 pm GMT - Wed, October 31, 2018
Techcrunch Twitters spam reporting tool now lets you specify type, including if its a fake account
Twitter is adding more nuance to its spam reporting tools, the company announced today. Instead of simply flagging a tweet as posting spam, users can now specify what kind of spam you’re seeing ...
04:50 pm GMT - Wed, October 31, 2018
Techcrunch Sign up for Spotifys $15/month plan, get a free Google Home Mini
Spotifys got a new promotion to entice users to sign up for a Premium Family plan. Commit to $15 a month plan for up to six members and the streaming service will toss in a free Google Home Mini. Its ...
04:33 pm GMT - Wed, October 31, 2018
Techcrunch How the Apple Watch changed the world
In 2015 Switzerland was fucked. This blunt belief, grunted out by Apple’s Jony Ive and repeated by the media as a death knell for the watch industry, seemed to define a sad truth: that the Swiss...
04:30 pm GMT - Wed, October 31, 2018
Techcrunch Consumers spent $329M on the top 10 subscription video apps last quarter
Last year, the top subscription video apps like Netflix and Hulu raked in a combined $781 million, and that trend is showing no sign of slowing down in 2018. In the third quarter of 2018, U.S. consume...
04:30 pm GMT - Wed, October 31, 2018
Techcrunch Daily Crunch: Waymo can go driverless in California
The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe her...
03:26 pm GMT - Wed, October 31, 2018
Techcrunch Nomad releases a stunning wireless charging pad with Apple Watch dock
With Apple’s AirPower still missing in action, the Apple accessory ecosystem has been attempting to fill the need with similar products. Some of these third party products are better than others...
02:41 pm GMT - Wed, October 31, 2018
Techcrunch TV streaming services see 212% jump in viewing hours over past year
Live-streaming TV services, like Sling TV, PlayStation Vue, Hulu with Live TV and others, are gaining steam in the U.S. as more consumers cut the cord with traditional pay TV. According to a new repor...
02:39 pm GMT - Wed, October 31, 2018
Techcrunch This gadget adds two USB 3.0 ports to Apples power adapter
This is clever. Made by HyperDrive, the USB-C Hub slips onto an Apple USB-C power adapter and adds two USB 3.0 ports. That’s all. I love it and it addresses a major shortcoming of Apple’s ...
02:00 pm GMT - Wed, October 31, 2018
Techcrunch Starship is using self-driving robots to deliver packages on demand
Soon, the days of package theft will be behind us. For people living in the U.K. town of Milton Keynes, that day is today. That’s thanks to autonomous robot startup Starship Technologies . Stars...
01:46 pm GMT - Wed, October 31, 2018
Techcrunch Freelancers rights come of age as gig economy booms
Gig workers, freelancers, sharing economy workers call them what you want to, but the millions who drive you around in Lyfts, drop off your Seamless delivery or work on piecemeal projects from home h...
12:17 pm GMT - Wed, October 31, 2018
Techcrunch The Google Home Hub is deeply insecure
Security advocate Jerry Gamblin has posted a set of instructions – essentially basic lines of XML – that can easily pull important information off of the Google Home Hub and, in some cases...
12:17 pm GMT - Wed, October 31, 2018
Techcrunch Googles Home Hub can be bricked with one line of code
Security advocate Jerry Gamblin has posted a set of instructions – essentially basic lines of XML – that can easily pull important information off of the Google Home Hub and, in some cases...
11:49 am GMT - Wed, October 31, 2018
Techcrunch Zuckerberg gets joint summons from UK and Canadian parliaments
Two separate parliamentary committees, in the UK and Canada, have issued an unprecedented international joint summons for Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg to appear before them. The committees are...
11:36 am GMT - Wed, October 31, 2018
Techcrunch Handshake, a LinkedIn for university students and diversity, raises $40M on a $275M valuation
LinkedIn has created and — with 562 million users — leads the market in social platforms for people who want to network with others in their professions, and look for jobs. Now a startup t...
11:36 am GMT - Wed, October 31, 2018
Techcrunch Handshake, a LinkedIn for university students and diversity, raises $40M
LinkedIn has created and — with 562 million users — leads the market in social platforms for people who want to network with others in their professions, and look for jobs. Now a startup t...
11:31 am GMT - Wed, October 31, 2018
Techcrunch Apple pulls WatchOS 4.1 update after it bricked some Apple Watches
PSA: If you’re an Apple Watch owner who is having trouble finding the shiny new WatchOS 4.1 update that Apple just shipped, it isn’t quite ready yet. Apple initially shipped the update on ...
11:31 am GMT - Wed, October 31, 2018
Techcrunch Apple pulls WatchOS 5.1 update after it bricked some Apple Watches
PSA: If you’re an Apple Watch owner who is having trouble finding the shiny new WatchOS 5.1 update that Apple just shipped, it isn’t quite ready yet. Apple initially shipped the update on ...
08:25 am GMT - Wed, October 31, 2018
Techcrunch Chat app Lines games business raises $110M for growth opportunities
Messaging app firm Line has given up majority control of its Line Games business after it raised outside financing to expand its collection of titles and go after global opportunities. The Line Games ...
08:00 am GMT - Wed, October 31, 2018
Techcrunch Three days left to save big on Disrupt Berlin 2018 tickets
The early-bird clock is winding down, and you have just three days left to save up to 500 on passes toDisrupt Berlin 2018.Youd be cuckoo to miss this deal (pun intended). The early-bird price flies aw...
07:17 am GMT - Wed, October 31, 2018
Techcrunch KKRs latest Southeast Asia bet is a $144M investment in PropertyGuru
Global investment giant KKR is warming up to Southeast Asia after it made a third high-profile investment. The firm — which has nearly $150 billion in assets under management — has cut aSG...
01:39 am GMT - Wed, October 31, 2018
Techcrunch Brex has partnered with WeWork, AWS and more for its new rewards program
Brex cardholders can now accrue and spend points on AWS, Twilio, SalesForce, WeWork, Instacart and more....
01:10 am GMT - Wed, October 31, 2018
Techcrunch The Tissot Seastar 1000 is a low-cost and high-quality Swiss diver
In the pantheon of watches there are a few that stand out. Looking for your first automatic watch? Pick up a Seiko Orange Monster. Looking for a piece with a little history? The Omega Speedmaster is y...
12:32 am GMT - Wed, October 31, 2018
Techcrunch As stock rises on a slim earnings beat, eBay tells analysts to focus on payments and ads
Despite increasing competition from traditional retailers like Walmart and Target, which have invested heavily in e-commerce, and the whupping it’s routinely taking from Amazon among pure e-comm...
12:27 am GMT - Wed, October 31, 2018
Techcrunch Facebook bans the Proud Boys, cutting the group off from its main recruitment platform
Facebook is moving to ban the Proud Boys, a far-right men’s organization with ties to white supremacist groups. Business Insider first reported the decision. Facebook confirmed the decision to b...
12:02 am GMT - Wed, October 31, 2018
Techcrunch Siri Shortcuts app gets updated with weather, alarms, timers and more
Alongside today’s announcements of new iPads and Mac, Apple also rolled out an updated version of its Siri Shortcuts app. The app, first introduced at WWDC, arrived with iOS 12 as a way to unloc...
12:01 am GMT - Wed, October 31, 2018
Techcrunch Monzo, the U.K. challenger bank, raises 85M Series E at a 1B pre-money valuation
Monzo, the U.K. challenger bank that now boasts more than a million customers, has raised 85 million in Series E funding. The round is led by U.S. venture capital firm General Catalyst, and Accel. Exi...