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09:34 pm GMT - Thu, May 30, 2019
Techcrunch This longtime cannabis investor has funded Pax and Juul, among others; heres her approach
If you’re a cannabis investor or a founder working on a cannabis-related startup, you’ve probably heard of Poseidon Asset Management. The San Francisco-based investment firm is one of very...
09:00 pm GMT - Thu, May 30, 2019
Techcrunch Lack of leadership in open source results in source-available licenses
Cloud infrastructure providers -- such as Amazon -- continue to pose an existential threat to the future of open source. ...
08:52 pm GMT - Thu, May 30, 2019
Techcrunch Uber Eats, micromobility services are growing faster than Ubers core ride-hailing business
Uber’s ride-hailing business is growing more slowly than its newer bets. In Uber’s Q1 2019 earnings, the company reported gross bookings growth of 230% for its other bets, while ridesharin...
08:13 pm GMT - Thu, May 30, 2019
Techcrunch Maine lawmakers pass bill to prevent ISPs from selling browsing data without consent
Good news! Maine lawmakers have passed a bill that will prevent internet providers from selling consumers’ private internet data to advertisers. The state’s senate unanimously passed the b...
08:09 pm GMT - Thu, May 30, 2019
Techcrunch What to expect from Apples WWDC 2019
Last years WWDC was a rare step away from hardware for the company, without a single device announcement. In fact, Apples gadget lines have largely been the subject of quiet releases over the past yea...
08:07 pm GMT - Thu, May 30, 2019
Techcrunch Uber lost another $1B last quarter
Uber shares its first earnings report as a public company. ...
08:01 pm GMT - Thu, May 30, 2019
Techcrunch Gato Roboto and Dig Dog put pixelated pets to work in gleeful gaming homages
Drawing inspiration from games of yore but with dog and cat protagonists that signal light adventures rather than grim, dark ones, Gato Roboto and Dig Dog are easy to recommend to anyone looking to wa...
07:53 pm GMT - Thu, May 30, 2019
Techcrunch Ferraris first plug-in hybrid is here. And its faster than ever.
Ferrari has finally cracked open the door for electrification. The Italian supercar manufacturer unveiled the SF90 Stradale, its first plug-in hybrid. Purists might turn their noses up to StradaleR...
07:53 pm GMT - Thu, May 30, 2019
Techcrunch Ferraris first plug-in hybrid is here and its faster than ever
Ferrari has finally cracked open the door for electrification. The Italian supercar manufacturer unveiled the SF90 Stradale, its first plug-in hybrid. Purists might turn their noses up to StradaleR...
07:02 pm GMT - Thu, May 30, 2019
Techcrunch Audi works with Fleetonomy to monitor and manage fleet utilization for its on demand program
Audi just completed a trial with Israeli company Fleetonomy as part of a potential wider rollout of the Israeli company’s fleet monitoring and management services designed to improve utilization...
07:02 pm GMT - Thu, May 30, 2019
Techcrunch Audi works with Fleetonomy to monitor and manage fleet utilization for its on-demand program
Audi just completed a trial with Israeli company Fleetonomy as part of a potential wider rollout of the Israeli company’s fleet monitoring and management services designed to improve utilization...
06:54 pm GMT - Thu, May 30, 2019
Techcrunch Google Play cracks down on marijuana apps, loot boxes and more
On Wednesday, Google rolled out new policies around kids’ apps on Google Play following an FTC complaint claiming a lack of attention to app’s compliance with children’s privacy laws...
06:18 pm GMT - Thu, May 30, 2019
Techcrunch The Slack origin story
How a whimsical online game became an enterprise software giant....
05:57 pm GMT - Thu, May 30, 2019
Techcrunch Susan Fowlers memoir has a title and a release date
Pre-orders begin June 12....
05:06 pm GMT - Thu, May 30, 2019
Techcrunch Lion King director Jon Favreau explains why hes remaking an animated classic
Disney has been cranking out live action remakes of its animated classics for the past few years in fact, Guy Ritchie’s take on “Aladdin” is currently at the top of the box office. ...
05:00 pm GMT - Thu, May 30, 2019
Techcrunch Google announces new privacy requirements for Chrome extensions
Google today announced two major changes to how it expects Chrome extension developers to protect their users’ privacy. Starting this summer, extension developers are required to only request ac...
05:00 pm GMT - Thu, May 30, 2019
Techcrunch CrunchMatch returns to simplify networking at Disrupt SF 2019
Ready to squeeze every bit of opportunity out of TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco 2019? TechCrunch’s flagship event returns to the Moscone North Convention Center on October 2-4 and with more t...
04:57 pm GMT - Thu, May 30, 2019
Techcrunch Why ICS security startup Dragos CEO puts a premium on people not profits
Written in its company’s handbook, there’s one rule for working at Dragos. “Don’t be an asshole.” “The first key to our success is our people and that we hire good ...
04:46 pm GMT - Thu, May 30, 2019
Techcrunch Alibaba pumps $100 million into Vmate to grow its video app in India
Chinese tech giant Alibaba is doubling down on Indias burgeoning video market, looking to fight back local rival ByteDance, Google, and Disney to gain its foothold in the nation. The company said toda...
04:27 pm GMT - Thu, May 30, 2019
Techcrunch Password manager Dashlane raises $110M in Series D, adds CMO
Password manager maker Dashlane has raised $110 million in its latest round of funding, the company said Thursday. The company said Sequoia Capital led the Series D round, with partner Jim Goetz joini...
04:10 pm GMT - Thu, May 30, 2019
Techcrunch OpenAIs Sam Altman and Greg Brockman will tell Disrupt about tomorrows jobs
OpenAI’s co-founders Greg Brockman and Sam Altman aren’t afraid of Terminator robots. At TechCrunch Disrupt SF in October, they’ll tell our audience why it’s the more subtle re...
04:08 pm GMT - Thu, May 30, 2019
Techcrunch XFactor, the early-stage VC that invests in women-led startups, raises a second fund
XFactor, the pre-seed and seed-stage VC out of FlyBridge Capital, has today announced that it has raised a second fund of $8.5 million. XFactor first came on the scene in 2017 with $3 million. FlyBrid...
04:05 pm GMT - Thu, May 30, 2019
Techcrunch Weirdo Fintech VC Anthemis marches to its own drummer
Entering into the world of Anthemis is a bit like stepping into the frame of a Wes Anderson film. Eclectic, offbeat people situated in colorful interiors? Check. A muse in the form of a renowned Briti...
04:04 pm GMT - Thu, May 30, 2019
Techcrunch Fintech and clean tech? An odd couple or a perfect marriage?
The Valleys rocky history with clean tech investing has been well-documented. Startups focused on non-emitting generation resources were once lauded as the next big cash cow, but the sectors hype quic...
04:04 pm GMT - Thu, May 30, 2019
Techcrunch Google Maps now uses machine learning to find restaurants best dishes, make suggestions
Google Maps want to help restaurant diners know what to order. The company today is rolling out an update to Google Maps on Android, with iOS to follow, which will highlight the restaurant’s mos...
04:01 pm GMT - Thu, May 30, 2019
Techcrunch Firefly raises $30M to bring more ads to Ubers, Lyfts and taxis
Firefly, a startup that allows ridehail drivers to make money from advertising, has raised $30 million in Series A funding. The company is about to launch in New York City, where it’s also acqui...
03:49 pm GMT - Thu, May 30, 2019
Techcrunch Netflix releases new trailer for The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
Netflix has released a new teaser trailer for its collaboration with The Jim Henson Company on “The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance,” and wow, is it a doozy. For a certain generation of mo...
03:43 pm GMT - Thu, May 30, 2019
Techcrunch Googles Indigo subsea cable is now online
Google and its partners today announced that the 5,600-miles-long INDIGO subsea cable, which connects Sydney and Perth with Jakarta and Singapore, is now ready for service. To build the cable, which w...
03:18 pm GMT - Thu, May 30, 2019
Techcrunch Soona raises $1.2M for quick, affordable content creation
Businesses have to keep the content flowing on social media, so a startup called soona says it’s developed a new way to provide all the photos and videos they need. The company was founded by CE...
03:06 pm GMT - Thu, May 30, 2019
Techcrunch NBC target millennials with launch of a new streaming news service
NBC’s new digital streaming news network, NBC News Now, has officially launched. The service offers viewers 8 hours of continuous daily programming from 3 PM to 11 PM on weekdays. Its goal is to...
03:06 pm GMT - Thu, May 30, 2019
Techcrunch NBC targets millennials with launch of a new streaming news service
NBC’s new digital streaming news network, NBC News Now, has officially launched. The service offers viewers 8 hours of continuous daily programming from 3 PM to 11 PM on weekdays. Its goal is to...
02:37 pm GMT - Thu, May 30, 2019
Techcrunch Pitching accuracy rates of over 99% for multiple cancer screens, Thrive launches with $110 million
For more than 25 years the founders of Thrive Earlier Detection have been researching ways to improve the accuracy of liquid biopsy tests. The fruits of that labor from Dr. Bert Vogelstein, Dr. Kennet...
02:31 pm GMT - Thu, May 30, 2019
Techcrunch Machine learning startup Weights & Biases raises $15M
Weights & Biases, a startup building development tools for machine learning, has raised $15 million in its second round of funding. The company was started by CrowdFlower founders Lukas Biewald an...
02:12 pm GMT - Thu, May 30, 2019
Techcrunch Pillar launches with $5.5M from Kleiner Perkins and others to tackle your student loan debt
A new startup aims to help you get your student loans under control. Today, an app called Pillar, backed by $5.5 million in seed funding led by Kleiner Perkins, is launching a simpler way for consumer...
02:11 pm GMT - Thu, May 30, 2019
Techcrunch Two years after Essentials launch, still no Home hub or second phone
This mornings Moto Z4 news was good cause to go back and reassess the state of the modular phone. Three years after the line launched, the concept hasnt exactly ignited the market in fact there are r...
02:00 pm GMT - Thu, May 30, 2019
Techcrunch Northwestern Mutual has carved out $150 million for another fintech and insurance investment fund
Northwestern Mutual is setting aside $150 million for a second venture fund. Were committed to transforming the client experience to drive change within the financial services industry, said Souheil B...
02:00 pm GMT - Thu, May 30, 2019
Techcrunch Security lapse exposed private Theta photos
Millions of photos taken by Theta camera owners some private and unlisted were left exposed after security researchers found an open database without a password. Noam Rotem and Ran Locar found the l...
01:54 pm GMT - Thu, May 30, 2019
Techcrunch Insight Partners bags threat intel company Recorded Future for $780M
If you haven’t noticed, security companies are a pretty hot commodity these days. Just yesterday, Palo Alto Networks bought two security startups. Earlier this week, FireEye bought Verodin for $...
01:52 pm GMT - Thu, May 30, 2019
Techcrunch Enterprise cybersecurity startup BlueVoyant raises $82.5M at a $430M valuation
The pace of malicious hacks and security breaches is showing no signs of slowing down, and spend among enterprises to guard against that isset to reach $124 billion this year. That’s also having...
01:30 pm GMT - Thu, May 30, 2019
Techcrunch Using augmented reality, Altoida is identifying the likely onset of neurodegenerative diseases
For the past nineteen years, Ioannis Tarnanas, the founder and chief scientific officer at Altoida, has been developing virtual and augmented reality tools to offer predictions about the onset of ment...
01:01 pm GMT - Thu, May 30, 2019
Techcrunch LEGO celebrates Apollo 11 with a lovely, bricky Lunar Lander
The 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 and the first lunar landing is approaching, and there will be no shortage of fanfare so why shouldn't LEGO get in on the fun? This Lunar Lander set looks like a grea...
01:00 pm GMT - Thu, May 30, 2019
Techcrunch Healthcare data integration startup Abacus Insights lands $12.7M Series A
Abacus Insights, an early stage startup that wants to help coordinate healthcare information across systems, announced a $12.7 million Series A investment today led by CRV. Existing investors 406 Vent...
01:00 pm GMT - Thu, May 30, 2019
Techcrunch The latest modular Moto Z has a beefy battery and improved low-light camera
When it arrived in 2016, the Moto Z felt revolutionary or, at the very least, novel. Motorola soon announced it was making the Moto Z its flagship device. In the intervening three years, the line has...
11:50 am GMT - Thu, May 30, 2019
Techcrunch UK Internet attitudes study finds public support for social media regulation
UK telecoms regulator Ofcom has published a new joint report and stat-fest on Internet attitudes and usage with the national data protection watchdog, the ICO — a quantitative study to be publis...
11:43 am GMT - Thu, May 30, 2019
Techcrunch MMC Ventures launches fresh 52M seed fund aimed at London startups
Synthesia is a London-based startup which recently achieved notoriety after powering the technology behind the recent global campaign showing Malaria survivors speaking through David Beckham to help r...
11:05 am GMT - Thu, May 30, 2019
Techcrunch Medivis gets FDA approval for its augmented reality surgical planning toolkit
Augmented reality is coming to the operating room theater sooner than anyone may have predicted. Medivis, which launched its product suite earlier this year, has now received approvals from the Food a...
10:30 am GMT - Thu, May 30, 2019
Techcrunch Rumpus, the collaborative toolkit from Oblong Industries, is now available on Webex
In a previous life, John Underkoffler spent his days in Los Angeles dreaming up all of the possible ways men and machines would interact as a science adviser on films like Minority Report. Now, he des...
10:00 am GMT - Thu, May 30, 2019
Techcrunch London fintech Yapily raises $5.4M to offer a single API to connect to banks
Yapily, a London fintech startup that offers an Open Banking-based API platform to enable financial services providers and other types of enterprises, such as merchants, to connect to banks, has raise...
09:44 am GMT - Thu, May 30, 2019
Techcrunch Apple, Google, Microsoft, WhatsApp sign open letter condemning GCHQ proposal to listen in on encrypted chats
An international coalition of civic society organizations, security and policy experts and tech companies — including Apple, Google, Microsoft and WhatsApp — has penned a critical slap-dow...
08:50 am GMT - Thu, May 30, 2019
Techcrunch Ekasbos Matebot may be the cutest cat robot yet created
If Shrek saw Matebot, no amount of sad-eyes could win him back to Puss in Boots’ side. Created by Shenzhen-based robotics company Ekasbo, Matebot looks like a black and white cartoon cat and res...
08:20 am GMT - Thu, May 30, 2019
Techcrunch Ulo is an adorable security camera that interacts with you while keeping watch over your home
Tired of home security cameras that add nothing to your home (besides, well, surveillance)? The Ulo, created by Luxembourg-based Mu Design, adds a touch of whimsy. The owl-shaped surveillance camera h...
07:07 am GMT - Thu, May 30, 2019
Techcrunch Kurly, a grocery e-commerce startup in Korea, closes upsized $113M Series D round
Kurly, a startup that operates a grocery delivery service in Korea, said today that it has closed an upsized Series D round that reached a total of $113 million. The company announced the round in Apr...
04:07 am GMT - Thu, May 30, 2019
Techcrunch EV Growth closes $200M fund to cover Southeast Asias Series B funding gap
East Ventures has long been known as one of Indonesia’s longest-serving and most active seed-stage investors, but now it has officially moved up the food chain after it announced a final close o...
04:02 am GMT - Thu, May 30, 2019
Techcrunch Science publisher IEEE bans Huawei but says trade rules will have minimal impact on members
The IEEE’s ban on Huawei following new trade restrictions in the United States has sent shock waves through the global academic circles. The organization responded saying the impact of the trade...
02:40 am GMT - Thu, May 30, 2019
Techcrunch Microsoft hints at a new modern operating system designed to support different form factors
In a week where AMD, Intel and Qualcomm have already made major announcements, Microsofts keynote yesterday at Computex in Taipei was relatively lowkey. Instead of revealing new products, the company ...
02:27 am GMT - Thu, May 30, 2019
Techcrunch Brooklyn and Queens are now flush with 1,000 of Revels shared electric mopeds
Revel Transit has released 1,000 of its shared electric mopeds onto the streets of Brooklyn and Queens, following the end of a nine-month pilot program in the area. The New York-based startup pulled t...
01:19 am GMT - Thu, May 30, 2019
Techcrunch I flew the Millennium Falcon and it was good
  After visiting Star Wars: Galaxys Edge several months ago to report on how it was built, I came back on the eve of it opening to the public to try out its first marquee attraction: flying the M...
11:55 pm GMT - Wed, May 29, 2019
Techcrunch Less than 1 year after launching its corporate card for startups, Brex eyes $2B valuation
Kleiner Perkins is leading the round for Brex....
10:05 pm GMT - Wed, May 29, 2019
Techcrunch Netflix says it would rethink filming in Georgia if abortion law takes effect
Netflix’s chief content officer Ted Sarandos said the streaming service (which is spending billions of dollars on an ever-growing catalog of original content) will “rethink [its] whole inv...
09:07 pm GMT - Wed, May 29, 2019
Techcrunch How to trigger FOMO among VCs, plus PMs, SoftBank, and cheese
Fundraising 101: How to trigger FOMO among VCs Our media columnist Eric Peckham talked to a variety of successful founders on how they generate FOMO (i.e. fear of missing out) among VCs during their f...
08:32 pm GMT - Wed, May 29, 2019
Techcrunch Palo Alto Networks to acquire container security startup Twistlock for $410M
At KubeCon last week in Barcelona, container security was a hot topic, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that Palo Alto Networks announced today that it was buying container security startup, T...
08:22 pm GMT - Wed, May 29, 2019
Techcrunch Varjos XR-1 puts your eyes on the outside of its high-end VR headset
Varjo‘s VR headset was the best VR headset I had ever demoed; its dual display design with a micro-OLED sweet spot enabled insanely high-resolution views without requiring a supercomputer to pow...
08:15 pm GMT - Wed, May 29, 2019
Techcrunch Fundraising 101: How to trigger FOMO among VCs
Lets go beyond the high-level fundraising advice that fills VC blogs. If you have a compelling business and have educated yourself on crafting a pitch deck and getting warm intros to VCs, there are st...
08:14 pm GMT - Wed, May 29, 2019
Techcrunch Waymo is bringing its self-driving trucks back to Arizona
Waymo, the autonomous vehicle company under Alphabet, is bringing its self-driving trucks back to Arizona. The company’s autonomous Chrysler Pacifica hybrid vehicles, which are used in its Waymo...
08:10 pm GMT - Wed, May 29, 2019
Techcrunch How we scaled our startup by being remote first
Startups are often associated with the benefits and toys provided in their offices. But what if the future of startups was less about physical office space and more about remote-first work......
07:00 pm GMT - Wed, May 29, 2019
Techcrunch Lyft is adding gender-neutral pronouns to its app
Ahead of LGBTQ Pride Month, Lyft is adding gender-neutral pronouns to its rider app. Now, riders can select from the following: They/them/theirs She/her/hers He/him/his My pronoun isn’t listed P...
06:33 pm GMT - Wed, May 29, 2019
Techcrunch Google Maps adds ability to see speed limits and speed traps in 40 countries
Google Maps is gaining some features previously exclusive to Google’s navigation app, Waze. The company confirmed it’s rolling out the ability for Google Maps users to see speed limits, sp...
06:01 pm GMT - Wed, May 29, 2019
Techcrunch This robot learns its two-handed moves from human dexterity
If robots are really to help us out around the house or care for our injured and elderly, they're going to want two hands... at least. But using two hands is harder than we make it look so this robot...
05:50 pm GMT - Wed, May 29, 2019
Techcrunch CrowdStrike sets terms for $378M Nasdaq IPO
The cybersecurity unicorn plans to trade under the ticker symbol "CRWD."...
05:50 pm GMT - Wed, May 29, 2019
Techcrunch Online lender SoFi has quietly raised $500 million in funding, led by Qatar
Usually when it comes to big sums of funding, companies like to boast about them. Online lending startup Social Finance, better known as SoFi, took another tack this morning, quietly announcing in a p...
05:14 pm GMT - Wed, May 29, 2019
Techcrunch Allbirds, Everlane investor Maveron turned away more than $70M for its latest fund
Maveron, a venture capital fund co-founded by Starbucks mastermind Howard Schultz, has closed on another $180 million to invest in early-stage consumer startups. The capital represents the firm’...
05:10 pm GMT - Wed, May 29, 2019
Techcrunch FCCs broadband deployment report called fundamentally at odds with reality
The FCC has officially issued this year's Broadband Deployment Report, summarizing the extent to which the agency and industry have closed the digital divide in this country. But one Commissioner is n...
05:09 pm GMT - Wed, May 29, 2019
Techcrunch The Crunchbase Unicorn Leaderboard is back, now with a record herd of 452 unicorns
We are very pleased to announce that the new and improved Crunchbase Unicorn Leaderboardre-launched today after nearly a years absence from TechCrunch. Venture investors did a lot of handwringing in t...
05:06 pm GMT - Wed, May 29, 2019
Techcrunch Daily Crunch: Uber will deactivate low-rated riders
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...
05:00 pm GMT - Wed, May 29, 2019
Techcrunch Salesforces first blockchain plunge will involve development tools
Last year, Salesforce chairman Marc Benioff mentioned, perhaps for the first time, his interest in the the blockchain. It was not known at the time if he was seriously interested, or if Salesforce wou...
04:06 pm GMT - Wed, May 29, 2019
Techcrunch Delane Parnells plan to conquer amateur esports
Most of the buzz about esports focuses on high-profile professional teams and audiences watching live streams of those professionals. What gets ignored is the entire base of amateurs wanting to compet...
04:02 pm GMT - Wed, May 29, 2019
Techcrunch Apples new App Store website takes aim at antitrust, anti-competitive claims
Just ahead of WWDC, Apple has launched a new App Store website in the hopes of better defending itself against recent antitrust and anti-competitive accusations. The website details how Apple runs its...
04:00 pm GMT - Wed, May 29, 2019
Techcrunch Use SocialLadder to earn a free pass to TC Sessions: Mobility 2019
TC Sessions: Mobility 2019, TechCrunch’s day-long intensive event focused on the current and future state of mobility, takes place in San Jose, Calif. on July 10. More than 1,000 of the industry...
03:53 pm GMT - Wed, May 29, 2019
Techcrunch Fitbit Pay will also work with NYCs subway turnstiles
When it officially launches on Friday, New York Citys contactless fare pilot will have no shortage of options. Following similar announcements from Google and Apple, Fitbit just announced that its own...
03:07 pm GMT - Wed, May 29, 2019
Techcrunch Eyeing an entry into China, Roblox enters strategic partnership with Tencent
Kids gaming platform Roblox has its sights set on China with today’s news that it has entered into a strategic relationship with Chinese tech giant, Tencent. The companies announced a strategic ...
03:06 pm GMT - Wed, May 29, 2019
Techcrunch Easy Transfer processes billions of dollars in tuition for overseas Chinese students
For a founder building a consumer-facing business, overseas Chinese students might just be one of the most coveted targets: they’re young, well educated and have access to the ‘bank’...
02:52 pm GMT - Wed, May 29, 2019
Techcrunch UKs first 5G network taster goes live in six cities tomorrow
The UK’s first 5G consumer mobile network is launching tomorrow in six cities. Mobile network operator EE will switch on the next-gen cellular connectivity in select locations in London, Cardiff...
02:52 pm GMT - Wed, May 29, 2019
Techcrunch Bose previews voice-controlled on-ear headphones and a pair of wireless earbuds
Bose announced a trio of new headphones today. The company used the opportunity to primarily focus on the dryly named Noise Cancelling Headphones 700, which purport to sport the biggest leap forward i...
02:36 pm GMT - Wed, May 29, 2019
Techcrunch Talkspace picks up $50 million Series D
Talkspace, the platform that lets patients and therapists communicate online, has today announced the close of a $50 million financing round led by Revolution Growth. Existing investors, such as Norwe...
02:28 pm GMT - Wed, May 29, 2019
Techcrunch Paris opens a data center to control its digital infrastructure
The city of Paris is doing something I didnt expect  theyre launching their own data center to host their digital services. The data center is going to be operated by city employees, so Paris pla...
02:00 pm GMT - Wed, May 29, 2019
Techcrunch Stripe and Precursor lead $4.5m seed into media CRM startup Pico
Google and Facebook are increasingly slurping up every ad dollar on the internet. Their dominant position is upending the business models of traditional and startup media companies alike. The click-dr...
02:00 pm GMT - Wed, May 29, 2019
Techcrunch Uber will start deactivating riders with low ratings
Uber is now requiring the same good behavior from riders that it has long expected from its drivers. Uber riders have always had ratings, but they were never really at risk of deactivation — unt...
01:59 pm GMT - Wed, May 29, 2019
Techcrunch Following FTC complaint, Google rolls out new policies around kids apps on Google Play
Google announced this morning a new set of developer policies aimed at providing additional protections for children and families seeking out kid-friendly apps on Google Play. The new policies require...
01:53 pm GMT - Wed, May 29, 2019
Techcrunch InWins Alice is a mid-tower PC case you can match to your cosplay
Theres a huge amount of crossover between the gaming and cosplay communities and InWins Alice computer chassis will appeal to many in the middle of that Venn diagram. The company is currently showing ...
01:33 pm GMT - Wed, May 29, 2019
Techcrunch Amazon adds Alexa, delete what I said today command
Buried in the this morning’s Echo Show 5 announcement are a couple of new security features worth highlighting. In addition to the inclusion of a built-in camera shutter on the new smart display...
01:02 pm GMT - Wed, May 29, 2019
Techcrunch Logz.io lands $52M to keep growing open source-based logging tools
Logz.io announced a $52 million Series D investment today. The round was led by General Catalyst. Other investors participating in the round included OpenView Ventures, 83North, Giza Venture Capital, ...
01:00 pm GMT - Wed, May 29, 2019
Techcrunch Amazon just launched a $90, 5.5-inch Echo Show
Amazon just announced a 5.5-inch Echo Show model with a $90 price tag, and Id be remiss if I didnt mention right out of the gate how much the thing looks like that new Google Assistant-sporting Smart ...
01:00 pm GMT - Wed, May 29, 2019
Techcrunch Soda Says, a curated consumer electronics retail platform, launches in the U.S.
Grace Gould has spent her life thinking about the intersection of retail and tech. She started out in Apple Retail, and then moved on to Index Ventures where she worked on early stage investments. She...
12:59 pm GMT - Wed, May 29, 2019
Techcrunch Huawei files motion to challenge sweeping US ban, calling it not normal
Huawei this morning began the process of challenging the Trump administration’s sweeping ban. The Chinese hardware giant has filed a motion for summary judgement that calls into question the con...
12:58 pm GMT - Wed, May 29, 2019
Techcrunch Duckys new limited-edition mechanical keyboard pays tribute to Taiwans Paiwan community
Ducky, known for its popular mechanical keyboards, is based in Taiwan and today at Computex it showed off its tribute to the countrys culture: the limited-edition Year of the Pig 65 percent keyboard. ...
12:44 pm GMT - Wed, May 29, 2019
Techcrunch Review of UK migration rules calls for more dev jobs to be fast-tracked
A public body that advises the UK government on immigration policy has recommended including more programming and software development jobs on the shortages occupation list which would make it easier ...
12:41 pm GMT - Wed, May 29, 2019
Techcrunch San Diegos eSub raises $12 million for its construction management software
The San Diego-based software developer eSub Construction Software has raised $12 million in a new round of financing for its project management platform for contractors. The company’s funding wa...
12:27 pm GMT - Wed, May 29, 2019
Techcrunch Agritech startup TaniGroup raises $10M to help Indonesias farmers grow
In 2016, former World Bank analyst Eka Pamitra teamed up with five friends to start a business that would help farmers in their native Indonesia. Today their company — TaniGroup — closed a...
12:00 pm GMT - Wed, May 29, 2019
Techcrunch Equalum grabs $18M Series B to help companies ingest data faster
Equalum, an Israeli startup, which helps companies gather data from a variety of enterprise sources, announced an $18 million Series B investment today. The round was led by Planven Investments . Othe...
11:41 am GMT - Wed, May 29, 2019
Techcrunch Under-the-radar payments app True Balance just clocked $100M in GMV in India
Away from the limelight of urban cities, where an increasingly growing number of firms are fighting for a piece of Indias digital payments market, a South Korean startup’s app is quietly helping...
11:32 am GMT - Wed, May 29, 2019
Techcrunch Lian Lis DK-05 is a standing desk with a cool twist
Even before Computex officially started yesterday in Taipei, Lian Lis combination chassis and standing workstations were already turning heads as attendees got to take a look at their interiors before...
11:30 am GMT - Wed, May 29, 2019
Techcrunch Northwestern Mutual has carved out $150 million for another fintech and insurance investment fund
Northwestern Mutual is setting aside $150 million for a second venture fund. Were committed to transforming the client experience to drive change within the financial services industry, said Souheil B...
11:00 am GMT - Wed, May 29, 2019
Techcrunch Kustomer raises $40M more led by Tiger Global for its omnichannel approach to CRM
On the heels of customer service company Zendesk announcing an acquisition to expand its omni-channel offering, one of the upstarts nipping at its heels has announced a round of funding to continue gr...
10:06 am GMT - Wed, May 29, 2019
Techcrunch ASUS leans into dual-screen laptops with the ZenBook Pro Duo, featuring two 4K touchscreen displays
Last year during Computex, ASUS introduced the ZenBook Pro 14 and 15, with a touchscreen in place of a regular touchpad. This year, it took the concept of a built-in second screen and went much furthe...
10:00 am GMT - Wed, May 29, 2019
Techcrunch NYC subway riders will be able to swipe in with Apple Pay starting Friday
If you frequent the New York City subways 4, 5, 6 line, youve probably seen the new terminals at a variety of stations like Union Square and Grand Central. Located between turnstiles, theyve all been ...
09:00 am GMT - Wed, May 29, 2019
Techcrunch Roger, the accounting automation tool, raises $7.35M Series A
Roger, an accounting automation tool that runs on top of accounting software to automate various processes, has raised $7.35 million in Series A funding. Leading the round is QED Investors, with parti...
08:00 am GMT - Wed, May 29, 2019
Techcrunch Twaice picks up backing from Cherry Ventures to help electric vehicles eke out more battery life
Twaice, a Munich-based startup developing “predictive analytics” software to help with battery management in electric vehicles and other devices, has raised 2 million in additional seed fu...
06:45 am GMT - Wed, May 29, 2019
Techcrunch DHL brings Africa eShop to 20 countries in a competitive nod to Jumia
DHL is expanding its DHL Africa eShop business to 9 additional markets, upping the presence of the global shipping company’s e-commerce platform to 20 African countries. DHL went live with the d...
05:43 am GMT - Wed, May 29, 2019
Techcrunch Chinas used car marketplace Uxin to raise $230M via convertible notes
Uxin, a Chinese second-hand car dealer with Leonardo DiCaprio as its latest brand ambassador, is tipped to get a bag of new funding less than a year after it raised $225 millionfrom its public offerin...
04:01 am GMT - Wed, May 29, 2019
Techcrunch iRobots newest mop and vacuum talk to each other to better clean up
Some spring cleaning news from iRobot . The Bedford, Mass.-based company just unveiled a pair of new robots designed to tag-team dirty floors. The Roomba s9+ and Braava Jet m6 both sport iRobots mappi...
03:52 am GMT - Wed, May 29, 2019
Techcrunch Flipboard hacks prompt password resets for millions of users
Social sharing site and news aggregator Flipboard has reset millions of user passwords after hackers gained access to its systems several times over a nine-month period The company confirmed in a noti...
03:11 am GMT - Wed, May 29, 2019
Techcrunch Go chat yourself with Facebooks new Portal companion app
Ignoring calls that it’s creepy, Facebook is forging onward with its Portal smart display. Today Facebook quietly launched iOS and Android Portal apps that let owners show off photos on the scre...
02:02 am GMT - Wed, May 29, 2019
Techcrunch Pokmon GO will soon use sleep data to reward good sleep habits
Well, here’s a bit of surprise news this evening: at some point in the future, Pokmon GO is going to wrap the player’s sleep habits into the gameplay. It’ll come as part of a wider i...
09:35 pm GMT - Tue, May 28, 2019
Techcrunch FireEye snags security effectiveness testing startup Verodin for $250M
When FireEye reported its earnings last month, the outlook was a little light, so the security vendor decided to be proactive and make a big purchase. Today, the company announced it has acquired Vero...
09:18 pm GMT - Tue, May 28, 2019
Techcrunch NIO shifts electric vehicle plans as losses pile up
Chinese automotive startup Nio is tweaking its plans for future electric vehicles, a move prompted by sluggish sales of its ES8 model. Nio, which reported in its unaudited financial results Tuesday a ...
09:16 pm GMT - Tue, May 28, 2019
Techcrunch SF will allow additional dockless bike-share operators
Uber’s JUMP will soon no longer be the sole operator of stationless bike-share programs in San Francisco. Today, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency announced the expansion of its ...
09:00 pm GMT - Tue, May 28, 2019
Techcrunch Is your autonomous vehicle Sally the sports car or blood-thirsty Christine?
We have an ever-growing number of distracted and inept drivers turning our crowded highways into a dystopic version of real-life Frogger. Enter the autonomous vehicle....
08:51 pm GMT - Tue, May 28, 2019
Techcrunch Google rolls out dining and translation filters to Lens
Google Lens users on iOS and ARCore-compatible Android phones are getting some added utility when it comes to ordering at restaurants or translating foreign languages on-the-go. The functionality was ...
08:17 pm GMT - Tue, May 28, 2019
Techcrunch Looking Beyond Meat, the future of food investment looks pretty cheesy
As Beyond Meat continues its reign as one of the kings of this year’s IPO mountain, and Impossible Foods serves up impossibly good numbers for Burger King, venture capitalists seem ready to feas...
08:00 pm GMT - Tue, May 28, 2019
Techcrunch Aptivs Karl Iagnemma at TC Sessions: Mobility July 10 in San Jose
Before automakers and giant tech companies kicked off their own autonomous vehicle pilots, a startup called nuTonomy launched a self-driving taxi service in Singapore for the public, not just its test...
07:46 pm GMT - Tue, May 28, 2019
Techcrunch Bidding for this like-new Enigma Machine starts at $200,000
If you're feeling flush this week, then perhaps instead of buying a second Bugatti you might consider picking up this lightly used Enigma Machine. These devices, the scourge of the Allies in World War...
07:31 pm GMT - Tue, May 28, 2019
Techcrunch Indie travel app Lambus makes group trip planning easier
There are plenty of travel apps for researching flights and hotels or generally organizing your trips, but indie German developer Hans Knchel struggled to find one that could gather all his travel-rel...
06:22 pm GMT - Tue, May 28, 2019
Techcrunch Upsie nabs $5M to build a direct-to-consumer warranty service
Warranties for purchased products is a $40 billion annual market. But in their current form, they are considered by some to be one of the bigger scams in the world of retail because they cost so much ...
06:00 pm GMT - Tue, May 28, 2019
Techcrunch Mobility startups: apply for a free Startup Alley spot as a TC Top Pick
Were hunting for bold, boundary-breaking founders of early-stage mobility startups to apply to our TC Top Picks program at Disrupt San Francisco 2019. Bold and boundary-breaking pretty much describes ...
05:55 pm GMT - Tue, May 28, 2019
Techcrunch The all-electric Honda e is bringing its side view mirrors inside
Honda e, the compact electric vehicle that’s coming to market in spring 2020, is bringing its side view mirrors inside. The company confirmed Tuesday that its side camera mirror system, which wa...
05:43 pm GMT - Tue, May 28, 2019
Techcrunch The Looking Glass Pro might be the weirdest all-in-one PC ever
All-in-one PCs have adopted some pretty odd designs over the years, but I’ve never seen one quite like this. The Looking Glass Pro is an all-in-one gaming PC that’s focused on one thing, v...
04:55 pm GMT - Tue, May 28, 2019
Techcrunch MyndYou partners with Mizuho to expand senior care services assessing cognitive degeneration
MyndYou, which has developed a technology to assess cognitive degeneration in senior citizens, has partnered with the Japanese companyMizuho Information & Research Institute to test the company...
04:32 pm GMT - Tue, May 28, 2019
Techcrunch Walmart hires former Google, Microsoft and Amazon exec Suresh Kumar as new CTO and CDO
Walmart announced today it has hired former Google, Microsoft and Amazon veteran Suresh Kumar in the newly created position of Chief Technology Officer and Chief Development Officer — a role tha...
04:30 pm GMT - Tue, May 28, 2019
Techcrunch VCs give failed AR startup Meta a do-over with new CEO, corporate entity
AR startup Meta’s original investors might have been screwed by the company’s collapse and fire sale, but a pair of VC firms are giving the brand another shot with a new corporate entity a...
04:15 pm GMT - Tue, May 28, 2019
Techcrunch Leaked screenshots confirm dark mode is coming to iOS 13
9to5Macs Guilherme Rambo managed to obtain screenshots of iOS 13. While it still looks like iOS, theres a twist there will be a system-wide dark mode to make your apps look better at night. Apple is ...
04:05 pm GMT - Tue, May 28, 2019
Techcrunch The challenges of truly embracing cloud native
There is a tendency at any conference to get lost in the message. Spending several days immersed in any subject tends to do that. The purpose of such gatherings is, after all, to sell the company or t...
03:30 pm GMT - Tue, May 28, 2019
Techcrunch Move over Ready Player One the future of AR might be in furniture
Last week Modsy, a San Francisco-based startup raised a large amount of funding – $37 million in C-round funding to be precise. And that followed a $23 million series B round in December 2017. W...
03:02 pm GMT - Tue, May 28, 2019
Techcrunch IBM-Maersk blockchain shipping consortium expands to include other major shipping companies
Last year IBM and Danish shipping conglomerate Maersk announced the limited availability of a blockchain-based shipping tool called TradeLens. Today, the two partners announced that a couple of other ...
02:50 pm GMT - Tue, May 28, 2019
Techcrunch MacKenzie Bezos pledges to give away more than half her $37B fortune to charity and philanthropy
MacKenzie Bezos, the world’s third-richest woman following her divorce from Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos, has signed the Giving Pledge — a commitment that will see her giving away mor...
02:44 pm GMT - Tue, May 28, 2019
Techcrunch Glovo faces safety protests after delivery rider killed on the job
Spanish on-demand delivery startup Glovo is facing angry protests from couriers on its platform following the death of a 22-year-old rider on Saturday in Barcelona where the business is headquartered....
02:35 pm GMT - Tue, May 28, 2019
Techcrunch Huawei reassesses FedEx relationship over misrouted packages
Huawei is understandably reexamining a number of relationships in the wake of a recent U.S. trade ban. While various component and software providers including Google and ARM have suspended dealings w...
02:12 pm GMT - Tue, May 28, 2019
Techcrunch Q&A with J Crowley, Head of Product at Airbnb Lux, on what makes a great PM
The role of Product Manager can mean very different things at various companies. Should a product manager be technical? Scientific? Opinionated? J Crowley has run product at three big-name companies. ...
02:11 pm GMT - Tue, May 28, 2019
Techcrunch Paladin Drones picks up $1.3M to give first responders a live feed of emergencies
In emergency situations, minutes can mean the difference between life and death. Paladin Drones, a company launching out of Y Combinator, wants to use technology to minimize the amount of time between...
02:00 pm GMT - Tue, May 28, 2019
Techcrunch Out of stealth, Stratio emerges with predictive AI to stop your bus from breaking down
Remember that future we were promised where our vehicle magically tells us that were about to break down? Or actually never does? Or that the pickup truck arrives before the driver even knows somethin...
01:51 pm GMT - Tue, May 28, 2019
Techcrunch DJI launches a new onboard drone computer for enterprise users
DJI this morning announced the latest version of its Manifold on-board drone computer. The second-generation device can be programmed for myriad different enterprise purposes, from research to routine...
01:50 pm GMT - Tue, May 28, 2019
Techcrunch Google makes mobile-first indexing the default for all new domains
At the end of 2018, Google said mobile-first indexing — that is, using a website’s mobile version to index its pages — was being used for over half the web pages in Google search res...
01:27 pm GMT - Tue, May 28, 2019
Techcrunch Amazon defeated shareholders vote on facial recognition by a wide margin
Efforts by shareholders to instruct Amazon to stop selling its facial recognition technology to government customers failed by a wide margin, according to a new corporate filing with regulators. About...
01:00 pm GMT - Tue, May 28, 2019
Techcrunch Super Mario Maker 2 builds on Nintendos rich history
In 1992, Nintendo released Mario Paint. The SNES title was a strange departure, even as far as the diverse and wide-ranging gameplay of Marios world goes. For one thing, it shipped with a mouse, perha...
12:53 pm GMT - Tue, May 28, 2019
Techcrunch Seedlegals closes $4M Series A, led by Index Ventures, to automate startup fundraisings
When SeedLegals launched in 2017 in the UK, Id say many of us thought why has that not been done before?. After all, two things have happened which make this an obvious idea for a startup: startup fun...
12:42 pm GMT - Tue, May 28, 2019
Techcrunch Apple announces a new iPod touch
Apple is updating the iPod touch with an A10 Fusion system-on-a-chip. Other than that, it looks pretty much like the old iPod touch with a 4-inch display, a classic home button and many different colo...
12:37 pm GMT - Tue, May 28, 2019
Techcrunch Indonesias vegetable hawkers are going digital thanks to a new startup
Few things are more interesting that the convergence of old and new. It’s with that in mind that we once again look to Indonesia where East Ventures, an early-stage VC that’s behind a proj...
12:33 pm GMT - Tue, May 28, 2019
Techcrunch Indias Ather Energy raises $51 million to grow its electric scooters business
There’s more money racing into India’s increasingly-competitive two-wheeler market afterelectric scooter maker Ather Energy said today it has raised $51 million in new funding. The round w...
10:24 am GMT - Tue, May 28, 2019
Techcrunch EU-US Privacy Shield complaint to be heard by Europes top court in July
A legal challenge to the EU-US Privacy Shield, a mechanism used by thousands of companies to authorize data transfers from the European Union to the US, will be heard by Europe’s top court this ...
08:18 am GMT - Tue, May 28, 2019
Techcrunch Devices built with Intels Ice Lake and Project Athena specifications will be available in time for the holidays
Even before Computex officially launched today, AMD and Qualcomm threw down the gauntlet at Intel with a new chip and a 5G PC, respectively. Today Intel responded in kind during its keynote presentati...
08:09 am GMT - Tue, May 28, 2019
Techcrunch SoundCloud buys artist distribution platform Repost Network
The past year has seen Spotify embark on a series of acquisitions to beef up its service, particularly on podcast content. Now it is the turn of SoundCloud, another European music startup — albe...
07:01 am GMT - Tue, May 28, 2019
Techcrunch Future Positive Capital outs $57M fund to back European startups tackling worlds most pressing problems
Future Positive Capital, an early-stage VC firm co-founded by ex-Index Ventures associate Sofia Hmich, breaks cover today. The new pan-European fund, which has a first close of $57.1 million, will inv...
12:06 am GMT - Tue, May 28, 2019
Techcrunch Alibaba reportedly mulling to raise $20B through a second listing in Hong Kong
Massive news just dropped for Hong Kong’s capital markets. Alibaba, one of the world’s largest tech companies, is considering raising $20 billion through a second listing in Hong Kong, Blo...
07:23 pm GMT - Mon, May 27, 2019
Techcrunch An original Apple I built into a briefcase just sold for nearly $500k
  Most people wouldn’t think too much of a computer crammed into a briefcase but if it’s one of the few remaining examples of the first computer ever built by Apple? That’s a w...
07:23 pm GMT - Mon, May 27, 2019
Techcrunch An original Apple I in a briefcase just sold for nearly $500k
  Most people wouldn’t think too much of a computer crammed into a briefcase but if it’s one of the few remaining examples of the first computer ever built by Apple? That’s a w...
04:27 pm GMT - Mon, May 27, 2019
Techcrunch Apple starts collecting data for Apple Maps in Canada
Apple has issued a short statement on its website and in various newspapers announcing Apple Maps plans in Canada. The company plans to drive around the country with cars equipped with a ton of sensor...
04:09 pm GMT - Mon, May 27, 2019
Techcrunch Reminiz automatically indexes and tags videos in real time
Meet French startup Reminiz, a computer vision company that can index any type of video  its a sort of Googlebot, but for video content. Reminiz can add tags of people, logos or emotions on live ...
02:42 pm GMT - Mon, May 27, 2019
Techcrunch Ulysses adds split view on the iPad and support for Ghost blogs
Writing app Ulysses has been updated with a few nifty feature additions. On the iPad, you can now split the editor into two side-by-side editors this feature alone opens up a lot of possibilities. Ul...
12:10 pm GMT - Mon, May 27, 2019
Techcrunch Indias FreshToHome raises $11 million to expand its fish, meat, and vegetable e-commerce platform
Shan Kadavil, who spent early days of his career managing tech support firm Support and then heading India operations of gaming firm Zynga, says he had a calling of sorts when his son was born. Kadavi...
11:42 am GMT - Mon, May 27, 2019
Techcrunch Qualcomm and Lenovo reveal the first Snapdragon-powered 5G PC
Qualcomm announced during its Computex press conference today that it will launch the first Snapdragon-powered 5G PC with Lenovo. The two companies describe the PC, called Project Limitless, as the wo...
08:00 am GMT - Mon, May 27, 2019
Techcrunch Final week to sign up and save 200 on Disrupt Berlin passes
Planning to join us and more than 1,200 other startuppers at Disrupt Berlin 2019 on 11-12 December? Thats great news, but this is even better; you can save 200 off the super-early-bird ticket price if...
07:54 am GMT - Mon, May 27, 2019
Techcrunch TikTok parent Bytedance is reportedly working on its own smartphone
It’s been a busy couple of months for Bytedance, one of the world’s most valuable startups and the operator of globally popular video app TikTok. The Beijing-based company has continued to...
07:47 am GMT - Mon, May 27, 2019
Techcrunch Nvidia announces its Studio line of laptops to compete against the MacBook Pro
During its press conference in Taipei a day before Computex starts, Nvidia announced a new line of laptops that will run its RTX graphics processing units, as well as a new software platform called St...
07:07 am GMT - Mon, May 27, 2019
Techcrunch Fiat Chrysler proposes 50-50 merger with Renault
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles has proposed merging its business with Renault that, if accepted, would create the third largest global automaker with 8.7 million in annual vehicle sales. FCA delivered Mond...
04:19 am GMT - Mon, May 27, 2019
Techcrunch AMD unveils the 12-core Ryzen 9 3900X, at half the price of Intels competing Core i9 9920X chipset
AMD CEO Lisa Su gave the Computex keynote in Taipei today, the first time the company has been invited to do so (the event officially starts tomorrow). During the presentation, AMD unveiled news about...
04:00 am GMT - Mon, May 27, 2019
Techcrunch Arm announces its new premium CPU and GPU designs
Arm, the company that designs the basic chip architecture for most of the world’s smartphones, today announced the launch of its next suite of designs for premium phones. It’ll be a while ...
02:19 am GMT - Mon, May 27, 2019
Techcrunch How games conquered the movies
We used to think that as video games matured, as a medium, they would become more like Hollywood, becoming more focused on character development, plot reversals, and tight, suspense-driven narratives,...
06:08 pm GMT - Sun, May 26, 2019
Techcrunch National security journalism just became a national security threat
Six years ago, British intelligence officers walked into the offices of The Guardian newspaper in London and demanded its staff destroy computers they believed stored highly classified documents leake...
05:31 pm GMT - Sun, May 26, 2019
Techcrunch These microbe-grown headphones could be the future of sustainable electronics
The culture of planned obsolescence in electronics produces a huge amount of toxic waste unlikely to go anywhere but a landfill for the next millennium or so. Nature produces some of the strongest and...
05:22 pm GMT - Sun, May 26, 2019
Techcrunch Traffic on Memorial Day: Heres what 37.6 million road trippers can expect
How, and if, people travel on Memorial Day weekend can provide a fleeting glimpse at the state of the U.S. economy, or at least provide insight into consumer confidence. The upshot this year: a near r...
04:09 pm GMT - Sun, May 26, 2019
Techcrunch As the term unicorn goes broke from overuse, whats actually rare?
There are so many unicorns in the market today they stampede by the hundred in 2019 that they are impossible to keep tabs on....
03:41 pm GMT - Sun, May 26, 2019
Techcrunch Fiat Chrysler-Renault tie up: What the maker of Jeep could gain
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and Renault are reportedly in talks that could result in merging vast swaths of their businesses, a move that illustrates the growing desire among automakers to consolidate i...
02:47 pm GMT - Sun, May 26, 2019
Techcrunch The savage genius of SoftBank funding competitors
Venture capitalists aren’t supposed to make their portfolio companies battle to the death. There’s a long-standing but unofficial rule that investors shouldn’t fund multiple competit...
08:45 am GMT - Sun, May 26, 2019
Techcrunch Week-in-Review: Trumps order takes a hatchet to Huaweis heart
Last week, Trump signed an executive order that enabled the federal government to prohibit U.S. companies from buying telecom equipment from foreign companies at their discretion. This week, the full ...
08:51 pm GMT - Sat, May 25, 2019
Techcrunch Equity transcribed: How to avoid an IPO
This week, the Equity duo of Kate Clark and Alex Wilhelm convened to get some quick hits in about Slack’s WORK, Luckin Coffee and Sam Altman’s departure from Y Combinator. They then dug a ...
07:14 pm GMT - Sat, May 25, 2019
Techcrunch To realize its VR dreams, Facebook needs to kill what Oculus has built
Mark Zuckerberg has poured billions into his virtual reality dream, a new platform that Facebook owns. Facebook bought Oculus and has spent the last five years killing what it was and reinventing it a...
05:00 pm GMT - Sat, May 25, 2019
Techcrunch This is one smart device that every urban home could use
Living in a dense urban environment brings many startup-fuelled conveniences, be it near instant delivery of food — or pretty much whatever else you fancy — to a whole range of wheels that...
04:30 pm GMT - Sat, May 25, 2019
Techcrunch Growth, Kubernetes, rocket launches, gender in tech, and more Luckin Coffee
Housekeeping & Extra Crunch 20% event discount reminder Extra Crunch will not be publishing on Monday due to the Memorial Day holiday in the United States. Publishing will resume as normal on Tues...
04:09 pm GMT - Sat, May 25, 2019
Techcrunch Which public US universities graduate the most funded founders?
When it comes to public universities, the old adage you get what you pay for clearly does not apply. Leading public research universities have a track record of turning out successful graduates....
12:00 pm GMT - Sat, May 25, 2019
Techcrunch Startups Weekly: VCs are drunk on beverage startups
In this week's newsletter: Y Combinator has a new president, DoorDash raises $600M and startups go on acquisition sprees. ...
04:03 am GMT - Sat, May 25, 2019
Techcrunch Chinas largest chipmaker is delisting from the Nasdaq
The U.S-China trade war is increasingly influencing tech. Huawei has suffered a turbulent past week with key suppliers pausing work with the company, and now China’s largest chipmaker is plannin...
04:03 am GMT - Sat, May 25, 2019
Techcrunch Chinas largest chipmaker is delisting from the NYSE
The U.S-China trade war is increasingly influencing tech. Huawei has suffered a turbulent past week with key suppliers pausing work with the company, and now China’s largest chipmaker is plannin...
11:35 pm GMT - Fri, May 24, 2019
Techcrunch Business author Julian Guthrie on the biggest difference between alpha men and women
If you’ve been out and about in Silicon Valley in the last month or so, chances are you’ve heard of “Alpha Girls,” a new book written by longtime journalist Julian Guthrie abou...
10:30 pm GMT - Fri, May 24, 2019
Techcrunch Ubers first employee Ryan Graves resigns from board
After nearly a decade on Uber's board of directors, the former CEO is calling it quits....
09:14 pm GMT - Fri, May 24, 2019
Techcrunch First American site bug exposed 885 million sensitive title insurance records
News just in from security reporter Brian Krebs: Fortune 500 real estate insurance giant First American exposed approximately 885 million sensitive records because of a bug in its website. Krebs repor...
09:00 pm GMT - Fri, May 24, 2019
Techcrunch How to see another companys growth tactics and try them yourself
Every companys online acquisition strategy is out in the open. If you know where to look. This post shows you exactly where to look, and how to reverse engineer their growth tactics......
08:31 pm GMT - Fri, May 24, 2019
Techcrunch Observation is a tense, atmospheric puzzler where you play a modern HAL 9000
When you watch 2001: A Space Odyssey, do you find yourself criticizing HAL 9000's machinations and thinking, "I could do better than that!" If so, Observation may be right up your alley. In it you pla...
07:37 pm GMT - Fri, May 24, 2019
Techcrunch Coinbits launches as a passive investment app for bitcoin
Erik Finman is a twenty-something bitcoin maximalist as famous for his precocity as he is for his $12 bet on the currency a few years ago. Now, Finman, who built his first company while still in High ...
07:22 pm GMT - Fri, May 24, 2019
Techcrunch Livekick raises $3M to use live video for one-on-one training
Livekick, a startup that gives customers access to one-on-one personal training and yoga from their home (or hotel room, or elsewhere), is announcing that it has raised $3 million in seed funding. The...
06:47 pm GMT - Fri, May 24, 2019
Techcrunch SpaceX reveals more Starlink info after launch of first 60 satellites
Last night's successful Starlink launch was a big one for SpaceX its heaviest payload ever, weighed down by 60 communications satellites that will eventually be part of a single constellation providi...
06:00 pm GMT - Fri, May 24, 2019
Techcrunch CFIUS Cometh: What this Obscure Agency Does and Why It Matters to Your Fund or Startup
On January 12, 2016, Grindr announced it had sold a 60% controlling stake in the company to Beijing Kunlun Tech, a Chinese gaming firm, valuing the company at $155 million......
05:46 pm GMT - Fri, May 24, 2019
Techcrunch Daily Crunch: Assange faces Espionage Act charges
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...
05:00 pm GMT - Fri, May 24, 2019
Techcrunch Apply to TechCrunchs premier startup competition, Startup Battlefield
Imagine what $100,000 cash could do for your startup dreams. If youre an early-stage startup founder determined to take your business to the top, its time to stop dreaming and get down to the serious ...
04:37 pm GMT - Fri, May 24, 2019
Techcrunch Amazon finally supports Traditional Chinese books on Kindle
A long-awaited service for readers in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau and some other overseas Chinese communities have finally come true: Amazon has just startedoffering Traditional Chinese books for its Kin...
04:32 pm GMT - Fri, May 24, 2019
Techcrunch Sonic the Hedgehog movie is getting delayed to redesign the title character
To say that reaction to the first Sonic the Hedgehog trailer was mixed would be overly diplomatic. But at least fans were able to look beyond the thin premise and bizarre Jim Carrey turn for long enou...
04:06 pm GMT - Fri, May 24, 2019
Techcrunch Luckin leaves bitter aftertaste, now trading below IPO price
In the first few days following Luckin Coffees initial public offering, the stock chart for LK looked like a roller coaster. Now its looking more like a freefall. The Chinese Coffee chain successfully...
04:05 pm GMT - Fri, May 24, 2019
Techcrunch Why Luckins ultimate target may not be Starbucks
Starbucks plans to double its store count in China to 5,000 in 2021 and Luckin, a one-year-old coffee startup, is matching up by aiming to reach 4,500 by the end of this year. Luckin’s upsized $...
04:03 pm GMT - Fri, May 24, 2019
Techcrunch MacBook Pro teardown reveals subtle changes to keyboard mechanism
The shift to a new butterfly keyboard mechanism is Apples least popular design decision in recent memory. After a flood of negative feedback over stuck and malfunctioning keys, the company, has contin...
02:04 pm GMT - Fri, May 24, 2019
Techcrunch Best Buy cancels Samsung Galaxy Fold preorders
Samsung is taking its time bringing the Galaxy Fold back to market. And frankly, thats probably for the best. The Note debacle from a few years back was an important lesson about what happens when you...
02:04 pm GMT - Fri, May 24, 2019
Techcrunch Best Buy cancels Samsung Galaxy Fold pre-orders
Samsung is taking its time bringing the Galaxy Fold back to market. And frankly, thats probably for the best. The Note debacle from a few years back was an important lesson about what happens when you...
12:00 pm GMT - Fri, May 24, 2019
Techcrunch How to avoid An IPO
Hello and welcome back toEquity, TechCrunchs venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines....
11:48 am GMT - Fri, May 24, 2019
Techcrunch Rolands tiny R-06 recorder is better than your phones recorder app
In an era when the smartphone can do everything, why do you need a standalone audio recorder? Roland, makers of music gear, might have an answer. Their R-07 voice recorder is about as big as original ...
11:48 am GMT - Fri, May 24, 2019
Techcrunch Rolands tiny R-07 recorder is better than your phones recorder app
In an era when the smartphone can do everything, why do you need a standalone audio recorder? Roland, makers of music gear, might have an answer. Their R-07 voice recorder is about as big as original ...
11:22 am GMT - Fri, May 24, 2019
Techcrunch Uber launches a Jump e-bike pilot in London, one year on from winning taxi license appeal
After admitting it had to modify some of its Jump electric bikes to fix braking issues — the same problem that had halted Lyft’s e-bike business — Uber is getting back on its bike, s...
09:25 am GMT - Fri, May 24, 2019
Techcrunch Crypto exchange Binance prepares to add margin trading soon
Binance, the world’s most prominent crypto exchange, says it is close to adding a much-anticipated margin trading feature to its service following weeks of speculation. The company tweeted confi...
08:00 am GMT - Fri, May 24, 2019
Techcrunch Nigerias Gokada raises $5.3M round for its motorcycle ride-hail biz
In many large cities across Africa, motorcycle taxies are as common as yellow-cabs in New York. That includes Lagos, Nigeria, where ride-hail startup Gokada has raised a $5.3 million Series A round to...
01:54 am GMT - Fri, May 24, 2019
Techcrunch Online bank Simple makes things harder by removing bill pay
With a growing number of challenger banks taking on the U.S. market, one of the original startup banks, Simple — now owned by BBVA — has taken the unusual step of removing a core banking f...
01:39 am GMT - Fri, May 24, 2019
Techcrunch The U.S. Senate is coming after loot boxes
Gamers feel passionately about loot boxes, turns out some elected officials do too. A new Senate bill was formally introduced today with bipartisan support and it could categorically shift how today&#...
01:39 am GMT - Fri, May 24, 2019
Techcrunch The US Senate is coming after loot boxes
Gamers feel passionately about loot boxes, turns out some elected officials do too. A new Senate bill was formally introduced today with bipartisan support and it could categorically shift how today&#...
01:27 am GMT - Fri, May 24, 2019
Techcrunch Limes founding CEO steps down as his co-founder takes control
Brad Bao, a Lime co-founder and long-time Tencent executive, will assume chief responsibilities....
12:39 am GMT - Fri, May 24, 2019
Techcrunch Canopys upscale co-working business adds a new location in SF on the heels of strategic funding
Canopy, an upscale, profitable developer of co-working spaces, has expanded its footprint in San Francisco to a third location on the heels of a strategic financing round. Co-founded by the product de...
11:47 pm GMT - Thu, May 23, 2019
Techcrunch You can do it, robot! Watch the beefy, 4-legged HyQReal pull a plane
It's not really clear just yet exactly what all these powerful, agile quadrupedal robots people are working on are going to do, exactly, but even so it never gets old watching them do their thing. The...
11:00 pm GMT - Thu, May 23, 2019
Techcrunch Automakers have a choice: Become data companies or become irrelevant
Cars are here to stay, whether they have drivers or not. Automakers can ensure their seat at the table by implementing strategies better suited for the digital age....
10:51 pm GMT - Thu, May 23, 2019
Techcrunch Streem buys Selerio in effort to boost its AR teleconferencing tech
Streem, an AR startup that is meshing teleconferencing software with computer vision tech, has acquired a small U.K. startup called Selerio that’s also building out augmented reality technologie...
10:40 pm GMT - Thu, May 23, 2019
Techcrunch Snap, which has yet to release a diversity report, hires its first head of D&I
Snap has brought on its first-ever diversity and inclusion lead, former Google Director of Diversity Strategy Oona King. In a memo sent to Snap employees today, Snap Chief People Officer Lara Sweet an...
10:05 pm GMT - Thu, May 23, 2019
Techcrunch Original Content podcast: Dragons love symbolism, and other lessons from the Game of Thrones finale
This post and podcast include spoilers for “Game of Thrones.” Remember how it felt six weeks ago, right before “Game of Thrones” returned for its final season? The excitement? ...
08:48 pm GMT - Thu, May 23, 2019
Techcrunch WikiLeaks Assange charged under the Espionage Act in a major test case for press freedom
Julian Assange, founder of whistleblowing site WikiLeaks, has been charged with more than a dozen additional charges by U.S. federal prosecutors, including under the controversial Espionage Act a cas...
08:29 pm GMT - Thu, May 23, 2019
Techcrunch Shopify quietly acquired Handshake, an e-commerce platform for B2B wholesale purchasing
E-commerce platform Shopify has quietly made an acquisition to continue its expansion of the services and products that merchants can sell and purchase through its platform. It has acquired Handshake,...
07:41 pm GMT - Thu, May 23, 2019
Techcrunch Former FDA chief Scott Gottlieb has rejoined the venture world but he hasnt forgotten Juul
Scott Gottlieb, the former Food and Drug Administration chief, became known during his tenure for his efforts to regulate the tobacco and e-cigarette industries — and for his particular focus on...
07:20 pm GMT - Thu, May 23, 2019
Techcrunch Microsofts new language learning app uses your phones camera and computer vision to teach vocabulary
Eight Microsoft interns have developed a new language learning tool that uses the smartphone camera to help adults improve their English literacy by learning the words for the things around them. The ...
07:12 pm GMT - Thu, May 23, 2019
Techcrunch Fresh off a $530M round, Aurora acquires lidar startup Blackmore
Aurora, the self-driving car startup backed by Sequoia Capital and Amazon, is in an acquiring mood. The company, founded in early 2017 by Chris Urmson, Sterling Anderson and Drew Bagnell, announced Th...
07:05 pm GMT - Thu, May 23, 2019
Techcrunch Cruise says its AV successfully completed 1,400 unprotected left hand turns
Unprotected left hand turns are tough for robots and humans alike. The compounding variables of crossing in front of oncoming traffic make it one of the toughest maneuverers in driving. It’s one...
07:05 pm GMT - Thu, May 23, 2019
Techcrunch Cruise says its AV successfully completed 1,400 unprotected left-hand turns
Unprotected left-hand turns are tough for robots and humans alike. The compounding variables of crossing in front of oncoming traffic make it one of the toughest maneuvers in driving. It’s one o...
07:03 pm GMT - Thu, May 23, 2019
Techcrunch From launch to launch: Peter Beck on building Rocket Labs orbital business
Breaking into the launch industry is no easy task, but New Zealand's Rocket Lab has done it without missing a step. The company has just completed its third commercial launch of 2019, and is planning ...
06:50 pm GMT - Thu, May 23, 2019
Techcrunch Daily Crunch: Indiegogo has a new CEO
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...
06:30 pm GMT - Thu, May 23, 2019
Techcrunch Indian PM Narendra Modis reelection spells more frustration for US tech giants
Amazon and Walmart’s problems in India look set to continue after Narendra Modi, the biggest force to embrace the country’s politics in decades, led his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata ...
06:12 pm GMT - Thu, May 23, 2019
Techcrunch Amazon is reportedly working on an emotion-tracking Alexa wearable
Amazon probably knows everything else about you at this point, so why not let it track your emotions, too? The company is said to be working on a wearable wellness device said to be able able to deter...
06:08 pm GMT - Thu, May 23, 2019
Techcrunch Heres the first teaser trailer for the new Star Trek: Picard series
Just a bit shy of a year ago, Patrick Stewart blew the minds of Star Trek fans everywhere by taking the stage at the Las Vegas Star Trek convention to announce he was returning to the role of Jean-Luc...
06:01 pm GMT - Thu, May 23, 2019
Techcrunch Automattic acquires subscription payment company Prospress
Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Longreads, Simplenote and a bunch of other cool things, is acquiring a small startup called Prospress. Among other things, Prospress has deve...
05:34 pm GMT - Thu, May 23, 2019
Techcrunch Zero raises $20 million from NEA and others for a credit card that works like debit
Just ahead of the launch of the Apple Card, a startup that has its own take on modernizing the credit card industry, Zero, is announcing the close of its $20 million Series A. The new round of funding...
05:29 pm GMT - Thu, May 23, 2019
Techcrunch Facebook releases community standards enforcement report
Facebook has just released its latest community standards enforcement report and the verdict is in: people are awful, and happy to share how awful they are with the world. The latest effort at transpa...
05:01 pm GMT - Thu, May 23, 2019
Techcrunch Apply to TC Hackathon at Disrupt SF 2019 before the spots disappear
Calling all code whisperers, rock-star programmers and code poets. If you want to compete in the TechCrunch Hackathon atDisrupt San Francisco 2019 on October 2-4, do not wait. Were limiting the hackat...
05:00 pm GMT - Thu, May 23, 2019
Techcrunch Google integrates food delivery services into Search, Maps and Assistant
Google today announced that it is launching the ability to order food delivery directly from Google Search, Maps and the Assistant. Google itself isn’t getting into the delivery game, though. In...
04:38 pm GMT - Thu, May 23, 2019
Techcrunch DoorDash, now valued at $12.6B, shoots for the moon
DoorDash has raised another $600 million in venture capital funding....
04:32 pm GMT - Thu, May 23, 2019
Techcrunch Instagrams vertical IGTV surrenders to landscape status quo
A year ago Instagram made a bold bet with the launch of IGTV: That it could invent and popularize a new medium of long-form vertical videos. Landscape uploads weren’t allowed. Co-founder Kevin S...
04:13 pm GMT - Thu, May 23, 2019
Techcrunch Takeaways from KubeCon; the latest on Kubernetes and cloud native development
Extra Crunch offers members the opportunity to tune into conference calls led and moderated by the TechCrunch writers you read every day. This week, TechCrunchs Frederic Lardinois and Ron Miller discu...
04:11 pm GMT - Thu, May 23, 2019
Techcrunch Andreessen pours $22M into PlanetScales database-as-a-service
PlanetScale’s founders invented the technology called Vitess that scaled YouTube. Now they’re selling it to any enterprise that wants their data both secure and consistently accessible. An...
04:03 pm GMT - Thu, May 23, 2019
Techcrunch Spansives first wireless charger powers multiple phones simultaneously and works through thick cases
  When Pi Charging (winner of TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2017) rebranded as Spansive last month, the company also dropped plans for its previously-shown cone-shaped charger capable of charging phones ...
03:21 pm GMT - Thu, May 23, 2019
Techcrunch Barnes & Nobles Nook e-reader returns with a larger screen
Ive always had a soft spot for the Nook. Barnes & Nobles e-reader was more than just a rare competitor to Amazons steamrolling Kindle, it was a nice device with an interesting design and one of t...
03:11 pm GMT - Thu, May 23, 2019
Techcrunch eFounders backs Yousign to build a European eSignature company
French startup Yousign is partnering with startup studio eFounders. While eFounders usually builds software-as-a-service startups from scratch, the company is trying something new with this partnershi...
03:11 pm GMT - Thu, May 23, 2019
Techcrunch EFounders backs Yousign to build a European e-signature company
French startup Yousign is partnering with startup studio eFounders. While eFounders usually builds software-as-a-service startups from scratch, the company is trying something new with this partnershi...
03:05 pm GMT - Thu, May 23, 2019
Techcrunch Using full-body MRIs, Ezra can now detect 11 cancers in men and 13 in women
When Ezra first launched about six months ago, the company was using magnetic resonance imaging machines to test for prostate cancer in men. But the company’s founder, Emi Gal, always had a larg...
03:04 pm GMT - Thu, May 23, 2019
Techcrunch Rotten Tomatoes will start verifying ticket purchases for audience reviews
Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes is taking additional steps to confirm that audience members actually see a movie before leaving a rating or review. The site’s Audience Scores distinct from th...
02:41 pm GMT - Thu, May 23, 2019
Techcrunch FanDuel partners with fuboTV to bring sports betting data to the live streaming service
Live sports streaming service fuboTV today announced a first-of-its-kind partnership with daily fantasy sports provider FanDuel, which will see the latter’s betting data integrated into fuboTV&#...
02:41 pm GMT - Thu, May 23, 2019
Techcrunch FanDuel partners with fuboTV to bring sports betting data to the live-streaming service
Live sports-streaming service fuboTV today announced a first-of-its-kind partnership with daily fantasy sports provider FanDuel, which will see the latter’s betting data integrated into fuboTV&#...
02:19 pm GMT - Thu, May 23, 2019
Techcrunch Google Assistant gets NYC subway arrival times ahead of MTA Google Pay support
Next week, New York Citys Metro Transit Authority will be adding contactless payment support for Google Pay. In the meantime, Googles getting ready by bringing a key new commuting feature to Android. ...
02:17 pm GMT - Thu, May 23, 2019
Techcrunch Sarah Connor returns in the teaser trailer for Terminator: Dark Fate
Oh boy, there’s another Terminator movie on its way. I haven’t watched any of the franchise’s big-screen installments since “Terminator 2” not “Rise of the Machine...
02:07 pm GMT - Thu, May 23, 2019
Techcrunch Tencents latest education push is a nod to new collaborative structure
When Tencent announced it had formed a new education brand this week, the internet giant wasn’t just flexing the muscles to conquer China’s booming online education sector. The new initiat...
02:05 pm GMT - Thu, May 23, 2019
Techcrunch Indiegogo hires Reddits Andy Yang as new CEO
Indiegogo has a new chief. Andy Yang will take over for outgoing CEO David Mandelbrot who is stepping down. According to sources close to the company, several other Indiegogo employees are also leavin...
02:00 pm GMT - Thu, May 23, 2019
Techcrunch Zenkit redesigns its project management app, adds public API and more
There’s no darth of Trello-style project management services, but while the core of Zenkit is exactly that, it’s also far more flexible than most and offers plenty of ways to adjust the se...
02:00 pm GMT - Thu, May 23, 2019
Techcrunch Hunters.ai raises $4.5M for its autonomous threat hunting solution
Hunters.ai, a Tel Aviv-based startup that built an AI-based threat hunting solution, today announced that it has raised a $5.4 million seed funding round led by YL Ventures and Blumberg Capital. Threa...
02:00 pm GMT - Thu, May 23, 2019
Techcrunch Hunters.ai raises $5.4M for its autonomous threat hunting solution
Hunters.ai, a Tel Aviv-based startup that built an AI-based threat hunting solution, today announced that it has raised a $5.4 million seed funding round led by YL Ventures and Blumberg Capital. Threa...
12:59 pm GMT - Thu, May 23, 2019
Techcrunch Fika Ventures raises $76M to fund the growing LA tech ecosystem
Investment in LA tech startups is on the rise....
12:58 pm GMT - Thu, May 23, 2019
Techcrunch Serverless and containers: Two great technologies that work better together
Cloud native models using containerized software in a continuous delivery approach could benefit from serverless computing where the cloud vendor generates the exact amount of resources required to ru...
10:34 am GMT - Thu, May 23, 2019
Techcrunch Future launches $150/mo exercise app where real coaches nag you
The only way to beat laziness is with guilt, so that’s what Future sells. It assigns you an actual human trainer who builds personalized workout plans and messages you throughout the day to make...
09:30 am GMT - Thu, May 23, 2019
Techcrunch A cryptocurrency stealing app found on Google Play was downloaded over a thousand times
Researchers have found two apps masquerading as cryptocurrency apps on Android’s app store, Google Play. One of them was largely a dud. The second was designed to steal cryptocurrency, the resea...
08:30 am GMT - Thu, May 23, 2019
Techcrunch GitHub launches Sponsors, lets you pay your favorite open source contributors
GitHub today launched Sponsors, a new tool that lets you give financial support to open source developers. Developers will be able to opt into having a “Sponsor me” button on their GitHub ...
08:30 am GMT - Thu, May 23, 2019
Techcrunch GitHub launches Sponsors, lets you pay your favorite open-source contributors
GitHub today launched Sponsors, a new tool that lets you give financial support to open-source developers through recurring monthly payments. Developers will be able to opt into having a “Sponso...
08:00 am GMT - Thu, May 23, 2019
Techcrunch Join our mailing list and trim 200 off passes for Disrupt Berlin 2019
Savvy early-stage startuppers of every stripe have their sights set on attending TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin 2019 on 11-12 December. Why? This showcase event draws the most innovative startups, technolo...
08:00 am GMT - Thu, May 23, 2019
Techcrunch Beautystack raises 4M seed to help beauty professionals become financially independent
Beautystack, the London startup that’s creating a beauty professional booking app with heavy focus on social, has quietly picked up 4 million in seed funding led by Index Ventures. The company h...
06:01 am GMT - Thu, May 23, 2019
Techcrunch Semiconductor startup CNEX Labs alleged Huaweis deputy chairman conspired to steal its intellectual property
A San Jose-based semiconductor startup being sued by Huawei for stealing trade secrets has hit back in court documents, accusing the Chinese firms deputy chairman of conspiring to steal its intellectu...
06:01 am GMT - Thu, May 23, 2019
Techcrunch Revolut launches Group Vaults as an alternative to joint accounts
Fintech startup Revolut is making vaults collaborative. You can now create a vault with someone else and use it like a normal vault. Originally, vaults were an alternative to savings accounts without ...
01:07 am GMT - Thu, May 23, 2019
Techcrunch Elon Musks Boring Company lands $48.7M contract for underground people mover in Las Vegas
The Boring Company, Elon Musk’s tunneling and transportation startup, has landed a $48.7 million project to shuttle people in an underground Loop system around the Las Vegas Convention Center. T...
11:06 pm GMT - Wed, May 22, 2019
Techcrunch Boom wants to build a supersonic jet for mainstream passengers; heres its game plan
While much of the world remains fixated on the competition to build autonomous cars, there’s another race that’s gaining momentum fast. It centers on supersonic jets that can fly faster th...
10:41 pm GMT - Wed, May 22, 2019
Techcrunch Mona Lisa frown: Machine learning brings old paintings and photos to life
Machine learning researchers have produced a system that can recreate lifelike motion from just a single frame of a person's face, opening up the possibility of animating not just photos but also of p...
10:19 pm GMT - Wed, May 22, 2019
Techcrunch Spotify resets some account passwords citing suspicious activity
Music streaming giant Spotify has notified an unspecified number of users that the company has reset their account password, but has left dozens of users asking why. In an email, some Spotify users we...
10:15 pm GMT - Wed, May 22, 2019
Techcrunch Googles Duplex calls still frequently require human intervention
When Google launched Duplex with a demo at I/O last year, the audience was left wondering how much of the call was staged. The AI-based reservation booking service seemed almost too impressive to be a...
10:08 pm GMT - Wed, May 22, 2019
Techcrunch Panics Playmate is a pint-sized gaming machine with a season of 12 intriguing titles
Tired of your smartphone games, and don't want to take the Switch with you on the train today? Panic, renowned creator of useful Mac apps and more recently publisher of interesting games, has created ...
10:08 pm GMT - Wed, May 22, 2019
Techcrunch Panics Playdate is a pint-sized gaming machine with a season of 12 intriguing titles
Tired of your smartphone games, and don't want to take the Switch with you on the train today? Panic, renowned creator of useful Mac apps and more recently publisher of interesting games, has created ...
09:04 pm GMT - Wed, May 22, 2019
Techcrunch Documentary series Foundation is back with a season 2
Paris startup campus Station F and Le Studio Next have teamed up once again for a second season of Foundation, a documentary series about building a startup. If you liked the first season, youll feel ...
08:51 pm GMT - Wed, May 22, 2019
Techcrunch Consumer Reports knocks Teslas Navigate on Autopilot feature
Consumer Reports is calling the automatic lane-change feature on Tesla’s Navigate on Autopilot “far less competent” than a human driver and cautioned it could pose safety risks. The ...
08:29 pm GMT - Wed, May 22, 2019
Techcrunch Modsy scores $37M to virtually redesign your home
Modsy has raised some new cash as the computer vision startup looks to get physical and build more of the furniture it recommends. The startup announced that they have closed $37 million in Series C f...
07:48 pm GMT - Wed, May 22, 2019
Techcrunch Vignette is a handy new app that keeps your iOS contact photos up to date
If there’s a special place in your heart for single-purpose utilities that solve a nagging problem, then you’re going to want to skip your daily Starbucks coffee and instead buy yourself a...
07:38 pm GMT - Wed, May 22, 2019
Techcrunch My desk doesnt deserve the $600 Dyson Lightcycle lamp
Like many of you, Im assuming, my desk was purchased at Ikea and is the center of my life. Such as it is, the desk is littered with bits of crackers, memory cards, branded Moleskin notebooks and count...
07:35 pm GMT - Wed, May 22, 2019
Techcrunch Getaround, Facebook, AI chips, Nvidia, Africa, and immigration
Who helped your startup grow? Nominate a growth marketing agency. For those who have been members of Extra Crunch for a while now, you have seen us go through two cycles of Verified Experts, covering ...
07:30 pm GMT - Wed, May 22, 2019
Techcrunch Getting a seat at the VC table
Monique Villa Contributor Share on Twitter Monique Villa is an investor at Mucker Capital, a seed and pre-seed stage fund investing in companies powering a software-enabled world. She is also the Foun...
07:27 pm GMT - Wed, May 22, 2019
Techcrunch Review of Elon Musks DC-to-Baltimore Loop system reveals safety concerns
The Boring Companys Loop transit system that aims to shuttle people in autonomous electric vehicles between Baltimore and Washington, D.C. fails to meet several key national safety standards, a review...
06:50 pm GMT - Wed, May 22, 2019
Techcrunch Nectars sonar bottle caps could save $50B in stolen booze
Bars lose 20 percent of their alcohol to overpours and “free” drinks for friends. That amounts to $50 billion per year in booze that mysteriously disappears, making life tough for every pu...
06:12 pm GMT - Wed, May 22, 2019
Techcrunch Amazon has turned warehouse tasks into a (literal) game
Working at an Amazon fulfillment center is tough and tedious. Stories of problematic working conditions have plagued the company for years now, and pressure has likely only increased as the retail gia...
06:07 pm GMT - Wed, May 22, 2019
Techcrunch Gender, race and social change in tech; Moira Weigel on the Internet of Women, Part Two
Tech ethics can mean a lot of different things, but surely one of the most critical, unavoidable, and yet somehow still controversial propositions in the emerging field of ethics in technology is that...
06:02 pm GMT - Wed, May 22, 2019
Techcrunch Seven years later, the OUYA is dead for real
  Remember the OUYA? As a cheap Android-powered game console, it was pitched as being able to “open the last closed platform: the TV”. It was one of the first huge Kickstarter campaig...
05:29 pm GMT - Wed, May 22, 2019
Techcrunch Subscription fatigue hasnt hit yet
U.S. consumers are still embracing subscriptions. More than a third (34%) of Americans say they believe they’ll increase the number of subscription services they use over the next two years, acc...
05:12 pm GMT - Wed, May 22, 2019
Techcrunch These startups are locating in SF and Africa to win in global fintech
To become a global fintech player, locate your company in San Francisco and Africa. Thats the approach of payments company Flutterwave, digital lending startup Mines, and mobile-money venture Chipper ...
05:00 pm GMT - Wed, May 22, 2019
Techcrunch Googles lead EU regulator opens formal privacy probe of its adtech
Google’s lead data regulator in Europe has opened a formal investigation into its processing of personal data in the context of its online Ad Exchange, TechCrunch has learnt. This follows a priv...
04:57 pm GMT - Wed, May 22, 2019
Techcrunch Daily Crunch: New MacBook Pros have a keyboard fix
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...
04:52 pm GMT - Wed, May 22, 2019
Techcrunch Amazon shareholders reject facial recognition sale ban to governments
Amazon shareholders have rejected two proposals that would have requested the company not to sell its facial recognition technology to government customers. The breakdown of the votes is not immediate...
04:31 pm GMT - Wed, May 22, 2019
Techcrunch DuckDuckGo founder Gabriel Weinberg is coming to Disrupt
2019 is the year Facebook announced a ‘pivot to privacy’. At the same time, Google is trying to claim that privacy means letting it exclusively store and data-mine everything you do online...
04:22 pm GMT - Wed, May 22, 2019
Techcrunch Invites are out for Apples June 3 WWDC keynote there will be unicorns
Apples WWDC keynote invites just went out, with only a couple of weeks to spare. The companys graphic designers appear to be having some fun this time out, with a mind-blown rainbow unicorn, losing th...
04:00 pm GMT - Wed, May 22, 2019
Techcrunch Reserve your demo table for TC Sessions: Mobility 2019
Early-stage startup ingenuity is one of the driving forces shaping the rapid, radical changes taking place in mobility and transportation. Come July 10, TechCrunch will host more than 1,000 movers, sh...
03:39 pm GMT - Wed, May 22, 2019
Techcrunch N26 faces banking regulator order about fraudulent transactions
Fintech startup N26 received an order from BaFin, the German banking regulator. According to the regulator, N26 hasnt been doing enough when it comes to money laundering and terrorist financing. The c...
03:33 pm GMT - Wed, May 22, 2019
Techcrunch Googles new look for mobile search results puts site owners and publishers first
Google today unveiled a new look for its mobile search results which gives sites a way to showcase their own branding, instead of looking like every other blue link. Before, the search results were bl...
03:30 pm GMT - Wed, May 22, 2019
Techcrunch Thousands of vulnerable TP-Link routers at risk of remote hijack
Thousands of TP-Link routers are vulnerable to a bug that can be used to remotely take control the device, but it took over a year for the company to publish the patches on its website. The vulnerabil...
03:00 pm GMT - Wed, May 22, 2019
Techcrunch Now at Google, Facebooks former teen-in-residence launches new social game Emojishot
Facebook’s former teen-in-residence Michael Sayman, now at Google, is back today with the launch of a new game: Emojishot, an emoji-based guessing game for iOS, built over the past ten weeks wit...
02:57 pm GMT - Wed, May 22, 2019
Techcrunch DJI is adding receivers to help drones avoid plane and helicopter collisions
At an event in Washington D.C. today, DJI unveiled plans to help avoid potentially life-threatening drone disasters. At the top of the list is the companys promise to add AirSense technology to all of...
02:05 pm GMT - Wed, May 22, 2019
Techcrunch ARM halts Huawei relationship following US ban
The dominoes continue to fall for Huawei in the wake of a Trump-led U.S. trade ban. An internal memo from ARM lays out the chip giants decision to hit pause on all active contracts, support entitlemen...
02:00 pm GMT - Wed, May 22, 2019
Techcrunch Meet Projector, collaborative design software for the Instagram age
Projector, the brainchild of two Twitter alums, is emerging from stealth with $13 million to reimagine visual communication....
01:04 pm GMT - Wed, May 22, 2019
Techcrunch KaiOS raises $50M, hits 100M handsets powered by its feature phone OS
While Android and iOS have locked up the market for smartphone operating systems, a feature phone platform that has the distinction of being the world’s third biggest mobile OS is announcing a h...
01:00 pm GMT - Wed, May 22, 2019
Techcrunch Roku launches new ad tool to compare linear and streaming audiences
Roku has been getting more serious about its ad business, and today it’s launching a new tool designed to make advertisers comfortable with moving their spending over from traditional TV. Alison...
01:00 pm GMT - Wed, May 22, 2019
Techcrunch Apple has a plan to make online ads more private
For years, the web has been largely free thanks to online ads. The problem is that nobody likes them. When they’re not obnoxiously taking over your entire screen or autoplaying, they’re tr...
01:00 pm GMT - Wed, May 22, 2019
Techcrunch Throw out your diary, Jour is a new app for guided journaling
Don't worry, it's encrypted. ...
12:30 pm GMT - Wed, May 22, 2019
Techcrunch Zendesk acquires Smooch, doubles down on support via messaging apps like WhatsApp
One of the bigger developments in customer services has been the impact of social media — both as a place to vent frustration or praise (mostly frustration), and — especially over messagin...
12:01 pm GMT - Wed, May 22, 2019
Techcrunch Loot, the UK digital current account for students and millennials, enters administration after a potential sale falls through
Loot, the digital current account aimed at students and millennials, has called in administrators after appearing to have run out of cash. According to sources, the U.K. fintech was unable to raise ad...
12:00 pm GMT - Wed, May 22, 2019
Techcrunch Londons Tube network to switch on wi-fi tracking by default in July
Transport for London will roll out default wi-fi device tracking on the London Underground this summer, following a trial back in 2016. In a press release announcing the move, TfL writes that “s...
12:00 pm GMT - Wed, May 22, 2019
Techcrunch Agtech startup Agrilyst is now Artemis, raises $8M Series A
Artemis, the ag-tech startup formerly known as Agrilyst, today announced that it has raised an $8 million Series A funding round. The round was co-led by Astanor Ventures and Talis Capital, with parti...
09:12 am GMT - Wed, May 22, 2019
Techcrunch Indonesia restricts WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram usage following deadly riots
Indonesia is the latest nation to hit the hammer on social media after the government restricted the use of WhatsApp and Instagram following deadly riots yesterday. Numerous Indonesia-based users are ...
08:50 am GMT - Wed, May 22, 2019
Techcrunch Facebook found hosting masses of far right EU disinformation networks
A multi-month hunt for political disinformation spreading on Facebook in Europe suggests there are concerted efforts to use the platform to spread bogus far right propaganda to millions of voters ahea...
06:54 am GMT - Wed, May 22, 2019
Techcrunch Tencent CEO warns companies must keep innovating to survive amid US-China tensions
On Tuesday, Tencent’s usually low-profile founder and CEO Pony Ma made rare comments to weigh in on escalating tensions between the United States and China, calling domestic tech companies to bu...
06:29 am GMT - Wed, May 22, 2019
Techcrunch In Fords future, two-legged robots and self-driving cars could team up on deliveries
Autonomous vehicles might someday be able to navigate bustling city streets to deliver groceries, pizzas, and other packages without a human behind the wheel. But that doesn’t solve what Ford Mo...
06:26 am GMT - Wed, May 22, 2019
Techcrunch Leak reveals Ubers $9.99 unlimited delivery Eats Pass
What’s the cord-cutting equivalent to ditching your kitchen? Uber’s upcoming subscription to unlimited free food delivery. Uber is preparing to launch the $9.99 per month Uber Eats Pass, a...
04:32 am GMT - Wed, May 22, 2019
Techcrunch Valves Steam Chat gets its own iOS and Android apps
  A little under a year ago, Valve released a big overhaul for the chat features built into its Steam game store/launcher. Focusing on modern day chat conveniences like better group chats and emb...
04:31 am GMT - Wed, May 22, 2019
Techcrunch Indias Ola switches gears on its food delivery business Foodpanda
Indias Ola, which has expanded to select international markets and set ambitious goals for its electric vehicles business, is struggling with selling food. So it is making major changes to its food bu...
04:00 am GMT - Wed, May 22, 2019
Techcrunch TransferWise now valued at $3.5B following a new $292M secondary round
TransferWise, the London-headquartered international money transfer service, is disclosing a new $292 million secondary round that sees investors value the company at $3.5 billion. That’s more t...
03:27 am GMT - Wed, May 22, 2019
Techcrunch Following a report about misleading ads placed by anti-abortion groups, Google Ads updates its policies
Starting next month, Google will enforce new policies for ads related to abortion in the United States, United Kingdom and Ireland. Google will now require advertisers that want to run ads with aborti...
03:00 am GMT - Wed, May 22, 2019
Techcrunch A young entrepreneur is building the Amazon of Bangladesh
At just 26, Waiz Rahim is supposed to be involved in the family business, having returned home in 2016 with an engineering degree from the University of Southern California. Instead, the young entrepr...
02:00 am GMT - Wed, May 22, 2019
Techcrunch Food delivery startup Dahmakan eats up $5M for expansion in Southeast Asia
It’s harvest season for Southeast Asia’s full-stack food delivery startups. Following on from Singapore’s Grain raising $10 million, so Malaysia-based Dahmakan today announced a $5 m...
12:11 am GMT - Wed, May 22, 2019
Techcrunch Famed founder Daphne Koller tells it straight: With most drugs, we do not understand why they work
Daphne Koller doesn’t mind hard work. She joined Stanford University’s computer science department in 1995, spending the next 18 years there in a full-time capacity before cofounding the o...
09:17 pm GMT - Tue, May 21, 2019
Techcrunch SoFar Sounds house concerts raises $25M, but bands get just $100
Tired of noisy music venues where you can hardly see the stage? SoFar Sounds puts on concerts in people’s living rooms where fans pay $15 to $30 to sit silently on the floor and truly listen. Ne...
09:15 pm GMT - Tue, May 21, 2019
Techcrunch Google says some G Suite user passwords were stored in plaintext since 2005
Google says a small number of its enterprise customers mistakenly had their passwords stored on its systems in plaintext. The search giant disclosed the exposure Tuesday but declined to say exactly ho...
09:02 pm GMT - Tue, May 21, 2019
Techcrunch 10 immigration tips for love-struck tech workers
Even techies might agree that server rooms arent the most romantic places to fall in love but it happens. And with foreign-born workers making up nearly three-quarters of Silicon Valleys labor......
09:00 pm GMT - Tue, May 21, 2019
Techcrunch What will save crypto?
An untapped market in the Middle East is the solution to cryptos slowdown. ...
08:45 pm GMT - Tue, May 21, 2019
Techcrunch Mid-range flagships like the Honor 20 Pro are giving premium phones a run for their money
Phone sales have been trending downward for some time now. There are a number of reasons for this many of which you can read about in this piece I published last week. The creeping cost of premium ha...
08:22 pm GMT - Tue, May 21, 2019
Techcrunch Udacity, Mercedes-Benz create sensor fusion nanodegree as demand for self-driving car engineers rises
Udacity and Mercedes-Benz’s North American R&D lab have developed curriculum for a sensor fusion nanodegree, the latest effort by the online education startup to meet high demand for skills ...
07:08 pm GMT - Tue, May 21, 2019
Techcrunch DefinedCrowd offers mobile apps to empower its AI-annotating masses
DefinedCrowd, the Startup Battlefield alumnus that produces and refines data for AI-training purposes, has just debuted iOS and Android apps for its army of human annotators. It should help speed up a...
06:42 pm GMT - Tue, May 21, 2019
Techcrunch Biofourmis raises $35M to develop smarter treatments for chronic diseases
Biofourmis, a Singapore-based startup pioneering a distinctly tech-based approach to the treatment of chronic conditions, has raised a $35 million Series B round for expansion. The round was led by Se...
06:30 pm GMT - Tue, May 21, 2019
Techcrunch Daily Crunch: Instagram influencer contact info exposed
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...
06:05 pm GMT - Tue, May 21, 2019
Techcrunch Stein Mart embraces the enemy with installation of Amazon Lockers in nearly 200 stores
Another brick-and-mortar retailer is turning to Amazon to help save its struggling business. Today, discount chain operator Stein Mart announced it will install Amazon Hub lockers in nearly 200 stores...
06:00 pm GMT - Tue, May 21, 2019
Techcrunch The Exit: Getarounds $300M roadtrip
In August of last year, Getaround scored $300 million from Softbank. Eight months later they handed that same amount to Drivy, a Parisian peer-to-peer car rental service that was Getaround’s tic...
05:45 pm GMT - Tue, May 21, 2019
Techcrunch Bringing tech efficiencies to the agribusiness market, Silo harvests $3 million
Roughly $165 billion worth of wholesale produce is bought and sold every year in the U.S. And while that number is expected to go up to $1 trillion by 2025, the business of agribusiness remains unaffe...
05:39 pm GMT - Tue, May 21, 2019
Techcrunch Select Bose smart speakers get Google Assistant
A week after Sonos added long-promised Google Assistant integration to a pair of speakers, Bose is following suit. The companys bringing the popular smart home AI to a trio of existing models, the Hom...
05:13 pm GMT - Tue, May 21, 2019
Techcrunch As meal-kit melee stretches on, Sun Basket whips up $30M Series E
Sun Basket, a provider of a healthy meal kit service, has raised another $30 million in venture capital funding....
05:00 pm GMT - Tue, May 21, 2019
Techcrunch Apple announces new MacBook Pros with a keyboard fix, oh, and more powerful processors
Apple is updating its 15 MacBook Pro with new 8-core and 6-core processors and its 13 MacBook Pro with Touch Bar with 8th gen quad-core processors. Apple says that these boosts mean that the 15 MacBoo...
04:48 pm GMT - Tue, May 21, 2019
Techcrunch Pro gamer Tfue files lawsuit against esports org over grossly oppressive contract
Turner ‘Tfue’ Tenney, one of the world’s premier streamers and esports pros, has filed a lawsuit against esports organization Faze Clan over a ‘grossly oppressive, onerous and ...
04:36 pm GMT - Tue, May 21, 2019
Techcrunch Investors just gave NFX $275 million more to fund seed-stage startups focused on network effects
It’s the worst kept secret in the world of startup funding. Series A rounds today are the equivalent of what used to be called Series B rounds. The checks are bigger, but so are the expectations...
04:18 pm GMT - Tue, May 21, 2019
Techcrunch Backed by LG, AmazeVR is hoping to resurrect virtual realitys consumer dreams
For over 100 years entrepreneurs have come to Hollywood to try their luck in the dream factory and build an empire in the business of storytelling. Propelled by new technologies, new businessmen have ...
04:12 pm GMT - Tue, May 21, 2019
Techcrunch Lyft adds more safety features including in-app emergency assistance, reminders to check the plate
Earlier this spring, both Uber and Lyft introduced new safety features and policies following the death of a university student who was kidnapped and murdered after getting into a vehicle she believed...
04:12 pm GMT - Tue, May 21, 2019
Techcrunch Lyft adds more safety features, including in-app emergency assistance, reminders to check the plate
Earlier this spring, both Uber and Lyft introduced new safety features and policies following the death of a university student who was kidnapped and murdered after getting into a vehicle she believed...
04:05 pm GMT - Tue, May 21, 2019
Techcrunch What does regulating Facebook mean? Heres an example
Many officials claim that governments should regulate Facebook and other social platforms, but few describe what it actually means. A few days ago, France released a report that outlines what France ...
04:00 pm GMT - Tue, May 21, 2019
Techcrunch Raisin rides into the U.S. with its savings and investment marketplace
Raisin, the pan-European fintech marketplace for savings and investment products, is headed to the U.S., announcing plans to roll out a similar offering across the pond. The German company, which is b...
03:05 pm GMT - Tue, May 21, 2019
Techcrunch HolodeckVR raises 3M from Germanys ProSiebenSat1 to put VR onto dodgems
Consumer VR might not have taken off in the mainstream but its still fun to use, and its even more fun to use in groups. There is more of an arcade renaissance for VR going on right now, as well as lo...
03:04 pm GMT - Tue, May 21, 2019
Techcrunch The Trade Desk hires Jonathan Carson as its first CRO
Adtech company The Trade Desk is announcing that it’s hired its very first chief revenue officer, Jonathan Carson. Carson’s past roles include serving as president of Mic, chief revenue of...
03:00 pm GMT - Tue, May 21, 2019
Techcrunch Who helped your startup grow? Nominate a growth marketing agency.
Growth marketing is critical to a startups survival, but its not always clear how to successfully pull it off. How do you jump the chasm from one to ten million customers? Should you recruit an in-hou...
02:59 pm GMT - Tue, May 21, 2019
Techcrunch Amazons Alexa Fund invests in edtech startups, Zoobean and Unruly Studios
Two edtech companies, Zoobean and Unruly Studios, are the latest to receive investment from Amazon’s Alexa Fund — Amazon’s corporate venture fund focused on fueling innovation in voi...
02:47 pm GMT - Tue, May 21, 2019
Techcrunch Seraphim Space Camp launches its latest mission, with 7 SpaceTech startups
U.K. space accelerator Seraphim Space Camp appeared last year as the first ever UK SpaceTech accelerator and being, frankly, the only accelerator of its type, it has quickly shored-up a number of part...
02:45 pm GMT - Tue, May 21, 2019
Techcrunch Microsoft makes a push for service mesh interoperability
Services meshes. They are the hot new thing in the cloud native computing world. At Kubecon, the bi-annual festival of all things cloud native, Microsoft today announced that it is teaming up with a n...
02:32 pm GMT - Tue, May 21, 2019
Techcrunch FlareAgent, a platform that automates real estate transactions, launches out of YC
The real estate industry is experiencing a bit of a rejuvenation. After years resisting the influence of tech, the industry is now feeling the entrance of e-buyers, as well as a variety of software to...
01:24 pm GMT - Tue, May 21, 2019
Techcrunch People.ai, the predictive sales startup, raises $60M at around $500M valuation
The best salespeople like to pride themselves on having both a sixth sense when it comes to closing a deal, and a healthy amount of persuasive magic to get a sale over the line. Now, a startup that sa...
01:10 pm GMT - Tue, May 21, 2019
Techcrunch Future Family launches a $200 membership for fertility coaching
  Future Family is a startup aiming to make fertility services like IVF and egg freezing more accessible. They work with doctors and clinics to make the pricing of these services more predictable...
01:10 pm GMT - Tue, May 21, 2019
Techcrunch Freshworks acquires customer success service Natero
Customer engagement service Freshworks, which you may still remember under its old name of Freshdesk, today announced that it has acquired Natero, a customer success service with some AI/ML smarts tha...
01:03 pm GMT - Tue, May 21, 2019
Techcrunch Kard is a challenger bank for teens
Meet French startup Kard, a challenger bank that works a lot like N26 or Revolut. But Kard is all about convincing teens that their first bank account is going to be a Kard account a bit like Step in ...
01:01 pm GMT - Tue, May 21, 2019
Techcrunch Firefox update is all about speed and fingerprinting protection
Mozilla is currently rolling out Firefox version 67 on Windows, macOS and Linux. And the team is detailing a few changes in a blog post. With todays new version, users should expect better performance...
01:00 pm GMT - Tue, May 21, 2019
Techcrunch Adobe brings its Premiere Rush video editing app to Android
Adobe launched Premiere Rush, its newest all-in-one video editing tool that is essentially a pared-down version of its flagship Premiere Pro and Audition tools for professional video editors, in late ...
01:00 pm GMT - Tue, May 21, 2019
Techcrunch SmileDirectClub plans to 3D print 50,000 teeth-straightening molds a day
The medical industry has long been considered one of the most promising sources of growth for industrial 3D printing. It makes sense getting a good fit requires the sort of exact measurements that ca...
12:59 pm GMT - Tue, May 21, 2019
Techcrunch Payment card startup Marqeta confirms $260M round at close to $2B valuation
Startups that are disrupting and unlocking the lucrative world of financial services continue to unlock big fund funding rounds for themselves. Today, Marqeta — which helps third parties like Sq...
12:00 pm GMT - Tue, May 21, 2019
Techcrunch Generation closes $1B growth fund targeting sustainable startups
Generation Investment Management, the firm co-founded by environmentalist and former Vice President Al Gore, was built on the premise of backing sustainable startups. Now, as the idea of sustainabilit...
12:00 pm GMT - Tue, May 21, 2019
Techcrunch ZenHub Workspaces make GitHub easier to use across teams
ZenHub, a project management tool for GitHub, today announced the launch of Workspaces, a feature that makes it easier for teams to use its service — and GitHub — by allowing them to tweak...
11:59 am GMT - Tue, May 21, 2019
Techcrunch Aaptiv, the workout app, launches a new AI-based personal trainer called Coach
After raising at least $20 million last yearfrom the likes of Amazon, Disney and Bose for a mobile app that offered workouts led by professional, human trainers, Aaptiv is now taking a tech turn. Toda...
11:34 am GMT - Tue, May 21, 2019
Techcrunch Facebook still a great place to amplify pre-election junk news, EU study finds
A study carried out by academics at Oxford University to investigate how junk news is being shared on social media in Europe ahead of regional elections this month has found individual stories shared ...
10:00 am GMT - Tue, May 21, 2019
Techcrunch Atlassian puts its Data Center products into containers
It’s KubeCon + CloudNativeCon this week and in the slew of announcements, one name stood out: Atlassian . The company is best known as the maker of tools that allow developers to work more effic...
10:00 am GMT - Tue, May 21, 2019
Techcrunch Praqma puts Atlassians Data Center products into containers
It’s KubeCon + CloudNativeCon this week and in the slew of announcements, one name stood out: Atlassian . The company is best known as the maker of tools that allow developers to work more effic...
10:00 am GMT - Tue, May 21, 2019
Techcrunch Self-driving truck startup TuSimple will haul mail for USPS in two-week pilot
TuSimple, the self-driving truck startup that reached unicorn status earlier this year with a $1 billion valuation, is getting two weeks to prove its tech to the United States Postal Service. The comp...
09:42 am GMT - Tue, May 21, 2019
Techcrunch ByteDance, TikToks parent company, plans to launch a free music streaming app
Does the overcrowded and cut-throat music streaming business have room for an additional player? The worlds most valuable startup certainly thinks so. Chinese conglomerate ByteDance, valued at over $7...
09:00 am GMT - Tue, May 21, 2019
Techcrunch Ravin.ai raises $4M to use computer vision for vehicle damage inspections
Ravin.ai, an Israel and U.K.-based startup developing AI to autonomously inspect vehicles for damage, has closed a $4 million seed round. The investment is led by Pico Venture Partners, with participa...
08:41 am GMT - Tue, May 21, 2019
Techcrunch Oculus Quest and Rift S now shipping
Facebook -owned Oculus is shipping its latest VR headgear from today. Preorders for the PC-free Oculus Quest and the higher end Oculus Rift S opened up three weeks ago. In a launch blog Oculus touts t...
07:01 am GMT - Tue, May 21, 2019
Techcrunch Google brings release channels and Windows Container support to its Kubernetes Engine
At KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, the bi-annual gathering of cloud-native computing boffins, Google today announced that it now offers three release channels for its Google Kuberentes Engine (GKE): Rapid, ...
06:34 am GMT - Tue, May 21, 2019
Techcrunch IDC: Asia-Pacific spending on AI systems will reach $5.5 billion this year, up 80 percent from 2018
Spending on artificial intelligence systems in the Asia-Pacific region is expected to reach $5.5 billion this year, an almost 80 percent increase over 2018, driven by businesses in China and the retai...
06:00 am GMT - Tue, May 21, 2019
Techcrunch Digital Oceans Kubernetes service is now generally available
Like any ambitious cloud infrastructure player, Digital Ocean also recently announced a solution for running Kubernetes clusters on its platform. At KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe in Barcelona, the c...
04:19 am GMT - Tue, May 21, 2019
Techcrunch Game of Thrones season finale sets record as HBOs most-viewed episode ever
Despite disappointing many longtime fans of the show, the Game of Thrones series finale set a new record for HBO as the most viewed episode in the networks history. According to the Hollywood Reporter...
01:37 am GMT - Tue, May 21, 2019
Techcrunch Blockchain blockchain Malkovich blockchain
I spent much of last week at blockchain conferences, and I’m about ready to never hear the word again. This despite the fact I’ve been supporting decentralized software, as a counterweight...
01:15 am GMT - Tue, May 21, 2019
Techcrunch Postmates workers want minimum delivery guarantees and at least $15 per hour
IPO-bound Postmates is under fire right now after making some changes to its payments structure for its delivery workers. Organizers at Working Washington say these changes can reduce pay for typical ...
11:40 pm GMT - Mon, May 20, 2019
Techcrunch GMs car-sharing service Maven to exit eight cities
GM is scaling back its Maven car-sharing company and will stop service in nearly half of the 17 North American cities in which it operates. A spokesperson who confirmed Maven was shutting down in some...
11:15 pm GMT - Mon, May 20, 2019
Techcrunch Snap appoints new execs as it aims to keep 2019 momentum
Snap has another appointment in the apt saga of its ephemeral CFOs. Four months after losing its CFO Tim Stone following a reported “personality clash” between Stone and CEO Evan Spiegel, ...
10:57 pm GMT - Mon, May 20, 2019
Techcrunch Stanfords Doggo is a petite robotic quadruped you can (maybe) build yourself
Got a few thousand bucks and a good deal of engineering expertise? You're in luck: Stanford students have created a quadrupedal robot platform called Doggo that you can build with off-the-shelf parts ...
10:44 pm GMT - Mon, May 20, 2019
Techcrunch US mitigates Huawei ban by offering temporary reprieve
Two steps forward, one step back. The Trump administration has seemingly been trying to calibrate its strategy around its intensifying trade dispute with China. Last week, it effectively banned Huawei...
10:14 pm GMT - Mon, May 20, 2019
Techcrunch How I Podcast: Criminal/This Is Loves Lauren Spohrer
The beauty of podcasting is that anyone can do it. Its a rare medium thats nearly as easy to make as it is to consume. And as such, no two people do it exactly the same way. There are a wealth of hard...
09:09 pm GMT - Mon, May 20, 2019
Techcrunch Quadric.io raises $15M to build a plug-and-play supercomputer for autonomous systems
Quadric.io, a startup founded by some of the folks behind the once-secretive bitcoin mining operation 21E6,”has raised $15 million in a Series A round that will fund the development of a superco...
08:26 pm GMT - Mon, May 20, 2019
Techcrunch With foldable phones in limbo, foldable display laptops are on the horizon
With the Galaxy Fold and Huawei Mate X currently in limbo for very different reasons, PC makers are apparently jumping at the chance to make their own foldable display ambitions known. Its been clear,...
08:17 pm GMT - Mon, May 20, 2019
Techcrunch Maisie Williams talent discovery startup Daisie raises $2.5 million, hits 100K members
Maisie Williams’ time on Game of Thrones may have come to an end, but her talent discovery app Daisie is just getting started. Co-founded by film producer Dom Santry, Daisie aims to make it easi...
08:06 pm GMT - Mon, May 20, 2019
Techcrunch Why is Facebook doing robotics research?
It's a bit strange to hear that the world's leading social network is pursuing research in robotics rather than, say, making search useful, but Facebook is a big organization with many competing prior...
08:00 pm GMT - Mon, May 20, 2019
Techcrunch Talk key takeaways from KubeCon 2019 with TechCrunch writers
The Linux Foundation’s annual KubeCon conference is going down at the Fira Gran Via exhibition center in Barcelona, Spain this week and TechCrunch is on the scenecovering all the latest announce...
07:49 pm GMT - Mon, May 20, 2019
Techcrunch Instagrams IGTV copies TikToks AI, Snapchats design
Instagram conquered Stories, but it’s losing the battle for the next video formats. TikTok is blowing up with an algorithmically suggested vertical one-at-a-time feed featuring videos of users r...
07:48 pm GMT - Mon, May 20, 2019
Techcrunch In-car commerce startup Cargo extends Uber partnership to Brazil
Cargo, the startup that brings the convenience store into ride-hailing vehicles, is making its first international expansion through an exclusive partnership with Uber in Brazil. Uber drivers in So Pa...
07:36 pm GMT - Mon, May 20, 2019
Techcrunch When will customers start buying all those AI chips?
Its the best and worst time to be in semiconductors right now. Silicon Valley investors are once again owning up to their namesakes and taking a deep interest in next-generation silicon, with leading ...
06:15 pm GMT - Mon, May 20, 2019
Techcrunch This clever transforming robot flies and rolls on its rotating arms
There's great potential in using both drones and ground-based robots for situations like disaster response, but generally these platforms either fly or creep along the ground. Not the "Flying STAR," w...
05:12 pm GMT - Mon, May 20, 2019
Techcrunch Ford CTO Ken Washington at TC Sessions: Mobility on July 10
A conference dedicated to transportation and mobilitywouldn’t be complete without hearing from Ford, the U.S. automaker with a storied 116-year history. Were excited to announce that Ford CTO Ke...
05:05 pm GMT - Mon, May 20, 2019
Techcrunch Millions of Instagram influencers had their private contact data scraped and exposed
A massive database containing contact information of millions of Instagram influencers, celebrities and brand accounts has been found online. The database, hosted by Amazon Web Services, was left expo...
05:01 pm GMT - Mon, May 20, 2019
Techcrunch Daily Crunch: Huawei faces Android ban
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...
05:00 pm GMT - Mon, May 20, 2019
Techcrunch Apply for a free Startup Alley Exhibitor spot at Disrupt SF 2019
Do you love the word free? Of course, you do what early-stage startup founder doesnt? Consider this your personal invitation for a chance to exhibit your pre-Series A startup for free in Startup Alle...
04:33 pm GMT - Mon, May 20, 2019
Techcrunch China overtakes US in smart speaker market share
The U.S. no longer leads the smart speaker market, according to new data from Canalys out this morning, which found China’s smart speaker shipments grew by 500% in Q1 2019 to overtake the U.S. a...
04:15 pm GMT - Mon, May 20, 2019
Techcrunch On the Internet of Women with Moira Weigel
Feminism, the writer and editor Marie Shear famously said in an often-misattributed quote, is the radical notion that women are people. The genius of this line, of course, is that it appears to be ent...
04:01 pm GMT - Mon, May 20, 2019
Techcrunch Glass graduates from Google X as it scores new hardware update
Google’s head-worn smart display, Google Glass, in finally ready to move the tassel. After defining the company’s far-flung connected dreams when it was first announced in 2013, the enterp...
04:01 pm GMT - Mon, May 20, 2019
Techcrunch Glass graduates from Alphabets X as it scores new hardware update
Google’s head-worn smart display, Google Glass, is finally ready to move the tassel. After defining the company’s far-flung connected dreams when it was first announced in 2013, the enterp...
04:00 pm GMT - Mon, May 20, 2019
Techcrunch Graphic design platform Canva valued at $2.5B with new funds
The round represents the debut investment of Mary Meeker's Bond....
04:00 pm GMT - Mon, May 20, 2019
Techcrunch Pandora launches a new native Mac app
Pandora is rolling out new desktop apps for its streaming music listeners, starting with Mac. This morning, the company announced the launch of a native desktop app for Mac, with a Windows version to ...
04:00 pm GMT - Mon, May 20, 2019
Techcrunch Pandoras new native Mac app streams music, not podcasts
Pandora is rolling out new desktop apps for its streaming music listeners, starting with Mac. This morning, the company announced the launch of a native desktop app for Mac, with a Windows version to ...
03:59 pm GMT - Mon, May 20, 2019
Techcrunch Y Combinator promotes Geoff Ralston to president, while Sam Altman shifts to advisor role
Two months ago, when Sam Altman surprised the industry by stepping away from his post as the president of Y Combinator to become the CEO of OpenAI, an artificial intelligence-focused company, TechCrun...
03:38 pm GMT - Mon, May 20, 2019
Techcrunch MIT and U.S. Air Force team up to launch AI accelerator
The Pentagon is one of the largest technology customers in the world, purchasing everything from F-35 planes (roughly $90 million each) to cloud services (the JEDI contract was $10 billion). Despite o...
03:38 pm GMT - Mon, May 20, 2019
Techcrunch MIT and US Air Force team up to launch AI accelerator
The Pentagon is one of the largest technology customers in the world, purchasing everything from F-35 planes (roughly $90 million each) to cloud services (the JEDI contract was $10 billion). Despite o...
03:13 pm GMT - Mon, May 20, 2019
Techcrunch Ford will slash 7,000 salaried jobs by August
Ford Motor is laying off 7,000 salaried employees as part of CEO Jim Hackett’s restructuring plan to reduce bureaucracy, cut costs and turn the automaker into a more agile company prepared for a...
03:00 pm GMT - Mon, May 20, 2019
Techcrunch Amazon under greater shareholder pressure to limit sale of facial recognition tech to the government
This week could mark a significant setback for Amazon’s facial recognition business if privacy and civil liberties advocates and some shareholders get their way. Months earlier, shareholders t...
02:55 pm GMT - Mon, May 20, 2019
Techcrunch Why startups need to be careful about export licenses and the Huawei ban
America is the land of free trade precisely until it is not. Through a thicket of laws and regulations, the U.S. government has broad control over what can get exported to whom, particularly in areas...
02:39 pm GMT - Mon, May 20, 2019
Techcrunch Pitch your startup at TechCrunch Berlin Office Hours, with Mike Butcher
Berlin! TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin will be in December. Disrupt Berlin is where youll find the renowned Startup Battlefield competition, hundreds of startups in Startup Alley, Workshops and legendary n...
02:36 pm GMT - Mon, May 20, 2019
Techcrunch Facebook releases a trio of maps to aid with fighting disease outbreaks
Facebook this morning announced a new initiative focused on using its data and technologies to help nonprofit organizations and universities working in public health better map the spread of infectiou...
02:19 pm GMT - Mon, May 20, 2019
Techcrunch Select FCC leaders announce support for T-Mobile, Sprint merger
Its been more than a year since T-Mobile and Sprint formally announced a merger agreement. This morning, members of FCC leadership have issued statements voicing their support for the $26 billion prop...
02:17 pm GMT - Mon, May 20, 2019
Techcrunch Trumps Huawei ban also causing tech shocks in Europe
The escalating US-China trade war that’s seen Chinese tech giant Huawei slapped on a US trade blacklist is causing ripples of shock across Europe too, as restrictions imposed on US companies hit...
01:30 pm GMT - Mon, May 20, 2019
Techcrunch Googles own data proves two-factor is the best defense against most account hacks
Every once in a while someone will ask me what is the best security advice. The long answer is “it depends on your threat model,” which is just a fancy way of saying what’s good secu...
01:29 pm GMT - Mon, May 20, 2019
Techcrunch Smart TVs add fuel to Xiaomis Q1 earnings
Chinese smartphone company Xiaomi just released its first quarterly results since announcing its $1.48 billion pledge to focus on smartphones and ‘AIoT’, an acronym for Internet of Things ...
01:00 pm GMT - Mon, May 20, 2019
Techcrunch Identity platform Auth0 raises $103M, pushing its valuation over $1B
Auth0, a 2013-founded identity and authentication platform, has pushed into unicorn territory with a $1 billion valuation after raising $103 million in its latest Series E round. The round was led by ...
12:37 pm GMT - Mon, May 20, 2019
Techcrunch Robin picks up $20 million Series B to optimize the office
Robin Powered, a startup looking to help offices run better, has today announced the close of a $20 million Series B funding. The round was led by Tola Capital, with existing investors Accomplice and ...
12:35 pm GMT - Mon, May 20, 2019
Techcrunch Wagestream closes $51M Series A to plug the payday gap without putting workers in debt
Getting your work wages on a monthly (not weekly nor biweekly) basis has become a more widespread trend as the price of running payrolls has gone up, and organizations’ cashflow has gone down. T...
12:06 pm GMT - Mon, May 20, 2019
Techcrunch Clinc raises $52m Series B as it marches towards IPO
Ann Arbor, Michigan-based Clinc is today announcing a $52 million Series B. The company behind the conversational AI platform netted cash from Insight Partners, DFJ Growth, Drive Capital, Hyde Park Ve...
12:00 pm GMT - Mon, May 20, 2019
Techcrunch Agtech startup Agrilyst is now Artemis, raises $8M Series A
Artemis, the ag-tech startup formerly known as Agrilyst, today announced that it has raised an $8 million Series A funding round. The round was co-led by Astanor Ventures and Talis Capital, with parti...
11:19 am GMT - Mon, May 20, 2019
Techcrunch Vote now in TheEuropas Awards to find its hottest startups, and join Europes key players
In partnership with TechCrunch, The Europas Awards, recognising the hottest tech startups in Europe since 2009, is now open for its public vote. Weve sorted and sifted through a record number of entri...
11:16 am GMT - Mon, May 20, 2019
Techcrunch GDPR adtech complaints keep stacking up in Europe
It’s a year since Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force and leaky adtech is now facing privacy complaints in four more European Union markets. This ups the tal...
10:32 am GMT - Mon, May 20, 2019
Techcrunch Ikea invests in Livspace, a one-stop platform for interior design based in India
Fresh from raising $70 million last year via big names including Goldman Sachs and TPG Growth,Livspace, an India-based startup that offers a one-stop-shop for interior design, has lured yet another ma...
09:28 am GMT - Mon, May 20, 2019
Techcrunch Huawei responds to Android ban with service and security guarantees, but its future is unclear
Huawei has finally gone on the record about a ban on its use of Android, but the company’s long-term strategy on mobile still remains unclear. In an effort to appease its worried customer base, ...
08:00 am GMT - Mon, May 20, 2019
Techcrunch Want to save 200 on passes to Disrupt Berlin 2019?
Around here at TechCrunch we like to reward action with savings, and right now, the earlier you act the more money you save. Do we have your attention? Heres the deal. Disrupt Berlin 2019 takes place ...
07:30 am GMT - Mon, May 20, 2019
Techcrunch Facebooks latest account purge exposes Africas misinformation problem
Facebook last week purged a network of hundreds of pages, groups and Instagram accounts it labeled as producing coordinated inauthentic behavior toward Africa. The activity originated in Israel and wa...
07:22 am GMT - Mon, May 20, 2019
Techcrunch Several chip companies, including Qualcomm and Intel, have reportedly stopped supplying Huawei after blacklist
Several key suppliers are reportedly cutting off Huawei after the Trump administration added the Chinese telecom equipment and smartphone giant to a trade blacklist last week. According to Bloomberg, ...
06:54 am GMT - Mon, May 20, 2019
Techcrunch Google says its app store will continue to work for existing Huawei smartphone owners
Google said today that existing users of Huawei Android devices can continue to use Google Play app store, offering some relief to tens of millions of users worldwide even as it remains unclear if the...
02:49 am GMT - Mon, May 20, 2019
Techcrunch TikTok owner ByteDances long-awaited chat app is here
In WeChat -dominated China, there’s no shortage of challengers out there claiming to create an alternative social experience. The latest creation comes from ByteDance, the world’s most val...
11:03 pm GMT - Sun, May 19, 2019
Techcrunch These Johns Hopkins students are slashing breast cancer biopsy costs
Over 2 million women were diagnosed with breast cancer in 2018. And while the diagnosis doesn’t have to be a death sentence for women in countries like the United States, in developing countries...
08:28 pm GMT - Sun, May 19, 2019
Techcrunch Game of Thrones petition reaches 1M signatures ahead of finale
Life is short, difficult and, most likely, ultimately meaningless. In this age of immediate fan service, its important to remember that you cant always get what you want. That goes double when it come...
07:14 pm GMT - Sun, May 19, 2019
Techcrunch Google reportedly suspends select business with Huawei following U.S. ban
The Trump administration Huawei ban is sure to have wide-ranging and long lasting effects for all parties. In the meantime, it seems, a number of those involved in the periphery are treading lightly i...
07:14 pm GMT - Sun, May 19, 2019
Techcrunch Google reportedly suspends select business with Huawei over U.S. ban
The Trump administration Huawei ban is sure to have wide-ranging and long lasting effects for all parties. In the meantime, it seems, a number of those involved in the periphery are treading lightly i...
06:53 pm GMT - Sun, May 19, 2019
Techcrunch Week-in-Review: Apple has a Supreme headache and Bitcoin bites back
For all of the swirling conversations of tech regulation that have continues the past several years, few of those waxing poetic on the topic likely assumed that Apple would be the first tech giant to ...
06:17 pm GMT - Sun, May 19, 2019
Techcrunch Is a $600 smart oven ever worth it?
Part of closely following tech is the often mistaken belief that newer, better technologies can help right some of the wrongs older ones caused in the first place. Behold the Wii and the Fitbit two p...
04:50 pm GMT - Sun, May 19, 2019
Techcrunch How the (plant-based) sausage is about to be made
Its been a big year for Impossible . The bay area based food startup kicked the year off with a new take on its titual burger, and just last week announced the closing of a $300 million round hot on t...
04:30 pm GMT - Sun, May 19, 2019
Techcrunch As Amex scoops up Resy, a look at its history of acquisitions
American Express (also commonly known as AmEx), a popular credit and banking company, recently announcedthat it purchased a company calledResy. Resy helps people get seats at restaurants, or as AmEx d...
11:39 pm GMT - Sat, May 18, 2019
Techcrunch Equity transcribed: Aways $1.4B valuation and CrowdStrikes S-1
Welcome back to another transcribed edition of Equity, the wildly popular TechCrunch podcast that digs deep into the week’s news about … equity. There were no IPOs this week so there was o...
09:49 pm GMT - Sat, May 18, 2019
Techcrunch Sam Altmans leap of faith
Earlier this year, founder-investor Sam Altman left his high-profile role as the president of Y Combinator to become the CEO of OpenAI, an AI research center at its outset that founded by some of the ...
07:00 pm GMT - Sat, May 18, 2019
Techcrunch Immigrant founders, smartphone growth, SEO tactics, SoftBanks financials, and AR tech
How an immigration crackdown is hurting UK startups Our European correspondent Natasha Lomas spent the past few weeks investigating whats been happening to immigrant founders and tech talent in the UK...
04:30 pm GMT - Sat, May 18, 2019
Techcrunch Big revenues, huge valuations and major losses: charting the era of the unicorn IPO
We can make charts galore about the tech IPO market. Yet none of them diminish the profound sense that we are in uncharted territory.Never before have so many companies with such high revenues gone pu...
04:00 pm GMT - Sat, May 18, 2019
Techcrunch Original Content podcast: Game of Thrones burns it all down
This post and podcast contain spoilers for “Game of Thrones.” Our original co-host Darrell Etherington returns for this week’s Original Content podcast, which is all about “Gam...
03:49 pm GMT - Sat, May 18, 2019
Techcrunch Myneral.me wins the TechCrunch Hackathon at VivaTech
Its been a long night at VivaTech. The building hosted a very special competition the TechCrunch Hackathon in Paris. Hundreds of engineers and designers got together to come up with something cool, s...
12:00 pm GMT - Sat, May 18, 2019
Techcrunch Startups Weekly: Theres an alternative to raising VC and its called revenue-based financing
In this week's newsletter: Amazon takes a bite of Deliveroo and Away packs on $100M...
01:03 am GMT - Sat, May 18, 2019
Techcrunch How an immigration crackdown is hurting UK startups
The two people who sat down in reception without an appointment would not leave the startup’s office until the end of the day. Two months later, a letter followed informing the company it had be...
01:01 am GMT - Sat, May 18, 2019
Techcrunch How to navigate the UKs immigration compliance nightmare
The United Kingdom’s current government has ended up restricting high-skill immigration as part of its larger drive to decrease all immigration. While it pays lip service to being a startup hub,...
11:46 pm GMT - Fri, May 17, 2019
Techcrunch Clutter has picked up Omnis storage business; Omni to focus on rentals
On the heels of Clutter announcing a large growth roundof $200 million earlier this year, the storage startup is cleaning up the competitive field. TechCrunch has learned and confirmed that Clutter ha...
11:19 pm GMT - Fri, May 17, 2019
Techcrunch Ziplines new $190 million funding means its the newest billion dollar contender in the game of drones
With a valuation of over $1 billion and $190 million in new financing, Zipline has become the latest contender to be the leader in the game of drones. The competition to be a leading vendor of deliver...
10:40 pm GMT - Fri, May 17, 2019
Techcrunch As Quibi reportedly seeks another $1 billion, Fiction Riot fills the programming slate for its rival service
Even as Quibi, the short form video platform from Jeffrey Katzenberg’s WndrCo, reportedly looks to raise another $1 billion, rival service Fiction Riot continues to steadily build out its pipeli...
10:02 pm GMT - Fri, May 17, 2019
Techcrunch Powerbeats Pro are the Bluetooth earbuds to beat
Lets get the bad out of the way first, shall we? For starters, that charging case is huge. Theres no way around it. Its something thats become more and more apparent as the weather is warmer and I no ...
09:35 pm GMT - Fri, May 17, 2019
Techcrunch Starbucks Chinese nemesis surges 20% in public debut
Shares of Luckin Coffee jumped 20% in its first day of trading on the Nasdaq stock market. After opening at $17.00, shares of the Chinese Starbucks competitor climbed as high as $25.96, or more than 5...
08:42 pm GMT - Fri, May 17, 2019
Techcrunch Crypto exchange Goxtrade caught using other peoples photos on its staff page
Alleged cryptocurrency exchange Goxtrade bills itself as a “trusted platform for trading bitcoins,” but its staff page is filled with photos of people pulled seemingly at random from the i...
08:35 pm GMT - Fri, May 17, 2019
Techcrunch Netflix takes on Project Runway with new competition series co-hosted by Queer Eye star
Netflix is launching its own take on Project Runway, and it’s bringing in Queer Eye’s Tan France to host. While Project Runway has grown to become one of the most popular fashion-focused r...
08:20 pm GMT - Fri, May 17, 2019
Techcrunch DNA Script picks up $38.5 million to make DNA production faster and simpler
DNA Script has raised $38.5 million in new financing to commercialize a process that it claims is the first big leap forward in manufacturing genetic material. The revolution in synthetic biology that...
08:10 pm GMT - Fri, May 17, 2019
Techcrunch Credder offers Rotten Tomatoes-style ratings for the news
In an age of online misinformation and clickbait, how do you know whether a publication is trustworthy? Startup Credder is trying to solve this problem with reviews from both journalists and regular r...
07:44 pm GMT - Fri, May 17, 2019
Techcrunch Rivian debuts a pull-out kitchen for its electric pickup trick
Sometimes you need scrambled eggs. And with that thought, toady at the Overland Expo in Flagstaff, AZ, Rivian announced a major accessory for its electric pickup: A camp kitchen. The unit slides out f...
07:44 pm GMT - Fri, May 17, 2019
Techcrunch Rivian debuts a pull-out kitchen for its electric pickup truck
Sometimes you need scrambled eggs. And with that thought, today at the Overland Expo in Flagstaff, AZ, Rivian announced a major accessory for its electric pickup: A camp kitchen. The unit slides out f...
07:01 pm GMT - Fri, May 17, 2019
Techcrunch Magic Leap buys Belgian startup building hologram teleconferencing software
Princess Leia’s hologram message to Obi-Wan is getting closer to reality, at least augmented reality. Magic Leap announced yesterday that they’ve agreed to acquire Belgian startup Mimesys....
06:38 pm GMT - Fri, May 17, 2019
Techcrunch Old Town Road finally gets the video treatment
From viral TikTok sensation, to music’s number one smash hit, “Old Town Road” has taken the top spot in music’s cultural firmament relying on an incredible Nine Inch Nails samp...
06:19 pm GMT - Fri, May 17, 2019
Techcrunch Blue Origin and SpaceX get million-dollar NASA nod to test moon lander tech
Eleven aerospace companies will share more than $45 million in funds from NASA to design and test prototypes for the Artemis moon missions, the agency announced today. Among the established names like...
06:01 pm GMT - Fri, May 17, 2019
Techcrunch After breach, Stack Overflow says some user data exposed
After disclosing a breach earlier this week, Stack Overflow has confirmed some user data was accessed. In case you missed it, the developer knowledge sharing site confirmed Thursday a breach of its sy...
06:00 pm GMT - Fri, May 17, 2019
Techcrunch Under the hood on Zooms IPO, with founder and CEO Eric Yuan
Extra Crunch offers members the opportunity to tune into conference calls led and moderated by the TechCrunch writers you read every day. This week, TechCrunchs Kate Clark sat down with Eric Yuan, the...
05:36 pm GMT - Fri, May 17, 2019
Techcrunch Australias design unicorn, Canva, picks up two free image-sharing services, and launches new photo product
Canva, the design and publishing platform taking on Adobe, PowerPoint, and others, has acquired the free stock image providers Pexels and Pixabay and launched a new subscription service for its premiu...
05:33 pm GMT - Fri, May 17, 2019
Techcrunch Spotify is test driving a car hardware thing called Car Thing
For anyone following Spotify, this no doubt felt like an inevitably. As the streaming service looks to diversify, the companys already had some loose partnerships with hardware companies like Mighty. ...
04:43 pm GMT - Fri, May 17, 2019
Techcrunch Winter is coming for HBO NOW subscriber growth
Fan reaction to Game of Thrones‘ final season may be mixed, but the show has been undeniably good for HBO’s network — and for its over-the-top streaming service, HBO NOW. The Season ...
04:28 pm GMT - Fri, May 17, 2019
Techcrunch Fastly pops in public offering showing that theres still money for tech IPOs
Shares of Fastly, the service that’s used by websites to ensure that they can load faster, have popped in its first hours of trading on the New York Stock Exchange. The company, which priced its...
04:19 pm GMT - Fri, May 17, 2019
Techcrunch At this point, SoftBank Group is really just its Vision Fund
Last week, SoftBank Group Corp. Masayoshi Sons holding company for his rapidly expanding collection of businesses reported its fiscal year financials. There were some major headlines that came out o...
04:14 pm GMT - Fri, May 17, 2019
Techcrunch Daily Crunch: Amazon backs Deliveroo
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...
04:02 pm GMT - Fri, May 17, 2019
Techcrunch Postmates CEO Bastian Lehmann is coming to Disrupt SF
It’s a busy time for Postmates . The logistics and delivery company is prepping for its IPO on the back of a fresh $100 million raise in February. However, founder and CEO Bastian Lehmann is sti...
03:41 pm GMT - Fri, May 17, 2019
Techcrunch Alphabets Wing drone deliveries are coming to Finland next month
Slowly but surely, Wing is spreading. Just last month, the one-time Google moonshot started deliveries for select locales in Australias capital city, Canberra. Now its moving into Finland, taking on t...
03:39 pm GMT - Fri, May 17, 2019
Techcrunch Amazon now sells flight tickets in India
Indians can already use Amazon to pay for their mobile bills and borrow money to purchase items, but now there’s more. This week, the ecommerce giant quietly introduced an additional feature to ...
02:19 pm GMT - Fri, May 17, 2019
Techcrunch Microsoft aims to train and certify 15,000 workers on AI skills by 2022
Microsoft is investing in certification and training for a range of AI-related skills in partnership with education provider General Assembly, the companies announced this morning. The goal is to trai...
02:01 pm GMT - Fri, May 17, 2019
Techcrunch The state of the smartphone
Earlier this month, Canalys used the word freefall to describe its latest reporting. Global shipments fell 6.8% year over year. At 313.9 million, they were at their lowest level in nearly half a decad...
01:50 pm GMT - Fri, May 17, 2019
Techcrunch HPE is buying Cray for $1.3 billion
HPE announced it was buying Cray for $1.3 billion, giving it access to the company’s high performance computing portfolio, and perhaps a foothold into quantum computing in the future. The purcha...
01:22 pm GMT - Fri, May 17, 2019
Techcrunch MP Tom Watson wants UK competition authority to investigate Amazons Deliveroo stake
European restaurant delivery giant Deliveroo this morning announced that Amazon would be gobbling up a share in the company, by leading a new $575 million round of funding in it. But it looks like the...
01:01 pm GMT - Fri, May 17, 2019
Techcrunch Minecraft Earth makes the whole real world your very own blocky realm
When your game tops a hundred million players, your thoughts naturally turn to doubling that number. That's the case with the creators, or rather stewards, of Minecraft at Microsoft, where the game ha...
01:00 pm GMT - Fri, May 17, 2019
Techcrunch Health[at]Scale lands $16M Series A to bring machine learning to healthcare
Health[at]Scale, a startup with founders who have both medical and engineering expertise, wants to bring machine learning to bear on healthcare treatment options to produce outcomes with better result...
01:00 pm GMT - Fri, May 17, 2019
Techcrunch Health at Scale lands $16M Series A to bring machine learning to healthcare
Health at Scale, a startup with founders who have both medical and engineering expertise, wants to bring machine learning to bear on healthcare treatment options to produce outcomes with better result...
12:04 pm GMT - Fri, May 17, 2019
Techcrunch LG developed its own AI chip to make its smart home products even smarter
As its once-strong mobile division continues to slide, LG is picking up its focus on emerging tech. The company has pushed automotive, and particularly its self-driving capabilities, and today it doub...
12:00 pm GMT - Fri, May 17, 2019
Techcrunch Unpacking Aways $1.4B valuation, the startup studio model and CrowdStrikes S-1
Hello and welcome back toEquity, TechCrunchs venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines....
11:02 am GMT - Fri, May 17, 2019
Techcrunch Tutor House, the UK-based tutoring platform, scores 2M from Fuel Ventures
Tutor House, a U.K.-based startup that operates a marketplace to let parents find an online or in-person tutor for their children, has raises 2 million in funding. Backing the round, the first for the...
08:49 am GMT - Fri, May 17, 2019
Techcrunch Trumps Huawei ban wins one trade battle, but the US may lose the networking war
While U.S. government officials celebrate what they must consider to be a win in their battle against the low-cost, high-performance networking vendor Huawei and other Chinese hardware manufacturers, ...
08:10 am GMT - Fri, May 17, 2019
Techcrunch Macron defends his startup-friendly policies
For the third year as president, Frances president Emmanuel Macron talked to the French tech ecosystem at VivaTech in Paris. This time, he used this opportunity to defend his policies so far and say t...
07:43 am GMT - Fri, May 17, 2019
Techcrunch Chinas Luckin Coffee raises up to $651M in upsized US IPO
Another week, another cash-burning tech IPO in the U.S. Following on from Uber’s high-profile listing, ambitious Chinese startup Luckin Coffee has raised up to $650.8 million on the Nasdaq after...
06:53 am GMT - Fri, May 17, 2019
Techcrunch Amazon leads $575M investment in Deliveroo
Amazon is taking a slice of Europe’s food delivery market after the U.S. e-commerce giant led a $575 million investment in Deliveroo . First reported by Sky yesterday, the Series G round was con...
04:38 am GMT - Fri, May 17, 2019
Techcrunch Chat app Line is adding Snap-style disappearing stories
Facebook cloning Snap to death may be old news, but others are only just following suit.Line, the Japanese messaging app that’s popular in Asia, just became the latest to clone Snap’s ephe...
03:32 am GMT - Fri, May 17, 2019
Techcrunch Chelsea Manning is back in jail after refusing to cooperate with WikiLeaks investigation
Following a week-long release from an Alexandria, Virginia detention center, Chelsea Manning is back in jail. Manning was jailed in March for her refusal to cooperate with a grand jury investigation i...
12:08 am GMT - Fri, May 17, 2019
Techcrunch Baidu, Chinas answer to Google, reports first quarterly loss since 2005
Baidu, widely seen as the Google of China, felt the heat from its spending on artificial intelligence and other next-gen technologies that have yet to reach the mass market as it unveiled troubled fir...
10:33 pm GMT - Thu, May 16, 2019
Techcrunch Asus $499 ZenFone 6 has a flip-up camera and a giant battery
Premium smartphone manufacturers have moved the needle on pricing, but 2019 may well go down as a kind of golden age for budget flagships. Apple, Google and Samsung are all in that business now, and O...
10:33 pm GMT - Thu, May 16, 2019
Techcrunch Retail Zipline raises $9.6M from Emergence and Serena Williams
Retail Zipline, a startup aiming to improve communication between retail stores and corporate decision makers, announced today that it has raised $9.6 million in Series A funding. CEO Melissa Wong pre...
10:04 pm GMT - Thu, May 16, 2019
Techcrunch Stack Overflow confirms breach, but customer data said to be unaffected
Developer knowledge sharing site Stack Overflow has confirmed hackers breached its systems, but said customer data is unaffected. “Over the weekend, there was an attack on Stack Overflow,”...
09:00 pm GMT - Thu, May 16, 2019
Techcrunch The case for corporates to fill the seed vacuum
Over the past 5 years, there has been a clear drop in seed investing. From 2010-2014 there was an influx of micro VCs, well-equipped to deploy seed capital. Since then, we've seen a gradual decline....
08:48 pm GMT - Thu, May 16, 2019
Techcrunch Part fund, part accelerator, Contrary Capital invests in student entrepreneurs
Contrary Capital is raising $35 million to invest between $50,000 and $200,000 in students and recent college dropouts. ...
08:40 pm GMT - Thu, May 16, 2019
Techcrunch A year after outcry, carriers are finally stopping sale of location data, letters to FCC show
Reports emerged a year ago that all the major cellular carriers in the U.S. were selling location data to third-party companies, which in turn sold them to pretty much anyone willing to pay. New lette...
08:31 pm GMT - Thu, May 16, 2019
Techcrunch Apple & Google celebrate Global Accessibility Awareness Day with featured apps, new shortcuts
With last fall’s release of iOS 12, Apple introduced Siri Shortcuts — a new app that allows iPhone users to create their own voice commands to take actions on their phone and in apps. Toda...
08:31 pm GMT - Thu, May 16, 2019
Techcrunch How startups can use Amazons SEO best practices to dominate new shopping verticals
Amazon dominates the top ranking positions of Google for tens of thousands of ecommerce queries, but there are plenty of products in newer categories where Amazon has not yet achieved SEO supremacy. ...
08:04 pm GMT - Thu, May 16, 2019
Techcrunch Pinterest delivers first earnings report as a public company
Pinterest (NYSE: PINS) shared its first-quarter financials on Thursday after the closing bell....
07:14 pm GMT - Thu, May 16, 2019
Techcrunch Fiverr files to go public, reports revenue of $75.5M and a net loss of $36.1M for 2018
Freelance marketplace Fiverr has filed to go public on the New York Stock Exchange. The company, which is headquartered in Tel Aviv, is losing money its net losses grew from $19.3 million in 2017 to ...
07:03 pm GMT - Thu, May 16, 2019
Techcrunch ObjectiveEd is building a better digital curriculum for vision-impaired kids
Children with vision impairments struggle to get a solid K-12 education for a lot of reasons so the more tools their teachers have to impart basic skills and concepts, the better. ObjectiveEd is a st...
06:56 pm GMT - Thu, May 16, 2019
Techcrunch Ticketmaster put an end to screenshots with new digital ticket technology
Ticketmaster is turning to new technology to help fight ticket fraud. The ticketing giant today unveiled its next-generation digital tickets, “Safetix,” which are tied to the ticket holder...
06:50 pm GMT - Thu, May 16, 2019
Techcrunch Rivals in gaming, Microsoft and Sony team up on cloud services
For the last two decades, Sony and Microsoft's gaming divisions have been locked in all-out war against one another: on price, on hardware, on franchises, on exclusives... you name it. But it seems th...
06:43 pm GMT - Thu, May 16, 2019
Techcrunch The Meizu 16s offers flagship features at a mid-range price
Smartphones have gotten more expensive over the last few years even though there have only been a handful of recent innovations that really changed the way you interact with the phone. It’s mayb...
05:00 pm GMT - Thu, May 16, 2019
Techcrunch Airbnb adds former Apple retail chief Angela Ahrendts to board
Ahrendts, the former senior vice president fo retail at Apple, joins as Airbnb's third independent non-affiliated board member....
04:49 pm GMT - Thu, May 16, 2019
Techcrunch Global Learning Xprize splits $10M purse for best teaching app for disadvantaged kids
Kids need a good education to have the best chance of succeeding in the world, but in distant parts of developing countries that may be neither schools nor teachers. The Global Learning Xprize aimed t...
04:35 pm GMT - Thu, May 16, 2019
Techcrunch TikTok tops the iOS App Store for the fifth quarter in a row
Despite a $5.7 million FTC fine and changes to restrict its use by under 13-year-olds, TikTok retained its No. 1 position as the most downloaded app on the Apple App Store for the fifth consecutive qu...
04:15 pm GMT - Thu, May 16, 2019
Techcrunch Daily Crunch: Trump targets Huawei with emergency declaration
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...
04:05 pm GMT - Thu, May 16, 2019
Techcrunch Verified Expert Brand Designer: Milkinside
Gleb Kuznetsov refuses to settle for less. After spending years leading product design for startups and corporate clients, Gleb started a boutique branding agency, Milkinside, that helps clients trans...
03:57 pm GMT - Thu, May 16, 2019
Techcrunch Samsungs 5G phone hits Verizon, Sprint getting two 5G devices this month
With 5G, when it rains, it pours. A few hours after Verizon officially started selling the Samsung Galaxy S10 5G, Sprint announced that it will be offering two 5G devices for its network by the end of...
03:40 pm GMT - Thu, May 16, 2019
Techcrunch MultiVu raises $7M seed round for its next-gen 3D sensor
MultiVu, a Tel Aviv-based startup that is developing a new 3D imaging solution that only relies on a single sensor and some deep learning smarts, today announced that it has raised a $7 million seed r...
03:30 pm GMT - Thu, May 16, 2019
Techcrunch Vertex Ventures hits $230M first close on new fund for Southeast Asia and India
Tis the season to be raising in India and Southeast Asia. Hot on the heels of new funds from Strive and Jungle Ventures, so Singapore’s Vertex Ventures, a VC backed by sovereign wealth fund Tema...
03:30 pm GMT - Thu, May 16, 2019
Techcrunch Unveiling its latest cohort, Alchemist announces $4 million in funding for its enterprise accelerator
The enterprise software and services focused accelerator, Alchemist has raised $4 million in fresh financing from investors BASF and the Qatar Development Bank, just in time for its latest demo day un...
03:16 pm GMT - Thu, May 16, 2019
Techcrunch Replex gets $2.45M seed round to help track cloud native spend
Replex wants to help track cloud spending, but with a cloud native twist, and today it announced a $2.45 million seed round. The company previous raised $1.68 million in 2017 for a total of $4.15 mill...
03:14 pm GMT - Thu, May 16, 2019
Techcrunch Facebook changes algorithm to promote worthwhile & close friend content
Facebook is updating the News Feed ranking algorithm to incorporate data from surveys about who you say are your closest friends and which links you find most worthwhile. Today Facebook announced it&#...
02:32 pm GMT - Thu, May 16, 2019
Techcrunch Walmart beats on earnings in Q1, with US e-commerce up by 37%
Walmart’s investments in e-commerce are paying off. The retailer today announced its U.S. e-commerce sales grew by 37% in the first quarter, largely thanks to its booming online grocery business...
02:09 pm GMT - Thu, May 16, 2019
Techcrunch How to see our world in a new light
Startups are ultimately vessels of speculation, of new products, new markets, and innovations the world has never seen. While data and information are important components for exploring the frontiers ...
02:06 pm GMT - Thu, May 16, 2019
Techcrunch SugarCRM moves into marketing automation with Salesfusion acquisition
SugarCRM announced today that it has acquired Atlanta-based Salesfusion to help build out the the marketing automation side of its business. The deal closed last Friday. The companies did not share th...
02:00 pm GMT - Thu, May 16, 2019
Techcrunch Anchors new feature lets listeners leave voice messages for podcast hosts
Februarys acquisition of Anchor was a savvy move on Spotifys behalf. Its a clever and rapidly growing company that will help the music service get a big leg up in its bid to build podcast operation. F...
01:59 pm GMT - Thu, May 16, 2019
Techcrunch Instagram adds Stories to Explore tab. Heres how to get on it
Instagram’s pivot to Stories continues with an overhaul of Explore designed to let users dig deeper into their niche interests. Stories are now eligible to show up in the Explore tab for the fir...
01:35 pm GMT - Thu, May 16, 2019
Techcrunch Samsung reportedly readying Galaxy Fold for release after finding fix
Samsungs been mostly quiet on the Fold front after recalling review units and indefinitely delaying the phones release. Understandably so. It couldnt have been easy going back to the drawing board wit...
01:05 pm GMT - Thu, May 16, 2019
Techcrunch GetYourGuide picks up $484M, passes 25M tickets sold through its tourism activity app
As we swing into the summer tourist season, a company poised to capitalise on that has raised a huge round of funding. GetYourGuide — a Berlin startup that has built a popular marketplace for pe...
01:01 pm GMT - Thu, May 16, 2019
Techcrunch OpenFin raises $17 million for its OS for finance
OpenFin, the company looking to provide the operating system for the financial services industry, has raised $17 million in funding through a Series C round led by Wells Fargo, with participation from...
01:00 pm GMT - Thu, May 16, 2019
Techcrunch Openfinance opens up US trading of third-party digital assets
Openfinance, the secondary market for trading digital alternative assets, announced it will be opening up trading of third-party digital securities to US Investors, making it the first trading platfor...
12:26 pm GMT - Thu, May 16, 2019
Techcrunch Daimler and BMW-backed Kapten rides into London with anti-Uber ad campaign
Kapten, the French ride-hailing app backed by Daimler and BMW, has today launched in London, coupled with a feisty ad campaign taking a swipe at Uber’s tax arrangements. It follows Kapten (forme...
12:24 pm GMT - Thu, May 16, 2019
Techcrunch Europol, DOJ announce the takedown of the GozNym banking malware
Europol and the U.S. Justice Department, with help from six other countries, have disrupted and dismantled the GozNym malware, which they say stole more than $100 million from bank accounts since it f...
11:09 am GMT - Thu, May 16, 2019
Techcrunch Instagram is killing Direct, its standalone Snapchat clone app, in the next several weeks
As Facebook pushes ahead with its strategy to consolidate more of the backend of its various apps on to a single platform, it’s also doing a little simplifying and housekeeping. In the coming mo...
11:00 am GMT - Thu, May 16, 2019
Techcrunch Mobile ticketing company TodayTix raises $73M in new funding
TodayTix, a mobile ticketing company that makes it easy and relatively affordable to go to Broadway shows and other live performances, is announcing a new $73 million round of funding led by private e...
09:18 am GMT - Thu, May 16, 2019
Techcrunch Googles new plan to push Google Pay in India: cashback incentives in Android apps
Google is gunning for India’s payment companies. The U.S. search giant entered India’s payment space in 2017, and now it is hatching an initiative that could boost usage of its Google Pay ...
09:00 am GMT - Thu, May 16, 2019
Techcrunch Find out how to save 200 on Disrupt Berlin 2019
Calling all startup fans across Europe and around the world. The TechCrunch crews planning return-trip number seven to host Disrupt Berlin 2019on 11-12 December. The official registration doesnt open ...
08:40 am GMT - Thu, May 16, 2019
Techcrunch Alibaba invests about $635M in Red Star Macalline, one of Chinas largest furniture sellers
Alibaba Group has acquired about RMB 4.36 billion ($635 million) worth of convertible bonds in Red Star Macalline, one of Chinas biggest furniture retailers. If converted, this would give Alibaba abou...
08:01 am GMT - Thu, May 16, 2019
Techcrunch Chinas Tesla wannabe Xpeng starts ride-hailing service
There’re a lot of synergies between electric vehicles and ride-hailing. Drivers are able to save more steering an EV compared to a gas vehicle. Environmentally conscious consumers will choose to...
07:01 am GMT - Thu, May 16, 2019
Techcrunch Xnors AI2GO serves up custom edge AI models with a few clicks
AI would be useful for tons of everyday tasks for small businesses and other operations if people just knew how to build and deploy their own machine learning agent. Unfortunately, few do. Edge-based...
05:31 am GMT - Thu, May 16, 2019
Techcrunch Tech stocks slide on US decision to blacklist Huawei and 70 affiliates
The United States has been lobbying for months to prevent its western allies from using Huawei equipment in their 5G deployment, and on Wednesday, Washington made it more difficult for the Chinese tel...
04:55 am GMT - Thu, May 16, 2019
Techcrunch YouTrip, a challenger bank in Southeast Asia, raises $25M for expansion
Singapore-based startup YouTrip thinks consumers of Southeast Asia deserve a taste of the challenger bank revolution happening in the U.S. and Europe, and it has raised $25 million in new funding to b...
04:55 am GMT - Thu, May 16, 2019
Techcrunch YouTrip, a challenger bank in Southeast Asia, raises $25.5M for expansion
Singapore-based startup YouTrip thinks consumers of Southeast Asia deserve a taste of the challenger bank revolution happening in the U.S. and Europe, and it has raised $25.5 million in new funding to...
04:01 am GMT - Thu, May 16, 2019
Techcrunch Lilium unveils five-seater air taxi prototype after a successful maiden flight for its latest jet
Lilium, the Munich-based startup developing an on-demand “air taxi” service, has unveiled a new five-seater prototype and is announcing to the world that a maiden flight for the new device...
04:00 am GMT - Thu, May 16, 2019
Techcrunch 7 accessibility-focused startups snag grants from Microsoft
Microsoft has selected seven lucky startups to receive grants from its AI for Accessibility program. The growing companies aim to empower people with disabilities to take part in tech and the internet...
03:00 am GMT - Thu, May 16, 2019
Techcrunch XPRIZE names two grand prize winners in $15 million Global Learning Challenge
XPRIZE, the non-profit organization developing and managing competitions to find solutions to social challenges, has named two grand prize winners in the Elon Musk-backed Global Learning XPRIZE . The ...
12:23 am GMT - Thu, May 16, 2019
Techcrunch Having trouble with Amazon Alexa? Youre not the only one. [Update: Its fixed.]
Update: An Amazon spokesperson told TechCrunch “This afternoon we had an issue that impacted some Alexa customers ability to interact with the service. The Alexa service is now operating normall...
12:22 am GMT - Thu, May 16, 2019
Techcrunch Oh no, theres A.I. whiskey now
Forget all those whiskey brands from musicians and celebs — there’s A.I. whiskey now. Microsoft this week announced it has teamed up with Finnish tech company Fourkind and Sweden-based dis...
12:13 am GMT - Thu, May 16, 2019
Techcrunch Steam Link now lets you beam Steam games to your iOS devices
About a year ago, Valve announced that it was building an application called Steam Link. It’d let you play Steam games built for Mac/Windows/Linux on your iOS or Android devices through the magi...
11:15 pm GMT - Wed, May 15, 2019
Techcrunch Watch SpaceXs 60-satellite Starlink launch tonight right here
SpaceX's launch tonight is being performed for a very important client: itself. Yes, the Falcon 9 that will lift off at 7:30 PM Pacific time is loaded not with government or commercial payloads, but t...
11:15 pm GMT - Wed, May 15, 2019
Techcrunch Teslas communications chief is leaving the automaker
Dave Arnold, Tesla’s senior director of communications, is leaving the company after two-and-half years, according to sources familiar with the move. Tesla confirmed to TechCrunch that Arnold wa...
11:06 pm GMT - Wed, May 15, 2019
Techcrunch Accel closes $575M fund to double down on European and Israeli Series A deals
On the heels of Romanian-founded enterprise startup UiPath raising at a $7 billion valuation, the startup’s biggest investor is announcing a new fund to double down on making more investments in...
10:41 pm GMT - Wed, May 15, 2019
Techcrunch The White House wants to know if youve been censored or silenced by social media
Its no secret that the Trump administration has been at war with social media. In the past year, the president has accused several online giants of censoring conservative voices, in particular giants ...
10:41 pm GMT - Wed, May 15, 2019
Techcrunch You can now buy a 1 terabyte microSD card
Remember when the idea of having a terabyte of storage was just mind-blowing? Now they’re packing a terabyte onto a card the size of your pinky nail. In news that would have made teenage me̵...
10:20 pm GMT - Wed, May 15, 2019
Techcrunch Trump declares national emergency to protect U.S. networks from foreign espionage
President Donald Trump has declared a national emergency to “deal with the threat posed by the unrestricted acquisition or use in the United States of information and communications technology&#...
09:16 pm GMT - Wed, May 15, 2019
Techcrunch Tesla issues battery software update after Hong Kong vehicle fire
Tesla has started pushing out a software update that will change battery charge and thermal management settings in Model S sedans and Model X SUVs following a fire in a parked vehicle in Hong Kong ear...
08:00 pm GMT - Wed, May 15, 2019
Techcrunch Reality Check: The marvel of computer vision technology in todays camera-based AR systems
Augmented reality has the potential to instill awe and wonder in us just as magic would. For the very first time in the history of computing, we now have the ability to blur the line between the......
07:25 pm GMT - Wed, May 15, 2019
Techcrunch Googles Translatotron converts one spoken language to another, no text involved
Every day we creep a little closer to Douglas Adams' famous and prescient babelfish. A new research project from Google takes spoken sentences in one language and outputs spoken words in another but ...
06:25 pm GMT - Wed, May 15, 2019
Techcrunch White House refuses to endorse the Christchurch Call to block extremist content online
The United States will not join other nations in endorsing the “Christchurch Call” — a global statement that commits governments and private companies to actions that would curb the ...
05:02 pm GMT - Wed, May 15, 2019
Techcrunch Google recalls its Bluetooth Titan Security Keys because of a security bug
Google today disclosed a security bug in its Bluetooth Titan Security Key that could allow an attacker in close physical proximity to circumvent the security the key is supposed to provide. The compan...
05:02 pm GMT - Wed, May 15, 2019
Techcrunch Google discloses security bug in its Bluetooth Titan Security Keys, offers free replacement
Google today disclosed a security bug in its Bluetooth Titan Security Key that could allow an attacker in close physical proximity to circumvent the security the key is supposed to provide. The compan...
04:52 pm GMT - Wed, May 15, 2019
Techcrunch VMware acquires Bitnami to deliver packaged applications anywhere
VMware announced today that it’s acquiring Bitnami, the package application company that was a member of the Y Combinator Winter 2013 class. The companies didn’t share the purchase price. ...
04:25 pm GMT - Wed, May 15, 2019
Techcrunch Microsoft open-sources a crucial algorithm behind its Bing Search services
Microsoft today announced that it has open-sourced a key piece of what makes its Bing search services able to quickly return search results to its users. By making this technology open, the company ho...
04:25 pm GMT - Wed, May 15, 2019
Techcrunch Daily Crunch: SF bans agencies from using facial recognition tech
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...
04:18 pm GMT - Wed, May 15, 2019
Techcrunch New Black Mirror trailer features Miley Cyrus, Anthony Mackie and more dystopia
“Black Mirror” is coming back for its fifth season to once again show us why technology’s progress means we can no longer have nice things. The new season will tell three stories wri...
04:17 pm GMT - Wed, May 15, 2019
Techcrunch Zoom, housing affordability, Mailchimp, Yext, and Uber
Conference call with CEO Eric Yuan of newly-IPOd Zoom Since we first started Extra Crunch three months ago (my, time flies), weve been offering members live conference calls with our reporters. This w...
04:00 pm GMT - Wed, May 15, 2019
Techcrunch Demo your tech onstage at TC Sessions: Mobility 2019
Moving anything or anyone from point A to point B will never be the same, thanks to the rapid evolution taking place in mobility technology. And if youre ready to demo your mobile-focused early-stage ...
04:00 pm GMT - Wed, May 15, 2019
Techcrunch Twitch Prime adds its first non-gaming loot with access to anime streaming service Crunchyroll
Twitch Prime, the game streaming service’s version of Amazon Prime, has typically focused on offering subscribers free loot and other game-related perks since its debut a few years ago. Now, tha...
03:37 pm GMT - Wed, May 15, 2019
Techcrunch Amazon Fire TV tops 34 million users, widening its lead over Roku
Amazon Fire TV’s lead over rival streaming platform Roku is widening. In January at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Amazon said it had “well over” 30 million Fire TV user...
03:37 pm GMT - Wed, May 15, 2019
Techcrunch Amazon Fire TV tops 34 million users, potentially widening its lead over Roku
Amazon Fire TV’s lead over rival streaming platform Roku is widening. In January at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Amazon said it had “well over” 30 million Fire TV user...
03:28 pm GMT - Wed, May 15, 2019
Techcrunch G7 countries to sign charter on tech regulation in August
Digital ministers of the Group of 7 nations are meeting today to discuss an upcoming charter on toxic content and tech regulation at large. Those countries plan to sign a charter during the annual G7 ...
03:11 pm GMT - Wed, May 15, 2019
Techcrunch Tealium, a big data platform for structuring disparate customer information, raises $55M at $600M valuation
The average enterprise today uses about 90 different software packages, with between 30-40 of them touching customers directly or indirectly. The data that comes out of those systems can prove to be v...
03:11 pm GMT - Wed, May 15, 2019
Techcrunch Tealium, a big data platform for structuring disparate customer information, raises $55M at $850M valuation
The average enterprise today uses about 90 different software packages, with between 30-40 of them touching customers directly or indirectly. The data that comes out of those systems can prove to be v...
03:05 pm GMT - Wed, May 15, 2019
Techcrunch Solo.io wants to bring order to service meshes with centralized management hub
As containers and microservices have proliferated, a new kind of tool called the service mesh has developed to help manage and understand interactions between services. While Kubernetes has emerged as...
02:59 pm GMT - Wed, May 15, 2019
Techcrunch Madrona Venture Labs raises $11M to build companies from the ground up
The startup studio model is taking off....
02:58 pm GMT - Wed, May 15, 2019
Techcrunch New FCC proposal would make it easier for carriers to block robocalls
The current FCC commissioners stances havent always made them the most popular with consumers (see: net neutrality), but new, stricter robocall rules could help them win over some fans. Ajit Pai this ...
02:10 pm GMT - Wed, May 15, 2019
Techcrunch BookingBug relaunches as JRNI, as founder Shoosmith switches to Chief Architect role
It’s been a long road for BookingBug, a software platform originally conceived because its founder had trouble coordinating dates for a squash match. Born out of the evergreen problem companies ...
02:10 pm GMT - Wed, May 15, 2019
Techcrunch Measured promises a smarter approach to ad attribution
Measured is giving advertisers a new way to determine whether their ads are actually working. Many of those advertisers currently rely on multi-touch attribution, an approach designed to measure how e...
02:00 pm GMT - Wed, May 15, 2019
Techcrunch Nuras sound adapting earbuds are up for preorder, will start shipping in September
Im struggling to come up with a single bit of technology I was more excited about at CES than the Nuraloop. I reviewed Nuras original product fairly positively, but Ive never really be an over-ear hea...
02:00 pm GMT - Wed, May 15, 2019
Techcrunch Nuras sound-adapting earbuds are up for pre-order, will start shipping in September
Im struggling to come up with a single bit of technology I was more excited about at CES than the Nuraloop. I reviewed Nuras original product fairly positively, but Ive never really been an over-ear h...
01:38 pm GMT - Wed, May 15, 2019
Techcrunch Binance resumes trading following $40M bitcoin hack
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has resumed trading activity. Users can now cancel open orders, deposit crypto assets into their Binance account, and of course buy and sell cryptocurrencies. You cant ...
01:10 pm GMT - Wed, May 15, 2019
Techcrunch Egnyte brings native G Suite file support to its platform
Egnyte announced today that customers can now store G Suite files inside its storage, security and governance platform. This builds on the support the company previously had for Office 365 documents. ...
01:07 pm GMT - Wed, May 15, 2019
Techcrunch What Uber and Lyfts investment bankers got right
Startup CEOs heading to the public markets have a love/hate relationship with their investment bankers. On one hand, they are helpful in introducing a company to a wide range of asset managers who wil...
01:01 pm GMT - Wed, May 15, 2019
Techcrunch Alibaba returns to growth with revenue up 51% to $13.9 billion
It’s business as usual for Alibaba after the Chinese e-commerce giant bounced back from a lackluster Q3 — which saw its slowest growth for three years. For Q4, the company saw revenue surg...
01:00 pm GMT - Wed, May 15, 2019
Techcrunch DJI is out-GoProing GoPro with its own action camera
For a brief time, DJI and GoPro were partners or at least uncomfortable allies. Way back in 2014, the companies were joined together with the intention of building a drone designed to capture athlete...
01:00 pm GMT - Wed, May 15, 2019
Techcrunch Boosteds rugged electric scooter is launching at $1,599
Boosted, the maker of the electric skateboard Boosted Board, has unveiled its next mode of transportation: the electric scooter. Available for pre-order today, Boosted Rev costs $1,599 and is designed...
12:30 pm GMT - Wed, May 15, 2019
Techcrunch American Express is acquiring Resy
American Express has today announced its intentions to acquire Resy, the CRM and reservation platform based out of New York. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Resy launched back in 2014 as a p...
12:28 pm GMT - Wed, May 15, 2019
Techcrunch Karat nabs $28M led by Tiger Global to grow its human-powered online interview platform for engineering jobs
A high demand for engineering talent in our digital world has driven companies that need to make these technical hires to cast their nets wider in the search for good people. Now, a company that has b...
12:05 pm GMT - Wed, May 15, 2019
Techcrunch With $12 million more in the bag, the furniture subscription service Feather heads to Los Angeles
Furniture subscription rental service, Feather, is heading to Los Angeles and Orange County, California with $12 million in new funding and “thousands” of customers in New York and San Fra...
11:30 am GMT - Wed, May 15, 2019
Techcrunch In travel tech, 4 rivals merge in Europe to form Altido for property management of Airbnb-style homes
The growth of Airbnb and other big travel startups has given a fillip to the wider travel industry, and today several smaller startups in the short-term property sector are announcing that they have m...
11:13 am GMT - Wed, May 15, 2019
Techcrunch Tencents mixed bag for Q1: record profit despite weakest revenue growth yet
Tencent, Asia’s largest tech firm, had a horrific 2018 on account of a country-wide freeze on new game monetization in China, but there’s evidence it has turned the corner. The companyR...
09:45 am GMT - Wed, May 15, 2019
Techcrunch Online grocery startup Grofers lands $200M led by SoftBanks Vision Fund
Hot on the heels of Indian delivery startup BigBasket raising $150 million — at a unicorn valuation, no less — so its close rival Grofers has also pulled in capital after it announced a $2...
08:31 am GMT - Wed, May 15, 2019
Techcrunch Indias ride-hailing firm Ola is now in the credit card business, too
A day after Indias largest wallet app Paytm entered the credit cards business, local ride-hailing giant is following suit. Ola has inked a deal with state-run SBI bank and Visa to issue as many as 10 ...
07:01 am GMT - Wed, May 15, 2019
Techcrunch Last call: Sign up for the TC Hackathon at VivaTech 2019
This ones dedicated to all the genius hackers, coders and creators who also happen to be inveterate procrastinators. Right here, right now this is your final opportunity to participate in the TechCru...
06:09 am GMT - Wed, May 15, 2019
Techcrunch Facebook introduces one strike policy to combat abuse of its live-streaming service
Facebook is cracking down on its live streaming service after it was used to broadcast theshocking mass shootings that left 50 dead at two Christchurch mosques in New Zealand in March. The social netw...
05:49 am GMT - Wed, May 15, 2019
Techcrunch Huawei launches AI-backed database to target enterprise customers
China’s Huawei is making a serious foray into the enterprise business market after it unveiled a new database management product on Wednesday, putting it in direct competition with entrenched ve...
05:35 am GMT - Wed, May 15, 2019
Techcrunch Trump is reportedly preparing to sign an executive order that would enable a ban on Huawei in the US
As the trade war with China intensifies again, President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order that would make possible a ban on American companies from using telecommunications equipmen...
04:53 am GMT - Wed, May 15, 2019
Techcrunch Volvo inks multi-billion dollar battery deals with LG Chem and CATL for EVs
Volvo Car Group has inked a massive multi-billion dollar supply deal with the Chinese battery manufacturer, CATL, and Korea’s LG Chem to supply its planned fleet of electric vehicles. The lithiu...
03:05 am GMT - Wed, May 15, 2019
Techcrunch Twitter launches new search features to stop the spread of misinformation about vaccines
As measles outbreaks in the United States and other countries continue to get worse, Twitter is introducing new search tools meant to help users find credible resources about vaccines. It will also st...
12:02 am GMT - Wed, May 15, 2019
Techcrunch Uber Black launches Quiet Driver Mode
Tired of chatty drivers? Uber is finally giving users its most requested feature: an in-app way to request minimal conversation during your ride. The “Quiet Mode” feature is free and will ...
11:51 pm GMT - Tue, May 14, 2019
Techcrunch Jeff Bezos personally dumps a truckload of dirt on FedExs future
Amazon want to be plenty of things, the most predictable of which is its ambitions to control America’s shipping backbone. The company’s efforts to bring users whatever they desire in 24 h...
11:45 pm GMT - Tue, May 14, 2019
Techcrunch Trendy luggage brand Away packs on $100M, rolls past $1.4B valuation
Away's new lofty valuation proves how far you can get with excellent branding....
10:48 pm GMT - Tue, May 14, 2019
Techcrunch CrowdStrike, a cybersecurity unicorn, files to go public
The SaaS endpoint protection firm submitted documents to the SEC on Tuesday afternoon....
10:01 pm GMT - Tue, May 14, 2019
Techcrunch San Francisco passes city government ban on facial recognition tech
On Tuesday, San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors voted to approve a ban on the use of facial recognition tech by city agencies. The Stop Secret Surveillance Ordinance, introduced by San Francisc...
10:00 pm GMT - Tue, May 14, 2019
Techcrunch Preparing for a future of drone-filled skies
There are as many reasons to get excited about solving the problem of drone-filled skies as there are reasons to be concerned about their negative implications. ...
09:24 pm GMT - Tue, May 14, 2019
Techcrunch Stocks gain back some ground as investors assess the trade wars impact
Stocks had their best trading day in a while on Tuesday as investors took a break from selling to assess the actual effects of the trade war with China. Both the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S...
08:30 pm GMT - Tue, May 14, 2019
Techcrunch Apply now for Startup Battlefield at Disrupt SF 2019
Were looking for fearless early-stage startup founders who want to launch their business on a global stage. Were talking about competing in Startup Battlefield, our legendary, life-altering pitch-off ...
08:16 pm GMT - Tue, May 14, 2019
Techcrunch Innowatts raises $18 million for its energy monitoring toolkit for utilities
Innowatts, an automated toolkit for energy monitoring and management targeting utilities has raised $18.2 million in a new round of funding from investors led by Energy Impact Partners . Previous inve...
08:02 pm GMT - Tue, May 14, 2019
Techcrunch New Relic takes a measured approach to platform overhaul
New Relic, the SaaS applications performance management platform, announced a major update to that platform today. Instead of ripping off the band-aid all at once, the company has decided to take a mo...
07:55 pm GMT - Tue, May 14, 2019
Techcrunch SpaceX kicks off its space-based internet service tomorrow with 60-satellite Starlink launch
As wild as it sounds, the race is on to build a functioning space internet and SpaceX is taking its biggest step yet with the launch of 60 (!) satellites tomorrow that will form the first wave of its...
07:34 pm GMT - Tue, May 14, 2019
Techcrunch Federal labor lawyer says Uber drivers are not employees
There has been an ongoing debate regarding whether or not gig-economy drivers for Uber and Lyft are independent contractors or employees, who would be eligible for benefits. The National Labor Relatio...
07:25 pm GMT - Tue, May 14, 2019
Techcrunch Game Of Thrones showrunners are making the next Star Wars movie
  Love it or hate it, Game of Thrones ends this week. The series finale will air this upcoming Sunday, capping a final season that has been criticized for being too short, too rushed, and, at tim...
06:59 pm GMT - Tue, May 14, 2019
Techcrunch Beyond costs, what else can we do to make housing affordable?
In this section ofmy exploration into innovation in inclusive housing, I am digging into the 200+ companies impacting the key phases of developing and managing housing....
06:51 pm GMT - Tue, May 14, 2019
Techcrunch VRs most popular game is getting more features (and more expensive)
VR’s most hyped game is getting a price bump later this month as it expands the amount of headsets that it’s playable on. We did a big deep-dive last week on Beat Saber, the best seller fr...
06:29 pm GMT - Tue, May 14, 2019
Techcrunch After year-long lockout, Twitter is finally giving people their accounts back
Twitter is finally allowing a number of locked users to regain control of their accounts once again. Around a year after Europe’s new privacy laws (GDPR) rolled out, Twitter began booting users ...
06:24 pm GMT - Tue, May 14, 2019
Techcrunch D2C underwear brand TomboyX raises $18 million from Craftory
TomboyX, a direct to consumer, gender-neutral underwear brand, has today announced the close of an $18 million Series B funding round led by Craftory. With this deal, Craftory becomes TomboyX’s ...
05:51 pm GMT - Tue, May 14, 2019
Techcrunch NASA gives its new Moon mission a name: Artemis
Cool missions need cool names, and NASA's new plan to establish a permanent lunar presence and put an American on the Moon again now has one: Artemis. It's nod both to Apollo, the 50th anniversary of ...
05:43 pm GMT - Tue, May 14, 2019
Techcrunch Musks new lawyer fights pedo guy defamation lawsuit claims, questions motive
SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s lawyer argued Tuesday in a court filing that the British cave diver who became embroiled in a public spat with his client and later sued for defamation can’...
05:39 pm GMT - Tue, May 14, 2019
Techcrunch Apple, Google and Microsoft release patches for ZombieLoad chip flaws
Big tech is stepping in to patch newly disclosed security flaws affecting almost every Intel chip since 2011. Researchers on Tuesday released details of the vulnerability, known as ZombieLoad or micr...
05:39 pm GMT - Tue, May 14, 2019
Techcrunch Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Mozilla release patches for ZombieLoad chip flaws
Big tech is stepping in to patch newly disclosed security flaws affecting almost every Intel chip since 2011. Researchers on Tuesday released details of the vulnerability, known as ZombieLoad or micr...
05:36 pm GMT - Tue, May 14, 2019
Techcrunch World leaders ask tech giants to tackle toxic content with Christchurch Call
On Wednesday, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will ask tech companies to sign a pledge called the Christchurch Call, as The New York Times previously reported. Digital ministers of the Group...
05:18 pm GMT - Tue, May 14, 2019
Techcrunch Google makes travel planning easier
Google today announced a major revamp of its travel planning tools on the web. After launching a similar set of tools on mobile last year, the company today announced that google.com/travel on the web...
05:05 pm GMT - Tue, May 14, 2019
Techcrunch CEO Howard Lerman on building a public company and the future of Yext
It’s just over two years since Yext debuted on the New York Stock Exchange, and to mark the occasion, I sat down with co-founder and CEO Howard Lerman for an interview. As Lerman noted, Yext wh...
05:00 pm GMT - Tue, May 14, 2019
Techcrunch TC Sessions: Mobility announces its July 10 agenda
TechCrunch Sessions is heading to San Jose on July 10 and were thrilled to announce our jam-packed agenda, overflowing with some of the biggest names and most exciting startups in the transportation i...
05:00 pm GMT - Tue, May 14, 2019
Techcrunch AR display-maker DigiLens lands $50 million from Samsung, Niantic
The broader AR market is made up of a lot of hype and excitement, but fundamentally it’s all based around the promise that waveguide displays can continue to stay wafer-thin while getting better...
05:00 pm GMT - Tue, May 14, 2019
Techcrunch New secret-spilling flaw affects almost every Intel chip since 2011
Security researchers have found a new class of vulnerabilities in Intel chips which, if exploited, can be used to steal sensitive information directly from the processor., The bugs are reminiscent of ...
04:59 pm GMT - Tue, May 14, 2019
Techcrunch Twitters new Developer Labs offers beta access to rebuilt APIs
Twitter is finally modernizing its core APIs after seven years of stagnation, and it wants early feedback from developers. That’s why today it’s launching Twitter Developer Labs, which app...
04:36 pm GMT - Tue, May 14, 2019
Techcrunch Google Cloud launches its second region in Japan
Google today announced the launch of its Osaka region, its second cloud region in Japan and seventh in Asia Pacific. With this, the company now offers its users a total of twenty regions, all of which...
04:34 pm GMT - Tue, May 14, 2019
Techcrunch Voi unveils longer-lasting e-scooters designed to withstand rentals, and launches its first e-bikes
Voi Technology, the “micro-mobility” startup that operates an e-scooter service on the streets of a growing number of European cities, has unveiled a range of new scooters and a first e-bi...
04:32 pm GMT - Tue, May 14, 2019
Techcrunch Africa e-tailer Jumia issues post-IPO results amid short-sell assault
For Pan-African e-commerce startup Jumia, going public has been an up and down affair. The company filed SEC IPO docs in March and saw its share rise 70% after listing on the NYSE in April at $14.50. ...
04:22 pm GMT - Tue, May 14, 2019
Techcrunch Daily Crunch: Impossible Foods raises $300M
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...
04:20 pm GMT - Tue, May 14, 2019
Techcrunch Walmart, Tyson Foods and J.B. Hunt launch a logistics accelerator in Arkansas with Plug and Play
Plug and Play, the accelerator network that works with corporations to invest and advise startup technology companies, is partnering with Walmart, Tyson Foods and J.B. Hunt to set up a logistics-focus...
04:05 pm GMT - Tue, May 14, 2019
Techcrunch Verified Expert Brand Designer: Phil Weiner
As a former entrepreneur turned independent designer, Phil Weiner gets the startup life. He often describes himself as a second co-founder for his clients, unafraid of 2AM phone calls and prepping pit...
04:00 pm GMT - Tue, May 14, 2019
Techcrunch OnePlus redefines premium with the 7 Pro
OnePlus has never been particularly beholden to industry trends. Nowhere is that better demonstrated than with the 7 Pro. In the face of a stagnated smartphone market, Apple, Samsung and Google all we...
04:00 pm GMT - Tue, May 14, 2019
Techcrunch You probably werent a target of the WhatsApp surveillance hack
Every once in a while a major bug, vulnerability or security scare will spark panic. In most cases, it’s absolutely unnecessary panic. Take yesterday’s reported vulnerability. Israeli hack...
04:00 pm GMT - Tue, May 14, 2019
Techcrunch OnePlus new $99 earbuds promise long battery, better sound
OnePlus original Bullets werent the sexiest of earbuds, but they were a solid, workhorse offering for those who prefer a yolked design to fully wireless. And like the rest of OnePlus offerings, the pr...
04:00 pm GMT - Tue, May 14, 2019
Techcrunch Sisense acquires Periscope Data to build integrated data science and analytics solution
Sisense announced today that it has acquired Periscope Data to create what it is calling, a complete data science and analytics platform for customers. The companies did not disclose the purchase pric...
03:54 pm GMT - Tue, May 14, 2019
Techcrunch Google Express becomes an all-new Google Shopping in big revamp
Google is giving its Shopping destination a revamp and introducing a universal cart across its platform of services, including Search, Shopping, Images, and even YouTube. The search company announced ...
03:00 pm GMT - Tue, May 14, 2019
Techcrunch Algorithmia raises $25M Series B for its AI automation platform
Algorithmia, a Seattle-based startup that offers a cloud-agnostic AI automation platform for enterprises, today announced a $25 million Series B funding round led by Norwest Partners. Madrona, Gradien...
02:42 pm GMT - Tue, May 14, 2019
Techcrunch Match now offers dating coaches who help its members with profiles, dating challenges
If the world of online dating feels too intimidating, Match’s new service AskMatch aims to help. The flagship dating brand from Match Group — which also operates Tinder, Hinge, OKCupid, Pl...
02:01 pm GMT - Tue, May 14, 2019
Techcrunch Coinbase expands USDC stablecoin support to 85 countries
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is ramping up stablecoin support around the world. Customers can now trade USD Coin (or USDC for short) in 85 countries USDC support was only available in the U.S. ex...
02:01 pm GMT - Tue, May 14, 2019
Techcrunch Bitcoin has surged above $8,000 and theories around why abound
Bitcoin is now trading at around $8,130, up a whopping 60.84 percent over the past month, with the price surging $3,086.14 over the period. The cryptocurrency’s meteoric rise is reminiscent of i...
01:59 pm GMT - Tue, May 14, 2019
Techcrunch Googles latest app, Rivet, uses speech processing to help kids learn to read
Rivet, a new app from Google’s in-house incubator, wants to help children struggling to read. The app hails from Area 120 — Google’s workshop for experimental projects — and in...
01:53 pm GMT - Tue, May 14, 2019
Techcrunch HPs new gaming laptop has more screens for more content
Theres something about gaming laptops that make manufacturers do weird things. Its kind of wonderful, in a way. Companies tend to give their teams a much wider berth for strange and novel designs, and...
01:39 pm GMT - Tue, May 14, 2019
Techcrunch Disney is taking operational control of Hulu, with Comcast selling its stake in 2024
Disney will be taking full operational control of Hulu, although Comcast will hold onto its ownership stake until 2024. Disney became a majority owner of in the streaming service currently a joint ve...
01:30 pm GMT - Tue, May 14, 2019
Techcrunch Early-stage investment firm Defy hires Eventbrite exec Brian Rothenberg as partner
Defy, a Series A venture capital fund, has hired its first non-founding partner....
01:01 pm GMT - Tue, May 14, 2019
Techcrunch Adobe ties up with Amazon to build D2C stores powered by Amazons commerce and fulfillment tools
E-commerce giant Amazon was built on the concept of a large marketplace that could be the home for all online shopping, whether it was for items and services it was selling itself or those sold by thi...
01:00 pm GMT - Tue, May 14, 2019
Techcrunch Adobe Lightroom adds tutorials, shared albums and texture control
Adobe Lightroom is getting its first new slider in a long time today that helps bring out texture in images. This new feature, which will be available in Lightroom, Lightroom Classic and Camera Raw, i...
01:00 pm GMT - Tue, May 14, 2019
Techcrunch Hailo launches its newest deep learning chip
Hailo, a Tel Aviv-based AI chipmaker, today announced that it is now sampling its Hailo -8 chips, the first of its deep learning processors. The new chip promises up to 26 tera operations per second (...
01:00 pm GMT - Tue, May 14, 2019
Techcrunch Tempo Automation raises $45M Series C for its turnkey circuit board manufacturing solution
Tempo Automation, a San Francisco-based startup that helps shorten the time from prototype to production for electronics manufacturers, announced today that it has raised a $45 million Series C led by...
01:00 pm GMT - Tue, May 14, 2019
Techcrunch Sonos finally gets Google Assistant integration
After delaying a promised 2018 arrival (while offering a beta as consolation), Google Assistant is finally arriving on select Sonos speakers. Not an earth shattering bit of news, but certainly a nice ...
01:00 pm GMT - Tue, May 14, 2019
Techcrunch The Statue of Liberty gets an AR app to celebrate its new museum
This week, the new $100 million Statue of Liberty Museum opens in the shadow of one of Americas most iconic landmarks. The 26,000 square foot space offers insights into the statues storied history, al...
01:00 pm GMT - Tue, May 14, 2019
Techcrunch Lambs, the radiation-proof underwear company formerly known as Spartan, is now selling beanies
Earlier this year, Spartan, the French manufacturer of a silver-lined underwear designed to block EMF radiation from cell phones and wireless routers, relocated to the U.S. and raised some capital fro...
12:58 pm GMT - Tue, May 14, 2019
Techcrunch LinkedIn integrates and updates jobs and hiring platforms, hits 20M job postings
LinkedIn, the social networking platform for the working world that’s now owned by Microsoft, has leveraged its role as a repository for people’s work profiles into making itself a job hun...
12:23 pm GMT - Tue, May 14, 2019
Techcrunch Google announces $11.2 million grant fund for organizations working on safety
Google.org, the charitable arm of Google, just announced a new grant fund for European organizations. This fund in particular will support nonprofits, universities, research teams and for-profit socia...
11:26 am GMT - Tue, May 14, 2019
Techcrunch InnoVen Capital, one of Asias most prominent venture debt firms, adds $200M more to its kitty
Founders might not believe it, but managing a venture capital firm isn’t all that dissimilar to a startup. Case in point today: InnoVen Capital, one of Asia’s most prominent venture debt f...
11:00 am GMT - Tue, May 14, 2019
Techcrunch Spotify-owned Soundtrap launches a podcast studio in the cloud
In November 2017, Spotify picked up the online music studio Soundtrap as part of its efforts to offer more services to artists on its platform. Now that Spotify has a growing interest in podcasts and ...
10:22 am GMT - Tue, May 14, 2019
Techcrunch EV startup Rimac scores $90M investment from Hyundai and Kia
Rimac Automobili, the European EV startup that landed an investment from Porsche last year, has again gained the backing of traditional automakers after Hyundai Motor Company and Kia Motors jointly in...
10:00 am GMT - Tue, May 14, 2019
Techcrunch Amazon rolls out Alexa Guard, to help protect your home while youre out
Amazon announced this morning that its begun to roll out Alexa Guard to all Echo customers in the U.S. The feature lets the companys line of smart home products double as home security devices while t...
09:55 am GMT - Tue, May 14, 2019
Techcrunch Indias largest mobile wallet company Paytm now offers a credit card
Paytm, Indias largest mobile wallet app, has branched out to several businesses in recent years. On Tuesday, it added another category to the list: credit cards. The firm, operated by One97 Communicat...
09:34 am GMT - Tue, May 14, 2019
Techcrunch JD.com to foster connected vehicle fleets with $55M investment
JD.com, the Chinese answer to Amazon and Alibaba’s long-time rival, is looking to further automate its logistics network after agreeing to pour 376 million yuan (around $55 million) into Jiangsu...
09:13 am GMT - Tue, May 14, 2019
Techcrunch Healthcare booking platform DocPlanner scores 80M Series E
DocPlanner, the Poland-founded healthcare booking platform that now processes 1.5 million bookings every month globally, has closed 80 million in Series E financing. The round is led by One Peak Partn...
09:00 am GMT - Tue, May 14, 2019
Techcrunch Pleo, the multi-card business spending platform, closes $56M Series B
Pleo, the Danish fintech that offers a “business spending platform” that lets companies easily issue employees with cards and manage expenditure, has raised a hefty $56 million in Series B...
08:41 am GMT - Tue, May 14, 2019
Techcrunch Seed investor Gree Ventures makes first close of new $130M fund and rebrands to Strive
There’s big news for one of India and Southeast Asia’s longest-running early-stage investors after Gree Ventures, the fund attached to Japanese gaming firm Gree, announced the first close ...
08:00 am GMT - Tue, May 14, 2019
Techcrunch Meet the TC Hackathon at Vivatech 2019 judges & hackmaster
In just three short days, some of the best hackers, coders, programmers and creative tech geniuses in the world will arrive in Paris to compete in the TechCrunch Hackathon at VivaTech 2019 on 17-18 Ma...
08:00 am GMT - Tue, May 14, 2019
Techcrunch Urban closes $10M Series B in bid to become one-stop shop for on-demand wellness services
Urban, the London-headquartered company that lets you book a growing range of wellness services on-demand — now including massage, osteopathy, facial, and nail services — has raised $10 mi...
05:43 am GMT - Tue, May 14, 2019
Techcrunch Shares of SoftBank Group, Ubers biggest stakeholder, slide after its disappointing IPO
As Ubers biggest shareholder, SoftBank Group had high hopes for the ride-sharing companys stock market debut last week. Instead, the Japanese conglomerates shares have been sliding along with Ubers fo...
04:01 am GMT - Tue, May 14, 2019
Techcrunch Walmart announces next-day delivery on 200K items in select markets
This month, Amazon announced it’s investing $800 million in its warehouses and delivery infrastructure in order to double the speed of Prime shipping by reducing it to only one day. Now Walmart ...
12:01 am GMT - Tue, May 14, 2019
Techcrunch XPRIZE seeks high-tech solutions to Californias fire problems
The fire season is just a few weeks away here in California, and its expected to be worse than ever. But there’s a new plan in the works to help catch fires before they get out of control. XPRIZ...
11:30 pm GMT - Mon, May 13, 2019
Techcrunch WhatsApp exploit let attackers install government-grade spyware on phones
WhatsApp just fixed a vulnerability that allowed malicious actors to remotely install spyware on affected phones, and an unknown number reportedly did so with a commercial-grade snooping package usual...
11:30 pm GMT - Mon, May 13, 2019
Techcrunch Announcing TechCrunch Sessions: Enterprise this September in San Francisco
Of the many categories in the tech world, none is more ferociously competitive than enterprise. For decades, SAP, Oracle, Adobe, Microsoft, IBM and Salesforce, to name a few of the giants, have battle...
11:06 pm GMT - Mon, May 13, 2019
Techcrunch Tech stocks tumble as China retaliates in latest salvo of the trade war
Shares of technology companies were hit hard as China retaliated against the U.S. in the latest salvo of the ongoing trade war between the two countries. The S&P 500 Index shed roughly $1.1 trilli...
08:48 pm GMT - Mon, May 13, 2019
Techcrunch Uber had an abysmal second day of trading
It’s not looking great for ride-hailing giant Uber (NYSE: UBER). Today, Uber closed its second day of trading down more than 18.8% from its IPO price at $37.25 per share, with a market cap of $6...
08:24 pm GMT - Mon, May 13, 2019
Techcrunch Market map: the 200 innovative startups transforming affordable housing
How founders are taking on housing costs worldwide....
08:24 pm GMT - Mon, May 13, 2019
Techcrunch Innovations in inclusive housing
A look at hundreds of startups rebuilding affordable housing from the ground up....
07:39 pm GMT - Mon, May 13, 2019
Techcrunch Spotify is testing its own version of Stories called Storyline
Spotify is testing its own version of Stories — the sharing format popularized by social apps like Snapchat and Instagram and has since made its way to other apps like Facebook, YouTube, WhatsAp...
06:43 pm GMT - Mon, May 13, 2019
Techcrunch Looking back at Zooms IPO with CEO Eric Yuan
Since the launch of its IPO in mid-April, Zoom stock has skyrocketed, up nearly 30% as of Monday’s open. However, as the company’s valuation continues to tick up, analysts and industry pun...
06:42 pm GMT - Mon, May 13, 2019
Techcrunch Twitter bug disclosed some users location data to an unnamed partner
Twitter on Monday afternoon disclosed a bug that in certain conditions resulted in an account’s location data being shared with a Twitter partner — even if the user had not opted in to sha...
06:36 pm GMT - Mon, May 13, 2019
Techcrunch MailChimps Ben Chestnut on bootstrapping a startup to $700M in revenue
The well-known tech startup routine of coming up with an idea, raising money from VCs in increasing rounds as valuations continue to rise, and then eventually going public or getting acquired has been...
06:30 pm GMT - Mon, May 13, 2019
Techcrunch The misunderstandings of 18-month-old Luckins $500M IPO
Luckin Coffee is the most energizing IPO in recent memory, and not just because it sells caffeine. Most venture-backed startups can take a decade to reach the public markets. Luckin cut that time down...
06:28 pm GMT - Mon, May 13, 2019
Techcrunch Uber offers shareable video of drivers journey
A new feature rolling out to Uber drivers offers a semi-customized look at their journey with the company. On the face of it, the video is similar to the sort offered up by Facebook on the occasion of...
06:26 pm GMT - Mon, May 13, 2019
Techcrunch After criticism over moderator treatment, Facebook raises wages and boosts support for contractors
Facebook has been repeatedly (and rightly) hammered for its treatment of the content moderators who ensure the site doesn’t end up becoming a river of images, videos and articles embodying the w...
06:18 pm GMT - Mon, May 13, 2019
Techcrunch Boost Mobile says hackers broke into customer accounts
Boost Mobile, a virtual mobile network owned by Sprint, has confirmed hackers have broken into an unknown number of customer accounts. The company quietly posted a notification of its data breach almo...
06:15 pm GMT - Mon, May 13, 2019
Techcrunch Daily Crunch: Amazon doubles down on its partner program
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...
05:56 pm GMT - Mon, May 13, 2019
Techcrunch Spotify brings its slimmed-down Lite app to India
Spotify has launched a more slimmed-down version of its streaming music app in India, only months after its public debut in the country. The Android-only app, Spotify Lite is only 11 MB in size compar...
05:54 pm GMT - Mon, May 13, 2019
Techcrunch Slack aims to be the most important software company in the world, says CEO
Slack discloses latest earnings, plans NYSE direct listing for June 20....
05:44 pm GMT - Mon, May 13, 2019
Techcrunch SpaceXs Crew Dragon is having trouble and thats okay
We may be poised on the precipice of a new era of spaceflight, but leaping prematurely off it would be a costly mistake which is why the delays and failures of SpaceX's Crew Dragon, the new spacecraf...
05:10 pm GMT - Mon, May 13, 2019
Techcrunch The Pentagon and CIA have a secret missile that shreds targets with giant flying knives
A report by The Wall Street Journal last week revealed a secretive U.S. military weapon designed explicitly to reduce civilian casualties in targeted strikes. Unlike a traditional hellfire missile dis...
05:07 pm GMT - Mon, May 13, 2019
Techcrunch Adobe brings new Amazon and Google integrations to Magento
It’s only been a few months since Adobe launched its Commerce Cloud, based on its $1.6 billion acquisition of Magento. Today, at its Imagine 2019 conference, the company announced a number of up...
05:00 pm GMT - Mon, May 13, 2019
Techcrunch Updated Apple TV app arrives ahead of Apple TVs fall launch
Heres a big Apple TV update. Not THE big Apple TV update. The whole Apple TV+ thing is still forthcoming, but this major update to the app should go a ways toward setting the stage for its arrival in ...
05:00 pm GMT - Mon, May 13, 2019
Techcrunch Crowned by Burger King, meat replacement company Impossible Foods raises $300 million
After being crowned by Burger King as the first meat replacement patty to roll out nationally with one of the largest fast food chains, Impossible Foods has raised $300 million in capital. The financi...
03:56 pm GMT - Mon, May 13, 2019
Techcrunch Yes, Americans can opt-out of airport facial recognition. Heres how
Whether you like it or not, facial recognition tech to check in for your flight will soon be coming to an airport near you. Over a dozen U.S. airports are already rolling out the technology, with many...
03:56 pm GMT - Mon, May 13, 2019
Techcrunch Yes, Americans can opt-out of airport facial recognition heres how
Whether you like it or not, facial recognition tech to check in for your flight will soon be coming to an airport near you. More than a dozen U.S. airports are already rolling out the technology, with...
03:14 pm GMT - Mon, May 13, 2019
Techcrunch Supreme Court rules against Apple, allows an App Store antitrust case to proceed
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 against Apple on Monday on a case involving whether or not a group of iPhone users will be allowed to bring an antitrust lawsuit against the company regarding its App ...
03:08 pm GMT - Mon, May 13, 2019
Techcrunch Mailchimp expands from email to full marketing platform, says it will make $700M in 2019
Mailchimp, a bootstrapped startup out of Atlanta, Georgia, is known best as a popular tool for organizations to manage their customer-facing email activities — a profitable business that its CEO...
02:33 pm GMT - Mon, May 13, 2019
Techcrunch YouTubes Bumper Machine offers an automated way to create six-second ads
After introducing a six-second “Bumper” ad format back in 2016, YouTube is unveiling a new tool that uses machine learning to automatically pull out a six-second version from a longer ad. ...
02:12 pm GMT - Mon, May 13, 2019
Techcrunch Amazon offers employees $10K and 3 months pay to start their own delivery businesses
Following news of Amazon’s plans to reduce Prime shipping down to one day, the company this morning announced an expansion of its Delivery Service Partner program, which now includes a new incen...
02:11 pm GMT - Mon, May 13, 2019
Techcrunch ServiceNow acqui-hires mobile analytics startup Appsee
In a carefully framed deal, ServiceNow announced this morning that it has acquired the intellectual property and key personnel of mobile analytics company Appsee for an undisclosed price. Under the te...
01:30 pm GMT - Mon, May 13, 2019
Techcrunch Uber launches PIN feature to cut wait times at U.S. airports, starting in Portland
Uber is piloting a new PIN feature at the Portland International Airport that will give riders a one-time 6-digit numeric code in an effort to speed up pickup times and reduce traffic congestion. The ...
01:30 pm GMT - Mon, May 13, 2019
Techcrunch Uber launches PIN feature to cut wait times at US airports, starting in Portland
Uber is piloting a new PIN feature at the Portland International Airport that will give riders a one-time six-digit numeric code in an effort to speed up pickup times and reduce traffic congestion. Th...
12:28 pm GMT - Mon, May 13, 2019
Techcrunch Indias Locus raises $22 million to expand its logistics management business
Locus, an Indian startup that uses AI to help businesses map out their logistics, has raised $22 million in Series B funding to expand its operations in international markets. The financing round for ...
10:56 am GMT - Mon, May 13, 2019
Techcrunch Sweden reopens rape case against Julian Assange
Sweden’s prosecution authority has reopened a preliminary investigation into Wikileaks founder Julian Assange on an allegation of rape dating back to 2010. It said todayit will issue a European ...
11:46 pm GMT - Sun, May 12, 2019
Techcrunch Equity Shot transcribed: Judging Ubers less-than-grand opening day
Another day, another episode of Equity. This time it was an emergency episode, because Uber (finally) went public and a lot of financial folks were quite looking forward to how it would perform on ope...
11:00 pm GMT - Sun, May 12, 2019
Techcrunch From crypto winter to crypto weirder
Captain Kirk and neo-Dadaists. Repugnant markets and legendary cryptographers. “Digital couture” auctioned by CryptoKitties developers. Distributed autonomous art organizations. A keynote ...
10:43 pm GMT - Sun, May 12, 2019
Techcrunch CO2 in the atmosphere just exceeded 415 parts per million for the first time in human history
The human race has broken another record on its race to ecological collapse. Congratulations humanity! For the first time in human history — not recorded history, but since humans have existed o...
09:37 pm GMT - Sun, May 12, 2019
Techcrunch Two years after WannaCry, a million computers remain at risk
Two years ago today, a powerful ransomware began spreading across the world. WannaCry spread like wildfire, encrypting hundreds of thousands of computers in over 150 countries in a matter of hours. It...
08:47 pm GMT - Sun, May 12, 2019
Techcrunch Hotstar, Disneys Indian streaming service, sets new global record for live viewership
Indian video streaming giant Hotstar, owned by Disney, today set a new global benchmark for the number of people an OTT service can draw to a live event. Some 18.6 million users simultaneously tuned i...
08:46 pm GMT - Sun, May 12, 2019
Techcrunch Where cannabis investors see the next big wave? In precision dosing
Women and seniors are joining the cannabis movement, and that’s presenting new investing opportunities, according to a panel of cannabis investors who we interviewed several days ago at an event...
05:35 pm GMT - Sun, May 12, 2019
Techcrunch Friend portability is the must-have Facebook regulation
Choice for consumers compels fair treatment by corporations. When people can easily move to a competitor, it creates a natural market dynamic coercing a business to act right. When we can’t, oth...
12:00 pm GMT - Sun, May 12, 2019
Techcrunch Week-in-Review: Google impersonates Apple and Bezos eyes the moon
After Mark Zuckerberg’s privacy mea culpa at F8 last week, Google got its turn at I/O to promise consumers that their data wasn’t going anywhere that they didn’t want it to go. In sh...
10:22 pm GMT - Sat, May 11, 2019
Techcrunch After burning through $1 billion, Jawbones Hosain Rahman has raised $65 million more
Not everyone gets a second chance in Silicon Valley. Entrepreneur Hosain Rahman has been given many more than that. Though his last company, Jawbone, which produced wireless speakers and Bluetooth ear...
08:03 pm GMT - Sat, May 11, 2019
Techcrunch As a founder, I mistook my work for self-worth
Dale Stephens Contributor Share on Twitter Dale Stephens was one of the first Thiel Fellows and ran an education company for six years. These days he works an executive coach, helping entrepreneurs an...
07:00 pm GMT - Sat, May 11, 2019
Techcrunch HTC introduces a cheaper blockchain phone, opens Zion Vault SDK
Happy Blockchain Week to you and yours. HTC helped kick off this important national holiday by announcing the upcoming release of the HTC Exodus 1s. The latest version of the companys intriguing block...
06:00 pm GMT - Sat, May 11, 2019
Techcrunch EC-exclusive interview with Tim Cook, Slacklash, and tech inclusion
An EC-exclusive interview with Apple CEO Tim Cook TechCrunch editor-in-chief Matthew Panzarino traveled to Florida this week to talk with Tim Cook about Apples developer education initiatives and also...
06:00 pm GMT - Sat, May 11, 2019
Techcrunch Cat vs best and worst robot vacuum cleaners
If you’ve flirted with the idea of buying a robot vacuum you may also have stepped back from the brink in unfolding horror at the alphabetic soup of branded discs popping into view. Consumer cho...
05:41 pm GMT - Sat, May 11, 2019
Techcrunch Zuckerberg says breaking up Facebook isnt going to help
With the look of someone betrayed, Facebook’s CEO has fired back at co-founder Chris Hughes and his brutal NYT op-ed calling for regulators to split up Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. “...
04:05 pm GMT - Sat, May 11, 2019
Techcrunch Original Content podcast: Were not impressed by Netflixs Extremely Wicked Ted Bundy movie
Despite its grandiose title, Netflix’s “Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile” turns out to be surprisingly forgettable. In this week’s episode of the Original Content pod...
12:00 pm GMT - Sat, May 11, 2019
Techcrunch Startups Weekly: Venture capitalists are crazy for cannabis
In this week's newsletter: Uber goes public, Carta collects $300 million and a small team of eight shows VC isn't always the answer. ...
03:09 am GMT - Sat, May 11, 2019
Techcrunch Equity transcribed: Why Om Malik thinks the VC subsidized life is over
It’s time for another transcribed edition of Equity. This week for the regularly scheduled episode we had the whole crew pop into the San Francisco studio. Kate Clark, Connie Loizos and Alex Wil...
03:01 am GMT - Sat, May 11, 2019
Techcrunch Indias most popular services are becoming super apps
Truecaller, an app that helps users screen strangers and robocallers, will soon allow users in India, its largest market, to borrow up to a few hundred dollars in the nation. The crediting option will...
01:35 am GMT - Sat, May 11, 2019
Techcrunch These companies may smooth startups path to the public market if they dont kill each other first
This morning, the SEC approved as the U.S.’s 14th stock exchange Long Term Stock Exchange (LTSE), an outfit that was conceived in 2012 by “Lean Startup” author Eric Ries as a place w...
12:37 am GMT - Sat, May 11, 2019
Techcrunch Facebook sues analytics firm Rankwave over data misuse
Facebook might have another Cambridge Analytica on its hands. In a late Friday news dump, Facebook revealed that today it filed a lawsuit alleging South Korean analytics firm Rankwave abused its devel...
11:41 pm GMT - Fri, May 10, 2019
Techcrunch Equity Shot: Judging Ubers less-than-grand opening day
Hello and welcome back toEquity, TechCrunchs venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines....
10:02 pm GMT - Fri, May 10, 2019
Techcrunch A brief history of Ubers bumpy road to an IPO
It’s been nine years since UberCab made its first appearance on the WordPress pages of this website. In the ensuing years, the startup has grown from an upstart looking to upend the taxi cab car...
09:42 pm GMT - Fri, May 10, 2019
Techcrunch Virgin Galactic is coming home to Spaceport America in New Mexico
Aspiring space tourism outfit Virgin Galactic has just announced its readiness to shift its operations to New Mexico's Spaceport America, from which the company's first commercial flights will take of...
08:52 pm GMT - Fri, May 10, 2019
Techcrunch Elon Musks pedo guy defamation case is going to trial
A defamation case filed last year against Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk after he repeatedly called a British cave diver “pedo guy” will go to trial on October 22, a U.S. district judge de...
08:30 pm GMT - Fri, May 10, 2019
Techcrunch GitHub gets a package registry
GitHub today announced the launch of a limited beta of the GitHub Package Registry, its new package management service that lets developers publish public and private packages next to their source cod...
08:14 pm GMT - Fri, May 10, 2019
Techcrunch Ubers first day as a public company didnt go so well
Uber (NYSE: UBER) closed down nearly 8 percent after a rocky debut Friday....
08:06 pm GMT - Fri, May 10, 2019
Techcrunch Tinder is preparing to launch a lightweight version of its dating app called Tinder Lite
Tinder is preparing to launch a version of its popular dating app aimed at users in emerging markets. The app, which will be called “Tinder Lite,” offers a smaller, more lightweight versio...
06:52 pm GMT - Fri, May 10, 2019
Techcrunch Ubers trading debut: who was (and wasnt) at the opening bell
Uber finally made its debut Friday on the New York Stock Exchange, ending its decade-long journey from startup to publicly traded company. So far, it’s been a ho-hum beginning with shares openin...
06:06 pm GMT - Fri, May 10, 2019
Techcrunch Blue Moon Brewing is capitalizing on Bezos news with a lunar lander keg
Every so often, a big corporation manages to play the news cycle just right. Generally such things arent recommended and can fairly easily backfire, but the MillerCoors-owned Blue Moon Brewery would h...
05:49 pm GMT - Fri, May 10, 2019
Techcrunch Meet Bobbie, a baby formula delivery startup promising healthier ingredients
Don’t like the idea of your baby guzzling down liquid candy all day? It may surprise you to find corn syrup is the main ingredient in most infant formulas in the U.S. That’s where Bobbie, ...
05:23 pm GMT - Fri, May 10, 2019
Techcrunch Daily Crunch: Uber goes public
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...
04:45 pm GMT - Fri, May 10, 2019
Techcrunch How the trade war with China hit Ubers public offering
Uber’s much heralded public offering has arrived not so much with a bang as with a whimper, thanks largely to the ongoing trade war between the U.S. and China. Overnight, the U.S. government mad...
04:07 pm GMT - Fri, May 10, 2019
Techcrunch Sports streamer fuboTV to expand into ad-supported free streaming, original content
The sports-focused streaming service fuboTV will soon follow the rest of the industry by offering its own free and ad-supported streaming channel, in addition to its paid subscription, sometime later ...
04:05 pm GMT - Fri, May 10, 2019
Techcrunch How to think about inclusion in tech, with Chanda Prescod-Weinstein (Part 2)
Technology is very much in the business of, quite literally, changing the world. When I was deciding whether to write for TechCrunch, I tried to imagine a human life on this planet, in 20 or 30 years,...
03:52 pm GMT - Fri, May 10, 2019
Techcrunch Uber opens at a disappointing $42 per share
At long last, it's lift-off for Uber. ...
03:17 pm GMT - Fri, May 10, 2019
Techcrunch Watch Jeff Bezos unveil his grand space plans here
Grizzled TechCrunch reporter Matt Burns was on site at yesterdays big Blue Origin reveal, but if youre reading this right now, odds are you werent. It was a small gathering, and Jeff Bezos, who tends ...
03:07 pm GMT - Fri, May 10, 2019
Techcrunch Reese Witherspoons Hello Sunshine to debut an exclusive lineup of Audible Originals
A year ago, Amazon -owned Audible announced a deal with Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine to develop exclusive audio productions for Audible Originals — the company’s entertainment ...
02:33 pm GMT - Fri, May 10, 2019
Techcrunch Unhackable encrypted flash drive eyeDisk is, as it happens, hackable
In security, nothing is “unhackable.” When it’s claimed, security researchers see nothing more than a challenge. Enter the latest findings from Pen Test Partners, a U.K.-based cybers...
02:18 pm GMT - Fri, May 10, 2019
Techcrunch UK tax office ordered to delete millions of unlawful biometric voiceprints
The UK’s data protection watchdog has issued the government department responsible for collecting taxes with a final enforcement notice, after an investigation found HMRC had collected biometric...
02:06 pm GMT - Fri, May 10, 2019
Techcrunch India to reportedly investigate Google over alleged Android abuse
More than 95 percent of the smartphones that ship in India run Android operating system, according to industry estimates. Now the Indian antitrust watchdog is convinced that the nation should investig...
02:06 pm GMT - Fri, May 10, 2019
Techcrunch India is investigating Google over alleged Android abuse
More than 95 percent of the smartphones that ship in India run Android, according to industry estimates. Now the Indian antitrust watchdog is convinced that the nation should investigate whether Googl...
01:05 pm GMT - Fri, May 10, 2019
Techcrunch Apple CEO Tim Cook talks WWDC student program, coding initiatives and SAP
For the past few years, Apple has been inviting student developers to attend its WWDC conference, which centers on development topics and software. A few students from this years batch are getting som...
12:00 pm GMT - Fri, May 10, 2019
Techcrunch Why Om Malik thinks the VC subsidized life is over
Hello and welcome back toEquity, TechCrunchs venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines....
11:43 am GMT - Fri, May 10, 2019
Techcrunch Flaws in a popular GPS tracker leak real-time locations and can remotely activate its microphone
A popular GPS tracker used as a panic alarm for elderly patients, to monitor kids, and track vehicles contains security flaws, which security researchers say are so severe the device should be recal...
10:09 am GMT - Fri, May 10, 2019
Techcrunch Binance pledges to significantly increase security following $40M Bitcoin hack
Binance has vowed to raise the quality of its security in the aftermath of a hack that saw thieves make off with over $40 million in Bitcoin from the exchange. The company — which is widely beli...
10:00 am GMT - Fri, May 10, 2019
Techcrunch Daye, a startup developing a cramp-fighting tampon, raises $5.5M from Khosla, Index and Kindred
Daye, a “femcare” startup developing a new type of tampon that uses CBD to help tackle dysmenorrhea, has quietly raised $5.5 million in funding from high-profile investors in the U.S. and ...
09:18 am GMT - Fri, May 10, 2019
Techcrunch Scalable, low cost technologies needed to repair climate, Cambridge professor suggests
Cambridge University has proposed setting up a research center tasked with coming up with scalable technological fixes for climate change. The proposed Center for Climate Repair is being co-ordinated ...
09:18 am GMT - Fri, May 10, 2019
Techcrunch Scalable, low-cost technologies needed to repair climate, Cambridge professor suggests
Cambridge University has proposed setting up a research center tasked with coming up with scalable technological fixes for climate change. The proposed Center for Climate Repair is being coordinated b...
04:33 am GMT - Fri, May 10, 2019
Techcrunch Singapores Grain, a profitable food delivery startup, pulls in $10M for expansion
Cloud kitchens are the big thing in food delivery, with ex-Uber CEO Travis Kalanick’s new business one contender in that space, with Asia, and particularly Southeast Asia, a major focus. Despite...
12:39 am GMT - Fri, May 10, 2019
Techcrunch Chelsea Manning released from jail as grand jury expires
Chelsea Manning walked free today for the first time after spending two months in Virginia’s Alexandria Detention Center for refusing to cooperate with a grand jury probing her relationship with...
11:45 pm GMT - Thu, May 9, 2019
Techcrunch Cisco open sources MindMeld conversational AI platform
Cisco announced today that it was open-sourcing the MindMeld conversation AI platform, making it available to anyone who wants to use it under the Apache 2.0 license. MindMeld is the conversational AI...
11:39 pm GMT - Thu, May 9, 2019
Techcrunch Final Fantasy VII Remake trailer shows redo of the classic in action
'90s kids will remember this. Final Fantasy VII, the game that busted JPRGs out of their niche and helped make the original PlayStation the must-have console of the generation, is, as we all know, bei...
10:28 pm GMT - Thu, May 9, 2019
Techcrunch Delta is testing free Wi-Fi on flights this month
Delta says it plans to eventually offer free Wi-Fi on flights. The first step to achieving that goal, however, involves testing it on a handful of planes, beginning later this month. Starting May 13, ...
10:16 pm GMT - Thu, May 9, 2019
Techcrunch With new raise, Unity could nearly double valuation to $6 billion
Unity Technologies, the company behind one of the world’s most popular game engines, could nearly double its reported valuation in a new round of funding. The company has filed to raise up to $1...
10:00 pm GMT - Thu, May 9, 2019
Techcrunch Three new rules worth considering for the internet
Mark Zuckerberg recently argued for new internet regulation starting in four areas: harmful content, election integrity, privacy and data portability. Here are three more areas to consider....
09:10 pm GMT - Thu, May 9, 2019
Techcrunch Uber prices IPO at $45 per share, raises $8.1B
The price, which falls at the low end of Uber's planned range, values Uber at $82.4 billion....
09:07 pm GMT - Thu, May 9, 2019
Techcrunch Blue Origin launches Club for the Future to inspire a new generation of space exploration
As part of his big reveal of Blue Origin’s new lunar lander, “Blue Moon,” Jeff Bezos announced Club for the Future, a new organization to inspire a new generation of space explorers ...
08:55 pm GMT - Thu, May 9, 2019
Techcrunch Blue Origin unveils its lunar lander, Blue Moon
Today at an intimate event in Washington D.C., Jeff Bezos took the wraps off some grand space plans. But that future, which includes trips to the lunar surface, isnt much without the gear to get it th...
08:45 pm GMT - Thu, May 9, 2019
Techcrunch Jeff Bezos aims Blue Origin at the Moon
Today at a packed event blocks from the White House, Jeff Bezos took the stage in front of select members of the media, executives, government officials and a gaggle of middle schoolers to reveal new ...
08:24 pm GMT - Thu, May 9, 2019
Techcrunch Hong Kong insurance tech startup OneDegree extends its Series A to a total of $30 million
OneDegree, an insurance technology startup based in Hong Kong, announced today it has extended its Series A round to $30 million, up from the $25.5 million it announced in September. Its extension, wh...
08:11 pm GMT - Thu, May 9, 2019
Techcrunch Justice Department charges Chinese hacker for 2015 Anthem breach
U.S. prosecutors have brought charges against a Chinese national for his alleged involvement in the data breach at health insurance giant Anthem announced in 2015 that resulted in the theft of 78.8 mi...
08:10 pm GMT - Thu, May 9, 2019
Techcrunch AWS remains in firm control of the cloud infrastructure market
It has to be a bit depressing to be in the cloud infrastructure business if your name isn’t Amazon. Sure, there’s a huge, growing market, and the companies behind Amazon are growing even f...
07:59 pm GMT - Thu, May 9, 2019
Techcrunch An unsecured SMS spam operation doxxed its owners
A massive SMS spamming operation kicked out tens of millions of text messages, pestering unsuspecting recipients with links to fake sites flogging loans and free money. The operation was simple but sm...
07:38 pm GMT - Thu, May 9, 2019
Techcrunch Printify raises $3M to expand its marketplace for custom printing
Bling Capital, YouTube co-founder Steve Chen, Twitch co-founder Kevin Lin and several others have participated in the round....
07:36 pm GMT - Thu, May 9, 2019
Techcrunch VWs new electric hatchback receives 10,000 pre-orders in first 24 hours
Volkswagen opened up pre-orders in Europe at a launch event Wednesday for a special edition of the first model in its new all-electric ID brand. Within 24 hours, the company received more than 10,000 ...
07:21 pm GMT - Thu, May 9, 2019
Techcrunch Meet The Prepared, the media company pitching disaster preparedness for everyone
A little over two years ago,The New Yorker ran a story about the survivalism craze sweeping Silicon Valley. The moneyed elite behind the tools of convenience that make modern life were, it turned out,...
07:08 pm GMT - Thu, May 9, 2019
Techcrunch Against the Slacklash
Such hate. Such dismay. “How Slack is ruining work.” “Actually, Slack really sucks.” “Slack may actually be hurting your workplace productivity.” “Slack is aw...
06:25 pm GMT - Thu, May 9, 2019
Techcrunch Smartphone shipments hit a five year low in North America
More dismal news from the smartphone number crunchers. New figures out of Canalys put the North American smartphone market at five year low for the first quarter of 2019. Thatsbad. But also, pretty in...
06:25 pm GMT - Thu, May 9, 2019
Techcrunch Smartphone shipments hit a five-year low in North America
More dismal news from the smartphone number crunchers. New figures out of Canalys put the North American smartphone market at five-year low for the first quarter of 2019. Thatsbad. But also, pretty in...
05:39 pm GMT - Thu, May 9, 2019
Techcrunch Clean.io raises $2.5M to fight malicious advertising
Existing approaches to blocking malicious advertising aren’t working at least according to digital ad veteran Seth Demsey. That should resonate with anyone who’s ever encountered an ad th...
05:31 pm GMT - Thu, May 9, 2019
Techcrunch Facebook VR VP Hugo Barra is being replaced
Facebook’s VP of VR product Hugo Barra is out after some leadership changes at the top of the Oculus organization. He’ll be stepping down into a new role leading global AR/VR partnerships,...
04:58 pm GMT - Thu, May 9, 2019
Techcrunch Netflix acquires kids educational content co. StoryBots
Netflix is further investing in its children’s programming ahead of the launch of a highly anticipated rival: Disney+. The company announced today it has acquired StoryBots — a children...
04:32 pm GMT - Thu, May 9, 2019
Techcrunch Daily Crunch: Google Play rethinks app ratings
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...
04:30 pm GMT - Thu, May 9, 2019
Techcrunch Instagram will let you appeal post takedowns
Instagram isn’t just pretty pictures. It now also harbors bullying, misinformation, and controversial self-expression content. So today Instagram is announcing a bevvy up safety updates to prote...
04:27 pm GMT - Thu, May 9, 2019
Techcrunch Docpack offers a simple, enterprise-friendly way to share documents
Docpack is offering businesses a simple way to share their documents particularly with customers at large enterprises that may block services like Dropbox or Google Drive. Founder and CEO Rurik Bradb...
04:25 pm GMT - Thu, May 9, 2019
Techcrunch Jeff Bezos reportedly set to unveil Moon plans today
Blue Origin is hosting a media event later today in Washington, D.C. TechCrunch will be on the ground, reporting live, though details around precisely what will be announced are still pretty minimal. ...
04:05 pm GMT - Thu, May 9, 2019
Techcrunch Verified Expert Brand Designer: Base
Base coined the term blanding, but the international branding agency is anything but boring. With clients ranging from AI startup Rival Theory to e-commerce company Kidbox, Base leverages its broad po...
03:38 pm GMT - Thu, May 9, 2019
Techcrunch Facebook co-founder, Chris Hughes, calls for Facebook to be broken up
The latest call to break up Facebook looks to be the most uncomfortably close to home yet for supreme leader, Mark Zuckerberg. “Marks power is unprecedented and un-American,” writes Chris ...
03:31 pm GMT - Thu, May 9, 2019
Techcrunch Robotics startups wont win without also incorporating AI, as Karakuris fundraise shows
The constant refrain in the tech world is that the world is about to be rocked by the combination of AI and robots. Therefore youd think that startups that build either AI or robots would be onto a wi...
03:30 pm GMT - Thu, May 9, 2019
Techcrunch 48-hour flash sale: save an extra $200 on Disrupt SF 2019
Jumpin Jack Flash-sale, startup fans! If you love the idea of saving even more money on passes to the preeminent tech conference focused on early-stage startups (and hey, who wouldnt?), this is your c...
02:49 pm GMT - Thu, May 9, 2019
Techcrunch Samsungs CEO says Galaxy Fold launch news is arriving soon
Samsung has been understandably silent about the Galaxy Fold for the last couple of weeks. The companys been reassessing issues with the foldables display after initially chalking up problems with rev...
02:36 pm GMT - Thu, May 9, 2019
Techcrunch Razor startup Harrys will be acquired by Edgewell Personal Care for $1.37B
Edgewell Personal Care, which owns brands like Schick (razors), Banana Boat (sunscreen) and Wet Ones (moist wipes), is adding Harry’s to that list in a $1.37 billion acquisition. Founded in 2013...
02:32 pm GMT - Thu, May 9, 2019
Techcrunch Twitter publishes latest government data request figures
Twitter’s latest transparency report is out. The social media giant said it received 6% fewer requests for user data from governments between June and December 2018 than during its previous repo...
02:04 pm GMT - Thu, May 9, 2019
Techcrunch Saas Management startup Intello scores $2.5 million extended seed
Intello, the New York City-based Saas management platform, announced a $2.5 million extended seed round today, along with some product enhancements. The round was led by Resolute Ventures . Harrison M...
01:37 pm GMT - Thu, May 9, 2019
Techcrunch Singapore passes controversial fake news law which critics fear will stifle free speech
Singapore has passed a controversial bill that could equip the government with extensive powers to police online media and free speech. The bill was first drafted last month and, as had been expected,...
01:00 pm GMT - Thu, May 9, 2019
Techcrunch Mint House raises $15m to give business travelers a better hotel
Hotels are convenient but rarely homey. Short term rentals through Airbnb or HomeAway are often comfy but can be a pain to book and check-in. Business travelers often have to pick the best of two lous...
12:34 pm GMT - Thu, May 9, 2019
Techcrunch Factmata gets backed by eyeo, maker of Adblock Plus, and takes over its Trusted News app
“Fake news” — news content that either misleads people with half-truths, or outright lies — has become a permanent fixture of the internet. Now, as tech and media platforms con...
12:00 pm GMT - Thu, May 9, 2019
Techcrunch Cybersecurity insurance startup Coalition raises $40M in Series B funding
Coalition, a cybersecurity insurance company, has raised $40 million in its latest round of funding. Fintech investment giant Ribbit Capital led the investment with participation from Greenoaks Capita...
12:00 pm GMT - Thu, May 9, 2019
Techcrunch Alexa, does the Echo Dot Kids protect childrens privacy?
A coalition of child protection and privacy groups has filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) urging it to investigate a kid-focused edition of Amazon’s Echo smart speaker. Th...
11:30 am GMT - Thu, May 9, 2019
Techcrunch With new Fit technology, Nike calls itself a tech company
Rae Witte Contributor Share on Twitter Rae Witte is a New York-based freelance journalist covering music, style, sneakers, art and dating, and how they intersect with tech. You can find her writing on...
11:30 am GMT - Thu, May 9, 2019
Techcrunch Fortnite Season 9 adds two locations and wind transport, but is mostly just new virtual items
It’s that time again. Parents across the world are doling out $15 to Epic Games after the developer released Season 9, the latest update for its hit game Fortnite that’s particularly popul...
11:30 am GMT - Thu, May 9, 2019
Techcrunch Google and Qualcomm launch a dev kit for building Assistant-enabled headphones
Qualcomm today announced that it has partnered with Google to create a reference design and development kit for building Assistant-enabled Bluetooth headphones. Traditionally, building these headphone...
09:53 am GMT - Thu, May 9, 2019
Techcrunch Masayoshi Son claims Vision Fund LPs are already up 45% but thats mostly paper gains
Uber, WeWork and Slack’s IPOs are poised to pay out for SoftBank’s Vision Fund, but already the megafund is claiming impressive results. At SoftBank Corp’s annual shareholder meeting...
09:43 am GMT - Thu, May 9, 2019
Techcrunch Tencents new alternative to PUBG is already topping the revenue chart
In a move clearly driven by economic interests and an urgency to meet stringent regulations, the world’s largest games publisher Tencent pulled its mobile version of PlayerUnknown’s Battle...
09:00 am GMT - Thu, May 9, 2019
Techcrunch Check out all the challenges at the TC Hackathon at VivaTech
Money, prizes, glory it could all be yours, but only if youre good enough. Do you have the stamina, focus and coding chops it takes to create something awesome out of nothing in less than 24 hours? T...
08:45 am GMT - Thu, May 9, 2019
Techcrunch Drone sighting at Germanys busiest airport grounds flights for about an hour
A drone sighting caused all flights to be suspended at Frankfurt Airport for around an hour this morning. The airport is Germany’s busiest by passenger numbers, serving almost 14.8 million passe...
08:22 am GMT - Thu, May 9, 2019
Techcrunch Uber begins trialing e-bikes and bicycles rides in India
Uber has partnered with bicycle sharing platform Yulu in India as it looks to grab a piece of the growing e-bikes market that is increasingly posing a challenge to taxi services in the nation. The San...
08:00 am GMT - Thu, May 9, 2019
Techcrunch How to save an additional 200 off passes for Disrupt Berlin 2019
It might feel strange to think about December in May, but the smart money goes to startuppers who do just that. Why? Because were returning for the seventh time to Europes international city extraor...
07:15 am GMT - Thu, May 9, 2019
Techcrunch Chipper Cash convinces Joe Montana to invest in African fintech
The African no-fee, cross-border payment startup Chipper Cash has raised a $2.4 million seed round led by Deciens Capital. The payments company also persuaded 500 Startups and Liquid 2 Venturesco-foun...
06:30 am GMT - Thu, May 9, 2019
Techcrunch Tink, the European banking platform, partners with British incumbent NatWest
It’s easy to push a narrative of fintech upstarts versus the big incumbent banks, but the more subtle reality is that as well as competing on numerous fronts, there are partnerships being formed...
06:26 am GMT - Thu, May 9, 2019
Techcrunch Heetch raises $38M to take on Uber in French-speaking countries
With Uber just days away from going public, a small challenger has raised some funds of its own to take it and the rest of the field on in francophone markets. Heetch, a ride-sharing platform based ou...
06:00 am GMT - Thu, May 9, 2019
Techcrunch Educational gaming platform Kahoot acquires math app maker DragonBox for $18M
Kahoot, the popular e-learning platform that provides a range of games to teach subjects (it has described itself as the “Netflix of education”), has made its first acquisition: it has acq...
05:57 am GMT - Thu, May 9, 2019
Techcrunch Sharp will resume selling its smart TVs in the US this year
Good news for U.S. consumers, the smart TV market is about to get more competitive after Sharp announced plans to resume selling TVs in America before the end of this year. The Japanese firm quit the ...
04:04 am GMT - Thu, May 9, 2019
Techcrunch Disney reports strong second-quarter, but takes $353 million write-down on Vice
Walt Disney Co. is writing down its investment in Vice Media for the second time in less than a year. In its otherwise upbeat second-quarter earnings report, the company said it was taking an impairme...
03:07 am GMT - Thu, May 9, 2019
Techcrunch Weird Cuts is Googles new AR experiment that lets you cut out pieces of reality to make collages
In addition to preserving art and historic landmarks around the world, Google’s Arts & Culture division also likes to collaborate with artists to experiment with integrations between technol...
11:57 pm GMT - Wed, May 8, 2019
Techcrunch Pearl, the healthcare spinout from LA-based AI startup, GumGum, raises $11 million
GumGum, the Los Angeles-based startup that’s spent the past decade applying machine learning technologies to advertising and sports, has spun out a new healthcare startup focused on the dental i...
11:39 pm GMT - Wed, May 8, 2019
Techcrunch Google to allow users to pay for Android apps using cash
Today, the Android platform sees more app downloads than iOS, but Apple’s App Store continually dominates in terms of revenue. Now, Google is aiming to narrow the revenue gap by introducing a ne...
11:03 pm GMT - Wed, May 8, 2019
Techcrunch Execs at Mobike, the bike sharing startup, are raising $20M to buy out the European business by end of June
Some big changes are afoot for Mobike, the Chinese bike-sharing company that was acquired by IPO-bound on-demand service startup Meituan-Dianping for $2.7 billion last year. Mobike executives in Europ...
10:58 pm GMT - Wed, May 8, 2019
Techcrunch What Pixel 3a tells us about the state of the smartphone and Google
Announced yesterday at Googles opening I/O keynote, the Pixel 3a arrives at a tenuous time for the smartphone industry. Sales figures have stagnated for most of the major players in the industry a ph...
10:51 pm GMT - Wed, May 8, 2019
Techcrunch GM in talks to sell shuttered Lordstown factory to Workhorse for EV pickups
General Motors is in talks to sell its Lordstown vehicle factory in Ohio to Workhorse Group, a battery-electric transportation technology company, to produce EV pickup trucks. It’s a development...
10:37 pm GMT - Wed, May 8, 2019
Techcrunch 1 app YOLO Q&A is the Snapchat platforms 1st hit
There’s a new teen app sensation. Anonymous question-asking app YOLO has rocketed to the #1 US app position just a week after launching thanks to Snapchat. Built on top of the Snap Kit platform,...
09:57 pm GMT - Wed, May 8, 2019
Techcrunch How Beat Saber beat the odds
Virtual reality is the ultimate money pit. Tech giants are selling low-margin hardware on which users play software that was funded by those same companies. This strategy seems to continue year after ...
09:50 pm GMT - Wed, May 8, 2019
Techcrunch RedCircles latest feature makes it easy to tip podcast creators
A group of former Uber employees unveiled their podcasting startup RedCircle last week, and now they’re already launching new features specifically the ability for listeners to make small tip p...
08:35 pm GMT - Wed, May 8, 2019
Techcrunch Slack to live stream pitch to shareholders on Monday ahead of direct listing
Slack will make its pitch to prospective shareholders on Monday at an invite-only event in New York City....
08:35 pm GMT - Wed, May 8, 2019
Techcrunch Slack to live-stream pitch to shareholders on Monday ahead of direct listing
Slack will make its pitch to prospective shareholders on Monday at an invite-only event in New York City....
08:19 pm GMT - Wed, May 8, 2019
Techcrunch How I podcast: Start With This/Welcome to Night Vales Jeffrey Cranor
The beauty of podcasting is that anyone can do it. Its a rare medium thats nearly as easy to make as it is to consume. And as such, no two people do it exactly the same way. There are a wealth of hard...
08:08 pm GMT - Wed, May 8, 2019
Techcrunch Watch the teaser trailer for HBOs Watchmen TV show
HBO has been releasing little glimpses of its adaptation of the classic graphic novel “Watchmen,” but now we’ve got a full teaser trailer. “Watchmen” has already been tur...
08:00 pm GMT - Wed, May 8, 2019
Techcrunch A beautiful duopoly
Many companies have struggled with competition, conditions of duopoly, price pressures and survival. Some survived, some did not. Others reached a profitable state and still exist....
07:57 pm GMT - Wed, May 8, 2019
Techcrunch Google Play is changing how app ratings work
Two years ago, Apple changed the way its app store ratings worked by allowing developers to decide whether or not their ratings would be reset with their latest app update — a feature that Apple...
07:05 pm GMT - Wed, May 8, 2019
Techcrunch Uber drivers protest ahead of IPO at the companys SF HQ
Driversunited, will never be defeated! Thats the chant hundreds of drivers yelled outside Ubers San Francisco headquarters this afternoon before heading to block Market Street.Ahead of Uber’s IP...
06:57 pm GMT - Wed, May 8, 2019
Techcrunch How Beat Saber beat the odds
Virtual reality is the ultimate money pit. Tech giants are selling low-margin hardware on which users play software that was funded by those same companies. This strategy seems to continue year after ...
06:48 pm GMT - Wed, May 8, 2019
Techcrunch Sextech company scorned by CES scores $2M and an apology
Months after revoking its award, the CTA has decided to re-award Lora DiCarlo the same day it planned to announce a $2 million funding....
06:24 pm GMT - Wed, May 8, 2019
Techcrunch Justice Department charge Deep Dot Web administrators with money laundering
U.S. prosecutors have formally brought charges against the alleged co-owners and administrators of Deep Dot Web, who were arrested Tuesday. Tal Prihar, 37, and Michael Phan, 34 both Israeli citizens ...
06:24 pm GMT - Wed, May 8, 2019
Techcrunch Justice Department charges Deep Dot Web administrators with money laundering
U.S. prosecutors have formally brought charges against the alleged co-owners and administrators of Deep Dot Web, who were arrested Tuesday. Tal Prihar, 37, and Michael Phan, 34 both Israeli citizens ...
06:16 pm GMT - Wed, May 8, 2019
Techcrunch Daily Crunch: We round up all the Google I/O news
Google unveils new Pixel 3 phones, Bird will start selling directly to consumers and PUBG takes a hit in China. Here’s your Daily Crunch for May 8, 2019. 1. Heres everything Google announced tod...
06:01 pm GMT - Wed, May 8, 2019
Techcrunch Google employees demand Larry Page address walkout and retaliation
Google employees are still going strong and not letting up on their demands. Following a sit-in protesting retaliation last month, Googlers are making four demands. “Google seems to have lost it...
05:21 pm GMT - Wed, May 8, 2019
Techcrunch Facebook stops blocking some blockchain ads
Facebook still wont let you advertise for cryptocurrencies, exchanges, binaries, or ICOs without prior approval. But a year after banning all blockchain-related ads, its reopening to ones for blockcha...
05:04 pm GMT - Wed, May 8, 2019
Techcrunch Non-invasive glucose monitor EasyGlucose takes home Microsofts Imagine Cup and $100K
Microsoft's yearly Imagine Cup student startup competition crowned its latest winner today: EasyGlucose, a non-invasive, smartphone-based method for diabetics to test their blood glucose. It and the t...
05:00 pm GMT - Wed, May 8, 2019
Techcrunch Is your startup TC Top Pick material? Apply today.
Were hunting for a cadre of exciting early-stage startups to attend and exhibit at Disrupt San Francisco 2019 as part of our TC Top Pick program for free. Not only that, if your company makes the cut...
04:36 pm GMT - Wed, May 8, 2019
Techcrunch Fuel Capital, co-led by TaskRabbit founder Leah Busque, just closed a $75 million fund
Roughly two years ago, as the gig-economy company TaskRabbit was nearing its eventual sale to Ikea, its founder, Leah Busque, headed into the venture world. More specifically, she joined Fuel Capital,...
04:00 pm GMT - Wed, May 8, 2019
Techcrunch Media VC theses, SEO keywords, cosmology, and brand design
Where top VCs are investing in Media, Entertainment & Gaming Our media columnist Eric Peckham (who is hard at work on the Unity EC-1, which we will start to publish here shortly) pinged his networ...
04:00 pm GMT - Wed, May 8, 2019
Techcrunch Reserve your student ticket to TC Sessions: Mobility 2019
The future of mobility is the big topic driving TC Sessions: Mobility 2019, which takes place July 10 in San Jose, Calif. Will it include flying cars? Space tourism? Transporter beams? Before we can g...
03:22 pm GMT - Wed, May 8, 2019
Techcrunch Decolonization and intersectionality in tech, with Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy and a Core Faculty Member in Womens Studies at the University of New Hampshire. She is the lead “axion wrangler” an...
03:13 pm GMT - Wed, May 8, 2019
Techcrunch Pandora expands its music-and-podcasts product Pandora Stories with help from SiriusXMs guests
Pandora’s integration with new owner SiriusXM continues today, as the music streaming service will now benefit from the numerous SiriusXM guests and artists who come through its New York studios...
03:00 pm GMT - Wed, May 8, 2019
Techcrunch Rent the Runway just opened its largest brick-and-mortar store yet
Rent The Runway's newest store shows its more than just a designer gown rental service...
02:32 pm GMT - Wed, May 8, 2019
Techcrunch Amazon upgrades its Blink outdoor security camera with better battery, two-way talk
Sure, Googles getting most of the smart home love this week, but you didnt think Amazon would let an I/O pass without releasing a little news of its own, did you? The company just announced the latest...
02:16 pm GMT - Wed, May 8, 2019
Techcrunch Alibaba-backed facial recognition startup Megvii raises $750 million
One of China’s most ambitious artificial intelligence startups Megvii, more commonly known for its facial recognition brand Face++, announced Wednesday that it has raised $750 million in a Serie...
02:10 pm GMT - Wed, May 8, 2019
Techcrunch 2048 Ventures raises $27M fund to back first-time founders and the first-time founder mindset
2048 Ventures, a new early-stage firm founded and led by Alex Iskold and Paul Sethi, is announcing that it has raised a first fund of $27 million. Iskold spent five years as the managing director of T...
02:00 pm GMT - Wed, May 8, 2019
Techcrunch Steve Singh stepping down as Docker CEO
In a surprising turn of events, TechCrunch has learned that Docker CEO Steve Singh will be stepping down after two years at the helm, and former Hortonworks CEO Rob Bearden will be taking over. An ema...
01:22 pm GMT - Wed, May 8, 2019
Techcrunch Trumps China tariffs are getting a major increase on Friday
The stock market has already seen some wild fluctuations this week in anticipation of the latest volley in a trade war ramping up between the U.S. and China. Now it seems the President is making good ...
01:02 pm GMT - Wed, May 8, 2019
Techcrunch Samsung spilled SmartThings app source code and secret keys
A development lab used by Samsung engineers was leaking highly sensitive source code, credentials and secret keys for several internal projects including its SmartThings platform, a security research...
01:00 pm GMT - Wed, May 8, 2019
Techcrunch SoFi launches gig-focused ETF
SoFi is one of the leading fintech startups to emerge from San Francisco and breach the financial markets. Originally started as a way to better finance student debt, it has since expanded to include ...
01:00 pm GMT - Wed, May 8, 2019
Techcrunch Bird is now selling its electric scooters directly to consumers
Bird, recognizing the growing possibility that people will want to own electric scooters rather than share them, is launching a new scooter model available for purchase. Called the Bird One, it will b...
12:58 pm GMT - Wed, May 8, 2019
Techcrunch Sumo Logic announces $110M Series G investment on valuation over $1B
Sumo Logic, a cloud data analytics and log analysis company, announced a $110 million Series G investment today. The company indicated that its valuation was “north of a billion dollars,” ...
12:22 pm GMT - Wed, May 8, 2019
Techcrunch Kargo is disrupting logistics in Myanmar, one of the worlds most challenging countries
Founders in Seattle recently bemoaned a lack of capital and support when compared to Silicon Valley — what about those building startups in more remote markets? Kargo, a company that takes the s...
12:00 pm GMT - Wed, May 8, 2019
Techcrunch Iguazio brings its data science platform to Azure and Azure Stack
Iguazio, an end-to-end platform that allows data scientists to take machine learning models from data ingestion to training, testing and production, today announced that it is bringing its solution to...
09:48 am GMT - Wed, May 8, 2019
Techcrunch Tencent replaces hit mobile game PUBG with a Chinese government-friendly alternative
China’s new rules on video games, introduced last month, are having an effect on the country’s gamers. Today, Tencent replaced hugely popular battle royale shooter game PUBG with a more go...
08:00 am GMT - Wed, May 8, 2019
Techcrunch HeyJobs, a talent acquisition platform out of Berlin, raises $12M Series A
HeyJobs, a three year-old Berlin startup that helps large employers scale recruitment, has raised $12 million in Series A funding. The round id led by Notion Capital, with participation from existing ...
05:13 am GMT - Wed, May 8, 2019
Techcrunch Match Group records solid first-quarter revenue thanks to an increase in Tinder subscribers
Match Groups revenue saw solid growth in the first quarter thanks to an increase in Tinder subscribers. The company, whose portfolio of dating apps also includes Match.com, PlentyOfFish, OkCupid and H...
03:46 am GMT - Wed, May 8, 2019
Techcrunch Indias edtech startup CollegeDekho raises $8 million to connect students with colleges
Indian edtech startup CollegeDekho, which helps students connect with prospective colleges and keep track of exams, has raised $8 million in Series B round. The new financing round for the four-year-o...
01:10 am GMT - Wed, May 8, 2019
Techcrunch Binance says more than $40 million in bitcoin stolen in large scale hack
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has confirmed a “large scale” data breach, in which hackers stole more than $40 million in cryptocurrency In a statement, the company said hackers stole API...
01:10 am GMT - Wed, May 8, 2019
Techcrunch Binance says more than $40 million in bitcoin stolen in large scale hack [Updated]
[Update: Changpeng Zhao’s comments on Periscope added to bottom of post] Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has confirmed a “large scale” data breach, in which hackers stole more than $...
11:45 pm GMT - Tue, May 7, 2019
Techcrunch Google rethinks navigation with launch of Portals on Chrome Canary
Google announced today it has launched a new page transition experience for the Chrome web browser called “Portals.” The technology is something the company has been developing for some ti...
11:45 pm GMT - Tue, May 7, 2019
Techcrunch Fearing an escalation of the trade war with China, stock markets plummet then rally
Stock markets declined today as investors worried about the potential for an escalating trade war with China sold off shares. Markets had been trading near or above all-time highs before President Don...
11:41 pm GMT - Tue, May 7, 2019
Techcrunch Facebook talked privacy, Google actually built it
Mark Zuckerberg: “The future is private”. Sundar Pichai: ~The present is private~. While both CEO’s made protecting user data a central theme of their conference keynotes this month,...
08:42 pm GMT - Tue, May 7, 2019
Techcrunch Waymo and Lyft partner to scale self-driving robotaxi service in Phoenix
Waymo is partnering with Lyft to bring self-driving vehicles onto the ride-hailing network in Phoenix as the company ramps up its commercial robotaxi service. Waymo will add 10 of its self-driving veh...
08:39 pm GMT - Tue, May 7, 2019
Techcrunch Googles big VR news is that there is no VR news
Google seems to be waking up from its VR daydream. The company’s ambitious plans to leverage the smartphones that people already own to power VR experiences went unmentioned at its I/O developer...
08:33 pm GMT - Tue, May 7, 2019
Techcrunch Google tests faster image loading in Chrome Canary
Google today announced a change coming to Chrome that will help image-heavy websites load more quickly — but the addition for now is only available in the experimental version of the web browser...
08:33 pm GMT - Tue, May 7, 2019
Techcrunch Google rolls out faster image loading in Chrome Canary
Google today announced a change coming to Chrome that will help image-heavy websites load more quickly — but the addition for now is only available in the experimental version of the web browser...
08:30 pm GMT - Tue, May 7, 2019
Techcrunch Googles Flutter framework spreads its wings and goes multi-platform
Google’s Flutter UI toolkit for cross-platform development may only be two years old, but it has quickly become the framework of choice for many developers. Until now, though, ‘cross-platf...
08:30 pm GMT - Tue, May 7, 2019
Techcrunch Red Hat and Microsoft are cozying up some more with Azure Red Hat OpenShift
It won’t be long before Red Hat becomes part of IBM, the result of the $34 billion acquisition last year that is still making its way to completion. For now, Red Hat continues as a stand-alone c...
08:21 pm GMT - Tue, May 7, 2019
Techcrunch Lyft lost $1.14B in Q1 2019 on $776M in revenue
In its first-ever earnings report as a public company, Lyft (NASDAQ: LYFT) failed to display progress toward profitability. The ride-hailing business, which raised $2 billion in a March initial public...
08:05 pm GMT - Tue, May 7, 2019
Techcrunch Kotlin is now Googles preferred language for Android app development
Google today announced that the Kotlin programming language is now its preferred language for Android app developers. “Android development will become increasingly Kotlin-first,” Google wr...
08:05 pm GMT - Tue, May 7, 2019
Techcrunch Google now lets developers build games for its smart displays
At its I/O developer conference, Google today announced that it is opening up its Smart Display platform to developers. Until now, there was no real way for developers to target devices like the newly...
08:05 pm GMT - Tue, May 7, 2019
Techcrunch Google launches new Assistant developer tools
At its I/O conference, Google today announced a slew of new tools for developers who want to build experiences for the company’s Assistant platform. These range from the ability to build games f...
08:00 pm GMT - Tue, May 7, 2019
Techcrunch Google launches Jetpack Compose, an open-source, Kotlin-based UI development toolkit
Google today announced the first preview of Jetpack Compose, a new open-source UI toolkit for Kotlin developers who want to use a reactive programming model similar to what React Native and Vue.js. Je...
08:00 pm GMT - Tue, May 7, 2019
Techcrunch Bubble-driven boom in M&As hides steep costs long-term
Global M&A activity is exploding. The value of transactions in the first 8 months of 2018 reached $3.3 trillion worldwide, and the market can expect another record-setting year in 2019....
08:00 pm GMT - Tue, May 7, 2019
Techcrunch What Chromes browser changes mean for your privacy and security
At the risk of sounding too optimistic, 2019 might be the year of the private web browser. In the beginning, browsers were a cobbled together mess that put a premium on making the contents within look...
08:00 pm GMT - Tue, May 7, 2019
Techcrunch Android developers can now force app updates
Half a year ago, at the Android Dev Summit, Google announced a new way for developers to force their users to update their apps when they launch new features or important bug fixes. It’s only no...
08:00 pm GMT - Tue, May 7, 2019
Techcrunch Googles newest Cloud TPU Pods feature over 1,000 TPUs
Google today announced that its second- and third-generation Cloud TPU Pods — its scalable cloud-based supercomputers with up to 1,000 of its custom Tensor Processing Units — are now publi...
08:00 pm GMT - Tue, May 7, 2019
Techcrunch Google latest Android Studio release focuses on speed and stability
At last years I/O developer conference, Google announced Project Marble, an effort to bring more speed and stability to the companys Android Studio IDE. That was in marked contrast to previous updates...
08:00 pm GMT - Tue, May 7, 2019
Techcrunch Googles latest Android Studio release focuses on speed and stability
At last years I/O developer conference, Google announced Project Marble, an effort to bring more speed and stability to the companys Android Studio IDE. That was in marked contrast to previous updates...
07:45 pm GMT - Tue, May 7, 2019
Techcrunch Google strengthens Chromes privacy controls
Google today announced a major new initiative around its Chrome browser that will, in the long run, introduce significant changes to how Chrome handles cookies and enhance its users’ privacy acr...
07:36 pm GMT - Tue, May 7, 2019
Techcrunch Heres everything Google announced today at the I/O 2019 Keynote
  In a two hour keynote at the annual Google I/O Conference this afternoon, the company announced a ton of stuff it’s been working on over the last year, from new phones to a next-gen versi...
07:13 pm GMT - Tue, May 7, 2019
Techcrunch Keyword research in 2019: Modern tactics for growing targeted search traffic
In 2019, its estimated that every minute there are 150 new websites coming online. While many of these wont be long-term ventures, a large percentage will eventually find themselves looking to......
06:56 pm GMT - Tue, May 7, 2019
Techcrunch Live transcription and captioning in Android are a boon to the hearing-impaired
A set of new features for Android could alleviate some of the difficulties of living with hearing impairment and other conditions. Live transcription, captioning, and relay use speech recognition and ...
06:33 pm GMT - Tue, May 7, 2019
Techcrunch Google expands digital wellbeing tools to include a new Focus mode, adds improved parental controls to Android
Last year at Google I/O, Google introduced a host of new digital wellbeing tools aimed at helping people better manage their screen time, track app usage, and configure their device’s ‘do ...
06:33 pm GMT - Tue, May 7, 2019
Techcrunch Google expands digital well-being tools to include a new Focus mode, adds improved parental controls to Android
Last year at Google I/O, Google introduced a host of new digital well-being tools aimed at helping people better manage their screen time, track app usage and configure their device’s “do ...
06:33 pm GMT - Tue, May 7, 2019
Techcrunch Google Maps AR directions rolls out today on Pixel phones
One of the more bizarre, yet intriguing, demos from last year’s Google I/O is now available for real users. AR walking directions in Google Maps is finally rolling out to Pixel users today. Augm...
06:29 pm GMT - Tue, May 7, 2019
Techcrunch Android Q devices will get over-the-air security updates but theres a catch
Devices shipping with Android Q will receive over-the-air security patches without having to go through device manufacturers. A lack of steady security updates has been a major pain point for Android ...
06:28 pm GMT - Tue, May 7, 2019
Techcrunch Googles Pixel 3 and 3a are coming to more carriers, including Sprint and T-Mobile
If youre going to go carrier exclusive, Verizon (disclosure: our parent companys parent company) is probably about as good as any. Ultimately, however, exclusives invariably do more harm than good whe...
06:28 pm GMT - Tue, May 7, 2019
Techcrunch The headphone jack is back for the Google Pixel 3a
Hello old friend. I knew you would be back. I didnt know how or when, but I knew we would be reunited again. It turns out all it would take was a cratering smartphone market to bring you back around. ...
06:28 pm GMT - Tue, May 7, 2019
Techcrunch Googles budget Pixel 3a starts at $399, available in purple-ish
Last weeks earnings didnt go the way Alphabet wanted. The fault primarily lies at the feet of the companys ad business, but the hardware side didnt come out great, either. Like the rest of the industr...
06:21 pm GMT - Tue, May 7, 2019
Techcrunch Google renames Home Hub to the Nest Hub and releases a 10-inch Nest Hub Max
The Home Hub has been a hit for Google, eclipsed only by the Mini in its smart home hardware line. Thats for good reason, of course. The device is the ideal size and priced well, making it a minimally...
06:04 pm GMT - Tue, May 7, 2019
Techcrunch Android now has 2.5B users
At its I/O developer conference, Google today announced that Android now has over 2.5 billion users. That’s up from 2 billion the company announced two years ago. This means overall Android grow...
05:52 pm GMT - Tue, May 7, 2019
Techcrunch Google Lens can translate foreign language text in photos and read it back to you
Google is making some updates to its impressive visual translation tech from Google Translate and throwing it into Lens. You can snap a photo of a sign in a foreign language and it will translate it t...
05:49 pm GMT - Tue, May 7, 2019
Techcrunch Google Assistant gets more personalized through a new Picks for You feature
In addition to Google’s plan to bring a more powerful, next-generation Google Assistant to Pixel phones, the company also introduced new personalization features for its digital assistant. The u...
05:48 pm GMT - Tue, May 7, 2019
Techcrunch A super fast, next-generation Google Assistant is coming to new Pixel phones this year
A next-generation Google Assistant that can handle more complex tasks across apps quickly switching from hailing a ride, to checking the weather and taking a selfie is coming to new Pixel phones lat...
05:46 pm GMT - Tue, May 7, 2019
Techcrunch Google Assistant gets driving mode
Google’s Assistant app for your phone is getting a voice-enabled driving mode, the company announced today at its annual developer conference. The idea is to bring relevant activities front and ...
05:37 pm GMT - Tue, May 7, 2019
Techcrunch Daily Crunch: Twitter tweaks Retweets
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...
05:33 pm GMT - Tue, May 7, 2019
Techcrunch Protestors fly banner-towing plane over Google I/O
It wouldn’t be a Google I/O without a little bit of controversy. In the middle of today’s keynote, a plane started circling the amphitheater where Google holds its annual conference, towin...
05:31 pm GMT - Tue, May 7, 2019
Techcrunch Snap a photo of a menu and Google Lens can tell you what to order
Last year at Google I/O, the company wowed the audience by showcasing Duplex as a way to make restaurant reservations. It seems that the company is psyched to solve dining’s most annoying proble...
05:31 pm GMT - Tue, May 7, 2019
Techcrunch Google is bringing AI assistant Duplex to the web
Last year at Google I/O, the tech giant’s annual developer conference in Mountain View, Calif., the company showed off a splashy demo of an artificial intelligence assistant, Duplex, that could ...
05:31 pm GMT - Tue, May 7, 2019
Techcrunch Pandora slashes prices on its premium music streaming service for students and the military
To better compete with rivals like Spotify and Apple Music the music streaming service Pandora is cutting the prices on its Premium subscriptions for qualifying students and members of the military. P...
05:21 pm GMT - Tue, May 7, 2019
Techcrunch Google Search will offer better news coverage, and soon, support for podcast search
Google Search is getting an upgrade with better news coverage and now, podcast indexing. At the company’s developer conference Google I/O this morning CEO Sundar Pichai kicks things off with an ...
05:18 pm GMT - Tue, May 7, 2019
Techcrunch Google brings augmented reality to Search
At its I/O developer conference, Google today announced that it is bringing the camera — and augmented reality – to Google Search. As the company demonstrated, you could search for somethi...
04:45 pm GMT - Tue, May 7, 2019
Techcrunch Square acquires conversational AI startup Eloquent Labs
Square has acquired conversational artificial intelligence startup Eloquent Labs to help its merchants improve customer service. Eloquent Labs, which raised a $1.5 million seed round back in early 201...
04:23 pm GMT - Tue, May 7, 2019
Techcrunch As concerns over medical device security rise, MedCrypt raises $5.3 million
As medical devices move to networked technologies, securing those devices becomes increasingly important. Regulators, seemingly late to the threat that unsecured medical devices posed, only began requ...
04:15 pm GMT - Tue, May 7, 2019
Techcrunch Watch the Google I/O 2019 keynote right here
Google’s annual developer conference starts today, beginning as usual with a consumer-focused keynote where the company unveils new technology — devices, software, services and more for th...
04:13 pm GMT - Tue, May 7, 2019
Techcrunch Shape Securitys latest product protects smaller businesses from credential stuffing
Shape Security has been helping big companies stay safe from fraudulent activities like password reuse and bot traffic on their publicly facing websites and apps. The company now wants to help smaller...
04:05 pm GMT - Tue, May 7, 2019
Techcrunch Verified Expert Brand Designer: Kristine Arth
After spending a decade working at international design and branding agencies, Kristine Arth launched her own independent branding agency called Lobster Phone last April. Since then, shes launched 22 ...
04:03 pm GMT - Tue, May 7, 2019
Techcrunch Alexa for Windows 10 PCs goes hands-free
In November, Amazon launched an Alexa app for Windows 10 PCs which allowed PC owners to speak to Alexa in order to set reminders, timers, alarms, create to-dos, track their calendar, control their sma...
04:03 pm GMT - Tue, May 7, 2019
Techcrunch OnePlus CEO Pete Lau will discuss the future of mobile at Disrupt SF
Founded in late 2013, OnePlus did the impossible, coming seemingly out of nowhere to take on some of the biggest players in mobile. The company has made a name by embracing a fawning fanbase and offer...
03:06 pm GMT - Tue, May 7, 2019
Techcrunch US digital advertising exceeded $100B in 2018 (IAB report)
Digital ad spending in the United States exceeding $100 billion for the first time last year, according to the latest internet advertising report from the Interactive Advertising Bureau and Pricewater...
02:50 pm GMT - Tue, May 7, 2019
Techcrunch Facebook is being sued by a Polish drug prevention group over free speech violation
Facebook’s efforts to shut down harmful and malicious content on its platform have landed it in a European courtroom, after an anti-drug abuse organization in Poland claimed that a freeze on its...
02:30 pm GMT - Tue, May 7, 2019
Techcrunch FBI has seized Deep Dot Web and arrested its administrators
The FBI have arrested several people suspected of involvement in running Deep Dot Web, a website for facilitating access to dark web sites and marketplaces. Two suspects were arrested in Tel Aviv and ...
02:00 pm GMT - Tue, May 7, 2019
Techcrunch Fli Charge Technology acquired by Birch Lake to accelerate a wireless future
Fli Charge Technology is today announcing it was acquired by an affiliate of Birch Lake Associates. As part of the purchase, industry veteran Khalid Zitouni is taking offer the chief executive positio...
02:00 pm GMT - Tue, May 7, 2019
Techcrunch Marshall continues to impress with new retro portable speakers
Marshall, the headphone company and not the loudspeaker company of the same vintage, today announced two new portable speakers. Like the company’s previous offerings, these speakers ooze a retro...
01:48 pm GMT - Tue, May 7, 2019
Techcrunch Journey launches its real-time group Peloton For Meditation
Sitting silently with your eyes closed isn’t fun but it’s good for you…so you probably don’t meditate as often as you’d like. In that sense it’s quite similar to ex...
01:13 pm GMT - Tue, May 7, 2019
Techcrunch Serverless monitoring startup Espagon expands to cover broader microservices
When Espagon launched last Fall, the Israeli startup had an idea to monitor serverless, architectures, specifically AWS Lambda. But the company didn’t want to confine itself to monitoring a narr...
01:13 pm GMT - Tue, May 7, 2019
Techcrunch Serverless monitoring startup Epsagon expands to cover broader microservices
When Epsagon launched last Fall, the Israeli startup had an idea to monitor serverless, architectures, specifically AWS Lambda. But the company didn’t want to confine itself to monitoring a narr...
01:00 pm GMT - Tue, May 7, 2019
Techcrunch Freedom Mobile server leak exposed customer data
A security lapse at Canada’s fourth largest cell network Freedom Mobile exposed customer data. Security researchers Noam Rotem and Ran Locar found an Elasticsearch server leaking five million lo...
01:00 pm GMT - Tue, May 7, 2019
Techcrunch GM Cruise raises $1.15B at a $19B valuation from Softbank and Honda
GM Cruise has raised another $1.15 billion in new equity from a group of investors that includes T. Rowe Price Associates, Honda, Softbank Vision Fund and its parent company GM as the self-driving veh...
12:30 pm GMT - Tue, May 7, 2019
Techcrunch Facebook unveils an automated ad builder and an appointment manager for small businesses
Facebook said it’s launching a number of new products aimed at small businesses today which is appropriate, since we’re currently in the middle of National Small Business Week. These new ...
11:00 am GMT - Tue, May 7, 2019
Techcrunch K-Zen Beverage, a nascent cannabis-infused drink brand, has raised $5 million in seed funding
There’s a new cannabis-infused drink company coming together, helped along by the venture firm DCM, which just plugged $5 million in seed funding into the company. Called K-Zen Beverages, the mo...
10:17 am GMT - Tue, May 7, 2019
Techcrunch Tencent promises its technology will do good
Tencent, one of Asia’s most valuable companies with a current market cap of around $460 billion, has introduced a new motto after co-founder and CEO Pony Ma said this week he wanted ‘tech ...
10:06 am GMT - Tue, May 7, 2019
Techcrunch Hubtype raises $1.1M to help developers build richer chat support
Barcelona-based Hubtype has raised a 1 million (~$1.1M) seed round led by Madrid-based early stage VC firm, K Fund. The team last raised when the business was founded, back in February 2016, when they...
10:00 am GMT - Tue, May 7, 2019
Techcrunch Announcing the Corvid by Wix Challenge at the TC Hackathon at VivaTech
Hey there hackers, il ny a pas de temps perdre! You heard it here first, theres no time to lose. Todays the last day you can sign up to compete in the TechCrunch Hackathon at VivaTech 2019 on 17-18 M...
09:35 am GMT - Tue, May 7, 2019
Techcrunch Gett raises $200M at $1.5B valuation for its B2B ride-hailing service, aims for 2020 IPO
As Uber gears up for an IPO, one of its smaller rivals has raised some money as it prepares to take its own turn on the public market. Gett— the ride-hailing startup that focuses primarily on th...
08:00 am GMT - Tue, May 7, 2019
Techcrunch Nokia Chairman Risto Siilasmaa backs machine learning startup Aito.ai
Aito, a Helsinki-based machine learning startup that is developing “predictive database” technology, has raised 1 million in pre-seed funding, including from Nokia Chairman Risto Siilasmaa...
08:00 am GMT - Tue, May 7, 2019
Techcrunch Urban Jungle raises 2.5M to make insurance accessible to generation rent
Urban Jungle, a digital insurance startup targeting so-called “generation rent” with a range of insurance products, has raised 2.5 million in seed funding round. The round is said to be ba...
07:39 am GMT - Tue, May 7, 2019
Techcrunch Tourlane raises a $47M C round led by Sequoia and Spark Capital
There still exists an old-fashioned problem in travel: group travel which requires individuals and groups to plan and book personalized, multi-day tours online. Tourlane is a major player in this sect...
07:04 am GMT - Tue, May 7, 2019
Techcrunch Brankas wants to bring Southeast Asias banks and e-commerce into the digital era
Fintech continues to be among the biggest topics driving startups and investment in Southeast Asia. The region’s ‘internet economy’ is forecast to grow massively as its 600 million p...
04:57 am GMT - Tue, May 7, 2019
Techcrunch Luckin Coffee plans to raise over $500M in US IPO
Luckin Coffee, the ambitious Chinese upstart that’s going after Starbucks, could raise nearly $600 million from its upcoming IPO. That’s according to a price range released by the Chinese ...
03:01 am GMT - Tue, May 7, 2019
Techcrunch Apple and Google Play remove three dating apps after FTC warning about underage users
The Federal Trade Commission said today that Google and Apple have removed three dating apps from their app stores because they could potentially be used by sexual predators to find children. In a par...
12:36 am GMT - Tue, May 7, 2019
Techcrunch Apple Watch may be getting more independent at WWDC
Apple may be preparing some tweaks to watchOS that will leave you fumbling for your phone less often. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman just published a long list of software tweaks his sources say are co...
12:25 am GMT - Tue, May 7, 2019
Techcrunch iOS reportedly getting its very own swipe-to-type keyboard
Apple may be bringing an Android favorite to iOS at its software developers conference next month. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman has published a big list of little software tweaks his sources say are ...
10:28 pm GMT - Mon, May 6, 2019
Techcrunch New study shows human development is destroying the planet at an unprecedented rate
We are eroding the very foundations of our economies, livelihoods, food security, health and quality of life worldwide. That’s the word from Sir Robert Watson, the chair of a massive multination...
09:41 pm GMT - Mon, May 6, 2019
Techcrunch Twitter gives Retweets an upgrade
Twitter is finally letting you do more with Retweets. In a small but useful update rolled out today, Twitter will now allow users to add a photo, video, or GIF to a Retweet, instead of only text. The ...
07:03 pm GMT - Mon, May 6, 2019
Techcrunch An Xbox controller with a built-in Braille display is Microsofts latest gaming accessibility play
Microsoft has been leaning into accessibility in gaming lately, most visibly with its amazing Adaptive Controller, and a new patent suggests another way the company may be accommodating disabled gamer...
06:55 pm GMT - Mon, May 6, 2019
Techcrunch Uber and Lyft drivers are striking ahead of Ubers IPO
With Uber expected to make its debut on the public market by Friday, May 10, on-demand ride-hailing drivers are planning to strike on Wednesday. The New York Taxi Workers Association is calling on U.S...
05:56 pm GMT - Mon, May 6, 2019
Techcrunch Facebook updates its video guidelines to promote original content, loyal and engaged viewership
Facebook today announced a series of changes to the way it ranks videos on its social network, which determines how widely they’re distributed. According to the updated guidelines, Facebook will...
05:25 pm GMT - Mon, May 6, 2019
Techcrunch Where top VCs are investing in media, entertainment & gaming
Most of the strategy discussions and news coverage in the media & entertainment industry is concerned with the unfolding corporate mega-mergers and the political implications of social media platf...
05:00 pm GMT - Mon, May 6, 2019
Techcrunch Google refreshes Android Auto with new features and a darker look
Android Auto the in-car platform that brings the look and functions of a smartphone to the vehicles central screen is getting a new look and improved navigation and communication features that will ...
05:00 pm GMT - Mon, May 6, 2019
Techcrunch Show off your developer skills in the Hackathon at Disrupt SF 2019
Were inviting hundreds of think-outside-the-boxers coders, devs, engineers and tech makers to compete onsite at the TechCrunch Hackathon, which takes place during Disrupt San Francisco 2019 on Octob...
05:00 pm GMT - Mon, May 6, 2019
Techcrunch Populus AI CEO, co-founder Regina Clewlow at TC Sessions: Mobility on July 10
Behind all those on-demand shuttles, ride-hailing vehicles, dockless scooters, bikes and someday even autonomous cars is data. A lot of data. Numerous startups have popped up and several large, establ...
04:50 pm GMT - Mon, May 6, 2019
Techcrunch Daily Crunch: EU to investigate Spotifys Apple complaints
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...
04:44 pm GMT - Mon, May 6, 2019
Techcrunch Spoiler-heavy Spider-Man trailer establishes a way forward for Disneys Marvel Universe
A new trailer for “Spider-Man: Far From Home” has just been released, and it’s setting up a way for Marvel to finally unite the disparate elements of its franchises. The trailer cont...
03:39 pm GMT - Mon, May 6, 2019
Techcrunch Microsoft aims to modernize and secure voting with ElectionGuard
When it comes to voting, we've come a long way from dropping pebbles into an amphora, but still not nearly far enough, if the lack of confidence in our election systems is any indication. Microsoft is...
03:30 pm GMT - Mon, May 6, 2019
Techcrunch Microsoft launches a new platform for building autonomous robots
One major — and somewhat unexpected — theme at Microsoft’s Build developer conference this week is autonomous robots. After acquiring AI startup Bonsai, which specialized in reinforc...
03:30 pm GMT - Mon, May 6, 2019
Techcrunch Words new AI editor will improve your writing
If you write in Microsoft Word Online, you’ll soon have an AI-powered editor at your side. As the company announced today, Word will soon get a new feature called “Ideas” that will o...
03:30 pm GMT - Mon, May 6, 2019
Techcrunch Microsoft launches Visual Studio Online, an online code editor
Microsoft today announced the private preview launch of Visual Studio Online, an online code editor the company is positioning as a companion to Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code. The service is ba...
03:30 pm GMT - Mon, May 6, 2019
Techcrunch Microsoft open-sources its quantum computing development tools
Microsoft’s quantum computer may not have a working qubit yet, but the company has been hard at work on building the tools to program future quantum computers. Over the course of the last few ye...
03:30 pm GMT - Mon, May 6, 2019
Techcrunch Microsofts IntelliCode for AI-assisted coding comes out of preview
IntelliCode, Microsoft’s tool for AI-assisted coding, is now generally available. It supports C# and XAML in Visual Studio and Java, JavaScript, TypeScript and Python in Visual Studio Code. By d...
03:30 pm GMT - Mon, May 6, 2019
Techcrunch Microsoft launches React Native for Windows
Microsoft today announced a new open-source project for React Native developers who want to target Windows. “React Native for Windows,” as the project is unsurprisingly called, is meant to...
03:30 pm GMT - Mon, May 6, 2019
Techcrunch Windows gets a new terminal
Windows 10 is getting a new terminal for command-line users, Microsoft announced at its Build developer conference today. The new so-called ‘Windows Terminal’ will launch in mid-June and p...
03:30 pm GMT - Mon, May 6, 2019
Techcrunch Microsoft and Red Hat launch a new event-driven Kubernetes autoscaling tool
It’s not a developer conference until somebody talks about Kubernetes, so it’s no surprise that Microsoft is highlighting a number of new features around the container orchestration servic...
03:30 pm GMT - Mon, May 6, 2019
Techcrunch Microsoft and GitHub grow closer
Microsoft’s $7.5 billion acquisition of GitHub closed last October. Today, at its annual Build developer conference, Microsoft announced a number of new integrations between its existing service...
03:30 pm GMT - Mon, May 6, 2019
Techcrunch Microsoft wants you to work less
Microsoft today announced updates to its MyAnalytics platform and a new Outlook feature that are meant to help you work less, find more time to focus on the work that actually matters and, by extensio...
03:30 pm GMT - Mon, May 6, 2019
Techcrunch Microsofts Chromium-based Edge browser will get new privacy controls, IE mode and Collections
Microsoft today announced a number of new features for its new Chromium-based Edge browser, which saw its first public release only a few weeks ago. One of these features addresses some worries from b...
03:30 pm GMT - Mon, May 6, 2019
Techcrunch Microsoft wants to reinvent documents and collaboration with its new Fluid Framework
At its Build developer conference, Microsoft today announced the Fluid Framework, a new software development kit that is meant to help developers build faster and more flexible distributed application...
03:00 pm GMT - Mon, May 6, 2019
Techcrunch Carta was just valued at $1.7 billion by Andreessen Horowitz, in a deal some see as rich
Carta, a seven-year-old, San Francisco-based startup, is the newest unicorn in tech. The company, which helps private and public companies, investors and employees manage their equity and ownership, t...
02:30 pm GMT - Mon, May 6, 2019
Techcrunch Watch Microsofts Build 2019 keynotes right here
It’s early May, and that means it’s time for all the big developer conferences. After Facebook F8 last week, this week, it’s Microsoft’s and Google’s turn, with Microsoft...
02:00 pm GMT - Mon, May 6, 2019
Techcrunch Marshall continues to impress with new retro portable speakers
Marshall, the headphone company and not the loudspeaker company of the same vintage, today announced two new portable speakers. Like the company’s previous offerings, these speakers ooze a retro...
01:00 pm GMT - Mon, May 6, 2019
Techcrunch Dropbox adds cold storage layer to reduce cost of storing less-frequently accessed files
Dropbox started shifting workloads away from AWS to its own data centers several years ago because it needed more control over how files were stored and accessed. It developed a storage architecture c...
11:57 am GMT - Mon, May 6, 2019
Techcrunch Grocery startup BigBasket becomes Indias newest unicorn with new $150M investment
India has a new unicorn after BigBasket, a startup that delivers groceries and perishables across the country, raised $150 million for its fight against rivals Walmarts Flipkart, Amazon and hyperlocal...
11:00 am GMT - Mon, May 6, 2019
Techcrunch Health coaching app Noom will expand its product team after raising $58M led by Sequoia
Health coaching app developer Noom announced today that it has raised $58 million led by Sequoia Capital. Other participants include Agla Ventures, the tech investment arm of French holding company Gr...
11:00 am GMT - Mon, May 6, 2019
Techcrunch SendBird snags additional $50M for messaging API tool, as it extends Series B to $102M
SendBird, a startup that enables developers to add messaging to their apps with a couple of lines of code, announced a secondary Series B investment of $50 million today. This additional funding comes...
07:32 am GMT - Mon, May 6, 2019
Techcrunch The EU will reportedly investigate Apple following anti-competition complaint from Spotify
The spat between Spotify and Apple is going to be the focus on a new investigation from the EU, according to a report from the FT. The paper reported today that the European Commission (EC), the EU...
01:36 am GMT - Mon, May 6, 2019
Techcrunch Thunes raises $10M to make financial services more accessible in emerging markets
Cross-border fintech continues to be an area of interest for venture capitalists. The latest deal sees GGV Capital — the U.S-China firm that’s backed Xiaomi, Airbnb, Square and others R...
11:15 pm GMT - Sun, May 5, 2019
Techcrunch Gillmor Gang: Live on Tape
The Gillmor Gang Doc Searls, Michael Markman, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor . Recorded live Thursday April 25, 2019. Streamed live to Twitter, or just slightly after the fact. Luminary and the podca...
08:03 pm GMT - Sun, May 5, 2019
Techcrunch Equity transcribed: New a16z funds, a $200M round and the latest from WeWork and Slack
Welcome back to thisweeks transcribed edition of Equity, TechCrunchs venture capital-focused podcast that unpacks the numbers behind the headlines. This week, Crunchbase News’s Alex Wilhelm and ...
01:30 pm GMT - Sun, May 5, 2019
Techcrunch We are leaving older adults out of the digital world
Jessica Fields Contributor Share on Twitter Jessica Fields is a research analyst and program manager at theUCSF Center for Vulnerable Populations at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospitaland a coll...
01:00 pm GMT - Sun, May 5, 2019
Techcrunch Week-in-Review: the iPhone fades and SpaceX confirms an explosion
After a dozen years of riding high, the iPhone is showing signs of weakness in a struggling smartphone market where Apple is still managing to be the biggest loser. Here’s a snapshot of where th...
01:00 pm GMT - Sun, May 5, 2019
Techcrunch Facebook is pivoting
“The future is private,” said Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook’s roadmap, after conceding “we dont exactly have the strongest reputation on privacy right now, to put it lightly.R...
06:00 pm GMT - Sat, May 4, 2019
Techcrunch Great teams, UBI, data retention policies, and Amazon HQ2
3 key secrets to building extraordinary teams David Cancel, the CEO and founder of Drift, wrote a deep dive on how to think about finding and recruiting the kinds of people who build incredible startu...
04:00 pm GMT - Sat, May 4, 2019
Techcrunch Original Content podcast: The battle of opinions over Game of Thrones and the Battle of Winterfell
This post and podcast contain spoilers for “Game of Thrones” and “Avengers: Endgame.” “The Long Night,” themuch-anticipated “Game of Thrones” episode wh...
12:16 pm GMT - Sat, May 4, 2019
Techcrunch Former YouTube star sentenced to ten years in prison for child porn
Former Youtube star Austin Jones has been sentenced to ten years in a US federal prison after pleading guilty to persuading underage girls to send him explicit videos of themselves. Jones, who made a ...
12:00 pm GMT - Sat, May 4, 2019
Techcrunch Startups Weekly: Will the Seattle tech scene ever reach its full potential?
In this week's newsletter: WeWork files confidentially for IPO, Lyft loses scooter head and Magic Leap raises MORE money....
10:58 am GMT - Sat, May 4, 2019
Techcrunch Uber is facing Australian class action suit alleging unlawful conduct
As it gears up to go public Uber is facing legacy baggage down under: A class action lawsuit has been filed in Australia on behalf of around 6,000 taxi and hire car drivers and license owners, Reuters...
07:00 am GMT - Sat, May 4, 2019
Techcrunch Lego introduces a new STEM Star Wars kit
No one does brand synergy quite like Lego. The companys been one of the biggest Star Wars licensers over the years, and for the first time, its applying one of the most valuable pieces of IP to its ow...
04:28 am GMT - Sat, May 4, 2019
Techcrunch Coinbase loses its first CTO after just one year in the job
Coinbase, the $8 billion-valued crypto exchange, has lost its CTO after Balaji Srinivasan announced his departure from the company. Srinivasan became the U.S. company’s first CTO one year ago af...
03:53 am GMT - Sat, May 4, 2019
Techcrunch A glitch is breaking all Firefox extensions
Did you just open Firefox only to find all of your extensions disabled and/or otherwise not working? You’re not alone, and it’s nothing you did. Reports are pouring in of a glitch that has...
10:52 pm GMT - Fri, May 3, 2019
Techcrunch Watch Rocket Lab launch its second orbital mission of 2019 late tonight
Fast-growing launch provider Rocket Lab is launching its second orbital payload of the year late tonight by our reckoning, early in the evening at the launch site in New Zealand. It will carry three e...
08:14 pm GMT - Fri, May 3, 2019
Techcrunch Security lapse exposed a Chinese smart city surveillance system
Smart cities are designed to make life easier for their residents: better traffic management by clearing routes, making sure the public transport is running on time and having cameras keeping a watchf...
08:14 pm GMT - Fri, May 3, 2019
Techcrunch Why carriers keep your data longer
Your wireless carrier knows where you are as you read this on your phoneotherwise, it couldnt connect your phone in the first place. But your wireless carrier also has a memory. It knows where you too...
07:55 pm GMT - Fri, May 3, 2019
Techcrunch Trumps tariffs could knock Teslas Autopilot off course
The White House has refused to exempt the “brain” of Teslas Autopilot technology from punitive import tariffs, a decision that could delay or disrupt the companys self-driving ambitions, T...
07:30 pm GMT - Fri, May 3, 2019
Techcrunch Dear Hollywood, here are 5 female founders to showcase instead of Elizabeth Holmes
Its hard to pass on a chance to stoke startup schadenfreude, but Hollywood could put the spotlight on women who pioneered the bleeding edge of tech and actually produced billion-dollar successes....
07:19 pm GMT - Fri, May 3, 2019
Techcrunch Spotifys leanback instant listening app Stations hits iOS
Spotify has launched its instant listening app Stations on iOS, but only in Australia for the time being. The release comes nearly a year and a half after the Stations app first arrived on the market,...
07:12 pm GMT - Fri, May 3, 2019
Techcrunch Liam OConnor, hired to help build Lyfts bike and scooter business, has left after 7 months
The emerging business of offering bikes and scooters on demand has not always been very smooth, and today comes one of the latest bumps: TechCrunch has learned and confirmed that Liam O’Connor, ...
07:08 pm GMT - Fri, May 3, 2019
Techcrunch How German and US authorities took down the owners of darknet drug emporium Wall Street Market
The major darknet marketplace known as the Wall Street Market have been seized and its alleged operators arrested in a joint operation between European and U.S. authorities. Millions in cash, cryptocu...
07:00 pm GMT - Fri, May 3, 2019
Techcrunch Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick may not be invited to ring opening bell
Despite Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick wanting to be part of the company going public, the company’s board is considering not letting Kalanick be there to ring the opening bell on May 10, Uber&...
06:13 pm GMT - Fri, May 3, 2019
Techcrunch SEC hits failed Apple sapphire glass manufacturer with fraud charges
Way back in 2013, Apple spent a whopping $578 million on sapphire glass. The sum, spread out over four installments, was an advance to GT Advanced Technologies. Already in use on the companys home but...
06:04 pm GMT - Fri, May 3, 2019
Techcrunch The Key, a VR story about dreams and refugees, wins Storyscapes prize at Tribeca
“The Key,” a surreal story with a real-world political message, has won the Storyscapes award at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival That’s the festival’s juried award for ...
05:05 pm GMT - Fri, May 3, 2019
Techcrunch How Amazons HQ2 could disrupt government IT, for the worse
When Amazon entered markets like bookselling or groceries, its competition proved highly disruptive to incumbents. In November 2018, Amazon declared that it had selected northern Virginia as one of tw...
04:50 pm GMT - Fri, May 3, 2019
Techcrunch Daily Crunch: Facebook bans far-right figures
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...
04:16 pm GMT - Fri, May 3, 2019
Techcrunch When it comes to elections, Facebook moves slow, may still break things
This week, Facebook invited a small group of journalists — which didn’t include TechCrunch — to look at the “war room” it has set up in Dublin, Ireland, to help monitor i...
04:05 pm GMT - Fri, May 3, 2019
Techcrunch How tech entrepreneurs think of Universal Basic Income
As tech has grown, policy debates have become an important pastime. Todays tech industry aspires to replace human drivers with self-driving cars, secretaries with AI assistants, permanent jobs with gi...
03:42 pm GMT - Fri, May 3, 2019
Techcrunch Report: Sinclair to buy Disneys 21 regional sports networks for $10B
TV broadcasting company Sinclair will buy 21st Century Fox’s 21 regional sports networks from Disney for $10 billion, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. Sinclair was one of seve...
03:18 pm GMT - Fri, May 3, 2019
Techcrunch Googles budget Pixel 3a XL pops up at an Ohio Best Buy
The Pixel 3a is arriving next week at Google I/O. That statement felt like all but a given before, and now that the handset is showing up at Ohio-area Best Buys, well, you can pretty much bank on it a...
03:16 pm GMT - Fri, May 3, 2019
Techcrunch Tesla bumps up its capital raise by $400 million, with Elon Musk taking an additional $15 million
Tesla is going to raise an additional $400 million in its latest sale of stock, with co-founder and chief executive Elon Musk committing to buy an additional $15 million in shares, according to a fili...
02:30 pm GMT - Fri, May 3, 2019
Techcrunch CBS says streaming services & Super Bowl helped it achieve record revenues in Q1
CBS credited its direct-to-consumer streaming services in helping it achieve double-digit revenue growth and record quarterly revenues in Q1, along with the gains that came from hosting Super Bowl LII...
02:05 pm GMT - Fri, May 3, 2019
Techcrunch Sustainability focused Ecosystem Integrity Fund closes on $100 million
With six deals already under its belt, the sustainability focused investment firm Ecosystem Integrity Fund has closed its third investment vehicle at its $100 million target. Investments in the third ...
01:37 pm GMT - Fri, May 3, 2019
Techcrunch Sonic the Hedgehog director says character is getting makeover after backlash
In 2006, New Line Cinema added five days of reshoots for Snakes on a Plane, six months after principal filming had wrapped. The new shoots helped change the film’s rating from PG-13 to R, courte...
09:49 am GMT - Fri, May 3, 2019
Techcrunch Asto, the bookkeeping app from Santander, adds invoice financing for freelancers and SMEs
Asto, the Santander owned “upstart” developing financial tools for freelancers and SMEs, is adding invoice financing to its bookkeeping app. The new offering, which potentially opens up so...
07:30 am GMT - Fri, May 3, 2019
Techcrunch WorldCover raises $6M round for emerging markets climate insurance
WorldCover, a New York and Africa-based climate insurance provider to smallholder farmers, has raised a $6 million Series A round led by MS&AD Ventures. Y-Combinator, Western Technology Investment...
07:04 am GMT - Fri, May 3, 2019
Techcrunch Palantirs software was used for deportations, documents show
Data mining firm Palantirs software was used by a US government agency during an operation in 2017 in which immigrants crossing the border were arrested for deportation, newly released documents(PDF) ...
01:48 am GMT - Fri, May 3, 2019
Techcrunch YouTube confirms plans to make Originals available for free
YouTube Chief Business Officer Robert Kyncl reaffirmed the company’s plans to take its Originals out from behind the paywall, making them free and ad-supported. Kyncl was speaking at YouTubeR...
01:22 am GMT - Fri, May 3, 2019
Techcrunch Why you dont want Tumblr sold to exploitative Pornhub
Tumblr has been squandered ever since it was bought for $1.1 billion in 2013 by Yahoo, now part of Verizon Media Group. Without proper strategy or talent, the blogging tool and early meme-sharing netw...
12:42 am GMT - Fri, May 3, 2019
Techcrunch Watch SpaceX launch an ISS resupply mission and make a drone ship landing tonight
It's time for another SpaceX launch, and though tonight's (technically tomorrow morning's) isn't as historic as the Falcon Heavy, it's always impressive to see a Falcon 9 lift off with supplies for th...
11:33 pm GMT - Thu, May 2, 2019
Techcrunch Early Uber advisor Bradley Tusk looks back and forward as its IPO fast approaches
Bradley Tusk’s story is well-known by now. A political operative who managed Michael Bloomberg’s successful third mayoral campaign, Tusk soon turned a bonus from his powerful boss into an ...
11:14 pm GMT - Thu, May 2, 2019
Techcrunch Life-size robo-dinosaur and ostrich backpack hint at how first birds got off the ground
Everyone knows birds descended from dinosaurs, but exactly how that happened is the subject of much study and debate. To help clear things up, these researchers went all out and just straight up built...
10:02 pm GMT - Thu, May 2, 2019
Techcrunch Activision Blizzard has five franchises lined up for its new Call of Duty esports league
Activision Blizzard said it has lined up five franchises for a new, city-based Call of Duty esports league. Atlanta, Dallas, New York, Paris and Toronto will all play host to franchise teams that will...
09:07 pm GMT - Thu, May 2, 2019
Techcrunch A quiet London-based payments startup just raised among the biggest Series A rounds ever in Europe
You probably haven’t heard of Checkout, a digital payments processing company that was founded in 2012 in London. Apparently, however, investors have been keeping tabs on the low-flying company ...
09:05 pm GMT - Thu, May 2, 2019
Techcrunch Microsoft makes a push to simplify machine learning
Ahead of its Build conference, Microsoft today released a slew of new machine learning products and tweaks to some of its existing services. These range from no-code tools to hosted notebooks, with a ...
09:03 pm GMT - Thu, May 2, 2019
Techcrunch Microbiome testing service uBiome puts its co-founders on administrative leave after FBI raid
The microbiome testing service uBiome has placed its founders and co-chief executives, Jessica Richman and Zac Apte, on administrative leave following an FBI raid on the company’s offices last w...
09:00 pm GMT - Thu, May 2, 2019
Techcrunch Microsoft extends its Cognitive Services with personalization service, handwriting recognition APIs and more
As part of its rather bizarre news dump before its flagship Build developer conference next week, Microsoft today announced a slew of new pre-built machine learning models for its Cognitive Services p...
09:00 pm GMT - Thu, May 2, 2019
Techcrunch Microsoft brings Plug and Play to IoT
Microsoft today announced that it wants to bring the ease of use of Plug and Play, which today allows you to plug virtually any peripheral into a Windows PC without having to worry about drivers, to I...
09:00 pm GMT - Thu, May 2, 2019
Techcrunch Microsoft launches a fully managed blockchain service
Microsoft didn’t rush to bring blockchain technology to its Azure cloud computing platform, but over the course of the last year, it started to pick up the pace with the launch of its blockchain...
09:00 pm GMT - Thu, May 2, 2019
Techcrunch Microsoft launches a drag-and-drop machine learning tool
Microsoft today announced three new services that all aim to simplify the process of machine learning. These range from a new interface for a tool that completely automates the process of creating mod...
09:00 pm GMT - Thu, May 2, 2019
Techcrunch Microsoft announces the $3,500 HoloLens 2 Development Edition
As part of its rather odd Thursday afternoon pre-Build news dump, Microsoft today announced the HoloLens 2 Development Edition. The company announced the much-improved HoloLens 2 at MWC Barcelona earl...
09:00 pm GMT - Thu, May 2, 2019
Techcrunch Microsoft brings Azure SQL Database to the edge (and Arm)
Microsoft today announced an interesting update to its database lineup with the preview of Azure SQL Database Edge, a new tool that brings the same database engine that powers Azure SQL Database in th...
08:23 pm GMT - Thu, May 2, 2019
Techcrunch Spotify spotted testing Your Daily Drive, a personalized playlist that includes podcasts
Spotify was recently spotted testing a new personalized playlist — the first one to mix music and podcasts, customized to user’s musical tastes. According to a report by The Verge, which s...
08:21 pm GMT - Thu, May 2, 2019
Techcrunch Verizon reportedly seeking to sell Tumblr
Last years decision to ban porn from its platform has had a marked adverse effect on Tumblrs traffic. No surprise, really, especially given how wide the net was cast for adult content when it announce...
08:21 pm GMT - Thu, May 2, 2019
Techcrunch Brand new fiber link from Alaska to US will carry 100 terabits over the Yukon
Alaska is disconnected from the rest of the U.S. in a lot of ways that's kind of the point of Alaska. But giving residents the choice to participate in the modern online world is important for the st...
08:00 pm GMT - Thu, May 2, 2019
Techcrunch Solving techs stubborn diversity gaps
Twenty years after Jesse Jackson first took aim attech employers, Silicon Valleysenduring diversity gaps remain a painful reminder of its origins as a mostly white boys club. ...
07:55 pm GMT - Thu, May 2, 2019
Techcrunch Hundreds of Orpak gas station systems can be easily hacked thanks to hardcoded passwords
Homeland Security’s cybersecurity agency says a popular gas station software contains several security vulnerabilities that require “low skill” to exploit. The advisory, posted by th...
06:50 pm GMT - Thu, May 2, 2019
Techcrunch Facebook bans a fresh batch of mostly far-right figures
Facebook just announced a new round of controversial accounts that will be kicked off the platform for violating its rules. In this instance, Facebook cited its policy against “dangerous individ...
06:49 pm GMT - Thu, May 2, 2019
Techcrunch Awair raises $10M to help customers like WeWork monitor their office environments
Monitoring a space is about a lot more than security cameras, Awair is trying to help businesses and consumers more deeply understand the environments they live and work in. Awair has raised a $10 mil...
06:17 pm GMT - Thu, May 2, 2019
Techcrunch Takeaways from F8 and Facebooks next phase
Extra Crunch offers members the opportunity to tune into conference calls led and moderated by the TechCrunch writers you read every day. This week, TechCrunchs Josh Constine and Frederic Lardinois di...
06:11 pm GMT - Thu, May 2, 2019
Techcrunch Unshackled Ventures has $20M to invest exclusively in immigrant founders
With a new $20M fund, the Unshackled team will invest in immigrants and help them secure visas....
05:25 pm GMT - Thu, May 2, 2019
Techcrunch SpaceX confirms its Dragon crew capsule exploded in testing
For the first time after a video of an exploding Dragon capsule leaked in late April, SpaceX confirmed the spacecraft’s destruction during testing. In statements made today, SpaceX’s vice ...
05:23 pm GMT - Thu, May 2, 2019
Techcrunch Beyond Meat rockets in early trading on Nasdaq, reaching a valuation of over $3 billion
Meat alternatives are getting a big public market debut with the Beyond Meat public offering, as shares of the company rocketed above their initial list price. The company’s shares surged up 135...
05:16 pm GMT - Thu, May 2, 2019
Techcrunch Target ups its ad efforts with revamped media company, Roundel
A surprise addition to this year’s NewFronts, first-time participant Target today announced its plans to rebrand its media network formerly known as “Target Media Network” to be call...
05:00 pm GMT - Thu, May 2, 2019
Techcrunch May Mobility COO and co-founder Alisyn Malek at TC Sessions: Mobility on July 10
Even as the giants of the autonomous vehicle industry were setting ambitious timelines for their robotaxi deployments, May Mobility was already hitting the streets. The startup launched its first low-...
05:00 pm GMT - Thu, May 2, 2019
Techcrunch Couchbases mobile database gets built-in ML and enhanced synchronization features
Couchbase, the company behind the eponymous NoSQL database, announced a major update to its mobile database today that brings some machine learning smarts, as well as improved synchronization features...
04:29 pm GMT - Thu, May 2, 2019
Techcrunch Daily Crunch: Facebook shows off an aspirational redesign
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...
04:05 pm GMT - Thu, May 2, 2019
Techcrunch 3 key secrets to building extraordinary teams
Developing new technology, identifying product/market fit, creating a go-to-market strategy When building businesses, these are the types of challenges entrepreneurs tend to spend the majority of thei...
03:59 pm GMT - Thu, May 2, 2019
Techcrunch InCountry raises $7M to help multinationals store private data in countries of origin
The last few years have seen a rapid expansion of national regulations that, in the name of data protection, govern how and where organizations like healthcare and insurance companies, financial servi...
03:42 pm GMT - Thu, May 2, 2019
Techcrunch DDoS attack disrupted US energy company operations, government confirms
A distributed denial-of-service attack launched against an energy company providing power inseveral western U.S. states was enough to report “interruptions of electrical system operations”...
03:42 pm GMT - Thu, May 2, 2019
Techcrunch Denial of service attack disrupted US energy company operations, government confirms
A distributed denial-of-service attack launched against an energy company providing power inseveral western U.S. states was enough to report “interruptions of electrical system operations”...
03:00 pm GMT - Thu, May 2, 2019
Techcrunch Uber now lets you buy transit tickets in Denver
Uber, which is days away from going public, has added in-app ticketing to its transit offering in Denver. This comes a few months after Uber first launched transit integration in the city. For the fir...
02:58 pm GMT - Thu, May 2, 2019
Techcrunch CMU uses knitting machines to make soft robots that hug
Perhaps people fear robotics and automation simply because theyre not cuddly enough. Its certainly an under-explored aspect in the growing field of soft robotics. A team at Carnegie Mellon is taking o...
02:32 pm GMT - Thu, May 2, 2019
Techcrunch What to expect from Google I/O 2019
Developer season has begun! Next week, Google will be putting on a big party at the pointy outdoor amphitheater in Mountain View. Its shaping up to be a biggie, too, if this weeks Google earnings call...
02:30 pm GMT - Thu, May 2, 2019
Techcrunch Inspection robots are climbing the walls to monitor safety conditions in hazardous locations
Down in Christchurch, New Zealand a team of roboticists at Invert Robotics has commercialized an inspection robot that uses tiny suction cups on a series of treads and a specialty chemical to create a...
02:13 pm GMT - Thu, May 2, 2019
Techcrunch Tinder launches Festival Mode to connect music festival goers with profile badges
In the latest of a string of products aimed at attracting and engaging a younger demographic, dating app Tinder this morning announced the launch of a new feature called “Festival Mode,” d...
01:59 pm GMT - Thu, May 2, 2019
Techcrunch Spotify launches voice-enabled ads on mobile devices in a limited U.S. test
Spotify is increasing its investment in voice technology, as hinted at earlier this week on the company’s earnings call with investors. The streaming service today is announcing the launch of vo...
01:59 pm GMT - Thu, May 2, 2019
Techcrunch Spotify launches voice-enabled ads on mobile devices in a limited US test
Spotify is increasing its investment in voice technology, as hinted at earlier this week on the company’s earnings call with investors. The streaming service today is announcing the launch of vo...
01:00 pm GMT - Thu, May 2, 2019
Techcrunch Frozen food gets its turn in the meal delivery game
Mosaic, founded by Blue Apron’s former senior director of operations Matt Davis and Sam McIntire, is entering the next phase of direct-to-consumer meal services with frozen foods. Phase one of m...
12:33 pm GMT - Thu, May 2, 2019
Techcrunch Details emerge of Chinas Big Brother surveillance app targeting Muslims
It’s long been known that China is developing a dystopian surveillance system in Xinjiang, the Northwest province that’s home to China’s Uyghur Muslim population. Among the evidence ...
12:05 pm GMT - Thu, May 2, 2019
Techcrunch Grainchain, a blockchain-based platform for commodity sales, launches in Mexico
In the two years since GrainChain launched its distributed ledger-based transaction platform for bulk dry goods the company has brokered thousands of contracts on everything from corn, sorghum, wheat,...
12:00 pm GMT - Thu, May 2, 2019
Techcrunch Toyota AI Ventures launches $100M fund to invest in robotics and autonomous tech
Toyota AI Ventures, a subsidiary of Toyota Research Institute, has a new $100 million fund that will focus on finding and investing in early-stage robotics and autonomous technology startups. This sec...
11:58 am GMT - Thu, May 2, 2019
Techcrunch Tesla is raising up to $1.5 billion through convertible note and share sale
Tesla is raising up to $1.55 billion through the sale of notes and shares, according to a filing made by the EV maker today. The document outlines that Tesla will sell up to $1.35 billion in convertib...
11:53 am GMT - Thu, May 2, 2019
Techcrunch Adtech veteran Quantcast is latest tech giant to face GDPR privacy probe
Another tech giant is under investigation in Europe for potential privacy breaches of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), TechCrunch has learnt. The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), ...
10:30 am GMT - Thu, May 2, 2019
Techcrunch Flume Health is an insurance administrator cutting costs by pre-approving prices and paying on-demand
Cedric Kovacs-Johnson launched Flume Health after watching his own family struggle with payments for his sister’s surgery. “When we looked at who was calling the shots [on prices] it was t...
09:57 am GMT - Thu, May 2, 2019
Techcrunch FreightHub, the European digital freight forwarder, collects $30M Series B
FreightHub, the European digital freight forwarder, has raised $30 million in Series B financing. Leading the round is Rider Global — a venture fund said to be founded by logistics experts ̵...
09:00 am GMT - Thu, May 2, 2019
Techcrunch Check out the latest challenge of the TC Hackathon at VivaTech 2019
Dpche-toi et ne tarde pas! Roughly translated that means hurry up and dont delay! You can still register to participate in the TC Hackathon at VivaTech to hack for some great prizes. It wont cost you ...
09:00 am GMT - Thu, May 2, 2019
Techcrunch Plum, the money management chatbot, raises another $4.5M and lands on iOS
Plum, the chatbot-based app that helps you manage your money, is disclosing $4.5 million in further funding. The round, which quietly closed in the summer, was led by venture firm VentureFriends and t...
08:45 am GMT - Thu, May 2, 2019
Techcrunch Africa Roundup: Jumias IPO, DHL launches Africa e-Shop, Cathays $168M VC fund, ConnectMed acquired
The biggest news in a month of weighty African headlines was Jumia listing on the New York Stock Exchange. After filing SEC IPO docs in March, the Pan-African e-commerce companys shares began trading ...
08:00 am GMT - Thu, May 2, 2019
Techcrunch Sign up for our mailing list and save 200 off passes to Disrupt Berlin 2019
Its lucky number seven as the TechCrunch posse returns yet again to Berlin, Europes vibrant international hub, to host Disrupt Berlin 2019 on 11-12 December. We just cant get enough of this citys star...
05:49 am GMT - Thu, May 2, 2019
Techcrunch Once a major name in smartphones, LG Mobile is now irrelevant and still losing money
LG was once a stalwart of the smartphone industry — remember its collaboration with Facebook back in the day? — but today the company is swiftly descending into irrelevance. The latest pro...
04:00 am GMT - Thu, May 2, 2019
Techcrunch Acast launches Acast Access to make paywalled podcasts available on any player
Podcast monetization company Acast is launching a new way for publishers to put their podcasts behind a paywall. Until now, podcasts have not been well-suited to subscription paywalls, due to the fact...
12:35 am GMT - Thu, May 2, 2019
Techcrunch A 30-mph e-bike to compete with cars in cities? Investors just bet $20 million on it
Bird and Lime are scooting along, backed by hundreds of millions in venture capital. But there are still plenty of companies hoping to dominate the still-nascent micro mobility market, given the finan...
11:30 pm GMT - Wed, May 1, 2019
Techcrunch Facebook pivots to what it wishes it was
In Facebook’s dreams, it’s a clean and private place. People spend their time having thoughtful discussions in “meaningful” Groups, planning offline meetups with Events, or lau...
11:10 pm GMT - Wed, May 1, 2019
Techcrunch Google opens Android Automotive OS to Spotify, other media app developers
Google is opening its Android Automotive operating system up to third-party developers to bring music and other entertainment apps into vehicle infotainment systems, starting with the Polestar 2, an a...
09:54 pm GMT - Wed, May 1, 2019
Techcrunch Pluralsight will acquire GitPrime for $170M
Pluralsight, an online training platform focusing on subjects like web development, IT certification, and security training, announced today that it will acquire GitPrime, a dev team productivity tool...
09:47 pm GMT - Wed, May 1, 2019
Techcrunch Epic Games is buying the studio behind Rocket League
Epic Games is in the process of acquiring the studio behind one of the most popular cross-platform games out there, Rocket League. The studio behind Fortnite is buying Psyonix for an undisclosed sum a...
09:13 pm GMT - Wed, May 1, 2019
Techcrunch Fanduel is now charging inactive users $3 per month for not playing
You expect to lose money gambling, but you don't really expect to lose it abstaining from gambling. But if you're Fanduel user who hasn't made any bets or deposits for two years, the site will now ded...
08:34 pm GMT - Wed, May 1, 2019
Techcrunch Square reports Q1 sales of $489M, up 59%, but net loss widens to $38M
After Square issuedweak guidance in Q4, all eyes were on the payments company to see what kind of growth it really had in Q1. Resultsreported todayunderscored some of the challenges the company is fac...
08:24 pm GMT - Wed, May 1, 2019
Techcrunch Fitbit beats Q1 revenue expectations as smartwatch growth continues
Fitbits financial rebound continued in the first quarter, as the company generated $271.9 million in revenue, beating Wall Street expectations of $259.7 million. The good news is almost exclusively th...
08:09 pm GMT - Wed, May 1, 2019
Techcrunch Final Niantic EC-1 lessons, F8 call, Slack, WeWork, and TED
Live Conference Call: Josh Constine and Frederic Lardinois talk all things F8 in just a bit Facebooks annual F8 conference is in full swing, with major redesigns of the companys apps and all sorts of ...
08:09 pm GMT - Wed, May 1, 2019
Techcrunch Final Niantic EC-1 lessons, F8 call, Slack, WeWork and TED
Live Conference Call: Josh Constine and Frederic Lardinois talk all things F8 in just a bit Facebooks annual F8 conference is in full swing, with major redesigns of the companys apps and all sorts of ...
08:06 pm GMT - Wed, May 1, 2019
Techcrunch Job recruitment site Ladders exposed 13 million user profiles
Ladders, one of the most popular job recruitment sites in the U.S. specializing in high-end jobs, has exposed more than 13.7 million user records, following a security lapse. The New York-based compan...
07:51 pm GMT - Wed, May 1, 2019
Techcrunch Nine lessons on how Niantic reached a $4B valuation
We’ve captured much of Niantic’s ongoing story in the first three parts of our EC-1, from its beginnings as an “entrepreneurial lab” within Google, to its spin-out as an indepe...
07:21 pm GMT - Wed, May 1, 2019
Techcrunch Madrona Venture Group launches $100M acceleration fund
Seattle’s Madrona Venture Group has long been one of the most prominent early-stage funds in the backyard of Amazon and Microsoft. Now, however, the firm is starting to look beyond the Pacific N...
07:18 pm GMT - Wed, May 1, 2019
Techcrunch Tesla sued in wrongful death lawsuit that alleges Autopilot caused crash
The family of Walter Huang, an Apple engineer who died after his Tesla Model X with Autopilot engaged crashed into a highway median, is suing Tesla. The State of California Department of Transportatio...
05:51 pm GMT - Wed, May 1, 2019
Techcrunch Blue Origin lofts NASA and student experiments in New Shepard tomorrow morning
The 11th mission for Blue Origin's New Shepard launch vehicle is slated for takeoff Tuesday morning. The craft will be carrying 38 (!) experimental payloads from NASA, students, and research organizat...
05:42 pm GMT - Wed, May 1, 2019
Techcrunch The Daily Crunch: Apple stock jumps after earnings
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...
05:38 pm GMT - Wed, May 1, 2019
Techcrunch Walmarts Vudu shows off original content and shoppable ads, hints at interactive shows
Walmart -owned streaming service Vudu announced today that it will be launching new interactive shows later this year, created through the company’s joint venture with interactive content startu...
05:30 pm GMT - Wed, May 1, 2019
Techcrunch Facebook updates PyTorch with a focus on production use
During last year’s F8 developer conference, Facebook announced the 1.0 launch of PyTorch, the company’s open source deep learning platform. At this year’s F8, the company launched ve...
05:30 pm GMT - Wed, May 1, 2019
Techcrunch Facebook open-sources Ax and BoTorch to simplify AI model optimization
At its F8 developer conference, Facebook today launched Ax and BoTorch, two new open-source AI tools. BoTorch, which, as the name implies, is based on PyTorch, is a library for Bayesian optimization. ...
05:00 pm GMT - Wed, May 1, 2019
Techcrunch Google now lets you auto-delete your app activity, location and web history
It’s no secret that unless you are very careful about what you opt-in to, Google keeps a very detailed record of your location history and a log of the web sites you visit in Chrome and apps you...
04:51 pm GMT - Wed, May 1, 2019
Techcrunch Twitter grilled on policy approach that reinforces misogyny
Twitter has faced a barrage of awkward questions from the U.K. parliament over its ongoing failure to tackle violent abuse targeted at women. Katy Minshall, the social media platform’s head of U...
04:25 pm GMT - Wed, May 1, 2019
Techcrunch Google launches CallJoy, a virtual customer service phone agent for small businesses
Google is combining several technologies including virtual phone numbers, audio transcriptions, automated reporting and analytics, in a new effort to help small business owners better manage their inb...
04:00 pm GMT - Wed, May 1, 2019
Techcrunch Showcase your startup buy a demo table at TC Sessions: Mobility 2019
While we havent achieved Gene Roddenberrys vision of the transporter beam (yet), mobility and transportation and the tech that drives both are undergoing a huge and rapid evolution. Theres no better...
03:44 pm GMT - Wed, May 1, 2019
Techcrunch iPhone hard hit as global smartphone shipments continue nosedive
The smartphone industry is in rough shape. Sundar Pichai used the word headwinds to discuss the companys difficulties moving Pixel 3 units, but Canalys latest report is far more blunt, describing the ...
03:10 pm GMT - Wed, May 1, 2019
Techcrunch UK plans new law aimed at improving Internet of Things security
The U.K. government is proposing new legislation aimed at improving security of Internet of Things devices. Digital minister Margot James MP revealed the draft law on Wednesday as part of the governme...
03:04 pm GMT - Wed, May 1, 2019
Techcrunch Netflix launches high-quality audio for TV viewers
Netflix this morning announced a new feature for its streaming service focused on offering viewers better sound. The company is rolling out “high-quality audio,” or an audio experience tha...
03:00 pm GMT - Wed, May 1, 2019
Techcrunch Alexa in-skill purchasing, which lets developers make money from voice apps, launches internationally
A year after Amazon opened up in-skill purchasing to all Alexa developers in the U.S., the company is launching the service internationally. Initially, the capability will roll out to developers in th...
03:00 pm GMT - Wed, May 1, 2019
Techcrunch Googles Wear OS gets tiles
Google announced an interesting new Wear OS feature today that makes a number of highly used features more easily available. Google calls this feature ’tiles’ and it makes both information...
02:30 pm GMT - Wed, May 1, 2019
Techcrunch SeatGeek names former Tumblr and NYT exec Brian Murphy as CTO
Ticketing startup SeatGeek has a new CTO. Brian Murphy previously held the same position at Tumblr (which, like TechCrunch, is owned by Verizon Media) and has also served as vice president of engineer...
02:11 pm GMT - Wed, May 1, 2019
Techcrunch A16z ushers in new fund strategy with $2.75B
Andreessen Horowitz, the storied venture capital firm with investments in Airbnb, Buzzfeed and Coinbase, has reportedly closed on $2.75 billion for two new funds....
02:07 pm GMT - Wed, May 1, 2019
Techcrunch Sean Parkers Brigade/Causes acquired by govtech app Countable
Causes grew to a jawdropping 186 million users as one of the first ten Facebook platform apps. Started by Facebook co-founder Sean Parker, it was meant to turn a generation into activists and philanth...
01:34 pm GMT - Wed, May 1, 2019
Techcrunch Early-stage US VC Joyance to scout for health and wellness startups in Europe
Good news for European startups with a health or wellness bent. Joyance Partners, a $20M US VC firm that invests in early-stage startups in the health and better living space is launching into the Eur...
01:00 pm GMT - Wed, May 1, 2019
Techcrunch Hulu tops 28 million customers, unveils new shows and a binge watch ad experience
Hulu has now grown over 28 million U.S. customers, including 26.8 million monthly paid subscribers and 1.3 million promotional accounts, the company announced this morning as part of its annual presen...
01:00 pm GMT - Wed, May 1, 2019
Techcrunch Shellbot malware evolves to spread and shuts down other cryptominers
When hackers want to make a quick buck, mining cryptocurrency seems to be the way to go. New research out Wednesday by Boston-based security firm Threat Stack shared exclusively with TechCrunch reveal...
12:50 pm GMT - Wed, May 1, 2019
Techcrunch Julian Assange jailed for 50 weeks for breaching UK bail conditions
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been jailed for 50 weeks for violating his U.K. bail conditions in 2012 at a sentencing hearing at Southwark Crown Court today. A spokeswoman for the court confirm...
12:50 pm GMT - Wed, May 1, 2019
Techcrunch BenevolentAI starts AI collaboration with AstraZeneca to accelerate drug discovery
BenevolentAI, is an AI company where AI actually means something. Founded in 2013, it focuses on ‘accelerating the journey from data to medicines. To achieve that, its raised a whopping $202 mil...
11:30 am GMT - Wed, May 1, 2019
Techcrunch BlackBuck raises $150 million to digitize freight and logistics across India
Indias trucking system has a big inefficiency problem that continues to drag the economy. BlackBuck, one of the handful logistics startups that is trying to overhaul this system, just raised $150 mill...
11:15 am GMT - Wed, May 1, 2019
Techcrunch Airbnb-backed OYO moves into Europe, buys Leisure Group from Axel Springer for $415M
OYO, the fast-growing budget hotel startup out of India that’s backed by Airbnb, SoftBank, Grab and Didi, has made an acquisition to expand its footprint into Europe, specifically around self-ca...
09:47 am GMT - Wed, May 1, 2019
Techcrunch Struggling grocery startup Honestbee fires its CEO
The changes continue to roll at Honestbee. Fresh from pausing operations in four countries and announcing plans to lay off 10 percent of staff, the Singapore-based online grocery startup has let CEO J...
09:05 am GMT - Wed, May 1, 2019
Techcrunch Samsung Ventures first investment in Southeast Asia is HR startup Swingvy
Samsung Ventures, the VC arm of the Korean electronics giant, has made its first investment in Southeast Asia after it backed HR startup Swingvy. Singapore-based Swingy’s service provides HR ser...
08:26 am GMT - Wed, May 1, 2019
Techcrunch A mini-series on the Thai cave rescue is heading to Netflix
The rescue of a boys soccer team from caves in Thailand captivated the world last year, and now a mini-series chronically the incredible scenes is headed to Netflix . The streaming giant announced thi...
05:49 am GMT - Wed, May 1, 2019
Techcrunch Indias Times Internet isnt ceding ground to US rivals Facebook and Google
The aggressive push by Silicon Valley companies and Chinese firms to win India, one of the last great growth markets, has decimated many local businesses in recent years. With each passing day, Amazon...
12:47 am GMT - Wed, May 1, 2019
Techcrunch AWS opens up its managed blockchain as a service to everybody
After announcing that they were launching a managed blockchain service late last year, Amazon Web Services is now opening that service up for general availability. It was only about five months ago th...
12:06 am GMT - Wed, May 1, 2019
Techcrunch SoftBank Vision Fund says its team will balloon to a whopping 800 people in the next 24 months
SoftBank Vision Fund has its pedal to the metal in more ways than one. On stage at the Milken Institute Global Conference yesterday, the CEO of SoftBank Investment Advisors, Rajeev Misra, reportedly d...
10:58 pm GMT - Tue, April 30, 2019
Techcrunch SoftBank makes a huge bet on Latin America
Rappi, an on-demand delivery startup, is raising $1 billion from the Japanese telecom giant....
10:45 pm GMT - Tue, April 30, 2019
Techcrunch YouTube sets a goal of having half of trending videos coming from its own site
YouTube wants to have half of the featured videos in its trending tab come from streams originating on the company’s own site going forward, according to the latest quarterly letter from chief e...
10:00 pm GMT - Tue, April 30, 2019
Techcrunch AR will mean dystopia if we dont act today
The AR industry can avoid the creepy aspects of todays data collection methods without hindering innovation....
09:50 pm GMT - Tue, April 30, 2019
Techcrunch USV closes on $450M for new funds, adds two partners
USV is expanding its partnership to manage the new funds....
09:29 pm GMT - Tue, April 30, 2019
Techcrunch Services really are becoming a bigger part of Apples business
We’ve known for a while now that Apple was going to be putting more of an emphasis on services. As the technical leaps from one iPhone/iPad/Mac generation to the next become less dramatic, produ...
09:11 pm GMT - Tue, April 30, 2019
Techcrunch The curious case of Slacks missing $162 million
Slack has filed its S-1 registration statement with the SEC in preparation for its direct listing. One interesting dataset that usually comes out of these S-1s is the companys actual fundraising histo...
09:04 pm GMT - Tue, April 30, 2019
Techcrunch Spot.IM raises $25M to help publishers engage with readers
Spot.IM announced today that it has raised $25 million in Series D funding. We’ve written about the company’s commenting platform before, but CEO Nadav Shoval said it’s now building ...
08:52 pm GMT - Tue, April 30, 2019
Techcrunch Apple Q2: iPads up, iPhones down
Todays big story for Apple revenue was once again focused on services. Thats likely to be the tale for the foreseeable future, as the company continues to pump billions into products offerings like Ap...
08:46 pm GMT - Tue, April 30, 2019
Techcrunch Apples stock jumps 5% after beating expectations
Apple released earnings for its fiscal second quarter today, reporting revenue of $58 billion, a decline of 5% from the year-ago quarter, and quarterly earnings per diluted share of $2.46, down 10%. I...
08:40 pm GMT - Tue, April 30, 2019
Techcrunch Eric Schmidt and Diane Greene are leaving Alphabets board of directors
Google’s parent company Alphabet announced that two board members, Eric Schmidt and Diane Greene, will not be seeking re-election when their terms expire on June 19. Schmidt has been on the comp...
08:20 pm GMT - Tue, April 30, 2019
Techcrunch Security giant FireEyes Q1 earnings in line with expectations, but outlook light
FireEye, one of the largest and most prominent security companies on the market, reported its fiscal first-quarter earnings after the bell Tuesday. The cybersecurity giant reported first-quarter loss ...
08:06 pm GMT - Tue, April 30, 2019
Techcrunch Golden unveils a Wikipedia alternative focused on emerging tech and startups
Jude Gomila, who previously sold his mobile advertising company Heyzap to RNTS Media, is taking on a new challenge building a “knowledge base” that can fill in Wikipedia’s blind spo...
07:23 pm GMT - Tue, April 30, 2019
Techcrunch Oculus announces a VR subscription service for enterprises
Oculus is getting serious about monetizing VR for enterprise. The company has previously sold specific business versions of the headsets, but now they’re adding a pricey annual device management...
07:23 pm GMT - Tue, April 30, 2019
Techcrunch Developers can now verify mobile app users over WhatsApp instead of SMS
Facebook today released a new SDK that allows mobile app developers to integrate WhatsApp verification into Account Kit for iOS and Android. This will allow developers to build apps where users can op...
07:01 pm GMT - Tue, April 30, 2019
Techcrunch Google employees are staging a sit-in to protest reported retaliation
Google employees are staging a sit-in tomorrow to protest the alleged retaliation at the hands of managers toward employees. The plan is to stage the sit-in tomorrow at 11 a.m. “From being told ...
06:34 pm GMT - Tue, April 30, 2019
Techcrunch Hackers went undetected in Citrixs internal network for six months
Hackers gained access to technology giant Citrix’s networks six months before they were discovered, the company has confirmed. In a letter to California’s attorney general, the virtualizat...
06:21 pm GMT - Tue, April 30, 2019
Techcrunch Why women are indefinitely sharing their locations
One can easily wonder why anyone would want to allow someone complete 24-hour access to their location, especially the type who text On my way! before theyve even stepped foot into the shower....
05:55 pm GMT - Tue, April 30, 2019
Techcrunch Instagram will now let creators and influencers sell items directly
The monetization hose is on full blast at Instagram now, and today at F-8 Facebook unveiled one of the latest developments on that front. The company said that creators will now be able to tag items t...
05:54 pm GMT - Tue, April 30, 2019
Techcrunch NSA says warrantless searches of Americans data rose in 2018
The intelligence community’s annual transparency report revealed a spike in the number of warrantless searches of Americans’ data in 2018. The data, published Tuesday by the Office of the ...
05:50 pm GMT - Tue, April 30, 2019
Techcrunch Valve Index pre-orders launch tomorrow for a blistering $999
Valve is throwing a little bit of a “screw you” to Oculus this morning, announcing the specs of their high-end VR headset the Valve Index, just before Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announce...
05:44 pm GMT - Tue, April 30, 2019
Techcrunch Facebook takes its Portal international, adds WhatsApp support
At its F8 developer conference, Facebook today announced that it is launching its Portal video chat hardware internationally by bringing it to Canada and a select number of European countries, too. Th...
05:44 pm GMT - Tue, April 30, 2019
Techcrunch Facebook takes its Portal international, adds WhatsApp, Facebook Live support
At its F8 developer conference, Facebook today announced that it is launching its Portal video chat hardware internationally by bringing it to Canada and a select number of European countries, too. Th...
05:37 pm GMT - Tue, April 30, 2019
Techcrunch Aperture dies the true death in Apples next macOS update
Aperture was a great application for editing photos back in the day, but it hasn't been supported by Apple for years. You can, however, still run it on the latest Macs, should you need to. But that wo...
05:32 pm GMT - Tue, April 30, 2019
Techcrunch Old Facebook finally wants you to Meet New Friends
Facebook’s social graph is aging, full of long-lost acquaintances and hometown friends you don’t care much about seeing in the News Feed any more. But Facebook is now testing a pivot away ...
05:31 pm GMT - Tue, April 30, 2019
Techcrunch Microsofts Mixer now lets streamers reward fans for participation, not just subscriptions
On game streaming platforms today, there’s really only one way to earn status within a creator’s community: you have to become a subscriber. Microsoft’s game streaming service Mixer ...
05:30 pm GMT - Tue, April 30, 2019
Techcrunch Facebook Dating opens to friends with Secret Crush
Facebook built Dating to be privacy-safe, hoping to avoid the awkwardness of friends or family checking out your romance profile. But now Facebook has found a way to let you silently express your affe...
05:30 pm GMT - Tue, April 30, 2019
Techcrunch Instagram officially tests hiding Like counts
Would we feel less envious, shameful and competitive if Instagram didn’t tell us how many Likes a post received? That’s the idea behind Instagram now hiding Like counts from both a post...
05:30 pm GMT - Tue, April 30, 2019
Techcrunch Workplace, Facebooks enterprise edition, gets a reboot to boost activity and cut down on noise
At F-8 today, Facebook is unveiling a major redesign for its desktop app — the first big update it’s made since 2014— and a refresh of its mobile apps as it begins to bring its many ...
05:30 pm GMT - Tue, April 30, 2019
Techcrunch Review: Oculus Quest could be the Nintendo Switch of VR
Facebook has bet a lot on its VR dream. The industry has become the butt of a few jokes in the past couple years as hype has deflated, but there’s been no question that the tech is interesting, ...
05:30 pm GMT - Tue, April 30, 2019
Techcrunch US border agents assert broad unconstitutional power to search citizens devices
U.S. border officials are asserting “broad, unconstitutional authority” to conduct warrantless searches of travelers’ phones, tablets and laptops, according to a new court filing. Th...
05:30 pm GMT - Tue, April 30, 2019
Techcrunch Review: Facebooks Oculus Rift S is barely an upgrade
More than three years after Facebook released one of the biggest gambles in its existence, a virtual reality headset it paid billions to launch as its own, the company has grown more embattled but its...
05:30 pm GMT - Tue, April 30, 2019
Techcrunch Oculus Quest and Rift S ship May 21, pre-orders go live today
Facebook’s new VR headsets, the Oculus Rift S and Quest, are both now live for pre-orders today at $399 and will ship May 21. Oculus released the original Rift just over three years ago. Fast fo...
05:06 pm GMT - Tue, April 30, 2019
Techcrunch Facebook Messenger will get desktop apps, co-watching, emoji status
To win chat, Facebook Messenger must be as accessible as SMS, yet more entertaining than Snapchat. Today, Messenger pushes on both fronts with a series of announcements at Facebook’s F8 conferen...
05:05 pm GMT - Tue, April 30, 2019
Techcrunch Altice USA buys digital news network Cheddar for $200M
Cheddar was valued at $160 million last year....
05:02 pm GMT - Tue, April 30, 2019
Techcrunch Docker looks to partners and packages to ease container implementation
Docker appears to be searching for ways to simplify the core value proposition of the company — creating, deploying and managing containers. While most would agree it has revolutionized software...
05:00 pm GMT - Tue, April 30, 2019
Techcrunch Docker updates focus on simplifying containerization for developers
Over the last five years, Docker has become synonymous with software containers, but that doesn’t mean every developer understands the technical details of building, managing and deploying them....
05:00 pm GMT - Tue, April 30, 2019
Techcrunch Purchase a Startup Alley exhibitor package for Disrupt SF 2019
Were in hot pursuit of bold exhibitionists. Its time to show the world your stuff. By that we mean its time to secure your spot in Startup Alley, the exhibition floor at the very heart of Disrupt San ...
04:52 pm GMT - Tue, April 30, 2019
Techcrunch Glovo, the on-demand deliver anything local app, raises $169M Series D
Glovo, the Spain-headquartered on-demand delivery app that has similarities to Postmates in the U.S., has raised $169 million (150m) in Series D funding. Lakestar led the round alongside Drake, owner ...
04:05 pm GMT - Tue, April 30, 2019
Techcrunch Verified Expert Brand Designer: The Working Assembly
The Working Assembly began as a side hustle. Jolene Delisle and Lawrence O’Toole juggled full-time jobs while collaborating on projects for startup clients, and they eventually realized there wa...
03:30 pm GMT - Tue, April 30, 2019
Techcrunch Small Door raises $3.5 million in seed funding to rethink veterinary care
Millennials are opting out of marriage and kids and instead opting for pet ownership, opening the door for pet-centric businesses to grow. Small Door is one such company. The startup has raised $3.5 m...
03:20 pm GMT - Tue, April 30, 2019
Techcrunch Energizers massive battery/phone proves a viral hit crowdfunding success
Oof. This isnt the sort of thing you want to see when youre rounding the corner of your crowdfunding campaign: There are long shots and then theres coming up with $15,000 of your $1.2 million goal. Th...
03:02 pm GMT - Tue, April 30, 2019
Techcrunch Creative Commons launches its search engine out of beta, with over 300M images indexed
Nonprofit organization Creative Commons is today publicly launching its search engine after more than two years of beta testing. The new service is designed to offer an easy way to search the commons&...
03:00 pm GMT - Tue, April 30, 2019
Techcrunch After account hacks, Twitch streamers take security into their own hands
Twitch has an account hacking problem. After the breach of popular browser game Town of Salem in January, some 7.8 million stolen passwords quickly became the weakest link not only for the game but ga...
03:00 pm GMT - Tue, April 30, 2019
Techcrunch Cushion wants to negotiate bank service fees on your behalf
Out-of-network ATM fees. Monthly service fees. Card replacement fees. Foreign exchange fees. Wire transfer fees. Overdraft fees. Check fees. Fees, fees, fees, fees, fees. Oh and interest, of course. B...
02:53 pm GMT - Tue, April 30, 2019
Techcrunch Fabletics, the activewear brand from Kate Hudson, launches NYC pop-up shop
Fabletics, the digital-first activewear brand founded by Kate Hudson, Adam Goldenberg and Don Ressler, has recently opened up a physical store in Soho as part of its 2019 expansion plans. The company ...
02:08 pm GMT - Tue, April 30, 2019
Techcrunch MLB to exclusively stream 13 live games to YouTube & YouTube TV
YouTube today announced a new partnership with the MLB which will allow the site to exclusively live stream 13 MLB games to both YouTube and YouTube TV during the second half of the regular baseball s...
02:06 pm GMT - Tue, April 30, 2019
Techcrunch Ford to offer Amazon in-car delivery and on-demand car washes in connected services push
Ford is now part of Amazon’s free in-car delivery service, the latest automaker to partner with the ecommerce and logistics giant. Amazon will bring its Key by Amazon In-Car delivery service to ...
01:38 pm GMT - Tue, April 30, 2019
Techcrunch Ready or not, the first Sonic the Hedgehog trailer is here
Its been 28 years since Sonic the Hedgehog first arrived on home gaming consoles. In some senses, a feature film is long overdue. But if history has taught us anything, that might be for the best. Tak...
01:11 pm GMT - Tue, April 30, 2019
Techcrunch Watch Facebooks F8 2019 keynote right here
Facebook’s yearly developer conference kicks off today. The keynote starts at 1PM / 10AM with opening remarks from Facebook’s chief Mark Zuckerberg. As in past years, the event will last s...
01:00 pm GMT - Tue, April 30, 2019
Techcrunch Bird scooters are coming back to San Francisco
While San Francisco only allows Skip and Scoot to operate as part of the city’s shared electric scooter pilot program, Bird has found a way to claim some market share. Bird has obtained a busine...
12:00 pm GMT - Tue, April 30, 2019
Techcrunch Nearly all 2020 presidential candidates arent using a basic email security feature
Three years after Russian hackers targeted and breached the email accounts of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, nearly all of the upcoming 2020 presidential candidates are still lagging i...
12:00 pm GMT - Tue, April 30, 2019
Techcrunch Utahs Divvy raises $200M to eliminate expense reports
NEA has led the round for Divvy, a business expense and budgeting platform....
11:24 am GMT - Tue, April 30, 2019
Techcrunch Uber adds real-time public transport data for London
From today, Uber has added public transport to its app in London, incorporating real-time information on the city’s Underground, Overground, train and bus network, as well as other trams, shuttl...
11:06 am GMT - Tue, April 30, 2019
Techcrunch Grocery startup Honestbee makes layoffs and cuts costs as it prepares to raise more money
Asia Pacific grocery delivery startup Honestbee has confirmed it is suspending business in half of the eight markets it operates in and laying off 10 percent of its 1,000 staff. The cost-cutting appea...
11:00 am GMT - Tue, April 30, 2019
Techcrunch Garmin adds menstrual cycle tracking to devices
Garmin announced today that it will be adding menstrual cycle tracking to its line of trackers and smartwatches. The new feature gives users the ability to log symptoms, track cycles and offers up add...
11:00 am GMT - Tue, April 30, 2019
Techcrunch UiPath nabs $568M at a $7B valuation to bring robotic process automation to the front office
Companies are on the hunt for ways to reduce the time and money it costs their employees to perform repetitive tasks, so today a startup that has built a business to capitalize on this is announcing a...
08:35 am GMT - Tue, April 30, 2019
Techcrunch Nigerian startup Tizeti launches WifiCall.ng IP voice call service
Nigeria based startup Tizeti, an internet service provider, today launched WifiCall.ngan internet voice-calling platform for individuals and businesses. WifiCall is a VoIPor Voice over Internet Protoc...
08:10 am GMT - Tue, April 30, 2019
Techcrunch Vault Platform raises $4.2M to fix workplace misconduct reporting
Vault Platform, a London-based startup that has built software to “re-imagine” workplace misconduct reporting, has raised $4.2 million in seed funding. Leading the round is Kindred Capital...
08:10 am GMT - Tue, April 30, 2019
Techcrunch India unseats China as Asias top fintech funding source
China’s massive fintech industry took a beating in recent months as the government continued to wind down online lending nationwide, rattling investor confidence. Funding for fintech startups sh...
08:00 am GMT - Tue, April 30, 2019
Techcrunch Perkbox, the employee experience platform, raises 13.5M
Perkbox, the London-based startup now calling itself an “employee experience platform,” has raised a further 13.5 million in funding. The round is led by existing investor Draper Esprit, a...
08:00 am GMT - Tue, April 30, 2019
Techcrunch Prisma Labs raises $6.7M for its AI-powered approach to visual editing
Remember Prisma? The Moscow-based team behind the app that sparked a style transfer craze in 2016 has raised a 6 million (~$6.7M) Series A, led by early stage artificial intelligence focused VC firm, ...
08:00 am GMT - Tue, April 30, 2019
Techcrunch Prisma Labs raises $6M for its AI-powered approach to visual editing
Remember Prisma? The Moscow-based team behind the app that sparked a style transfer craze in 2016 has raised a $6 million Series A, led by early stage artificial intelligence focused VC firm, Haxus. W...
07:33 am GMT - Tue, April 30, 2019
Techcrunch Struggling EV firm Faraday Future gets another financial lifeline with new $225M investment
Editors note:This post originally appeared on TechNode, an editorial partner of TechCrunch based in China. It may have lost its original founding team, but the wheels are still rolling for embattled e...
05:14 am GMT - Tue, April 30, 2019
Techcrunch Samsung sees Q1 profit plummet 60%
Samsung’s Q1 earnings are in and, as the company itself predicted, they don’t make for pretty reading. The Korean giant saw revenue for the three-month period fall by 13 percent year-on-ye...
12:00 am GMT - Tue, April 30, 2019
Techcrunch Jungle Ventures hits $175M first close on its third fund for Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia’s startup ecosystem is set to get a massive injection of funds after Jungle Ventures reached a first close of $175 million for its newest fund, TechCrunch has come to learn. Execu...