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10:50 pm GMT - Sat, June 29, 2019
Techcrunch Equity transcribed: SoftBank-backed startup cracks under pressure to scale
Welcome back to the transcribed edition of the popular podcast Equity. This week, TechCrunch writers Kate Clark and Connie Loizos were joined in the studio by Canvas Ventures’ general partner Re...
08:01 pm GMT - Sat, June 29, 2019
Techcrunch Researchers developed a sensing system to constantly track the performance of workers
Researchers have come up with a mobile-sensing system that can track and rate the performance of workers by combining a smartphone, fitness bracelets and a custom app. The mobile-sensing system, as th...
07:50 pm GMT - Sat, June 29, 2019
Techcrunch The IPOd learn investing at First Rounds Angel Track
Startups depend on the angel lifecycle. A few flush post-exit individuals put the first cash into a fresh venture. With some skill and plenty of luck, the early team grows the company into a big succe...
06:34 pm GMT - Sat, June 29, 2019
Techcrunch Whats up with Lidar, crypto mafias, influencer marketing, Shuttl, and assistive tech
Reminder: Extra Crunch discount on Sessions: Enterprise tickets Come and watch TechCrunch interview enterprise titans and rising founders at the premier of TechCrunch Sessions: Enterprise in San Franc...
06:01 pm GMT - Sat, June 29, 2019
Techcrunch Softbank and Toyota-backed mobility venture gains five more automakers
MONET Technologies, a joint venture launched by Softbank and Toyota to provide on-demand mobility services eventually with an autonomous module bus, has five new partners. Five Japanese automakers inc...
04:19 pm GMT - Sat, June 29, 2019
Techcrunch How a martial arts gym trained me to build an inclusive culture
Ken Kao Contributor Share on Twitter Ken is an engineering manager at Airbnb building products that enable entrepreneurs to provide hospitality on the platform. Outside of work he enjoys Muay Thai, Pe...
04:00 pm GMT - Sat, June 29, 2019
Techcrunch Original Content podcast: I Think You Should Leave brings deranged laughs to Netflix
A sketch on Netflix’s “I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson” doesn’t just settle for one funny idea. As soon as you start to get comfortable and assume that you know wher...
03:41 pm GMT - Sat, June 29, 2019
Techcrunch Startups at the speed of light: Lidar CEOs put their industry in perspective
As autonomous cars and robots loom over the landscapes of cities and jobs alike, the technologies that empower them are forming sub-industries of their own. One of those is lidar, which has become an ...
03:35 pm GMT - Sat, June 29, 2019
Techcrunch With a single wiretap, prosecutors collected 9.2 million text messages
For four months in 2018, U.S. prosecutors in Texas collected more than 9.2 million messages under a single court-authorized wiretap order, newly released figures show. The wiretap, granted by a federa...
03:35 pm GMT - Sat, June 29, 2019
Techcrunch With a single wiretap, police collected 9.2 million text messages
For four months in 2018, authorities in Texas collected more than 9.2 million messages under a single court-authorized wiretap order, newly released figures show. The wiretap, granted by a federal jud...
02:00 pm GMT - Sat, June 29, 2019
Techcrunch BMWs EV concept gets Blade Runner-style sound
BMW Vision M NEXT, the electric vehicle concept that had its world debut June 25, won’t be in showrooms anytime soon, if ever. But let’s hope the sound of the vehicle, which was created by...
01:30 pm GMT - Sat, June 29, 2019
Techcrunch Unregulated facial recognition technology presents unique risks for the LGBTQ community
Carlos Gutierrez Contributor Share on Twitter CarlosGutierrez is deputy director and general counsel at LGBT Tech. It seems consumers today are granted ever-dwindling opportunities to consider the saf...
12:41 pm GMT - Sat, June 29, 2019
Techcrunch Rocket Lab successfully launches seventh Electron rocket for Make It Rain mission
Private rocket launch startup Rocket Lab has succeeded in launching its ‘Make It Rain’ mission, which took off yesterday from the company’s private Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand. O...
12:00 pm GMT - Sat, June 29, 2019
Techcrunch Startups Weekly: Whats next for WeWork?
In this week's newsletter: Postmates preps its IPO, Cameo gets $50M and Elizabeth Holmes gets a court date....
11:09 am GMT - Sat, June 29, 2019
Techcrunch Huawei can buy from US suppliers again but things will never be the same
U.S. President Donald Trump has handed Huawei a lifeline after he said that U.S. companies are permitted to sell goods to the embattled Chinese tech firm following more than a month of uncertainty. It...
03:06 am GMT - Sat, June 29, 2019
Techcrunch A rare glimpse into the sweeping and potentially troubling cloud kitchens trend
Such is the conclusion of a growing chorus of observers who’ve been closely watching a new and powerful trend gain strength: that of cloud kitchens, or fully equipped shared spaces for restauran...
12:49 am GMT - Sat, June 29, 2019
Techcrunch Google finance head joins Postmates board ahead of anticipated IPO
Google’s vice president of finance, has joined Postmates’ board of directors, the latest sign that the on-demand food delivery startup is prepping to take the company public. Postmates ann...
12:40 am GMT - Sat, June 29, 2019
Techcrunch SpaceX aims to provide commercial Starship launches by 2021
SpaceX is only getting started launching Falcon Heavy commercial missions, but it already has its eyes on the next prize launching Starship. Now, we know that it’s hoping to start commercial se...
10:18 pm GMT - Fri, June 28, 2019
Techcrunch Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes to stand trial in 2020
Holmes, facing 11 criminal charges, was indicted by a grand jury last June. ...
10:03 pm GMT - Fri, June 28, 2019
Techcrunch Check out the breakout sessions at TC Sessions: Mobility
TC Sessions: Mobility on July 10 in San Jose is fast approaching. Get ready for a superb lineup of speakers like Dmitri Dolgov (Waymo), Eric Allison (Uber) and Summer Craze Fowler (Argo AI). See the f...
08:33 pm GMT - Fri, June 28, 2019
Techcrunch Facebook SDK bug crashes apps like Timehop
A malfunction in Facebook’s Software Development Kit that lets apps add Login With Facebook, sharing, and other features is causing apps that integrate it like Timehop to repeatedly crash. TechC...
08:33 pm GMT - Fri, June 28, 2019
Techcrunch Facebook SDK bug crashed apps like Timehop
A malfunction in Facebook’s Software Development Kit that lets apps add Login With Facebook, sharing, and other features caused apps that integrate it like Timehop to repeatedly crash for about ...
08:26 pm GMT - Fri, June 28, 2019
Techcrunch Happy weekend, Slack is down for real this time
It’s not just you. After a minor hiccup this morning, Slack is down again — and this time it’s really for real. This morning, the popular workplace chat service experienced issues re...
07:34 pm GMT - Fri, June 28, 2019
Techcrunch Teslas in-dash sketchpad gets a boost in next update, music tools coming later
Tesla owners will be better able to express themselves artistically using their in-vehicle infotainment touchscreen with the next update of their vehicle’s in-car software. Tesla revealed via Tw...
06:52 pm GMT - Fri, June 28, 2019
Techcrunch Apple tries out the choose-your-own adventure Twitter thread format that recently went viral
It looks like choose-your-own-adventure Twitter games won’t be a one-hit wonder, now that Apple’s social team has adopted the format. A new tweet from the @AppleTV Twitter account today he...
06:51 pm GMT - Fri, June 28, 2019
Techcrunch Apple is reportedly moving Mac Pro assembly to China
Back in 2013, Apple announced that it would it would be assembling its high-end desktop in the U.S. After manufacturing had mostly moved out the country, the company made a point of touting its use of...
06:40 pm GMT - Fri, June 28, 2019
Techcrunch How startups can make influencer marketing work on a budget
Influencer Marketing has ballooned into a $25 billion industry, yet many marketing managers are left confused by this, because for them, its really not delivering the results to justify the hype......
05:47 pm GMT - Fri, June 28, 2019
Techcrunch Shuttl is winning over office workers in India with safer bus commute option
Miles away from the fancy parts of Gurgaon, where a cohort of Uber and Ola cars race all day to dot the surrounding, hundreds of people are working on a different solution to contribute to Indias push...
05:39 pm GMT - Fri, June 28, 2019
Techcrunch Tesla vehicle fire in Shanghai caused by single battery module
The Tesla Model S vehicle fire that occurred in Shanghai this past April, prompting international media attention, was caused by a single battery module and is not a system defect, the company said Fr...
05:12 pm GMT - Fri, June 28, 2019
Techcrunch Daily Crunch: Jony Ive is leaving Apple
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...
04:13 pm GMT - Fri, June 28, 2019
Techcrunch Twitch will join Amazon Prime Day with giveaways, events and QVC-style live show
Amazon -owned game streaming site Twitch will be participating in Amazon Prime Day this year, with giveaways of free content from Apex Legends and EA Sports games, live-streamed events, and even a liv...
04:00 pm GMT - Fri, June 28, 2019
Techcrunch Bumble now lets you call your matches without exchanging numbers
Bumble is giving users some new options to get to know each other inside its dating app, announcing today that they are adding voice and video calls to their app. The feature is double opt-in, meaning...
03:58 pm GMT - Fri, June 28, 2019
Techcrunch NASA restores Apollo Mission Control to its 1969 Moon landing condition
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing, which is coming up on July 20, NASA has restored and re-opened the original Apollo Mission Control Center at Johnson Space Center in Houston. The...
03:48 pm GMT - Fri, June 28, 2019
Techcrunch Synergy Research finds enterprise SaaS revenue hits $100B run rate, led by Microsoft, Salesforce
In its most recent report, Synergy Research, a company that monitors cloud marketshare, found that enterprise SaaS revenue passed the $100 billion run rate this quarter. The market was led by Microsof...
03:48 pm GMT - Fri, June 28, 2019
Techcrunch Enterprise SaaS revenue hits $100B run rate, led by Microsoft and Salesforce
In its most recent report, Synergy Research, a company that monitors cloud marketshare, found that enterprise SaaS revenue passed the $100 billion run rate this quarter. The market was led by Microsof...
03:26 pm GMT - Fri, June 28, 2019
Techcrunch Quibi is getting an action-thriller series starring Liam Hemsworth
Streaming media startup Quibi, co-founded by entertainment industry heavyweight Jeffrey Katzenberg and former HP CEO Meg Whitman, is adding more star power to its launch slate. The short-form video co...
03:18 pm GMT - Fri, June 28, 2019
Techcrunch Smartphone users are upgrading less frequently will 5G help?
A new study out of NPD confirms what we already know about the state of the smartphone in 2019. People just arent upgrading as frequently. You can see the ramifications of this as companies like Apple...
02:41 pm GMT - Fri, June 28, 2019
Techcrunch Nielsen reports a record half a trillion on-demand music streams in U.S. so far this year
Music streaming services have already delivered a new high of half a trillion (507.7 billion) on-demand streams in the first half of 2019, according to Nielsen’s mid-year Music Report released t...
02:27 pm GMT - Fri, June 28, 2019
Techcrunch Formlabs is 3D printing parts of New Balances new sneakers
Sneakers have been a pretty effective means for helping 3D printing make the transition from prototype to manufacturing. Carbon in particular has found success with its Adidas partnership, printing ou...
01:58 pm GMT - Fri, June 28, 2019
Techcrunch Global Entry is vulnerable to exploitation, says government watchdog
Global Entry, used by millions of busy passengers traveling to the U.S., is “vulnerable” to criminals taking advantage of weaknesses in the system, according to a new report by a governmen...
01:50 pm GMT - Fri, June 28, 2019
Techcrunch Italy stings Facebook with $1.1M fine for Cambridge Analytica data misuse
Italy’s data protection watchdog has issued Facebook with a 1 million (~$1.1M) fine for violations of local privacy law attached to the Cambridge Analytica data misuse scandal. Last year it emer...
01:40 pm GMT - Fri, June 28, 2019
Techcrunch Apples Sidecar just really *gets* me, you know?
With the rollout of Apple’s public beta software previews of macOS and the new iPadOS, I’ve finally been able to experience first-hand Sidecar, the feature that lets you use an iPad as an ...
01:00 pm GMT - Fri, June 28, 2019
Techcrunch SoftBank-backed startup cracks under pressure to scale
Hello and welcome back toEquity, TechCrunchs venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines....
12:08 pm GMT - Fri, June 28, 2019
Techcrunch Facebooks content oversight board plan is raising more questions than it answers
Facebook has produced a report summarizing feedback it’s taken in on its idea of establishing a content oversight board to help arbitrate on moderation decisions. Aka the ‘supreme court of...
12:00 pm GMT - Fri, June 28, 2019
Techcrunch Google is building a new private subsea cable between Portugal and South Africa
Google today announced Equiano, a new private subsea cable that will connect Portugal and South Africa. The cable will be built by Alcatel Submarine Networks and the first phase of the project is sche...
10:47 am GMT - Fri, June 28, 2019
Techcrunch UK fintech Jaja pays $671M in cash to acquire the Bank of Irelands UK credit card business
Fintech has been one of the bigger stories of the UK startup world — due in no small part to the fact that its capital, London, is also one of the world’s major financial centers. Today, o...
12:28 am GMT - Fri, June 28, 2019
Techcrunch Spotify needs to crack down on labels snatching user data
Spotify seems to have learned little from the Facebook developer platform’s scandals despite getting a huge boost from the social network in its early days. Spotify has been caught allowing reco...
12:20 am GMT - Fri, June 28, 2019
Techcrunch SV Academy just landed $9.5 million to offer tuition-free training that puts people in tech jobs
When you live in Silicon Valley, it feels like nearly everyone works in tech and that entry into the industry is wide open. Of course, the reality is very different. Even as software eats the world, n...
11:28 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2019
Techcrunch DoorDash double downs on controversial pay model
There’s seemingly no end in sight for DoorDash’s compensation model where it subsidizes driver wages with customer tips. The mildly bright side, however, is that DoorDash is now providing ...
11:00 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2019
Techcrunch Freemiums public moment
Companies that create the most compelling end-user experiences will win over the long term, and this trend of the consumerization of enterprise technology has only just begun....
10:44 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2019
Techcrunch Apple Music surpasses 60 million subscribers
Today’s major Apple news may be the departure of its design guru Jony Ive, but the even as the company stomachs the executive loss, their software plows ahead. Today, in an interview with French...
10:29 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2019
Techcrunch Hans Zimmer is composing the sound for BMWs electric vehicles
Hans Zimmer, the film score composer behind dozens of Hollywood movies including The Lion King and Inception, is shaping what the next generation of BMW electric vehicles sound like. Zimmer and Renzo ...
10:21 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2019
Techcrunch Pepsi is going to start putting its Aquafina water in aluminum cans
PepsiCo is planning to replace its plastic bottles of Aquafina with aluminum cans at locations around the U.S. The move is part of a broader initiative from the company to reduce its plastic use as a ...
10:01 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2019
Techcrunch Police body-cam maker Axon says no to facial recognition, for now
Facial recognition is a controversial enough topic without bringing in everyday policing and the body cameras many (but not enough) officers wear these days. But Axon, which makes many of those camera...
09:20 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2019
Techcrunch NASAs Dragonfly will fly across the surface of Titan, Saturns ocean moon
NASA has just announced its next big interplanetary mission: Dragonfly, which will deliver a Mars Rover-sized flying vehicle to the surface of Titan, a moon of Saturn with tantalizing life-supporting ...
09:03 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2019
Techcrunch Jony Ive is leaving Apple to launch a new firm
The man who won over decades of Apple fans with iconic product design and his pronunciation of aluminum is out at the company. Sir Jonathan Paul “Jony” Ive told The Financial Times today t...
08:48 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2019
Techcrunch The rise of the new crypto mafias
Ash Egan Contributor Ash Egan leads crypto investing at Accomplice. He formerly was a VC at ConsenSys Ventures and Converge. In the early 2000s, journalists popularized the term “PayPal mafia...
08:27 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2019
Techcrunch Google launches a new portal for small businesses
To celebrate International Small Business Day, Google todaylaunched a new website that will suggest its products that seem like the best fit for a specific business. The Google for Small Business port...
08:19 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2019
Techcrunch Nio recalls nearly 5,000 ES8 electric SUVs over fire risk
Chinese automotive startup Nio is recalling nearly 5,000 of its ES8 high-performance electric SUVs after a series of battery fires in China and a subsequent investigation revealed a vulnerability that...
07:27 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2019
Techcrunch Videos lead brand creative growth with 3x increase since 2017
James Winter Contributor James Winter is currently the VP of Marketing at Brandfolder, a leading digital asset management solution; prior to joining Brandfolder, James was the Director of Marketing at...
07:10 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2019
Techcrunch Amazon files suit against more counterfeiters
Amazon along with Boulder company Nite Ize, a maker of specialty lights and phone mounts under the STEELIE brand, filed suit on Wednesday in a Seattle federal court against a group of counterfeiters w...
07:03 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2019
Techcrunch My six months with $30/month email service Superhuman
A $30-per-month email service capturing the adoration of investors and founders in Silicon Valley is perhaps an unsurprising story in a subscription-obsessed landscape, yet we’re only now hearin...
07:01 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2019
Techcrunch Niantic is throwing a Harry Potter: Wizards Unite fan festival this summer
Niantic had already been hinting at plans to throw a big festival for Harry Potter: Wizards Unite players something in the same vein as its Pokmon GO Fest events, but with less Pokmon and more virtua...
07:00 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2019
Techcrunch AT&Ts 5G network hits (parts of) Las Vegas
Hey, so remember earlier today when I said that new 5G cities still qualify as news, for a little while longer, at least? AT&T is making it under the wire with the addition of Las Vegas to its gro...
06:52 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2019
Techcrunch Tiny Robobee X-Wing powers its flight with light
We've seen Harvard's Robobee flying robot evolve for years: After first learning to fly, it learned to swim in 2015, then to jump out of the water again in 2017 and now it has another trick up its no...
06:38 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2019
Techcrunch Ornikar raises $40 million for its driving school marketplace
French startup Ornikar is raising a $40 million Series B round (35 million) from Idinvest and Bpifrance. The company competes with traditional driving schools in Europe with an online marketplace of s...
05:56 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2019
Techcrunch Win a Wild Card to compete in Startup Battlefield at Disrupt SF 2019
Did you miss the deadline to compete in the Startup Battlefield at Disrupt San Francisco 2019 on Oct. 2-4? Cheer up buckaroo. You may be down, but youre not out. You have one last chance for Startup B...
05:43 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2019
Techcrunch Daily Crunch: Reddit quarantines Trump-focused community
It’s NEWSLETTER TIME get pumped! I know I am it’s my first Daily Crunch in over a year. That’s right, your friendly neighborhood Anthony Ha is otherwise occupied today so I’m ...
05:39 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2019
Techcrunch Chronicle, Xs security moonshot, moves to Google Cloud
Google Cloud today announced that Chronicle, the enterprise security company Google’s parent company Alphabet incubated under its X “moonshot factory,” is moving to Google Cloud and ...
05:30 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2019
Techcrunch SpaceX reportedly seeking over $300M in fresh funding
SpaceX is looking to raise a bunch of new cash $314.2 million at a per share price of $214, according to a new CNBC report. The raise would be the third total this year, which together added up to ov...
05:27 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2019
Techcrunch Zola founder and CEO Shan-Lyn Ma is coming to Disrupt SF
Many, many startups have tried to work their way into the U.S.’s $76 billion wedding market. But Zola is one of the few that’s truly carved a path in this massive industry. That’s wh...
05:20 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2019
Techcrunch Google Maps can now predict how crowded your bus or train will be
Google Maps just got a lot more useful for commuters. The company today announced a pair of updates for its mapping application — one that will offer live traffic delays for buses in the cities ...
05:03 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2019
Techcrunch MITs new interactive machine learning prediction tool could give everyone AI superpowers
Soon, you might not need anything more specialized than a readily accessible touchscreen device and any existing data sets you have access to in order to build powerful prediction tools. A new experim...
04:56 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2019
Techcrunch Former Anki engineers will steer Waymos self-driving trucks effort
More than a dozen engineers, who lost their jobs after consumer robotics startup Anki shut down in April, have found a new home. The 13 robotics experts, a group that includes Anki’s co-founder ...
04:48 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2019
Techcrunch Were talking Kubernetes at TC Sessions: Enterprise with Googles Aparna Sinha and VMwares Craig McLuckie
Over the past five years, Kubernetes has grown from a project inside of Google to an open source powerhouse with an ecosystem of products and services, attracting billions of dollars in venture invest...
04:26 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2019
Techcrunch Trumps tweets likely to be impacted by Twitters new abusive behavior notice
Twitter didnt name any names with todays new feature news, but one extremely online user loomed large over the announcement. The company took to its Safety blog to announce the addition of a new abusi...
04:26 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2019
Techcrunch A Boston startup developing a nuclear fusion reactor just got a roughly $50 million boost
After twenty five years of research, scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology think that they have finally cracked the code for the commercialization for nuclear fusion reactions. Commo...
04:10 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2019
Techcrunch Assistive technologies will be a $26 billion dollar market, and investors are only now addressing it
Rohan Silva is obsessed with social mobility and why certain groups are so under-represented in the technology industry. He co-foundedSecond Home, a coworking space looking to bring together disparate...
04:00 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2019
Techcrunch Mozilla previews a redesigned and faster Firefox for Android
Mozilla today announced the first preview of a redesigned version of Firefox for Android that promises to be up to two times faster. The new version also introduces an easier to use and rather minimal...
03:36 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2019
Techcrunch Waymo starts self-driving pick-ups for Lyft riders
Autonomous driving company Waymo has launched its tie-in with Lyft, using a “handful” of vehicles to pick up riders in its Phoenix testing zone, per CNBC. To be eligible, Lyft users reques...
03:21 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2019
Techcrunch Fellow raises $6.5M to help make managers better at leading teams and people
Managing people is perhaps the most challenging thing most people will have to learn in the course of their professional lives especially because there’s no one ‘right’ way to do it...
03:00 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2019
Techcrunch Fungible raises $200 million led by SoftBank Vision Fund to help companies handle increasingly massive amounts of data
Fungible, a startup that wants to help data centers cope with the increasingly massive amounts of data produced by new technologies, has raised a $200 million Series C led by SoftBank Vision Fund, wit...
02:54 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2019
Techcrunch 250 retailers will compete against Amazons Prime Day, up from 194 last year
Amazon’s Prime Day event, now in its fifth year, is no longer just a big sales day for Amazon — it’s become the official kickoff to back-to-school shopping season and a new sales hol...
02:22 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2019
Techcrunch Cathay Innovation leads Laiyes $35M round to bet on Chinese enterprise IT
For many years, the boom and bust of China’s tech landscape have centered around consumer-facing products. As this space gets filled by Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, and more recently Didi Chuxing, M...
02:09 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2019
Techcrunch Amazon snags Taylor Swift to headline its Prime Day 2019 concert
Amazon is going big on this year’s Prime Day. In addition to expanding its popular sales event to two days instead of one, the retailer is also planning to host a Prime Day Concert headlined by ...
01:44 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2019
Techcrunch Denver and Providence are next up for Verizons 5G roll out
Theres going to be a point in the not so distant future when the addition of new 5G cities wont be news. After several years of hype, however, were still not quite there. The 5G picture is set to be q...
01:44 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2019
Techcrunch Denver and Providence are next up for Verizons 5G rollout
Theres going to be a point in the not so distant future when the addition of new 5G cities wont be news. After several years of hype, however, were still not quite there. The 5G picture is set to be q...
01:03 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2019
Techcrunch Amperity update gives customers more control over Customer Data Platform
The Customer Data Platform (CDP) has certainly been getting a lot of attention in marketing software circles over the last year as big dawgs like Salesforce and Adobe enter the fray, but Amperity, a S...
12:37 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2019
Techcrunch Volkswagen launches WeShare all-electric car sharing service
Making good onplans revealed last year to debut an EV-exclusive car sharing service, Volkswagen is actually launching its fleet for customers debuting WeShare, a new shared service similar to Car2Go ...
12:00 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2019
Techcrunch Corporate travel platform TripActions quadruples valuation with $250M Series D
The business plans to use the funds to double down on the international market....
12:00 pm GMT - Thu, June 27, 2019
Techcrunch CTRL-labs scoops up Myo armband tech from North
Before pivoting to smart glasses, Thalmic Labs (now North) tried its best to make its Myo gestural arm band controller the future of user input. Now, another startup is picking up the baton, acquiring...
11:46 am GMT - Thu, June 27, 2019
Techcrunch Amazon launches Counter in-store pick-up in the US, starting with 100 Rite Aid locations
Amazon’s strategy to bring more brick-and-mortar options into its vast e-commerce empire, and its ambition to sell more pharmaceutical products, today may have found themselves a little more kni...
11:32 am GMT - Thu, June 27, 2019
Techcrunch Pavegen, which harvests energy and data from footsteps, secures crowd and Hinduja Group funding
Pavegen, a UK startup which harvests energy from peoples footsteps and also tracks that data, has raised 2.6m on its crowdfunding push having doubled its initial 950k target. The campaign secured fund...
11:00 am GMT - Thu, June 27, 2019
Techcrunch Electric scooter and bike startup Grow hits 10 million trips across Latin America
Latin America-based Grow, which formed after micromobility companies Grin and Yellow merged earlier this year, has hit 10 million rides. Grin, which first started operating about one year ago in Mexic...
11:00 am GMT - Thu, June 27, 2019
Techcrunch Toronto Raptors founder brings Bird scooters to Canada as a platform partner
Bird’s somewhat weird but also very clever global expansion model is to let others handle it, and one of those others is bringing their service online this month. Bird Canada, which is a wholly ...
10:49 am GMT - Thu, June 27, 2019
Techcrunch Laundrapp and Zipjet merge to form largest on-demand laundry service in UK, seal new funding
Two of Europes biggest on-demand laundry startups are merging today. Laundrapp from London and Zipjet from Berlin are confirming the completion of a previously-rumored merger through which the combine...
10:21 am GMT - Thu, June 27, 2019
Techcrunch Grab raises more money again
Southeast Asia’s highest-capitalized startup is sitting on even more money from investors today after ride-hailing Grab announced it has raised $300 million from Invesco. The deal takes Singapor...
09:31 am GMT - Thu, June 27, 2019
Techcrunch Station F launches a co-living space for 600 startup people
Startup campus Station F is expanding beyond its original building in Paris with a co-living space called Flatmates. 600 people will be able to rent a room in shared apartments. Compared to traditiona...
09:00 am GMT - Thu, June 27, 2019
Techcrunch Host your countrys startup delegation at Disrupt Berlin 2019
Creative technology and innovative ideas know no boundaries, which is why thousands of early-stage startup founders, investors, innovators and entrepreneurs from more than 50 countries will convene ...
08:00 am GMT - Thu, June 27, 2019
Techcrunch WeGift, the digital rewards platform, raises 4M Series A
WeGift, the U.K. startup that has developed a platform to let businesses easily issue e-gift cards and other digital rewards, has closed 4 million in Series A funding. Leading the round is Stride.VC &...
07:05 am GMT - Thu, June 27, 2019
Techcrunch Founders Factory Africa and Netcare to fund 35 health-tech startups
Founders Factory Africa and South African healthcare company Netcare will select 35 African health-tech startups for an acceleration and incubation program. The partnership includes an investment (of ...
06:00 am GMT - Thu, June 27, 2019
Techcrunch A Q&A with Talis Capital as it raises $100m for 2019 and hits its 10th year
Talis Capital an early investor in Darktrace, Pirate Studios, Luminance and iwoca announces today that it’s raised $100m for 2019, a record for the firm to date as it passes its 10th year of o...
04:58 am GMT - Thu, June 27, 2019
Techcrunch India reportedly wants to build its own WhatsApp for government communications
India may have plans to follow Frances footsteps in building a chat app and requiring government employees to use it for official communications. The New Delhi government is said to be pondering about...
04:21 am GMT - Thu, June 27, 2019
Techcrunch Warburg Pincus announces new $4.25 billion fund for China and Southeast Asia
Warburg Pincus, the private equity fund with over $60 billion under management, is doubling down on Asia after it announced a $4.25 billion fund dedicated to China and Southeast Asia. The firm has bee...
04:03 am GMT - Thu, June 27, 2019
Techcrunch Pinduoduo cements position as Chinas second-largest ecommerce player
Alibaba and JD.com have been in a war over the Chinese e-commerce space for a decade or so, but a third player called Pinduoduo has managed to shake up the duopoly in recent times. The startup, which ...
04:01 am GMT - Thu, June 27, 2019
Techcrunch Taster raises another $8 million for its native food delivery brands
If youre an Instagram user, chances are youve encountered a ton of ads for companies trying to sell products directly to consumers, using social networks as storefronts paired with online stores. Fren...
12:17 am GMT - Thu, June 27, 2019
Techcrunch NTWRK moves into live IRL events
NTWRK, is a fascinating experiment in live video shopping for the iPhone set. It’s been described as a blend of QVC and Twitter and Twitch and they just got a new slice of money from investors l...
11:03 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2019
Techcrunch Spotify-owned Soundtrap adds unlimited storage to the free tier of its recording software
Soundtrap, the music and podcast software maker that Spotify acquired in 2017, is improving its free tier by adding unlimited storage. Previously, Soundtrap’s free users were limited to storing ...
10:39 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2019
Techcrunch Jewelry startup AUrate raises $13M
AUrate, a startup selling gold jewelry directly to consumers, announced today that it has raised $13 million in Series A funding. The company’s co-founders Bouchra Ezzahraoui and Sophie Kahn sai...
09:44 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2019
Techcrunch Skubana raises $5.4M for its e-commerce operations software
Skubana, a startup promising to help e-commerce business manage what can be a dizzying array of logistical challenges, is announcing that it has raised $5.4 million in Series A funding. The round was ...
09:31 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2019
Techcrunch Apple hires leading ARM chip designer
Apple has clearly spent the last several years dreaming of a world where it didnt have to rely on third-parties to create its components. The hardware giant has already taken a number of steps in that...
08:36 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2019
Techcrunch Vertical market networks, effective startup names, Libra, Carbon, and Sidewalk Labs
The next service marketplace wave: Vertical market networks B2B service marketplaces (think translation as a service) are an extraordinarily lucrative startup category. But despite the incredible pote...
08:29 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2019
Techcrunch VCs double down on data-driven investment models
New efforts could automate the role of an analyst....
08:03 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2019
Techcrunch Google launches auto-delete controls for Location History on iOS and Android
Google has always argued that the data it collects does more than provide power for its targeted ad empire — it also makes its services more useful. But not everyone thinks that Google should be...
08:02 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2019
Techcrunch This new experimental robot gripping arm can taste what it touches
Okay do you know how we can taste things and that was pretty special? It’s not special anymore, because researchers at UC Davis working with colleagues Carnegie Mellon have developed a way for a...
08:00 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2019
Techcrunch Network with CrunchMatch at TC Sessions: Enterprise 2019
Ready to tackle the colossus that is enterprise software? Join us and more than 1,000 attendees for TC Sessions Enterprise 2019 on September 5 at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. ...
08:00 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2019
Techcrunch New tickets available to the 14th Annual TechCrunch Summer Party
Could you use a little summer startup fun? Were rolling out our next round of tickets to theTechCrunch Summer Party at Park Chalet, San Franciscos coastal beer garden. If you want to join your startup...
07:44 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2019
Techcrunch Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony pen letter highlighting harm from Trumps tariffs
Its not every day the three biggest competitors in a space join forces to denounced political action. Of course, this isnt the first time the Trump administration has had this impact on a category. Mi...
07:22 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2019
Techcrunch Reddit quarantines its biggest headache
Reddit’s r/The_Donald subreddit has been a lingering issue for the site’s leadership. The community, which was organized in the lead-in to Trump’s presidential run, has come to repre...
07:09 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2019
Techcrunch Gender & compensation at VC-backed startups Where are we today?
Compensation is the most intimate way a company can interact with its employees. For far too long, compensation managers and committees have operated behind closed doors, keeping pay guidelines......
06:47 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2019
Techcrunch Daily Crunch: SF moves towards e-cig 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...
06:43 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2019
Techcrunch SF Pride says it wont exclude Google from the Pride parade
Despite Google employees petitioning San Francisco Pride to exclude the company from participating in the Pride parade this weekend, SF Pride says Google will be allowed to march in the parade. Earlie...
06:34 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2019
Techcrunch Report: SoftBank-backed Brandless gets a new CEO amid turmoil at the company
Brandless, a direct-to-consumer purveyor of food, beauty, and personal care products, says that every item it makes is non-genetically modified, kosher, fair-trade, gluten-free, often organic and, in ...
06:13 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2019
Techcrunch The next frontier for sneakerheads is trying on shoes virtually
Startups in the AR space see a bright future for bringing retail experiences into the home, but there haven’t been a ton of convincing examples of companies carrying out this vision effectively....
06:06 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2019
Techcrunch Netflix and Ava DuVernay say When They See Us viewed by 23M accounts
“When They See Us” has been viewed by more than 23 million Netflix accounts worldwide, according to writer-director Ava DuVernay, who tweeted that the streaming service had shared the numb...
05:57 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2019
Techcrunch Twitter tests out another desktop redesign with trends on the right, navigation on the left
It wasin January that Twitter announced that it would be rolling out a new, simplified desktop redesign to its users. Hopefully, no one was holding their breath for the big official reveal. Six months...
05:38 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2019
Techcrunch YouTube update gives users more insight and control over recommendations
YouTube today announced a series of changes designed to give users more control over what videos appear on the Homepage and in its Up Next suggestions — the latter which are typically powered by...
05:32 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2019
Techcrunch Oppo shows first under-screen camera in bid to eliminated the hated notch
Ever since the notch was first added to smartphones, everyone in the world except the deeply deluded and my editor have wished it gone. Oppo has done it or at least shown that it can be done with a ...
05:30 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2019
Techcrunch Verizon gets FCC approval for a 60 day network lockdown on new phones
Verizon (disclosure: the company that owns the company that owns TC) celebrated an FCC victory this week, as the agency approved a request for a temporary network lockdown on new phones. The carrier r...
05:26 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2019
Techcrunch What is the Libra Association going to do, really?
When Facebook unveiled Libra a few days ago, the company also announced the Libra Association, a not-for-profit that will oversee all things Libra. Facebook wants to make sure that everyone is aware t...
04:25 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2019
Techcrunch TransferWises new debit card for the US fires the starting gun on a new war for travelers
International money transfer service TransferWise, has made a significant incursion into the US market today, launching a MasterCard debit card alongside a multicurrency account. Mirroring the card it...
04:11 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2019
Techcrunch Shopify Ping adds support for Apple Business Chat and Apple Pay
Last year Shopify announced Shopify Ping, a free unified messaging platform for merchants to communicate directly with customers in a chat context. Today, it announced it’s adding support for Ap...
04:07 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2019
Techcrunch Tesla reportedly working on its own battery cell manufacturing capability
Automaker Tesla is looking into how it might own another key part of its supply chain, through research being done at a secret lab near its Fremont, CA HQ, CNBC reports. The company currently relies o...
04:02 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2019
Techcrunch Why Carbon just raised another $260 million
Two months ago, we reported that Carbon was set to raise up to $300 million, bringing the 3D printing companys valuation up to a lofty $2.5 billion. The real numbers released this week by the company ...
04:00 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2019
Techcrunch D-Wave launches its quantum hybrid platform
D-Wave, one of the earliest quantum computing startups, today announced the general availability of D-Wave Hybrid, it’s open-source hybrid workflow platform that makes it easier for developers t...
03:16 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2019
Techcrunch Low-cost TV streaming service Philo comes to Android
Despite a slight price increase in April, Philo’s live TV streaming service is still one of the more affordable options on the market because of its strategic decision to not stream sports. That...
03:16 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2019
Techcrunch Bright Machines wants to put AI-driven automation in every factory
There’s a mythology around today’s factories that says everything is automated by robotics, and while there is some truth to that, it’s hard to bring that level of sophistication to ...
03:02 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2019
Techcrunch Europe should ban AI for mass surveillance and social credit scoring, says advisory group
An independent expert group tasked with advising the European Commission to inform its regulatory response to artificial intelligence — to underpin EU lawmakers’ stated aim of ensuring AI ...
03:00 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2019
Techcrunch Facebook squeezes money from Instagram with new ads in Explore
Half of Instagram’s billion-plus users open its Explore tab each month to find fresh content and creators. Now the Facebook-owned app will do more to carry its weight by injecting ads into Insta...
02:33 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2019
Techcrunch HER, the dating app for queer women, revamps profiles
HER, the app that provides safe space for queer women to meet, has today revamped the app’s profiles. The updated profiles allow users to express themselves more fully in the categories of gende...
02:31 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2019
Techcrunch MIT AI tool can predict breast cancer up to 5 years early, works equally well for white and black patients
MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab has developed a new deep learning-based AI prediction model that can anticipate the development of breast cancer up to five years in advanc...
02:26 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2019
Techcrunch Songtrust adds another 55,000 artists to its rights management service
Over the past year, Songtrust has added another 55,000 artists and songwriters to its rights management service. The company, a subsidiary ofDowntown Music, a publishing and rights management firm tha...
02:06 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2019
Techcrunch 300M-user meme site Imgur raises $20M from Coil to pay creators
Meme creators have never gotten their fair share. Remixed and reshared across the web, their jokes props up social networks like Instagram and Twitter that pay back none of their ad revenue to artists...
01:49 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2019
Techcrunch Apple News launches a guide to the 2020 Democratic candidates and debates
Apple today is introducing a new section in its Apple News application for iOS, iPad and Mac that’s designed to familiarize voters with the 20 U.S. Democratic presidential candidates ahead of th...
01:44 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2019
Techcrunch NSA improperly collected Americans phone records for a second time, documents reveal
Newly released documents reveal the National Security Agency improperly collected Americans’ call records for a second time, just months after the agency was forced to purge hundreds of millions...
01:31 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2019
Techcrunch Lifestyle goods resale marketplace StockX raises $110M, pushing valuation past $1B
Detroit-based StockX, which provides a way for people to resell luxury and lifestyle goods including streetwear, bags, watches and shoes, is now valued at over $1 billion based on its most recent rais...
01:20 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2019
Techcrunch Vulcan Cyber announces $10M Series A to automate security patching efforts
Many software vulnerabilities are already known, and vendors have even issued patches, but the problem is there are so many patches that it’s often difficult for companies to keep up. Vulcan Cyb...
01:08 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2019
Techcrunch Scribd introduces bite-sized nonfiction previews called Snapshots
Subscription e-book and audiobook service Scribd is unveiling a new content type that it calls a Snapshot a distillation of a nonfiction book’s key points, which can be read or listened to in 1...
01:00 pm GMT - Wed, June 26, 2019
Techcrunch Web3 platform 3Box raises seed to bring back control of user data
Few debates in technology have been as intense over the past few years as the debate over privacy. As companies like Facebook and Google have swelled with all the minutia of our daily lives our likes...
11:58 am GMT - Wed, June 26, 2019
Techcrunch Splyt wants to connect the worlds ride-hailing apps for easy international roaming
The vision of a universal global ride-hailing service is over. Uber’s decision to exit markets like China, Southeast Asia and Russia coupled with the failure of its rivalsto develop a proposed r...
10:42 am GMT - Wed, June 26, 2019
Techcrunch EU opens formal antitrust probe of Broadcom and seeks interim order
The European Commission has opened a formal investigation into US chipmaker Broadcom which it suspects of restricting competition via a number of exclusivity practices in markets where it holds a lead...
09:42 am GMT - Wed, June 26, 2019
Techcrunch Indias Unacademy raises $50 million to grow its online learning platform
Big money continues to flow in Indias growing education market. Bangalore-based Unacademy, which operates an online learning platform to help millions prepare for competitive exams in India, has raise...
09:18 am GMT - Wed, June 26, 2019
Techcrunch UK law review eyes abusive trends like deepfaked porn and cyber flashing
The UK government has announced the next phase of a review of the law around the making and sharing of non-consensual intimate images, with ministers saying they want to ensure it keeps pace with evol...
07:15 am GMT - Wed, June 26, 2019
Techcrunch South African SME finance startup Lulalend raises $6.5M Series A
South African digital lender Lulalend has raised a $6.5 million Series A round co-led by IFC and Quona Capital. The Cape Town based startup uses an online application process and internal credit metri...
06:17 am GMT - Wed, June 26, 2019
Techcrunch The Office is leaving Netflix in 2021 because NBC wants it back
Well, it’s official: The Office is leaving Netflix . Michael Scott and the rest of Dunder Mifflin will be heading for another streaming service come January 2021. By far the most popular show on...
05:50 am GMT - Wed, June 26, 2019
Techcrunch WeWork acquires Waltz, an app that lets users access different spaces with a single credential
WeWork announced today that it will acquire Waltz, a building access and security management startup, for an undisclosed amount. Waltzs smartphone app and reader allows users to enter different proper...
04:50 am GMT - Wed, June 26, 2019
Techcrunch San Francisco takes the final steps toward becoming the first U.S. city to ban vaping product sales
San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors unanimously approved an ordinance today that prohibits the sale of e-cigarettes within the city. If signed into law, the new legislation would amend the city...
02:52 am GMT - Wed, June 26, 2019
Techcrunch Boeing is going to work with Kitty Hawk on flying cars and safety
Kitty Hawk, the flying car company backed by Google’s Larry Page and led by Udacity co-founder Sebastian Thrun, has struck a deal with aerospace giant Boeing. The terms of the strategic partners...
02:26 am GMT - Wed, June 26, 2019
Techcrunch Twitters underrated Lists feature finally gets some attention
Twitter Lists have never gotten the attention they deserve. A feature largely adopted by Twitter power users, lists allow you to create custom timelines by adding only those users whose tweets you wan...
02:01 am GMT - Wed, June 26, 2019
Techcrunch Huawei says two-thirds of 5G networks outside China now use its gear
As 5G networks begin rolling out and commercializing around the world, telecoms vendors are rushing to get a headstart. Huawei equipment is now behind two-thirds of the commercially launched 5G networ...
01:58 am GMT - Wed, June 26, 2019
Techcrunch Forerunner just led a $3.5 million round for Homeroom, a software platform for after-school enrichment programs
San Francisco-based Forerunner Ventures is best known for its long string of bets on successful and fast-growing consumer companies. Now, its newest partner, Brian O’Malley, who has a knack for ...
10:29 pm GMT - Tue, June 25, 2019
Techcrunch Self-driving startup Drive.ai is closing down
Drive.ai, the autonomous vehicle tech startup once valued at $200 million, is shutting down after four years, according to astate regulatory filing. The closure was first reported by the San Francisco...
09:00 pm GMT - Tue, June 25, 2019
Techcrunch The changing nature of venture capital
The venture industry is likely to consolidate significantly in the next decade as funding confers greater advantage to large venture investors....
07:56 pm GMT - Tue, June 25, 2019
Techcrunch Dirty Lemon parent Iris Nova will fund and distribute third-party beverages
Iris Nova, the Coca-Cola-backed startup that createsDirty Lemonbeverages, is announcing plans to spend $100 million over the next three to five years to expand its offerings. Founder and CEO Zak Norma...
07:33 pm GMT - Tue, June 25, 2019
Techcrunch Facebooks searchable political ads archive is now global
Facebook has announced it’s rolled out a basic layer of political ads transparency globally, more than a year after launching the publicly searchable ads archive in the US. It is also expanding ...
07:30 pm GMT - Tue, June 25, 2019
Techcrunch Facebook may finally let you turn off those annoying notification dots
Sick of those anxiety-inducing red dots constantly appearing on the Groups, Watch, or other tabs in your Facebook app? Well the social network may be easing up a little in its unending war for your at...
07:20 pm GMT - Tue, June 25, 2019
Techcrunch With a portfolio including Acorns, Sweetgreen and Ro Health, Torch Capital raises $60M for its first fund
Jonathan Keidan, the founder of Torch Capital, had already built a portfolio that included Acorns, Compass, Digital Ocean and Sweetgreen, before he raised single dollar for his inaugural venture capit...
07:00 pm GMT - Tue, June 25, 2019
Techcrunch Only 100 seats left: Apply to hack at the TC Hackathon at Disrupt SF
Hustle up, hackathon fans. TheTechCrunch HackathonatDisrupt San Francisco 2019 on October 2-4may be more than three months away, but its filling up fast. Theres no application deadline. Instead, were ...
06:57 pm GMT - Tue, June 25, 2019
Techcrunch How to scale a start-up in school
Julianna Keeling Contributor Julianna Keeling is the founder of Terravive (sustainable packaging company). Formerly Product at Juicero. If youre serious about starting and scaling your business in sch...
06:14 pm GMT - Tue, June 25, 2019
Techcrunch Walmart now accepts SNAP for online grocery orders at all 2,500 pickup locations
Walmart has been working to address the needs of low-income shoppers for some time. More recently, it’s been introducing new ways to serve customers on public assistance. In fall 2017, the retai...
06:12 pm GMT - Tue, June 25, 2019
Techcrunch Millennials dont want to get drunk. What do they want? Apritifs.
Haus launches today with $1 million in pre-seed funding....
05:50 pm GMT - Tue, June 25, 2019
Techcrunch AI consulting startup Hypergiant brings on Bill Nye as an advisor
Hypergiant, a startup launched last year to address the execution gap in bringing applied AI and machine learning technologies to bear for large companies, has signed on a high-profile new advisor to ...
05:50 pm GMT - Tue, June 25, 2019
Techcrunch AI services startup Hypergiant brings on Bill Nye as an advisor
Hypergiant, a startup launched last year to address the execution gap in bringing applied AI and machine learning technologies to bear for large companies, has signed on a high-profile new advisor to ...
05:35 pm GMT - Tue, June 25, 2019
Techcrunch Wedding dress customizer Anomalie raises $13M as bridal stores crumble
David’s Bridal once owned 50% of the $36 billion wedding gown market before it filed for bankruptcy last year. Brides were growing sick of the lack of styles and sizes plus high prices at expens...
05:23 pm GMT - Tue, June 25, 2019
Techcrunch This is Your Life in Silicon Valley: Former Pinterest President, Moment CEO Tim Kendall on Smartphone Addiction
Welcome to this weekstranscribed edition of This is Your Life in Silicon Valley. Were running an experiment for Extra Crunch members that puts This is Your Life in Silicon Valley in words so you can ...
05:00 pm GMT - Tue, June 25, 2019
Techcrunch Barbershop management platform Squire raises $8 million Series A round
Squire, a Y Combinator-backed business management platform for barbershops, just raised an $8 million Series A round led by Trinity Ventures. Since launching in 2016, Squire has grown to operate in 28...
04:53 pm GMT - Tue, June 25, 2019
Techcrunch Peter Thiel-backed auto commerce startup Drive Motors has a new name and $5M in capital
Not that long ago, visiting the website of an auto dealership was a little like going to a store without a cash register. The retailer’s website might list all the cars, trucks and SUVs in its i...
04:36 pm GMT - Tue, June 25, 2019
Techcrunch U.S. Senator and consumer advocacy groups urge FTC to take action on YouTubes alleged COPPA violations
The groups behind a push to get the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to investigate YouTube’s alleged violation of children’s privacy law, COPPA, have today submitted a new letter to the FTC ...
04:10 pm GMT - Tue, June 25, 2019
Techcrunch Daily Crunch: We preview new Apple operating systems
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 - Tue, June 25, 2019
Techcrunch Sidewalk Labs blueprint for a mini smart city is a massive data mine
Sidewalk Labs, the smart city technology firm owned by Google’s parent company Alphabet, released a plan this week to redevelop a piece of Toronto’s eastern waterfront into its vision of a...
04:00 pm GMT - Tue, June 25, 2019
Techcrunch Microsoft adds an extra security layer to its OneDrive storage service
Microsoft today announced OneDrive Personal Vault, a new security layer on top of its OneDrive online file storage service that adds additional security features to keep your files save. The security ...
04:00 pm GMT - Tue, June 25, 2019
Techcrunch Snowflake co-founder and president of product Benoit Dageville is coming to TC Sessions: Enterprise
When it comes to a cloud success story, Snowflake checks all the boxes. It’s a SaaS product going after industry giants. It has raised bushels of cash and grown extremely rapidly — and the...
04:00 pm GMT - Tue, June 25, 2019
Techcrunch Join raises $4M seed round to build a better construction planning platform
Startup Join wants to modernize the back office for an industry that’s everywhere, but maybe not top of mind, especially when it comes to project management software: Commercial construction. Th...
03:47 pm GMT - Tue, June 25, 2019
Techcrunch FTC, Justice Dept. takes coordinated action against robocallers
Federal authorities have announced its latest crackdown on illegal robocallers taking close to a hundred actions against several companies and individuals blamed for the recent barrage of spam calls....
03:27 pm GMT - Tue, June 25, 2019
Techcrunch Why eVTOLs could be providing regional air service sooner than you think
At Uber’s Elevate summit in Washington, DC earlier this month, researchers, industry leaders and engineers gathered to celebrate the approaching advent of on-demand air service. For Dr. Anita Se...
02:33 pm GMT - Tue, June 25, 2019
Techcrunch Google Drive beta test expands offline support to non-Google files in Chrome
Google Drive’s offline capabilities are getting an upgrade. Currently, you can use Google Chrome to make your Docs, Sheets, and Slides available offline. On Tuesday, the company announced the la...
02:15 pm GMT - Tue, June 25, 2019
Techcrunch BMWs next-gen cruise control stops at red lights
At its NextGen event, BMW today premiered the next generation of its adaptive cruise control system, which will be able to detect and automatically stop at red lights. This isn’t exactly autonom...
01:57 pm GMT - Tue, June 25, 2019
Techcrunch Live like a robber baron for a night with Airbnb Luxe
Airbnbs are a mixed bag. Pictures only tell half the story, and sometimes you dont really know what youre getting into until you get there. Say what you will about Airbnbs new white glove Luxe service...
01:19 pm GMT - Tue, June 25, 2019
Techcrunch Lightyear One debuts as the first long-range solar-powered electric car
Electric cars are better for the environment than fossil fuel-burning vehicles, but they still rely on the grid, which can be variously dirty or clean depending on what sources it uses for its energy....
01:08 pm GMT - Tue, June 25, 2019
Techcrunch Orderful nabs $10M from A16Z to modernise the B2B supply chain network
The march of globalization continues unabated, and with it comes a growing demand for companies of all sizes to communicate with and sell to each other, regardless of the distance or any other barrier...
01:00 pm GMT - Tue, June 25, 2019
Techcrunch Yelp adds portfolios and highlights to its business profiles
Yelp is announcing two new ad products for business owners portfolios and “business highlights.” Those highlights are basically a way for businesses to point out their most distinctive an...
01:00 pm GMT - Tue, June 25, 2019
Techcrunch Cameo raises $50M to deliver personalized messages from celebrities & influencers
With new money from Kleiner Perkins, Cameo plots a global expansion....
01:00 pm GMT - Tue, June 25, 2019
Techcrunch SoftBank-backed Getaround acquires Norwegian car rental startup for $12M
Fueled by its $300 million Series D round led by Softbank last August, Getaround is making its second-ever acquisition this year with a $12 million purchase of Norwegian car rental startup Nabobil. Th...
12:39 pm GMT - Tue, June 25, 2019
Techcrunch Tundra, the zero-fee wholesale marketplace, picks up $12 million
Tundra, a new zero-commission wholesale marketplace, has today announced the close of $12 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Redpoint’s Annie Kadavy, with participation from inves...
11:47 am GMT - Tue, June 25, 2019
Techcrunch Indonesias Kopi Kenangan raises a sweet $20M to expand its coffee business
Kopi Kenangan, a startup that wants to make quality, fresh coffee affordable to Indonesian consumers, has raised $20 million as it begins to consider overseas expansion in Southeast Asia. The round co...
11:29 am GMT - Tue, June 25, 2019
Techcrunch SpaceX records another first for re-usable rocketry by catching Falcon Heavy fairing with a boat
SpaceX has managed to do another thing which seemed audacious and highly unlikely after a few early botched attempts it used a ship at sea to catch the falling nosecone that shielded the cargo aboard...
11:29 am GMT - Tue, June 25, 2019
Techcrunch SpaceX records another first for reusable rocketry by catching Falcon Heavy fairing with a boat
SpaceX has managed to do another thing that seemed audacious and highly unlikely after a few early botched attempts. It used a ship at sea to catch the falling nosecone that shielded the cargo aboard ...
10:47 am GMT - Tue, June 25, 2019
Techcrunch Telegram adds location-flavored extras and full group ownership transfers
Messaging platform Telegram has added a new bunch of location-based features via an update. Users of the latest version of the app will find an ‘Add People Nearby’ setting which they can u...
10:12 am GMT - Tue, June 25, 2019
Techcrunch Showpad, a sales enablement platform for presentations and other collateral, raises $70M
Sales teams have long turned to tech solutions to help improve how they source leads, develop relationships and close deals. Now, one of the startups that helps out at a key point in that trajectory i...
10:01 am GMT - Tue, June 25, 2019
Techcrunch Indias Open neo-bank raises $30 million to help businesses automate their finances
Open, a Bangalore-based startup that operates a neo-bank to help businesses automate and run their finances, has bagged $30 million in a new funding round as investors look to replicate a globally tri...
08:35 am GMT - Tue, June 25, 2019
Techcrunch Indonesias KoinWorks raises $12 million to grow its P2P SME lending platform
KoinWorks, an Indonesian startup that helps small and medium-sized businesses secure financial services through its online peer-to-peer platform, has raised $16.5 million SGD ($12 million USD) in a ne...
08:30 am GMT - Tue, June 25, 2019
Techcrunch BMW says its running ahead of its electrification goals
At its NEXTGen event in Munich, BMW today announced that it is running ahead of schedule in its efforts to offer at least 25 electrified vehicles. Previously, the German luxury car manufacturer was sh...
08:30 am GMT - Tue, June 25, 2019
Techcrunch Here is BMWs new electric motorcycle concept
BMW has a long history of building motorcycles, but it hasn’t done all that well in the electric motorcycle department. Clearly, though, this is something the company is thinking hard about and ...
08:00 am GMT - Tue, June 25, 2019
Techcrunch Used car marketplace Motorway picks up 11M Series A
Motorway, the U.K. used car marketplace, has raised 11 million in Series A funding. Leading the round is Marchmont Ventures, the fund managed by Hugo Burge and Alan Martin (the former CEO and CFO of M...
08:00 am GMT - Tue, June 25, 2019
Techcrunch Learn How-To at the Extra Crunch Stage at Disrupt Berlin 2019
Technology never stops evolving and neither do we. Thats why were excited to tell you about the new Extra Crunch Stage at Disrupt Berlin 2019. Our premiere tech conference dedicated to early-stage sta...
06:45 am GMT - Tue, June 25, 2019
Techcrunch SpaceX successfully launches Falcon Heavy rocket with two flight-proven booster cores
SpaceX has succeeded in launching its third mission with the Falcon Heavy high-capacity rocket it first launched successfully last year. The rocket’s STP-2 mission took off from Kennedy Space Ce...
06:19 am GMT - Tue, June 25, 2019
Techcrunch FedEx sues the Department of Commerce after incident involving misrouted Huawei packages
FedEx is suing the United States Department of Commerce, claiming that it has been “essentially deputize[d]” to enforce its trade blacklist. The lawsuit comes a month after Huawei said it ...
05:30 am GMT - Tue, June 25, 2019
Techcrunch Watch SpaceXs spectacular first Falcon Heavy night launch live
SpaceX is going to launch a Falcon Heavy rocket for only the third time ever tonight, should all go according to the current mission plan. The launch, set to take place during a four-hour launch windo...
05:12 am GMT - Tue, June 25, 2019
Techcrunch JD.coms logistics arm raises a $218 million investment fund
The logistics division of JD.com, Alibabas closest e-commerce competitor in China, has raised 1.5 billion yuan (about $218 million) to invest in logistics-related companies and technology. Limited par...
05:00 am GMT - Tue, June 25, 2019
Techcrunch Amazon Prime Day 2019 expands to become a 48-hour sale on July 15-16
Amazon is preparing for its longest Prime Day ever. The company announced today it will host a 48-hour Prime Day sales event this year, starting at midnight on Monday, July 15 and extending for two fu...
02:52 am GMT - Tue, June 25, 2019
Techcrunch Hackers are stealing years of call records from hacked cell networks
Security researchers say they have uncovered a massive espionage campaign involving the theft of call records from hacked cell network providers to conduct targeted surveillance on individuals of inte...
01:49 am GMT - Tue, June 25, 2019
Techcrunch iPadOS preview
Microsoft drew a line in the sand with Windows 10, presenting an operating system designed for both PCs and tablets alike. The move fostered hardware designers to go all in on convertibles devices th...
11:01 pm GMT - Mon, June 24, 2019
Techcrunch Monzo, the UK challenger bank, raises 113M Series F led by YCs Continuity fund at a 2B post-money valuation
Monzo, the fast-growing U.K.-based challenger bank with more than two million account holders, has raised 113 million (~$144m) in additional funding. Confirming TechCrunch’s scoop in April, the ...
10:59 pm GMT - Mon, June 24, 2019
Techcrunch At last, a camera app that automatically removes all people from your photos
As a misanthrope living in a vibrant city, I'm never short of things to complain about. And in particular the problem of people crowding into my photos, whatever I happen to shoot, is a persistent one...
10:11 pm GMT - Mon, June 24, 2019
Techcrunch Drone Racing League is raising $50 million
The enterprise drone space has been heating up over the past couple years, but a startup in the entertainment drone space is raising the big cash now. The Drone Racing League is in the process of rais...
08:43 pm GMT - Mon, June 24, 2019
Techcrunch Apple says Spotify exaggerated how much App Store tax it pays
In March, Spotify filed a complaint against Apple with the European Commission over the so-called “Apple tax” and claims of restrictive rules regarding the App Store. In the time since, Ap...
08:17 pm GMT - Mon, June 24, 2019
Techcrunch This robot crawls along wind turbine blades looking for invisible flaws
Wind turbines are a great source of clean power, but their apparent simplicity just a big thing that spins belie complex systems that wear down like any other, and can fail with disastrous consequen...
07:14 pm GMT - Mon, June 24, 2019
Techcrunch WordPress management site WP Engine acquires Flywheel as it moves to a $1B valuation and IPO
WordPress now accounts for 34 percent of all websites globally, and today one of the key companies that helps handle the creation and management of some of those WP-hosted sites is getting a little bi...
07:13 pm GMT - Mon, June 24, 2019
Techcrunch Reminder: Meet TechCrunch in NYC tomorrow
And we’re back! TechCrunch is returning to NYC for a Meet and Greet tomorrow at The Yard in Herald Square. It’s been a couple years since we’ve held an event in NYC and we’ve m...
06:49 pm GMT - Mon, June 24, 2019
Techcrunch Daily Crunch: Details on the new Raspberry Pi
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...
05:46 pm GMT - Mon, June 24, 2019
Techcrunch iOS 13 brings many much needed quality-of-life improvements
In developer lingo, quality-of-life updates are all about refining things that already work. Thanks to these incremental improvements, it should make the end user experience much more enjoyable. And w...
05:46 pm GMT - Mon, June 24, 2019
Techcrunch Apple just released the first iOS and iPadOS 13 beta to everyone
This is your opportunity to get a glimpse of the future of iOS and iPadOS. Apple just released the first public beta of iOS 13 and iPadOS 13, the next major version of the operating systems for the iP...
05:44 pm GMT - Mon, June 24, 2019
Techcrunch What startup names are most effective?
Entrepreneurs take a long journey when naming their brainchild, comparable to a parent naming their own flesh and blood. There are many reasons behind naming......
05:23 pm GMT - Mon, June 24, 2019
Techcrunch Only 24 hours left to apply to Startup Battlefield at Disrupt SF 2019
Early-stage startup founders its now or never, its do-or-die, its [insert your preferred time-crunch clich here]. The application deadline for the Startup Battlefield atDisrupt San Francisco 2019expir...
05:14 pm GMT - Mon, June 24, 2019
Techcrunch Argo AI is investing $15 million into a self-driving car research center at CMU
Argo AI will invest $15 million over five years to create a center for autonomous vehicle research at Carnegie Mellon University, one of the latest efforts by the Ford-backed company to accelerate the...
05:00 pm GMT - Mon, June 24, 2019
Techcrunch Google brings together BigQuery and Kaggle in new integration
Google bought Kaggle in 2017 to provide a data science community for its big data processing tools on Google Cloud. Today, the company announced a new direct integration between Kaggle and BigQuery, G...
05:00 pm GMT - Mon, June 24, 2019
Techcrunch macOS 10.15 Catalina preview
There might be no better microcosm of 2019 Apple than Catalina. The latest version of macOS arrives during a transitional time for the company. The desktop is a showcase for increased focus on content...
05:00 pm GMT - Mon, June 24, 2019
Techcrunch 5 really, really good reasons to attend TC Sessions: Mobility
Its stunning how fast emerging new technologies can coalesce around a simple human need and suddenly change everything, not to mention spur billions in investment. Thats what has happened in the past ...
04:11 pm GMT - Mon, June 24, 2019
Techcrunch The next service marketplace wave: Vertical market-networks
Ivan Smolnikov Contributor Ivan Smolnikov is the CEO and founder of Smartcat, the market network platform for the translation industry. The last few decades have produced many successful marketplaces....
04:01 pm GMT - Mon, June 24, 2019
Techcrunch Trash uses AI to edit your footage into a fun, short videos
Trash is a new startup promising to make it easier for anyone to create well-edited videos. Social video is an area that CEO Hannah Donovan knows well, having previously served as general manager at V...
04:00 pm GMT - Mon, June 24, 2019
Techcrunch Scientists discover a new way to provide plants the nutrients they need to thrive
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have discovered a new method for delivering key nutrients to plant roots without having to ensure they’re present in the soil where the plants are grow...
03:16 pm GMT - Mon, June 24, 2019
Techcrunch Watch SpaceXs spectacular first Falcon Heavy night launch live
SpaceX is going to launch a Falcon Heavy rocket for only the third time ever tonight, should all go according to the current mission plan. The launch, set to take place during a four-hour launch windo...
03:16 pm GMT - Mon, June 24, 2019
Techcrunch Comscore raises $20M with an option to bump it to $50M, in a bid to rebuild its digital measurement business
Comscore’s name is usually in the news because of its widely-cited research and stats around media traffic and other analysis charting digital consumer behavior. More recently, it’s been c...
03:14 pm GMT - Mon, June 24, 2019
Techcrunch DJI looks to assemble drones in California as government concerns mount
With increased pressure on Chinese manufacturers like Huawei and ZTE, Shenzhen-based drone giant DJI has no doubt had cause for concern of late. In late-2017, the U.S. governments Immigration and Cust...
02:56 pm GMT - Mon, June 24, 2019
Techcrunch SpaceRyde wants to make access to space more available and more affordable
Life can be tough for a small satellite operator it may be relatively cheap and easy to build small sats (or CubeSats, as they’re sometimes called), but arranging transportation for those satel...
02:56 pm GMT - Mon, June 24, 2019
Techcrunch Sams Club launches alcohol delivery through Instacart
Walmart -owned Sam’s Club is expanding into same-day alcohol delivery, the retailer announced this morning. The delivery service is being powered by Sam’s Club partner Instacart and is cur...
02:35 pm GMT - Mon, June 24, 2019
Techcrunch Climate change, AI and ethical leadership in big tech, with Amazon principal UX design lead Maren Costa
I just want to be proud of the company that I work for, Maren Costa told me recently. Costa is a Principal UX Design Lead at Amazon, for which she has worked since 2002. I was referred to her because ...
02:13 pm GMT - Mon, June 24, 2019
Techcrunch Googles new media literacy program teaches kids how to spot disinformation and fake news
Google announced this morning it’s expanding its two-year-old digital safety and citizenship curriculum for children, “Be Internet Awesome,” to now include media literacy — spe...
01:59 pm GMT - Mon, June 24, 2019
Techcrunch EU-US Privacy Shield legal showdown now set for July 9
A legal challenge to a data transfer mechanism that’s used by thousands of companies to authorize taking European citizens’ personal data to the US for processing has been delayed. As we r...
01:59 pm GMT - Mon, June 24, 2019
Techcrunch Gartner finds RPA is fastest growing market in enterprise software
If you asked the average person on the street what Robotic Process Automation is, most probably wouldn’t have a clue. Yet new data from Gartner finds the RPA market grew over 63% last year, maki...
01:46 pm GMT - Mon, June 24, 2019
Techcrunch Samsung releases a trio of smart home products
Samsungs approach to the smart home has been “uneven” seems like a nice way of putting it. None of this has really been helped along by the fact that Bixby and the companys long-promised ...
01:00 pm GMT - Mon, June 24, 2019
Techcrunch Byjus-owned Osmo education startup enters pre-schoolers market
Osmo, a Palo Alto-based education startup acquired by Indian unicorn Byjus for $120 million this year, is expanding its product lineup to serve a new and largely untapped market: pre-schoolers. Osmo t...
01:00 pm GMT - Mon, June 24, 2019
Techcrunch Echo Show 5 review
The Echo team must have started sweating when the Lenovo Smart Clock was announced during CES. Deep inside Seattles Day One building, Amazon was reading the release of the Echo Show 5, a pint-sized ve...
12:55 pm GMT - Mon, June 24, 2019
Techcrunch FedEx lures online sellers with two-day air shipping at ground rates after Amazon contract ends
International shipping giant FedEx is showing it’s serious about attracting the ecommerce crowd after a high-profile termination of one of its contracts with Amazon to provide delivery using its...
12:53 pm GMT - Mon, June 24, 2019
Techcrunch Cloudflare outage affecting numerous sites on Monday AM [Update: fixed]
Cloudflare, a company providing performance and security to websites, is having network problems of its own this morning — and taking down a lot of its customers’ sites and apps in the pro...
12:52 pm GMT - Mon, June 24, 2019
Techcrunch Cricket World Cup highlights just how big video streaming is in India
As hundreds of millions of people turn their attention to the ongoing ICC Cricket World Cup tournament, many of them are using an Indian streaming service to follow the ins and outs of the game. More ...
11:00 am GMT - Mon, June 24, 2019
Techcrunch Creandum closes $300M fund for early-stage investments out of Europe
As one European VC raises a fund to double down on bigger growth rounds in Europe, another has closed a fund to continue focusing on early-stage investments. Stocklhom-founded Creandum, an early backe...
10:53 am GMT - Mon, June 24, 2019
Techcrunch Carrefour sale shifts the balance of power in Chinas new retail battle
Hot on the heels of Amazon’s decision to shutter its local marketplace, Carrefour — another global commerce giant — is switching up its approach to China, and shifting the balance of...
10:36 am GMT - Mon, June 24, 2019
Techcrunch Facebook makes another push to shape and define its own oversight
Facebook’s head of global spin and policy, former UK deputy prime minister Nick Clegg, will give a speech later today providing more detail of the company’s plan to set up an ‘indepe...
06:45 am GMT - Mon, June 24, 2019
Techcrunch Cartier, Bulgari and other luxury brands are flocking to WeChat
Not long ago, people in China would need to visit a posh, stylish mall for luxury shopping. That’s rapidly changing as high-end brands race to embrace digital channels, which aren’t just t...
06:36 am GMT - Mon, June 24, 2019
Techcrunch Xiaomis new Mi CC brand will develop trendy smartphones for young people
Huawei may be on the ropes as it battles sanctions from the U.S. government, but fellow Chinese smartphone rival Xiaomi is in expansion mode with the launch of a new brand that’s aimed at winnin...
06:06 am GMT - Mon, June 24, 2019
Techcrunch The power of Ravelrys stance against white supremacy reaches beyond the knitting community
I am a knitter. It is more than just my hobby. Knitting has been a core part of my identity since I was five years old, when my grandmother patiently taught me how to make my first garter stitch squar...
06:01 am GMT - Mon, June 24, 2019
Techcrunch The Raspberry Pi Foundation unveils the Raspberry Pi 4
The Raspberry Pi 4 is here and its an awesome upgrade. Earlier rumors said that it would take a while before a major Raspberry Pi upgrade, but its available starting today. When it comes to physical ...
02:52 am GMT - Mon, June 24, 2019
Techcrunch Razer goes big on payments with Visa prepaid card
The latest pairing between a tech upstart and a financial titan is a digital prepaid card targeted at Southeast Asia’s 430 million-plus unbanked and underserved population. On Monday, Razer, the...
12:00 am GMT - Mon, June 24, 2019
Techcrunch Gillmor Gang: Cash Machine
The Gillmor Gang Frank Radice, Michael Markman, Keith Teare, Esteban Kolsky, and Steve Gillmor . Recorded live Sunday June 23, 2019. Streamed live to Twitter, or just slightly after the fact. Debates...
09:43 pm GMT - Sun, June 23, 2019
Techcrunch Two days left to apply to Startup Battlefield at Disrupt SF 2019
What do early-stage startups Forethought, Pi and Recordgram have in common with successful tech companies like Dropbox, Mint and TripIt? They all competed in Startup Battlefield, our epic pitch compet...
01:00 pm GMT - Sun, June 23, 2019
Techcrunch Whos going to use the big bad Libra?
There is so much to write about Libra, and so much which has already been written misses the mark, mostly, I think, because most pundits haven’t spent much time in the developing world, which is...
09:58 am GMT - Sun, June 23, 2019
Techcrunch Week-in-Review: YouTubes awful comments and Googles $1B tech-free investment
Hello, weekend readers. This is Week-in-Review where I give a heavy amount of analysis and/or rambling thoughts on one story while scouring the rest of the hundreds of stories that emerged on TechCrun...
12:02 am GMT - Sun, June 23, 2019
Techcrunch While people puzzle over WeWork, niche co-working spaces continue gaining traction
This week, a young, New York-based startup called Alma raised $8 million in funding to expand its “co-practicing community of therapists, coaches, and wellness professionals,” which it fir...
06:19 pm GMT - Sat, June 22, 2019
Techcrunch Harry Potter: Wizards Unite goes live in Canada, Germany, and 23 other countries
Harry Potter: Wizards Unite (think Pokmon GO, but with wands and giant spiders instead of pokballs and Pikachus) officially launched earlier this week, but with a catch: it was only available in the U...
06:14 pm GMT - Sat, June 22, 2019
Techcrunch Original Content podcast: Netflixs When They See Us is difficult-but-essential viewing
“When They See Us,” a new miniseries on Netflix, can be so infuriating that it’s hard to watch especially its first hour, which depicts the arrest of the teenaged boys who became kn...
05:53 pm GMT - Sat, June 22, 2019
Techcrunch Bill Gates on making one of the greatest mistakes of all time
At a recent event hosted for founders by the venture firm Village Global, one of its most prominent investors, Bill Gates, sat down with Eventbrite cofounder and CEO Julia Hartz to discuss founding a ...
04:52 pm GMT - Sat, June 22, 2019
Techcrunch NASAs Curiosity rover finds levels of gas on Mars that could suggest possibility of life
NASA’s Curiosity Rover has detected high levels of methane output during its mission on the Martian surface, the New York Times reports. The discovery, found during a measurement taking on Wedne...
03:00 pm GMT - Sat, June 22, 2019
Techcrunch Ray Dalio, Niantic, Adobe, Dropbox, remote work, Northzone, and Slack
Ray Dalio on the Extra Crunch stage at Disrupt SF 2019 This year at Disrupt SF, we will be hosting a special Extra Crunch stage focused on the issues that confront startup founders in building their c...
02:30 pm GMT - Sat, June 22, 2019
Techcrunch Equity transcribed: Slacks IPO, the VCs behind Facebook Libra, founder salaries and trouble in scooter-land
Welcome back to thisweeks transcribed edition of Equity. This week, TechCrunch’s Danny Crichton filled in for co-host Alex Wilhelm – who was out in preparation for his wedding this weekend...
12:00 pm GMT - Sat, June 22, 2019
Techcrunch Startups Weekly: The scooter cash desert
In this week's newsletter: Slack's direct listing, Juul's conundrum and Facebook's new cryptocurrency....
11:27 am GMT - Sat, June 22, 2019
Techcrunch Netflix is testing a pop-out floating video player on desktop
Netflix is testing out a new feature that could mean you never have to stop watching, not even while you work it’s a pop-out video player, similar to the one you may be used to from iOS and mac...
08:09 pm GMT - Fri, June 21, 2019
Techcrunch Google Pay expands its integration with PayPal to online merchants
Google and PayPal have been strategic partners for some time. The companies in 2017 announced that PayPal would become a payment method in Android Pay, the service that later rebranded as Google Pay. ...
07:00 pm GMT - Fri, June 21, 2019
Techcrunch What money should be
With the release of the Facebook consortiums project Libra whitepaper, the internet, tech world, financial services industry and policy circles are all burning with conversation on the projects potent...
06:56 pm GMT - Fri, June 21, 2019
Techcrunch Airbus-owned Voom will compete with Uber Copter in the U.S. in 2019
The U.S. air taxi market is heating up: Aeronautics industry giant Airbus will be among the companies operating on-demand air travel service in 2019 in American skies, FastCompany reports. Airbus̵...
06:56 pm GMT - Fri, June 21, 2019
Techcrunch Airbus-owned Voom will compete with Uber Copter in the US in 2019
The U.S. air taxi market is heating up: Aeronautics industry giant Airbus will be among the companies operating on-demand air travel service in 2019 in American skies, FastCompany reports. Airbus̵...
06:33 pm GMT - Fri, June 21, 2019
Techcrunch Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative gives $68M to fund Human Cell Atlas projects
An ongoing global project to map the human body cell by cell has receive a $68 million shot in the arm from the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative. It will support dozens of individual projects contributing t...
05:53 pm GMT - Fri, June 21, 2019
Techcrunch Ray Dalio is coming to Disrupt SF
When it comes to the gods of finance, few people reach the stratosphere of Ray Dalio . The founder of Bridgewater, the investment firm that has grown to manage $150 billion in assets, Dalio is one of ...
05:47 pm GMT - Fri, June 21, 2019
Techcrunch Crowdfunded spacecraft LightSail 2 prepares to go sailing on sunlight
Among the many spacecraft and satellites ascending to space on Monday's Falcon Heavy launch, the Planetary Society's LightSail 2 may be the most interesting. If all goes well, a week from launch it wi...
05:42 pm GMT - Fri, June 21, 2019
Techcrunch Daily Crunch: Googles not making any more tablets
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...
05:42 pm GMT - Fri, June 21, 2019
Techcrunch Slack and Zoom are flying high; theyre also being chased already by upstarts
Two of the highest-flying now-public enterprise companies of the year — Slack and Zoom — are different in many ways, besides the fact that one is focused on workplace messaging, while the ...
05:30 pm GMT - Fri, June 21, 2019
Techcrunch Apply to Startup Battlefield for a shot at TC fame and fortune
What would a $100,000 cash infusion do for your early-stage startup? Dont just imagine it. Apply to compete in Startup Battlefield atDisrupt San Francisco 2019 on October 2-4. Our premier pitch compet...
05:29 pm GMT - Fri, June 21, 2019
Techcrunch Harry Potter: Wizards Unite reaches 400K downloads, $300K in consumer spend in U.K. and U.S.
Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, the highly anticipated new mobile game from Pokmon Go makers Niantic and Warner Brothers’ games division, is off to a good start but it’s not breaking Pokmon G...
05:29 pm GMT - Fri, June 21, 2019
Techcrunch Harry Potter: Wizards Unite reaches 400K downloads, $300K in consumer spend in UK and US
Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, the highly anticipated new mobile game from Pokmon GO makers Niantic and Warner Brothers’ games division, is off to a good start, but it’s not breaking Pokmon ...
05:11 pm GMT - Fri, June 21, 2019
Techcrunch This is Your Life in Silicon Valley: Nomiku Founder CEO Lisa Fetterman on why Silicon Valley doesnt care about female founders
Welcome to this weeks transcribed edition of This is Your Life in Silicon Valley. Were running an experiment for Extra Crunch members that puts This is Your Life in Silicon Valley in words so you can...
05:00 pm GMT - Fri, June 21, 2019
Techcrunch Prices increase tonight on passes to Disrupt SF 2019
This is it, the final day the super-early-bird is hanging out at TechCrunch dispensing serious savings on passes to Disrupt San Francisco 2019. Once the clock ticks onto 11:59 p.m. (PT) tonight, the b...
04:46 pm GMT - Fri, June 21, 2019
Techcrunch LTE flaws let hackers easily spoof presidential alerts
Security vulnerabilities in LTE can allow hackers to “easily” spoof presidential alerts sent to mobile phones in the event of a national emergency. Using off-the-shelf equipment and open-s...
04:39 pm GMT - Fri, June 21, 2019
Techcrunch TechCrunch is back in New York next week!
TechCrunch is headed back to NYC to find the next wave of early-stage startups tackling big ideas! Last time we held an event in New York it was 2017, so we are overdue for a visit. Hear about what Te...
04:38 pm GMT - Fri, June 21, 2019
Techcrunch Nowports raises $5.3 million to become Latin Americas digital shipping answer to Flexport
Nowports, a developer of software and services to track freight shipments from ports to destinations across Latin America, has aims to become the regional answer to Flexport’s billion-dollar dig...
04:01 pm GMT - Fri, June 21, 2019
Techcrunch YouTube confirms a test where the comments are hidden by default
YouTube’s comments section has a bad reputation. It’s even been called “the worst on the internet,” and a reflection of YouTube’s overall toxic culture where creators are...
03:35 pm GMT - Fri, June 21, 2019
Techcrunch Three years after moving off AWS, Dropbox infrastructure continues to evolve
Conventional wisdom would suggest that you close your data centers and move to the cloud, not the other way around, but in 2016 Dropbox undertook the opposite journey. It (mostly) ended its long-time ...
03:30 pm GMT - Fri, June 21, 2019
Techcrunch Early-bird pricing ends tonight for TC Sessions: Mobility 2019
The robotaxis blowin its horn and zooming autonomously down the home stretch. At 11:59 p.m. (PT) on June 21 thats tonight, people we hit the brakes on early-bird pricing for TC Sessions: Mobility 20...
03:25 pm GMT - Fri, June 21, 2019
Techcrunch Space startup Wyvern wants to make data about Earths health much more accessible
The private space industry is seeing a revolution driven by cube satellites, which are affordable, lightweight satellites that are much easier than traditional satellites to design, build and launch. ...
02:51 pm GMT - Fri, June 21, 2019
Techcrunch eBay and Facebook told to tackle trade in fake reviews
Facebook and eBay have been warned by the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to do more to tackle the sale of fake reviews on their platforms. Fake reviews are illegal under UK consume...
02:51 pm GMT - Fri, June 21, 2019
Techcrunch Facebook and eBay told to tackle trade in fake reviews
Facebook and eBay have been warned by the U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to do more to tackle the sale of fake reviews on their platforms. Fake reviews are illegal under U.K. con...
02:44 pm GMT - Fri, June 21, 2019
Techcrunch Northzones Paul Murphy goes deep on the next era of gaming
As the gaming market continues to boom, billions of dollars are being invested in new games and new streaming platforms vying to own a piece of the action. Most of the value is accruing to the large i...
02:14 pm GMT - Fri, June 21, 2019
Techcrunch PayPal COO Bill Ready to depart at end of 2019
PayPal Chief Operating Officer Bill Ready is leaving the company at the end of the year, PayPal announced via a statement issued on Thursday. The exec had first joined PayPal when it acquired his star...
01:00 pm GMT - Fri, June 21, 2019
Techcrunch African fintech dominates Catalyst Funds 2019 startup cohort
African fintech has taken center stage for the Catalyst Fund, a JP Morgan Chase and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation-backed accelerator that provides mentorship and non-equity funding to emerging m...
01:00 pm GMT - Fri, June 21, 2019
Techcrunch The VCs behind Libra, Facebooks new cryptocurrency
Hello and welcome back toEquity, TechCrunchs venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines....
08:21 am GMT - Fri, June 21, 2019
Techcrunch Facebook adds new limits to address the spread of hate speech in Sri Lanka and Myanmar
As Facebook grapples with the spread of hate speech on its platform, it is introducing changes that limit the spread of messages in two countries where it has come under fire in recent years: Sri Lank...
05:08 am GMT - Fri, June 21, 2019
Techcrunch Terry Gou resigns as Foxconns chairman to run for president of Taiwan
Terry Gou said at Foxconns annual general meeting today that he is leaving the electronics manufacturing giant as he prepares to run for president of Taiwan. Gou, who founded Foxconn (also known as Ho...
03:45 am GMT - Fri, June 21, 2019
Techcrunch Ethiopias bid to become an African startup hub hinges on connectivity
Ethiopia is flexing its ambitions to become Africas next startup hub. The country of 105 million with the continents seventh largest economy is revamping government policies, firing up angel networks,...
02:47 am GMT - Fri, June 21, 2019
Techcrunch Google responds to a WSJ report that concluded there are millions of fake business listings on Maps
After a Wall Street Journal investigation concluded that there are millions of fake business listings on Google Maps, the company has issued a response detailing the measures it takes to combat the pr...
11:24 pm GMT - Thu, June 20, 2019
Techcrunch Meet your new chief of staff: An AI chatbot
Navigator, the new project from the creators of Mailbox, launches with $12M...
11:05 pm GMT - Thu, June 20, 2019
Techcrunch Study finds drivers are clueless about what driver assistance systems can (and cant) do
Automakers like Audi, BMW, GM’s Cadillac, Nissan and Tesla have advanced driver assistance systems that are robust enough to take the sting out of that daily highway commute by handling some dri...
10:19 pm GMT - Thu, June 20, 2019
Techcrunch A chat with Niantic CEO John Hanke on the launch of Harry Potter: Wizards Unite
Just shy of three years ago, Pokmon GO took over the world. Players filled the sidewalks, and crowds of trainers flooded parks and landmarks. Anywhere you looked, people were throwing Pokballs and cha...
09:28 pm GMT - Thu, June 20, 2019
Techcrunch Google says its not making any more tablets
The writing has been on the slate for some time now. Roughly this time last year, we reported that Google had wiped all tablet sales off its site. Turns out that was just a bug, but it seemed like an ...
08:12 pm GMT - Thu, June 20, 2019
Techcrunch One of NASAs robotic astronaut helpers just flew on its own in space for the first time
NASA’s very own free-floating Companion Cube equivalent took its own first tentative “steps” in space today, demonstrating its ability to rotate on its own in zero gravity inside the...
08:03 pm GMT - Thu, June 20, 2019
Techcrunch Slacks value rockets as stock closes up 48.5% in public debut
It was a historic day for Slack (NYSE: WORK). The workplace communication software juggernaut debuted on the New York Stock Exchange up 48% at $38.50 per share after reports emerged Wednesday night th...
08:00 pm GMT - Thu, June 20, 2019
Techcrunch Is seed investing still a local business?
The number of seed-stage funding deals in the U.S. declined for the fourth straight year in 2018. Yet there continues to be a huge surplus of available capital, with more funds out there than ever....
08:00 pm GMT - Thu, June 20, 2019
Techcrunch Get your early-bird tickets to TC Sessions: Enterprise 2019
In a world where the enterprise market hovers around $500 billion in annual sales, is it any wonder that hundreds of enterprise startups launch into that fiercely competitive arena every year? Its a t...
07:32 pm GMT - Thu, June 20, 2019
Techcrunch Behavioural advertising is out of control, warns UK watchdog
The online behavioural advertising industry is illegally profiling Internet users. That’s the damning assessment of the UK’s data protection regulator in an update report published today, ...
07:25 pm GMT - Thu, June 20, 2019
Techcrunch Hasselblads new medium format camera is a tiny, beautiful nod to history
While mirrorless cameras accelerate into the future, medium format models are hearkening unto the past and Hasselblad chief among them. Its new digital back fits lenses going back to the '50s, and th...
07:11 pm GMT - Thu, June 20, 2019
Techcrunch Netflix wins rights to Lin-Manuel Mirandas Tick, Tick Boom!
“Hamilton” creator Lin-Manuel Miranda will be making his debut as a feature film director on Netflix . Variety reports that Netflix won the rights to Miranda’s film adaptation of ...
07:00 pm GMT - Thu, June 20, 2019
Techcrunch The Operators: Acceleprise partner Whitney Sales and Docsend CEO Russ Heddleston on how to grow your sales strategies
Tim Hsia & Neil Devani Contributor Share on Twitter Tim Hsia is the CEO of Media Mobilize and a Venture Partner at Digital Garage. Neil Devani is an angel investor and venture capitalist focused o...
06:22 pm GMT - Thu, June 20, 2019
Techcrunch Tripping grad students over and over for science (and better prosthetic limbs)
Prosthetic limbs are getting better, but not as quickly as you'd think. They're not as smart as our real limbs, which (directed by the brain) do things like automatically stretch out to catch ourselve...
05:47 pm GMT - Thu, June 20, 2019
Techcrunch A Netflix hack lets you feel the action in a scene by vibrating your phone
Netflix Hack Day, the company’s internal hackathon, has a habit of producing some amazing gems — like a brain-controlled interface, a Fitbit hack that shuts off Netflix when you fall aslee...
05:19 pm GMT - Thu, June 20, 2019
Techcrunch Researchers create first mind-controlled robot arm that works well without surgery
Carnegie Mellon researchers working with peers from the University of Minnesota have made a big breakthrough in brain-computer interface (BCI) and robotic technology: They’ve developed a way for...
05:05 pm GMT - Thu, June 20, 2019
Techcrunch Transitioning from engineering to product with Adobes Anjul Bhambhri
Many roles inside of startups and tech companies are clear: marketers market, salespeople sell, engineers engineer. Then there are the roles like product manager that seem obvious on the surface (prod...
04:54 pm GMT - Thu, June 20, 2019
Techcrunch Apple issues voluntary recall of 2015 MacBook Pro batteries due to overheating concern
Apple this morning announced a “voluntary” recall of MacBook Pro batteries due to potential overheating and safety risk. The recall only applies to mid-2015 15-inch MacBook Pros with Retin...
04:50 pm GMT - Thu, June 20, 2019
Techcrunch NASAs historic Apollo 11 launch comes to your phone in AR
We’re nearing the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing (on July 24) and, to celebrate, there’s an interactive augmented reality app called 321 LAUNCH that will bring a faithful r...
04:42 pm GMT - Thu, June 20, 2019
Techcrunch Daily Crunch: Slack makes its Wall Street debut
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...
04:41 pm GMT - Thu, June 20, 2019
Techcrunch Samsungs Galaxy S10 5G arrives on Sprint tomorrow
You surely know the whole deal about carts and horses by now. When Samsungs first 5G handset, the Galaxy S10 5G, arrives on Sprint tomorrow, users will be able to get those blazing fast mobile speeds ...
04:35 pm GMT - Thu, June 20, 2019
Techcrunch Brex CEO Henrique Dubugras is coming to Disrupt SF
Fintech startup Brex went from 0 to a valuation of $1 billion in less than two years. It is a fascinating company, and so is Brexs co-founder and CEO Henrique Dubugras. Hes coming to TechCrunch Disrup...
04:30 pm GMT - Thu, June 20, 2019
Techcrunch Machine learning for everyone startup Intersect Labs launches platform for data analysis
Machine learning is the holy grail of data analysis, but unfortunately, that holy grail oftentimes requires a PhD in Computer Science just to get started. Despite the incredible attention that machine...
04:28 pm GMT - Thu, June 20, 2019
Techcrunch Google ramps up competition with Facebook Pages with new tools for local businesses
Google has been steadily updating its tools for businesses looking to reach more customers across Google’s platforms, including Search and Google Maps. Last year, the company took on Facebook Pa...
04:12 pm GMT - Thu, June 20, 2019
Techcrunch Slack opens at $38.50, a pop of 48% on its first day of trading on NYSE as WORK
Slack, the workplace messaging platform that has helped define a key category of enterprise IT, made its debut as a public company today with a pop. Trading as “WORK” on the New York Stock...
04:12 pm GMT - Thu, June 20, 2019
Techcrunch The boring genius of how Atrium kills legal busy work
Law firms have little incentive to build or buy software that will save their lawyers time because they often bill clients by the hour. Tasks like tracking down legal documents, extracting key informa...
04:05 pm GMT - Thu, June 20, 2019
Techcrunch Verified Expert Brand Designer: Stitzlein Studio
After spending years working for in-house design teams and well-known brand agencies such as Nike, Google, and Pentagram, Joe and Leslie Stitzlein, who are also husband and wife, decided to launch the...
03:55 pm GMT - Thu, June 20, 2019
Techcrunch Plaid puts Quovo acquisition right to work with new investments product
When Plaid acquired Quovo earlier this year, it was clear the company wanted to move beyond checking and savings data to a broader view of investments. Today, the company announced Investments, an API...
03:42 pm GMT - Thu, June 20, 2019
Techcrunch Facebook announces dates for Oculus Connect 6
After a busy year, Facebook’s VR arm is returning to San Jose, Calif. on September 25 and 26 for the sixth annual Oculus Connect. Oculus has had a transformative year with the release of its Que...
03:38 pm GMT - Thu, June 20, 2019
Techcrunch Harry Potter: Wizards Unite is now available in the US and UK, one day earlier than promised
Earlier this week, Niantic announced that Harry Potter: Wizards Unite the company’s Potter-themed followup to Pokmon GO would start rolling out to the world on June 21st. Looks like they decid...
03:34 pm GMT - Thu, June 20, 2019
Techcrunch A.I.-based travel app Hopper expands price monitoring to hotels worldwide
Hopper, the handy travel app that uses A.I. to predict airfare pricing, is today expanding its service to include hotels. Like airfare, hotel pricing is also dynamic — it can fluctuate with trav...
03:34 pm GMT - Thu, June 20, 2019
Techcrunch AI-based travel app Hopper expands price monitoring to hotels worldwide
Hopper, the handy travel app that uses AI to predict airfare pricing, is today expanding its service to include hotels. Like airfare, hotel pricing is also dynamic — it can fluctuate with travel...
03:23 pm GMT - Thu, June 20, 2019
Techcrunch Armoire is angling to become the every day Rent the Runway
When Armoire first emerged from MIT’s accelerator program back in 2016, the company’s vision was already fully formed — combine StitchFix and Rent the Runway to give women a low-cost...
03:00 pm GMT - Thu, June 20, 2019
Techcrunch 2 days left on super-early-bird discounts to Disrupt SF 2019
Frugal founders and savvy shoppers take heed. Disrupt San Francisco 2019, which takes place October 2-4, can be a serious boon to your business. But our super-early-bird pricing disappears in a cloud ...
02:11 pm GMT - Thu, June 20, 2019
Techcrunch Adobe Lightroom arrives in the Mac App Store
The pro-focused photo-editing tool Lightroom is now available on the Mac App Store, marking the first major Adobe app to be available through the revamped version of the platform. The title joins the ...
01:14 pm GMT - Thu, June 20, 2019
Techcrunch Nissans zero-emission ice cream van uses old EV batteries to keep things cool
File ice cream vans under ‘things I never thought posed a significant risk to the environment but might actually.’ Nissan has developed a new concept vehicle that addresses the problem of ...
12:32 pm GMT - Thu, June 20, 2019
Techcrunch GirlGaze Network looks to connect brands with female creatives
It started with a hashtag. Amande de Cadenet, photographer, author, and TV host, was spending time with her sister, a director and photographer in her own right, when an ACLU study on the lack of dive...
11:28 am GMT - Thu, June 20, 2019
Techcrunch UK age checks for online porn delayed after bureaucratic cock-up
The UK government has delayed the introduction of mandatory age verification for accessing online pornography — blaming an administrative cock-up. The controversial scheme had been due to launch...
11:07 am GMT - Thu, June 20, 2019
Techcrunch SaaS data protection provider Druva nabs $130M, now at a $1B valuation, acquiring CloudLanes
As businesses continue to move more of their computing and data to the cloud, one of the startups that has made a name for itself as a provider of cloud-based solutions to protect and manage those IT ...
11:01 am GMT - Thu, June 20, 2019
Techcrunch iRobot acquires education startup, Root Robotics
In a bid to expand its educational offerings, iRobot has acquired local Massachusetts-based startup, Root Robotics. The company is the creator of the eponymous coding robot, a two-wheeled device desig...
11:01 am GMT - Thu, June 20, 2019
Techcrunch iRobot acquires education startup Root Robotics
In a bid to expand its educational offerings, iRobot has acquired local Massachusetts-based startup, Root Robotics. The company is the creator of the eponymous coding robot, a two-wheeled device desig...
09:36 am GMT - Thu, June 20, 2019
Techcrunch Dawn Capital closes $125M Opportunities Fund to double down on its biggest bets
Dawn Capital has made a name for itself over the last several years for having a sharp eye when it comes to spotting interesting B2B startups in Europe before they become big, with companies like iZet...
08:04 am GMT - Thu, June 20, 2019
Techcrunch MAX.ng raises $7M round backed by Yamaha and pilots EVs in Nigeria
Nigerian motorcycle transit startup MAX.ng has raised a $7 million funding round led by Novastar Ventures, with participation of Japanese manufacturer Yamaha. Based in Lagos, the company’s app-b...
07:27 am GMT - Thu, June 20, 2019
Techcrunch Waymo takes its self-driving car ambitions global in partnership with Renault-Nissan
Waymo has locked in an exclusive partnership with Renault and Nissan to research how commercial autonomous vehicles might work for passengers and packages in France and Japan. This exclusive partnersh...
06:51 am GMT - Thu, June 20, 2019
Techcrunch California has let two Chinese startups offer robotaxis to the public
China’s driverless cars are coming for passengers in the United States. AutoX and Pony.ai just became the first Chinese companies allowed to offer self-driving robotaxis in the state of Californ...
04:01 am GMT - Thu, June 20, 2019
Techcrunch Founders Factory is going live in Paris
After London and Johannesburg, startup accelerator and incubator Founders Factory is launching a third city Paris. Once again, the company is partnering with a corporate backer. And this time, insura...
12:28 am GMT - Thu, June 20, 2019
Techcrunch fuboTV inks Discovery deal, adds 13 more networks to its live TV streaming service
Live sports streaming service fuboTV is expanding further into non-sports content with today’s news that it’s inked a new multi-year deal with Discovery, Inc. that will bring 13 Discovery ...
11:50 pm GMT - Wed, June 19, 2019
Techcrunch Self-driving car startup Argo AI is giving researchers free access to its HD maps
Argo AI is releasing curated data along with high-definition maps to researchers for free, the latest company in the autonomous vehicle industry to open-source some of the information it has captured ...
09:54 pm GMT - Wed, June 19, 2019
Techcrunch Slack reportedly prices IPO at $26 per share
Slack’s public debut is happening Thursday on the NYSE and the company has set a reference price of $26 per share for its direct listing, according toWSJ, which would value the company at around...
09:54 pm GMT - Wed, June 19, 2019
Techcrunch Slack prices IPO at $26 per share
Slack’s public debut is happening Thursday on the NYSE and the company has set a reference price of $26 per share for its direct listing, according toWSJ, which would value the company at around...
09:46 pm GMT - Wed, June 19, 2019
Techcrunch Why all standard black Tesla cars are about to cost $1,000 more
Tesla will start charging $1,000 for its once-standard black paint color next month, according to a tweet Wednesday by CEO Elon Musk, the latest pricing adjustment by the automaker as it aims for prof...
08:56 pm GMT - Wed, June 19, 2019
Techcrunch Canadas True North conference is not your typical tech event
From the venue and the flashy event website, Waterloo, Ontario’s True North conference (in its second year) doesn’t seem all that distinct from a laundry list of other major tech events th...
07:11 pm GMT - Wed, June 19, 2019
Techcrunch Announcing Hardware Battlefield 2019 in Shenzhen, China
Startup Battlefield is known around the world as TechCrunch’s premier startup competition, and today we’re proud to announce that on November 11-12 we are producing our hardware-focused co...
06:23 pm GMT - Wed, June 19, 2019
Techcrunch Samsung exec says the Galaxy Fold is ready to hit the market
As we asked back in February, We’re ready for foldable phones, but are they ready for us? The answer, so far, has been an enthusiastic, not really. The Galaxy Fold was pushed back, after multipl...
06:17 pm GMT - Wed, June 19, 2019
Techcrunch Daily Crunch: A closer look at Facebook and Libra
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...
05:44 pm GMT - Wed, June 19, 2019
Techcrunch YouTube partners with Universal to upgrade nearly 1,000 classic music videos to HD
YouTube has teamed up with Universal Music Group to remaster nearly a thousand classic music videos, the companies announced today, including those from from Billy Idol, Beastie Boys, Boyz II Men, Geo...
05:31 pm GMT - Wed, June 19, 2019
Techcrunch Founder salaries, diversity tactics, fintech roboadvisors, and startups improving mental health
Startup founders need to decide how much salary is enough One of the great things about running your own startup is that you have the independence to make critical business decisions, but those decisi...
05:22 pm GMT - Wed, June 19, 2019
Techcrunch NASAs X-59 supersonic jet will have a 4K TV instead of a forward window
NASA's X-59 QueSST experimental quiet supersonic aircraft will have a cockpit like no other featuring a big 4K screen where you'd normally have a front window. Why? Because this is one weird-looking ...
05:17 pm GMT - Wed, June 19, 2019
Techcrunch Video and messaging enable remote work. But is it right for your company?
Four-day work week. Open-plan offices. Work-life balance. Remote work. There are endless ways to set up your team and company for success. And theres evidence for and against all of these scenarios....
05:00 pm GMT - Wed, June 19, 2019
Techcrunch Kano, the kids-focused coding and hardware startup, inks deal with Microsoft, launches $300 Kano PC
Kano, the London-based startup that builds hardware designed to teach younger people about computing and coding, is taking a significant step forward in its growth strategy today. The startup has inke...
04:19 pm GMT - Wed, June 19, 2019
Techcrunch Calibra wallet wont launch in Facebooks biggest market
Facebook unveiled its audacious Libra cryptocurrency and Calibra digital wallet on Tuesday through which it plans to transform financial services across the globe. The social juggernaut made clear of ...
04:13 pm GMT - Wed, June 19, 2019
Techcrunch Netflix signs landmark deal with writer-director Janet Mock
Netflix has signed a development deal with “Pose” writer-producer-director Janet Mock. Inits announcement, the streamer notes that Mock is the first black transgender woman to sign an over...
04:13 pm GMT - Wed, June 19, 2019
Techcrunch Google launches Chromebook App Hub for educators plus other classroom tools
Earlier this year, Google announced plans to build a Chromebook App Hub designed to help teachers and other curriculum administrators more easily find educational tools and apps to use in the classroo...
04:00 pm GMT - Wed, June 19, 2019
Techcrunch Google to face shareholders on censored Dragonfly search in China
Another day, another shareholder suit. This time it’s Google in the spotlight. Shareholders have tabled a resolution which, if passed, would demand Google put the brakes on its controversial sea...
04:00 pm GMT - Wed, June 19, 2019
Techcrunch Google defeats shareholders on Dragonfly censored search in China
A shareholder resolution aimed at halting Google’s efforts to bring a censored version of its search engine to China has failed. Shareholders tabled a resolution to demand Google put the brakes ...
04:00 pm GMT - Wed, June 19, 2019
Techcrunch Launch your startup onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2019
Early-stage startup founders, were looking at you. Are you ready to launch your company and show the world what youve got? Theres no better launching pad than Startup Battlefield, and the next battle ...
03:30 pm GMT - Wed, June 19, 2019
Techcrunch Fluent acquires AdParlor, a social ad specialist previously owned by Adknowledge, for $10M
The old guard of advertising networks continues to swap hands. In the latest development, marketing company Fluent has announced that it is buying AdParlor, a company that built early inroads into adv...
03:21 pm GMT - Wed, June 19, 2019
Techcrunch Jeffrey Katzenbergs streaming service Quibi books $100M in ad sales ahead of launch
Quibi, the short-form video platform founded by Jeffrey Katzenberg, hasn’t even launched but has already booked $100 million in advertising sales, according to a report from The WSJ this morning...
03:03 pm GMT - Wed, June 19, 2019
Techcrunch Humanising Autonomy pulls in $5M to help self-driving cars keep an eye on pedestrians
Pretty much everything about making a self-driving car is difficult, but among the most difficult parts is making sure the vehicles know what pedestrians are doing and what they’re about to do....
03:00 pm GMT - Wed, June 19, 2019
Techcrunch Only 72 hours left to save big on passes to Disrupt SF 2019
Seventy-two hours to save. Thats how much time remains on super-early-bird pricing for passes to Disrupt San Francisco 2019, which takes place October 2-4. If you plan to attend TechCrunch’s fla...
02:40 pm GMT - Wed, June 19, 2019
Techcrunch CMU researchers use computer vision to see around corners
Future autonomous vehicle and other machine intelligence systems might not need line-of-sight to gather incredibly detailed image data: New research from Carnegie Mellon University, the University of ...
02:37 pm GMT - Wed, June 19, 2019
Techcrunch TextIQ, a machine learning platform for parsing sensitive corporate data, raises $12.6M
TextIQ, a machine learning system that parses and understands sensitive corporate data, has raised $12.6 million in Series A funding led by FirstMark Capital, with participation from Sierra Ventures. ...
02:37 pm GMT - Wed, June 19, 2019
Techcrunch Text IQ, a machine learning platform for parsing sensitive corporate data, raises $12.6M
Text IQ, a machine learning system that parses and understands sensitive corporate data, has raised $12.6 million in Series A funding led by FirstMark Capital, with participation from Sierra Ventures....
02:05 pm GMT - Wed, June 19, 2019
Techcrunch Risks and rewards of digital therapeutics in treating mental disorders
Madeline Stein & Michael Stein Contributor Share on Twitter Madeline Stein is a first year Doctorate student at Saybrook University studying Applied Psychophysiology within the College of Integrat...
02:00 pm GMT - Wed, June 19, 2019
Techcrunch Apple expands authorized repairs to ~1,000 Best Buy stores
Since 2001, Apple has staked its claim across the world with its own first-party brick and mortar locations. But the U.S. is a big country, and the 270 or so stores can only cover so much ground. In t...
01:46 pm GMT - Wed, June 19, 2019
Techcrunch Geely is turning to Zenuity as its self-driving software supplier
China-based Zhejiang Geely Holdings is tapping Zenuity, the joint venture between Volvo and Swedish technology company Veoneer, as its preferred driver assistance and autonomous vehicle software suppl...
01:19 pm GMT - Wed, June 19, 2019
Techcrunch China to lose top spot to U.S. in 2019 gaming market
China is losing its global lead in games. By the end of 2019, the U.S. will replace China as the world’s largest gaming market with an estimated revenue of $36.9 billion, says a new reportfrom r...
01:19 pm GMT - Wed, June 19, 2019
Techcrunch China to lose top spot to US in 2019 gaming market
China is losing its global lead in games. By the end of 2019, the U.S. will replace China as the world’s largest gaming market, with an estimated revenue of $36.9 billion, says a new reportfrom ...
01:05 pm GMT - Wed, June 19, 2019
Techcrunch Tallys Jason Brown on fintechs first debt roboadvisor and an automated financial future
Yesterday, Tally, the startup looking to automate consumers financial lives, announced it had raised a $50 million Series C round led by Andreessen Horowitz and with participation from Valley heavy hi...
01:00 pm GMT - Wed, June 19, 2019
Techcrunch Whitebox raises $5M for its e-commerce logistics platform
Whitebox, a startup that CEO Marcus Startzel said is working to “power the direct-to-consumer economy,” has raised $5 million in Series A funding. The company works with both startups and ...
01:00 pm GMT - Wed, June 19, 2019
Techcrunch Amazon adds color adjustable lighting to its best Kindle
For e-reader devotees, it doesnt get better than the Kindle Oasis. Amazons the last giant player standing in the category (unless you consider what Barnes & Noble is doing standing), and the Oasis...
01:00 pm GMT - Wed, June 19, 2019
Techcrunch Netflix reveals the top TVs it thinks you should use to binge watch in 2019
Netflix has a tradition, in practice since 2015, of annually proclaiming which TVs, of all the TVs in the land, are best suited to serving you its content. The streaming company’s criteria for d...
12:20 pm GMT - Wed, June 19, 2019
Techcrunch Echo, the medication management app, has been acquired by LloydsPharmacy-owner McKesson
Echo, the U.K. startup that offers an app to help you manage your medication and order repeat prescriptions for delivery, has been acquired by healthcare company McKesson, owner of LloydsPharmacy. Ter...
11:54 am GMT - Wed, June 19, 2019
Techcrunch Indonesias EV Hive raises $13.5M and expands into co-living and new retail
WeWork’s battle to win co-working in Indonesia, the world’s fourth most populous country, is intensifying after one of the U.S. firm’s key rival announced a slew of announcements to ...
11:00 am GMT - Wed, June 19, 2019
Techcrunch Postman raises $50 million to grow its API development platform
Postman, a five-year-old startup that is attempting to simply development, tests, and management of APIs through its platform, has raised $50 million in a new round to scale its business. The Series B...
10:42 am GMT - Wed, June 19, 2019
Techcrunch Libra currently looks more like a fiat currency than a cryptocurrency
Facebook unveiled a cryptocurrency called Libra yesterday as well as the Libra Association, a not-for-profit that will oversee all things Libra. While Libras white paper draws a lot of inspiration fro...
09:10 am GMT - Wed, June 19, 2019
Techcrunch UiPath CEO Daniel Dines is coming to Disrupt Berlin
$7 billion, thats the valuation of UiPath following its latest funding round. Born in Romania and now headquartered in New York, the company represents a true European success story. Thats why Im exci...
07:13 am GMT - Wed, June 19, 2019
Techcrunch Still in stealth mode, Duffel raises $21.5m in Series A from Benchmark for its travel platform
Ten months ago London startup Duffel hinted that it would be a new way to book travel online, aiming at the booking experience ‘end to end, and announced a healthy $4.7M funding round, but not m...
07:01 am GMT - Wed, June 19, 2019
Techcrunch Berlins Cherry Ventures raises new 175M fund to back early-stage startups across Europe
Cherry Ventures, the Berlin-based investor that backs European companies predominantly at seed-stage, has raised a third fund. The new “Cherry Ventures III” has closed at 175 million and w...
06:56 am GMT - Wed, June 19, 2019
Techcrunch Blue Prism acquires UKs Thoughtonomy for up to $100M to expand its RPA platform with more AI
Robotic process automation — which lets organizations shift repetitive back office tasks to machines to complete — has been a hot area of growth in the world of enterprise IT, and now one ...
06:30 am GMT - Wed, June 19, 2019
Techcrunch Microsofts first data center regions in the Middle East are now generally available
Microsoft today announced that is first data center regions in the Middle East are now online. The data centers are located in Abu Dhabi and Dubai and will offer local access to the usual suite of ser...
06:01 am GMT - Wed, June 19, 2019
Techcrunch Meero raises $230 million for its on-demand photo platform
Chances are you always look at photos before you order food in your favorite food delivery app, or before you book a hotel room. French startup Meero wants to make the web and mobile apps look beautif...
05:18 am GMT - Wed, June 19, 2019
Techcrunch Twitter will remove precise location tagging in tweets, citing lack of use
Update: An earlier version of this post said Twitter is removing location tagging in tweets. In fact, it is only removing the ability to share precise location details like latitude and longitude. In ...
04:48 am GMT - Wed, June 19, 2019
Techcrunch San Francisco is getting closer to an e-cigarette ban to protect kids, but it may hurt adult smokers who use vaping to quit
San Francisco is getting closer to banning the sale of e-cigarettes in the city in a bid to prevent minors from accessing thembut the new legislation may also hurt adult smokers who are trying to quit...
02:53 am GMT - Wed, June 19, 2019
Techcrunch Google will start attributing lyrics in its search results to their third-party providers
Earlier this week, music lyrics repository Genius accused Google of lifting lyrics and posting them on its search platform. Genius told the Wall Street Journal that this caused its site traffic to dro...
12:39 am GMT - Wed, June 19, 2019
Techcrunch Harry Potter: Wizards Unite will launch on June 21st
After a year of teasing out Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, Niantic (the company behind Pokmon GO) and WB Games have at long last announced an official release date: June 21st. The news came this evening...
11:31 pm GMT - Tue, June 18, 2019
Techcrunch The real risk of Facebooks Libra coin is crooked developers
Everyone’s worried about Mark Zuckerberg controlling the next currency, but I’m more concerned about a crypto Cambridge Analytica. Today Facebook announced Libra, its forthcoming stablecoi...
11:19 pm GMT - Tue, June 18, 2019
Techcrunch Apple Watchs own built-in apps can be deleted in watchOS 6
Good news for Apple Watch owners who don’t want to clutter up their Watch with unused apps. With the release of the new watchOS 6 operating system later this year, Apple will allow Apple Watch d...
11:05 pm GMT - Tue, June 18, 2019
Techcrunch People familiar with Slacks upcoming public offering share what to expect
Slack, the popular workplace messaging company, is expected to list on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday in the second major direct listing in the U.S. after Spotify introduced the concept to in...
09:04 pm GMT - Tue, June 18, 2019
Techcrunch This $99 AirPower knockoff is available for order now
There are a number of key differences between Apples AirPower and lookalike knockoff, AirUnleashed. The most pertinent one, however, is that one of the two is actually available for purchase. Apple ga...
09:00 pm GMT - Tue, June 18, 2019
Techcrunch An open letter to Google and Apple: Stop hindering Iranian entrepreneurs
Take away my toolbox and ask me to be a carpenter. This is what Google and Apple are asking of Irans budding entrepreneurship sector by barring access to essential platforms and software....
08:39 pm GMT - Tue, June 18, 2019
Techcrunch Atlassians co-CEO Scott Farquhar will join us at TC Sessions: Enterprise
Few companies have changed the way developers work as profoundly as Atlassian. Its tools like Jira and Confluence are ubiquitous, and over the course of the last few years, the company has started to ...
08:35 pm GMT - Tue, June 18, 2019
Techcrunch Careteam aims to unite patients and healthcare providers with a platform approach
How best to untangle the Gordian knot that is navigating your own healthcare? It’s a tricky question, and one that seems to have become only more complicated as technology improves, in many rega...
08:26 pm GMT - Tue, June 18, 2019
Techcrunch For pen testing firm IOActive, security is cultural not transactional
IOActive may not be a household name but you almost certainly know its work. The Seattle-headquartered company has been behind some of the most breathtaking hacks in the past decade. Its researchers h...
08:22 pm GMT - Tue, June 18, 2019
Techcrunch Probably Genetic helps families identify genetic conditions early with AI and DNA tests
Probably Genetic hopes to provide families of children on the autism spectrum with more complete diagnoses....
08:19 pm GMT - Tue, June 18, 2019
Techcrunch Tesla is turning its showrooms into arcades
Tesla might not engage in traditional advertising. That doesn’t mean the automaker isn’t keen on getting new customers and retaining the ones it already has. Most of Tesla’s methods ...
06:53 pm GMT - Tue, June 18, 2019
Techcrunch VidAngel ordered to pay $62.4M for copyright infringement
The VidAngel story seemingly ended in late 2017 when it declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy. But the bad news wasnt over for the streaming service, which promised to edit all of the dirty bits out of other...
06:41 pm GMT - Tue, June 18, 2019
Techcrunch YouTubes new AR Beauty Try-On lets viewers virtually try on makeup while watching video reviews
Makeup tutorials and reviews are some of the most popular content on YouTube, as they help people learn about new products as well as how to apply them. YouTube is now kicking that experience up a not...
06:28 pm GMT - Tue, June 18, 2019
Techcrunch Fresh off a $2.65B valuation, Plaid co-founder William Hockey is leaving
"This conclusion was neither a rash nor a recent decision," Hockey explains....
06:28 pm GMT - Tue, June 18, 2019
Techcrunch Cruise is sharing its data visualization tool with robotics geeks everywhere
Cruise is sharing a software platform with roboticists that was initially created to give its own engineers a better understanding of the petabytes of data generated every month from its fleet of auto...
06:27 pm GMT - Tue, June 18, 2019
Techcrunch SafeAI raises $5M to develop and deploy autonomy for mining and construction vehicles
Startup SafeAI, powered by a founding talent team with experience across Apple, Ford and Caterpillar, is emerging from stealth today with a $5 million funding announcement. The company’s focus i...
06:17 pm GMT - Tue, June 18, 2019
Techcrunch House lawmakers demand end to warrantless collection of Americans data
Two House lawmakers are pushing an amendment that would effectively defund a massive data collection program run by the National Security Agency unless the government promises to not intentionally col...
06:12 pm GMT - Tue, June 18, 2019
Techcrunch Google now lets you flag deceptive sites with a new Chrome extension
Google today launched a new Chrome extension that allows you to flag suspicious sites for inclusion in the company’s Safe Browsing index, which is used by Chrome and a number of third-party brow...
05:22 pm GMT - Tue, June 18, 2019
Techcrunch Google announces $1B, 10-year plan to add thousands of homes to Bay Area
The housing crisis in the Bay Area, particularly in San Francisco, is a complex and controversial topic with no one-size-fits-all solution but a check for a billion dollars is about as close as you'r...
05:10 pm GMT - Tue, June 18, 2019
Techcrunch Rolis newest instrument, the Lumi, helps you learn to play piano with lights
There has been a longstanding gulf between the consumption music and the creation of it: not everyone has the time or money to spend on lessons and instruments, and for those in school, many music edu...
05:05 pm GMT - Tue, June 18, 2019
Techcrunch Leaving for a competitor? Onboarding new employees? Avoid accusations of trade secret theft
When a company hires talent away from a competitor, onboarding the new employee can pose significant legal risks for both the company and the new employee. A fundamental aspect of Silicon Valley is......
04:59 pm GMT - Tue, June 18, 2019
Techcrunch Daily Crunch: Facebook unveils Libra cryptocurrency
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...
04:53 pm GMT - Tue, June 18, 2019
Techcrunch Apple launches a Beddit beta program focused on improving its app
Apple is launching a new beta program for Beddit, the sleep tracking company it acquired just over two years ago after selling Beddit products in Apple Stores for years. According to the beta program&...
04:53 pm GMT - Tue, June 18, 2019
Techcrunch The Geesaa automates (but overcomplicates) pourover coffee
Making pourover coffee is a cherished ritual of mine on most mornings. But there are times I wish I could have a single cup of pourover without fussing about the kitchen and the Geesaa, a new gadget ...
04:24 pm GMT - Tue, June 18, 2019
Techcrunch Advertisers and digital media companies form a new Global Alliance for Responsible Media
Many of the major players in online advertising have come together to create an organization called the Global Alliance for Responsible Media, which is supposed to focus on “digital safety.̶...
04:19 pm GMT - Tue, June 18, 2019
Techcrunch Simone Giertzs converted Tesla Model 3 pickup truck is wonderful
YouTuber Simone Giertz, celebrated DIY inventor, roboticist and general maker of cool stuff, decided not to wait for Tesla’s forthcoming pickup truck. Instead, she bought a Tesla Model 3 direct ...
04:04 pm GMT - Tue, June 18, 2019
Techcrunch Verified Expert Growth Marketing Agency: NoGood
NoGood CEO Mostafa Elbermawy describes how they evaluate a clients growth challenges by quoting Zen teacher Hunryu Suzuki: In the beginners mind there are many possibilities; in the experts mind there...
04:00 pm GMT - Tue, June 18, 2019
Techcrunch Microsoft PowerPoint gets an AI presentation coach
Love it or hate it, Microsoft’s PowerPoint is a ubiquitous tool in the corporate world. Over the course of the last few years, Microsoft started to bring some of its AI smarts to PowerPoint to h...
03:42 pm GMT - Tue, June 18, 2019
Techcrunch How Facebooks Libra is similar in concept and motivation to Kiks Kin cryptocurrency
Facebook unveiled its Libra cryptocurrency initiative today, which is part of an alternative financial system (including new subsidiary and wallet ‘Calibra‘) it aims to build alongside ind...
03:38 pm GMT - Tue, June 18, 2019
Techcrunch Focals by North Review: The future is (almost) here
The concept of an IRL heads-up display has been a part of science fiction since basically the beginning. Big players have tried their hand at it with less than stellar results most notably Google wit...
03:00 pm GMT - Tue, June 18, 2019
Techcrunch 4 days left to score the best price on Disrupt SF 2019
We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming to bring you an important message: You have just four days left to buy your pass to Disrupt San Francisco 2019 before the super early-bird price expir...
02:49 pm GMT - Tue, June 18, 2019
Techcrunch Google Calendar is down, its not just you
Snow day. All meetings are canceled until further notice. Google Calendar has been hit with what appear to be some pretty widespread issues. The company has confirmed service interruptions via its G S...
02:49 pm GMT - Tue, June 18, 2019
Techcrunch Google Calendar is down, its not just you Update: Its back
Snow day. All meetings are canceled until further notice. Google Calendar has been hit with what appear to be some pretty widespread issues. The company has confirmed service interruptions via its G S...
02:38 pm GMT - Tue, June 18, 2019
Techcrunch Orbit Fab becomes first startup to supply water to ISS, paving the way for satellite refueling
Not even two years into its existence, orbital fuel supply startup Orbit Fab has chalked up a big win successfully supplying the International Space Station with water, a first for any private compan...
02:19 pm GMT - Tue, June 18, 2019
Techcrunch Amazon expands air cargo fleet with 15 more planes, will have 70 planes by 2021
Following news from earlier this month that FedEx was dumping Amazon from its air cargo service, Amazon this morning announced the expansion of its own air delivery network, Amazon Air. The retailer s...
02:09 pm GMT - Tue, June 18, 2019
Techcrunch Dr. Mario is in (on iOS and Android) July 10
After years of heel dragging, Nintendo finally opened itself up to the smartphone world in late-2016. The gaming giant hasnt exactly opened the floodgates in the intervening years, but Fire Emblem Her...
02:02 pm GMT - Tue, June 18, 2019
Techcrunch NASAs best-yet photo of asteroid Bennu nails the dramatic lighting
NASA has taking a breathtaking new image of near-earth asteroid Bennu, captured by its OSIRIS-REx spacecraft from its new, second orbit of the extraterrestrial object. The new picture, snapped on June...
02:02 pm GMT - Tue, June 18, 2019
Techcrunch GoTenna is ramping up public sector mesh networking with a $24M C round
GoTenna is best known for its outdoors-oriented consumer products that let you text and share locations between smartphones off the grid. But the company has found that government work military, fire...
02:00 pm GMT - Tue, June 18, 2019
Techcrunch Youper, a chatbot that helps users navigate their emotions, raises $3 million in seed funding
Youper, a mental health app with a chatbot it calls an “emotional health assistant,” has raised $3 million in seed funding from Goodwater Capital. The funds will be used to accelerate deve...
01:32 pm GMT - Tue, June 18, 2019
Techcrunch Amazons Twitch acquired social networking platform Bebo for $25M to bolster its esports efforts
While Facebook makes a bold move into cryptocurrency to capitalise on its multi-billion user base, a social network that was once a credible competitor to it has quietly been snapped up by a subsidiar...
01:32 pm GMT - Tue, June 18, 2019
Techcrunch Amazons Twitch acquired social networking platform Bebo for under $25M to bolster its esports efforts
While Facebook makes a bold move into cryptocurrency to capitalise on its multi-billion user base, a social network that was once a credible competitor to it has quietly been snapped up by a subsidiar...
01:31 pm GMT - Tue, June 18, 2019
Techcrunch New iOS feature prompts you to cancel subscriptions when uninstalling apps
There are operating system updates that feel tacked on or otherwise not particularly useful. Then there are those that genuinely alter the way you interact with a device. This new addition by way of i...
01:10 pm GMT - Tue, June 18, 2019
Techcrunch Anti-spam service Truecaller adds free voice calling feature
Truecaller, an app best known for helping users screen calls from strangers and spammers, is adding yet another feature to its service as it bolsters its super app status. The Stockholm-based firm sai...
01:00 pm GMT - Tue, June 18, 2019
Techcrunch MongoDB gets a data lake, new security features and more
MongoDB is hosting its developer conference today and unsurprisingly, the company has quite a few announcements to make. Some are straightforward, like the launch of MongoDB 4.2 with some important ne...
01:00 pm GMT - Tue, June 18, 2019
Techcrunch Dishcraft launches with a massive robotics-powered dishwashing system
Bay Area-based robotics startup Dishcraft has unveiled a massive robotics and AI-powered dishwashing system. Like much of the rest of the industrial robotics industry, the companys looking to automate...
12:35 pm GMT - Tue, June 18, 2019
Techcrunch Carmen Sandiego returns to Google Earth with a new caper
Google Earth first made use of its rich global 3D visualization as a backdrop for a Carmen Sandiego tie-in back in March, but today there’s a new adventure to explore. After solving The Crown Je...
12:06 pm GMT - Tue, June 18, 2019
Techcrunch Salesforce Customer Data Platform begins to take shape
Salesforce announced it is making progress toward releasing a Customer Data Platform (CDP) this week at Salesforce Connections in Chicago. While the company is talking in greater detail about the plat...
12:05 pm GMT - Tue, June 18, 2019
Techcrunch Xiaomis latest products for Russia include its smart TVs and flagship Mi 9T
Xiaomi, best known for its smartphones, is making serious inroads into Russia as it launched a collection of products in the country where some 145 million people live. That includes its smart TVs fea...
12:00 pm GMT - Tue, June 18, 2019
Techcrunch Palms tiny phone is available unlocked at $350
The first time I showed the Palm phone to the TechCrunch staff, they were excited. At the very least, it was a unique take on the category, designed to be a second phone for those moments that didnt r...
12:00 pm GMT - Tue, June 18, 2019
Techcrunch Two Sigma leads $12m series A for expert knowledge network NewtonX
Knowledge is the fuel of business. Every decision requires a full understanding of the data underlying it, and that means reaching out not only to an organizations own staff for insight, but also to e...
11:39 am GMT - Tue, June 18, 2019
Techcrunch Volvo teams up with Nvidia to develop self-driving commercial and industrial trucks
Volvo and Nvidia announced a new partnership today aimed at developing the next-generation decision-making engine for Volvo Group’s fully autonomous commercial trucks and industrial service vehi...
10:04 am GMT - Tue, June 18, 2019
Techcrunch Sources: J.P. Morgan working on a secretive digital banking project based out of London
A number of incumbent backs are known to be developing new digital-first products in a bid to keep the new wave of challenger banks at bay and now it appears that the latest to make that move is J.P. ...
10:00 am GMT - Tue, June 18, 2019
Techcrunch Optimizely raises $50M Series D round for its experimentation platform
Optimizely, a platform that offers tools for A/B testing and personalization on the web and in mobile apps, today announced that it has raised a total of $105 million. This includes a $50 million Seri...
09:01 am GMT - Tue, June 18, 2019
Techcrunch Facebook announces Libra cryptocurrency: All you need to know
Facebook has finally revealed the details of its cryptocurrency Libra, which will let you buy things or send money to people with nearly zero fees. You’ll pseudonymously buy or cash out your Lib...
08:11 am GMT - Tue, June 18, 2019
Techcrunch The rise of the gig economy helps London-based insurtech Zego to raise $42M
A couple of years ago London-based startup Zego realised gig-economy workers would need insurance, and went on to raise a very healthy 6 million in Series A funding, led by Balderton Capital. Its firs...
06:01 am GMT - Tue, June 18, 2019
Techcrunch Fairjungle is a modern take on corporate travel management
French startup Fairjungle wants to make it easier to book a flight or a hotel room for corporate purposes. The company just raised a $2 million funding round (1.8 million) from Thibaud Elzire, Eduardo...
04:40 am GMT - Tue, June 18, 2019
Techcrunch Sprint is the latest telecom to offer a tracking device that uses LTE
Following in the footsteps of AT&T and Verizon*, Sprint is now offering an LTE tracker. The matchbook-sized device, simply called Tracker, provides real-time location tracking on Safe + Found app....
04:16 am GMT - Tue, June 18, 2019
Techcrunch GuestReady raises $6M to help hosts on Airbnb and other services manage their property
GuestReady, a three-year-old service that lets shared-economy hosts manage their business on Airbnb and other rental sites, has announced a $6 million Series A round. The investment was led by existin...
12:05 am GMT - Tue, June 18, 2019
Techcrunch Apple TV is getting a Picture-in-Picture mode so you can watch two shows at once
Apple TV is getting a Picture-in-Picture mode that will allow users to stream two shows at the same time, TechCrunch has confirmed. The feature’s forthcoming launch was first reported by Apple n...
12:04 am GMT - Tue, June 18, 2019
Techcrunch VC Lior Susan has a big idea that seems to be working: building next-generation industrial companies
Many investors in Silicon Valley are waiting the next big platform. That’s fine with Lior Susan, a former Flex exec who in 2015 cofounded Eclipse Ventures with the legendary venture capitalist P...
09:56 pm GMT - Mon, June 17, 2019
Techcrunch CapitalG co-founder introduces $175M early-stage venture fund
Scott Tierney launches Valo Ventures, a new fund focused on social, economic and environmental megatrends....
08:00 pm GMT - Mon, June 17, 2019
Techcrunch More tickets available to the 14th Annual TechCrunch Summer Party
Get ready for summer in the city, TechCrunch -style. We just released a fresh batch of tickets to the 14th Annual TechCrunch Summer Party. Available on a first-come, first-served basis, tickets to our...
07:33 pm GMT - Mon, June 17, 2019
Techcrunch Is your products AI annoying people?
We tend to think of AI as an incredible dream assistant to our lives and business operations, when that's not always the case. Designers should consider how these services can be problematic....
07:17 pm GMT - Mon, June 17, 2019
Techcrunch Climate justice and environmental ethics in tech, with Amazon engineer Rajit Iftikhar
Nearly 8,000 Amazon employees, many in prestigious engineering and design roles, have recently signed a petition calling on Jeff Bezos and the Amazon Board of Directors to dramatically shift the giant...
07:12 pm GMT - Mon, June 17, 2019
Techcrunch Pokmon GO and optimism as a business model
I played Pokmon GO this weekend, because I was babysitting my nephew, and I couldn’t help but be reminded what a cultural force it was when it launched three years ago. Hundreds massed near San ...
06:39 pm GMT - Mon, June 17, 2019
Techcrunch Annie Kadavy, Russ Heddleston and Charles Hudson will tell us how to raise seed money at Disrupt SF
Just about anyone can come up with a good idea. Fewer people can execute on that idea and turn it into a prototype or MVP. But there is still one final challenge for most entrepreneurs that can prove ...
06:25 pm GMT - Mon, June 17, 2019
Techcrunch Indias payments firm MobiKwik kick-starts its international ambitions with cross-border mobile top-ups
MobiKwik, a mobile wallet app in India that has expanded to add several financial services in recent years, said today it plans to enter international markets as it approaches profitability with the l...
06:05 pm GMT - Mon, June 17, 2019
Techcrunch Daily Crunch: Huawei predicts $30B in lost revenue
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...
05:59 pm GMT - Mon, June 17, 2019
Techcrunch Waymos self-driving Jaguar I-Pace vehicles are now testing on public roads
A little more than a year ago, Waymo surprised the industry and announced that its next big move in the world of autonomous vehicles would be a partnership with Jaguar Land Rover to add the automaker&...
05:30 pm GMT - Mon, June 17, 2019
Techcrunch A diversity and inclusion playbook
You’d be hard-pressed to find a tech company that said it wished it had waited longer to implement on diversity and inclusion efforts. The examples of tech companies “doing it right”...
05:28 pm GMT - Mon, June 17, 2019
Techcrunch Homeland Security has tested a working BlueKeep remote code execution exploit
Homeland Security’s cyber agency says it has tested a working exploit for the BlueKeep vulnerability, capable of achieving remote code execution on a vulnerable device. To date, most of the priv...
05:12 pm GMT - Mon, June 17, 2019
Techcrunch Microsoft brings its To-Do app to Mac
Microsft in 2017 said it would shut eventually down Wunderlist, a company it acquired, in order to forge ahead with its own “to do” app. It has since launched To-Do, as the app is called, ...
04:52 pm GMT - Mon, June 17, 2019
Techcrunch Cleo, the London-based fintech, has quietly taken debt financing from US-based Triplepoint Capital
Cleo, the London-based digital assistant that wants to replace your banking apps, has quietly taken venture debt from U.S.-based Triplepoint Capital, according to a regulatory filing. The amount remai...
04:36 pm GMT - Mon, June 17, 2019
Techcrunch The future of diversity and inclusion in tech
Silicon Valley is entering a new phase in its quest for diversity and inclusion in the technology industry. Some advocates call this part the end of the beginning, Code2040 CEO Karla Monterroso tells ...
04:30 pm GMT - Mon, June 17, 2019
Techcrunch Only 5 days left for super savings on passes to Disrupt SF 2019
We know youre hard at work bringing your early-stage startup dreams to fruition, but allow us to offer this hot tip. Super-early-bird-pass pricing for Disrupt San Francisco 2019 pulls a disappearing a...
04:24 pm GMT - Mon, June 17, 2019
Techcrunch Tim Cook says Silicon Valley has created too much chaos
Apple CEO Tim Cook gave a speech to Stanford graduates this weekend. In addition to the usual motivational stuff, he attacked other big tech companies in a not-so-subtle way. He painted a stark pictur...
04:16 pm GMT - Mon, June 17, 2019
Techcrunch Adobes new painting and drawing app will be called Adobe Fresco
Adobe’s upcoming drawing and painting app has an official name: Adobe Fresco. Inspired by the classic technique of applying pigment to wet plaster, the app is intended “to inspire spontane...
04:05 pm GMT - Mon, June 17, 2019
Techcrunch Enterprise healthcare platform Collective Health raises $205M led by SoftBank
SoftBank’s Vision Fund may be facing some challenges when it comes to restocking its massive reserves, but the firm famous for cutting big checks is leading a sizeable round for Collective Healt...
03:37 pm GMT - Mon, June 17, 2019
Techcrunch Dominos serves up self-driving pizza delivery pilot in Houston
Domino’s really emphasizes its commitment to ‘innovation,’ but even if it’s a marketing tactic, the global pizza brand does indeed walk the walk. Case in point: It’s laun...
03:36 pm GMT - Mon, June 17, 2019
Techcrunch Spotify advertisers can now target listeners by what podcasts they stream
Spotify is taking the next big step in terms of building out its podcast business: it’s now offering the ability for advertisers to target listeners based on what types of podcasts they’re...
03:36 pm GMT - Mon, June 17, 2019
Techcrunch Spotify advertisers can now target listeners by which podcasts they stream
Spotify is taking the next big step in terms of building out its podcast business: It’s now offering the ability for advertisers to target listeners based on which types of podcasts they’r...
03:30 pm GMT - Mon, June 17, 2019
Techcrunch Early-bird pricing extended one week for TC Sessions: Mobility 2019
Procrastinate much? Then give thanks to Saint Expeditus, the patron saint of speedy causes, because now you have an extra week to save $100 on your pass to TC Sessions: Mobility 2019 on July 10, in Sa...
03:08 pm GMT - Mon, June 17, 2019
Techcrunch Decentralized video infrastructure platform Livepeer raises $8m series A
Video is the core entertainment medium of the web. Platforms like YouTube, Twitch, Netflix and more deliver millions of hours of videos to hungry consumers every day, and those deliveries will only in...
03:00 pm GMT - Mon, June 17, 2019
Techcrunch Intel is doing the hard work necessary to make sure robots can operate your microwave
Training computers and robots to not only understand and recognize objects (like an oven, for instance, as distinct from a dishwasher) is pretty crucial to getting them to a point where they can manag...
02:52 pm GMT - Mon, June 17, 2019
Techcrunch Huawei says US ban will cost it $30B in lost revenue
Following a string of trade restrictions from the U.S., China’s telecoms equipment and smartphone maker Huawei expects its revenues to drop $30 billion below forecast over the next two years, fo...
02:40 pm GMT - Mon, June 17, 2019
Techcrunch NASA taps CMU to develop robots to help turn pits on the Moon into potential habitats
Lunar rovers are cool but imagine how much cooler they’d be if they could also rappel. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University will try to make rappelling robots a reality, after having been ...
02:16 pm GMT - Mon, June 17, 2019
Techcrunch 5G reportedly coming to premium iPhones in 2020, all models in 2021
The latest report from renowned Apple leaker Ming-Chi Kuo already has an eye on 2020 and beyond. The news lines up with other reports around future iPhones, noting that the high-end versions of the ha...
02:09 pm GMT - Mon, June 17, 2019
Techcrunch Habana Labs launches its Gaudi AI training processor
Habana Labs, a Tel Aviv-based AI processor startup, today announced its Gaudi AI training processor, which promises to easily beat GPU-based systems by a factor of four. While the individual Gaudi chi...
02:02 pm GMT - Mon, June 17, 2019
Techcrunch Amazons IMDb Freedive rebrands to IMDb TV, adds new content and plans European expansion
Amazon-owned free streaming service, IMDb Freedive, is getting a new name, more content and is soon expanding to Europe, the company announced this morning. Originally launched in January, the service...
01:46 pm GMT - Mon, June 17, 2019
Techcrunch MIT develops a system to give robots more human senses
Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) have developed a new system that could equip robots with something we take for granted: the ability to link multiple...
01:29 pm GMT - Mon, June 17, 2019
Techcrunch Indias Bounce raises $72 million to grow its electric scooters business
Bounce, a Bangalore-based startup that offers thousands of electric scooters for rent in India, has raised $72 million to accelerate its bid to impact how people navigate India’s traffic-clogged...
01:05 pm GMT - Mon, June 17, 2019
Techcrunch Startup founders need to decide how much salary is enough
Startup founders don’t typically launch a company as a get-rich-quick scheme. Most know that it will be a long, hard slog if they are to succeed. There will be lean years where the money is tigh...
01:01 pm GMT - Mon, June 17, 2019
Techcrunch Comcast adds gaze control to its accessible remote software
The latest feature for Comcast's remote software makes the clicker more accessible to people who can't click it the same as everyone else. People with physical disabilities will now be able to change ...
12:14 pm GMT - Mon, June 17, 2019
Techcrunch Clockwise nabs $11M Series A to make your calendar smarter
Almost every organization, regardless of size, is inundated with meetings, so much so its often hard to find dedicated time do actual work. Clockwise wants to change that by bringing machine learning ...
11:51 am GMT - Mon, June 17, 2019
Techcrunch After Loot runs out of cash, founder and 17 team members join RBS digital bank B
Ollie Purdue, the founder of Loot, the current account aimed at millenials that went into administration last month after running out of cash, is joining B, the digital bank being developed by RBS-own...
11:22 am GMT - Mon, June 17, 2019
Techcrunch Alibaba proposes share split ahead of reported $20B Hong Kong IPO
Alibaba is being heavily linked with a public listing in Hong Kong, which could reportedly happen in Q3 and raise up to $20 billion. The firm is keeping quiet on those rumors, but it did let slip a ma...
07:01 am GMT - Mon, June 17, 2019
Techcrunch Meet Hatch Babys portable, WiFi-enabled sleep device Rest
Menlo Park-based Hatch Baby has prided itself on introducing “smart” nursery devices — including Grow, a changing pad with a built-in scale and Rest, a device doubling as a sound mac...
07:01 am GMT - Mon, June 17, 2019
Techcrunch Meet Hatch Babys portable, Wi-Fi-enabled sleep device Rest
Menlo Park-based Hatch Baby has prided itself on introducing “smart” nursery devices — including Grow, a changing pad with a built-in scale and Rest, a device doubling as a sound mac...
05:01 am GMT - Mon, June 17, 2019
Techcrunch PayFit raises $79 million for its payroll service
French startup PayFit is raising a new $79 million funding round (70 million) from Eurazeo and Bpifrance. The company first started with a payroll service for small and medium companies in France. It ...
03:51 am GMT - Mon, June 17, 2019
Techcrunch Report: Huawei expects international smartphone shipments to plummet
A month after being placed on a trade blacklist by the Trump administration, Huawei is reportedly steadying itself for international shipments of its smartphones to decline by 40% to 60%. According to...
12:47 am GMT - Mon, June 17, 2019
Techcrunch Chinas housing unicorn Danke appoints ex-Baidu exec as new COO
A few months after nabbing a handsome $500 million funding round, China’s shared housing startup Danke Apartment got a talent boost. On Monday, Danke announced the appointment of Gu Guoliang as ...
08:09 pm GMT - Sun, June 16, 2019
Techcrunch Target checkouts hit by outage for a second day in a row
Another day, another Target checkout outage. Many took to social media to complain that checkouts at the retail giant went down for a second day in a row. Many stores were only taking cash and gift ca...
08:00 pm GMT - Sun, June 16, 2019
Techcrunch American Airlines now offers satellite-based Wi-Fi access across its mainline fleet
American Airlines, the world’s largest airline by fleet size and passenger traffic, has finished rolling out satellite-based broadband Wi-Fi to its entire mainline narrowbody fleet of over 700 a...
06:44 pm GMT - Sun, June 16, 2019
Techcrunch Millions of Venmo transactions scraped in warning over privacy settings
A computer science student has scraped seven million Venmo transactions to prove that users’ public activity can still be easily obtained, a year after a privacy researcher downloaded hundreds o...
02:01 pm GMT - Sun, June 16, 2019
Techcrunch After Equifax breach, US watchdog says agencies arent properly verifying identities
A federal watchdog says the government should stop relying on the credit agencies to verify the identifies of those using government services. In a report out this week, the the Government Accountabil...
10:00 am GMT - Sun, June 16, 2019
Techcrunch Week-in-Review: E3s forever franchises and Elon Musks submersible Tesla
Hey, weekend readers. This is Week-in-Review where I get hopped up on caffeine and give a heavy amount of analysis on one story while scouring the rest of the hundreds of stories that emerged on TechC...
01:54 am GMT - Sun, June 16, 2019
Techcrunch Shyp is preparing for a comeback under new management
Fifteen months after shutting down, Shyp is getting ready to launch again. The startup tweeted today that We are back! Were hard at work to rebuild an unparalleled shipping experience. Before we begin...
07:53 pm GMT - Sat, June 15, 2019
Techcrunch Getting remote work working, A16Z in LatAm, transferring H-1Bs, and Uber Air taxis
How to make remote work work TechCrunch columnist Jon Evans has an Extra Crunch-exclusive look on what it takes to get remote work working within an organization. Evans, who has been the remote CTO of...
06:35 pm GMT - Sat, June 15, 2019
Techcrunch Equity transcribed: Silicon Valleys founder fetish infantilizes public companies
Welcome back to this week’s transcribed edition of Equity. This was a big week of news that the Equity duo had to cover. Kate was at the Code Conference, Fortnite maker, Epic Games bought Housep...
04:07 pm GMT - Sat, June 15, 2019
Techcrunch Meet TezLab, the Fitbit for Tesla vehicles
Some of the best real-time insights into Tesla and its global fleet of electric vehicles outside the confines of its Silicon Valley headquarters might be through the lens of TezLab, a tiny upstart i...
04:00 pm GMT - Sat, June 15, 2019
Techcrunch Original Content podcast: Black Mirror returns with one of its strongest seasons
Less than six months after releasing the disappointing interactive experiment “Bandersnatch,” Netflix’s science fiction anthology series “Black Mirror” is back with three...
12:00 pm GMT - Sat, June 15, 2019
Techcrunch Startups Weekly: CodeCon, the techlash and ill-prepared CEOs
In this week's newsletter: Epic Games throws a houseparty, CrowdStrike soars and a VR startup raises fresh funds....
10:46 am GMT - Sat, June 15, 2019
Techcrunch Where is the EU going on tech and competition policy?
Huge technology policy questions are looming for whoever takes the top jobs at the European Union in the coming months. Decisions that could radically reshape tech business models, reconfigure the com...
12:18 am GMT - Sat, June 15, 2019
Techcrunch Amazon Spark, the retailers two-year-old Instagram competitor, has shut down
Amazon’s two-year-old Instagram competitor, Amazon Spark, is no more. Hoping to capitalize on the social shopping trend and tap into the power of online influencers, Amazon in 2017 launched its ...
11:52 pm GMT - Fri, June 14, 2019
Techcrunch This neural network detects whether faces have been Photoshopped
Using Photoshop and other image manipulation software to tweak faces in photos has become common practice, but it's not always made clear when it's been done. Berkeley and Adobe researchers have made ...
11:22 pm GMT - Fri, June 14, 2019
Techcrunch Walmart Grocery is now offering a $98 per year Delivery Unlimited subscription
Walmart is taking aim at Instacart, Target’s Shipt, and Amazon Prime Now/Whole Foods with a new grocery delivery subscription service called simply, “Delivery Unlimited.” Before, Wal...
09:45 pm GMT - Fri, June 14, 2019
Techcrunch Days after pledging to expand internet, Ethiopias government shuts it off
Days after Ethiopian ICT officials made public pledges to improve net access, the government began playing on-again, off-again with the internet shutting it down (almost completely) to coincide with ...
08:43 pm GMT - Fri, June 14, 2019
Techcrunch From Project Scarlett to Gooigi: The best of E3 2019
Every story about E3 has opened with a mention of Sonys absence, and this ones no different. The lack of one of gamings big three loomed large over the show, right down to a strange sense of space on ...
08:42 pm GMT - Fri, June 14, 2019
Techcrunch ThinkGeek.com to close, replaced as a section of GameStop
Sad news for anyone who loves geeky goods and top-notch April Fools’ jokes: ThinkGeek.com, the 20-year-old online retailer known for selling more geek-centric gadgets and peripherals than you co...
08:42 pm GMT - Fri, June 14, 2019
Techcrunch NASA asks private companies to share how they might supply the Lunar Gateway
NASA’s stated goal of sending the first woman ever, and the first man since the Apollo program, to the Moon involves setting up a new space station that will orbit the Moon, which is supposed to...
08:35 pm GMT - Fri, June 14, 2019
Techcrunch Price tag to return to the Moon could be $30 billion
NASA's ambitious plan to return to the moon may cost as much as $30 billion over the next five years, the agency's administrator, Jim Bridenstine, indicated in an interview this week. This is only a b...
07:15 pm GMT - Fri, June 14, 2019
Techcrunch You won the H-1B lottery: Dont lose your ticket when changing jobs
Getting an H-1B skilled-worker visa is like winning the lottery literally: With the number of new visas issued each year capped at 85,000, most of this year's over 200,000 applicants face disappointm...
06:57 pm GMT - Fri, June 14, 2019
Techcrunch No, Im not selling TechCrunch stories for $20 on Fiverr
You werent going to try to buy a place on TechCrunch for $20. You, dear reader, are smarter than that. But that doesnt make it any less concerning when a reader emails you in the middle of the night t...
06:49 pm GMT - Fri, June 14, 2019
Techcrunch Black Hat scraps Rep. Will Hurd as keynote speaker amid voting record controversy
Rep. Will Hurd will no longer give the keynote address at the Black Hat security conference amid questions about his voting record on women’s rights. Hurd, a Texas Republican congressman was sch...
06:36 pm GMT - Fri, June 14, 2019
Techcrunch VCs are failing diverse founders; Elizabeth Warren wants to step in
The presidential candidate outlines plans to provide capital to 100,000 new minority-owned businesses....
06:36 pm GMT - Fri, June 14, 2019
Techcrunch Fiverr CEO says hes building the everything store for digital services
Freelance marketplace Fiverr has become closely associated with the gig economy, but Micha Kaufman argued that not all gig economy companies are created equal. I spoke to Kaufman yesterday afternoon, ...
06:25 pm GMT - Fri, June 14, 2019
Techcrunch Alexas voice apps for kids can now offer purchases that parents approve
Amazon will now allow developers to offer premium content for purchase in Alexa skills aimed at children. The company on Friday introduced new tools for building skills with in-app purchases which req...
05:18 pm GMT - Fri, June 14, 2019
Techcrunch The electric scooter wars wont end
On the heels of unveiling its pink-wheeled e-bikes for the San Francisco Bay Area, Lyft is doing the same for its electric scooters in Denver, Colo. Lyft says these scooters are designed to be more du...
05:05 pm GMT - Fri, June 14, 2019
Techcrunch How to make remote work work
Every time I see a “the future of work is remote” article, I think to myself: “How backwards! How retro! How quaint!” That future is now, for many of us. I’ve been a full...
05:01 pm GMT - Fri, June 14, 2019
Techcrunch Daily Crunch: Fiverr 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...
05:00 pm GMT - Fri, June 14, 2019
Techcrunch Microsoft makes getting started with Java and VS Code easier
After only a few years, Microsoft’s free Visual Studio Code has become one of the most popular code editors on the market. One of VS Code’s advantages is its flexibility. This flexibility ...
05:00 pm GMT - Fri, June 14, 2019
Techcrunch Thousands of medical injury claim records exposed by ad agency
An internet advertising company specializing in helping law firms sign up potential clients has exposed close to 150,000 records from a database that was left unsecured. The database contained submiss...
04:59 pm GMT - Fri, June 14, 2019
Techcrunch Rivian and Free Solo star Alex Honnold team up to build solar microgrid with used EV batteries
Rivian, the once secretive company that made its public debut in November with an electric pickup truck and SUV, plans to give its batteries a second life and put them to work in a solar microgrid pro...
04:11 pm GMT - Fri, June 14, 2019
Techcrunch TikTok hit $9M in in-app purchases last month, up 500% over last year
Popular short-form video app TikTok has been slowly ramping up its advertising strategy this year as it increases its focus on monetization. However, the company still generates a smaller portion of i...
04:05 pm GMT - Fri, June 14, 2019
Techcrunch How to negotiate term sheets with strategic investors
Three years ago, I met with a founder who had raised a massive seed round at a valuation that was at least five times the market rate. I asked what firm made the investment......
04:01 pm GMT - Fri, June 14, 2019
Techcrunch Facebook is creating photorealistic homes for AIs to work and learn in
If AI-powered robots are ever going to help us out around the house, they're going to need a lot of experience navigating human environments. Simulators, virtual worlds that look and behave just like ...
04:01 pm GMT - Fri, June 14, 2019
Techcrunch Get 2 months of Extra Crunch for $2
We’re excited to announce a special promotion for Extra Crunch. Starting today, new users signing up for Extra Crunch will get a trial rate of $2 for the first 2 months. After the trial period e...
04:00 pm GMT - Fri, June 14, 2019
Techcrunch Apply to the TechCrunch Hackathon at Disrupt SF 2019
The TechCrunch Hackathon is shaping up to be a huge battle royale, but we still have room for a few more creative coders, hackers and outright webmonsters to join us at Disrupt San Francisco 2019 on O...
04:00 pm GMT - Fri, June 14, 2019
Techcrunch Last day to save $100 on tickets to TC Sessions: Mobility 2019
This is it. The final call for all the mobility and transportation startuppers who want to save a solid Benjamin on their ticket to the TC Sessions: Mobility 2019 conference in San Jose, Calif. on Jul...
03:51 pm GMT - Fri, June 14, 2019
Techcrunch Volvos sporty looking Vera self-driving electric truck will go to work in Sweden
The Vera autonomous, electric truck from Volvo’s trucking subsidiary is not what you might expect in a transport truck it looks like a road-hugging sportscar, something emphasized by its lack o...
03:29 pm GMT - Fri, June 14, 2019
Techcrunch Nintendo exec on E3, streaming and game delays
This years E3 was a bit of a mixed bag. Sony was completely absent, Microsoft was looking toward the future and Nintendo, as ever, was all about the games. The show came at an odd time in Nintendos re...
02:23 pm GMT - Fri, June 14, 2019
Techcrunch Walmarts Eko teams up with Refinery29 on interactive videos
Last fall, Walmart announced a joint venture with Eko to create interactive storytelling — think Netflix’s Black Mirror: Bandersnatch — for both entertainment and retail. Since then,...
02:23 pm GMT - Fri, June 14, 2019
Techcrunch Walmarts JV partner Eko teams up with Refinery29 on interactive videos
Last fall, Walmart announced a joint venture with Eko to create interactive storytelling — think Netflix’s “Black Mirror: Bandersnatch” — for both entertainment and retai...
01:57 pm GMT - Fri, June 14, 2019
Techcrunch NASAs OSIRIX-REx probe sets a space record with a close orbit of weird asteroid Bennu
If you follow space news at all, you may have heard of ‘Bennu’ the near-Earth asteroid that has a slim (but higher than most) chance of colliding with our planet sometime nearly 200 years...
01:07 pm GMT - Fri, June 14, 2019
Techcrunch Apple snuck a Raptors tribute into its Canadian home page
The Toronto Raptors won the 2019 NBA Championship last night, which is probably not news to you if you’re A) Canadian (like me) or B) a basketball fan. But unless you’ve starting your Frid...
01:00 pm GMT - Fri, June 14, 2019
Techcrunch Silicon Valleys founder fetish infantilizes public companies
Hello and welcome back toEquity, TechCrunchs venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week was a lot of fun. We had Kate and Alex in the studio with Chri...
12:14 pm GMT - Fri, June 14, 2019
Techcrunch Now on Kickstarter, Tech DIY uses sewing to teach kids how to build electronics
Tech DIY takes a soft touch toward teaching electronicsliterally. Now on Kickstarter, the kit uses sewing to teach kids and adult beginners about electronic and electric circuits by sewing dolls, soft...
07:49 am GMT - Fri, June 14, 2019
Techcrunch Binance begins to restrict US users ahead of regulatory-compliant exchange launch
The world’s largest crypto exchange is going legit. Binance, which processes over $1 billion on a daily basis and for so long has embodied crypto’s wild west culture, announced that it wil...
03:51 am GMT - Fri, June 14, 2019
Techcrunch How Chinas first autonomous driving unicorn Momenta hunts for data
Cao Xudong turned up on the side of the road in jeans and a black T-shirt printed with the word “Momenta,” the name of his startup. Before founding the company — which last year topp...
11:15 pm GMT - Thu, June 13, 2019
Techcrunch Nintendo: were evaluating streaming
Game streaming loomed large as the biggest story of E3. Between Googles Stadia news late last week, Microsofts Game Pass additions, a Ubisoft announcement and even the presence of Netflix, the writing...
11:07 pm GMT - Thu, June 13, 2019
Techcrunch Fiverr shares climb 90% in first day of trading
Freelance marketplace Fiverr had a good first day on the New York Stock Exchange. The company priced its IPO at $21 per share last night, raising around $111 million. It then started trading this morn...
10:43 pm GMT - Thu, June 13, 2019
Techcrunch This new Honda e detail suggests its going to be fun to drive
New details keep trickling out about the Honda e, the compact electric vehicle thats coming to market in spring 2020, from pop-out door handles and internal side view mirrors to the touchscreen displa...
10:24 pm GMT - Thu, June 13, 2019
Techcrunch Rep. Will Hurd to keynote Black Hat draws ire for voting record on womens rights
A decision to confirm Rep. Will Hurd as the keynote speaker at the Black Hat security conference this year has prompted anger and concern by some long-time attendees because of his voting record on wo...
09:51 pm GMT - Thu, June 13, 2019
Techcrunch Rep. Will Hurd to keynote Black Hat draws ire for womens rights voting record
A decision to confirm Rep. Will Hurd as the keynote speaker at the Black Hat security conference this year has prompted anger and concern by some long-time attendees because of his voting record on wo...
09:37 pm GMT - Thu, June 13, 2019
Techcrunch VMware announces intent to buy Avi Networks, startup that raised $115M
VMware has been trying to reinvent itself from a company that helps you build and manage virtual machines in your data center to one that helps you manage your virtual machines wherever they live, whe...
09:12 pm GMT - Thu, June 13, 2019
Techcrunch Why Tesla and Uber wont escape 25% tariffs for now
Tesla and Uber both had requests for tariff relief rejected by U.S. trade officials, a decision that will force the companies to pay a 25% tariff or seek new suppliers. Reuters was the first to report...
08:46 pm GMT - Thu, June 13, 2019
Techcrunch Teslas in-car touchscreens are getting YouTube support
Tesla has consistently been adding software to its in-car touchscreen infotainment displays — including sometimes things that probably leave a lot of people scratching their heads. During a spec...
08:39 pm GMT - Thu, June 13, 2019
Techcrunch Lightspeed Venture Partners doubles its growth practice
Lightspeed Venture Partners will invest in more late-stage businesses with the support of three new partners....
08:04 pm GMT - Thu, June 13, 2019
Techcrunch Graphene as an open-source material
The success of open-source methods that focus on decentralization and allows for open collaboration on projects brings to light the potential for its implementation in other areas....
08:00 pm GMT - Thu, June 13, 2019
Techcrunch 24 hours left to score early-bird tickets for TC Sessions: Mobility 2019
The switch has been flipped on the 24-hour shot clock, which means there’s only one day left to save $100 on your pass to TC Sessions: Mobility 2019 in San Jose, Calif. on July 10. Early-bird sa...
08:00 pm GMT - Thu, June 13, 2019
Techcrunch Demo your early-stage startup at the TechCrunch Summer Party
Nothing says summer in Silicon Valley better than the TechCrunch Summer Party. In its 14th year, were celebrating the startup spirit and culture at the Park Chalet, San Franciscos coastal beer garden,...
07:54 pm GMT - Thu, June 13, 2019
Techcrunch Pioneering private space explorer Anousheh Ansari welcomes ISS commercialization
XPRIZE CEO and Prodea founder Anousheh Ansari dreamt of being an astronaut as a child growing up in Iran, but understandably most people around her were skeptical about her ambitions. Yet in 2006, she...
07:39 pm GMT - Thu, June 13, 2019
Techcrunch Tesla is bringing the Fallout Shelter game to its cars
As part of the gaming option for Tesla’s cars, Todd Howard, the director of Bethesda Games, said that the company’s “Fallout Shelter” game will be coming to Tesla displays. Elo...
07:25 pm GMT - Thu, June 13, 2019
Techcrunch DEEPFAKES Accountability Act would impose unenforceable rules but its a start
The new DEEPFAKES Accountability Act in the House and yes, that's an acronym would take steps to criminalize the synthetic media referred to in its name, but its provisions seem too optimistic in th...
06:43 pm GMT - Thu, June 13, 2019
Techcrunch Daily Crunch: Telegram faces new attack in China
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...
06:37 pm GMT - Thu, June 13, 2019
Techcrunch Tyson Foods launches its take on alternative proteins with new Raised & Rooted brand
Earlier today, Tyson Foods announced the launch of its first foray into the meat replacement market with the unveiling of its Raised and Rooted brand. While the company’s plant-based nuggets pre...
06:28 pm GMT - Thu, June 13, 2019
Techcrunch A widely used infusion pump can be remotely hijacked, say researchers
A hospital infusion pump widely used in hospitals and medical facilities has critical security flaws that allow it to be remotely hijacked and controlled, according to security researchers. Researcher...
05:48 pm GMT - Thu, June 13, 2019
Techcrunch Apple soups up Logic Pro X ahead of Mac Pro launch
When it announced the long-awaited Mac Pro relaunch onstage at WWDC last week, Apple settled on creative pro software as the best way to illustrate the desktops power. Along with Final Cut, Logic was ...
05:43 pm GMT - Thu, June 13, 2019
Techcrunch Spotify outage not related to todays update, company is working on a fix
This morning, Spotify announced the rollout of a redesigned app for its Premium users. Now, the service is down. The streaming music provider is experiencing an outage today, according to reports from...
05:19 pm GMT - Thu, June 13, 2019
Techcrunch UK government invests $194M to commercialize quantum computing
The UK government today announced a 153 million investment into efforts to commercialize quantum computing. That’s about $193 million and with additional commitments from numerous industry playe...
05:17 pm GMT - Thu, June 13, 2019
Techcrunch Why is Andreessen Horowitz (and everyone else) investing in Latin America now?
Investments by U.S. venture capital firms into Latin America are skyrocketing and one of the firms leading the charge into deals is none other than Silicon Valley’s Andreessen Horowitz . The fir...
05:13 pm GMT - Thu, June 13, 2019
Techcrunch Kickstarter issues new transparency guidelines for projects
Fresh off its 10th anniversary and under the helm of a new CEO, Kickstarter is shaking things up with a new set of guidelines targeted at seller claims. A new page titled Honest and Clear Presentation...
04:10 pm GMT - Thu, June 13, 2019
Techcrunch Googles Game Builder turns building multiplayer games into a game
Google’s Area 120 team, the company’s in-house incubator for some of its more experimental projects, today launched Game Builder, a free and easy to use tool for PC and macOS users who wan...
04:08 pm GMT - Thu, June 13, 2019
Techcrunch Neurobehavioral health company Blackthorn pulls in $76 million from GV to treat mental disorders
There are numerous challenges to finding effective treatments for mental disorders. However, Blackthorn Therapeutics, a neurobehavioral health company using machine learning to create personalized med...
04:05 pm GMT - Thu, June 13, 2019
Techcrunch Verified Expert Growth Marketing Agency: Right Side Up
Right Side Up is not your typical growth marketing agency. As a former entrepreneur and in-house growth marketer for startups like Eventbrite, founder Tyler Elliston says he created RSU as a way to he...
04:00 pm GMT - Thu, June 13, 2019
Techcrunch Zume buys packaging company, with eyes on plant-based plastic alternative
Zume Inc. (they of the robotic pizza) has acquired Southern California-based Pivot, designer of plant-based packaging material. Along with the deal, Zume will be opening up a 70,000 square foot manufa...
03:52 pm GMT - Thu, June 13, 2019
Techcrunch India plans to have its own space station
India plans to have its own space station in the future and conduct separate missions to study Sun and Venus, it said on Thursday, as the nation moves to bolster its status as a leader in space techno...
03:43 pm GMT - Thu, June 13, 2019
Techcrunch Target launches a dedicated shopping site for same-day delivery, powered by Shipt
Target is ramping up its same-day delivery efforts, following news of Amazon’s plans to increase Prime speeds and Walmart’s recent launch of free, next-day delivery in select markets. This...
03:20 pm GMT - Thu, June 13, 2019
Techcrunch Calendar influencers? Event social network IRL raises $8M
Why is there no app where you can follow party animals, concert snobs, or conference butterflies for their curated suggestions of events? Thats the next phase of social calendar app IRL that’s l...
03:00 pm GMT - Thu, June 13, 2019
Techcrunch Monzo, the UK challenger bank with over 2 million users, expands to the US
Monzo, the U.K. challenger bankwith more than two million customers and a unicorn valuation to go with it, has formally announced its U.S. expansion. The tentative move — which TechCrunch exclus...
02:05 pm GMT - Thu, June 13, 2019
Techcrunch Emma, the London-based money management app, launches in the US and Canada
Emma, the U.K. money management app (now calling itself your best financial friend), has launched in the United States and Canada — and is now one of a plethora of London fintechs venturing stat...
01:58 pm GMT - Thu, June 13, 2019
Techcrunch Spotifys redesign simplifies navigation and highlights podcasts
Spotify is officially rolling out its redesigned experience which puts a greater emphasis on podcasts. The company today announced a new version of its “Your Library” section is being roll...
01:58 pm GMT - Thu, June 13, 2019
Techcrunch Spotifys redesign simplifies navigation and highlights podcasts for its subscribers
Spotify is officially rolling out its redesigned experience, which puts a greater emphasis on podcasts. The company today announced a new version of its “Your Library” section is being rol...
01:51 pm GMT - Thu, June 13, 2019
Techcrunch Airbnb launches Adventures for tourists seeking more thrills
Airbnb has debuted a new extension of its growing business in providing travel experiences in addition to temporary housing it’s called Airbnb Adventures, and it’s effectively a collectio...
01:29 pm GMT - Thu, June 13, 2019
Techcrunch Target Circle and TapHeaven team up in a mobile marketing merger
Target Circle andTapHeavenhave announced that they’re merging into a single company under the Target Circle brand. TapHeaven co-founder and CEO Chris Hoyt, who is becoming chief growth officer a...
01:26 pm GMT - Thu, June 13, 2019
Techcrunch AT&T cancels Samsung Galaxy Fold orders
AT&T has cancelled early orders for the Samsung Galaxy Fold. Tom’s Guide first reported the cancellation, noting that AT&T said the Galaxy Fold would be available again to order as soon ...
01:05 pm GMT - Thu, June 13, 2019
Techcrunch Ubers annual flying taxi summit reveals Uber Air has a ways to go
Flying taxis are undoubtedly an exciting concept one that Uber has put a lot of work into making a reality. In order to these electric vertical take-off and landing vehicles to become a reality, they...
01:00 pm GMT - Thu, June 13, 2019
Techcrunch Willo is a robot that wants to replace your toothbrush
If you think about it, the basic concept of a toothbrush hasnt evolved since forever. Sure, many people have switched to an electric toothbrush, but it remains a stick with a brush at the end. Willo t...
12:55 pm GMT - Thu, June 13, 2019
Techcrunch VidMob raises $25M for its video advertising tools
Video advertising company VidMob is announcing that it has raised $25 million in Series B funding. When I wrote about VidMob’s seed funding back in 2015, it was focused on building a marketplace...
12:52 pm GMT - Thu, June 13, 2019
Techcrunch Expedition installs highest weather stations on Earth atop Mount Everest
A recent research expedition to Mount Everest that wrapped up this week recorded a number of global records and world-firsts, including installing weather stations at the highest elevation ever on Ear...
12:34 pm GMT - Thu, June 13, 2019
Techcrunch IBM, KPMG, Merck, Walmart team up for drug supply chain blockchain pilot
IBM announced its latest blockchain initiative today. This one is in partnership with KPMG, Merk and Walmart to build a drug supply chain blockchain pilot. These four companies are coming to together ...
12:04 pm GMT - Thu, June 13, 2019
Techcrunch Privacy policies are still too horrible to read in full
A year on from Europe’s flagship update to the pan-EU data protection framework the Commission has warned that too many privacy policies are still too hard to read and has urged tech companies t...
11:31 am GMT - Thu, June 13, 2019
Techcrunch Facebook backs social commerce startup Meesho in first India investment
As Facebook explores ways to generate revenue from WhatsApp, the company is now turning to a startup that already has a lead. The social juggernaut said today it has invested in social-commerce startu...
10:29 am GMT - Thu, June 13, 2019
Techcrunch China opens Nasdaq-style board to lure tech firms back home
China’s much-anticipated Science and Technology Innovation board officially launched in Shanghai today, marking Beijing’s major step in drawing high-potential tech companies to list at hom...
09:41 am GMT - Thu, June 13, 2019
Techcrunch Zava bags $32M to expand its AI-free telehealth service in Europe
More money is being injected into the telehealth space in Europe. Zava, a long-time player that bills its online service as offering a “discreet and convenient” alternative to an in-person...
07:48 am GMT - Thu, June 13, 2019
Techcrunch Lifen raises $22.7 million for its healthcare messaging platform
French startup Lifen is raising a $22.7 million (20 million) funding round. Partech is leading the round with Idinvest Partners and Majycc eSant Invest also participating. Existing investors Serena an...
07:48 am GMT - Thu, June 13, 2019
Techcrunch Curve, the all-your-cards-in-one banking app, introduces 1% instant cashback with Curve Cash
Curve, the London fintech that now describes itself an “over-the-top banking platform,” is unveiling a re-vamped cashback feature in a bid to draw in more customers for the premium version...
05:50 am GMT - Thu, June 13, 2019
Techcrunch Walmart announces it will fully integrate Jets teams, but Jet will remain a standalone brand
Three years after acquiring Jet for $3 billion, Walmart announced today that it is now more fully integrating Jets teams into Walmart. Jet will continue to operate as a standalone brand, mainly in lar...
05:37 am GMT - Thu, June 13, 2019
Techcrunch Telegram faces DDoS attack in China again
The popular encrypted messaging service Telegram is once again being hit with a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack in Asia as protestors in Hong Kong take to the streets. For the last several...
05:00 am GMT - Thu, June 13, 2019
Techcrunch Revolut launches in Australia as a beta release
Fintech startup Revolut is expanding beyond Europe for the first time. The service is going live for some users in Australia starting today. Revolut isnt opening its doors to all customers at once. Th...
03:00 am GMT - Thu, June 13, 2019
Techcrunch N26 shares some metrics
Fintech startup N26 just issued an update on its main metrics. The bank now has 3.5 million customers across 24 European markets. The company is about to expand to new countries, such as the U.S. and ...
01:38 am GMT - Thu, June 13, 2019
Techcrunch Chewy founder Ryan Cohen on its fast-approaching IPO: Its like seeing my baby graduate
Ask any venture capitalist about the most important ingredient to success in startups, and they’ll tell you it centers on founders who can persuade not only investors to part with some of their ...
01:09 am GMT - Thu, June 13, 2019
Techcrunch Microsoft will offer console streaming for free to Xbox One owners
Microsofts Sunday E3 pressure was all about the games. In fact, while the company did offer some information about hardware and services, the information all arrived fast and furious at the end of the...
11:23 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2019
Techcrunch Fall Guys is a kinder, gentler battle royale
Youd be forgiven for assuming that “battle royale” is an inherently violent genre. Hell, the word battle is right there, staring you in the face. Certainly the most prominent examples of t...
11:20 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2019
Techcrunch Hyundai takes minority stake in self-driving car startup Aurora
Hyundai Motor Group has invested in Aurora, the latest sign that the scope of the year-old partnership between the automaker and self-driving car startup has expanded. Aurora and Hyundai didn’t ...
11:20 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2019
Techcrunch We wont be listening to music in a decade according to Vinod Khosla
Depending on who you ask, the advantage of technology based on artificial or machine intelligence could be a topsy-turvy funhouse mirror world — even in some very fundamental ways. “I actu...
11:16 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2019
Techcrunch Every secure messaging app needs a self-destruct button
The growing presence of encrypted communications apps makes a lot of communities safer and stronger. But the possibility of physical device seizure and government coercion is growing as well, which is...
11:14 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2019
Techcrunch As payment and surveillance technologies collide, free speech could be a victim
Anyone who has traveled to Hong Kong knows how ubiquitous the Octopus Card is. Distributed by a company which is majority owned by the Hong Kong government, the cards are used to pay for everything fr...
11:14 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2019
Techcrunch Newly public CrowdStrike wants to become the Salesforce of cybersecurity
Q&A with CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz...
10:19 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2019
Techcrunch Laundry startup FlyCleaners confirms major layoffs
FlyCleaners, a New York startup offering on-demand laundry pickup and delivery, has laid off “a large number” of its employees, co-founder and CEO David Salama told TechCrunch. This confir...
10:19 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2019
Techcrunch Why Vinod Khosla thinks radiologists still practicing in 10 years will be causing deaths
Doubling down on comments he’s made throughout the years regarding AI’s potential impact on the medical industry, legendary Silicon Valley investor and Sun Microsystems founder Vinod Khosl...
09:09 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2019
Techcrunch Facebook collected device data on 187,000 users using banned snooping app
Facebook obtained personal and sensitive device data on about 187,000 users of its now-defunct Research app, which Apple banned earlier this year after the app violated its rules. The social media gia...
08:30 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2019
Techcrunch Drones are making a difference in the world and regulatory agencies are helping
Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao Contributor Share on Twitter Secretary Elaine L. Chao is currently the U.S. Secretary of Transportation. This is her second cabinet position. She served as U.S. Se...
07:16 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2019
Techcrunch Creative Destruction Labs second Super Session is an intense two-day startup testbed
Canadian startup program Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) escapes succinct description in some ways it’s an accelerator, to be sure, and an incubator. Startups show up and present to a combined a...
07:11 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2019
Techcrunch NFC gets a lot more powerful in iOS 13
NFC — the technology that helps to power Apple Pay as well other clever features for iOS apps like Launch Center Pro’s tappable stickers – is getting a big upgrade with the launch of...
06:58 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2019
Techcrunch Google leaks its own phone
Details of the Pixel 4 have been swirling around this week, so Google decided to just leak the design of its next phone via its official Twitter account, revealing the backplate and new camera module ...
06:56 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2019
Techcrunch Daily Crunch: Fortnite-maker acquires Houseparty
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...
06:20 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2019
Techcrunch Londons LocalGlobe just closed on two funds totaling $295 million
Seven months ago, TechCrunch’s Steve O’Hear reported that LocalGlobe had begun the fundraising process for two separate funds. The London-based seed-stage venture firm was raising yet anot...
05:56 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2019
Techcrunch Do VC associates matter, womens fertility, online auto marketplaces, and Salesforce Tableau
Editors Note: New feedback buttons You might have noticed at the top and bottom of this newsletter that we have added new feedback buttons. These are a quick way to express your happiness (or unhappin...
05:51 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2019
Techcrunch Against Gravity is building a VR world that wont stop growing
The quest to create a social auditorium in virtual reality has eaten many VC dollars over the years. While plenty of contenders have emerged, it’s likely Against Gravity’s Rec Room that ha...
05:15 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2019
Techcrunch MIT develops a better way for robots to predict human movement
People and robots working together has tremendous potential for factory and construction site settings, but robots are also potentially incredibly dangerous to people, especially when they’re la...
05:14 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2019
Techcrunch Simpo raises $4.5M Seed to help install software faster and more efficiently
Simpo is a startup with a simple idea. It wants to help project managers at large companies get software into the hands of its employee users faster. Today, the company announced a $4.5 million seed i...
05:14 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2019
Techcrunch Simpo raises $4.5M seed to help drive software adoption
Simpo is a startup with a simple idea. It wants to help product managers at large companies get software into the hands of its employee users faster. Today, the company announced a $4.5 million seed i...
05:14 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2019
Techcrunch What do subscription services and streaming mean for the future of gaming?
The future of gaming is streaming. If that wasnt painfully obvious to you a week ago, it certainly ought to be now. Google got ahead of E3 late last week by finally shedding light on Stadia, a streami...
05:08 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2019
Techcrunch Prices for passes to Disrupt SF 2019 increase next week
The super early-bird season for serious savings on passes to Disrupt San Francisco 2019 on October 2-4 comes to an end next week. Right now, you can save up to $1,800, but that deep discount disappe...
05:01 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2019
Techcrunch Bird confirms acquisition of Scoot
Bird is acquiring electric scooter and moped startup Scoot, confirming TechCrunch’s previous report that the two companies were in acquisition talks. “We are thrilled to welcome Scoot to t...
04:40 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2019
Techcrunch Krisps smart noise-cancelling gets official release and pricing
Background noise on calls could be a thing of the past if Krisp has anything to do with it. The app, now available on Windows and Macs after a long beta, uses machine learning to silence the bustle of...
04:20 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2019
Techcrunch ARM shows SoftBank does tech PE the right way
Private equity firms get a bad rap and not without reason. In the prototypical example, a bunch of men in suits (and these folks always seem to be men for some reason) swoop in from Manhattan with Ex...
04:17 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2019
Techcrunch RealityEngines.AI raises $5.25M seed round to make ML easier for enterprises
RealityEngines.AI, a research startup that wants to help enterprises make better use of AI, even when they only have incomplete data, today announced that it has raised a $5.25 million seed funding ro...
04:07 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2019
Techcrunch Fundraising 101: Do VC associates matter?
Building a company is fueled by highs and lows, but one of the few moments of potential ecstasy (or perhaps for grizzled veterans, deep annoyance) is the VC outreach email. You are building your start...
04:05 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2019
Techcrunch Homeland Securitys Jeanette Manfra is coming to Disrupt SF
We can’t talk cybersecurity without hearing from the government. We’re thrilled to announce Homeland Security Assistant Director Jeanette Manfra, a senior executive at the department’...
04:01 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2019
Techcrunch Helium launches $51M-funded LongFi IoT alternative to cellular
With 200X the range of WiFi at 1/1000th of the cost of a cellular modem, Helium’s “LongFi” wireless network debuts today. Its transmitters can help track stolen scooters, find missin...
04:00 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2019
Techcrunch Apollo raises $22M for its GraphQL platform
Apollo, a San Francisco-based startup that provides a number of developer and operator tools and services around the GraphQL query language, today announced that it has raised a $22 million growth fun...
04:00 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2019
Techcrunch Stride raises $2.2M from JetBlue, NFX for its guided trips marketplace
Group travel, it’s something you either love or hate, but Stride, which describes itself as a marketplace for “experiential multi-day and multi-destination packaged trips planned by expert...
04:00 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2019
Techcrunch Stride raises $2.5M from JetBlue, NFX for its guided trips marketplace
Group travel — it’s something you either love or hate, but Stride, which describes itself as a marketplace for “experiential multi-day and multi-destination packaged trips planned by...
04:00 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2019
Techcrunch Google opens its Android security key tech to iPhone and iPad users
Google will now allow iPhone and iPad owners to use their Android security key to verify sign-ins, the company said Wednesday. Last month, the search and mobile giant said it developed a new Bluetooth...
04:00 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2019
Techcrunch Google opens its Android security-key tech to iPhone and iPad users
Google will now allow iPhone and iPad owners to use their Android security key to verify sign-ins, the company said Wednesday. Last month, the search and mobile giant said it developed a new Bluetooth...
03:59 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2019
Techcrunch Citymapper is shutting down its efforts to reinvent the bus
City navigation and public transit app Citymapper is ending the program it called ‘Citymapper Ride,’ which has gone through a number of incarnations since its introduction back in 2017. Si...
03:54 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2019
Techcrunch Uber Airs plan to get you from a skyport to an airport
Uber trips to and from the airport account for a significant number of rides. Uber doesnt disclose the exact amount, but Uber Elevate Infrastructure Business Development Lead Chad Cashin told TechCrun...
03:33 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2019
Techcrunch iMovies big iOS update adds 80 new soundtracks, green screen effects, image overlays
Ahead of the public launch of Apple’s revamped suite of first-party apps on iOS 13, the company has rolled out a new version of its popular video editor, iMovie for iOS. With the app’s mos...
03:33 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2019
Techcrunch iMovies big iOS update adds 80 new soundtracks, green-screen effects, image overlays
Ahead of the public launch of Apple’s revamped suite of first-party apps on iOS 13, the company has rolled out a new version of its popular video editor, iMovie for iOS. With the app’s mos...
03:12 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2019
Techcrunch This is Your Life in Silicon Valley: Philz Coffee CEO Jacob Jaber on tech culture and Blue Bottle
Welcome to thisweeks transcribed edition of This is Your Life in Silicon Valley. Were running an experiment for Extra Crunch members that puts This is Your Life in Silicon Valley in words so you can ...
03:06 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2019
Techcrunch KKR leads $300M investment in phishing training company KnowBe4
You might not have known about KnowBe4 before, but you should now because this morning, the company announced a massive $300 million investment led by private equity firm KKR. The deal is based on a $...
02:28 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2019
Techcrunch SpaceX successfully re-launches and recovers Falcon 9 flown in March
SpaceX’s launch today from California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base went off without a hitch, carrying three satellites that make up the RADARSAT constellation to be used for observation by ...
02:18 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2019
Techcrunch Uber unveils new Volvo self-driving vehicle in a step toward robotaxi service
Uber Advanced Technologies Group unveiled Wednesday a new generation of self-driving Volvo XC90 SUVs that are designed and built to be fully driverless, a critical milepost for the company as it inche...
02:15 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2019
Techcrunch Facebooks Blood Donations feature arrives in US, will alert donors in times of need
Facebook today is expanding its set of features focused on blood donations. The company since 2017 has been working with blood donation centers worldwide that have been able to use the platform to rea...
02:08 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2019
Techcrunch Fortnite maker Epic acquires social video app Houseparty
What does a gaming company do after raising $1.25 billion? Acquisitions seem like a pretty good place to start. Epic Games — of Unreal Engine and the ridiculously successful Fortnite phenomenon ...
02:07 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2019
Techcrunch Dissecting value systems and exclusion in big tech, with Jessica Powell (Part Two)
In this second of my two-part conversation on the ethics of technology with Jessica Powell, the former head of PR at Google turned author of the wonderful satirical novel, The Big Disruption: A Totall...
02:00 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2019
Techcrunch Symphony, a messaging app thats been a hit with Wall Street, raises $165M at a $1.4B valuation
Slack’s rapid rise and upcoming IPO are clear signs of the ripe opportunity to be had in the field of enterprise messaging. Today, a startup that’s built a messaging product specifically f...
01:35 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2019
Techcrunch Indias Zomato flies drone to deliver food in successful test
Zomato, one of Indias largest food delivery firms, may have figured out a faster way to crawl through dense populated routes: going air with drones. The company, which has expanded its restaurant list...
01:25 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2019
Techcrunch Orca Security scores $6.5M seed round to solve cloud native security
Orca Security, a startup based in Israel, announced a healthy $6.5 million seed round today led by YL Ventures, a firm that makes a living investing in Israeli security startups. That’s a lot of...
01:05 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2019
Techcrunch The future of car ownership: Building an online dealership
Buying a car is painful. Dealerships are the worst, and the options are endless. The rise of the Internet produced powerful tools for shoppers, but in the end, most buyers still have to trudge down to...
01:03 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2019
Techcrunch Uber will start testing Eats drone delivery
Uber is gearing up to start testing drone delivery for Uber Eats in dense urban environments. This comes after the Federal Aviation Administration awarded Uber and San Diego, Calif. the right to test ...
01:02 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2019
Techcrunch Amazon revamps Echo Dot Kids Edition and FreeTime
Announced in April of last year, the Echo Dot Kids Edition got something of a mixed reception, primarily due to privacy concerns surrounding the broader smart speaker category. Amazon is back with a v...
01:01 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2019
Techcrunch Spotify launches Your Daily Drive, a personalized playlist that combines music and podcasts
Recently, Spotify was spotted testing a new personalized playlist called “Your Daily Drive,” that included both music and podcasts. Today, the company is officially launching this playlist...
12:52 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2019
Techcrunch Argo AI is taking its new generation of self-driving vehicles into downtown Detroit
Argo AI, the Pittsburgh-based autonomous vehicle startup that Ford invested $1 billion in 2017, has expanded its testing to downtown Detroit with a new third-generation self-driving car. Argo AI is de...
12:50 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2019
Techcrunch BetterUp raises $103M to fast-track employee learning and development
Lightspeed Venture Partners has led BetterUp's Series C financing....
12:47 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2019
Techcrunch Report: Chinese spend nearly 5 hours on entertainment apps daily
Like the rest of the world, China is getting more glued to smartphones that can perform an endless list of tasks, from talking to workmates, shopping for groceries, all the way to getting a dose of do...
12:10 pm GMT - Wed, June 12, 2019
Techcrunch Ubers JUMP scooters get a makeover
Uber has unveiled a new model of its JUMP electric scooters, featuring a bigger frame and hand brakes. Uber plans to deploy these scooters in the U.S. on June 24 and in Europe later this summer. Uber ...
11:44 am GMT - Wed, June 12, 2019
Techcrunch Xiaomis budget Mi Band wearable now sports a color screen and voice assistant
Xiaomi has refreshed its smart fitness tracker and unveiled a range of other gadgets in China, giving a glimpse at some of its affordable products that it will likely be bringing to other markets in t...
10:55 am GMT - Wed, June 12, 2019
Techcrunch Watch SpaceX launch Canadian observation satellites aboard a re-used Falcon 9
SpaceX has a launch scheduled today from California’s Vandenberg Air Force base, currently targeting a launch window of 14 minutes that opens at 7:17 AM PT (10:17 AM ET). The RADARSAT Constellat...
10:53 am GMT - Wed, June 12, 2019
Techcrunch Go-Jek doubles down on India with yet another talent acquisition
Go-Jek may be based in Southeast Asia, but the multi-billion-dollar ride-hailing firm continues to tap India for engineering talent. The Indonesia-headquartered firm announced today that it has acquir...
10:52 am GMT - Wed, June 12, 2019
Techcrunch Alibabas Ant Financial and Hellobike team up on $145M e-bike battery JV
Shared e-scooters aren’t just gaining popularity in the United States; they’re hitting the streets of China, too. Recognizing the possibility that some people just don’t want to peda...
10:15 am GMT - Wed, June 12, 2019
Techcrunch LaLiga fined $280k for soccer apps privacy violating spy mode
Spanish soccer’s premier league, LaLiga, has netted itself a 250,000 (~$280k) fine for privacy violations of Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) related to its official app....
09:39 am GMT - Wed, June 12, 2019
Techcrunch Indias Jumbotail raises $12.7 million to digitize convenience stores with its wholesale marketplace
With most small grocery stores in India yet to get online, startups racing to digitize them continue to see promising backing from investors. Jumbotail, an online wholesale marketplace for grocery and...
09:02 am GMT - Wed, June 12, 2019
Techcrunch IBM brings its Quantum computer program to 16 African universities
IBM launched its Quantum computer program in Africa today, announcing a partnership with South Africas Wits University that will extend to 15 additional universities across 9 countries. Quantumor IBM ...
08:37 am GMT - Wed, June 12, 2019
Techcrunch Mary Meekers 2019 Internet Trends report highlights Chinas short-form videos and super apps
This years edition of Mary Meekers Internet Trends report, released earlier today, once again included a section on China prepared by Hillhouse Capital. There are now 3.8 billion Internet users global...
08:13 am GMT - Wed, June 12, 2019
Techcrunch Bux raises additional $12.5M as it gears up to launch zero-commission investing app
Bux, the Amsterdam-based trading app that wants to make investing fun, has picked up an additional $12.5 million in new funding. Venture capital firms Velocity Capital and Holtzbrinck Ventures led the...
08:12 am GMT - Wed, June 12, 2019
Techcrunch Funderbeam, the funding and trading platform for private companies, scores $4.5M Series A
Funderbeam, the funding and trading platform for private companies founded by Kaidi Ruusalepp, who was previously CEO of the Nasdaq Tallinn stock exchange, has raised $4.5 million in Series A funding....
08:08 am GMT - Wed, June 12, 2019
Techcrunch Russian Doll will return to Netflix for a second season
Harry Nilssons Gotta Get Up might be ringing through your ears once again. “Russian Doll,” co-created by and starring Natasha Lyonne, has been picked up for a second season by Netflix. A r...
07:03 am GMT - Wed, June 12, 2019
Techcrunch Adjust raises $227M to measure mobile ads and prevent fraud
Adjust is announcing that it has raised $227 million in new funding. The company, founded in Berlin back in 2012, has created a variety of ad measurement and anti-fraud tools CEO Christian Henschel s...
06:47 am GMT - Wed, June 12, 2019
Techcrunch Norrsken opens East Africa startup fund and hub in Kigali
Startups in East Africa have a new source for investment and mentorship. Sweden’s Norrsken Foundationa coworking space and investment fund based in Stockholmopened its tech fund and entrepreneur...
04:13 am GMT - Wed, June 12, 2019
Techcrunch VWs partnership with self-driving car startup Aurora has ended
A partnership between Volkswagen and self-driving vehicle startup Aurora has ended, according to a report by the Financial Times, citing three people familiar with the matter. A spokesperson from VW c...
02:30 am GMT - Wed, June 12, 2019
Techcrunch DJI gets into the battling robot business
A little less than a month ago, DJI branched out from the world of gimbals and drones with the release of the Osmo Action, a new action camera that put GoPro firmly in the companys sites. Now its back...
01:56 am GMT - Wed, June 12, 2019
Techcrunch Modern Fertility raises $15 million to sell its hormone tests and gather more fertility data from its users
A fresh $15 million in funding led by Forerunner Ventures should help. Forerunner founder Kirsten Green, who takes a board seat as part of the round, is known for countless savvy bets on a wide number...
01:43 am GMT - Wed, June 12, 2019
Techcrunch Facebook will not remove deepfakes of Mark Zuckerberg, Kim Kardashian and others from Instagram
Facebook will not remove the faked videos featuring Mark Zuckerberg, Kim Kardashian and President Donald Trump from Instagram, the company said in a statement. Earlier today, Vice News reported on the...
12:44 am GMT - Wed, June 12, 2019
Techcrunch Tesla has a design for a submarine car just sitting around
Tesla wants to show off a prototype of an electric pickup this year and it’s working on bringing the Model Y and Class 8 semi truck into production. But really, who cares about any of that becau...
12:26 am GMT - Wed, June 12, 2019
Techcrunch NASA moves to final planning stages for mission to explore 16 Psyches full metal asteroid
The value of all the nickel and iron that scientists believe make up 16-Psyche’s potato-shaped asteroid in the outer reaches of the asteroid belt totals some $10,000 quadrillion. It’s an a...
12:19 am GMT - Wed, June 12, 2019
Techcrunch Tesla might get into the mining business to secure minerals for electric batteries
Tesla might get into the business of mining minerals used in electric vehicle batteries if it wants to expand its product lineup and scale production, CEO Elon Musk said during the company’s ann...
11:19 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2019
Techcrunch Nintendo reimagines a Zelda classic with Links Awakening for the Switch
Its going to be a while before players can get their hands on the Breath of the Wild sequel teased at the end of Nintendos E3 Direct earlier today. The good news, however, is that Nintendos got a few ...
10:51 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2019
Techcrunch Tesla completing small acquisition which will help launch its insurance product
Tesla CEO Elon Musk says that the company is in the process of completing a “small acquisition” that will help it release its own insurance product, something it said in April that it was ...
10:33 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2019
Techcrunch Tesla says solar roof is on its third iteration, currently installing in 8 states
Tesla is currently installing its solar roof product in eight states, according to Elon Musk, speaking at the Tesla Annual Shareholder Meeting on Tuesday. The solar roof-tile project has had a relativ...
10:28 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2019
Techcrunch Elon Musk: There is not a demand problem for the Tesla Model 3
Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s opening comments at the annual shareholder’s meeting went straight to a question that has been looming over the automaker since it reported wider-than-expected losses...
10:16 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2019
Techcrunch Elon Musk calls it financially insane to buy a car that isnt an EV capable of full self-driving
During the Tesla Annual Shareholder Meeting that took place on Tuesday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk didn’t mince words when he talked about what he thinks of the value proposition of traditional fossil ...
10:06 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2019
Techcrunch States are looking to jam T-Mobile and Sprints proposed $26.5 billion merger
A number of states have filed a lawsuit to block the proposed $26.5 billion merger of T-Mobile and Sprint. The lawsuitm, filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York...
09:57 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2019
Techcrunch Sense Photonics flashes onto the lidar scene with a new approach and $26M
Lidar is a critical part of many autonomous cars and robotic systems, but the technology is also evolving quickly. A new company called Sense Photonics just emerged from stealth mode today with a $26M...
08:05 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2019
Techcrunch Nintendo teases Breath of the Wild sequel, raising Zelda hype to new levels
The capstone to an eventful Nintendo's E3 Direct was an unexpected joy: A sequel to the modern classic in the Zelda series, Breath of the Wild. Of course, all they said was that it's "in development,"...
08:00 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2019
Techcrunch Twitter Developer Labs opens to all with release of first APIs
In May, Twitter announced plans to launch its Twitter Developer Labs program, a way for app developers to sign up to experiment with pre-released beta APIs. The idea, the company explained at the time...
08:00 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2019
Techcrunch What can cities learn from Amazon HQ?
Amazon HQ2 may be out of New York City, but Amazon continues to set the standard for what New Yorkers expect from their companies....
07:56 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2019
Techcrunch WhatsApp is finally going after outside firms that are abusing its platform
WhatsApp has so far relied on past dealings with bad players within its platform to ramp up its efforts to curtail spam and other automated behavior. The Facebook -owned giant has now announced an add...
07:30 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2019
Techcrunch Uber unveils new skyport designs for Uber Air
Uber’s architecture and engineering partners have unveiled some new skyport designs. To be clear, Skyports are the areas where people will be able to board and disembark from Uber Air vehicles. ...
07:11 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2019
Techcrunch Uber Air picks Melbourne as its first international launch city
When Uber first announced Uber Air, it intended for Dubai to be its first international city. That changed last year when Uber put out an open call to interested cities to describe the clear need for ...
06:57 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2019
Techcrunch Most US mobile banking apps have security and privacy flaws, researchers say
You might figure the biggest U.S. banks would have some of the most secure mobile apps. Spoiler alert: not so much. New findings from security firm Zimperium, shared exclusively with TechCrunch, say m...
06:52 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2019
Techcrunch Apple joins the open-source Cloud Native Computing Foundation
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), the home of open-source projects like Kubernetes, today announced that Apple is joining it as a top-level Platinum End User Member. With this, Apple is jo...
06:49 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2019
Techcrunch Animal Crossing, Zelda and Gooigi The best of Nintendos E3 event
After a weekend of press events, E3 officially kicks off in earnest this morning. Nintendo continued its tradition of starting the show off with its customary Direct streaming event. Aside from a brie...
06:47 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2019
Techcrunch WordPress VIP Go sites are experiencing outages (yes, ours included)
You might have notice something funny if you visited TechCrunch dot com this morning (aside form the usual dryly hilarious tech commentary, that is). Our site, along with others, was hit by a major is...
06:46 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2019
Techcrunch Amazon Alexa team uses machine learning to better handle regional language differences
Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant faces a massive challenge: Operating not only as a multi-lingual product, but also ensuring that all regional variants of languages it supports are well understood...
05:19 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2019
Techcrunch Dropbox relaunches as an enterprise collaboration workspace
Dropbox is evolving from a file storage system to an enterprise software portal where you can coordinate work with your team. Today the company launches a new version of Dropbox that allows you to lau...
04:46 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2019
Techcrunch Animal Crossing for Switch gets delayed
Fans had few expectations rolling into Nintendo’s E3 Direct that were more pronounced than hopes for more details on Animal Crossing for Switch. We got some insight into the title’s storyl...
04:25 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2019
Techcrunch Mobile games now account for 33% of installs, 10% of time, and 74% of consumer spend
Mobile gaming continues to hold its own, accounting for 10% of the time users spend in apps — a percentage that has remained steady over the years, even though our time in apps overall has grown...
04:25 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2019
Techcrunch Mobile games now account for 33% of installs, 10% of time and 74% of consumer spend
Mobile gaming continues to hold its own, accounting for 10% of the time users spend in apps — a percentage that has remained steady over the years, even though our time in apps overall has grown...
04:11 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2019
Techcrunch Heres Mary Meekers 2019 internet trends report
Mary Meeker presents tech's favorite slide deck. ...
04:05 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2019
Techcrunch Verified Expert Growth Marketing Agency: Growth Pilots
Growth Pilots is one of the more exclusive performance marketing agencies in San Francisco, but they know how to help high-growth startups excel at paid marketing. CEO and founder Soso Sazesh credits ...
04:00 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2019
Techcrunch As Alzheimers costs soar, startups like Neurotrack raise cash to diagnose and treat the disease
As studies show that early diagnosis and preventative therapies can help prevent the onset of Alzheimer’s, startups that are working to diagnose the disease earlier are gaining more attention an...
04:00 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2019
Techcrunch 72 hours left on early-bird savings for TC Sessions: Mobility 2019
Were totally stoked to see all of you at TC Sessions: Mobility 2019 on July 10 in San Jose, Calif. Thats slightly less than a month away, and if you want to save on the price of admission, you need to...
03:59 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2019
Techcrunch Facebooks new Study app pays adults for data after teen scandal
Facebook shut down its Research and Onavo programs after TechCrunch exposed how the company paid teenagers for root access to their phones to gain market data on competitors. Now Facebook is relaunchi...
03:54 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2019
Techcrunch Over 1,400 self-driving vehicles are now in testing by 80 companies across the U.S.
In a talk at the Uber Elevate summit in Washington, DC today, US Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao shared a total overall figure for ongoing testing of autonomous vehicles on U.S road...
03:54 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2019
Techcrunch Over 1,400 self-driving vehicles are now in testing by 80 companies across the US
In a talk at the Uber Elevate Summit in Washington, D.C., today, U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao shared a total overall figure for ongoing testing of autonomous vehicles on U.S...
03:47 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2019
Techcrunch Mozilla gives Firefox a new logo as it looks beyond the browser
Mozilla’s Firefox is getting a new logo that is meant to reflect that the brand now stands for more than a browser. With products like its password manager Lockwise, private file sharing service...
03:43 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2019
Techcrunch Libertys challenge to UK state surveillance powers reveals shocking failures
A legal challenge to the UK’s controversial mass surveillance regime has revealed shocking failures by the main state intelligence agency, which has broad powers to hack computers and phones and...
03:42 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2019
Techcrunch Some sage security advice after Radioheads unreleased music hack
Bad news: Radiohead was hacked. Last week, a hacker stole the band’s lead singer Thom Yorke’s private minidisk archive from the band’s third album and subsequent major worldwide hit,...
03:00 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2019
Techcrunch Opera launches a gaming browser with Twitch integration
Youre probably asking, what is a gaming browser? Opera PM Maciek Kocemba says in the opening of the Opera GX introduction video. Fair enough. My first thought when the Norwegian browser company menti...
03:00 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2019
Techcrunch GitHub hires former Bitnami co-founder Erica Brescia as COO
It’s been just over a year since Microsoft bought GitHub for $7.5 billion, but the company has grown in that time, and today it announced that it has hired former Bitnami COO and cofounder, Eric...
02:54 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2019
Techcrunch Over 100 Goodwill stores are bringing their inventory to OfferUp
Goodwill and mobile marketplace app OfferUp have announced a new partnership focused on bringing Goodwill’s secondhand inventory to the millions of OfferUp shoppers, for both local pickup and de...
02:18 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2019
Techcrunch Uber and AT&T team up for always-on connectivity for Uber Copter and Uber Air
Uber is partnering with mobile network operator AT&T on the always-on connectivity it’ll require for its aerial transportation service network. The on-demand mobility company announced the t...
02:02 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2019
Techcrunch Misfits Market raises $16.5 million for their ugly produce subscription box
As grocery shopping moves online, one piece of the puzzle hasn’t been directly addressed: fresh fruits and vegetables. That also happens to be a category in which there is a ton of food waste, w...
02:00 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2019
Techcrunch Colombian point-of-sale lender ADDI nabs $12.5 million from Andreessen Horowitz
Andreessen Horowitz <3 Latin American startups. Latin America is the only region outside of the U.S. where the venture firm is routinely investing capital and it has just made another commitment, ...
01:59 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2019
Techcrunch Amazon Restaurants in U.S. is shutting down
Following November’s closure of Amazon’s restaurant delivery business in London, the company is now shutting down operations in the U.S. The service, which was launched back in fall 2015, ...
01:59 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2019
Techcrunch Amazon Restaurants in US is shutting down
Following November’s closure of Amazon’s restaurant delivery business in London, the company is now shutting down operations in the U.S. The service, which was launched back in fall 2015, ...
01:59 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2019
Techcrunch Uber envisions Uber Air will one day be cheaper than owning a car
Uber has big dreams for Uber Air, the flying taxi service it’s wanting to launch in 2023. At the third annual Uber Elevate, Head of Elevate Eric Allison said the company expects Uber Air to be c...
01:56 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2019
Techcrunch Embraers new EmbraerX eVTOL concept is accessible, autonomous and courteous
Short-distance commuter air travel has come a long way in the past few years at least when it comes to concepts. The latest vision of how we’ll get around in the city skies of the (near?) futur...
01:26 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2019
Techcrunch Relativity is building a 3D printing rocket manufacturing hub in Mississippi
The future of rocket manufacturing has touched down in Mississippi. At NASA’s John C. Stennis Space Center, nestled in Hancock County, Miss. right on the border of Louisiana, the Los Angeles-bas...
01:26 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2019
Techcrunch Relativity is building a 3D-printing rocket manufacturing hub in Mississippi
The future of rocket manufacturing has touched down in Mississippi. At NASA’s John C. Stennis Space Center, nestled in Hancock County, Miss., right on the border of Louisiana, the Los Angeles-ba...
01:25 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2019
Techcrunch Europe publishes common drone rules, giving operators a year to prepare
Europe has today published common rules for the use of drones. The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) says the regulations, which will apply universally across the region, are intended to he...
01:22 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2019
Techcrunch Uber adds another air taxi vehicle partner to the mix
In order to make Uber Air a reality, Uber needs vehicle partners to actually develop these electric vertical take-off and landing vehicles. Today at flying taxi conference Uber Elevate, Uber unveiled ...
01:13 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2019
Techcrunch Welcomes new app will do your travel planning for you
Welcome is a new app that CEO Matthew Rosenberg said is designed for a more spontaneous approach to traveling. “What were going after is these millennials [and] Gen Z travelers who feel comforta...
01:00 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2019
Techcrunch Lyft deploys its pink-wheeled bikes and rebrands Ford GoBike as Bay Wheels
Lyft is ditching Ford’s branding for its own with the launch of its new pink-wheeled pedal-assist bikes in the San Francisco Bay Area. Instead of Ford GoBike, these bikes will now be known as Ba...
01:00 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2019
Techcrunch Transit city navigation app seeks to solve bad public transit ETAs with machine learning
Transit, a company that has spent its entire life trying to make it easier to get around cities, is unveiling a new machine-learning powered estimated time of arrival prediction feature to help addres...
01:00 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2019
Techcrunch ZeroDown is constructing a new path to home ownership
Part real estate fund, part tech startup, ZeroDown wants to make it easier to buy a home in the Bay Area....
01:00 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2019
Techcrunch Brex valued at $2.6B with new cash from Kleiner Perkins
Brex CEO Henrique Dubugras details the fintech startup's latest round....
01:00 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2019
Techcrunch Watch Nintendo unveil a bunch of games at its E3 Direct
Microsoft kicked things off on Sunday, and while Sonys sitting this one out, Nintendos up to its old tricks. The company is once again skipping whole in-person thing in favor of its livestreamed Ninte...
01:00 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2019
Techcrunch Charging an electric car in America is about to get a little less painful
As electric vehicle charging infrastructure grows, a nagging complexity has popped up. Each electric vehicle charging networks has its own system with memberships. For an EV owner, that translates int...
12:45 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2019
Techcrunch Teslas shareholder meeting: How to watch and what to expect
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is expected to take the stage Tuesday for the company’s annual shareholder meeting following a volatile year that saw swings between profitability and wider-than-expected los...
12:44 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2019
Techcrunch Alyce picks up $11.5 million Series A to help companies give better corporate gifts
Alyce, an AI-powered platform that helps sales people, marketers and event planners give better corporate gifts, has today announced the close of an $11.5 million Series A funding. The round was led b...
12:33 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2019
Techcrunch Yubo is a social network about socializing
Meet Yubo, a French startup that wants to make social networks a bit more social. Yubo is an app designed for teenagers, and its all about meeting people, making new friends and belonging to a communi...
12:32 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2019
Techcrunch Providing supplemental educational videos online nets Osmosis $4 million
With over one million YouTube subscribers and 500,000 registered users for its supplemental educational videos, Osmosis, which bills itself as the Khan Academy of healthcare, has raised $4 million in ...
12:31 pm GMT - Tue, June 11, 2019
Techcrunch This is what it looks like inside an Uber Air vehicle
Uber just unveiled the first design for its Uber Air taxi cabin at Uber Elevate, Uber’s flying taxi conference in Washington, D.C. The cabin, built in partnership with aircraft interior designer...
11:45 am GMT - Tue, June 11, 2019
Techcrunch UK carriers warn over ongoing Huawei 5G uncertainty: Report
UK mobile network operators have drafted a letter urging the government for greater clarity on Chinese tech giant Huawei’s involvement in domestic 5G infrastructure, according to a report by the...
10:11 am GMT - Tue, June 11, 2019
Techcrunch Revolut adds Apple Pay support in 16 markets
Fintech startupRevolut has expanded its support for Apple Pay, confirming that from today the payment option is available for users in 16 European markets. The list of supported markets is: UK, France...
10:09 am GMT - Tue, June 11, 2019
Techcrunch Crane, a new early-stage London VC focused on intelligent enterprise startups, raises $90M fund
Crane Venture Partners, a newish London-based early-stage VC targeting what it calls “intelligent” enterprise startups, is officially outing today. Founded by Scott Sage and Krishna Visvan...
09:43 am GMT - Tue, June 11, 2019
Techcrunch Card readers at electric vehicle charging stations will weaken security, researchers say
Electric vehicle charging stations could become one of the next big targets for fraudsters thanks to proposals in several state that researchers say would weaken their security. Most electric vehicle...
09:41 am GMT - Tue, June 11, 2019
Techcrunch Foodles raises another $10 million for its cloud canteen
French startup Foodles is raising a $10 million funding round (9 million). The company provides canteen-like services using connected fridges and daily deliveries. Creadev, DN capital and Adelie are p...
09:31 am GMT - Tue, June 11, 2019
Techcrunch Have I Been Pwned is looking for a new owner
Troy Hunt has revealed he’s looking for an acquirer for the breach notification service he set up more than five years ago — aka: Have I Been Pwned. In a blog post discussing the future of...
09:20 am GMT - Tue, June 11, 2019
Techcrunch Infarm closes $100M Series B to scale its urban farming platform
Infarm, the Berlin-based startup that has developed vertical farming tech for grocery stores and restaurants, is disclosing $100 in in Series B investment. The round is led by London VC Atomico, and c...
09:04 am GMT - Tue, June 11, 2019
Techcrunch RapidAPI nabs $25M led by Microsoft as its API marketplace cracks 10K APIs and 1M users
APIs — the lightweight programming interfaces used by developers to integrate other applications with theirs, or to help their apps integrate with others — have become an essential buildin...
06:51 am GMT - Tue, June 11, 2019
Techcrunch Shazam for Android now recognizes music played through headphones
Shazam, the Apple-owned app that helps users identify songs playing around them, can now recognize songs youre listening to through your headphones when using an Android phone or tablet. Acquired by A...
06:00 am GMT - Tue, June 11, 2019
Techcrunch Telegrams crypto tokens are (kind of) going on sale to the public for the first time
Telegram, the most hyped ICO in the history of ICOs, is finally making its tokens available to retail investors through a limited listing that will precede a full sale later this year — but ther...
04:56 am GMT - Tue, June 11, 2019
Techcrunch Changes to Facebook Graph Search leaves online investigators in a lurch
When Facebook Graph Search launched six years ago, it was meant to help users discover content across public posts on the platform. Since then, the feature stayed relatively low-profile for many users...
03:50 am GMT - Tue, June 11, 2019
Techcrunch AWS is now making Amazon Personalize available to all customers
Amazon Personalize, first announced during AWS re:Invent last November, is now available to all Amazon Web Services customers. The API enables developers to add custom machine learning models to their...
03:15 am GMT - Tue, June 11, 2019
Techcrunch Korean hotel platform Yanolja raises $180M at a valuation of over $1B
The travel tech industry has got another unicorn. Following the likes of Airbnb, OYO, Traveloka and Klook, Korea’s Yanolja said today it has closed a $180 million Series D round that takes it va...
02:22 am GMT - Tue, June 11, 2019
Techcrunch Square Enix shows off Final Fantasy VII Remake, Avengers and more watch the trailers here
The long series of press conferences that marks the beginning of E3 is nearly at an end, with Square Enix the last to present, if you don't count Nintendo tomorrow. The company leaned hard on nostalgi...
02:20 am GMT - Tue, June 11, 2019
Techcrunch Squares The Avengers stars vaguely familiar versions of Marvels iconic heroes
This evenings Square E3 press wassomething. After more than an hour of Final Fantasy remasters, the publisher closed things out with far and away its most eagerly awaited game. Licensing some white ho...
01:30 am GMT - Tue, June 11, 2019
Techcrunch Moving deeper into enterprise cloud, Intel picks up Barefoot Networks
When it launched out of stealth just three years ago, Barefoot Networks was hailed as a company that would transform the way a generation of computing giants like Facebook, Alphabet, Amazon and Micros...
12:33 am GMT - Tue, June 11, 2019
Techcrunch Oculus sold $5 million worth of Quest content in first 2 weeks on sale
Facebook’s Oculus Quest standalone VR headset hasn’t been out long, but VP of AR/VR Andrew Bosworth says the company is already selling a substantial amount of content for the device. At V...
12:20 am GMT - Tue, June 11, 2019
Techcrunch Facebook says its shipping new Portal hardware in the fall
Facebook’s Portal devices may still have plenty of privacy questions lingering around them since launch, but that hasn’t swayed the company’s dedication to bringing more video chat h...
12:00 am GMT - Tue, June 11, 2019
Techcrunch Uber rival Bolt returns to London 21 months after a TfL investigation shut it down
Bolt, the Uber rival formerly known as Taxify, is taking a significant step this week in its effort to build out its transportation-on-demand business across the biggest cities in Europe and Africa, w...
11:50 pm GMT - Mon, June 10, 2019
Techcrunch YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki addresses hate speech controversy
YouTube is standing by its decision not to remove Steven Crowder from its platform....
11:33 pm GMT - Mon, June 10, 2019
Techcrunch Pepe the Frog creator reaches settlement over Infowars usage
Once released, art belongs to the world. No one knows that better than Matt Furie. The Boys Club cartoonist has spent several years grappling with how the internet has coopted Pepe, turning his fun-lo...
11:20 pm GMT - Mon, June 10, 2019
Techcrunch Workhorse gets $25 million needed to finish electric delivery van
Workhorse Group, the electric vehicle company that grabbed headlines last month over a proposed deal to buy General Motors’ Lordstown, Ohio factory, has raised $25 million from a group of unname...
11:00 pm GMT - Mon, June 10, 2019
Techcrunch Lilium, the ambitious German air taxi company, picks London for its new software engineering base
Lilium, the ambitious Munich-based startup developing an all-electric vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) device, has announced that London is to be its new software engineering base, flying in the f...
10:52 pm GMT - Mon, June 10, 2019
Techcrunch Here are the trailers from Ubisofts E3 press conference
For a press conference that spent most of the first half on a single title (Watch Dogs: Legion), Ubisoft’s E3 press conference was surprisingly packed on the news front. We got a new subscriptio...
10:30 pm GMT - Mon, June 10, 2019
Techcrunch Apple is making corporate BYOD programs less invasive to user privacy
When people bring their own devices to work or school, they don’t want IT administrators to manage the entire device. But until now, Apple only offered two ways for IT to manage its iOS devices:...
10:29 pm GMT - Mon, June 10, 2019
Techcrunch WarnerMedia is making a Dune series for its streaming service
WarnerMedia has placed a straight-to-series order for “Dune: The Sisterhood,” a show based on Frank Herbert’s classic science fiction novels and tied to the big-screen “Dune...
10:14 pm GMT - Mon, June 10, 2019
Techcrunch Salesforces Tableau acquisition is huge, but not the hugest
When you’re talking about 16 billion smackeroos, it’s easy to get lost in the big number. When Salesforce acquired Tableau this morning for $15.7 billion, while it was among the biggest en...
09:25 pm GMT - Mon, June 10, 2019
Techcrunch Ubisoft is launching a $15 a month subscription service in September
If you cant beat ’em, launch your own service. Today at its E3 press event, Ubisoft announced that it will be joining the growing list of companies launching their own streaming service. UPlay+ ...
09:25 pm GMT - Mon, June 10, 2019
Techcrunch Netflix snags Ubisofts Tom Clancys The Division adaptation starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Jessica Chastain
Netflix has snagged the distribution rights to Ubisoft’s adaptation of “Tom Clancy’s The Division” starring Jessica Chastain and Jake Gyllenhaal. Directed by David Leitch, the ...
09:02 pm GMT - Mon, June 10, 2019
Techcrunch Assassins Creed Odyssey now offers a way for you create your own quests
Assassin’s Creed Odyssey was definitely my favorite game of 2018, and it’s getting even better thanks to a couple of new updates Ubisoft announced at E3 this year that help make the most o...
09:02 pm GMT - Mon, June 10, 2019
Techcrunch Assassins Creed Odyssey now offers a way for you to create your own quests
Assassin’s Creed Odyssey was definitely my favorite game of 2018, and it’s getting even better thanks to a couple of new updates Ubisoft announced at E3 this year that help make the most o...
08:57 pm GMT - Mon, June 10, 2019
Techcrunch Its 2019 and the Nintendo Wii still isnt dead
The Nintendo Wii still has some play left in it. It was already ridiculous that Just Dance 2019 supported the Nintendo Wii, even after axing PS3 support, but now the 2020 version of the dancing video ...
08:45 pm GMT - Mon, June 10, 2019
Techcrunch Its Always Sunny meets Warcraft in Mythic Quest Apple TV trailer
Hes no Keanu, but Rob McElhenneys pretty good as far as E3 cameos go. The Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia star hit the stage at Ubisofts presser this afternoon to show off a trailer from his upcoming...
08:38 pm GMT - Mon, June 10, 2019
Techcrunch To detect fake news, this AI first learned to write it
One of the biggest problems in media today is so-called "fake news," which is so highly pernicious in part because it superficially resembles the real thing. AI tools promise to help identify it, but ...
08:20 pm GMT - Mon, June 10, 2019
Techcrunch CBP says traveler photos and license plate images stolen in data breach
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has confirmed a data breach has exposed the photos of travelers and vehicles traveling in and out of the United States. The photos were transferred to a subcontracto...
08:00 pm GMT - Mon, June 10, 2019
Techcrunch Get your tickets to the TechCrunch 14th Annual Summer Party
Hey startuppers, its time to save the date and get your ticket to the best Silicon Valley soiree of the season. This year marks the 14th return of the TechCrunch Summer Party a time to relax, connect...
07:24 pm GMT - Mon, June 10, 2019
Techcrunch White House budget chief looks to delay Huawei ban
The already complicated U.S./Huawei situation gets a few more wrinkles this week. Acting director of the Office of Management and Budget Russell T. Vought sent a letter to VP Mike Pence and members of...
07:18 pm GMT - Mon, June 10, 2019
Techcrunch How gaming on Microsoft xCloud compares to Google Stadia
Cloud gaming is one of the big topics of excitement ahead of E3. The market is very niche but the technology feels exciting, allowing users to play graphically-complex titles on a bunch of low-powered...
06:29 pm GMT - Mon, June 10, 2019
Techcrunch Audi recalls its electric SUV over battery fire risk
Audi today issued a voluntary recall in the U.S. for the E-Tron SUV due to the risk of battery fire. An Audi spokesperson told Bloomberg that no fires had been reported over the 1,644 E-Trons Audi has...
06:19 pm GMT - Mon, June 10, 2019
Techcrunch NASA details Deep Space Atomic Clock and other tests launching on SpaceX Falcon Heavy
SpaceX’s next mission for its Falcon Heavy high-capacity rocket is set for June 24, when it’ll take off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida with 20 satellites on board that c...
06:15 pm GMT - Mon, June 10, 2019
Techcrunch Innoviz extends funding round to $170 million to bring its lidar tech to self-driving cars
Just a few months ago, Innoviz became one of the better capitalized lidar startups when it announced it had raised $132 million in a Series C funding round. But that wouldn’t be the end of it. T...
06:08 pm GMT - Mon, June 10, 2019
Techcrunch Daily Crunch: Salesforce is buying Tableau
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...
06:07 pm GMT - Mon, June 10, 2019
Techcrunch Galaxy Fold launch date will be announced in coming weeks
May has come and gone, and were nearly halfway done with June. All we seem to really know about the Galaxy Fold, on the other hand is that its still comingat some point. In a comment earlier today, Sa...
06:00 pm GMT - Mon, June 10, 2019
Techcrunch Holberton opens its software engineering school in Medellin
Holberton School, which sees itself as a college alternative for budding software engineers, today announced that it has opened a campus in Medellin, Colombia. With this, it now operates to schools in...
05:12 pm GMT - Mon, June 10, 2019
Techcrunch HBO cancels daily news show Vice News Tonight
Just ahead of the 2016 presidential election, HBO announced its plans to carry a nightly news show courtesy of Vice News, called “Vice News Tonight.” That show is now being canceled, which...
05:05 pm GMT - Mon, June 10, 2019
Techcrunch What top VCs look for in womens fertility startups
A number of promising women’s health tech companies have popped up in the last few years, from fertility apps to ovulation bracelets — even Apple has jumped into the subject with the addit...
04:30 pm GMT - Mon, June 10, 2019
Techcrunch Qubole launches Quantum, its serverless database engine
Qubole, the data platform founded by Apache Hive creator and former head of Facebook’s Data Infrastructure team Ashish Thusoo, today announced the launch of Quantum, its first serverless offerin...
04:03 pm GMT - Mon, June 10, 2019
Techcrunch With Tableau and Mulesoft, Salesforce gains full view of enterprise data
Back in the 2010 timeframe, it was common to say that content was king, but after watching Google buy Looker for $2.6 billion last week and Salesforce nab Tableau for $15.7 billion this morning, it...
04:00 pm GMT - Mon, June 10, 2019
Techcrunch Four days left to save $100 on TC Sessions: Mobility 2019
On July 10, just one short month from now, more than 1,000 of the best and brightest minds in mobility will converge in San Jose, Calif. for TC Sessions: Mobility 2019. This day-long conference is ded...
03:49 pm GMT - Mon, June 10, 2019
Techcrunch Amazons new rewards card targets those with bad credit
Amazon this morning announced the launch of Amazon Credit Builder, a new secured credit card offered in partnership with Synchrony Bank. As the name implies, the card is aimed at those who are looking...
03:49 pm GMT - Mon, June 10, 2019
Techcrunch NASA Snoopy lunar module likely found 50 years after being jettisoned into space
NASA’s trip to the Moon’s surface in July 1969 was preceded by a lot of preparatory missions including Apollo 10, which involved a mock mission with everything but the actual landing. Ast...
03:06 pm GMT - Mon, June 10, 2019
Techcrunch Vuzix smart glasses get automatic facial recognition designed for law enforcement
This is one of those ‘I’m not surprised but I am slightly terrified’ moments in tech development: Enterprise smart glasses company Vuzix announced Monday that it has developed new &#...
03:01 pm GMT - Mon, June 10, 2019
Techcrunch AI security startup Darktraces CEO defeats buzzword bingo with trust and transparency
It takes a lot of trust to allow a company to come in and install a mystery box on their network to monitor for threats. It’s like inviting in a security guard to sit in your living room to make...
03:00 pm GMT - Mon, June 10, 2019
Techcrunch Razer just launched an energy drink for gamers
Last week it was Xbox body spray. Today its a Razer energy drink. E3 is officially upon us, and its time for all of the shamless product tie-ins. Though before you go passing judgement on Respawn, not...
02:39 pm GMT - Mon, June 10, 2019
Techcrunch Cvent acquires mobile event technology provider DoubleDutch
There’s some new consolidation in the mobile event technology space this morning, with news that the meetings, events and hospitality technology provider Cvent has acquired San Francisco-based m...
02:15 pm GMT - Mon, June 10, 2019
Techcrunch Google Assistant comes to Waze navigation app
Ever since Google acquired Waze back in 2013, features from each have been slowly making their way back and forth between it and Google Maps and today Waze gets a big upgrade with Google Assistant in...
02:00 pm GMT - Mon, June 10, 2019
Techcrunch Two-week extension: apply to Startup Battlefield at Disrupt SF 2019
Youve been meaning to apply to the Startup Battlefield at Disrupt San Francisco 2019, right? Whether you need more time due to procrastinating, shillyshallying or your propensity for last-minute decis...
01:56 pm GMT - Mon, June 10, 2019
Techcrunch Salesforce is officially making Seattle its second HQ after its Tableau acquisition
Here’s an interesting by-product the news today that Salesforce would be acquiring Tableau for $15.7 billion: the company is going to make Seattle, Washington (home of Tableau) the official seco...
01:53 pm GMT - Mon, June 10, 2019
Techcrunch Microsoft Power BI platform update aims to put AI in reach of business users
Low code and no code are the latest industry buzzwords, but if vendors can truly abstract away the complexity of difficult tasks like building machine learning models, it could help mainstream technol...
01:53 pm GMT - Mon, June 10, 2019
Techcrunch Microsoft Power Platform update aims to put AI in reach of business users
Low code and no code are the latest industry buzzwords, but if vendors can truly abstract away the complexity of difficult tasks like building machine learning models, it could help mainstream technol...
01:36 pm GMT - Mon, June 10, 2019
Techcrunch Review: The stunning 2019 Audi Q8 has a deal-breaking flaw
The 2019 Audi Q8 is the shape of the future. It’s beautiful as it successfully merges the look of a sports sedan with the shape of an SUV. It has flowing lines, crisp angles and just the right l...
12:38 pm GMT - Mon, June 10, 2019
Techcrunch Vectra lands $100M Series E investment for AI-driven network security
Vectra, a seven-year old company that helps customers detect intrusions at the network level, whether in the cloud or on premises, announced a $100 million Series E funding round today led by TCV. Exi...
11:08 am GMT - Mon, June 10, 2019
Techcrunch Salesforce is buying data visualization company Tableau for $15.7B in all-stock deal
On the heels of Google buying analytics startup Looker last week for $2.6 billion, Salesforce today announced a huge piece of news in a bid to step up its own work in data visualization and (more gene...
10:30 am GMT - Mon, June 10, 2019
Techcrunch Student loan refinancing startup Splash Financial raises $4.3 million
Splash Financial, a Cleveland-based startup that has partnered with the Pentagon Federal Credit Union to refinance student loans, has raised $4.3 million in a round of venture financing. The round was...
10:11 am GMT - Mon, June 10, 2019
Techcrunch The Finalists for The Europas Awards for European tech startups is released
The The Europas Awards for European Tech Startups is coming, and today it releases its final shortlist after an intense round of public voting and judges’ delioberations. The awards will be held...
09:16 am GMT - Mon, June 10, 2019
Techcrunch Luxembourg to get 100M investment from Chinese payments startup Pingpong
For financial services firms looking to enter Europe, Luxembourg has historically been a popular anchoring point for its political and economic stability as well as a favorable regulatory environment....
08:17 am GMT - Mon, June 10, 2019
Techcrunch Wire collaborates with EY for on-premise end-to-end encrypted messaging app
End-to-end encrypted messaging app and service Wire announced a partnership with accounting and consulting company EY. Essentially, Wire is providing an on-promise version of its messaging service so ...
06:00 am GMT - Mon, June 10, 2019
Techcrunch Spacemaker scores $25M Series A to let property developers use AI
Spacemaker, a Norway-based startup that’s created AI software to help property developers and architects make better design decisions, has picked up $25 million in Series A funding. The round is...
03:59 am GMT - Mon, June 10, 2019
Techcrunch Fiat Chrysler partners with Aurora to develop self-driving commercial vans
Aurora, the autonomous vehicle technology startup backed by Sequoia Capital and Amazon, has struck a deal with Fiat Chrysler Automobiles to develop self-driving commercial vehicles. The partnership wi...
02:40 am GMT - Mon, June 10, 2019
Techcrunch Doom, Fallout and the rest of the trailers from Bethesdas E3 press conference
E3 may not officially start until Tuesday, but the announcements are coming fast a furious. A few short hours after Microsoft previewed its streaming service and next get console, Bethesda took to the...
01:05 am GMT - Mon, June 10, 2019
Techcrunch Fallout 76 is getting a 52-player battle royale mode
Tonights Bethesda E3 press conference was all about free additions. In fact, the company actually took to the stage to apologize for Fallout 76s rocky launch. The publisher quickly added that its cont...
09:48 pm GMT - Sun, June 9, 2019
Techcrunch Here are the game trailers from Microsofts E3 2019 press conference
Trailers. You love them, Microsoft’s got them. According to the company, there were a ridiculous 60 games trotted out on stage at today’s big E3 kickoff. Looks like the Xbox got a little e...
09:42 pm GMT - Sun, June 9, 2019
Techcrunch George R.R. Martins Elden Ring RPG is official
Among the more eagerly anticipated titles of this years E3, Elden Ring leaked out just a few days ago. The forthcoming action role-playing title was created by George R.R. Martin, fresh off the end of...
09:30 pm GMT - Sun, June 9, 2019
Techcrunch Microsoft teases 8K Xbox
Microsoft is working to create its most powerful Xbox yet as it gears up for the next wave of gaming console hardware. Xbox shared some details on its next hardware at E3 and it sounds appropriately n...
09:28 pm GMT - Sun, June 9, 2019
Techcrunch Microsofts Project xCloud preview launches in October
Big news out of todays Microsoft press conference. A few days after Google finally revealed some long awaited details about its Stadia offering, Microsoft just gave us a lot more info on its competito...
09:04 pm GMT - Sun, June 9, 2019
Techcrunch Microsoft acquires Psychonauts-maker Double Fine Productions
As it did last year, Microsoft used its Xbox E3 keynote to announce its moves in bulking up its in-house gaming content. At its press conference, the company’s Xbox Game Studios head announced t...
07:02 pm GMT - Sun, June 9, 2019
Techcrunch Game Pass Ultimate brings Xbox subscriptions together at a discount
Xbox wants the future of the gaming business to lean heavily on subscription services. The company’s Game Pass service has let users download games from a pool of dozens of titles, now Microsoft...
07:00 pm GMT - Sun, June 9, 2019
Techcrunch Feedback loops and online abuse
I’ve long thought that much of the world can be explained by feedback loops. Why are small companies nimbler than large ones? Why are private companies generally more efficient than governments?...
06:52 pm GMT - Sun, June 9, 2019
Techcrunch Top voting machine maker reverses position on election security, promises paper ballots
Voting machine maker ES&S has said it “will no longer sell” paperless voting machines as the primary device for casting ballots in a jurisdiction. ES&S chief executive Tom Burt con...
06:44 pm GMT - Sun, June 9, 2019
Techcrunch Apple puts accessibility features front and center
Although the meat of Apples accessibility news from WWDC has been covered, there still are other items announced that have relevancy to accessibility as well. Here, then, are some thoughts on Apples l...
06:05 pm GMT - Sun, June 9, 2019
Techcrunch Watch Microsofts Xbox E3 press conference live
This years E3 is already off to an interesting start. Sonys nowhere to be seen, and Nintendo, per usual, has opted to go online only. That leaves Microsoft as the only member of the big three with its...
05:56 pm GMT - Sun, June 9, 2019
Techcrunch Microsoft shares pricing details for Xbox Game Pass on PC
Ahead of the Xbox E3 keynote this afternoon, Microsoft has dropped the pricing for their Xbox Game Pass plan which gives PC users access to a library of top games. The Service will be launching at a v...
05:34 pm GMT - Sun, June 9, 2019
Techcrunch What happens if theres no Vision Fund II?
Recent headlines describe a world that might never see aVision Fund II. Would it matter?...
01:00 pm GMT - Sun, June 9, 2019
Techcrunch Original Content podcast: Netflixs Always Be My Maybe is a surprisingly sweet romantic comedy
“Always Be My Maybe” a new film starring and co-written by Ali Wong and Randall Park continues Netflix’s streak of solid romantic comedies. That said, anyone expecting it to match ...
10:00 am GMT - Sun, June 9, 2019
Techcrunch Week-in-Review: Google makes a losing bet, Bezos plots his space take-over
Hey, weekend readers. This is Week-in-Review where I get hopped up on caffeine and give a heavy amount of analysis on one story while scouring the rest of the hundreds of stories that emerged on TechC...
10:37 pm GMT - Sat, June 8, 2019
Techcrunch Equity transcribed: What happens to late-stage VC if the Vision Fund goes away?
Welcome back to the transcribed edition of the wildly popular TechCrunch podcast, Equity. This week Kate Clark and Alex Wilhelm convened in the new studio to discuss the biggest venture capital news o...
09:23 pm GMT - Sat, June 8, 2019
Techcrunch A16Z interview, 5G, Peloton, handling Big Tech issues, and offering better benefits
Unraveling the Secrets of Sand Hill Road and the VC thought process, with Andreessen Horowitzs Scott Kupor Our Silicon Valley editor Connie Loizos hosted an Extra Crunch live conference call with Andr...
09:00 pm GMT - Sat, June 8, 2019
Techcrunch 48 hours left to apply for Startup Battlefield at Disrupt SF and win $100,000
Whats on your to-do list in the next 48 hours? Move launch my awesome early-stage startup to the world to the top of the list andapply to compete in the Startup BattlefieldatDisrupt San Francisco 2019...
08:03 pm GMT - Sat, June 8, 2019
Techcrunch Former Unity Technology VP files lawsuit alleging CEO sexually harassed her
Unity Technologies, the multibillion-dollar gaming engine, is facing a lawsuit from its former VP of global talent acquisition, Anne Evans, who accuses CEO John Riccitiello of sexual harassment. The s...
05:17 pm GMT - Sat, June 8, 2019
Techcrunch Everyone loves pizza, including VCs
What are startup investors doing vis--vis the pizza industry?...
12:00 pm GMT - Sat, June 8, 2019
Techcrunch Startups Weekly: The Peloton IPO (bull vs. bear)
In this week's newsletter: Bird gets acquisitive, Stripe puts on its VC hat and Thumbtack looks for new cash....
05:48 am GMT - Sat, June 8, 2019
Techcrunch Indias largest video streaming service, owned by Disney, breaks Safari compatibility to fix security flaw
Hotstar, Indias largest video streaming service with more than 300 million users, disabled support for Apples Safari web browser on Friday to mitigate a security flaw that allowed unauthorized usage o...
01:06 am GMT - Sat, June 8, 2019
Techcrunch Maker Faire halts operations and lays off all staff
Financial troubles have forced Maker Media, the company behind crafting publication MAKE: magazine as well as the science and art festival Maker Faire, to lay off its entire staff of 22 and pause all ...
12:55 am GMT - Sat, June 8, 2019
Techcrunch George R.R. Martins next project is reportedly the video game, Elden Ring
E3 doesnt technically start until Tuesday, but the leaks are already arriving fast and furious. Now that winter has come from HBOs Game of Thrones, creator George R.R. Martins got several other projec...
12:45 am GMT - Sat, June 8, 2019
Techcrunch A peek inside Sequoia Capitals low-flying, wide-reaching scout program
It was a brilliant idea. It allowed Sequoia to keep tabs on entrepreneurs — and nascent technologies — not yet in its universe. It cemented the firm’s ties to the founders who were a...
11:47 pm GMT - Fri, June 7, 2019
Techcrunch The makers of Duet Display and Luna on life after Apples Sidecar
Of all of the WWDC announcements this week, Sidecar got me the most excited. Im on the road a lot these days, and apps like Duet and Luna have been lifesavers. Theyve afforded me the ability to carry ...
10:42 pm GMT - Fri, June 7, 2019
Techcrunch Lyft sues SF over bike-share program
Lyft is suing the city of San Francisco, claiming that the city is violating its 10-year contract with Lyft that would give the company exclusive rights to operate bike-share programs. San Francisco, ...
09:21 pm GMT - Fri, June 7, 2019
Techcrunch Walmarts JetBlack personal shopping service customers are spending $1500 per month
A year after Walmart’s personal shopping service JetBlack launched in New York, the retailer reports two-thirds of customers engage with the service on a weekly basis, and spend an average of $1...
09:21 pm GMT - Fri, June 7, 2019
Techcrunch Walmarts JetBlack personal shopping service customers are spending $1,500 per month
A year after Walmart’s personal shopping service JetBlack launched in New York, the retailer reports two-thirds of customers engage with the service on a weekly basis, and spend an average of $1...
08:42 pm GMT - Fri, June 7, 2019
Techcrunch Ubers COO and chief marketing officer are out
Uber’s chief operating officer Barney Harford and chief marketing officer Rebecca Messina are stepping down as part of an organizational shakeup put into motion just a month after the ride-haili...
08:10 pm GMT - Fri, June 7, 2019
Techcrunch FedEx ends express delivery contract with Amazon
FedEx will not renew a contract with Amazon to provide express delivery for the e-commerce giant’s packages in the United States. FedEx, which made the announcement Friday, said in a statement t...
07:13 pm GMT - Fri, June 7, 2019
Techcrunch On the road to self-driving trucks, Starsky Robotics built a traditional trucking business
More than three years ago, self-driving trucks startup Starsky Robotics was founded to solve a fundamental issue with freight a solution that CEO Stefan Seltz-Axmacher believes hinges on getting the ...
07:03 pm GMT - Fri, June 7, 2019
Techcrunch Tackling big tech issues through storytelling, with Jessica Powell
Jessica Powell, Googles former head of PR from 2012-2018 (years in which Google required a not-insignificant amount of PR leadership), is now a rock star writer whose 2018 debut book, The Big Disrupti...
06:29 pm GMT - Fri, June 7, 2019
Techcrunch FCC passes measure urging carriers to block robocalls by default
The FCC voted today to adopt an anti-robocall measure, but it may or may not lead to any abatement of this maddening practice and it might not be free, either. That said, it's a good start towards ad...
06:29 pm GMT - Fri, June 7, 2019
Techcrunch Sams Club is upgrading tire shopping with a time-saving app
Alongside today’s news that Walmart will soon introduce in-home grocery delivery in select markets, the company today announced another new effort similarly aimed at saving customers’ time...
05:58 pm GMT - Fri, June 7, 2019
Techcrunch Audi proves two little screens are better than one big screen
Im spending some time in the new Audi Q8, and the car company equipped the crossover with its latest infotainment system. I love it, fingerprints, dust and all. The grimy screens are part of the story...
05:27 pm GMT - Fri, June 7, 2019
Techcrunch Economic development organizations: good or bad for entrepreneurial activity?
In developing VC markets such as the Midwest, some may think that funding from the government or economic development organizations are a godsend for local entrepreneurs. Startups are often looking......
05:22 pm GMT - Fri, June 7, 2019
Techcrunch Google continues to preach multi-cloud approach with Looker acquisition
When Google announced it was buying Looker yesterday morning for $2.6 billion, you couldn’t blame some of the company’s 1600 customers if they worried a bit if Looker would continue its mu...
04:59 pm GMT - Fri, June 7, 2019
Techcrunch Daily Crunch: Facebooks cryptocurrency is coming
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...
04:51 pm GMT - Fri, June 7, 2019
Techcrunch Xiaomi recalls some of its popular M365 scooter model
Xiaomi recently discovered a safety issue with the M365 electric scooter where a screw could become loose in the folding apparatus. That would then cause the vertical component of the scooter to break...
04:40 pm GMT - Fri, June 7, 2019
Techcrunch A Google Walkout organizer just left the company, saying if they wont lead, we will
Claire Stapleton, a longtime Google employee who helped organize a 20,000-person walkout of Google employees last November over the company’s handling of sexual harassment allegations, announced...
04:12 pm GMT - Fri, June 7, 2019
Techcrunch Answers to your burning questions about how Sign In with Apple works
One of the bigger security announcements from Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference this week is Apple’s new requirement that app developers must implement the company’s new single ...
04:05 pm GMT - Fri, June 7, 2019
Techcrunch Weighing Pelotons opportunity and risks ahead of IPO
Exercise tech company Peloton filed confidentially for IPO this week, and already the big question is whether their last private valuation at $4 billion might be too rich for the appetites of public m...
03:32 pm GMT - Fri, June 7, 2019
Techcrunch For less than $10, anyone can make an AI write a fake UN speech
Using less than $8 and thirteen hours of training time, researchers from the United Nations were able to develop a program that could craft realistic seeming speeches for the United Nations’ Gen...
03:17 pm GMT - Fri, June 7, 2019
Techcrunch Fintech platform Synapse raises $33M to build the AWS of banking
Synapse, a San Francisco-based startup that operates a platform enabling banks and fintech companies to easily develop financial services, has closed a $33 million Series B to develop new products and...
02:45 pm GMT - Fri, June 7, 2019
Techcrunch Walmart to launch in-home grocery delivery in three cities, starting this fall
Walmart on Friday announced plans for a new, in-home grocery delivery service which would allow the retailer to deliver items directly to a customer’s fridge or freezer, even when the customer i...
02:22 pm GMT - Fri, June 7, 2019
Techcrunch Why identity startup Auth0s founder still codes: It makes him a better boss
If you ask Eugenio Pace to describe himself, “engineer” would be fairly high on the list. “Being a CEO is pretty busy,” he told TechCrunch in a call last week. “But IR...
02:22 pm GMT - Fri, June 7, 2019
Techcrunch NASA declares International Space Station open for business, including private astronaut visits
At an event on Friday, NASA laid out its plans for making the International Space Station a hub for commercial activity in low-Earth orbit. The agency has long planned to make the ISS a key anchor poi...
01:00 pm GMT - Fri, June 7, 2019
Techcrunch What happens to late-stage VC if the Vision Fund goes away?
Hello and welcome back toEquity, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines....
12:43 pm GMT - Fri, June 7, 2019
Techcrunch NASAs Mars Helicopter begins final testing phase before 2020 mission
NASA’s Mars Helicopter will be a key experimental craft when it comes to shaping what humanity’s future exploring the Red Planet looks like when it launches aboard NASA’s Mars 2020 ...
12:00 pm GMT - Fri, June 7, 2019
Techcrunch Swiftly raises $10 million Series A to power real-time transit data in your city
Swiftly just raised a $10 million Series A round led by VIA ID, Aster Capital, Renewal Funds and Wind Capital to grow its software-as-a-service business for cities transportation agencies. ly works by...
11:51 am GMT - Fri, June 7, 2019
Techcrunch Unmortgage, the part own, part rental housing startup, loses founder and CEO
Unmortgage, the London-based startup that wants to let people buy as little as five percent of a home and rent the rest, has lost its founder and CEO, TechCrunch has learned. According to a regulatory...
03:59 am GMT - Fri, June 7, 2019
Techcrunch Depop, a social app targeting millennial and Gen Z shoppers, bags $62M, passes 13M users
The rising popularity of omni-channel commerce — selling to customers wherever they happen to be spending time online — has spawned an army of shopping tools and platforms that are giving ...
03:51 am GMT - Fri, June 7, 2019
Techcrunch Sennheiser debuts its first wireless gaming headset, the GSP 670
During Computex last week, Sennheiser gave media a sneak peek at its first wireless gaming headset, the GSP 670, slated to ship starting at the beginning of next month. The GSP 670 retails for 349 (ab...
11:21 pm GMT - Thu, June 6, 2019
Techcrunch FoodShot Global is digging up innovation for soil health as part of its first prize competition
FoodShot Global, a prize platform devoted to transforming the world’s food and agriculture industries, has awarded the first round of prizes for its Innovating Soil 3.0competition. Trace Genomic...
11:09 pm GMT - Thu, June 6, 2019
Techcrunch How Amazons delivery robots will navigate your sidewalk
Earlier this year, Amazon announced its Scout sidewalk delivery robot. At the time, details were sparse, except for the fact that the company had started to make deliveries in a neighborhood in Washin...
10:46 pm GMT - Thu, June 6, 2019
Techcrunch Apple Store designer proposes restoring Notre-Dame as basically an Apple Store
Eight Inc, the design firm best known for conceptualizing the Apple Store and the now-iconic giant glass cube on 5th Ave in New York, has proposed to restore Notre-Dame's sadly destroyed roof and spir...
10:43 pm GMT - Thu, June 6, 2019
Techcrunch Original Content podcast: Director Grant Sputore explains how I Am Mother draws from real-world robots
When I first watched the new Netflix Original film “I Am Mother,” I assumed that the robotic Mother (voiced by Rose Byrne) was a CG creation. How else could you create a robot that looked ...
09:49 pm GMT - Thu, June 6, 2019
Techcrunch A backdoor in Optergy smart building tech gets maximum severity score
Homeland Security has given the maximum severity score for a vulnerability in a popular smart building automation system. Optergy’s Proton allows building owners and managers to remotely monitor...
09:49 pm GMT - Thu, June 6, 2019
Techcrunch A backdoor in Optergy tech could remotely shut down a smart building with one click
Homeland Security has given the maximum severity score for a vulnerability in a popular smart building automation system. Optergy’s Proton allows building owners and managers to remotely monitor...
09:45 pm GMT - Thu, June 6, 2019
Techcrunch The Ticket Fairy is techs best hope against Ticketmaster
Ticketmaster’s dominance has led to ridiculous service fees, scalpers galore, and exclusive contracts that exploit venues and artists. The moronic approval of venue operator and artist managemen...
08:44 pm GMT - Thu, June 6, 2019
Techcrunch Zoom outperforms in first-ever earnings report
Zoom shares are gaining ground following report of major revenue growth....
08:29 pm GMT - Thu, June 6, 2019
Techcrunch AT&Ts WarnerMedia might be punting on its original streaming service plans
WarnerMedia’s plans for a three-tiered streaming service appear to be influx. The AT&T-owned company is reportedly scrapping that idea and opting instead to offer HBO, Cinemax and the librar...
08:17 pm GMT - Thu, June 6, 2019
Techcrunch Zoox co-founder Jesse Levinson is coming to TC Sessions: Mobility
Autonomous vehicle startup Zoox has a history of keeping its progressive and plans to itself. But that’s starting to change. The venture-backed company that is creating ground-up fully autonomou...
08:00 pm GMT - Thu, June 6, 2019
Techcrunch Is there potential for blockchain in copyright and licensing applications?
Does blockchain technology show meaningful promise for real-world copyright and licensing applications? Lets take a closer look....
07:52 pm GMT - Thu, June 6, 2019
Techcrunch Voatz has raised $7 million in Series A funding for its mobile voting technology
Voatz, the four-year-old, Boston, Ma.-based voting and citizen engagement platform that has been at the center of debate over the merits and dangers of mobile voting, has raised $7 million in Series A...
07:12 pm GMT - Thu, June 6, 2019
Techcrunch The 10 benefits and policies any modern workplace should have
Want to attract (and retain) top talent, making your companys workforce more competitive and cutting down on turnover costs to boot? The simplest way to do so starts with the benefits and policies......
07:12 pm GMT - Thu, June 6, 2019
Techcrunch 8 benefits and policies that are making your company seem outdated
The competition for top talent today is more fierce than ever. And when it comes to attracting and retaining that talent, we know that benefits play a major hand in how well an employer fares......
07:10 pm GMT - Thu, June 6, 2019
Techcrunch Jeff Bezos wants to build the infrastructure for space startups
At its re:Mars conference, Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos took the stage today to be “interviewed” by Jenny Freshwater, Amazon’s director of forecasting. As any AWS machine learning t...
07:04 pm GMT - Thu, June 6, 2019
Techcrunch Thumbtack is raising up to $120M on a flat valuation
Raising VC at a flat valuation is often a sign investors are uncertain of a company's future prospects....
06:45 pm GMT - Thu, June 6, 2019
Techcrunch Heres why you should exhibit in Startup Alley at Disrupt SF 2019
Dont miss your chance to navigate your early-stage startup through an ocean of opportunity at Disrupt San Francisco 2019, our flagship event that takes place October 2-4. Were talking about exhibiting...
06:25 pm GMT - Thu, June 6, 2019
Techcrunch Destiny 2 goes free to play and gains cross-saving on all platforms
Bungie aims to fortify the popular but flagging Destiny 2 with an expanded free-to-play plan and universal cross-platform saving, the company announced today. It's an interesting and player-friendly e...
06:15 pm GMT - Thu, June 6, 2019
Techcrunch HTC launches Vive Pro Eye stateside, costs four times as much as Rift S
HTC had the hottest VR headset out of the gate in 2016, but the thinning margins on consumer hardware thanks to Oculus have pushed them into the enterprise business. Today, the company released the Vi...
06:10 pm GMT - Thu, June 6, 2019
Techcrunch Protecting the integrity U.S. elections will require a massive regulatory overhaul, academics say
Ahead of the 2020 elections former Facebook chief security officer Alex Stamos and his colleagues at Stanford University have unveiled a sweeping new plan to secure U.S. electoral infrastructure and c...
06:10 pm GMT - Thu, June 6, 2019
Techcrunch Protecting the integrity of US elections will require a massive regulatory overhaul, academics say
Ahead of the 2020 elections, former Facebook chief security officer Alex Stamos and his colleagues at Stanford University have unveiled a sweeping new plan to secure U.S. electoral infrastructure and ...
06:01 pm GMT - Thu, June 6, 2019
Techcrunch Instagram one-ups TikTok with karaoke lyrics
Lip-syncing jumpstarted TikTok’s rise to the center of teen culture, arguably displacing Instagram . Now the Facebook-owned app is striking back with a new feature that lets you displays lyrics ...
05:48 pm GMT - Thu, June 6, 2019
Techcrunch Self-driving delivery van startup Gatik AI comes out of stealth with Walmart partnership
Gatik AI, an autonomous vehicle startup that came out of stealth Thursday with $4.5 million in funding and Walmart as a customer, is aiming for the sweet middle spot in the world of logistics. The com...
05:24 pm GMT - Thu, June 6, 2019
Techcrunch VC and Warriors minority owner Mark Stevens banned from NBA Finals after shoving Kyle Lowry
Venture capitalist Mark Stevens has been banned from the rest of the NBA Finals after last night shoving Toronto Raptor’s player Kyle Lowry and hurling expletives at him after Lowry crashed into...
05:20 pm GMT - Thu, June 6, 2019
Techcrunch Twitters updated T&Cs look clearer yet it still cant say no to nazis
Twitter has taken a pair of shears to its user rules, shaving almost 2,000 words off of its T&Cs — with the stated aim of making it clearer for users what is not acceptable behaviour on its ...
05:05 pm GMT - Thu, June 6, 2019
Techcrunch Unraveling the Secrets of Sand Hill Road and the VC thought process, with Andreessen Horowitzs Scott Kupor
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 Connie Loizos sat down with Scott Kupor...
05:03 pm GMT - Thu, June 6, 2019
Techcrunch Facebook plans June 18th cryptocurrency debut. Heres what we know
Facebook is finally ready to reveal details about its cryptocurrency codenamed Libra. It’s currently scheduled for a June 18th release of a white paper explaining its cryptocurrency’s basi...
04:59 pm GMT - Thu, June 6, 2019
Techcrunch Postmates taps longtime Apple engineer to boost autonomous delivery efforts
Ken Kocienda will manage Postmates X, the team behind its semi-autonomous delivery robot....
04:52 pm GMT - Thu, June 6, 2019
Techcrunch Here are all of the trailers from todays Google Stadia announcement
You know the deal: a console is nothing without games. Same goes for streaming plans. Google jumped the gun on E3 this week with its Stadia Connect, a live stream that takes more than a page or two fr...
04:38 pm GMT - Thu, June 6, 2019
Techcrunch Daily Crunch: Google is acquiring Looker
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...
04:26 pm GMT - Thu, June 6, 2019
Techcrunch Barack and Michelle Obama are developing podcasts for Spotify
Spotify just announced a partnership with Barack and Michelle Obama’s production company Higher Ground. Through this deal, Spotify says the Obamas will “develop, produce, and lend their vo...
04:22 pm GMT - Thu, June 6, 2019
Techcrunch Google Stadia launches 4K game-streaming in November for $9.99/mo
It’s not quite a “Netflix for games” but Google Stadia is making an aggressive sell for their service that’s aiming to kill game consoles. We got the full rundown on GoogleR...
04:16 pm GMT - Thu, June 6, 2019
Techcrunch Heres how Google Stadia performs depending on your internet connection
Google is introducing more about the launch of its Stadia streaming gaming service today, and VP Phil Harrison gave us performance specifics today so you can see exactly how the company thinks the ser...
04:11 pm GMT - Thu, June 6, 2019
Techcrunch Manifolds Marketplace as a Service puts app marketplaces in reach of any developer
Manifold, a startup known for providing all of the tools developers need in a single marketplace, has decided to make its core product available as a service, so that other companies can build a catal...
04:05 pm GMT - Thu, June 6, 2019
Techcrunch David Krane, the CEO of GV, is coming to Disrupt
David Krane has a very big job. He’s the CEO and managing partner of GV, and he oversees the fund’s global activities, investing in tech companies including Uber, Nest, and Blue Bottle Cof...
04:05 pm GMT - Thu, June 6, 2019
Techcrunch Verified Expert Growth Marketing Agency: Ampush
Customers have described Ampushas the McKinsey of growth marketing, and in many ways, its apt. Ampush has a relentlessly quantitative, full-funnel approach to growth marketing, and theyve built propri...
03:54 pm GMT - Thu, June 6, 2019
Techcrunch Watch Google unveil Stadia launch details live right here
Google doesnt want to wait for E3 to unveil more details about Stadia, its cloud gaming platform. The company is holding a live stream conference to talk about its service, including pricing, games an...
03:48 pm GMT - Thu, June 6, 2019
Techcrunch Paris clamps down on scooter startups
The City of Paris has had enough. There are currently 12 (yes, twelve) scooter startups in Paris. As reported by Le Monde, Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo announced in a press conference a series of restr...
03:08 pm GMT - Thu, June 6, 2019
Techcrunch Report details Google Stadia game-streaming pricing and availability
Google Stadia is arriving with competitive pricing later this year but 2020 will be the platform’s ultimate test. Details of the service’s pricing and availability were being shared by Goo...
03:00 pm GMT - Thu, June 6, 2019
Techcrunch TechCrunch partners with All Raise to let female founders ask anything at Disrupt SF 2019
TechCrunch Disrupt SF (October 2-4) is coming up fast, and were very pleased to announce that for a second year were partnering with All Raise, a startup nonprofit thats accelerating the success of fe...
02:14 pm GMT - Thu, June 6, 2019
Techcrunch Uber Copter offers on-demand JFK helicopter service for top-tier users
Uber is adding regular helicopter air service to the heaviest users of its platform with Uber Copter — a new service line launched today that will provide on-demand transportation from Lower Man...
02:05 pm GMT - Thu, June 6, 2019
Techcrunch Robust.AI launches to build an industrial-grade cognitive platform for robots
Despite the seemingly fantastical demonstration of walking and jumping robots, todays robots are often stupid, brittle and inflexible, only capable of working in carefully-engineered environments, and...
02:00 pm GMT - Thu, June 6, 2019
Techcrunch Fortune 500 giant Tech Data exposed customer and billing data
Security researchers said a security lapse at IT giant Tech Data allowed them to access customer and billing data. The Fortune 500 information technology giant secured an exposed server shortly after ...
01:59 pm GMT - Thu, June 6, 2019
Techcrunch Step raises $22.5M led by Stripe to build no-fee banking services for teens
The smartphone revolution has well and truly disrupted the world of banking. A wide range of startups have cropped up that have completely removed the need to make visits to physical branches to open ...
01:41 pm GMT - Thu, June 6, 2019
Techcrunch Amazon, reeling from recent regulatory hurdles, pumps $404M into its India business
Following months-long intense regulatory setback in India, Amazon is moving back to spending big bucks to grow its business in the worlds second largest internet market. Amazon has infused Rs 2,999 cr...
01:35 pm GMT - Thu, June 6, 2019
Techcrunch Google to acquire analytics startup Looker for $2.6 billion
Google made a big splash this morning when it announced it’s going to acquire Looker, a hot analytics startup that’s raised over $280 million. It’s paying $2.6 billion for the privil...
01:03 pm GMT - Thu, June 6, 2019
Techcrunch Virgin Orbit seeks to launch satellites from the UK by 2020
One of Richard Branson’s space companies (yes, he has more than one) is looking to bring satellite launches to British soil, with a new Virgin Spaceport based in Cornwall. The project now has bu...
01:02 pm GMT - Thu, June 6, 2019
Techcrunch India orders Uber and rival Ola to electrify 40% of fleets by 2026
India is doubling down on its push to replace gasoline and diesel vehicles on its streets with environmentally friendly electric cars. The government plans to order ride-hailing firms such as Uber and...
01:00 pm GMT - Thu, June 6, 2019
Techcrunch Legacy, a sperm testing and freezing service, raises $1.5M
Bain Capital Ventures bets on fertility....
12:38 pm GMT - Thu, June 6, 2019
Techcrunch Apple reportedly exploring acqui-hire of self-driving startup Drive.ai
Apple is potentially seeking to acquire Silicon Valley autonomous driving startup Drive.ai, according to a new report from The Information. The report describes the acquisition as in process, and says...
12:30 pm GMT - Thu, June 6, 2019
Techcrunch Urban-X accelerator backs seven new companies pitching services for the worlds cities
Urban-X, the startup accelerator for companies focused on solving the problems facing the world’s urban environment, has selected the latest seven companies for its sixth cohort. Backed by the d...
12:00 pm GMT - Thu, June 6, 2019
Techcrunch Zyper, the marketing platform that connects brands with their superfans, raises $6.5M Series A
Zyper, the London-based marketing platform that connects brands with their ‘superfans’, has raised $6.5 million in Series A funding. The new round, which brings Zypers total funding to dat...
11:51 am GMT - Thu, June 6, 2019
Techcrunch Tetris turns 35 but we still cant stop the blocks from falling
I’d spare you the ‘wanna feel old?’ but you probably will anyway: Tetris turns 35 today. Tetris is a deceptively simple game in which you rotate blocks made up of four squares each a...
11:43 am GMT - Thu, June 6, 2019
Techcrunch Watch Google unveil Stadia launch details live right here
Google doesnt want to wait for E3 to unveil more details about Stadia, its cloud gaming platform. The company is holding a live stream conference to talk about its service, including pricing, games an...
11:33 am GMT - Thu, June 6, 2019
Techcrunch Line teams up with Visa to boost its mobile payment service
Messaging app Line has partnered with Visa to bring traditional financial clout to its mobile payment service. The deal will see Line Pay become compatible with Visa’s 54 million merchant partne...
09:39 am GMT - Thu, June 6, 2019
Techcrunch Pratilipi, a YouTube for writers storytelling platform in India, raises $15 million
Pratilipi, an app that is uniting writers in India and encouraging others to try their hand at storytelling, has just raised $15 million to expand its network in the nation. The Series B financing rou...
08:01 am GMT - Thu, June 6, 2019
Techcrunch Bunq launches travel card to make foreign exchange fees disappear
Fintech startup Bunq provides full-fledged bank accounts. But if youre happy with your existing bank, the company is launching a new free tier so that you can cut down on banking fees. The Bunq Travel...
07:12 am GMT - Thu, June 6, 2019
Techcrunch This entrepreneur is donating unwanted bike-sharing cycles to underprivileged students in Myanmar
What is the world to do with the graveyards of dockless bicycles left over after China’s bike sharing startups retreated from global markets? One man has come up with the best idea to date: dona...
05:19 am GMT - Thu, June 6, 2019
Techcrunch In trying to clear confusion over anti-harassment policy, YouTube creates more confusion
After a series of tweets that made it seem as if YouTube was contradicting its own anti-harassment policies, the video platform published a blog post in an attempt to clarify its stance. But even thou...
04:18 am GMT - Thu, June 6, 2019
Techcrunch China grants first 5G licenses amid Huawei global setback
It’s official. After much anticipation, China named the first companies to receive 5G licenses for commercial use on Thursday. The announcement from the Ministry of Industry and Information Tech...
03:19 am GMT - Thu, June 6, 2019
Techcrunch Possible Finance lands $10.5 million to provide consumers softer, kinder short-term loans
It’s easy to be skeptical of lending companies of every stripe. They uniformly rely on customers who don’t have enough money to cover their bills and are willing to pay interest on money b...
03:17 am GMT - Thu, June 6, 2019
Techcrunch Chinas Didi kicks off expansion in Latin America with moves into Chile and Colombia
The wheels are turning on Didi Chuxing’s first major expansion in Latin America after the Chinese ride-hailing firm announced moves into Chile and Colombia to double its presence in the region. ...
01:24 am GMT - Thu, June 6, 2019
Techcrunch Socially Inept, a comedy startup founded by Microsoft employees, roasts tech bros
'Socially Inept,' a new traveling comedy company, is making a business out of mocking techies....
12:44 am GMT - Thu, June 6, 2019
Techcrunch Every Final Fantasy soundtrack is now on Spotify and Apple Music
Just in time for your road trip to LA for E3, Square Enix has suddenly made the soundtracks to every main Final Fantasy game available for free to listen to online. Just log into Spotify or Apple Musi...
12:04 am GMT - Thu, June 6, 2019
Techcrunch With iOS 13, Apple locks out apps from accessing users private notes in Contacts
Apple is closing a loophole that allowed app developers to access users’ potentially sensitive and private data. With the launch of iOS 13, apps that request access to users’ Contacts will...
11:23 pm GMT - Wed, June 5, 2019
Techcrunch The Fiat Chrysler-Renault merger is dead over suboptimal political conditions
A proposed merger between Fiat Chrysler -Renault that would have created the third largest global automaker, is off. Fiat Chrysler Automobiles withdrew its offer, the Wall Street Journal reported. FCA...
10:56 pm GMT - Wed, June 5, 2019
Techcrunch Sources: Bird is in talks to acquire scooter startup Scoot
Consolidation is afoot in the micro-mobility industry....
10:55 pm GMT - Wed, June 5, 2019
Techcrunch BMW and Jaguar Land Rover team up on next-generation electric drive tech
BMW Group and Jaguar Land Rover have agreed to partner on the development of future electric vehicles, the latest in a string of collaborations between automakers to bring advanced, and often expensiv...
10:17 pm GMT - Wed, June 5, 2019
Techcrunch Apples global accessibility head on the companys new features for iOS 13 and macOS Catalina
From dark mode in iOS 13 to a redesigned user interface in tvOS to the dismantling of iTunes to the coming of iPadOS, Apple made a slew of announcements at its Worldwide Developers Conference keynote ...
09:41 pm GMT - Wed, June 5, 2019
Techcrunch AdHawk raises $13M as it expands into the flooring industry
Why is an adtech startup going after the flooring industry? That was my big question when I got on the phone with AdHawk CEO Todd Saunders and COO Dan Pratt. The company announced earlier this week th...
08:26 pm GMT - Wed, June 5, 2019
Techcrunch Uber is finally trading above its IPO price
Uber (NYSE: UBER) closed up 5 percent Wednesday. ...
08:14 pm GMT - Wed, June 5, 2019
Techcrunch YouTube will let bigot monetize if he removes link to homophobic merch
YouTube has made the weakest, least courageous response to mass backlash regarding its ruling yesterday that right-wing personality Steven Crowder’s racist and homophobic attacks on Vox video pr...
07:45 pm GMT - Wed, June 5, 2019
Techcrunch Google offers new treasure trove of air quality data to researchers
Google has employed its network of street-view vehicles to also measure street-level air quality in recent years, through an initiative it calls “Project Air View.” Today, it’s makin...
06:49 pm GMT - Wed, June 5, 2019
Techcrunch Amazon says it has deployed more than 200,000 robotic drives globally
Amazon is serious about robotics. For most other companies, the technology may still feel like some distant novelty, but the e-commerce giant has already begun to deploy robotics systems en masse. Rob...
06:47 pm GMT - Wed, June 5, 2019
Techcrunch Peloton IPO, VC alternatives, privacy at Apple, and cybersecurity returns
ICYMI: As Peloton files for IPO, can its live fitness gamification model extend to other verticals? Peloton confidentially filed for its IPO today, and the juggernaut fitness company is positioned to ...
06:35 pm GMT - Wed, June 5, 2019
Techcrunch What to expect from E3 2019
E3 2019 is shaping up to be a bit of an in-between year. Nintendo Switch sales have finally started slowing, but the companys a ways off from its next-generation console. Microsoft and Sony will be of...
06:26 pm GMT - Wed, June 5, 2019
Techcrunch Astronomers fret over debilitating threat of thousands of satellites cluttering the sky
The promise of today's nascent communications satellite constellations is real: connecting everyone on the globe, no exceptions. But the dark side, or rather bright side, of these satellites threatens...
06:21 pm GMT - Wed, June 5, 2019
Techcrunch YouTube finds a stance on Nazi ideologues and Holocaust deniers
As YouTube garners heat for failing to take action on purported hate speech, the company is trying to shift the narrative all while reminding the public that after 14 years it’s still writing th...
06:08 pm GMT - Wed, June 5, 2019
Techcrunch YouTubes bully problems prove that community doesnt scale
I have a confession to make. Its something that I live with daily. Its not that Im not proud of it...its just that Im never sure how people will see me after they know my secret. Here goes nothing....
05:47 pm GMT - Wed, June 5, 2019
Techcrunch MITs robot boats can self-assemble to build bridges, stages or even markets
MIT researchers have created a new autonomous robot boat prototype which they have named ‘roboats’ to my everlasting glee that can target and combine with one another Voltron-style to cr...
05:41 pm GMT - Wed, June 5, 2019
Techcrunch Amazon will soon make having a chat with Alexa feel more natural
At its re:Mars conference, Amazon today announced that it is working on making interacting with its Alexa personal assistant more natural by enabling more fluid conversations that can move from topic ...
05:32 pm GMT - Wed, June 5, 2019
Techcrunch Daily Crunch: Peloton files to go 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...
05:07 pm GMT - Wed, June 5, 2019
Techcrunch Social Capital reincarnated
Social Capital tried to disrupt VC and fell apart. Tribe Capital is picking up the pieces....
05:05 pm GMT - Wed, June 5, 2019
Techcrunch This years Computex was a wild ride with dueling chip releases, new laptops and 467 startups
After a relatively quiet show last year, Computex picked up the pace this year, with dueling chip launches by rivals AMD and Intel and a slew of laptop releases from Asus, Qualcomm, Nvidia, Lenovo and...
04:59 pm GMT - Wed, June 5, 2019
Techcrunch A first look at Amazons new delivery drone
For the first time, Amazon today showed off its newest fully electric delivery drone at its first re:Mars conference in Las Vegas. Chances are, it neither looks nor flies like what you’d expect ...
04:46 pm GMT - Wed, June 5, 2019
Techcrunch Amazon will use AI to help you shop for clothes with StyleSnap
On its face, Amazons first re:MARS conference is all about far-out, world-changing ideas, but the company is still very much a retailer at heart. Fitting then, that one of the first big announcements ...
04:30 pm GMT - Wed, June 5, 2019
Techcrunch Amazon debuts a pair of new warehouse robots
Amazon kicked off its first re:MARS conference with some ringers last night, bringing out Robert Downey Jr., Boston Dynamics Marc Raibert and Disney Research’s Morgan Pope and Tony Dohl during t...
04:24 pm GMT - Wed, June 5, 2019
Techcrunch Netflix tests an Instagram Stories-like feed called Extras in its app
Netflix is testing a new way to help users find something to watch and stay connected with favorite shows with the introduction of an “Extras” tab in its mobile app. The tab, spotted first...
04:09 pm GMT - Wed, June 5, 2019
Techcrunch Alibaba, Mail.Ru, Megafon form AliExpress Russia JV to double down on e-commerce in CIS
After announcing plans in September 2018 to build a joint venture together, today Russian internet giant Mail.ru, Megafon and China’s Alibaba announced that the deal has closed. With support als...
04:05 pm GMT - Wed, June 5, 2019
Techcrunch Which type of funding is actually best for your business?
When starting a tech company, there seems to be a playbook that most entrepreneurs follow. While some may start with a bit of bootstrapping, most will dive straight into raising seed money through... ...
04:00 pm GMT - Wed, June 5, 2019
Techcrunch Google Cloud gets capacity reservations, extends committed use discounts beyond CPUs
Google Cloud made two significant pricing announcements today. Those, you’ll surely be sad to hear, don’t involve the usual price drops for compute and storage. Instead, Googe Cloud today ...
04:00 pm GMT - Wed, June 5, 2019
Techcrunch Review: The 2019 Bentley Continental GT is beautiful, excessive and totally worth it
The Bentley Continental GT is iconic. The vehicle has long stood for excess and opulence, and I knew that going in. I expected the Continental GT to be over-engineered and capable of high-speed thrill...
04:00 pm GMT - Wed, June 5, 2019
Techcrunch Yellowbrick Data raises $81M Series C for hybrid data warehouse
There’s lots of data in the world these days, and there are a number of companies vying to store that data in data warehouses or lakes or whatever they choose to call it. Old school companies ha...
03:55 pm GMT - Wed, June 5, 2019
Techcrunch World Views sub-space high-altitude balloon lasts over two weeks aloft
World View is a company focused on alternative methods of doing some of the work traditionally handled by satellites but just a bit closer to Earth. Its ‘Stratollites’ are balloons that c...
03:30 pm GMT - Wed, June 5, 2019
Techcrunch GM is opening up Super Cruise hands-free driving system to more roads
GM’s hands-free driver assistance system Super Cruise, has been lauded for its capabilities. But it’s also been criticized because of its severe limitations. So far, it’s only availa...
02:47 pm GMT - Wed, June 5, 2019
Techcrunch Skype publicly launches screen sharing on iOS and Android
Skype is taking one of its most popular desktop features to mobile devices: screen sharing. The company announced on Tuesday that its mobile screen sharing feature is now out of beta testing, allowing...
02:40 pm GMT - Wed, June 5, 2019
Techcrunch LinkedIn to shutter Chitu, its Chinese-language app, in July, redirects users to LinkedIn in Chinese
LinkedIn has long eyed China as an important country to offset slowing growth in more mature markets. But now it’s calling time on a localized effort after failing to see it pick up steam. The c...
02:35 pm GMT - Wed, June 5, 2019
Techcrunch Connected bike and treadmill-maker Peloton files confidentially for IPO
Exercise tech darling and service provider Peloton has filed for IPO with a confidential draft submission of its S-1 statement to the SEC on Wednesday. The company announced the news in a press releas...
02:00 pm GMT - Wed, June 5, 2019
Techcrunch Aion Network introduces first blockchain virtual machine for Java developers
Aion Network, a non-profit dedicated to creating tools to promote blockchain technologies, announced a new virtual machine today that’s built on top of the popular Java Virtual Machine. Its ulti...
01:53 pm GMT - Wed, June 5, 2019
Techcrunch Ad Astra trailer pits Brad Pitt against his dad Tommy Lee Jones in space
A new sci-fi movie called Ad Astra is heading to theaters on September 20, and it’s got some amazing star power behind it, including Brad Pitt in the lead role. It also brings Liv Tyler back to ...
01:34 pm GMT - Wed, June 5, 2019
Techcrunch Supercross to debut first EV class and tap startups to go digital
Motorcycle racing series Supercross will add e-motos and more digitization to its franchise (aided by startups) in the near future, according to Director of Operations David Prater. The sportwhere rid...
01:28 pm GMT - Wed, June 5, 2019
Techcrunch In a rare advisory, NSA urges users to patch BlueKeep flaw
The National Security Agency has issued a rare advisory warning users to update their systems to protect against BlueKeep, a new security vulnerability with the capacity to rapidly spread between comp...
01:22 pm GMT - Wed, June 5, 2019
Techcrunch China says apps should get user consent before tracking
Chinese regulators might follow the European Union’s lead to make life harder for internet companies such as TikTok that closely track behavior of their users in a move that could significantly ...
01:21 pm GMT - Wed, June 5, 2019
Techcrunch Pokmon Sword and Shield arrive worldwide on November 15, 2019
Nintendo Switch has Pokmon games, but it doesn’t really have its own Pokmon games, not in the true sense. Pokmon Sword and Shield, coming November 15, 2019, will be the first real Pokmon games (...
01:07 pm GMT - Wed, June 5, 2019
Techcrunch The Stanford connections behind Latin Americas multi-billion dollar startup renaissance
The houses along the tree-lined blocks of Josina Avenue in Palo Alto, with their big back yards, swimming pools and driveways are about as far removed from the snarls of traffic, sputtering diesel eng...
01:07 pm GMT - Wed, June 5, 2019
Techcrunch The Stanford connections behind Latin Americas multibillion-dollar startup renaissance
The houses along the tree-lined blocks of Josina Avenue in Palo Alto, with their big back yards, swimming pools and driveways are about as far removed from the snarls of traffic, sputtering diesel eng...
01:00 pm GMT - Wed, June 5, 2019
Techcrunch Zynga launches battle royale game as a Snap Games exclusive
Zynga the casual games developer which once rode Facebook’s platform to popularity and riches is now turning its attention to Snap for growth. Today, the gaming company is launching its new batt...
01:00 pm GMT - Wed, June 5, 2019
Techcrunch Aaron Rodgers raises $50M for Rx3 Ventures, a consumer fund backed by influencers
Rx3 Ventures is an investor in HIMS, Hydrow, VICIS, CorePower Yoga and others....
12:39 pm GMT - Wed, June 5, 2019
Techcrunch Amazon launches physical kiosks in UK train stations, a local extension of its Treasure Trucks
After announcing a year-long pilot of pop-up shops in the UKearlier this week to sell items from smaller marketplace merchants, Amazon has added another development to its brick-and-mortar efforts in ...
12:29 pm GMT - Wed, June 5, 2019
Techcrunch 7.7 million LabCorp records stolen in same hack affecting Quest
LabCorp is the latest laboratory testing giant this week to confirm it’s affected by the same third-party data breach. The Burlington, North Carolina-based medical giant said 7.7 million patient...
12:17 pm GMT - Wed, June 5, 2019
Techcrunch China launches a rocket to space from a ship at sea for the first time
China’s National Space Administration recorded a first today as it launched one of its Long March 11 rockets from a launch pad on board a ship in the Yellow Sea. This is the first time China has...
12:13 pm GMT - Wed, June 5, 2019
Techcrunch Getsafe, the German insurance app, scores $17M Series A
Getsafe, the German insurance startup targeting millennials, has raised $17 million (15m) in a Series A funding. The round is led by Earlybird, with CommerzVentures and other existing investors also p...
12:05 pm GMT - Wed, June 5, 2019
Techcrunch AntiToxin sells safetytech to clean up poisoned platforms
The big social networks and video games have failed to prioritize user well-being over their own growth. As a result, society is losing the battle against bullying, predators, hate speech, misinformat...
12:01 pm GMT - Wed, June 5, 2019
Techcrunch Google appeals $1.7BN EU AdSense antitrust fine
Like clockwork, Google has filed a legal appeal against the 1.49 billion ($1.7BN) antitrust penalty the European Commission slapped on its search ad brokering business three months ago. The Telegraph ...
12:00 pm GMT - Wed, June 5, 2019
Techcrunch NoBroker raises $51M to help Indians buy and rent without real estate brokers
A startup that is attempting to significantly improve the way how Indians rent or buy an apartment just raised a substantially big amount to further pursue its mission. Bangalore-based real estate pro...
12:00 pm GMT - Wed, June 5, 2019
Techcrunch Microsoft and Oracle link up their clouds
Microsoft and Oracle announced a new alliance today that will see the two companies directly connect their clouds over a direct network connection so that their users can then move workloads and data ...
11:00 am GMT - Wed, June 5, 2019
Techcrunch Grow Mobility, the micromobility startup formerly known as Grin, merges with payment system Flinto
Grow Mobility, the entity that consists of electric scooter startup Grin, and bike and scooter-share startup Yellow, has merged with payments startup Flinto. Flinto enables people to make peer-to-peer...
09:01 am GMT - Wed, June 5, 2019
Techcrunch Mirakl Connect lets sellers list products on multiple e-commerce marketplaces
Mirakl is launching a new product called Mirakl Connect. As the name suggests, this central dashboard lets you control which marketplace youre working with, and which seller you want to list on your m...
08:34 am GMT - Wed, June 5, 2019
Techcrunch YouTube says homophobic taunts dont violate its policies
YouTube is a confusing mess of an internet platform. In what appears to be a moment that draws a line in the sand around how online platforms regulate content, YouTube has told a gay reporter that hom...
08:00 am GMT - Wed, June 5, 2019
Techcrunch Tier, the Berlin-based e-scooter rental startup, unveils new hardware and announces its reached 2M rides
Tier, the Berlin-based e-scooter rental startup that competes with the likes of Voi, Lime, Wind, Circ and a host of others, is rolling out new hardware today in a bid to further improve the usability ...
03:59 am GMT - Wed, June 5, 2019
Techcrunch SentinelOne raises $120M for its fully-autonomous, AI-based endpoint security solution
Endpoint security — the branch of cybersecurity that focuses on data coming in from laptops, phones, and other devices connected to a network — is an $8 billion dollar market that, due to ...
02:12 am GMT - Wed, June 5, 2019
Techcrunch Uber eats Uber Eats, embedding it in the main app
Uber’s best hope to beat all its ride sharing and food delivery competitors is that it does both. Through cross-promotion, it can combine activities people might only do a few times per week or ...
11:13 pm GMT - Tue, June 4, 2019
Techcrunch A closer look at the best new iOS, macOS and watchOS features from WWDC
As expected, there was a lot at yesterdays big WWDC keynote. In fact, you got the sense watching the whole thing unfold that Apple had to race through a number of its new features to cram everything i...
11:08 pm GMT - Tue, June 4, 2019
Techcrunch Apple looks to recharge its broader app ecosystem at WWDC 2019
Developer tools dont tend to make headlines outside the tech ecosystem. But the developer tools announced at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference this week could have a significant impact on b...
09:27 pm GMT - Tue, June 4, 2019
Techcrunch KickSat-2 project launches 105 cracker-sized satellites
Move over, Starlink. SpaceX's global internet play might have caught the world's attention with its 60-satellite launch last month, but little did we know that it had already been upstaged at least i...
09:05 pm GMT - Tue, June 4, 2019
Techcrunch Apples new ecosystem world order and the privacy economy
Apples splashy new product announcements at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose also ushered in new rules of the road for its ecosystem partners that force hard turns for app makers...
08:46 pm GMT - Tue, June 4, 2019
Techcrunch SEC expands its war on cryptocurrency companies with a lawsuit against Kik
The Securities and Exchange Commission has sued Kik Interactive for the $100 million token sale the company announced two years ago. It’s an expansion of legal actions that began last year as th...
08:39 pm GMT - Tue, June 4, 2019
Techcrunch VCs bet $12M on Troops, a Slackbot for sales teams
Troops helps sales teams communicate via Slack....
08:00 pm GMT - Tue, June 4, 2019
Techcrunch One week left to apply for TC Startup Battlefield at Disrupt SF 2019
Our search continues for audacious early-stage startup founders to participate in Startup Battlefield atDisrupt San Francisco 2019on October 2-4.But the opportunity clock is running down quickly. You ...
08:00 pm GMT - Tue, June 4, 2019
Techcrunch Dilution: The good, the bad and the ugly
There is good dilution and bad dilution. Whether your dilution ends up being good or bad (or ugly) generally depends on how well you execute....
07:52 pm GMT - Tue, June 4, 2019
Techcrunch Sequoia-backed Whole Biome wants to heal your gut with medical-grade probiotics
Whole Biome has pulled in $35 million in Series B financing from a list of investing titans, including Sequoia, Khosla, True Ventures, the Mayo Foundation and AME Ventues — just to name a few. T...
07:48 pm GMT - Tue, June 4, 2019
Techcrunch How Kubernetes came to rule the world
Open source has become the de facto standard for building the software that underpins the complex infrastructure that runs everything from your favorite mobile apps to your company’s barely usab...
05:46 pm GMT - Tue, June 4, 2019
Techcrunch Apples new Health feature tracks unsafe headphone volumes
According to recent numbers from the World Health Organization, roughly half of people aged 12-35 are at risk for hearing loss. Thats due in no small part to explosive growth in personal listening dev...
05:33 pm GMT - Tue, June 4, 2019
Techcrunch KLM Airlines wants to help build a more efficient jet with in-wing seating
Air travel accounts for a significant chunk of greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants, and the amount of air travel has risen steadily over the past few decades, with emissions from aviation pr...
05:24 pm GMT - Tue, June 4, 2019
Techcrunch Time is running out on the biggest Disrupt SF 2019 savings
Heres an important reminder to all the shoe-string startups, frugal founders, budget-minded makers and, well, anyone else who loves to save a buck. You have two weeks left to reap the biggest savings ...
05:01 pm GMT - Tue, June 4, 2019
Techcrunch With antitrust investigations looming, Apple reverses course on bans of parental control apps
With Congressional probes and greater scrutiny from Federal regulators on the horizon, Apple has abruptly reversed course on its bans of parental control apps available in its app store. Apple defends...
04:10 pm GMT - Tue, June 4, 2019
Techcrunch Daily Crunch: Everything Apple announced at WWDC
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 - Tue, June 4, 2019
Techcrunch Verified Expert Growth Marketing Agency: Bell Curve
Bell Curve founder Julian Shapiro describes his team as talented growth marketers who have a long tail expertise of various channels and who arent afraid to play part-time therapists. As an agency, th...
04:00 pm GMT - Tue, June 4, 2019
Techcrunch Auroras head of product is coming to TC Sessions: Mobility
Self-driving car startup Aurora might be as buzzy as they come. The company raised more than $530 million just a few months ago in a round led by Sequoia Capital and with significant investment from A...
04:00 pm GMT - Tue, June 4, 2019
Techcrunch Security stays hot as Imperva grabs Distil Networks
Last week 4 security companies changed hands. The shopping spree continued this week with CDN company Imperva, announcing it was buying bot mitigation startup Distil Networks. The companies did not sh...
04:00 pm GMT - Tue, June 4, 2019
Techcrunch Zuora Central lets developers build connected workflows across services
Zuora has been known throughout its 12-year history as a company that helps manage subscription-based businesses. Today, at its Subscribed San Francisco customer conference, it announced that it’...
03:31 pm GMT - Tue, June 4, 2019
Techcrunch NASA research crew embarks on mock mission to Mars moon
Space is hard on humans it’s just not what we’re used to, because it’s very unlike this Earth most of us generally occupy for most of our lives. That’s why researchers do plen...
03:21 pm GMT - Tue, June 4, 2019
Techcrunch Spotify launches its lightweight listening app Stations in the US
Spotify Stations, the streaming service’s lightweight listening app offering easy access to curated playlists, has arrived in the U.S. The app has been considered an experiment by Spotify —...
03:01 pm GMT - Tue, June 4, 2019
Techcrunch Tinder adds sexual orientation and gender identity to its profiles
Tinder is adding information about sexual orientation and gender identity to its profiles. The company worked with the LGBTQ advocacy organization GLAAD on changes to its dating app to make it more in...
02:42 pm GMT - Tue, June 4, 2019
Techcrunch Ori Living partners with IKEA to bring robotic furniture to customers by 2020
Welcome to the robotic bedroom of the future, coming in 2020 to tiny apartments beginning in Hong Kong and Japan, but expanding around the world. IKEA is now selling robotic furniture that can convert...
02:17 pm GMT - Tue, June 4, 2019
Techcrunch Facebook fails to stop Europes top court weighing in on EU-US data transfers
Facebook has failed in its last ditch attempt to block a referral by Ireland’s High Court of questions over the legality of EU-US data transfer mechanisms to the region’s top court. Irelan...
02:00 pm GMT - Tue, June 4, 2019
Techcrunch Jewish dating app JCrush exposed user data and private messages
A security lapse at JCrush, a dating app designed for the Jewish community, left a databases open without a password, exposing sensitive user records and private messages to anyone who knew where to l...
01:55 pm GMT - Tue, June 4, 2019
Techcrunch NASAs Space Launch System passes key milestone for Moon mission
NASA is celebrating a key step towards its mission to get people back to the Moon: The first large core rocket stage that will power the new Space Launch System being built by contractor Boeing is now...
01:52 pm GMT - Tue, June 4, 2019
Techcrunch Bill Gates, NEO, Gigafund backing Luminous in photonics supercomputer moonshot
Luminous Computing, a one-year-old startup, is aiming to build a photonics chip that will handle workloads needed for AI at the speed of light. It’s a moonshot and yet, the young company already...
01:00 pm GMT - Tue, June 4, 2019
Techcrunch Bird is launching a two-seater electric vehicle to become more than a kick scooter startup
Bird won’t stop deploying new mobility vehicles and services. Bird has just unveiled the Bird Cruiser, an electric vehicle that is essentially a blend between a bicycle and a moped. The Bird Cru...
01:00 pm GMT - Tue, June 4, 2019
Techcrunch Firefox gets enhanced tracking protection, desktop password manager and more
It’s no secret that Mozilla sees privacy as a differentiating feature for its revitalized Firefox browser. Today, the Firefox team is launching one of its broadest set of releases that aim to ke...
12:01 pm GMT - Tue, June 4, 2019
Techcrunch Why four security companies just sold for $1.5B
If you’re thinking about starting a technology company, you may want to consider focusing on cybersecurity. Last week was an incredible M&A whirlwind with foursecurity companies getting acqu...
11:42 am GMT - Tue, June 4, 2019
Techcrunch Facebook can be told to cast a wider net to find illegal content, says EU court advisor
How much of an obligation should social media platforms be under to hunt down illegal content? An influential advisor to Europe’s top court has taken the view that social media platforms like Fa...
11:01 am GMT - Tue, June 4, 2019
Techcrunch Majelan is a personal podcast player with premium content
Meet Majelan, a French startup that wants to make podcasts more accessible. Behind the scene, Majelan is the startup created by former Radio France CEO Mathieu Gallet and Arthur Perticoz. The app is l...
10:49 am GMT - Tue, June 4, 2019
Techcrunch Apple is now restricting Chinese language podcasts in China
Just as podcasting hits the mainstream in the west, China, which is also experiencing an audio boom, is seeing restrictions tighten around shows as evidenced by new curbs from Apple. This week, the U....
09:08 am GMT - Tue, June 4, 2019
Techcrunch Aptoide, a Play Store rival, cries antitrust foul over Google hiding its app
As US regulators gear up to launch another antitrust probe of Google’s business, an alternative Android app store is dialling up its long time complaint of anti-competitive behavior against the ...
07:30 am GMT - Tue, June 4, 2019
Techcrunch Africa Roundup: Jumias post-IPO earnings, Gokadas $5.3M raise, Facebooks fake-news purge, Joe Montanas fintech investment
Jumia held its first post-IPO earnings call and weathered a short-sell assault in May, with Wall Street showing confidence in Pan-African e-commerce company. On the numbers, key takeaways were that Ju...
07:05 am GMT - Tue, June 4, 2019
Techcrunch China blocks CNNs website and Reuters stories about Tiananmen Square
CNNs website is currently blocked in mainland China, after it published a story about todays 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre as one of its top headlines. The site is usually accessib...
07:01 am GMT - Tue, June 4, 2019
Techcrunch Georges raises $11.2 million for its accounting automation tool
Meet Georges, a French startup that wants to help freelancers, doctors and lawyers when it comes to accounting. With Georges, you can get rid of your accountant altogether and switch to a software-as-...
06:39 am GMT - Tue, June 4, 2019
Techcrunch Google Maps now allows users in India to check live status of trains, bus travel times, and more
Apple unveiled a range of India-specific features in iOS 13 at WWDC this week as it begins to adapt its software for the worlds second largest internet market. But if you want to see how far an intern...
06:21 am GMT - Tue, June 4, 2019
Techcrunch Sleek lets companies incorporate and operate in Singapore without the pain of paperwork
Singapore is keen to exert itself as an epicenter for startups and tech worldwide. But beyond the government-backed startup programs, which include grants, investment checks and more, a key point is s...
06:00 am GMT - Tue, June 4, 2019
Techcrunch Tink, the European open banking platform, announces PayPal as a strategic investor
Tink, the European open banking platform that recently raised 56 million in new funding, is disclosing that PayPal has become a strategic investor. The online payments giant joins a long list of exist...
04:28 am GMT - Tue, June 4, 2019
Techcrunch Apple announces its 2019 Design Award winners
Apple doled out its 2019 Design Awards at its Worldwide Developer Conference this afternoon, highlighting a range of apps that work as beautifully as they look, the company said. This year, half the a...
02:48 am GMT - Tue, June 4, 2019
Techcrunch Siri Shortcuts comes built in on iOS 13, allows for more powerful shortcuts
At last year’s Worldwide Developer Conference, Apple announced the new app Siri Shortcuts which allows iOS users to create custom voice commands for their apps. Today, the company unveiled a ser...
01:52 am GMT - Tue, June 4, 2019
Techcrunch Mercedes-Benz is expanding its luxury subscription service
Mercedes-Benz is expanding a pilot subscription service that lets users switch between different luxury models to a third U.S. city a year after launching in Nashville and Philadelphia. The pilot is a...
01:24 am GMT - Tue, June 4, 2019
Techcrunch Apple will soon require apps with any third-party logins to offer Sign In With Apple also
Something from the fine print out of todays WWDC keynote. Sign In With Apple didnt get a ton of time on-stage today, but it should prove a nice new feature for the company and for those concerned abo...
12:59 am GMT - Tue, June 4, 2019
Techcrunch A closer look at Apples reinvented Mac Pro
Apple only announced one new piece of hardware at todays, but it was a doozy. After years of promising a refresh for the long lamented Mac Pro line, the high-end desktop finally got its modular upgrad...
11:58 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2019
Techcrunch Apple attacks Facebook by becoming the asocial network
Sharing with everyone is pass and more than a little bit scary these days. We want to send photos to friends without posting them publicly. We want to reminisce without being permanently defined by ou...
11:53 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2019
Techcrunch Aptivs self-driving BMWs have made more than 50,000 rides on the Lyft app in Las Vegas
A little more than a year ago, self-driving software company Aptiv and Lyft launched a pilot project to test a robotaxi service with human safety drivers still behind the wheel in Las Vegas during t...
11:51 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2019
Techcrunch Apples updated TestFlight will let users submit feedback with a screenshot
Apple’s TestFlight app testing platform is getting an upgrade. With the new version of Xcode 11 announced this afternoon at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference, TestFlight apps will aut...
11:49 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2019
Techcrunch Meet Apples secret weapon for keeping Wall Street happy
Apple has been shifting their business strategy over the past couple years to push the revenues earned from top customers higher and higher, but if you thought a $999 starting price for the iPhone XS ...
11:26 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2019
Techcrunch Apples Voice Control improves accessibility OS-wide on all its devices
Apple is known for fluid, intuitive user interfaces, but none of that matters if you can't click, tap, or drag because you don't have a finger to do so with. For users with disabilities the company is...
11:02 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2019
Techcrunch GM and Fiat Chrysler are buying Teslas regulatory credits
One of the more opaque segments of Tesla’s business just became a little more transparent. Recent filings show that GM and Fiat Chrysler have bought zero-emissions vehicle credits from Tesla, Bl...
11:02 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2019
Techcrunch iOS 13 will let you bypass the App Store download cap when on a cellular connection
  Just a few days ago, Apple bumped up the limit on how big of an app you can download from the App Store while on a cellular connection, increasing it from 150MB to 200MB. As we noted at the tim...
10:29 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2019
Techcrunch Fitness startup Mirror nears $300M valuation with fresh funding
Mirror, which sells a $1,495 mirror that doubles as an interactive home gym, is raising more VC....
10:19 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2019
Techcrunch Cookware startup Great Jones launches Potline, a text service for recipes and advice
Great Jones, a startup selling pots, pans and even an oven directly to consumers, is introducing a new way to get help in the kitchen. Potline is a free text message service where anyone can ask for r...
10:00 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2019
Techcrunch Flash, the e-scooter startup from Delivery Hero founder, re-brands as Circ and announces 1M rides
Flash, the micro-mobility startup from Delivery Hero and Team Europe founder Lukasz Gadowski, is re-branding today and disclosing that the e-scooter rental service has clocked up 1 million rides in ju...
09:59 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2019
Techcrunch SpaceX Dragon capsule returns from Space Station resupply mission
SpaceX’s Dragon cargo capsule has made its way back from the International Space Station, completing the private launcher’s seventeenth resupply mission for the orbital research facility. ...
09:14 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2019
Techcrunch Apple juices its AR capabilities with new tools
Augmented reality may not be an iOS feature consumers are dying to get their hands on, but Apple’s latest tools are going to make its long-shot dream of AR ubiquity a little bit easier for devel...
08:35 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2019
Techcrunch Is your event strategy paying off? How to calculate your event ROI
Events have increasingly become an important channel in the marketing mix, despite how notoriously impossible it is to measure the ROI, or return on investment. When people show up to your event......
08:27 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2019
Techcrunch With iOS 13, Apple delivers new features to court users in India
Apple has finally listened to its small, but slowly growing user base in India. The iPhone-maker today announced a range of features in iOS 13that are designed to appease users in the worlds second la...
08:00 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2019
Techcrunch Flash Sale! Buy a mobility startup package, get one for free at Disrupt SF
Check your calendars, mobility startup fans. Its only five short weeks until TC Sessions: Mobility 2019 goes down in San Jose. Get ready to dive into the current state of mobility, challenge assumptio...
07:49 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2019
Techcrunch Distru, a maker of supply chain software for the cannabis industry, has raised $3 million led by Felicis
Distru, a nearly three-year-old, Oakland-based startup whose platform aims to help track cannabis through its seed-to-sale process, has raised $3 million in seed funding led by Felicis Ventures, with ...
07:40 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2019
Techcrunch Heres everything Apple just announced at the 2019 WWDC Keynote
Apple kicked off its annual Worldwide Developer Conference in San Jose this morning with a two-and-a-half hour keynote, showing off everything the company has been working on for the past many months....
07:31 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2019
Techcrunch Alphabet, Apple, Amazon and Facebook are in the crosshairs of the FTC and DOJ
A new deal between the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission will see U.S. regulators divide and conquer as they expand their oversight of Apple, Alphabet, Amazon and Facebook, accord...
07:24 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2019
Techcrunch Apple restricts ads and third-party trackers in iPhone apps for kids
Apple has told developers to stop including third-party trackers in apps designed for kids or they face having their apps pulled from the app store. The tech giant quietly updated its guidelines for ...
07:10 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2019
Techcrunch Apples new Sidecar feature is great for users, but third-parties take a hit
Apple has a new feature it’s introducing for the Mac in macOS 10.15 Catalina that is admittedly amazing for anyone like me who happens to have both an iPad and a Mac. It’s called ‘Si...
06:59 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2019
Techcrunch Farewell iTunes: Apple brings standalone Music, Podcasts and TV apps to Mac
Apple is dismantling its aging iTunes software with today’s announcement that it’s launching standalone versions of its Music, Podcasts and TV apps for Mac users on the next version of mac...
06:58 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2019
Techcrunch iOS apps will run on macOS with Project Catalyst
Apple announced during its WWDC keynote that iOS apps will run on macOS, starting with the next major release of macOS this fall macOS Catalina. Third-party developers will be able to release their iO...
06:58 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2019
Techcrunch Photos on iPhone is about to look completely different
When you need to find a photo on your iPhone, what do you do? There are tons of ways, but let's be honest. You probably just go to the camera roll and scroll through at lightning speed, trusting your ...
06:45 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2019
Techcrunch Skip pulls scooters from SF after one caught fire in D.C.
Last week, a Skip scooter caught fire in Washington, D.C. In response, Skip grounded its fleet in D.C. Now, Skip has pulled its scooters off the streets of San Francisco. The scooter in question was f...
06:45 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2019
Techcrunch Should your company move into a co-working space, sublease space or traditional office?
Its a cautionary tale we hear far too often: Company A, hiring staff and growing rapidly, finalized a 10-year lease for office space. One week after move-in they had filled their space to the brim......
06:44 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2019
Techcrunch Goodbye trash can, hello cheese grater: Apples reinvented Mac Pro will shred your workflow
Say goodbye to the trash can. Apple's new Mac Pro is a more traditional machine that takes into account the specific needs of creative professionals, while enabling a layer of modular interactivity wi...
06:43 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2019
Techcrunch Apple releases the $5,000 Pro Display XDR, a 32-inch, 6K display available this fall
Apple is finally back in the monitor game. Today, at WWDC 2019, the company took the wraps off the Pro Display XDR to go along with a new Mac Pro. This is the first Apple monitor since the company dis...
06:33 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2019
Techcrunch AirPods and HomePod get some new skills
Apple’s audio hardware didn’t get a ton of love at WWDC but the devices didn’t go unmentioned, here’s what’s coming to your HomePod and AirPods. For AirPods users, Siri w...
06:29 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2019
Techcrunch Apple is now the privacy-as-a-service company
Apple shared plenty of news today at its WWDC 2019 annual developer conference, but a few of the announcements early on are potentially its biggest in terms of what they signal about the company and i...
06:21 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2019
Techcrunch Apple gives Maps a major rebuild, includes Street View-like 3D imagery
Apple has spent years trying to live down the fiasco of swapping out Google for its own, underdeveloped version of Maps, and today at its WWDC event it unveiled a sizeable rebuild that that gives it a...
06:17 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2019
Techcrunch iOS 13 will let you limit app location access to just once
Apple will soon let you grant apps access to your iPhone’s location just once. Until now, there were three options “always,” “never,” or “while using,” meani...
06:15 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2019
Techcrunch The iPad finally outgrows iOS
As the iPad comes up on ten years since its introduction, the hardware has reached bold new heights but the software has been the limiting factor. Onstage at WWDC in San Jose, Apple announced that iPa...
06:13 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2019
Techcrunch Apple updates CarPlay with new home screen and Siri Suggestions
Today at Apples annual developers conference, Apple revealed the biggest update to CarPlay since its release. The revamped in-car system looks dramatically better, leaving behind the faux iPhone layou...
06:07 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2019
Techcrunch Apple releases the first trailer for Ron Moores space race drama For All Mankind
We still don’t know exactly when Apple will launch its subscription streaming service TV+(it’ll be sometime this fall), or how much it will cost, but CEO Tim Cook showed off a trailer for ...
06:02 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2019
Techcrunch iMessage to support profile photos including your new Memoji personalized with makeup and accessories
Apple is giving iMessage a big upgrade with iOS 13, the company announced today at its Worldwide Developer Conference. At last, it will offer a way to get rid of those annoying gray initials that appe...
05:57 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2019
Techcrunch Apple announces iOS 13 with dark mode, updated Apple apps and privacy features
Apple shared some of the new features that youll get with the release of iOS 13 this fall. There are a ton of small and big feature updates and it felt like Apple executives were rushing through the p...
05:54 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2019
Techcrunch Apple introduces Sign in with Apple to help protect your privacy
Apple has a new way to stop third-party sites and services from getting your information when you sign up to an app. All too often, developers give users the chance to sign in with one-click using da...
05:37 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2019
Techcrunch Apples cycle tracking feature leads new additions to Apple Watch and is available on Health IOS
Today at Apple’s annual developer’s conference Apple added a cycle tracker for women the Apple Watch and iOS. This is being billed as a marquee new feature in its updates to the Apple Watc...
05:37 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2019
Techcrunch Apples iOS 13 will include a system-wide Dark Mode
Apple’s iOS 13 is getting a dark mode, the company announced today at its Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose. Confirming an earlier leak, the new dark mode will be system-wide and can b...
05:34 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2019
Techcrunch Apples big watchOS 6 update focuses on building iPhone independence
Apple showcased its latest version of watchOS at WWDC on Monday and the company’s announcements were largely related to increasing its autonomy and utilizing the extra screen real estate on the ...
05:28 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2019
Techcrunch Apple Watch gets its own App Store, independent apps
Apple Watch apps are breaking out from their earlier constraints. This morning at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference, the company announced that the Apple Watch will now get its own on-devic...
05:17 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2019
Techcrunch tvOS gets support for multiple users, Xbox and PlayStation controllers
Apple announced the next major release for tvOS, the operating system for the Apple TV. The home screen has been slightly redesigned with autoplaying full screen previews. I hope you’ll be able ...
05:06 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2019
Techcrunch LevelTen Energy raises $20.5 million for its renewable energy marketplace
LevelTen Energy, a marketplace that consolidates renewable energy projects and potential buyers to lower prices for aggregated buyers and expand the market for sellers, has raised $20.5 million in a n...
05:03 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2019
Techcrunch Live from WWDC 2019
Greetings from sunny San Jose. Apple’s annual World Wide Developers Conference officially kicks off this morning at the McEnery Convention Center with a big keynote. While the rest of the week i...
05:02 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2019
Techcrunch How to watch the live stream for todays Apple WWDC keynote
Apple is holding a keynote today on the first day of its developer conference, and the company is expected to talk about a ton of software updates. At 10 AM PT (1 PM in New York, 6 PM in London, 7 PM ...
04:24 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2019
Techcrunch Daily Crunch: Twitter acquires Fabula AI
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...
04:19 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2019
Techcrunch Netflix is making an animated series based on Magic: The Gathering
Netflix announced this morning that it’s producing an animated series based on the popular card game Magic: the Gathering. Anthony and Joe Russo, the brothers who directed “Avengers: Infin...
04:00 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2019
Techcrunch Ubers flying taxi director of engineering is joining us at TC Sessions: Mobility
If Uber gets its way, flying taxis will be coming our way in the next couple of years. The company plans to launch trials as early as 2020. Mark Moore, Uber’s engineering director for Elevate, i...
03:47 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2019
Techcrunch Quest Diagnostics says 11.9 million credit cards and medical records skimmed by hackers
Medical testing giant Quest Diagnostics has confirmed a third-party billing company has been hit by a data breach affecting 11.9 million patients. The laboratory testing company revealed the data brea...
03:47 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2019
Techcrunch Quest Diagnostics says 11.9 million patients affected by data breach
Medical testing giant Quest Diagnostics has confirmed a third-party billing company has been hit by a data breach affecting 11.9 million patients. The laboratory testing company revealed the data brea...
03:35 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2019
Techcrunch Facebook introduces Avatars, its Bitmoji competitor
Ditch those generic emoji. Facebook’s new Avatars feature lets you customize a virtual lookalike of yourself for use as stickers in chat and comments. Once you personalize your Avatar’s fa...
03:02 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2019
Techcrunch Substack expands its subscription platform with discussion threads
Substack is launching a new feature called “community” namely, the ability for newsletter publishers to create discussion threads, which can either be open to anyone or limited to subscri...
02:58 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2019
Techcrunch How Marcin Kleczynski went from message boards to founding anti-malware startup Malwarebytes
Marcin Kleczynski is a shining example of the American dream. A Polish-born immigrant turned naturalized citizen, Kleczynski grew up in the Chicago suburbs spending much of his time on computers and t...
02:17 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2019
Techcrunch Flexible housing startup Anyplace raises $2.5M
Anyplace, a startup offering furnished rooms and apartments to anyone who’s not interested in signing a long-term lease, is announcing that it has raised $2.5 million in seed funding. CEO Satoru...
02:02 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2019
Techcrunch Amazon says over 10 million items are now available for one-day shipping
Amazon on its latest earnings call announced it was working towards making one-day shipping the new standard for Prime members. This morning, the retailer touted a milestone related to those efforts w...
02:00 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2019
Techcrunch Live from WWDC 2019
Greetings from sunny San Jose. Apple’s annual World Wide Developers Conference officially kicks off this morning at the McEnery Convention Center with a big keynote. While the rest of the week i...
02:00 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2019
Techcrunch Lenovo Smart Clock review
Before it got into the smart screen market with the Nest (nee Home) Hub, Google opted to let its hardware partners do the heavy lifting. Last year at CES, it announced a trio of devices from JBL, LG a...
01:44 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2019
Techcrunch A look at the many ways China suppresses online discourse about the Tiananmen Square protests
Every year before the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre on June 4, the Chinese government begins to exert even more control over what information people can access online. This year is the ...
01:27 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2019
Techcrunch Twitter bags deep learning talent behind London startup, Fabula AI
Twitter has just announced it has picked up London-based Fabula AI. The deep learning startup has been developing technology to try to identify online disinformation by looking at patterns in how fake...
01:02 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2019
Techcrunch Fluree grabs $4.7M seed round to build blockchain-based database
Fluree, a North Carolina startup that wants to bring the immutability of blockchain to the database, announced a $4.7 million seed round today led by 4490 Ventures with participation from Revolutions ...
12:53 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2019
Techcrunch Review: Rings new outdoor lighting products are brilliant
Rings new outdoor lighting products are impressive. Its rare, even in 2019, for something to work out of the box, but thats what happened when I installed Rings outdoor lighting products. They just wo...
12:10 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2019
Techcrunch Global Fashion Group plans to raise 300M in Frankfurt IPO
The ongoing evolution of the startup factory known as Rocket Internet continues apace. Today, the group of regional e-commerce fashion sites incubated in the Berlin outfit that eventually got spun out...
12:00 pm GMT - Mon, June 3, 2019
Techcrunch Apple macOS security protections can easily bypassed with synthetic clicks, researcher finds
A security researcher has disclosed a new flaw that undermines a core macOS security feature designed to prevent apps or malware from accessing a user’s private data, webcam or microphone with...
11:33 am GMT - Mon, June 3, 2019
Techcrunch US/China trade uncertainty adds to global smartphone growth woes
Analyst Canalys has updated its forecast of global smartphone shipments — saying it expects just 1.35 billion units to ship in 2019, a year-on-year decline of 3.1%. This follows ongoing uncertai...
10:29 am GMT - Mon, June 3, 2019
Techcrunch Oppo and Xiaomi tease under-screen selfie cameras for smartphones
The next innovation in mobile is peeking its head for all to see today after Chinese companies Oppo and Xiaomi both showed off under-screen cameras. Apple’s notch set the ball rolling as a new w...
10:21 am GMT - Mon, June 3, 2019
Techcrunch Amazon sellers to hit UK high streets in year-long pop-up pilot
Internet shopping has been blamed for boarding up high streets across the UK. So it looks politically judicious for Amazon, the original ecommerce behemoth, to now be attaching its brand name to a pil...
10:11 am GMT - Mon, June 3, 2019
Techcrunch How to watch the live stream for todays Apple WWDC keynote
Apple is holding a keynote today on the first day of its developer conference, and the company is expected to talk about a ton of software updates. At 10 AM PT (1 PM in New York, 5 PM in London, 6 PM ...
10:01 am GMT - Mon, June 3, 2019
Techcrunch PropTech startup Kodit.io raises $13M to automate house buying and selling
As anyone who has ever tried to buy or sell a home knows, the entire process can be the most stressful of ones life. Traditional real estate agents rarely make the process any less stressful, leaving ...
09:25 am GMT - Mon, June 3, 2019
Techcrunch WorldRemit raises $175M at $900M valuation to help users send money to contacts in emerging markets
The value of remittances globally continues to rise, and today a startup that has built a business targeting money transfers into emerging markets has raised a large round of growth funding to capital...
08:57 am GMT - Mon, June 3, 2019
Techcrunch China says it will soon grant 5G licenses for commercial use
There’s a widely accepted method to interpret China’s official announcements: the shorter the news, the heavier it is. Today, in one concise sentence, the Ministry of Industry and Informat...
08:00 am GMT - Mon, June 3, 2019
Techcrunch Registration for Disrupt Berlin 2019 is now open
A big shout out to all you savvy startuppers the day youve been waiting for has finally arrived. Yup, registration for Disrupt Berlin 2019 is officially open for business. Were kicking things off wit...
08:00 am GMT - Mon, June 3, 2019
Techcrunch Owlin, the text and news analytics platform for financial institutions, raises $3.5M Series A
Owlin, a startup we covered all the way back in late 2012, has raised $3.5 million in Series A funding. The fundraise follows the fintech company’s pivot from a real-time news alert service to a...
06:20 am GMT - Mon, June 3, 2019
Techcrunch Key Vision Fund investors are reportedly lukewarm on a second fund
SoftBank shook up the venture capital world with its unprecedented $100 billion Vision Fund, and the speculation continues around its follow-up. The fund hasn’t quite closed $100 billion —...
04:00 am GMT - Mon, June 3, 2019
Techcrunch Penta, the digital SME banking upstart, appoints co-founder of solarisBank as new CEO
Hon on the heels of being acquired by company builder Finleap, German SME banking upstart Penta has appointed a new CEO. Marko Wenthin, who previously co-founded solarisBank (the banking-as-a-service ...
03:04 am GMT - Mon, June 3, 2019
Techcrunch Science publisher IEEE lifts ban on Huawei reviewers
After a temporary ban, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, commonly known as the IEEE, announced on Monday it has lifted curbs on editors and peer-reviewers that work for Huawei and...
12:48 am GMT - Mon, June 3, 2019
Techcrunch Googles Cloud outage is resolved, but it reveals the holes in cloud computings atmosphere
Five hours after Google publicly announced that it was working to resolve an outage in its Cloud computing network that had taken out a large chunk of Google services as well as Shopify, Snap, Discord...
09:15 pm GMT - Sun, June 2, 2019
Techcrunch Google cloud is down, affecting numerous applications and services
A Google Cloud outage is currently affecting a number of services in and out of the Google suite including Snap and Discord as well as Google services like Gmail, Nest, and others. The problem was fir...
06:41 pm GMT - Sun, June 2, 2019
Techcrunch YouTuber gets 15 month prison sentence, $22,000 fine for toothpaste-filled Oreos
YouTube star Kanghua Ren was just handed a 15 month prison sentence and 20,000 euro ($22,300) fine for a January 2017 video. The video, which generated widespread outrage online, found Ren giving a ho...
05:02 pm GMT - Sun, June 2, 2019
Techcrunch Where are all the biotech startups raising?
Where are all the biotechnology companies raising these days? We crunched some numbers to arrive at an answer....
01:00 pm GMT - Sun, June 2, 2019
Techcrunch Password expiration is dead, long live your passwords
May was a momentous month, which marked a victory for sanity and pragmatism over irrational paranoia. I’m obviously not talking about politics. I’m talking about Microsoft finally — ...
10:00 am GMT - Sun, June 2, 2019
Techcrunch Week-in-Review: Apples shipping a refresh for its worst device, but why?
Hello, weekend warriors. This is Week-in-Review where I get hopped up on caffeine and scour the hundred of stories that emerged on TechCrunch this week and surface my favorites for your reading pleasu...
08:00 am GMT - Sun, June 2, 2019
Techcrunch Last chance to sign up and save 200 off Disrupt Berlin
Were trotting out our lousy German to remind you that es ist jetzt oder nie its now or never. This is your last chance to slash 200 off the super early-bird price on passes toDisrupt Berlin 2019. If ...
07:17 am GMT - Sun, June 2, 2019
Techcrunch China lays out official stance on trade talks with U.S.
On Sunday, China released a comprehensive white paper to formalize its positions on trade negotiations with the U.S. The set of statements come as the trade war escalates and Beijing threatens to hit ...
11:41 pm GMT - Sat, June 1, 2019
Techcrunch Meet the first private companies that NASA has selected to deliver stuff and things to the Moon
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has selected Astrobotic, Intuitive Machines, and Orbit Beyond as the first three private companies to deliver science and technology payloads under th...
10:16 pm GMT - Sat, June 1, 2019
Techcrunch Equity transcribed: Is the tech press too positive in its coverage of startups?
Welcome back the latest transcribed edition of Equity, the TechCrunch podcast that takes a closer look at the startup headlines from the week. Kate Clark and Alex Wilhelm kick this week off by discuss...
09:20 pm GMT - Sat, June 1, 2019
Techcrunch Foxconn halts production lines for Huawei phones, according to reports
Huawei, the Chinese technology giant whose devices are at the center of a far-reaching trade dispute between the U.S. and Chinese governments, is reducing orders for new phones, according to a report ...
09:20 pm GMT - Sat, June 1, 2019
Techcrunch Foxconn halts some production lines for Huawei phones, according to reports
Huawei, the Chinese technology giant whose devices are at the center of a far-reaching trade dispute between the U.S. and Chinese governments, is reducing orders for new phones, according to a report ...
07:24 pm GMT - Sat, June 1, 2019
Techcrunch Twitter takes down a large number of Chinese-language accounts ahead of Tiananmen Square anniversary
Twitter has suspended a large number of Chinese-language user accounts, including those belonging to critics of China’s government. It seems like a particularly ill-timed move, occurring just da...
07:00 pm GMT - Sat, June 1, 2019
Techcrunch U.S. State Department begins social media screening for nearly all visa applicants
Yesterday the U.S. State Department began implementing its requirement that nearly all U.S. visa applicants submit their social media usernames, previous email addresses and phone numbers as part of t...
06:39 pm GMT - Sat, June 1, 2019
Techcrunch Slacks hidden origins, cybersecurity, fintech, plus Africas startup growth
The Slack Origin Story Slack is one of the most iconic enterprise companies to come out of Silicon Valley. Part of the reason is the mythos surrounding the startups founding as a games company and lat...
05:00 pm GMT - Sat, June 1, 2019
Techcrunch Startups net more than capital with NBA players as investors
If youre a basketball fan like me, youll be glued to the TV watching the NBA finals. In honor of the event, we took a shot at breaking down investment activities of the players off the court....
04:00 pm GMT - Sat, June 1, 2019
Techcrunch Original Content podcast: Tuca & Bertie explores friendship and sex with anthropomorphic birds
There’s some obvious overlap between “Tuca & Bertie” and “BoJack Horseman” they’re both talking animal cartoons on Netflix; they have a similar look, courtesy ...
12:00 pm GMT - Sat, June 1, 2019
Techcrunch Startups Weekly: Will the real unicorns please stand up?
In this week's newsletter: CrowdStrike readies its IPO, Brex eyes a $2B valuation and SoFi lands a whopping $500M....
12:40 am GMT - Sat, June 1, 2019
Techcrunch Apple bumps the App Store cell connection download cap up to 200 MB
Good news: Apple now allows you to download bigger apps over a cellular connection than it used to. Bad news: there’s still a cap, and you still can’t bypass it. As noticed by 9to5Mac, the...
07:01 pm GMT - Fri, May 31, 2019
Techcrunch Teams autonomously mapping the depths take home millions in Ocean Discovery Xprize
There's a whole lot of ocean on this planet, and we don't have much of an idea what's at the bottom of most of it. That could change with the craft and techniques created during the Ocean Discovery Xp...
06:52 pm GMT - Fri, May 31, 2019
Techcrunch Slack narrows losses, displays healthy revenue growth
Slack posted first-quarter revenues of $134.8 million on losses of $31.8 million weeks ahead of its NYSE direct listing....
05:26 pm GMT - Fri, May 31, 2019
Techcrunch Facial recognition startup Kairos settles lawsuits with founder and former CEO Brian Brackeen
Facial recognition startup Kairos, founded by Brian Brackeen, has settled its lawsuit with Brackeen following his ouster from the company late last year. In addition to forcing him out of the company ...
05:13 pm GMT - Fri, May 31, 2019
Techcrunch Only 72 hours left to save an extra 200 on Disrupt Berlin 2019
The shot clock on serious savings is running out. You have just 72 hours left to sign up for the mailing list to receive 200 off the super early-bird price on any pass to Disrupt Berlin 2019. The offi...
04:40 pm GMT - Fri, May 31, 2019
Techcrunch Groupon co-founder Eric Lefkofsky just raised another $200 million for his newest company, Tempus
When serial entrepreneur Eric Lefkofsky grows a company, he puts the pedal to the metal. When in 2011 his last company, the Chicago-based coupons site Groupon, raised $950 million from investors, it w...
04:10 pm GMT - Fri, May 31, 2019
Techcrunch Daily Crunch: Leap Motion waves goodbye
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...
04:09 pm GMT - Fri, May 31, 2019
Techcrunch Targeted ads offer little extra value for online publishers, study suggests
How much value do online publishers derive from behaviorally targeted advertising that uses privacy-hostile tracking technologies to determine which advert to show a website user? A new piece of resea...
04:05 pm GMT - Fri, May 31, 2019
Techcrunch Diving deep into Africas blossoming tech scene
Jumia may be the first startup youve heard of from Africa. But the e-commerce venture that recently listed on the NYSE is definitely not the first or last word in African tech. The continent has an ex...
04:05 pm GMT - Fri, May 31, 2019
Techcrunch An insiders look into venture with Andreessen Horowitzs Scott Kupor
After a decade in the peculiar world of venture capital, Andreessen Horowitz managing director Scott Kupor has seen it all when it comes to the dos and don’ts for dealing with Valley VCs and com...
03:59 pm GMT - Fri, May 31, 2019
Techcrunch Amazon confirms acquisition of Sizmeks ad server
Amazon just announced that it’s acquiring Sizmek’s ad serving and dynamic content optimization businesses. “Sizmek and Amazon Advertising have many mutual customers, so we know how v...
03:05 pm GMT - Fri, May 31, 2019
Techcrunch Touring Factory Berlin, Europes largest club for startups
According to the startups at Factory Berlin, it’s not just another coworking space. After all, the company took its name from Andy Warhol’s famous factory in New York City, and it describe...
03:04 pm GMT - Fri, May 31, 2019
Techcrunch NYCs contactless subway turnstiles open today with Apple, Google, Samsung and Fitbit Pay support
After weeks of sporting Coming Soon screens, the New York City MTAs OMNY pilot finally launched today. The system augments the citys MetroCard swipes with new contactless screens that work with contac...
02:52 pm GMT - Fri, May 31, 2019
Techcrunch Security startup Bugcrowd on crowdsourcing bug bounties: Cybersecurity is a people problem
For a cybersecurity company, Bugcrowd relies much more on people than it does on technology. For as long as humans are writing software, developers and programmers are going to make mistakes, said Cas...
02:30 pm GMT - Fri, May 31, 2019
Techcrunch If you use women as decorative objects, then I will assume your tech is from the 1950s, too
Computex, which wrapped up today, is divided into two venues in Taipei. One, Nangang Exhibition Center, is where the big companies, including Asus and Microsoft, have their booths. The other, in Taipe...
02:11 pm GMT - Fri, May 31, 2019
Techcrunch Spotify is building shared queue Social Listening
Want to rock out together even when you’re apart? Spotify has prototyped an unreleased feature called “Social Listening” that lets multiple people add songs to a queue they can all l...
02:11 pm GMT - Fri, May 31, 2019
Techcrunch Spotify is building shared-queue Social Listening
Want to rock out together even when you’re apart? Spotify has prototyped an unreleased feature called “Social Listening” that lets multiple people add songs to a queue they can all l...
02:11 pm GMT - Fri, May 31, 2019
Techcrunch Tinder launches a new a la carte option, Super Boost, only for subscribers
Tinder this morning announced a second, more premium version of its most popular a la carte purchase, Boost, with the launch of Super Boost — an upgrade only offered to Tinder Plus and Tinder Go...
02:11 pm GMT - Fri, May 31, 2019
Techcrunch Tinder launches a new la carte option, Super Boost, only for subscribers
Tinder this morning announced a second, more premium version of its most popular la carte purchase, Boost, with the launch of Super Boost — an upgrade only offered to Tinder Plus and Tinder Gol...
01:38 pm GMT - Fri, May 31, 2019
Techcrunch Microsoft warns users to patch as exploits for wormable BlueKeep bug appear
Microsoft has issued its second advisory this month urging users to update their systems to prevent a re-run of attacks similar to WannaCry. The software giant said Thursday that the recently discover...
01:35 pm GMT - Fri, May 31, 2019
Techcrunch Goodbye BlackBerry Messenger
Just over a month ago, Emtek announced the end of BlackBerry Messenger for consumers. The once mighty messaging service had a good run, outstripping the popularity of its hardware namesake. Launched i...
01:00 pm GMT - Fri, May 31, 2019
Techcrunch Is the tech press too positive in its coverage of startups?
Hello and welcome back toEquity, TechCrunchs venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines....
12:27 pm GMT - Fri, May 31, 2019
Techcrunch Following US Huawei ban, China threatens own blacklist for foreign firms
Odds of the U.S. and China cooling off their trade war further diminished on Friday after the worlds most populous nation said it would create a list of unreliable foreign firms of its own. Gao Feng, ...
09:11 am GMT - Fri, May 31, 2019
Techcrunch Huawei bars staff from having technical meetings with US contacts
Reeling from the ongoing U.S.-China trade war, Chinese technology giant Huawei has found itself in yet another dilemma: How to pursue internal communications with its own U.S. employees? For now, the ...
09:00 am GMT - Fri, May 31, 2019
Techcrunch Less than two weeks left: apply to Startup Battlefield at Disrupt SF 2019
Would you like $100,000 to fatten the bottom line of your early-stage startup? Could your company benefit from global media coverage and investor attention? Do you have what it takes to compete agains...
08:40 am GMT - Fri, May 31, 2019
Techcrunch Tibbits are colorful pre-programmed modules for building IoT devices
At first glance, Tibbits look like building blocks, but each one is a module or a connector that makes it easier to build connected devices and systems. Tibbits were created by Tibbo Technology, a Tai...
08:13 am GMT - Fri, May 31, 2019
Techcrunch Muro is a retro-style cylinder music box you control with an app
The light twinkle of an old-fashioned cylinder music box evokes many things: nostalgia, childhood memories, sometimes even horror (they are a trope in scary movie soundtracks). Most music boxes play o...
06:16 am GMT - Fri, May 31, 2019
Techcrunch Teslas new China-made Model 3 opens for pre-order with a 13% price cut
Tesla’s big bet on China-based production is key to a new effort to lure Chinese consumers with cheaper prices. Today the U.S. firm revealed that its incoming Model 3, which will be produced in ...
04:30 am GMT - Fri, May 31, 2019
Techcrunch Foursquare buys Placed from Snap Inc. on the heels of $150M in new funding
Foursquare just made its first acquisition. The location tech company has acquired Placed from Snap Inc on the heels of a fresh $150 million investment led by the Raine Group. The terms of the deal we...
01:13 am GMT - Fri, May 31, 2019
Techcrunch Once poised to kill the mouse and keyboard, Leap Motion plays its final hand
The company sought to completely change how we interacted with computers, but now Leap Motion is selling itself off. Apple reportedly tried to get their hands on the hand-tracking tech which Leap Moti...