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10:01 pm GMT - Sun, August 30, 2020
Techcrunch Twitter flags Republican leaders video as manipulated for altering disabled activists words
Twitter flagged an inflammatory video by House Republican Whip Steve Scalise on Sunday for altering footage of a conversation between progressive activist Ady Barkan and Joe Biden. The video is now la...
03:30 pm GMT - Sun, August 30, 2020
Techcrunch The Station: Luminar takes the SPAC path and Voyage lifts the hood on its next-gen robotaxi
The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation.Sign up here just click The Station to receive it every Saturday in your inbox. Hello and welcome back to The Station, a new...
01:45 pm GMT - Sun, August 30, 2020
Techcrunch 10 Berlin-based VCs discuss how COVID-19 has changed the landscape
A breeding ground for European entrepreneurs, Berlin has a knack for producing a lot of new startups: the city attracts top international, diverse talent, and it is packed with investors, events and a...
08:00 pm GMT - Sat, August 29, 2020
Techcrunch The weeks biggest IPO news had nothing to do with Mondays S-1 deluge
Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. Its broadly based on the daily column that appears on Extra Crunch, but free, and made for your weekend reading. (You...
07:30 pm GMT - Sat, August 29, 2020
Techcrunch Reliable Robotics is bringing remote piloting to small cargo planes
Nearly one year ago, a Cessna 172 Skyhawk stealthily made aviation history when it landed at a small airport in Northern California marking the completion of the first successful remote-piloted flight...
06:00 pm GMT - Sat, August 29, 2020
Techcrunch Startups Weekly: With Asana, JFrog, Palantir, Snowflake, Sumo and Unity, were in peak season for tech IPOs
Pandemic numbers are looking better, it's still a couple months before US elections, and a growing line of tech companies have already ventured out into public markets successfully this summer. ...
05:36 pm GMT - Sat, August 29, 2020
Techcrunch A must-see conversation on the state of VC, this year at Disrupt
On a surface level, the world of venture capital doesn’t look to change much year to year. But in truth, the industry is very much in flux, with many firms grappling with a lack of diversity, de...
03:54 pm GMT - Sat, August 29, 2020
Techcrunch Indias Reliance Retail to acquire Future Groups retail, wholesale, and logistics businesses for $3.4 billion
Reliance Retail, Indias largest retail chain, has found a much simpler way to expand its dominant position in the country: Acquire most of the second largest chain’s units. On Saturday evening (...
03:54 pm GMT - Sat, August 29, 2020
Techcrunch Indias Reliance Retail to acquire Future Groups units for $3.4 billion
Reliance Retail, Indias largest retail chain, has found a much simpler way to expand its dominant position in the country: Acquire most of the second largest chain’s units. On Saturday evening (...
02:55 pm GMT - Sat, August 29, 2020
Techcrunch This Week in Apps: Unreal Engine saved, Fortnite banned and TikTok talks to everyone
This week, two big stories dominated the news: Apple's fight with Fortnite maker Epic Games and TikTok's negotiations with top U.S. tech firms over a sale....
02:47 pm GMT - Sat, August 29, 2020
Techcrunch Walmart-exclusive TrillerTok will run on Azure, or Oracle, or something
If you cant keep up with the latest rumor mill on TikToks impending doom acquisition, my suggestion is simple: dont. Or instead, enjoy it for what it is: one of the most absurd bakeoff deals in invest...
01:00 pm GMT - Sat, August 29, 2020
Techcrunch Original Content podcast: Netflixs High Score is a selective tour through video game history
“High Score” is a new Netflix documentary series that looks back at the early years of the video game industry. Across six episodes, key developers, artists, executives and even players di...
11:23 pm GMT - Fri, August 28, 2020
Techcrunch Elon Musk demonstrates Neuralinks tech live using pigs with surgically-implanted brain monitoring devices
Elon Musk -founded Neuralink has made headlines over the past many years around it efforts to develop a new kind of interface between the human brain and computing devices. On Friday, the company prov...
11:23 pm GMT - Fri, August 28, 2020
Techcrunch Elon Musk demonstrates Neuralinks tech live using pigs with surgically implanted brain-monitoring devices
Elon Musk -founded Neuralink has made headlines over the past many years around it efforts to develop a new kind of interface between the human brain and computing devices. On Friday, the company prov...
11:00 pm GMT - Fri, August 28, 2020
Techcrunch Take a closer look at Elon Musks Neuralink surgical robot
While the science was front-and-center in Elon Musk’s presentation about Neuralink, his human brain computer inference company, the surgical robot the company debuted made a splash of its own. T...
10:14 pm GMT - Fri, August 28, 2020
Techcrunch Daily Crunch: Tesla targeted in ransomware attack
The Justice Department reveals a thwarted malware attack on Tesla, Facebook tests linking your news subscriptions to your social network account and Xiaomi has plans for under-screen cameras. This is ...
09:40 pm GMT - Fri, August 28, 2020
Techcrunch Apple terminates Epic Games App Store account
Epic Games has been removed from Apple’s App Store. If you’ve already downloaded Fortnite to your Mac or iOS device, it should still work, but Epic’s termination means the Fortnite d...
09:39 pm GMT - Fri, August 28, 2020
Techcrunch IFAs executive director discusses why the tech show must go on
In June, the CTA announced that CES 2021 would go forward in-person. The event was set to have slipped under the wire having narrowly avoided a COVID-19-related shutdown two years in a row. A month l...
08:51 pm GMT - Fri, August 28, 2020
Techcrunch TikToks rivals in India struggle to cash in on its ban
For years, India has served as the largest open battleground for Silicon Valley and Chinese firms searching for their next billion users. With more than 400 million WhatsApp users, India is already th...
08:40 pm GMT - Fri, August 28, 2020
Techcrunch Steno raises $3.5 million led by First Round to become an extension of law offices
The global legal services industry was worth $849 billion dollars in 2017 and is expected to become a trillion-dollar industry by the end of next year. Little wonder that Steno, an LA-based startup, w...
08:00 pm GMT - Fri, August 28, 2020
Techcrunch Human Capital: People were afraid of being critical with me
Welcome back to Human Capital, where we break down the latest in labor, and diversity and inclusion in tech. This week, we’re looking at the launch of the Diversity Riders initiative in venture ...
07:53 pm GMT - Fri, August 28, 2020
Techcrunch Watch Elon Musks Neuralink brain computer interface progress update live
Elon Musk is set to deliver a progress update for Neuralink, the company and technology he founded that aims to create a direct, ultra-low latency connection between our brains and our computers. The ...
07:30 pm GMT - Fri, August 28, 2020
Techcrunch Banks arent as stupid as enterprise AI and fintech entrepreneurs think
The right question is almost never whether to buy software or build it internally. Instead, banks have often worked to walk the difficult but smarter path right down the middle....
06:38 pm GMT - Fri, August 28, 2020
Techcrunch Boeing and NASA target December for second try at uncrewed orbital demonstration flight
NASA and Boeing have provided some updates around their Commercial Crew plans, which aim to get Boeing’s CST-100 spacecraft certified for regular human flight. The CST-100 and Boeing’s Com...
06:06 pm GMT - Fri, August 28, 2020
Techcrunch GM shifts Corvette engineering team to its electric and autonomous vehicle programs
GM is moving the engineering team responsible for the mid-engine Chevrolet Corvette to the company’s electric and autonomous vehicle programs to “push the boundaries” on what its fut...
05:50 pm GMT - Fri, August 28, 2020
Techcrunch Podcast is social: How Chinas Lizhi makes audio interactive
For Marco Lai, the founder of Chinese podcast network Lizhi, radio has always been social. Twenty years ago, the entrepreneur was a host at a radio station in southern China. He ran a late-night progr...
05:20 pm GMT - Fri, August 28, 2020
Techcrunch Hear from Lyft, Cruise, Nuro and Aurora about the road ahead for driverless vehicles
Autonomous vehicles have yet to become mainstream, but companies like Lyft, Cruise, Nuro and Aurora are still fighting the good fight. The AV space has always faced its share of regulatory and develop...
05:02 pm GMT - Fri, August 28, 2020
Techcrunch What does GPT-3 mean for the future of the legal profession?
GPT-3 provides some new tools in a legal departments arsenal and will be focused on assessing practical, impactful solutions, hopefully making better legal organizations in the process....
03:07 pm GMT - Fri, August 28, 2020
Techcrunch Laura Deming, Frederik Groce, Amish Jani, Jessica Verilli and Vanessa Larco are coming to Disrupt
At TechCrunch Disrupt, our Startup Battlefield competition this year looks to be fiercer than ever, judging by the applicants. That’s actually saying something, considering the game-changing bra...
03:07 pm GMT - Fri, August 28, 2020
Techcrunch Laura Deming, Frederik Groce, Amish Jani, Jessica Verrilli and Vanessa Larco are coming to Disrupt
At TechCrunch Disrupt, our Startup Battlefield competition this year looks to be fiercer than ever, judging by the applicants. That’s actually saying something, considering the game-changing bra...
03:01 pm GMT - Fri, August 28, 2020
Techcrunch Facebook tests linking your FB account to your news subscriptions
Facebook is testing a new feature that could help news publishers create a better experience for paying subscribers on the social network. The idea is that when Facebook identifies a subscriber from o...
03:00 pm GMT - Fri, August 28, 2020
Techcrunch Xiaomi plans to bring under-screen cameras to its smartphones next year
The front-facing camera has been a pretty constant bugbear for phone makers for a number of years now. Xiaomi certainly isnt the first to offer a clever technological solution to the problem and its ...
02:08 pm GMT - Fri, August 28, 2020
Techcrunch SaaS stocks survive earnings, keeping the market warm for software startups, exits
We’re on the other end of nearly every single SaaS earnings report that you can name, with the exception of Slack, and shares of software companies are holding onto their year’s gains. Whi...
02:00 pm GMT - Fri, August 28, 2020
Techcrunch Android security bug let malicious apps siphon off private user data
A security vulnerability in Android could have allowed malicious apps to siphon off sensitive data from other apps on the same device. App security startup Oversecured found the flaw in Google’s...
11:21 am GMT - Fri, August 28, 2020
Techcrunch Femtech poised for growth beyond fertility
The market for female-focused health products (aka ‘femtech’) is set for growth via segmentation, per an analyst note from PitchBook which identifies opportunities for entrepreneurs to tar...
11:15 am GMT - Fri, August 28, 2020
Techcrunch Railsbank is buying Wirecard Card Solutions, the UK arm of the disgraced fintech
Looks like another chapter is opening up for Wirecard, the disgraced fintech out of Germany that collapsed into insolvency earlier this year after facing a huge accounting scandal and subsequently fai...
07:00 am GMT - Fri, August 28, 2020
Techcrunch Undermyfork scores $400K seed for its diabetes tracking app and US launch
Undermyfork, a diabetes tracking app designed to help people with the disease improve time-in-range and better manage their condition, has raised $400,000 in seed funding. Investment comes from AltaIR...
01:00 am GMT - Fri, August 28, 2020
Techcrunch Presenting TechCrunch Disrupts Asia sessions
As you know by now, Disrupt is going completely virtual for its 10th anniversary. TechCrunchs Asia team (me, Rita Liao and Manish Singh) will miss seeing everyone in Moscone Center, but this will be t...
12:48 am GMT - Fri, August 28, 2020
Techcrunch Elon Musk confirms Tesla was target of foiled ransomware attack
Elon Musk called an attempted cyberattack against Tesla “serious,” a comment that confirms the company was the target of a foiled ransomware attempt at its massive factory near Reno, Nevad...
10:10 pm GMT - Thu, August 27, 2020
Techcrunch Daily Crunch: TikToks CEO resigns
Turmoil continues at TikTok, Salesforce lays off 1,000 people and Warby Parker is now valued at $3 billion. This is your Daily Crunch for August 27, 2020. The big story: TikTok’s CEO resigns Kev...
10:03 pm GMT - Thu, August 27, 2020
Techcrunch LG is releasing a wearable air purifier
Frankly, the most surprising thing about the PuriCare is that more tech companies haven’t launched a similar product in recent months. LG is showing it off as part of the upcoming IFA press conf...
09:38 pm GMT - Thu, August 27, 2020
Techcrunch Electric moped startup Revel returns to New York with helmet selfie, other in-app safety features
Shared electric moped startup Revel has resumed operations in New York City a month after shutting down its service following several deaths. The startup’s blue mopeds that had become a familiar...
09:38 pm GMT - Thu, August 27, 2020
Techcrunch KitchenMate makes it easy to cook fresh meals at work
KitchenMate is a Toronto-based startup promising businesses a fresh approach to feeding their employees. The startup has raised $3.5 million in seed funding led by Eniac Ventures and Golden Ventures, ...
08:39 pm GMT - Thu, August 27, 2020
Techcrunch Box benefits from digital transformation as it raises its growth forecast
Box has always been a bit of an enigma for Wall Street, and perhaps for enterprise software in general. Unlike vendors who shifted to the cloud tools like HR, CRM or ERP, Box has been building a way t...
08:01 pm GMT - Thu, August 27, 2020
Techcrunch Facebook isnt happy about Apples upcoming ad tracking restrictions
Apple’s upcoming operating system iOS 14 (currently in public beta) could have a big impact on publishers who work with Facebook’s at least, according to Facebook. The company published a...
07:54 pm GMT - Thu, August 27, 2020
Techcrunch The reMarkable 2 improves on the original in every way, but remains firmly in its niche
I’d been asking for something like the reMarkable for a long time before it showed up out of the blue a few years ago. The device was a real treat, but had a few problems and an eye-popping pric...
07:44 pm GMT - Thu, August 27, 2020
Techcrunch A faster, easier, cheaper way of going public
Hello and welcome back toEquity, TechCrunchs venture capital-focused podcast (now on Twitter!), where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This is the fourth episode of the week, pushing our pr...
07:19 pm GMT - Thu, August 27, 2020
Techcrunch To reach scale, Juni Learning is building a full-stack edtech experience
Juni Learning connects kids with math and science tutors, but co-founder Vivian Shen would prefer not to be lumped in with other edtech startups, despite the sector’s pandemic-born boom. Were no...
07:13 pm GMT - Thu, August 27, 2020
Techcrunch Facebook sues developers who violated terms to collect user data, sell fake likes
Facebook announced today it’s suing multiple developers in the U.S. and, for the first time, in the U.K., for violations of its policies. In the U.K., both Facebook Inc. and Facebook Ireland are...
07:00 pm GMT - Thu, August 27, 2020
Techcrunch Will automation eliminate data science positions?
The most important question in data science is not which machine learning algorithm to choose or even how to clean your data. It's the questions you need to ask before code is written....
06:55 pm GMT - Thu, August 27, 2020
Techcrunch Bollinger shows off an electric delivery van headed for production in 2022
Bollinger Motors, the Michigan-based startup known for its rugged electric SUV and pickup truck, unveiled Thursday a delivery van concept that it plans to start producing in 2022. The big takeaway her...
06:13 pm GMT - Thu, August 27, 2020
Techcrunch Instacart faces lawsuit from DC Attorney General over deceptive service fees
Instacart is facing a lawsuit from Washington, D.C. Attorney General Karl A. Racine that alleges the company charged customers millions of dollars in “deceptive service fees” and failed to...
06:12 pm GMT - Thu, August 27, 2020
Techcrunch Berbix raises $9M for its identity verification platform
Berbix, an ID verification startup that was founded by former members of the Airbnb Trust and Safety team, today announced that it has raised a $9 million Series A round led by Mayfield. Existing inve...
06:00 pm GMT - Thu, August 27, 2020
Techcrunch Discord says user abuse reports have doubled since last year
Discord said removed four million accounts for spamming....
05:41 pm GMT - Thu, August 27, 2020
Techcrunch Fondeadora is a Mexican challenger bank that just raised $14 million
Meet Fondeadora, a fintech startup based in Mexico City that wants to build a full-stack neobank. The company just raised a $14 million Series A round led by Gradient Ventures, Googles AI-focused vent...
05:17 pm GMT - Thu, August 27, 2020
Techcrunch Kneron launches its new AI chip to challenge Google and others
Fresh off a $40 million Series A round, edge AI specialist Kneron today announced the launch of its newest custom chip, the Kneron KL 720 SoC. With funding from the likes of Alibaba, Sequoia, Horizons...
05:08 pm GMT - Thu, August 27, 2020
Techcrunch Chinese EV startup Xpeng Motors raises $1.5 billion in U.S. public market debut
Chinese electric vehicle startup XPeng Inc. raised $1.5 billion through an initial public offering in the U.S. as investor interest in EVs and clean energy outstripped concerns over escalating tension...
05:08 pm GMT - Thu, August 27, 2020
Techcrunch Chinese EV startup Xpeng Motors raises $1.5 billion in US public market debut
Chinese electric vehicle startup Xpeng Inc. raised $1.5 billion through an initial public offering in the U.S. as investor interest in EVs and clean energy outstripped concerns over escalating tension...
05:00 pm GMT - Thu, August 27, 2020
Techcrunch Google Assistant app now uses your searches to make personalized recommendations
Google is revamping its two-year old “Snapshot” feature in Google Assistant for iOS and Android. The company in 2018 had first introduced Google Assistant Snapshot as a way for mobile user...
04:48 pm GMT - Thu, August 27, 2020
Techcrunch Walmart expresses interest in TikTok, teaming up with Microsoft
There’s been a flurry of TikTok news today, and the flood doesn’t seem to be letting up. First was the announcement that Kevin Mayer, who joined the company just a bit more than three mont...
04:45 pm GMT - Thu, August 27, 2020
Techcrunch Learn why embedded finance is the future of fintech at Disrupt
The fintech industry has had a wild couple of years. Consumer fintech startups, such as Robinhood, Revolut and Coinbase, have been massively successful and managed to attract millions of customers. At...
04:42 pm GMT - Thu, August 27, 2020
Techcrunch Register for our last pitch-off next week on September 2
Its time again to start warming up your pitching arm. Our next Pitchers & Pitches session takes place next week on September 2. Register today! Pitchers & Pitches sessions combine critique and...
04:20 pm GMT - Thu, August 27, 2020
Techcrunch What can growth marketers learn from lean product development?
Everyones habits have changed/are changing as a result of the pandemic, so marketers need to be testing and learning as quickly as possible....
04:00 pm GMT - Thu, August 27, 2020
Techcrunch Beat the clock: Get your group discount passes to TC Sessions: Mobility 2020
The expression it takes a village easily applies to building a successful mobility startup, especially in uncertain and tumultuous times. It also takes opportunities, and youll find plenty of those at...
03:56 pm GMT - Thu, August 27, 2020
Techcrunch Alexa von Tobel: Eliminating risk is the key to building a startup during an economic downturn
Launching a company, even in the best of times, is one of the most challenging exercises a person can go through. In an economic recession, it can seem downright impossible. But founders across the co...
03:45 pm GMT - Thu, August 27, 2020
Techcrunch Black founders can get tactical advice at Disrupt
In the aftermath of George Floyd’s death and widespread protests for racial justice, a number of venture capitalists made public statements about wanting to improve diversity in the tech industr...
03:18 pm GMT - Thu, August 27, 2020
Techcrunch Nerdwallet acquires UKs Know Your Money as it expands outside the US
Nerdwallet, which provides resources for people looking for a new credit card, loan, insurance or other financial product or just financial advice, is making a move today to spearhead a move into inte...
03:00 pm GMT - Thu, August 27, 2020
Techcrunch harbor, an emergency preparedness platform, picks up $5 million in seed funding
Billion dollar natural disasters are on the rise in the United States, according to CNBC. Even as I write, a hurricane is making landfall in Louisiana while wild fires rage in northern California. And...
02:55 pm GMT - Thu, August 27, 2020
Techcrunch Samsung is holding another Unpacked event next week for the Galaxy Z Fold 2
One of the nice things about virtual events is you can essentially hold as many as youd like. Its one thing to ask people to fly across the country or world to attend and another entirely to get them ...
02:34 pm GMT - Thu, August 27, 2020
Techcrunch Heres how you can get a second shot at Startup Battlefield
Were big believers in second chances here at TechCrunch, and thats great news for early-stage founders who didnt apply to compete in the Startup Battlefield during Disrupt 2020 (September 14-18). Your...
02:25 pm GMT - Thu, August 27, 2020
Techcrunch How Salesforce beat its own target to reach $20B run rate ahead of schedule
Salesforce launched in 1999, one of the early adherents to what would eventually be called SaaS and cloud computing. On Tuesday, the company reached a huge milestone when it surpassed $5 billion in re...
02:13 pm GMT - Thu, August 27, 2020
Techcrunch Restream raises $50M to help creators program and stream to multiple platforms
Live streaming of video has come into its own during the coronavirus pandemic, with services like Zoom, YouTube, Twitch, Facebook and many others giving people a way to stay connected with each other,...
02:10 pm GMT - Thu, August 27, 2020
Techcrunch LA gets a big SAAS exit as Fastly nabs the Culver City-based Signal Sciences for $775M
Los Angeles was always more than a one industry town, even when it comes to technology startups, but media and entertainment (and social networking) were always the big draws in tinseltown. Now the ci...
02:10 pm GMT - Thu, August 27, 2020
Techcrunch 5 steps for building a thriving developer community
If your platform doesnt have a developer community yet, creating one takes a few purposeful steps. Here are some of the best practices weve learned....
02:04 pm GMT - Thu, August 27, 2020
Techcrunch After early-COVID layoffs, Hipcamp is buying competition, hiring
When shelter-in-place was first announced in the United States, most companies in the travel space saw bookings drop. Some shuttered. Hipcamp, a San Francisco-based startup that provides private land ...
01:59 pm GMT - Thu, August 27, 2020
Techcrunch Flipboard brings its ad-supported Flipboard TV video service to all users
News app Flipboard is further expanding into video with Flipboard TV. The company’s curated video service first launched earlier this year as a Samsung exclusive, and is now making its way to al...
01:56 pm GMT - Thu, August 27, 2020
Techcrunch COVID-19 is driving demand for low-code apps
Now that the great Y Combinator rush is behind us, we’re returning to a topic many of you really seem to care about: no-code and low-code apps and their development. We’ve explored the the...
01:42 pm GMT - Thu, August 27, 2020
Techcrunch Salesforce confirms its laying off around 1000 people in spite of monster quarter
In what felt like strange timing, Salesforce has confirmed a report in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal that it was laying off around 1000 people or approximately 1.9% of the company’s 54,0...
01:41 pm GMT - Thu, August 27, 2020
Techcrunch Calling Warsaw VCs: Be featured in The Great TechCrunch Survey of European VC
TechCrunch is embarking on a major new project to survey the venture capital investors of Europe. Our survey of VCs in Warsaw will capture how the city is faring, and what changes are being wrought am...
01:38 pm GMT - Thu, August 27, 2020
Techcrunch Warby Parker, valued at $3 billion, raises $245 million in funding
Warby Parker, the optical ecommerce giant, has today announced the close of a $245 million funding round from D1 Capital Partners, Durable Capital Partners, T. Rowe Price, and Baillie Gifford. A sourc...
01:34 pm GMT - Thu, August 27, 2020
Techcrunch Amazon debuts Halo smart health subscription service and Halo Band wearable activity tracker
Amazon has introduced an entirely new membership program called Halo today that aims to provide comprehensive personal health and wellness monitoring and advice. The Halo service, which is opening to ...
01:05 pm GMT - Thu, August 27, 2020
Techcrunch Christopher Wards C1 Moonglow moonphase automatic watch is perfect for space lovers
The moonphase watch is a long-standing marvel of the analog watch industry featuring a complication that allows it to accurately track the phases of the Moon across a long period (provided the watch ...
12:12 pm GMT - Thu, August 27, 2020
Techcrunch Narrative raises $8.5M as it launches a new data marketplace
Narrative has raised $8.5 million in Series A funding and is launching a new product designed to further simplify the process of buying and selling data. I’ve already written about the company&#...
09:45 am GMT - Thu, August 27, 2020
Techcrunch Amazon opens its first Amazon Fresh physical grocery store, in LA
The shift to online shopping has accelerated in the COVID-19 pandemic, but today Amazon made a bold move that underscores its belief that physical stores will remain a key component of how consumers s...
09:22 am GMT - Thu, August 27, 2020
Techcrunch Samsung will reportedly test remote work program as South Korea copes with new COVID-19 cases
Samsung Electronics will reportedly begin trialing a work-from-home program for some employees next month as South Korea as the country deals with its largest increase in COVID-19 cases since March. A...
09:00 am GMT - Thu, August 27, 2020
Techcrunch Fairphones new flagship, the 3, costs just 70 as a modular upgrade
Dutch social enterprise, Fairphone, has moved a little closer to the sustainability dream of a circular economy by announcing the launch of a modular upgrade for its flagship smartphone. The backwards...
08:00 am GMT - Thu, August 27, 2020
Techcrunch Passion Capital has backed Fronted, the startup that wants to offers loans to cover rent deposits
Fronted, the new London-based startup aiming to make life easier for renters, including lending the cash needed for a deposit, has picked up seed investment from Passion Capital. The investment showed...
06:05 am GMT - Thu, August 27, 2020
Techcrunch On-demand grocery startup Instashop acquired by Delivery Hero for $360M Greeces biggest tech exit yet
Instashop, the Greece-headquartered on-demand grocery business, is being acquired by Delivery Hero for $360 million — thought to be the country’s biggest tech exit yet. The strategy behind...
06:05 am GMT - Thu, August 27, 2020
Techcrunch Delivery Hero picks up InstaShop in $360M deal to expand in groceries in the Middle East
Grocery delivery has emerged as one of the hottest categories in e-commerce in the last six months, partly due to coronavirus pandemic, where stay-at-home orders plus a general reluctance to avoid cro...
04:54 am GMT - Thu, August 27, 2020
Techcrunch TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer resigns after 100 days
Kevin Mayer, the chief executive of TikTok, announced on Wednesday that he is resigning,just over 100 days after the former Disney executive joined the world’s largest short video app in mid-May...
12:17 am GMT - Thu, August 27, 2020
Techcrunch Facebook removes Kenosha Guard militia account after shooter kills two at protest
Facebook has removed a local self-declared militia’s page and a related event following the events that unfolded last night in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Two people were killed and another was wounded ...
10:42 pm GMT - Wed, August 26, 2020
Techcrunch Heres the Surface Duo
I cant remember the last time I did a hands-on with a device prior to powering it on. The idea of basing posts entirely around glamour shots without really interfacing with the product feels like a re...
10:39 pm GMT - Wed, August 26, 2020
Techcrunch Daily Crunch: Spotify is testing virtual events
Spotify explores virtual concerts, Twitter tests a “quotes” count and Google’s Nest Hub becomes more hotel-friendly. This is your Daily Crunch for August 26, 2020. The big story: Spo...
09:10 pm GMT - Wed, August 26, 2020
Techcrunch Instagram Guides may soon allow creators to recommended places, products and more
Instagram is working to expand its recently launched “Guides” feature which initially debuted with a specific focus on wellness content. The feature, which launched in May, has allowed sel...
09:07 pm GMT - Wed, August 26, 2020
Techcrunch Equity Shot: Our favorite startups from YC Demo Day
Hello and welcome back toEquity, TechCrunchs venture capital-focused podcast (now on Twitter!), where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. Yep, it’s another Equity Shot. We’re back....
08:53 pm GMT - Wed, August 26, 2020
Techcrunch Property tech startup Habi raises $10M to drive expansion in Latin America
When Brynne McNulty Rojas moved to Bogot, Columbia four years ago, she encountered a fragmented real estate industry that lacked a central database for consumers to find or compare homes. Rojas was st...
07:59 pm GMT - Wed, August 26, 2020
Techcrunch Ford, Bosch, and Bedrock announce an automated valet parking garage in Detroit
Ford, Bosch, and Bedrock Technologies today announced an automated valet parking demonstration in downtown Detroit. This system is designed to allow drivers to exit a vehicle and the vehicle would par...
07:59 pm GMT - Wed, August 26, 2020
Techcrunch Ford, Bosch and Bedrock announce an automated valet parking garage in Detroit
Ford, Bosch and Bedrock today announced an automated valet parking demonstration in downtown Detroit. This system is designed to allow drivers to exit a vehicle and the vehicle would park itself in th...
06:58 pm GMT - Wed, August 26, 2020
Techcrunch Luna Display adds a teleprompter mode
I really like the Luna Display. The dongle still occupies a spot in my travel-cord bag. But like the bag it resides in, the iPad accessory hasnt gotten much use in the past year. ...
06:54 pm GMT - Wed, August 26, 2020
Techcrunch SpaceX will launch Mastens first lander to the Moon in 2022
SpaceX has secured a contract to act as the launch partner for Masten Space Systems, one of the companies awarded a NASA launch contract under that agency’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CL...
06:29 pm GMT - Wed, August 26, 2020
Techcrunch The bullish case for Palantirs direct listing
The Palantir S-1 finally dropped yesterday after TechCrunch spilled a bunch of its guts last Friday. You can read the filing here, if you are so inclined. Today, however, instead of our usual overview...
06:13 pm GMT - Wed, August 26, 2020
Techcrunch The Positive Grid Spark is a versatile smart amp perfect for guitarists stuck at home
Powered amps for electric guitars have gotten some neat tricks powered by modern mobile tech over the years, but the new Positive Grid Spark ($299) might be the one that packs the most intelligence an...
05:54 pm GMT - Wed, August 26, 2020
Techcrunch Twitter experiments with adding a Quotes count to tweets
Twitter wants to make it easier to see the conversations taking place around a tweet. This May, the company rolled out a change to its user interface that allowed users who clicked on the “Retwe...
05:49 pm GMT - Wed, August 26, 2020
Techcrunch The H-1B visa ban is creating nearshore business partnership opportunities
Nearshoring is mutually beneficial because developers don't have to give up their culture for a great employment opportunity and businesses can reap the benefits of diversification....
05:31 pm GMT - Wed, August 26, 2020
Techcrunch Microsoft researcher Dr. Cecily Morrison will discuss keeping AI personal at Sight Tech Global
For Dr. Cecily Morrison, research into how AI can help people who are blind or visually disabled is deeply personal. Its not only that the Microsoft Principal Researcher has a 7-year-old son who is bl...
05:15 pm GMT - Wed, August 26, 2020
Techcrunch Course Hero, a profitable edtech unicorn, raises rare cash
Like any successful founder, Andrew Grauer had bright, long-term ambitions for Course Hero from the moment he launched it in 2006. He started the business to create a place where students could ask qu...
05:05 pm GMT - Wed, August 26, 2020
Techcrunch Dear Sophie: Latest immigration and H-1B updates
Exceptions for new H-1B visas at embassies and consulates around the world will help a lot of tech companies whose employees got stuck outside the U.S....
04:43 pm GMT - Wed, August 26, 2020
Techcrunch Synthetic biology startups are giving investors an appetite
There’s a growing wave of commercial activity from companies that are creating products using new biological engineering technologies. Perhaps the most public (and tastiest) example of the promi...
04:42 pm GMT - Wed, August 26, 2020
Techcrunch Benchmarks Peter Fenton is joining us at Disrupt
Benchmark used to be the quintessential Silicon Valley venture firm. It was small. It was focused. It was aggressive while also remaining founder friendly. It stuck to its knitting when it came to its...
04:30 pm GMT - Wed, August 26, 2020
Techcrunch Mobilevotingcan ease polling place unease inthe COVID-19era
Failing to explore new options to prevent a voting disaster this fall amidst a global pandemic could have grave repercussions on the future of this nation....
04:15 pm GMT - Wed, August 26, 2020
Techcrunch Bingie is an app for all your streaming recommendations and debates
If you’re overwhelmed trying to choose the next movie or TV show to watch on Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, HBO Max or any other streaming service, Bingie could be the app for you. You may recall a pre...
04:00 pm GMT - Wed, August 26, 2020
Techcrunch Many Canon cameras can now automatically back up pictures to Google Photos
Canon and Google today announced a new software integration that enables automatic Google Photos backup of pictures taken with select Canon cameras a full list is available here, but it’s most o...
04:00 pm GMT - Wed, August 26, 2020
Techcrunch LaunchNotes raises a $1.8M seed round to help companies communicate their software updates
LaunchNotes, a startup founded by the team behind Statuspage (which Atlassian later acquired) and the former head of marketing for Jira, today announced that it has raised a $1.8 million seed round co...
04:00 pm GMT - Wed, August 26, 2020
Techcrunch Google is pushing to get the Nest Hub in more hotel rooms
Given the number of rooms Ive stayed in over the past couple of years that still sported a 30-pin iPod alarm clock, I think its a safe bet that refreshing a new technology isnt high up on the list of ...
03:56 pm GMT - Wed, August 26, 2020
Techcrunch Learn how to scale social impact startups at Disrupt with Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins and Jessica O. Matthews
Hundreds of founders have launched their startups with an aim to change the world. But uttering the words “making the world a better place,” isn’t the same as doing it or doing it we...
03:14 pm GMT - Wed, August 26, 2020
Techcrunch Chinas Alibaba wont invest in Indian startups for at least six months, report says
Chinese internet giant Alibaba Group has put on hold plans to invest in Indian startups amid geo-political tensions between the two countries, Reuters reported Wednesday, citing two unnamed sources. T...
03:06 pm GMT - Wed, August 26, 2020
Techcrunch Spotify is developing a virtual events feature
The coronavirus pandemic has had a significant impact on the music industry, as artists who relied on live performances and concerts suddenly had the rug pulled out beneath them, impacting their abili...
02:45 pm GMT - Wed, August 26, 2020
Techcrunch Funding for mental health-focused startups rises in 2020
Turning away from the public markets, IPOs, SPACs and Palantir for a moment, would you like to talk about startups again? I would. This morning, I pored over venture capital funding patterns for welln...
02:28 pm GMT - Wed, August 26, 2020
Techcrunch GM teases two new all-electric Chevy Bolt models
GM provided a glimpse Wednesday of not one, but two versions of the Chevrolet Bolt, the all-electric vehicle that first launched in 2017 with an aim at hitting the market before and carving sales awa...
02:12 pm GMT - Wed, August 26, 2020
Techcrunch With theaters opening back up, Atom Tickets launches its Snap mini app
Santa Monica, Calif.-based Atom Tickets, the ticketing and concessions buying app, is finally launching its branded ticket buying experience inside Snapchat. The new Movie Tickets by Atom joins a slew...
01:30 pm GMT - Wed, August 26, 2020
Techcrunch DJI rebrands its Osmo line with the arrival of the magnetically connecting OM 4
Beyond the drones it’s known for, DJI has carved out a nice niche for itself in the camera stabilization market. Building on the technology it has developed for the aerial imaging space, the com...
01:14 pm GMT - Wed, August 26, 2020
Techcrunch Facebook updates Messenger Rooms as Zoom sits at top of the App Store
Messenger Rooms, Facebook’s social Zoom competitor, is today rolling out new features aimed at making Rooms easier to both create and discover as well as those for further personalizing your Roo...
01:11 pm GMT - Wed, August 26, 2020
Techcrunch Stride.VC loses partner Pia dIribarne
Stride.VC, the London early-stage VC firm founded by Fred Destin and podcaster Harry Stebbings, is losing Paris-based partner, Pia dIribarne, TechCrunch has learned. According to a regulatory filing, ...
01:08 pm GMT - Wed, August 26, 2020
Techcrunch Cisco acquiring BabbleLabs to filter out the lawn mower screeching during your video conference
We’ve all been in a video conference, especially this year, when the neighbor started mowing the lawn or kids were playing outside your window — and it can get pretty loud. Cisco, which ow...
01:08 pm GMT - Wed, August 26, 2020
Techcrunch Meet the startups from Brincs first online Demo Day
Like other accelerators, Brinc hasnt let 2020 get in the way of its program for early-stage startups. The firm is known for focusing on food technology, health tech, clean energy, and hardware, and ha...
01:06 pm GMT - Wed, August 26, 2020
Techcrunch Payments services company Finix adds $30 million to its Series B
Finix, a startup that provides payments-related services to other companies, announced it has extended its Series B financing with a $30 million investment led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Ameri...
12:40 pm GMT - Wed, August 26, 2020
Techcrunch Desktop Metal going public in SPAC-led deal that could value 3D printer company at $2.5B
Desktop Metals had no shortage of investor interest in its business during in its half-decade existence. To date, the metal 3D printing company has raised $430 million, becoming one of the fastest U.S...
12:00 pm GMT - Wed, August 26, 2020
Techcrunch Grid raises $12M Series A to turn spreadsheets into visual narratives
Grid, a SaaS startup founded in Iceland that lets you turn spreadsheets into visual “narratives,” has closed $12 million in Series A funding. The round is led by New Enterprise Associates ...
11:59 am GMT - Wed, August 26, 2020
Techcrunch Xiaomi reports 3.1% revenue growth in Q2 despite restricted production in India
Xiaomi reported a revenue of $7.77 billion for the quarter that ended in June this year, up 3.1% since the same period last year and up 7.7% over the previous quarter as the Chinese smartphone maker s...
09:00 am GMT - Wed, August 26, 2020
Techcrunch White House announces $1B investment for AI and quantum computing hubs
Building out its previous commitment, the White House is announcing a $1 billion investment into two of tech’s most promising frontiers, AI and quantum computing. Last year, the Trump administra...
03:59 am GMT - Wed, August 26, 2020
Techcrunch BlackBerry makes China push as the OS for Xpeng smart cars
The once-pioneering BlackBerry is pretty much out of the smartphone manufacturing game, but the Canadian company has been busy transitioning to providing software for connected devices, including smar...
01:31 am GMT - Wed, August 26, 2020
Techcrunch The pandemic has probably killed VR arcades for good
A lagging trend of the past few months has been witnessing startups that COVID seemed poised to kill end up scaling back some of those deep cuts and taking off again. Not all spaces have been quite so...
12:00 am GMT - Wed, August 26, 2020
Techcrunch Cryptocurrency exchange FTX acquires portfolio tracker Blockfolio
FTX, a cryptocurrency exchange that offers derivatives, options and other sophisticated products, is acquiring a popular portfolio tracking app, Blockfolio. FTX is spending $150 million for the acquis...
11:56 pm GMT - Tue, August 25, 2020
Techcrunch Everyone filed to go public Monday
Hello and welcome back toEquity, TechCrunchs venture capital-focused podcast (now on Twitter!), where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. We’re back out of sequence, because literally ev...
11:03 pm GMT - Tue, August 25, 2020
Techcrunch Axon delivers new tech for police, but are more tools really what cops need?
Axon, the company formerly known as Taser and which provides the majority of police body cameras, has a few new tech tools for cops that could cut down on paperwork and improve response times. But at ...
11:00 pm GMT - Tue, August 25, 2020
Techcrunch Max Schrems on the EU court ruling that could cut Facebook in two
Last month’s ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), ripping up the EU-US Privacy Shield and sewing doubt over alternative mechanisms, has put a cat among the pigeons of int...
10:10 pm GMT - Tue, August 25, 2020
Techcrunch Daily Crunch: Judge says Apple cant block Unreal Engine
Epic Games wins a victory against Apple, Fitbit announces a new smartwatch and Microsoft Word adds a transcription feature. This is your Daily Crunch for August 25, 2020. The big story: Judge says App...
09:57 pm GMT - Tue, August 25, 2020
Techcrunch Here are the 94 companies from Y Combinators Summer 2020 Demo Day 2
And we’re back! Today was part two of Y Combinator’s absolutely massive Demo Day(s) event for its Summer 2020 class. As we outlined yesterday, this is the first YC accelerator class to tak...
09:44 pm GMT - Tue, August 25, 2020
Techcrunch Muze redesigns mobile messaging as a free-form canvas for creativity
New York-based startup Muze is rethinking mobile messaging. While today’s messaging apps have expanded over the years to include support for sharing photos and videos, voice messages, reactions ...
09:18 pm GMT - Tue, August 25, 2020
Techcrunch Our 12 favorite startups from Y Combinators S20 Demo Day: Part 2
Figma for filmmakers, TikTok for English learners and a cryptocurrency twist that actually makes sense? After 197 pitches, Y Combinators Demo Day for its Summer 2020 cohort has concluded. While the fa...
08:49 pm GMT - Tue, August 25, 2020
Techcrunch Porsche experiments with subscription pricing, expands to Los Angeles
Porsche is rolling out a less expensive subscription plan in four U.S. cities as the German automaker experiments with different pricing and products in an effort to expand its customer base. Porsche ...
08:39 pm GMT - Tue, August 25, 2020
Techcrunch XYZ Robotics raises $17M for its pick-and-place logistics robots
COVID-19 is proving to be a massive driver for robotics investments and for good reason. Robots dont call in sick, and theyre far less likely to be disease vectors than their human counterparts. Comp...
08:38 pm GMT - Tue, August 25, 2020
Techcrunch Netflixs Emilys Wonder Lab is smart, interactive science TV for kids
Netflix’s children’s programming library continues to grow, and its latest is one of its best original offerings yet Emily’s Wonder Lab, a TV series hosted by engineer, space expert...
08:24 pm GMT - Tue, August 25, 2020
Techcrunch Instacart workers are demanding disaster relief amid CA wildfires
Gig Workers Collective, a gig worker-activist group led by Instacart shoppers, is asking Instacart to provide disaster relief to workers impacted by natural disasters. The demands come at a time when ...
07:42 pm GMT - Tue, August 25, 2020
Techcrunch Investment tech wont solve systemic wealth gaps, but its a good start
It goes without saying that tech alone wont change deeply embedded structures, but it sure can open a lot of doors....
07:15 pm GMT - Tue, August 25, 2020
Techcrunch Waymos Boris Sofman and TuSimples Xiaodi Hou to join us at TC Sessions: Mobility 2020
One of the areas of autonomous driving technology with the most potential to have a near-term and dramatic impact remains trucking: There’s a growing lack of drivers for long-haul routes, and hi...
07:13 pm GMT - Tue, August 25, 2020
Techcrunch Industry experts say its full speed ahead as Snowflake files S-1
When Snowflake filed its S-1 ahead of an upcoming IPO yesterday, it wasn’t exactly a shock. The company which raised $1.4 billion had been valued at $12.4 billion in its last private raise in Fe...
06:42 pm GMT - Tue, August 25, 2020
Techcrunch How to establish a startup and draw up your first contract
Founders are encouraged, incentivized and pressured to begin transacting with customers as quickly as possible to drive growth and revenue. But making legal mistakes early in the game can create costl...
06:27 pm GMT - Tue, August 25, 2020
Techcrunch As DevOps takes off, site reliability engineers are flying high
Jason Kong Contributor Jason Kong is an Investor at IVP, where he focuses on identifying and evaluating later-stage enterprise and consumer technology investments. Cack Wilhelm Contributor Share on Tw...
05:52 pm GMT - Tue, August 25, 2020
Techcrunch Turing raises $14M to help source, vet, place and manage remote developers in tech jobs
The emergence, and now seemingly extended presence, of the novel coronavirus health pandemic has made remote working into a pretty standard part of office life for so-called knowledge workers. Today, ...
05:03 pm GMT - Tue, August 25, 2020
Techcrunch Decrypted: Ubers former security chief charged, FBIs vishing warning
A lot happened in cybersecurity over the past week. The University of Utah paid almost half a million dollars to stop hackers from leaking sensitive student data after a ransomware attack. Two major A...
05:01 pm GMT - Tue, August 25, 2020
Techcrunch Facebook changes name of its annual VR event and its overall AR/VR organization
Facebook is moving further away from the Oculus brand. The company says it is changing the name of their augmented reality and virtual reality division to “Facebook Reality Labs,” a divisi...
05:00 pm GMT - Tue, August 25, 2020
Techcrunch 72-hour roll back to early bird pricing on Disrupt 2020 passes
In a nod to the show Parks and Recreation, its time to treat yo self with an additional $100 discount on Disrupt 2020 passes. For the next 72-hours only, you can save an extra $100 and get your Disru...
04:18 pm GMT - Tue, August 25, 2020
Techcrunch Join Twilios Jeff Lawson for a live Q&A today at 2:30 pm EDT/11:30 am PDT
Later today, Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson is joining the TechCrunch crew for a live Q&A. The discussion is part of our Extra Crunch Live series that has been live for the last several months. It’s...
04:18 pm GMT - Tue, August 25, 2020
Techcrunch Join Twilios Jeff Lawson now for a live Q&A
Later today, Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson is joining the TechCrunch crew for a live Q&A. The discussion is part of our Extra Crunch Live series that has been live for the last several months. It’s...
04:00 pm GMT - Tue, August 25, 2020
Techcrunch New Zendesk dashboard delivers customer service data in real time
Zendesk has been offering customers the ability to track customer service statistics for some time, but it has always been a look back. Today, the company announced a new product called Explorer Enter...
04:00 pm GMT - Tue, August 25, 2020
Techcrunch Austins Fox Robotics raises a $9M Series A for its robotic forklifts
The COVID-19 pandemic is, understandably, proving to be a major driver for robotics and automation adoption. The already hot categories are proving to be even more appealing as companies look to techn...
04:00 pm GMT - Tue, August 25, 2020
Techcrunch Grab your student discount pass for TC Sessions: Mobility 2020
This aint your average back-to-school sale but then again, theres nothing average about TC Sessions: Mobility 2020. This two-day event October 6-7 draws the worlds top technologists, investors and r...
04:00 pm GMT - Tue, August 25, 2020
Techcrunch Eden intros SaaS tools in a bid to become a more comprehensive office management platform
Eden, the office management platform founded by Joe du Bey, is today announcing the launch of several new enterprise software features. The company, which offers a marketplace for office managers to p...
03:59 pm GMT - Tue, August 25, 2020
Techcrunch Google Chrome update brings better tab management, QR codes, plus performance improvements
Google today will begin rolling out several updates to its Chrome web browser, with the goal of increasing user productivity and making the browsing experience faster. Specifically, Google is making C...
03:42 pm GMT - Tue, August 25, 2020
Techcrunch YCs most anticipated startup raised $16M from a16z before Demo Day
Trove, a startup that sells a suite of internal compensation tools to other startups, has quietly graduated from this summers Y Combinator batch with millions in venture capital and a whopping valuati...
03:05 pm GMT - Tue, August 25, 2020
Techcrunch Carbon Healths Eren Bali and Colors Othman Laraki will join us at Disrupt 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has left no industry untouched, but the healthcare industry is arguably the one that stands to be transformed the most by the ongoing pandemic. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2020, get th...
03:04 pm GMT - Tue, August 25, 2020
Techcrunch Facebook is bringing a Shop section to its app, while Instagram expands Live Shopping
Facebook is announcing a number of new e-commerce features both within the main Facebook app and on Instagram. The pandemic has forced many businesses to shift online, and Facebook made a big announce...
03:00 pm GMT - Tue, August 25, 2020
Techcrunch Azures Immersive Reader is now generally available
Microsoft today announced that Immersive Reader, its service for developers who want to add text-to-speech and reading comprehension tools to their applications, is now generally available. Immersive ...
03:00 pm GMT - Tue, August 25, 2020
Techcrunch Vues $179 Lite smart glasses have built-in speakers for music and calls
Perhaps some day in the not-so-distant future, well all be wearing smart glasses. Stranger things have happened. And hey, most people were fairly skeptical in the early days of smartwatches. And while...
03:00 pm GMT - Tue, August 25, 2020
Techcrunch Microsoft brings transcriptions to Word
Microsoft today launched Transcribe in Word, its new transcription service for Microsoft 365 subscribers, into general availability. It’s now available in the online version of Word, with other ...
02:51 pm GMT - Tue, August 25, 2020
Techcrunch Leaked S-1 says Palantir would fight an order demanding its encryption keys
Palantir, the secretive data analytics startup founded by billionaire investor Peter Thiel, would challenge a government order seeking the company’s encryption keys, according to a leaked docume...
02:24 pm GMT - Tue, August 25, 2020
Techcrunch Facebook News to expand internationally to the U.K., Germany, France, India, and Brazil
Facebook News, the social network’s dedicated news section launched to U.S. audiences in June, is soon expanding to international markets. The company announced today it plans to accelerate its ...
02:13 pm GMT - Tue, August 25, 2020
Techcrunch Unity, JFrog, Asana, Snowflake and Sumo Logic file for IPOs in rapid-fire fashion
After far too few startups appeared ready to take advantage of warm public market conditions and ecstatic IPO receptions, a deluge of private companies filed to go public yesterday. There was Sumo Log...
01:55 pm GMT - Tue, August 25, 2020
Techcrunch Chinese commercial launch startup iSpace raises $172 million
The private launch industry isn’t showing any signs of slowing down, and a new $172 million Series B round of funding for China commercial launch startup iSpace indicates it could be heating up ...
01:55 pm GMT - Tue, August 25, 2020
Techcrunch Meet the Disrupt 2020 TC10
If 2020 hasn’t been wild enough, there’s an extra special twist going down at Disrupt 2020 beyond the fact that, for the first time ever, the conference will be fully virtual. It also happ...
01:37 pm GMT - Tue, August 25, 2020
Techcrunch COVID-19 blamed as smartphone sales plummet 20% in Q2
The last couple of years have been tough on the smartphone industry, as sales plateaued and eventually eroded. But nothing could have prepared manufacturers for 2020. This was supposed to be the year ...
01:30 pm GMT - Tue, August 25, 2020
Techcrunch MIT CSAIL grad launches machine learning platform with $10M Series A
Manasi Vartak, founder and CEO of Verta, conceived of the idea of the open source project ModelDB database as a way to track versions of machine models while she was still in grad school at MIT. After...
01:23 pm GMT - Tue, August 25, 2020
Techcrunch Rideshare and taxi ad startup Firefly acquires Strong Outdoors out-of-home ad business
Firefly is expanding its ad business in New York City by acquiring the out-of-home business of Strong Outdoor, as well as by becoming the advertising partner for fleet operator Sally. Firefly launched...
01:00 pm GMT - Tue, August 25, 2020
Techcrunch Kymeta raises $85.2 million led by Bill Gates to speed growth of its satellite-cellular antenna tech
Global communications startup Kymeta has raised a new $85.2 million funding round, led by Bill Gates . The Redmond-based company has developed a new type of smart, powered flat panel antenna that can ...
01:00 pm GMT - Tue, August 25, 2020
Techcrunch Fitbit launches a $330 Apple Watch competitor
Fitbit would be the first to admit it was late to the smartwatch game. When it did finally launch a proper smartwatch with the Ionic, it was something of a misfire. But the Versa helped the wearable p...
01:00 pm GMT - Tue, August 25, 2020
Techcrunch Fitbit intros the Versa 3 and Inspire 2
Fitbits big news for today was the launch of the Sense, a new, more premium smartwatch line designed to compete directly against the likes of Apple and Samsung. But Fitbit has never been one for solit...
01:00 pm GMT - Tue, August 25, 2020
Techcrunch Nomads Base Station Pro with Aira FreePower tech finally realizes the promise of wireless charging
Accessory maker Nomad has a long history of delivering great accessories for iOS and Android devices, using great quality materials and craftsmanship. Now, the company is partnering with wireless char...
12:43 pm GMT - Tue, August 25, 2020
Techcrunch Despite COVID-19, 5 Chicago VCs say region is poised for success
Chicago has a long history of creating industry-leading companies and it doesn’t seem COVID-19 is slowing down the city. TechCrunch surveyed Chicago venture capitalists who remain optimistic des...
12:30 pm GMT - Tue, August 25, 2020
Techcrunch Netgear debuts a new 15.6-inch Meural WiFi Photo Frame with automatic album syncing
Smart frames as a gadget category might seem like they’ve already had and passed their moment in the sun, but Netgear’s Meural line, which originated with large connected smart canvases, h...
12:26 pm GMT - Tue, August 25, 2020
Techcrunch Visual collaboration startup MURAL raises huge $118M Series B
This morning MURAL announced that it has raised $118 million in an outsized Series B. The visual collaboration startup provides a whiteboard-like digital environment that allows for users to cooperate...
12:00 pm GMT - Tue, August 25, 2020
Techcrunch Self-charging, thousand-year battery startup NDB aces key tests and lands first beta customers
Pleasanton-based green energy startup NDB, Inc. has reached a key milestone today with the completion of two proof of concept tests of its nano diamond battery (NDB). One of these tests took place at ...
12:00 pm GMT - Tue, August 25, 2020
Techcrunch Amazon rolls out a new AR shopping feature for viewing multiple items at once
Amazon is rolling out a new augmented reality shopping tool, Room Decorator, that will allow you to see furniture and other home dcor in your own space. While the retailer had experimented with AR too...
12:00 pm GMT - Tue, August 25, 2020
Techcrunch Google Cloud Anthos update brings support for on-prem, bare metal
When Google announced Anthos last year at Google Cloud Next, it was a pretty big deal. Here was a cloud company releasing a product that purported to help you move your applications between cloud comp...
12:00 pm GMT - Tue, August 25, 2020
Techcrunch Level Home introduces Level Touch, a sleek smart lock that doesnt advertise its intelligence
Hardware startup Level introduced their first product earlier this year, and now they’re already following it up with a brand new smart lock. The original Level Lock broke new ground in the smar...
11:48 am GMT - Tue, August 25, 2020
Techcrunch Calling Paris VCs: Be featured in The Great TechCrunch Survey of European VC
TechCrunch is embarking on a major new project to survey the venture capital investors of Europe. Our <a href=”https://forms.gle/k4Ji2Ch7zdrn7o2p6>survey of VCs in Paris will capture how the...
08:54 am GMT - Tue, August 25, 2020
Techcrunch UK immersive music startup MelodyVR acquires Napster from RealNetworks for $70M
Napster, the pioneering digital music brand from way back when, is changing hands once more. Today, a UK startup called MelodyVR, which creates immersive live music experiences that you watch either t...
08:54 am GMT - Tue, August 25, 2020
Techcrunch UK immersive music startup MelodyVR buys Napster for $70M in reverse takeover
Napster, the pioneering digital music brand from way back when, is changing hands once more. Today, a UK startup called MelodyVR, which creates immersive live music experiences that you watch either t...
07:04 am GMT - Tue, August 25, 2020
Techcrunch Eduardo Saverin on the world of innovation past Silicon Valley
Eduardo Saverin will forever be known for cofounding Facebook 16 years ago with four other Harvard classmates (one of whom is still running the company). But even before splitting in 2009 for Singapor...
05:33 am GMT - Tue, August 25, 2020
Techcrunch Apple ordered to not block Epic Games Unreal Engine, but Fortnite to stay off App Store
A district court denied Epic Games’ motion to temporarily restore Fortnite game to the iOS App Store, but also ordered Apple to not block the gaming giant’s ability to provide and distribu...
05:00 am GMT - Tue, August 25, 2020
Techcrunch Supermetrics raises 40M to bring all your marketing data together
Supermetrics, the data management and analysis tool for marketers, has raised 40 million in new funding. Leading the round is Highland Europe, with participation from IVP, while the injection of capit...
04:21 am GMT - Tue, August 25, 2020
Techcrunch After restricting a group critical of Thailands monarchy, Facebook says it will take legal action against the government
After restricting access to a popular group with posts critical of Thailands monarchy, Facebook is planning legal action against the Thai government, which the social media giant says forced it to res...
04:01 am GMT - Tue, August 25, 2020
Techcrunch Connected Roombas get smarter with iRobots Genius update
For iRobot, much of the last several years has been devoted to making its line of home-cleaning robots smarter. There hasnt been much in the way of new hardware in a while, as the company focuses on t...
04:00 am GMT - Tue, August 25, 2020
Techcrunch MIT wireless system can monitor what care facility residents are doing while preserving privacy
Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) have developed a way for a fully wireless system to monitor not only movement and vital signs contact-free, but also...
01:28 am GMT - Tue, August 25, 2020
Techcrunch Palantirs S-1 alludes to controversial work with ICE as a risk factor for its business
Palantir’s mysterious work and its founding origins withTrump ally and anti-press crusader Peter Thiel have inspired a number of controversies in recent years, none as divisive as its ongoing bu...
11:31 pm GMT - Mon, August 24, 2020
Techcrunch As losses expand, Asana is confident it has the ticket for a successful public listing
Asana, the project management software developer, dropped its filing for a direct listing on one of the busiest days of a surprisingly busy late summer. The task management toolkit provider started by...
11:06 pm GMT - Mon, August 24, 2020
Techcrunch Xwing plans short, regional flights for its autonomous cargo planes
The path to deploying commercial aircraft that can handle all aspects of flight without a pilot is long, winding, expensive and riddled with regulatory and technical hurdles. Marc Piette, the founder ...
10:31 pm GMT - Mon, August 24, 2020
Techcrunch Here are the 98 companies from Y Combinators Summer 2020 Demo Day 1
Today was part one of Y Combinator’s two-parter Summer 2020 Demo Day, where nearly 100 companies debuted their efforts to the world for the first time. The Summer 2020 batch of companies was the...
10:28 pm GMT - Mon, August 24, 2020
Techcrunch Palo Alto Networks to buy digital forensics consulting firm for $265M
It’s been quite a day in the tech world, with a bushel of S-1s being filed to go public. Not to be left out, the ever acquisitive Palo Alto Networks announced its intent to acquire The Crypsis G...
10:14 pm GMT - Mon, August 24, 2020
Techcrunch Our 11 favorite companies from Y Combinators S20 Demo Day: Part I
Startup incubator and investment group Y Combinator today held the first of two demo days for founders in its Summer 2020 batch. So far, this cohort contains the usual mix of bold, impressive and, at ...
10:10 pm GMT - Mon, August 24, 2020
Techcrunch Daily Crunch: TikTok sues the US government
TikTok fights its U.S. ban, Twitter takes action against another Trump tweet and Unity files to go public. This is your Daily Crunch for August 24, 2020. The big story: TikTok sues the U.S. government...
10:01 pm GMT - Mon, August 24, 2020
Techcrunch Sutter Hill strikes ice-cold, $2.5B pre-market return with Snowflakes IPO filing
Today is the day for huge VC returns. We talked a bit about Sequoias coming huge win with the IPO of game engine Unity this morning. Now, Sequoia might actually have the second largest return among co...
09:00 pm GMT - Mon, August 24, 2020
Techcrunch A quick peek at Snowflakes IPO filing
Snowflake filed to go public today joining a bushel of companies making their S-1 documents public today. TechCrunch has a longer digest of all the IPO filings coming soon, but we could not wait to ge...
09:00 pm GMT - Mon, August 24, 2020
Techcrunch Unitys IPO numbers look pretty unreal?
Unity, the company founded in a Copenhagen apartment in 2004, is poised for an initial public offering with numbers that look pretty strong. Even as its main competitor, Epic Games, is in the throes o...
08:56 pm GMT - Mon, August 24, 2020
Techcrunch TikTok-rival Triller inks deal with Reliances JioSaavn in India push
Triller, an app that functions similarly to TikTok, has inked a strategic partnership with a platform owned by Indias richest man to cash in on the Chinese apps ban in its biggest international market...
08:04 pm GMT - Mon, August 24, 2020
Techcrunch Mastercard acquired and shut down IfOnly, an experiences marketplace hit by Covid-19
Travel has undoubtedly been one of the industries hardest hit in the coronavirus pandemic, constrained by restrictions on how people can move between and within countries, many venues closing, new rul...
07:17 pm GMT - Mon, August 24, 2020
Techcrunch With $11 million in fresh capital, Bolt Bikes rebrands to Zoomo
Bolt Bikes, the electric bike platform marketed to gig economy delivery workers, has a new name and a fresh injection of $11 million in capital from a Series A funding round led by Australian Clean En...
07:11 pm GMT - Mon, August 24, 2020
Techcrunch Extra Crunch discount now available for military, nonprofits and government employees
Were excited to announce that government, nonprofit and military employees can get an Extra Crunch membership at a discounted rate of $50 per year, plus tax. If interested in claiming the deal, please...
07:08 pm GMT - Mon, August 24, 2020
Techcrunch Earn the best backlinks with high-quality content and digital PR
Amanda Milligan Contributor Share on Twitter Amanda Milligan is the marketing director at Fractl, a prominent growth marketing agency thats helped Fortune 500 companies and boutique businesses alike e...
06:50 pm GMT - Mon, August 24, 2020
Techcrunch Startup Alley exhibitors: register for VC-led Fundraising & Hiring Best Practices webinar
Its a classic last but not least moment for the all the savvy early-stage startup founders exhibiting in Digital Startup Alley at Disrupt 2020. The final webinar in our three-part interactive series t...
06:23 pm GMT - Mon, August 24, 2020
Techcrunch Ever, once accused of building facial recognition tech using customer data, shuts down consumer app
Cloud photo storage app Ever is shutting down, citing increased competition with the default services offered by Apple and Google as the cause. The company, however, had other issues beyond the plight...
05:31 pm GMT - Mon, August 24, 2020
Techcrunch Facebook to pay $125 million in back taxes in France, report says
Facebook France is going to pay $125 million (106 million) in back taxes according to business magazine Capital Facebook confirmed the agreement to both Capital and Reuters. French tax authorities ra...
05:31 pm GMT - Mon, August 24, 2020
Techcrunch Facebook to pay $125 million in back taxes in France
Facebook France is going to pay $125 million (106 million) in back taxes. Business magazine Capital first reported the agreement. French tax authorities raided Facebooks offices in Paris in 2012 and l...
05:09 pm GMT - Mon, August 24, 2020
Techcrunch Sequoia strikes gold with Unitys IPO filing
A big payday is on the way for Sequoia and its partners, assuming they beat the final boss. Today after much anticipation, video game engine Unity filed its Form S-1 with the SEC as it prepares a road...
04:56 pm GMT - Mon, August 24, 2020
Techcrunch Red Antlers Emily Heyward explains how to get people obsessed with your brand
If youre currently building a startup, you know what product you want to build. But do you know if people are actually going to notice you? Thats the question I asked of Red Antler co-founder Emily He...
04:46 pm GMT - Mon, August 24, 2020
Techcrunch TikTok sues the US government over its forthcoming ban
TikTok is suing the U.S. government in federal court over the Trump Administration’s decision to ban TikTok in the U.S. market. Reports that TikTok would soon file a legal challenge to the ban w...
04:27 pm GMT - Mon, August 24, 2020
Techcrunch Unpacking the Sumo Logic S-1 filing
Setting our dive into Palantir’s gross margins aside for another day, Sumo Logic filed to go public this morning. The Redwood City-based, former startup raised around $340 million while private,...
04:00 pm GMT - Mon, August 24, 2020
Techcrunch Two weeks left on early-bird pricing for TC Sessions: Mobility 2020
Its time to mobilize for early-bird savings on passes to the all-virtual TC Sessions Mobility 2020, which takes place October 6-7. Prices will continue to increase as the event draws near. Buy your pa...
03:44 pm GMT - Mon, August 24, 2020
Techcrunch Five real reasons to attend Disrupt 2020 online
Why should you attend Disrupt 2020? We live in unprecedented times and face unprecedented challenges. But unprecedented opportunities are also part of this equation, and now is the time for creative s...
03:42 pm GMT - Mon, August 24, 2020
Techcrunch COVID-19 pandemic accelerated shift to e-commerce by 5 years, new report says
As the COVID-19 pandemic reshaped our world, more consumers have begun shopping online in greater numbers and frequency. According to new data from IBM’s U.S. Retail Index, the pandemic has acce...
03:30 pm GMT - Mon, August 24, 2020
Techcrunch Cloudera pulls sensitive files from its open by design cloud servers
Enterprise cloud giant Cloudera has pulled several of its cloud storage servers offline, despite initially claiming the servers were “open by design,” after a security researcher found sen...
03:13 pm GMT - Mon, August 24, 2020
Techcrunch Lidar startup Luminar to go public via $3.4 billion SPAC merger
Luminar, the lidar startup that burst onto the autonomous vehicle scene in April 2017after operating for years in secrecy, is merging with special-purpose acquisition company Gores Metropoulos Inc., w...
02:58 pm GMT - Mon, August 24, 2020
Techcrunch Equity Monday: YC Demo Day, two funding rounds, and wheres Palantirs S-1?
Hello and welcome back toEquity, TechCrunchs venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This is Equity Monday, our weekly kickoff that tracks the latest big news...
02:58 pm GMT - Mon, August 24, 2020
Techcrunch Equity Monday: YC Demo Day, two funding rounds and wheres Palantirs S-1?
Hello and welcome back toEquity, TechCrunchs venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This is Equity Monday, our weekly kickoff that tracks the latest big news...
02:55 pm GMT - Mon, August 24, 2020
Techcrunch Meet the anti-antitrust startup club
More entrepreneurs and investors are willing to throw caution to the wind and go after core segments like search, email and video conferencing with gusto....
02:32 pm GMT - Mon, August 24, 2020
Techcrunch Yac gets backed by Slack to bring the intimacy of voice back when remote co-workers interact
Yac, the digital voice messaging service that launched last year, has raised new money from the Slack Fund as it continues to gain ground among companies looking to give their employees new communicat...
02:17 pm GMT - Mon, August 24, 2020
Techcrunch 3 thoughts after 24 hours in the $177,000 Bentley Bentayga
Long story short, I borrowed a new Bentley Bentayga for 24 hours. What follows is a brief overview of the $177,000 sport utility vehicle. As I had the vehicle for a short time, I was unable to dive de...
01:25 pm GMT - Mon, August 24, 2020
Techcrunch Zoom meetings hit by outage
Zoom video calls and webinars are also suffering because of the outage....
12:44 pm GMT - Mon, August 24, 2020
Techcrunch Conan is coming to Disrupt 2020
In 2010, TV show host Conan O’Brien was abruptly asked to give up the time slot he’d been handed just six months earlier by his longtime employer NBC. Instead, he famously gave the network...
12:24 pm GMT - Mon, August 24, 2020
Techcrunch SugarCRM acquires Node to gain predictive customer intelligence
SugarCRM announced this morning it has acquired customer intelligence startup, Node. The companies did not reveal the purchase price, but the deal has closed. While Sugar gains a ton of AI expertise, ...
12:00 pm GMT - Mon, August 24, 2020
Techcrunch The Station: Canoo paddles into the SPAC current and the next threat to micro mobility
The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation.Sign up here just click The Station to receive it every Saturday in your inbox. Hello and welcome back to The Station, a new...
12:00 pm GMT - Mon, August 24, 2020
Techcrunch The Station: Canoo paddles into the SPAC current and the next threat to micromobility
The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation.Sign up here just click The Station to receive it every Saturday in your inbox. Hello and welcome back to The Station, a new...
09:51 am GMT - Mon, August 24, 2020
Techcrunch Pinduoduos latest aim: sell $145 billion farm produce in 2025
Still working to turn a profit and shake off its fake-goods reputation, China’s e-commerce upstart Pinduoduo set itself another ambitious goal for 2025: surpass 1 trillion yuan or $145 billion a...
09:51 am GMT - Mon, August 24, 2020
Techcrunch Pinduoduos latest aim: Sell $145 billion of farm produce in 2025
Still working to turn a profit and shake off its fake-goods reputation, China’s e-commerce upstart Pinduoduo set itself another ambitious goal for 2025: surpass 1 trillion yuan or $145 billion a...
03:04 am GMT - Mon, August 24, 2020
Techcrunch Twitter hides Trump tweet behind notice for potentially dissuading people from voting
Twitter flagged one of President Donald Trumps tweets on Monday, placing it behind a notice that warns users it violates the platforms rules against dissuading people from voting. In the tweet, posted...
04:36 pm GMT - Sun, August 23, 2020
Techcrunch Osmind pitches clinical management and data analysis for mental health practices using psychedelics
Jimmy Qian and Lucia Huang, the co-founders of a new clinical practice management and data analysis platform for mental health providers focusing on cutting edge psychedelic treatments, met at Stanfor...
08:00 pm GMT - Sat, August 22, 2020
Techcrunch Palantir and the great revenue mystery
Welcome back toThe TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. Its broadly based onthe daily column that appears on Extra Crunch, but free, and made for your weekend reading. You ca...
06:00 pm GMT - Sat, August 22, 2020
Techcrunch Startups Weekly: Will future unicorns go public sooner?
The public markets are staying receptive to tech IPOs, and tech unicorns are trying to recover from pandemic damage, polish up their financials, and head back towards the starting gates. This week, it...
04:30 pm GMT - Sat, August 22, 2020
Techcrunch Launched with $17 million by two former Norwest investors, Tau Ventures is ready for its closeup
Amit Garg and Sanjay Rao have spent the bulk of their professional lives developing technology, founding startups and investing in startups at places like Google and Microsoft, HealthIQ, and Norwest V...
04:02 pm GMT - Sat, August 22, 2020
Techcrunch Hey Apple, how about a MacBook SE?
Apple’s a hard company to like these days. Their glory days behind them, they have relentlessly pursued a misguided concept of optimization that has alienated their user base and compromised the...
03:56 pm GMT - Sat, August 22, 2020
Techcrunch Bletchley Park, birth-place of the computer, faces uncertain future after pandemic hits income
Bletchley Park is an English country house that became the principal centre of Allied code-breaking during the Second World War. It built the world’s first programmable digital electronic comput...
03:56 pm GMT - Sat, August 22, 2020
Techcrunch Bletchley Park, birthplace of the computer, faces uncertain future after pandemic hits income
Bletchley Park is an English country house that became the principal centre of Allied code-breaking during the Second World War. It built the world’s first programmable digital electronic comput...
03:33 pm GMT - Sat, August 22, 2020
Techcrunch Hear from experienced edtech investors on the markets overnight boom at Disrupt 2020
Edtechs reputation has been revitalized due to the coronavirus pandemic, which forced millions of students to adopt remote education overnight. But behind the scramble is a crop of investors who have ...
03:00 pm GMT - Sat, August 22, 2020
Techcrunch This Week in Apps: Apples antitrust war, TikTok ban, alt app ecosystems
We missed some Epic news while This Week in Apps was on vacation, but this week the backlash against the App Store continues. ...
02:32 pm GMT - Sat, August 22, 2020
Techcrunch Five proven ways to attract and hire more diverse talent
Startup founders should review and personalize their internal recruiting practices and policies to make them more inclusive....
01:29 pm GMT - Sat, August 22, 2020
Techcrunch Original Content podcast: On Netflixs Selling Sunset, everyones a villain
“Selling Sunset” is the kind reality TV show that doesn’t bother with things like sympathetic or relatable characters. The Netflix series recently released its third season which, l...
12:30 pm GMT - Sat, August 22, 2020
Techcrunch Five VCs discuss how no-code is going horizontal across the worlds industries
Few topics garner cheers and groans quite as quickly as the no-code software explosion. While investors seem uniformly bullish on toolsets that streamline and automate processes that once required a d...
05:47 am GMT - Sat, August 22, 2020
Techcrunch Almost everything you need to know about SPACs
Feeling as if you should better understand special purpose acquisition vehicles – or SPACS — than you do? You aren’t alone. Like most casual observers, you’re probably already ...
10:25 pm GMT - Fri, August 21, 2020
Techcrunch Gather helps teams streamline things like onboarding, offboarding, and parental leave over Slack
Adding a new employee to a team tends to involve more than saying “You’re hired!” and tossing them into the company Slack. You’ve got to get them trained, ship them any hardwar...
10:10 pm GMT - Fri, August 21, 2020
Techcrunch Daily Crunch: Palantir docs show $579M net loss
We dive into Palantir’s finances, Apple fires back against Epic Games and Lambda School raises funding. This is your Daily Crunch for August 21, 2020. The big story: Palantir docs show $579M net...
09:21 pm GMT - Fri, August 21, 2020
Techcrunch Palantir targeting 3 class voting structure according to leaked S-1, giving founders 49.999999% control in perpetuity
We are continuing to make progress through Palantirs leaked S-1 filing, which TechCrunch attained a copy of recently. We have covered the companys financials this morning, and this afternoon we talked...
08:21 pm GMT - Fri, August 21, 2020
Techcrunch Leaked Palantir S-1 shows company has 125 customers after 17 years
We are still walking through Palantir’s leaked S-1, which as of the time of this writing, hasn’t yet been filed and published by the SEC. This morning, we discussed some of Palantir’...
08:00 pm GMT - Fri, August 21, 2020
Techcrunch Human Capital: Whats next in Uber and Lyfts court battle and a look at board diversity in Silicon Valley
Welcome back to Human Capital, where we unpack the latest in diversity, equity and inclusion, and labor issues in the tech industry. In this week’s edition, we’re looking at the latest in ...
07:44 pm GMT - Fri, August 21, 2020
Techcrunch Rocket Lab sets return to flight with next launch as early as August 27
Rocket Lab has made a remarkable recovery after losing a payload during a mission failure on July 4 just eight weeks later, the company has set a launch window for its next dedicated commercial missi...
07:31 pm GMT - Fri, August 21, 2020
Techcrunch Apple contends Epics ban was a self-inflicted prelude to gaming the App Store
Apple has filed legal documents opposing Epic’s attempt to have itself reinstated in the iOS App Store, after having been kicked out last week for flouting its rules. Apple characterizes the ent...
07:18 pm GMT - Fri, August 21, 2020
Techcrunch How to raise your first VC fund
Learning to understand the mentality of an LP and building trust with investors is just the beginning....
06:54 pm GMT - Fri, August 21, 2020
Techcrunch OpenUnit aims to be Shopify for self-storage facilities
So you’re looking for a storage unit to put some stuff in for a few months. Maybe you’re moving and your new place isn’t ready yet — or maybe you’re just looking to declu...
06:46 pm GMT - Fri, August 21, 2020
Techcrunch Anu Duggal on COVID-19, promoting diversity and building a fund
It has been nearly a decade since Anu Duggal, founding partner of Female Founders Fund, started raising money to invest in women-led startups. In 2020, the investor says her thesis — that there ...
05:56 pm GMT - Fri, August 21, 2020
Techcrunch Box CEO Aaron Levie says thrifty founders have more control
Once upon a time, Box’s Aaron Levie was just a guy with an idea for a company: 15 years ago as a USC student, he conceived of a way to simply store and share files online. It may be hard to reca...
05:15 pm GMT - Fri, August 21, 2020
Techcrunch Sources say Palantir will have a lockup period after its direct listing
This morning, we published exclusive, leaked details about Palantirs much anticipated S-1 filing, including the companys revenues, margins, operating loss and government/commercial contract breakdown....
05:14 pm GMT - Fri, August 21, 2020
Techcrunch This subscription social network is happy to be an Albatross in a pandemic
In discussions of ethically dubious social networks Facebook is the usual reference choice. But spare a thought for subscribers of InterNations, a Munich-based social networking community for expats, ...
05:02 pm GMT - Fri, August 21, 2020
Techcrunch How one founder leveraged debt to drive early growth and avoid dilution
Could SaaS securitization be a future model of debt for startups?...
04:24 pm GMT - Fri, August 21, 2020
Techcrunch Submit your pitch deck to Disrupt 2020s Pitch Deck Teardown
Disrupt 2020 is a few weeks away and we’re looking for founders to submit their pitch decks. In the Pitch Deck Teardown, top venture capitalists and entrepreneurs will evaluate and suggest fixes...
03:20 pm GMT - Fri, August 21, 2020
Techcrunch Leaked S-1 screenshots show Palantir losing $579M in 2019
Palantir filed an S-1 confidentially to the SEC in early July, but we have so far been waiting for the final document to be published for weeks now with nary a murmur. Now, thanks to some leaked scree...
02:57 pm GMT - Fri, August 21, 2020
Techcrunch CarbonChain is using AI to determine the emissions profile of the worlds biggest polluters
It was the Australian bush fire that finally did it. For twelve years Adam Hearne had worked at companies which represented some of the world’s largest sources of greenhouse gas emissions. First...
02:56 pm GMT - Fri, August 21, 2020
Techcrunch Medical imaging startup Nanox raises $165.2M as it prepares to list today on Nasdaq
Less than a month after the Israeli medical imaging startup Nanox raised $59 million in funding and said it was close to going public, the company has now bitten the bullet. Today the company announce...
02:56 pm GMT - Fri, August 21, 2020
Techcrunch Medical imaging startup Nanox closes at $21.70, up 20.6%, after raising $165.2M in its IPO
Less than a month after the Israeli medical imaging startup Nanox raised $59 million in funding and said it was close to going public, the company has now bitten the bullet. Today the company announce...
02:35 pm GMT - Fri, August 21, 2020
Techcrunch Unicorn rodeo: 6 high-flying startups that are set to go public
This week Airbnb announced that it has privately filed to go public, putting the famous unicorn on a path to a quick IPO if it wants. The recent move matches reporting indicating that the home-sharing...
02:24 pm GMT - Fri, August 21, 2020
Techcrunch Trumps official campaign app had to reset its rating after being trolled by TikTokers
An effort by TikTok users to troll President Trump’s official campaign app with thousands of 1-star reviews appears to have had an impact — if not the impact the pranksters had wanted. In ...
02:12 pm GMT - Fri, August 21, 2020
Techcrunch As the pandemic creates supply chain chaos, Craft raises $10M to apply some intelligence
During the COVID-19 pandemic supply chains have suddenly become hot. Who knew that would ever happen? The race to secure PPE, ventilators, minor things like food, was and still is, an enormous issue. ...
01:00 pm GMT - Fri, August 21, 2020
Techcrunch No parties allowed at the Airbnb IPO
Hello and welcome back toEquity, TechCrunchs venture capital-focused podcast (now on Twitter!), where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. What happens when the entire podcast crew is a bit tir...
12:32 pm GMT - Fri, August 21, 2020
Techcrunch Lambda School raises $74M for its virtual coding school where you pay tuition only after you get a job
In the world of technology, online learning has been one of the bigger beneficiaries of the last several months, with people staying home and away from their normal routinesbecause of the coronavirus ...
09:58 am GMT - Fri, August 21, 2020
Techcrunch Facebook trails expanding portability tools ahead of FTC hearing
Facebook is considering expanding the types of data its users are able to port directly to alternative platforms. In comments on portability sent to US regulatorsahead of an FTC hearing on the topic n...
09:53 am GMT - Fri, August 21, 2020
Techcrunch China is building a GitHub alternative called Gitee
The technological decoupling between the U.S. and China has been a boon to Chinese firms from chipmakers for smartphones and electric vehicles through to software that are the backbones of millions of...
09:45 am GMT - Fri, August 21, 2020
Techcrunch Indian logistics SaaS startup FarEye bags $13 million
More than 150 e-commerce and delivery companies globally use an Indian logistics startups service to work out the optimum way to ship items to their customers. That startup, Noida-based FarEye, said t...
09:45 am GMT - Fri, August 21, 2020
Techcrunch Indias logistics SaaS startup FarEye bags $13 million
More than 150 e-commerce and delivery companies globally use an Indian logistics startups service to work out the optimum way to ship items to their customers. That startup, Noida-based FarEye, said t...
03:13 am GMT - Fri, August 21, 2020
Techcrunch Exo raised $40 million for its handheld medical imaging device
Exo, a developer of new diagnostic hardware for the medical industry, has raised $40 million in a new round of funding as investors continue to back new companies that are reducing the cost and comple...
11:34 pm GMT - Thu, August 20, 2020
Techcrunch Triller threatened to sue over report suggesting it inflated its downloads
A new report disputing the validity of Triller’s recently announced download figures led Triller to respond with the threat of a lawsuit. Triller, a newly litigious TikTok rival that could poten...
10:54 pm GMT - Thu, August 20, 2020
Techcrunch Sony WH-1000XM4 headphone review
There was a mixed reaction among the TechCrunch staff when Sonys WH-1000XM4 were announced the other week. There was excitement among those looking for new headphones and disappointment for those whod...
10:10 pm GMT - Thu, August 20, 2020
Techcrunch Daily Crunch: Lyft and Uber win legal victory
Uber and Lyft may not be pausing operations in California after all, Google releases new emergency alert tools and Airbnb bans all parties. This is your Daily Crunch for August 20, 2020. The big story...
09:54 pm GMT - Thu, August 20, 2020
Techcrunch Sign up to interview with accelerators before Disrupt 2020
Startup founders, brace yourself for a phenomenal opportunity. TechCrunch, in partnership with cela, will host eleven count em eleven accelerators in Digital Startup Alley at Disrupt 2020. It gets b...
08:20 pm GMT - Thu, August 20, 2020
Techcrunch Investors Reilly Brennan, Amy Gu and Olaf Sakkers coming to TC Sessions: Mobility 2020
The mobility sector has been abuzz with activity in the past decade, from the rise of ride hailing and the sudden explosion of shared electric scooters and bikes to the pursuit to commercialize moonsh...
08:17 pm GMT - Thu, August 20, 2020
Techcrunch Energy offset and renewable power developer Arcadia pitches clean power as an employee benefit
Arcadia, the company that gives homeowners and renters a way to offset their carbon footprints through renewable energy credits and clean power developments, is now pitching its services to businesses...
08:02 pm GMT - Thu, August 20, 2020
Techcrunch Palantir moves its HQ from Palo Alto to Denver as plans to go public percolate
Between the IPO buzz and a raft of new federal contracts for COVID-19 work, it’s been a year of big moves for Palantir. Now, the company is making a more literal one: decamping from its Palo Alt...
07:20 pm GMT - Thu, August 20, 2020
Techcrunch Judge grants Uber and Lyft temporary stay in driver reclassification case
A California appeals court judge has granted Uber and Lyft’s emergency stay. This means the preliminary injunction that sought to force companies to reclassify their drivers as employees will no...
06:52 pm GMT - Thu, August 20, 2020
Techcrunch Theres no frontrunner to be found among the TikTok alternatives
The U.S. market has no real frontrunner poised to claim TikTok’s throne if the app is banned in the country. According to Trump’s executive order, TikTok’s owner ByteDance has to div...
06:37 pm GMT - Thu, August 20, 2020
Techcrunch Eric Hippeau discusses D2C growth, brand value and advice for early-stage founders
Eric Hippeau is the founding partner at Lerer Hippeau Ventures, whose portfolio companies include the likes of Axios, BuzzFeed, Casper, Warby Parker, Allbirds, DocSend, Fundera, Everlane, Giphy, Geniu...
06:22 pm GMT - Thu, August 20, 2020
Techcrunch Microsofts Seeing AI founder Saqib Shaikh is speaking at Sight Tech Global
When Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella introduced Saqib Shaikh on stage at BUILD in 2016, he was obviously moved by the engineers passion and empathy, which Nadella said, is going to change the world. That ...
05:51 pm GMT - Thu, August 20, 2020
Techcrunch Zoom UX teardown: 5 fails and how to fix them
Valued at over $60 billion and used by millions each day for work and staying in touch with friends and family, the COVID-19 pandemic has helped make Zoom one of the most popular and relevant enterpri...
05:16 pm GMT - Thu, August 20, 2020
Techcrunch Tech Is Not Neutral campaign urges companies to stop working with law enforcement agencies
There are a number of tech companies that either directly work with law enforcement agencies, or supply their tech to them. Amazon’s doorbell camera company Ring has partnered with more than 1,3...
05:00 pm GMT - Thu, August 20, 2020
Techcrunch The founders of Blavity and The Shade Room are coming to Disrupt 2020
Although the media industry is currently in the midst of a long-overdue reckoning over diversity, representation and racism, Morgan DeBaun and Angie Nwandu have been building a more diverse digital me...
04:55 pm GMT - Thu, August 20, 2020
Techcrunch Border wall crowdfunding scheme leads to Trump ally Steve Bannons arrest
One of President Trump’s former top political advisors was arrested in connection with a crowdfunding scheme to build a U.S. border wall, according to charges unsealed by federal prosecutors Thu...
04:48 pm GMT - Thu, August 20, 2020
Techcrunch Figma CEO Dylan Field discusses fundraising, hiring and marketing in stealth mode
You’d be hard pressed to hang out with a designer and not hear the name Figma . The company behind the largely browser-based design tool has made a huge splash in the past few years, building a ...
04:19 pm GMT - Thu, August 20, 2020
Techcrunch VW kicks off production of its all-electric SUV, the ID.4
Volkswagen has started series production of the ID.4, an all-electric SUV and the first under the automaker’s new ID label to be headed to the United States. Series production of the ID.4 kicked...
04:16 pm GMT - Thu, August 20, 2020
Techcrunch Lyft plans to suspend rideshare operations in California tonight
Lyft is planning to suspend its ridesharing operations in California beginning tonight at 11:59 pm PT, unless it receives a stay from the Court of Appeals today. “We dont want to suspend operati...
03:43 pm GMT - Thu, August 20, 2020
Techcrunch Join Female Founders Funds Anu Duggal for a live Q&A today at 11am PT/2pm ET
Startups are rebounding. Venture capitalists are open for business. And during the pandemic, the pace of dealmaking has not slowed down. But how is this new era of uncertainty impacting underrepresent...
03:43 pm GMT - Thu, August 20, 2020
Techcrunch Join Female Founders Funds Anu Duggal for a live Q&A right now
Startups are rebounding. Venture capitalists are open for business. And during the pandemic, the pace of dealmaking has not slowed down. But how is this new era of uncertainty impacting underrepresent...
03:32 pm GMT - Thu, August 20, 2020
Techcrunch Report: Apple quietly acquired Israels Camerai, formerly Tipit, a specialist in AR and camera tech
Apple is well known for picking up smaller startups on the hush-hush to augment its business, and today news leaked out about the latest of these… nearly two years after the fact. Sometime betwe...
03:28 pm GMT - Thu, August 20, 2020
Techcrunch Blue Origins human lunar lander team delivers full-scale engineering mockup to NASA
Blue Origin and the members of its “national team” Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Draper have delivered a full-scale engineering prototype of their human lunar lander to NASA for ...
03:28 pm GMT - Thu, August 20, 2020
Techcrunch Blue Origins human lunar lander team delivers full-scale engineering mock-up to NASA
Blue Origin and the members of its “national team” — Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Draper — have delivered a full-scale engineering prototype of their human lunar lande...
03:23 pm GMT - Thu, August 20, 2020
Techcrunch Overlooked teams up with college newspapers to build a news-focused social network
George Sehremelis is building what he calls a “social news network,” with the aim of combatting the spread of misinformation and fake news online. “My goal has always been to make an...
03:15 pm GMT - Thu, August 20, 2020
Techcrunch Yalochat, a fast-growing conversational commerce startup, lands $15 million led by B Capital
Yalochat, a five-year-old, Mexico City-based conversational commerce platform that enables customers like Coca Cola and Walmart to upsell, collect payments, and provide better service to their own cus...
03:02 pm GMT - Thu, August 20, 2020
Techcrunch Airbnb declares all parties over indefinitely at its listings
Airbnb has been implementing measures to help limit hosting of unauthorized parties at listings booked through its platform, and today it implemented the strictest of all: A global ban on all parties ...
03:01 pm GMT - Thu, August 20, 2020
Techcrunch Students get 60% off passes to Disrupt 2020
Budget-strapped students, this post is for you. We have a limited number of discount passes to Disrupt 2020 for $125 a pop. Buy your student pass now, before one of two things happen. One, we run out ...
03:00 pm GMT - Thu, August 20, 2020
Techcrunch Agtech startup iFarm bags $4M to help vertical farms grow more tasty stuff
Vertical farming technology provider iFarm has bagged a $4 million seed round, led by Gagarin Capital, an earlier investor in the startup. Other investors in the round include Matrix Capital, Impulse ...
02:41 pm GMT - Thu, August 20, 2020
Techcrunch Why is cloud revenue growth so slow if the digital transformation is accelerating?
For startups not selling tier-one software, the next few quarters could be rough. For startups selling must-have delivered code, it's going to be a damn hot year....
02:29 pm GMT - Thu, August 20, 2020
Techcrunch Google brings emergency alert tools to Search and Maps as fires rage in Northern California
Lightning and a massive heatwave have contributed to raging wildfires in Northern California. By last count, some 11,000 lighting strikes caused hundreds of blazes n a 72 hour period 26 of which have...
02:25 pm GMT - Thu, August 20, 2020
Techcrunch Target grocery pickup service expands nationwide
Target announced today its grocery pickup service is available nationwide, First introduced earlier this summer in the Midwest, Target said it would soon roll out grocery pickup services across the U....
02:17 pm GMT - Thu, August 20, 2020
Techcrunch Rocket launch in November will test Purdue-developed drag sail that aims to reduce orbital debris
When space launch startup Firefly’s first planned orbital flight takes off in November, it’ll carry an experimental payload developed by engineers from Purdue University: A drag sail that&...
02:03 pm GMT - Thu, August 20, 2020
Techcrunch DoorDash expands with on-demand grocery delivery
DoorDash is announcing that customers can now order groceries through the DoorDash app from partners including Smart & Final, Meijer and Fresh Thyme. Additional stores like Hy-vee and Gristedes/D&...
01:20 pm GMT - Thu, August 20, 2020
Techcrunch AI as a blueprint for fintech startups
FINRAs AI Report is particularly interesting for fintechs since it explores how firms are deploying AI as well as the agency's expectations for AI oversight....
01:19 pm GMT - Thu, August 20, 2020
Techcrunch Cobalt.io grabs $29M Series B to continue building out pentesting platform
The promise of SaaS has always been about taking tedious, expensive manual tasks and finding a way to build a platform to automate them. Cobalt.io is doing that with pentesting, the process of testing...
01:12 pm GMT - Thu, August 20, 2020
Techcrunch CrunchMatch supercharges virtual networking at TC Sessions: Mobility 2020
Ready for our first virtual TC Sessions Mobility 2020? As we like to say, its not just one long webinar. Were creating the quality production levels youd expect from our IRL events (thanks, technology...
01:12 pm GMT - Thu, August 20, 2020
Techcrunch Humanity Inc. raises funding to allow us to monitor and affect our rate of aging
Most of us are now familiar with apps that track whats known as our digital biomarkers. These include the steps, weve taken, our heart rate, and our weight. In recent years startups have appeared whic...
01:05 pm GMT - Thu, August 20, 2020
Techcrunch Acquiring Wetform, Ecobot offers software and services for the $10 billion wetland environmental survey business
“Any time youre moving dirt you have to have somebody come in and assess it, whether that’s under a state or federal jurisdiction… because of the waters that are present,” says...
01:01 pm GMT - Thu, August 20, 2020
Techcrunch Patient engagement startup raises $15 million from Googles Gradient Ventures
Klara, a New York-based healthcare startup that pitches itself as a better tool for patient engagement for doctor’s offices and other clinical practices, has raised $15 million in new financing....
12:51 pm GMT - Thu, August 20, 2020
Techcrunch Further delay to GDPR enforcement of 2018 Twitter breach
Twitter users have to wait to longer to find out what penalties, if any, the platform faces under the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) for a data breach that dates back...
11:36 am GMT - Thu, August 20, 2020
Techcrunch Moon lander startup ispace raises $28 million and launches a new lunar data platform
ispace, one of the startups working on putting a private lunar lander on the Moon sometime in the next few years has raised a $28 million Series B funding round, which will be used to help it continue...
10:40 am GMT - Thu, August 20, 2020
Techcrunch Chinas Waterdrop nabs $230M for its crowdfunded, mutual aid insurance platform
When people in the US or Europe think of crowdfunding and medical expenses, sites like GoFundMe, where people fundraise around specific predicaments, come to mind. But today comes news of how another ...
08:57 am GMT - Thu, August 20, 2020
Techcrunch Tokyo-based collaboration platform BeaTrust lands $2.8 million seed round
Founded just four months ago, Tokyo-based BeaTrust has raised a JPY 300 million (about USD $2.83 million) seed round for its enterprise collaboration platform. The startup’s ambitious goal is to...
08:00 am GMT - Thu, August 20, 2020
Techcrunch Riff raises $1.5M seed led by Balderton for its voice-first chat tool for remote working
Riff, a London-based startup developing what it describes as a “voice-first” chat tool for remote working, has raised $1.5 million in seed funding, prior to a full launch next year. Leadin...
07:13 am GMT - Thu, August 20, 2020
Techcrunch Author and professional poker player Annie Duke on how conspiracy theories gain ground
Earlier today, Facebook said it has removed hundreds of QAnon groups from its site, and that it’s restricting many more groups, along with hundreds of pages, and more than 10,000 Instagram accou...
06:54 am GMT - Thu, August 20, 2020
Techcrunch Gmail, Google Drive hit by outage
Having trouble accessing your Gmail, Google Drive, or Google Meet? You’re not alone. Thousands of users, mostly in India, parts of the U.S., Australia, Japan, and Malaysia are reporting that the...
05:53 am GMT - Thu, August 20, 2020
Techcrunch Taiwan set to bar Chinese streaming services like iQiyi and Tencents WeTV
iQiyi and Tencent’s WeTV, two of Chinas most popular streaming services, may be banned in Taiwan next month as the government prepares to close regulatory loopholes that enabled them to operate ...
10:22 pm GMT - Wed, August 19, 2020
Techcrunch Daily Crunch: Apple hits $2 trillion market cap
Apple stock reaches a big milestone, Facebook Portal gets more work-friendly and Twitter reports progress against hate speech. This is your Daily Crunch for August 19, 2020. The big story: Apple hits ...
08:55 pm GMT - Wed, August 19, 2020
Techcrunch Airbnb has confidentially filed to go public
In a turn of fortune, Airbnb today announced that it has filed to go public, albeit confidentially. The move puts the home-sharing service on a path to a public offering sooner rather than later, and ...
08:30 pm GMT - Wed, August 19, 2020
Techcrunch Fearing coronavirus, a Michigan college tracks its students with a flawed app
Schools and universities across the United States are split on whether to open for the fall semester, thanks to the ongoing pandemic. Albion College, a small liberal arts school in Michigan, said in J...
08:30 pm GMT - Wed, August 19, 2020
Techcrunch Fearing coronavirus, a Michigan college is tracking its students with a flawed app
Schools and universities across the United States are split on whether to open for the fall semester, thanks to the ongoing pandemic. Albion College, a small liberal arts school in Michigan, said in J...
08:11 pm GMT - Wed, August 19, 2020
Techcrunch Just what would an enterprise company like Microsoft or Oracle do with TikTok?
By now you’ve probably heard that under pressure from the current administration, TikTok owner ByteDance is putting the viral video service up for sale, and surprisingly a couple of big name ent...
07:26 pm GMT - Wed, August 19, 2020
Techcrunch Lucids new all-electric sedan will let owners send energy to their homes by mid-2021
Lucid Motors said Wednesday that its upcoming all-electric Air sedan will have fast-charging capability that will let owners add 300 miles of range to the battery in 20 minutes and a home-charging uni...
07:14 pm GMT - Wed, August 19, 2020
Techcrunch NOAA and World View partner on stratospheric composition research
Arizona -based high-altitude balloon startup World View has a new partnership with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to help the latter collect data to help it deepen its stud...
07:13 pm GMT - Wed, August 19, 2020
Techcrunch Twitter claims increased enforcement of hate speech and abuse policies in last half of 2019
Twitter has given its biannual transparency reports a new home with today’s launch of the Twitter Transparency Center, which the company says was designed to make the reporting more easily under...
07:11 pm GMT - Wed, August 19, 2020
Techcrunch Max Levchin is looking ahead to fintechs next big opportunities
Max Levchin needs little introduction in the world of tech. As an entrepreneur, he’s been the co-founder of PayPal (now public), Slide (acquired by Google) and Affirm (reportedly about to go pub...
05:55 pm GMT - Wed, August 19, 2020
Techcrunch BlackBerrys brand switches hands again, set to return as a 5G Android handset
A good brand is hard to kill. Over the past several years, the smartphone space has seen a resurgence of once-mighty mobile brands making a comeback with various degrees of success. HMDs Nokia phones ...
05:55 pm GMT - Wed, August 19, 2020
Techcrunch BlackBerrys smartphone brand switches hands again, set to return as a 5G Android handset
A good brand is hard to kill. Over the past several years, the smartphone space has seen a resurgence of once-mighty mobile brands making a comeback with various degrees of success. HMDs Nokia phones ...
05:45 pm GMT - Wed, August 19, 2020
Techcrunch Top Facebook executive in India files criminal complaint against a journalist for sharing news report
Ankhi Das, a top Facebook executive in India, has filed a criminal complaint against a journalist who she alleges attempted to defame her in a public Facebook post and made sexually coloured remarks. ...
05:25 pm GMT - Wed, August 19, 2020
Techcrunch Join Twilios Jeff Lawson for a live Q&A August 25 at 3:30 pm EDT/12:30 pm PDT
As we race toward Disrupt 2020, we’re keeping the Extra Crunch Live train rollingwith a big entry next week as Twilio CEO and co-founder Jeff Lawson joins us for a chat. Lawson is well-known in ...
05:25 pm GMT - Wed, August 19, 2020
Techcrunch Join Twilios Jeff Lawson for a live Q&A August 25 at 2:30 pm EDT/11:30 am PDT
As we race toward Disrupt 2020, we’re keeping the Extra Crunch Live train rollingwith a big entry next week as Twilio CEO and co-founder Jeff Lawson joins us for a chat. Lawson is well-known in ...
05:10 pm GMT - Wed, August 19, 2020
Techcrunch Here are four areas the $311 billion CPPIB investment fund thinks will be impacted by COVID-19
The Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board, an asset manager controlling around $311 billion in assets for the Canada’s pensioners and retirees, has identified four key industries that are set t...
04:47 pm GMT - Wed, August 19, 2020
Techcrunch Target sets sales record in Q2 as same-day services grow 273%
Following Walmart’s pandemic-fueled earnings beat posted on Tuesday, Target today also handily beat Wall Street expectations to deliver a record-setting quarter across a number of key metrics. T...
04:10 pm GMT - Wed, August 19, 2020
Techcrunch Tune in today to discuss COVID-19s impact on the startup world
We cant help but wonder what the future of work will look like in the wake of this global pandemic. Thats the timely topic of today’s interactive webinar, COVID-19s Impact on the Startup World. ...
03:54 pm GMT - Wed, August 19, 2020
Techcrunch A pandemic and recession wont stop Atlassians SaaS push
No company is completely insulated from the macroeconomic fallout of COVID-19, but we are seeing some companies fare better than others, especially those providing ways to collaborate online. Count At...
03:32 pm GMT - Wed, August 19, 2020
Techcrunch Dear Sophie: How can I transfer my H-1B to my startup?
Im employed at a major Silicon Valley tech company in H-1B status. I want to found a startup. How can I work at the startup?...
03:17 pm GMT - Wed, August 19, 2020
Techcrunch Apple reaches $2 trillion market cap
The broader market melt-up has helped buoy shares of Apple to new highs this morning. In early trading today, the market capitalization of the tech industry giant and FAAMG member crossed the $2 trill...
03:16 pm GMT - Wed, August 19, 2020
Techcrunch Cloudflares Michelle Zatlyn to discuss building a company with a bold idea at TechCrunch Disrupt
When you start a company, it can be tempting to keep it simple. You want something that investors and customers can easily understand. While it might be easier to go that route, that is not something ...
03:01 pm GMT - Wed, August 19, 2020
Techcrunch Instagram finds new ad space at the end of your feed with launch of Suggested Posts feature
Instagram has found a new place to display ads: at the end of your Feed. The Facebook-owned app in 2018 introduced a feature that will alert users when they’ve scrolled through all the new conte...
02:59 pm GMT - Wed, August 19, 2020
Techcrunch Welcome raises $1.4M to streamline the hiring process
Thinking back to the last time I accepted a job, I can’t recall actually reading any of the material that was sent over. I think I skimmed some docs to make sure the numbers written down matched...
02:57 pm GMT - Wed, August 19, 2020
Techcrunch Finmark wants to put sophisticated financial modeling within reach of startups
Finmark, a member of Summer 2020 Y Combinator cohort, is not your typical YC startup. In fact company co-founder Rami Essaid has already built Distil, a security startup and saw it through to exit whe...
02:43 pm GMT - Wed, August 19, 2020
Techcrunch Why e-commerce startups arent raising more funding during this historic boom
After yesterday’s look into the somewhat lackluster pace of investment into e-commerce-focused startups this year, a few VCs sent in notes that added useful context. So this morning let’s ...
02:30 pm GMT - Wed, August 19, 2020
Techcrunch This looping aquatic treadmill lets tiny ocean creatures swim forever under the microscope
Observing the microscopic creatures that fill our oceans is important work, but keeping your eye on one in the wild is practically impossible and doing so in a dish isn’t the same. This ‘...
02:03 pm GMT - Wed, August 19, 2020
Techcrunch Scotland spaceport gets full approval, will be able to host up to 12 launches per year
Scotland’s first proposed spaceport has been fully approved to proceed with construction and operation (via The Northern Times). The facility, which will be built in northern Sutherland on a pen...
02:00 pm GMT - Wed, August 19, 2020
Techcrunch Facebook Portal gets serious about remote work with BlueJeans, GoToMeeting, Webex and Zoom apps
Facebooks Portal line didnt get off to the smoothest start when it launched back in 2018. The company no doubt realized from the outset that it would have a lot to prove on the privacy front when atte...
01:22 pm GMT - Wed, August 19, 2020
Techcrunch MIT and Boston Dynamics team up on Dr. Spot, a robot for remote COVID-19 vital sign measurement
One of the most consistent pieces of advice from health organizations about COVID-19 has been that everyone do their utmost to limit contact with people who may have been exposed to the novel coronavi...
01:05 pm GMT - Wed, August 19, 2020
Techcrunch PadSplit uses the Airbnb model to tackle the countrys affordable housing crisis
The United States is currently in the middle of an affordable housing crisis that’s putting the nation’s most economically insecure citizens at risk of becoming homeless even as a pandemic...
12:48 pm GMT - Wed, August 19, 2020
Techcrunch Hangar raises $15 million for its venture studio for government technology startups
Josh Mendelsohn, the former Bloomberg digital campaign advisor and venture studio founder, thinks that cash constrained government agencies from the local to the federal level aren’t using techn...
11:52 am GMT - Wed, August 19, 2020
Techcrunch UK class action style claim filed over Marriott data breach
A class action style suit has been filed in the UK against hotel group Marriott International over a massive data breach that exposed the information of some 500 million guests around the world, inclu...
10:07 am GMT - Wed, August 19, 2020
Techcrunch Tristan Thomas, Monzos long-standing VP of Marketing, is departing the challenger bank
Tristan Thomas, Monzo’s long-standing VP of Marketing — who joined the challenger bank almost five years ago when it had less than 15 employees! — has announced internally that he is...
09:21 am GMT - Wed, August 19, 2020
Techcrunch iKala, an AI-based customer engagement platform, raises $17 million to expand in Southeast Asia
iKala, a Taiwanese startup that offers an artificial intelligence-based customer acquisition and engagement platform, will expand into new Southeast Asian markets after raising a $17 million Series B....
07:00 am GMT - Wed, August 19, 2020
Techcrunch Indias first Earth-imaging satellite startup raises $5 million, first launch planned for later this year
Bengaluru-based Pixxel is getting ready to launch its first Earth imaging satellite later this year, with a scheduled mission aboard a Soyuz rocket. The roughly one-and-a-half-year old company is movi...
06:36 am GMT - Wed, August 19, 2020
Techcrunch Google launches Kormo app in India to help people find entry-level jobs
Google said on Wednesday it has expanded its jobs app, called Kormo Jobs, to India as the Search giant looks to offer a helping hand to millions looking for entry-level roles and further displace Micr...
06:29 am GMT - Wed, August 19, 2020
Techcrunch Omio takes $100M to shuttle through the coronavirus crisis
Multimodal travel platform Omio (formerly GoEuro) has raised $100M in late stage funding to help see its business through the coronavirus crisis. It also says it’s eyeing potential M&A oppor...
05:39 am GMT - Wed, August 19, 2020
Techcrunch InfraDigital helps Indonesian schools digitize tuition and enrollment
In Indonesia, about half of adults are “underbanked,” meaning they dont have access to bank accounts, credit cards and other traditional financial services. A growing list of tech companie...
04:26 am GMT - Wed, August 19, 2020
Techcrunch JD.coms 1-year-old health unicorn to get $830M from Hillhouse
In recent years, China’s online shopping titans have been muscling into the prescription drug market. When JD.com, Alibaba’s archrival, realized the health market spans well beyond retail,...
02:49 am GMT - Wed, August 19, 2020
Techcrunch Cannabis dispensaries online sales are way up, and Dutchie, which connects them to their customers, is a major beneficiary
Dutchie, a nearly three-year-old, Bend, Ore.-based software company focused on connecting consumers with cannabis dispensaries that pay it a monthly subscription fee to create and maintain their websi...
02:06 am GMT - Wed, August 19, 2020
Techcrunch Hong Kongs food e-commerce startup DayDayCook raises $20 million
The food blogging community in China is booming, and many creators have been cashing in big time by touting food products to loyal followers, a business model that has lured investors. This week, Hong...
11:52 pm GMT - Tue, August 18, 2020
Techcrunch At the first-ever virtual DNC, Democrats play it safe
The first all-virtual Democratic National Convention is in full swing, but don’t expect fireworks. The event runs through Thursday in a truncated-for-TV two hours a night that’s apparently...
11:00 pm GMT - Tue, August 18, 2020
Techcrunch Persefoni launches with $3.5 million and a carbon accounting system for big business
Kentaro Kawamori and Jason Offerman, the co-founders of new startup Persefoni, which aims to make carbon reporting easier for large corporations, know a few things about carbon emissions. The two men ...
10:10 pm GMT - Tue, August 18, 2020
Techcrunch Daily Crunch: SpaceX raises $1.9 billion
SpaceX raises a huge funding round, Apple launches new radio stations and we review the Samsung Galaxy Note 20. This is your Daily Crunch for August 18, 2020. The big story: SpaceX raises its biggest ...
10:02 pm GMT - Tue, August 18, 2020
Techcrunch The journey of a kids book startup that tackles topics like racism, cancer and divorce
Jelani Memory, an entrepreneur and father, had been wanting to write a kids book for years. While in the midst of raising a Series B round for his startup Circle Media, he started to feel burned out a...
08:47 pm GMT - Tue, August 18, 2020
Techcrunch Private space industrialization is here
The future market opportunities enabled by the disruption in space transportation are enormous. Undoubtedly, it will lead to a space gold rush that will drive human civilizations development for gene...
08:26 pm GMT - Tue, August 18, 2020
Techcrunch Netflix test puts a Shuffle Play button right on your home screen
Don’t know what you’re in the mood to watch? Netflix’s new “Shuffle” feature could help. The company confirms it’s currently testing a feature that puts a big butto...
08:22 pm GMT - Tue, August 18, 2020
Techcrunch If Oracle buys TikTok Ill go to Dannys house and eat his annoying Stanford sweatshirt
Hey everyone, how are you? Are you doing well? Great. Or, condolences, depending. Anyway, last week the Equity crew was discussing bankers, and how they love to talk up stuff. The topic matters as the...
07:30 pm GMT - Tue, August 18, 2020
Techcrunch Xos Trucks raises $20M to put more of its electric commercial trucks on the road
Commercial electric vehicle startup Xos Trucks has raised $20 million, funding it will use to ramp up production ahead of potential new demand fueled by a landmark emissions rule adopted by California...
07:09 pm GMT - Tue, August 18, 2020
Techcrunch TikToks big UnitedMasters deal is the way forward for creators looking to secure their bag
TikTok is right in the jaws of a thorny situation with the U.S. Government regarding its ownership, but it’s sending a clear message today that it is not sitting on its heels with big deals. Yes...
07:00 pm GMT - Tue, August 18, 2020
Techcrunch Radio Flyer teams up with Tesla to launch a tyke-sized Tesla Model Y
If, like me, you can’t afford a full-sized Tesla because your life has been a series of bad investments (one day my early Fyre Festival backing will pay off) then Radio Flyer’s newest prod...
06:59 pm GMT - Tue, August 18, 2020
Techcrunch Indias Reliance Retail acquires a majority stake in online pharmacy Nedmeds parent firm for $83.2M
Reliance Retail has bought a 60% stake in pharma marketplace Netmeds’ parent firm Vitalic for about $83.2 million, it said today, as Indias largest retail chain looks to expand into new categori...
06:50 pm GMT - Tue, August 18, 2020
Techcrunch Google Maps adds street-level details in select cities, more colorful imagery worldwide
Google Maps is getting a significant update that will bring more detail and granularity to its map, with changes that encompass both natural features and city-level details alike. For the former, Goog...
06:37 pm GMT - Tue, August 18, 2020
Techcrunch Piggyback on popular Tweets to get brand awareness
You can grow your following, increase your brand awareness and get website traffic by simply piggybacking off popular Tweets....
05:59 pm GMT - Tue, August 18, 2020
Techcrunch Attending a remote startup accelerator is absolutely worth it
SkyDeck Spring 2020 Cohort Contributor UC Berkeley SkyDeck is the startup accelerator of the University of California at Berkeley. We are members of the UC Berkeley SkyDeck startup accelerator spring ...
05:56 pm GMT - Tue, August 18, 2020
Techcrunch How to diagnose and treat machine learning models afflicted by COVID-19
Machine learning models for predicting behavior will need to change, and companies should take a proactive approach to leveraging new technology that can help with these fluctuations....
05:35 pm GMT - Tue, August 18, 2020
Techcrunch The right way to downsize
Layoffs are never easy, but one the most important things to remember is to take off the boss hat, use empathy and show gratitude....
05:01 pm GMT - Tue, August 18, 2020
Techcrunch InVision refreshes its Design System Manager, brings on Eleanor Morgan as CPO
InVision, the design firm that’s raised more than $350 million from investors FirstMark, Spark, Battery and Tiger Global Management, has today announced the appointment of Eleanor Morgan as chie...
04:38 pm GMT - Tue, August 18, 2020
Techcrunch SpaceX raises $1.9 billion in largest funding round to date
SpaceX has raised $1.9 billion in new funding, per a filing with the SEC from Tuesday which was first spotted by Reuters. The company had been reported to be in the funding process earlier by Bloomber...
03:29 pm GMT - Tue, August 18, 2020
Techcrunch Pandemic helped drive Walmart e-commerce sales up 97% in second quarter
Walmart’s investments in e-commerce, including online grocery delivery and pickup, are continuing to pay off for the retailer. In the company’s Q2 earnings, released this morning, Walmart ...
03:27 pm GMT - Tue, August 18, 2020
Techcrunch Decrypted: The block clock tick-tocks on TikTok
In less than three months and notwithstanding intervention, TikTok will be effectively banned in the U.S. unless an American company steps in to save it, after the Trump administration declared by exe...
03:02 pm GMT - Tue, August 18, 2020
Techcrunch Take-Two Interactive acquires Two Dots game developer for $192M
Playdots developer of the mobile games Dots, Two Dots and Dots & Co. has reached an agreement to be acquired by publisher Take-Two Interactive. Take-Two will pay $192 million for the deal, $90 m...
02:41 pm GMT - Tue, August 18, 2020
Techcrunch SpaceX successfully launches 11th Starlink mission using record-setting reused Falcon 9 booster
SpaceX has successfully launched 58 more Starlink satellites for its growing internet broadband constellation. This is the 11th batch of Starlink satellites to go up, bringing the total on orbit to we...
02:30 pm GMT - Tue, August 18, 2020
Techcrunch Chamath Palihapitiyas next big Hustle
Chamath Palihapitiya, the founder of Social Capital, does not do minority investing anymore. If he finds a startup he likes, he just buys it outright. The billionaire co-founded Social Capital in 2011...
02:01 pm GMT - Tue, August 18, 2020
Techcrunch Melbourne-based CI/CD platform Buildkite gets $28 million AUD Series A led by OpenView
Buildkite, a Melbourne-based company that provides a hybrid continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform for software developers, announced today that it has raised AUD $28 million ...
02:00 pm GMT - Tue, August 18, 2020
Techcrunch Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra review
The Galaxy Note Ultra is a $1,399 smartphone. Even by Samsungs standards, this is a high-end luxury device. Its the phone for people who board the plane early and derive a sense of pride in watching t...
01:55 pm GMT - Tue, August 18, 2020
Techcrunch Apple launches Apple Music Radio with a rebranded Beats 1, plus two more stations
Apple is revamping its streaming radio service. Starting today, its flagship radio station Beats 1 will be rebranded to Apple Music 1 — a change that more closely associates the station with App...
01:45 pm GMT - Tue, August 18, 2020
Techcrunch Despite booming consumer demand, VC interest in e-commerce startups falls in 2020
Walmart reported earnings this morning. Most of the numbers are immaterial to you and I, having little to nothing to do with the world of private capital and startups, but one metric did leap out: In ...
01:33 pm GMT - Tue, August 18, 2020
Techcrunch Wix unifies customer support channels with Wix Answers
Website-building platform Wixis expanding today with the launch of a customer support product (and new company) called Wix Answers. Joe Pollaro, the general manager of Wix’s U.S. business, said ...
01:33 pm GMT - Tue, August 18, 2020
Techcrunch Wix launches a new company, Wix Answers, to unify customer support
Website-building platform Wixtoday launched a new companyWix Answers, which it says offers enterprise-level customer support and is intended to compete with companies like Zendesk and Salesforce. Joe ...
01:16 pm GMT - Tue, August 18, 2020
Techcrunch Amazon will add 3,500 tech and corporate jobs across six US cities
Amazon today announced an upcoming hiring spree set to bring 3,500 jobs to a half-dozen U.S. cities. The news is, of course, particularly notable amid a pandemic that has cause many industries to free...
01:01 pm GMT - Tue, August 18, 2020
Techcrunch Blind test shows AI-enhanced MRI scans are just as good but 4 times faster
An AI-based technique to accelerate MRI scans has been shown to produce as good or better results than traditional methods in a blind comparison by expert radiologists. The system halves or even quart...
01:00 pm GMT - Tue, August 18, 2020
Techcrunch Movable Ink raises $30M as it expands its personalization technology beyond email marketing
Movable Ink, a company that helps businesses deliver more personalized and relevant email marketing, is announcing that it has raised $30 million in Series C funding. The company will be 10 years old ...
01:00 pm GMT - Tue, August 18, 2020
Techcrunch Restaurant rewards booking app Seated nabs $30M, acquires VenueBook to add events
The restaurant industry has been slammed hard by the coronavirus outbreak, with venues in many cities in the US and beyond shuttered or restricted in how they can serve customers — to say nothin...
01:00 pm GMT - Tue, August 18, 2020
Techcrunch Bluetooth SIG works to include wearables in COVID-19 exposure notification systems
Current smartphone-based exposure notification systems (ENS) like the one created jointly by Apple and Google are a clever way of leveraging modern technology to support comprehensive contact tracing ...
12:11 pm GMT - Tue, August 18, 2020
Techcrunch Skyrora launches its small demonstration rocket from mobile launch site in Iceland
Launch startup Skyrora had a successful test launch of its Skylark Micro rocket from Iceland on Sunday, with the rocket achieving its highest ever altitude at a height of 26.86 km (just under 17 miles...
12:00 pm GMT - Tue, August 18, 2020
Techcrunch Quells resistance-based workout can get you in shape by boxing virtual enemies
Quell is positioning itself as a kind of low-cost take on Peloton (less than 1/10th the price, it notes). You might too, if you were in the London-based startups place. With the stationary bike-makers...
12:00 pm GMT - Tue, August 18, 2020
Techcrunch Attabotics raises a $50M Series C for its warehouse fulfillment robots
The uptick in robotics funding continues this week with a big round for Calgary, Albertas Attabotics. The warehouse fulfillment startup announced a $50 million Series C, led interestingly enough by ...
11:51 am GMT - Tue, August 18, 2020
Techcrunch Samsung Pay Card launches in UK, powered by fintech Curve
Samsung Pay Card, a new Mastercard debit card from the mobile handset giant, has launched in the U.K. today. Powered by London-based fintech Curve, it lets you consolidate all of your other existing b...
11:10 am GMT - Tue, August 18, 2020
Techcrunch Watch SpaceX attempt a Falcon 9 rocket re-use record with todays Starlink launch
SpaceX is set to launch is latest batch of Starlink satellites on Tuesday at 10:31 AM EDT (7:31 AM PDT). This is the 11th of SpaceX Starlink missions so far, and will include 58 of the company’s...
11:00 am GMT - Tue, August 18, 2020
Techcrunch Electric vehicle startup Canoo to go public via SPAC
Canoo, the Los Angeles-based electric vehicle startup, has struck a deal to merge with special-purpose acquisition company Hennessy Capital Acquisition Corp., with a market valuation of $2.4 billion. ...
10:07 am GMT - Tue, August 18, 2020
Techcrunch EU websites use of Google Analytics and Facebook Connect targeted by post-Schrems II privacy complaints
A month after Europe’s top court struck down a flagship data transfer arrangement between the EU and the US as unsafe, European privacy campaign group, noyb, has filed complaints against 101 web...
08:36 am GMT - Tue, August 18, 2020
Techcrunch Indias OneCard credit card-maker FPL Technologies lands $10 million
A 20-month-old startup in India founded by a group of banking veterans that has built a mobile-first credit card and is improving the experience users have with credit cards has secured $10 million in...
02:22 am GMT - Tue, August 18, 2020
Techcrunch Lightspeed raises $275 million fund for India
Lightspeed India Partners on Tuesday announced it has closed $275 million from LPs for its third fund as the top American venture firm looks to ramp up its investments in the worlds second-largest int...
10:25 pm GMT - Mon, August 17, 2020
Techcrunch Hear how COVID-19 has disrupted the startup world
What early-stage startup founder wouldnt love to have a crystal ball? Especially now with a pandemic wreaking economic uncertainty across industries in every corner of the world. We dont have mystical...
10:25 pm GMT - Mon, August 17, 2020
Techcrunch Learn how COVID-19 has disrupted the startup world
What early-stage startup founder wouldnt love to have a crystal ball? Especially now with a pandemic wreaking economic uncertainty across industries in every corner of the world. We dont have mystical...
10:10 pm GMT - Mon, August 17, 2020
Techcrunch Daily Crunch: Epic Games escalates legal battle with Apple
The battle between Epic Games and Apple continues, Facebook faces criticism in India and Pinterest appoints its first Black board member. This is your Daily Crunch for August 17, 2020. The big story: ...
09:47 pm GMT - Mon, August 17, 2020
Techcrunch A requiem for The Creamery
The Creamery was not a place you went for the memories. It was located firmly at the apex of convenience and comfort -- which is why it was the perfect place for the SF technorati to see and be seen....
09:10 pm GMT - Mon, August 17, 2020
Techcrunch Microsofts new Flight Simulator was worth the wait
It’s been 14 years since the launch of Flight Simulator X, which long seemed like it would be the final release in the long-running series. When the company announced it would re-launch the fran...
08:50 pm GMT - Mon, August 17, 2020
Techcrunch Tesla shares rally for no reason
Tesla shares surpassed $1,800 for the first time today, the latest in an eye-popping run up of the stock that has propelled the company’s valuation to more than $341 billion. Let’s put the...
08:07 pm GMT - Mon, August 17, 2020
Techcrunch Datasemblys real time pricing tool for consumer goods raises $10.3 million
Washington-basedDatasembly aims to take the guesswork out of the pricing for consumer goods. The company founded by Ben Reich and Dan Gallagher initially started as a project the two men developed aft...
08:00 pm GMT - Mon, August 17, 2020
Techcrunch Pinterest announces first Black board member
Pinterest has appointed Andrea Wishom, President of trampoline company Skywalker Holdings and former Harpo Studios executive, to its board of directors. The appointment makes her Pinterest’s fir...
07:52 pm GMT - Mon, August 17, 2020
Techcrunch Lana has launched in Latin America to be the one-stop shop for gig workers financial needs
Lana, a new startup based in Madrid, is looking to be the next big thing in Latin American fintech. Founded by a serial entrepreneur Pablo Muniz, whose last business was backed by one of Spain’s...
07:50 pm GMT - Mon, August 17, 2020
Techcrunch Epic files an injunction against Apple over threat to revoke all developer access
After taking a stand against Apple’s hefty cut of the money developers make through the App Store, Fortnite maker Epic Games shows no signs of backing down. The company filed an injunction again...
07:50 pm GMT - Mon, August 17, 2020
Techcrunch Epic files motion for injunction against Apple over threat to revoke all developer access
After taking a stand against Apple’s hefty cut of the money developers make through the App Store, Fortnite maker Epic Games shows no signs of backing down. The company filed a motion for an inj...
07:43 pm GMT - Mon, August 17, 2020
Techcrunch Meet the startup that helped Microsoft build the world of Flight Simulator
Microsoft’s new Flight Simulator is a technological marvel that sets a new standard for the genre. But to recreate a world that feels real and alive and contains billions of buildings all in the...
07:28 pm GMT - Mon, August 17, 2020
Techcrunch TikTok launches a new information hub and Twitter account to correct the record, it says
TikTok had already offered its statement regarding the Trump Administration’s executive order that will ban the app from the U.S. if it’s not sold by Chinese-owned parent company ByteDance...
07:22 pm GMT - Mon, August 17, 2020
Techcrunch Amex acquires Softbank-backed Kabbage after tough 2020 for the SMB lender
Small and medium businesses have been some of the hardest hit in the coronavirus pandemic, and in many cases that has had a knock-on effect on the companies that provide services to them. Now, a start...
05:56 pm GMT - Mon, August 17, 2020
Techcrunch Get a free annual Extra Crunch membership when you buy a Disrupt 2020 pass
Disrupt 2020 is right around the corner, and weve decided to sweeten the deal for whats included with your event pass. Buy your ticket now and youll get a free year of Extra Crunch, our membership pro...
05:46 pm GMT - Mon, August 17, 2020
Techcrunch In conversation with European B2B seed VC La Famiglia
Earlier this month, La Famiglia, a Berlin-based VC firm that invests in seed-stage European B2B tech startups, disclosed that it raised a second fund totaling 50 million, up from its debut fund of 35 ...
05:35 pm GMT - Mon, August 17, 2020
Techcrunch Deepfake video app Reface is just getting started on shapeshifting selfie culture
A bearded Rihanna gyrates and sings about shining bright like a diamond. A female Jack Sparrow looks like she’d be a right laugh over a pint. The cartoon contours of The Incredible Hulk lend env...
05:18 pm GMT - Mon, August 17, 2020
Techcrunch Robinhood raises $200M more at $11.2B valuation as its revenue scales
Robinhood announced this morning that it has raised $200 million more at a new, higher $11.2 billion valuation. The new capital came as a surprise. Astute observers of all things fintech will recall t...
05:09 pm GMT - Mon, August 17, 2020
Techcrunch How tech can build more resilient supply chains
The main things shippers want is the ability to dynamically manage supply chain risks and operations and optimize cash flow between corporate buyers and their suppliers....
04:58 pm GMT - Mon, August 17, 2020
Techcrunch Verizon adds free Hulu and ESPN to some unlimited wireless plans
Verizon and Disney announced this morning that they’re extending and expanding a partnership that gives some Verizon Wireless subscribers access to Disney’s streaming services at no additi...
04:56 pm GMT - Mon, August 17, 2020
Techcrunch Apple expands its independent repair program to Mac, after US antitrust investigation examined companys repair policies
Apple is expanding its program that provides parts, resources and training to independent repair shops to now include support for Mac computers. The repair program was first announced last fall, with ...
04:42 pm GMT - Mon, August 17, 2020
Techcrunch PopSugar co-founder says pandemic will create a huge windfall for digital media
It’s been less than a year since Group Nine Media acquired PopSugar but it’s been a uniquely challenging time in digital media. Brian Sugar founded the eponymous women’s lifestyle s...
04:41 pm GMT - Mon, August 17, 2020
Techcrunch Hour One raises $5M Seed to generate AI-driven synthetic characters from real humans
All of the people pictured above are real, but what you are seeing are synthetically-generated versions of their real selves. And they can be programmed to say anything. Tech futurists have long warne...
04:15 pm GMT - Mon, August 17, 2020
Techcrunch Lucid Motors CEO and CTO Peter Rawlinson to join TC Sessions: Mobility 2020
Lucid Motors will unveil its long anticipated all-electric luxury electric Air sedan on September 9, a vehicle that promises to have at least 517 miles on a single charge. The company has been toiling...
04:08 pm GMT - Mon, August 17, 2020
Techcrunch Canalys: Google is top cloud infrastructure provider for online retailers
While Google Cloud Platform has shown some momentum in the last year, it remains a distant third behind Amazon and Microsoft in the cloud infrastructure market. But Google got some good news from Cana...
04:00 pm GMT - Mon, August 17, 2020
Techcrunch SUSE contributes EiriniX to the Cloud Foundry Foundation
SUSE today announced that it has contributed EiriniX, a framework for building extensions for Eirini, a technology that brings support for Kubernetes-based container orchestration to the Cloud Foundry...
03:55 pm GMT - Mon, August 17, 2020
Techcrunch Founders can raise funding before launching a product
Its possible to raise VC funding even if you havent built a real product, according to Charles Hudson, founder and managing partner at seed-stage firm Precursor Ventures. Its just very, very difficult...
03:37 pm GMT - Mon, August 17, 2020
Techcrunch US Commerce Department updates rules to further limit Huaweis chip access
The United States Department of Commerce this morning issued updates to a list of rules designed to restrict Huaweis access to U.S.-based technology. The new restrictions follow a similar decree annou...
03:33 pm GMT - Mon, August 17, 2020
Techcrunch Hear how to scale to $100M ARR at Disrupt 2020
At Disrupt this year TechCrunch is digging into the $100 million annual recurring revenue (ARR) threshold. To help us explore the software revenue milestone, we’re bringing a number of CEOs that...
03:07 pm GMT - Mon, August 17, 2020
Techcrunch DST Global pumps $35 million into Asian e-grocer Weee!
Coronavirus stay-home orders have sparked an unprecedented demand for grocery delivery around the world. Now investors are clamoring to bet on promising players in the field. That includes DST Global,...
02:33 pm GMT - Mon, August 17, 2020
Techcrunch TikTok announces a deal with UnitedMasters, its first music distribution partnership
Though TikTok’s future in the U.S. remains uncertain, the company announced this morning its first music distribution partnership, with indie music distributor UnitedMasters. The deal will allow...
02:00 pm GMT - Mon, August 17, 2020
Techcrunch Equity Monday: A good time for ambitious startups to take on BigTech
Hello and welcome back toEquity, TechCrunchs venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This is Equity Monday, our weekly kickoff that tracks the latest big news...
02:00 pm GMT - Mon, August 17, 2020
Techcrunch Equity Monday: A good time for ambitious startups to take on Big Tech
Hello and welcome back toEquity, TechCrunchs venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This is Equity Monday, our weekly kickoff that tracks the latest big news...
01:14 pm GMT - Mon, August 17, 2020
Techcrunch BlackSkys latest satellites return images just 58 hours after SpaceX launch
There’s an increasing demand for fast turnaround time in the satellite imaging industry, especially among clients across government and defense, who want responsive, near-real time performance b...
12:32 pm GMT - Mon, August 17, 2020
Techcrunch SpaceX will attempt to break a rocket reusability record with a launch this week
SpaceX is preparing for yet another launch of Starlink satellites on Tuesday its tenth launch of production versions of the satellites to date. In addition to 58 Starlink satellites, the Falcon 9 fly...
11:00 am GMT - Mon, August 17, 2020
Techcrunch The Station: Polestar 2 drive, Tesla splits and a chat with Motionals Karl Iagnemma
The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation.Sign up here just click The Station to receive it every Saturday in your inbox. Hello and welcome back to The Station, a new...
10:48 am GMT - Mon, August 17, 2020
Techcrunch Tencent takes minority stake in French casual games maker Voodoo
Tencent just added another portfolio member to its expanding global gaming empire, this time, to up its game in mobile casual plays. Voodoo, the French company behind a slew of popular casual games, a...
10:00 am GMT - Mon, August 17, 2020
Techcrunch Google warns users in Australia free services are at risk if its forced to share ad revenue with big media
Google has fired a lobbying pot-shot at a looming change to the law in Australia that will force it to share ad revenue with local media businesses whose content its platforms monetize — seeking...
08:37 am GMT - Mon, August 17, 2020
Techcrunch Text editor Notepad banned in China after Stand With Hong Kong update
The website of Notepad++ is banned in China as of Monday, “obviously due to” its release of editions named ‘Free Uyghur’ and ‘Stand With Hong Kong’, the source code...
08:01 am GMT - Mon, August 17, 2020
Techcrunch Hammock collects 1M seed for its current account for landlords and property managers
Hammock, a U.K. fintech/proptech helping landlords and property manages gain better oversight on the financial health of their rental properties, has raised 1 million in seed funding as it readies the...
07:57 am GMT - Mon, August 17, 2020
Techcrunch Indian lawmakers accuse Facebook of political bias
Facebook is facing heat in India, its biggest market by users, over a report that claimed the company compromised its hate speech policy to favor the ruling party. Politicians from both Bharatiya Jana...
06:38 am GMT - Mon, August 17, 2020
Techcrunch AutoX launches its RoboTaxi service in Shanghai, competing with Didis pilot program
Autonomous vehicle startup AutoX announced the public launch of of its self-driving taxi service in Shanghai today. Called simply RoboTaxi, AutoXs offering already faces competition from Didi, Chinas ...
03:11 am GMT - Mon, August 17, 2020
Techcrunch As it adds Jeremy Milken to the partnership, Watertower Ventures nears $50 million close for its new fund
Derek Norton and Jeremy Milken have known each other for twenty years. Over their longtime personal and professional relationship, the two Los Angeles-based serial entrepreneurs have invested in each ...
09:25 pm GMT - Sat, August 15, 2020
Techcrunch Gillmor Gang: VP Live
The Gillmor Gang Frank Radice, Michael Markman, Keith Teare, Denis Pombriant, Brent Leary, and Steve Gillmor . Recorded live Tuesday, August 11, 2020. For more, subscribe to the Gillmor Gang Newslett...
08:00 pm GMT - Sat, August 15, 2020
Techcrunch Liquid unicorns, accelerating transitions, and Gen Zs venture impact
Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter for your weekend enjoyment....
06:00 pm GMT - Sat, August 15, 2020
Techcrunch Startups Weekly: The US is finally getting serious about 5G
There are few things that US political leaders can agree on these days, but one of them thankfully appears to be 5G. Manufacturing, transportation, agriculture, health care and many other industries a...
02:56 pm GMT - Sat, August 15, 2020
Techcrunch Decrypted: Hackers show off their exploits as Black Hat goes virtual
Every year hackers descend on Las Vegas in the sweltering August heat to break ground on security research and the most innovative hacks. This year was no different, even if it was virtual. To name a ...
12:11 am GMT - Sat, August 15, 2020
Techcrunch Elon Musk says embarrassingly late two-factor is coming to Tesla app
Tesla CEO Elon Musk acknowledged Friday that the company was embarrassingly late rolling out a security layer known as two-factor authentication for its mobile app. Sorry, this is embarrassingly late....
10:34 pm GMT - Fri, August 14, 2020
Techcrunch Clearview AI landed a new facial recognition contract with ICE
The controversial facial recognition software maker Clearview AI has a new contract with ICE, the most controversial U.S. government agency. Clearview was already known to work with the branch of Home...
10:14 pm GMT - Fri, August 14, 2020
Techcrunch Birmingham-based Help Lightning raises $8 million for its remote training and support tools
In the four years since Help Lightning first began pitching its services out of its Birmingham, Ala. headquarters, the company has managed to sign up 100 customers including some large Fortune 500 com...
10:14 pm GMT - Fri, August 14, 2020
Techcrunch Extra Crunch Live: Join Anu Duggal for a live Q&A on August 20 at 11am PT/2pm ET
Rent the Runway and Glossier became unicorns within the same week in June 2019. That same year, only 2.7% of venture capital dollars went toward female-founded companies. Silicon Valleys disconnect be...
09:46 pm GMT - Fri, August 14, 2020
Techcrunch Facebooks former PR chief explains why no one is paying attention to your startup
At TechCrunch Early Stage, I spoke with Coatue Management GP Caryn Marooney about startup branding and how founders can get people to pay attention to what they’re building. Marooney recently ma...
09:44 pm GMT - Fri, August 14, 2020
Techcrunch Sequoia Capital has internal crash courses for its founders heres how they work
No matter what you think of Sequoia Capital, the firm doesn’t rest on its laurels. Though it’s now managing ungodly amounts of money and has for decades been considered among the top ventu...
08:43 pm GMT - Fri, August 14, 2020
Techcrunch Thoughts on self-driving money, day trading and product development from Wealthfronts Andy Rachleff
Andy Rachleff founded Wealthfront a decade ago to give investors a better and smarter way to manage their wealth, building on core academic research showing that a carefully balanced portfolio of low-...
08:08 pm GMT - Fri, August 14, 2020
Techcrunch Facebook pushes back against Apples App Store fees
Facebook joined the growing ranks of companies publicly complaining about the 30% fee that Apple collects on payments made through its App Store. Those complaints came midway througha blog post about ...
07:45 pm GMT - Fri, August 14, 2020
Techcrunch Human Capital: A timeline of Uber and Lyfts fight against AB 5 and Pinterests fall from grace
Welcome back to Human Capital. This week, Uber and Lyft's legal battle against a California law pertaining to independent contractors continued, and Pinterest employees reached their breaking point....
07:42 pm GMT - Fri, August 14, 2020
Techcrunch Facebook launches support for paid online events
Businesses will now be able to monetize online events on Facebook, thanks to a new feature that the social network is launching in the United States and 19 other countries today. In a call with report...
06:58 pm GMT - Fri, August 14, 2020
Techcrunch With a new general partner and without Alexis Ohanian, Initialized Capital garners $230 million for fund five
Initialized Capital, the early-stage venture firm that got its start inside of Y Combinator almost a decade ago and spun out of the organization roughly five years later, has closed its newest fund wi...
06:55 pm GMT - Fri, August 14, 2020
Techcrunch NASA and SpaceX target October 23 for first operational astronaut launch
NASA and SpaceX have set a specific target date for Crew-1, the first operational crewed mission for SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft. Crew-1 will carry astronauts Shannon Walker, Victor Oliver, ...
05:33 pm GMT - Fri, August 14, 2020
Techcrunch Travel startups cry foul over what Googles doing with their data
As the antitrust drumbeat continues to pound on tech giants, with Reuters reporting comments today from the US Justice Department that it’s moving “full-tilt” on an investigation of ...
05:02 pm GMT - Fri, August 14, 2020
Techcrunch Eliminate DevOps waste with Japanese management practices
Waste is the cardinal sin of lean methodology....
04:13 pm GMT - Fri, August 14, 2020
Techcrunch Warner Music acquires IMGN, a social media publishing platform, for under $100M
It’s a whole new playing field these days for music labels and publishers, and today one of the biggies madean acquisition to help it sharpen up its strategy to better understand what people wan...
04:08 pm GMT - Fri, August 14, 2020
Techcrunch Facebook tests TikTok-style video format on its main app in India
Facebook is going all in on short-form videos. After flirting with the idea in Lasso, a TikTok-clone it tested in select markets, and adding a similar feature to Instagram recently, the company is exp...
04:03 pm GMT - Fri, August 14, 2020
Techcrunch Pinterest employees are walking out today in light of discrimination allegations
Pinterest employees are walking out today to demand change at the company. The walkout is directly in response to recent accusations of racial and gender discrimination at Pinterest. Organizers of the...
04:00 pm GMT - Fri, August 14, 2020
Techcrunch Thirty Madison raises $47 million for its direct to consumer treatments of hair loss, migraines, and indigestion
Thirty Madison, the New York-based startup developing a range of direct to consumer treatments for hair loss, migraines, and chronic indigestion, has raised $47 million in new financing. After last we...
04:00 pm GMT - Fri, August 14, 2020
Techcrunch Thirty Madison raises $47 million for its direct to consumer treatments of hair loss, migraines and indigestion
Thirty Madison, the New York-based startup developing a range of direct to consumer treatments for hair loss, migraines and chronic indigestion, has raised $47 million in new financing. After last wee...
03:30 pm GMT - Fri, August 14, 2020
Techcrunch A beginners guide to diversity, equity and inclusion
After Minneapolis police killed George Floyd and the subsequent racial justice uprising, many people in tech shouted from the rooftops that Black Lives Matter, despite having subpar representation of ...
02:56 pm GMT - Fri, August 14, 2020
Techcrunch Researchers explore sound to help improve robotic perception
Robots primarily rely on two basic senses: vision and touch. But even the latter still has a long ways to go to get up to the speed with the former. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are looki...
02:23 pm GMT - Fri, August 14, 2020
Techcrunch Edtech exits are increasing, but by how much?
Before the coronavirus made edtech more relevant, companies in the sector were historically likely to see slow, low exits. Despite successful IPOs by 2U, Chegg and Instructure in the United States, pu...
01:45 pm GMT - Fri, August 14, 2020
Techcrunch The Polestar 2 bests the Tesla Model 3 in drivability and enjoyment
I enjoy driving the Polestar 2 more than the Tesla Model 3. The Polestar 2 is more comfortable, seemingly better built, and has a better infotainment system. In all the traditional automotive metrics,...
01:00 pm GMT - Fri, August 14, 2020
Techcrunch Looking at how GenZ has changed fundraising
Hello and welcome back toEquity, TechCrunchs venture capital-focused podcast (now on Twitter!), where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week we had the full crew around once again, Nata...
01:00 pm GMT - Fri, August 14, 2020
Techcrunch Looking at how Gen Z has changed fundraising
Hello and welcome back toEquity, TechCrunchs venture capital-focused podcast (now on Twitter!), where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week we had the full crew around once again ̵...
11:13 am GMT - Fri, August 14, 2020
Techcrunch Amazon launches online pharmacy in India
Amazon has launched an online pharmacy in Bangalore, the capital of India’s southern Karnataka state, as the e-commerce group looks to spread its tentacles in more categories in one of its key o...
08:01 am GMT - Fri, August 14, 2020
Techcrunch Oracle and Salesforce hit with GDPR class action lawsuits over cookie tracking consent
The use of third party cookies for ad tracking and targeting by data broker giants Oracle and Salesforce is the focus of class action style litigation announced today in the UK and the Netherlands. Th...
11:37 pm GMT - Thu, August 13, 2020
Techcrunch Fortnite for Android just got axed from the Google Play Store too
After Epic Games picked a fight with Apple over the sizable chunk of fees the company takes on transactions in its mobile ecosystem, it looks like the Fortnite developer will be waging a war on two fr...
10:19 pm GMT - Thu, August 13, 2020
Techcrunch Daily Crunch: Apple removes Fortnite from the App Store
Epic Games takes on Apple, Instagram fixes a security issue and Impossible Foods raises $200 million. This is your Daily Crunch for August 13, 2020. The big story: Apple removes Fortnite from the App ...
10:09 pm GMT - Thu, August 13, 2020
Techcrunch Facebook users are pretty bad at telling how much time they spend on it
A lot of studies and discussion of social media use time spent on the platforms as evidence for various theories and conclusions but it turns out that people are actually super bad at telling how lon...
09:25 pm GMT - Thu, August 13, 2020
Techcrunch Uber and Lyft lose bid to delay worker reclassification order in California
Uber and Lyft have lost their bid to delay a preliminary injunction that will force the two ride-hailing app companies to reclassify drivers as employees. A California superior court judge denied Thur...
08:15 pm GMT - Thu, August 13, 2020
Techcrunch Epic Games launches a campaign (and lawsuit) against Apple
Epic Games is launching an all-out campaign against Apple and its App Store rules. Thursday morning, Epic Games introduced a new payment mechanism through a server-side update that allowed gamers to p...
07:28 pm GMT - Thu, August 13, 2020
Techcrunch Apple boots Fortnite from the App Store after Epic adds direct payments
After its creator Epic Games implemented a workaround to duck Apple’s hefty developer fees, Fortnite has vanished from the App Store. The popular game’s disappearing act came the same day ...
07:21 pm GMT - Thu, August 13, 2020
Techcrunch Impossible Foods gobbles up another $200 million
Impossible Foods has raised $200 million more for its meat replacements. The new round values the company at a Whopper-sized $4 billion valuation, according to the data tracker PrimeUnicorn Index. The...
06:59 pm GMT - Thu, August 13, 2020
Techcrunch How to get what you want in a term sheet
One of the most exciting moments in the life of every newly christened founder is the sweet relief of seeing a term sheet come in from an investor. After weeks, perhaps months (but hopefully not years...
06:53 pm GMT - Thu, August 13, 2020
Techcrunch Instagram wasnt removing photos and direct messages from its servers
A security researcher was awarded a $6,000 bug bounty payout after he found Instagram retained photos and private direct messages on its servers long after he deleted them. Independent security resear...
06:19 pm GMT - Thu, August 13, 2020
Techcrunch Five success factors for behavioral health startups
We believe theres an enormous opportunity to digitize behavioral health right nowand COVID-19 is only making it bigger....
05:51 pm GMT - Thu, August 13, 2020
Techcrunch Starting with Michigan, Sidewalk Infrastructure is looking to build roads specifically for autonomous cars
Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners, which spun out of Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs to fund and develop the next generation of infrastructure, has taken the covers off of its first big project — ...
05:50 pm GMT - Thu, August 13, 2020
Techcrunch Digital imaging pioneer Russell Kirsch dies at 91
Russell Kirsch, whose research going back to the ’50s underlies the entire field of digital imaging, died earlier this week at the age of 91. It’s hard to overstate the impact of his work,...
05:09 pm GMT - Thu, August 13, 2020
Techcrunch Despite a difficult Q2 2020, Lyft and Uber reiterate profit promises
Lyft is sticking to its previous target to hit quarterly adjusted profitability by the fourth period of 2021, a milestone it says it can achieve even with fewer rides. The company reiterated its quart...
04:58 pm GMT - Thu, August 13, 2020
Techcrunch Six Toronto VCs discuss COVID-19 and the post-pandemic era
As North America’s fourth-largest city, Toronto is one of the world’s top startup ecosystems. After spawning companies like Eventbrite and Crowdmark, Ontario’s capital has attracted ...
04:00 pm GMT - Thu, August 13, 2020
Techcrunch Mission Bio raises $70 million to help scale its tech for improving the development of targeted cancer therapies
California-based startup Mission Bio has raised a new $70 million Series C funding round, led by Novo Growth and including participating from Soleus Capital and existing investors Mayfield, Cota and A...
04:00 pm GMT - Thu, August 13, 2020
Techcrunch Mirantis acquires Lens, an IDE for Kubernetes
Mirantis, the company that recently bought Docker’s enterprise business, today announced that it has acquired Lens, a desktop application that the team describes as a Kubernetes integrated devel...
03:00 pm GMT - Thu, August 13, 2020
Techcrunch Slack and Atlassian deepen their partnership with deeper integrations
A lot of “partnerships” between tech companies don’t get very far beyond a press release and maybe some half-hearted co-selling attempts. When Atlassian sold its chat services to Sla...
03:00 pm GMT - Thu, August 13, 2020
Techcrunch Slack and Atlassian strengthen their partnership with deeper integrations
A lot of “partnerships” between tech companies don’t get very far beyond a press release and maybe some half-hearted co-selling attempts. When Atlassian sold its chat services to Sla...
02:54 pm GMT - Thu, August 13, 2020
Techcrunch Ready, set, network: CrunchMatch is open for Disrupt 2020
Were so excited about todays news that were stealing, ahem, borrowing boxing announcer Michael Buffers famous catchphrase, Lets get ready to rumble! CrunchMatch, our free networking platform is up and...
02:37 pm GMT - Thu, August 13, 2020
Techcrunch AMC will offer 15 cent tickets when it reopens 100 US theaters on August 20
Like so many industries, the last five months have been absolutely devastating for movie theaters. As far as sheer volumes go, no one has been harder hit than the worlds largest theater chain. AMC has...
02:37 pm GMT - Thu, August 13, 2020
Techcrunch AMC will offer 15-cent tickets when it reopens 100 US theaters on August 20
Like so many industries, the last five months have been absolutely devastating for movie theaters. As far as sheer volumes go, no one has been harder hit than the worlds largest theater chain. AMC has...
02:36 pm GMT - Thu, August 13, 2020
Techcrunch Were exploring the future of SaaS at Disrupt this year
It’s been a wild year for modern software companies, often called software-as-service (SaaS) firms due to how they deliver their product. From a strong start to the year, to a rapid devaluation ...
02:15 pm GMT - Thu, August 13, 2020
Techcrunch Cube closes $5M Seed round to scale its financial planning software
This morning Cube announced that it has closed a Seed round worth just over $5 million. The software startup, focused on financial planning and analysis (FP&A) work, raised $3.8 million of the tot...
02:10 pm GMT - Thu, August 13, 2020
Techcrunch Waymo COO Tekedra Mawakana is coming to TC Sessions: Mobility 2020
In the past two years, Waymo has scaled up a robotaxi service in the Phoenix area, locked in or expanded partnerships with Volvo and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, acquired at least one company, launched ...
02:04 pm GMT - Thu, August 13, 2020
Techcrunch A stampede of unicorn news
With a hot IPO market and a world accelerating its shift to digital technologies amidst a pandemic, it’s a busy time for late-stage startups. Happily, the current moment is generating a wave of ...
02:02 pm GMT - Thu, August 13, 2020
Techcrunch Twitter pledges to dial up efforts to combat election misinformation
In the latest sign of US platforms bracing for the 2020 US presidential election in November, Twitter has said it will step up efforts to prevent its service from being used to target voters with fals...
02:00 pm GMT - Thu, August 13, 2020
Techcrunch Root AI raises $7.2M seed round to deploy its harvesting robot amid COVID-19-fueled demand
By all accounts, the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the adoption of robotics and automation by months, if not years. The reasons are fairly clear robotics dont call in sick, nor are they disease v...
01:45 pm GMT - Thu, August 13, 2020
Techcrunch Extra Crunch Live: Join Eric Hippeau for a live Q&A today at 11am PT/2pm ET
While you may have heard this phrase several hundred too many times this year, it remains true: These are unprecedented times. At least a dozen industries are in a state of flux, and only time (a rela...
01:45 pm GMT - Thu, August 13, 2020
Techcrunch Extra Crunch Live: Join Eric Hippeau for a live Q&A right now
While you may have heard this phrase several hundred too many times this year, it remains true: These are unprecedented times. At least a dozen industries are in a state of flux, and only time (a rela...
01:11 pm GMT - Thu, August 13, 2020
Techcrunch Omaze raises $30M after expanding beyond celebrity campaigns
Omaze, the startup became famous for its celebrity-centric fundraisers, is announcing that it has raised $30 million in Series B funding. Some of the company’s best-known campaigns include oppor...
01:00 pm GMT - Thu, August 13, 2020
Techcrunch The Wear OS fall update promises better performance, simplified pairing and more
Google today announced a few new features Wear OS we can expect from the next over-the-air update, which is slated to arrive this fall. The focus here, Google says, is on fundamentals and that include...
12:34 pm GMT - Thu, August 13, 2020
Techcrunch Apple said to soon offer subscription bundles combining multiple of its services
Apple is reportedly getting ready to launch new bundles of its various subscription services, according to Bloomberg. The bundled services packages, said to be potentially called ‘Apple One,R...
10:50 am GMT - Thu, August 13, 2020
Techcrunch TikTok rival Likee reaches 150M monthly users worldwide
As TikTok’s fate remains in flux, its smaller rival Likee has been making waves around the world, garnering 150 million monthly active users as of this June. That’s according to the earnin...
07:01 am GMT - Thu, August 13, 2020
Techcrunch Bracing for election day, Facebook rolls out voting resources to U.S. users
Eager to avoid a repeat of its disastrous role as a super-spreader of misinformation during the 2016 election cycle, Facebook is getting its ducks in a row. Following an announcement earlier this summ...
07:01 am GMT - Thu, August 13, 2020
Techcrunch Bracing for election day, Facebook rolls out voting resources to US users
Eager to avoid a repeat of its disastrous role as a super-spreader of misinformation during the 2016 election cycle, Facebook is getting its ducks in a row. Following an announcement earlier this summ...
03:59 am GMT - Thu, August 13, 2020
Techcrunch Tune in tomorrow and watch five startups compete at Pitchers & Pitches
Ever hear the expression, every master was once a disaster? Now apply that to developing a well-crafted pitch. It takes practice and honest feedback to make a masterful pitch, and thats exactly what y...
03:24 am GMT - Thu, August 13, 2020
Techcrunch Stream, whose APIs help product teams build chat and activity feeds fast, just raised a $15 million Series A round
Earlier this year, the founders of Stream, a five-year-old, 60-person startup with offices in Boulder and Amsterdam, weren’t feeling so great about their prospects. As COVID-19 began its spread ...
03:21 am GMT - Thu, August 13, 2020
Techcrunch Moka, the HR tool for Arm and Shopee in China, closes $43M Series B
Investors are betting on the automation of human resources management in China. We reported last year that Moka, one of the key players in the space, secured roughly $27 million for its Series B led b...
12:19 am GMT - Thu, August 13, 2020
Techcrunch How Chinas ACRCloud detects copyrighted music in short videos
Music is front and center in the rise of TikTok and other short-video apps. It’s not just the video platforms that are harvesting the fruit of their surging popularity. Music rights holders are ...
11:00 pm GMT - Wed, August 12, 2020
Techcrunch ByteDance in talks with Indias Reliance for investment in TikTok
Chinese giant ByteDance is engaging with Indias Reliance Industries Limited, the parent firm of telecom giant Jio Platforms, for financially backing TikTok in a move to potentially save the popular vi...
10:50 pm GMT - Wed, August 12, 2020
Techcrunch Minted.com CEO Mariam Naficy shares the biggest surprise about entrepreneurship
At TechCrunch Early Stage, Minted CEO and serial founder Mariam Naficy got into the weeds with us on some of the topics founders don’t often discuss. What’s the difference between expectat...
10:20 pm GMT - Wed, August 12, 2020
Techcrunch Daily Crunch: Uber CEO says CA shutdown may be necessary
Uber’s CEO pushes back against a potential reclassification of drivers, a former COO sues Pinterest and Microsoft reveals details about the Surface Duo. This is your Daily Crunch for August 12, ...
09:36 pm GMT - Wed, August 12, 2020
Techcrunch Digitizing Burning Man
For decades, Burning Man has represented an escape from the current reality. An event for free-er spirits to rethink new age ideals inside a stateless entity where art, music and partying reign suprem...
09:01 pm GMT - Wed, August 12, 2020
Techcrunch Labster lands new cash to bring its virtual reality science lab software to Asia
You could Zoom call into your science class, or you could conduct a lab experiment in virtual reality. During the coronavirus pandemic, the latter has never felt more full of potential. The global nee...
08:22 pm GMT - Wed, August 12, 2020
Techcrunch Lyft shares get small bump after reporting 61% Q2 revenue decline
Today after the bell, Lyft reported its second-quarter financial performance. The American ride-hailing company’s results helped illustrate just how much the economy has changed in the wake of C...
08:19 pm GMT - Wed, August 12, 2020
Techcrunch Sarah Cooper known for her impressions of Donald Trump on TikTok just landed a Netflix deal
For writer-comedian Sarah Cooper, the pandemic hasn’t been so terrible. In fact, by making the best of a lousy situation — in this case, opening a TikTok account while sheltering in place ...
08:16 pm GMT - Wed, August 12, 2020
Techcrunch Indias first private space launch startup Skyroot succeeds with upper-stage engine fire test
The private space launch industry has expanded significantly since the debut of SpaceX, but some markets, like India, are just now getting the regulatory support to clear the way for private players t...
07:49 pm GMT - Wed, August 12, 2020
Techcrunch Samsung Galaxy Watch 3 review
Samsung makes good smartwatches. The fact tends to get lost in discussions about a category thats traditionally been so dominated by a single player. Things have shifted a bit of late, globally. Apple...
07:00 pm GMT - Wed, August 12, 2020
Techcrunch Whats different about hiring data scientists in 2020?
Its 2020 and the world has changed remarkably, including in how companies screen data science candidates....
06:20 pm GMT - Wed, August 12, 2020
Techcrunch Does illustrate the power of meme culture in fundraising?
Fundraising was once a formal process. A decade ago, founders would make pilgrimages to the stodgy investor offices that line Sand Hill Road. Now, as the coronavirus ravages the world and venture capi...
05:58 pm GMT - Wed, August 12, 2020
Techcrunch The Philips Hue Play HDMI Sync Box makes any home theater a bit more theatrical
Philips has steadily expanded its Hue line of smart lighting products to cover the entire home, inside and out. But while the ability to remotely control your lighting, including adjusting color, inte...
05:11 pm GMT - Wed, August 12, 2020
Techcrunch Save with group discounts to TC Sessions: Mobility 2020
If youre tech-obsessed about the future of moving people, products and packages around the world, you do not want to miss TC Sessions: Mobility 2020 on Oct. 6-7. Two packed days of online programming ...
05:06 pm GMT - Wed, August 12, 2020
Techcrunch When you need content to build links, use social proof of concept
Look at what type of topics, methodologies, designs, etc. have performed impressively in the past, learn from what they did and didnt do well then create something even better....
04:58 pm GMT - Wed, August 12, 2020
Techcrunch Uber CEO says service faces temporary shutdown in California over worker reclassification ruling
Uber could be forced to shut down its ride-hailing app in California for several months if a court doesn’t overturn a recent ruling that classifies its drivers as full-time employees, CEO Dara K...
04:57 pm GMT - Wed, August 12, 2020
Techcrunch Dog food startup Sundays launches its air-dried kibble alternative
Michael Waxman, co-founder and CEO of dog food startup Sundays, acknowledged that dog owners have no shortage of options when it comes to feeding their beloved pets but he still thinks there’s ...
04:10 pm GMT - Wed, August 12, 2020
Techcrunch Triplebyte incubates ColorStack to increase Black and Latinx representation in CS programs
Triplebyte, a technical recruiting platform that emphasizes a candidate’s skills rather than background, has incubated non-profit ColorStack, which aims to increase the number of Black and Latin...
04:07 pm GMT - Wed, August 12, 2020
Techcrunch The race to building a fully functional quantum stack
As we approach the age of quantum computing, it is no longer a question of if, but rather one of when this technology finally matures and who will lead this emerging industry....
04:03 pm GMT - Wed, August 12, 2020
Techcrunch Squares Cash App tests new feature allowing users to borrow up to $200
Cash App, the peer-to-peer payments service from Square, is giving select users a way to get short-term loans. The company said it’s only testing the feature with around 1,000 users for now. But...
04:00 pm GMT - Wed, August 12, 2020
Techcrunch Mammoth Biosciences lands exclusive license to new CRISPR proteins that could boost gene editing precision
CRISPR pioneer Mammoth Biosciences has secured an exclusive license to a new family of CRISPR proteins, from UC Berkeley, which covers R&D and commercialization across all potential fields. This i...
04:00 pm GMT - Wed, August 12, 2020
Techcrunch Merico raises $4.1M for its developer analytics platform
Merico, a startup that gives companies deeper insights into their developers’ productivity and code quality, today announced that it has raised a $4.1 million seed round led by GGV Capital with ...
04:00 pm GMT - Wed, August 12, 2020
Techcrunch Google makes building Android apps on Chrome OS easier
Google today launched ChromeOS.dev, a new site that aims to help developers get started with building Android apps for the company’s Linux-based operating system. With today’s update, Goog...
03:55 pm GMT - Wed, August 12, 2020
Techcrunch New Jersey court say police can force you to give up your phones passcode
New Jersey’s top court has ruled that police can compel suspects to give up their phone passcodes, and does not violate the Fifth Amendment. The Fifth Amendment protects Americans from self-incr...
03:55 pm GMT - Wed, August 12, 2020
Techcrunch New Jersey court says police can force you to give up your phones passcode
New Jersey’s top court has ruled that police can compel suspects to give up their phone passcodes, and does not violate the Fifth Amendment. The Fifth Amendment protects Americans from self-incr...
03:51 pm GMT - Wed, August 12, 2020
Techcrunch Dear Sophie: How can we sponsor H-1B transfers and extensions?
I work in people ops at a startup,. but we have no experience with H-1B visas. What should we know about hiring an H-1B visa holder?...
03:30 pm GMT - Wed, August 12, 2020
Techcrunch Corp card startup Ramp launches expense management software
TechCrunch caught wind of corporate card startup Ramp back in August of 2019, when the company raised an early round of $7 million. Corp card rival Brex had put together a $100 million round just a fe...
03:14 pm GMT - Wed, August 12, 2020
Techcrunch Find out how TechCrunch is taking Disrupt virtual this Friday
Talk about a pivot. The global pandemic rewrote the rules for in-person events, and it set us on a crash course to transform TechCrunchs annual three-day Disrupt a conference that draws more than 10,...
02:58 pm GMT - Wed, August 12, 2020
Techcrunch Stacklet launches cloud governance platform with $4.4M seed investment
Stacklet co-founders Travis Stanfield and Kapil Thangavelu met while both were working at Capital One several years ago. Thangavelu helped create the Cloud Custodian open source cloud governance proje...
02:58 pm GMT - Wed, August 12, 2020
Techcrunch Stacklet launches cloud governance platform with $4M seed investment
Stacklet co-founders Travis Stanfield and Kapil Thangavelu met while both were working at Capital One several years ago. Thangavelu helped create the Cloud Custodian open-source cloud governance proje...
02:34 pm GMT - Wed, August 12, 2020
Techcrunch UK eyeing disclosure labels for online political campaigning
The UK government is considering changes to the law that would require online political campaign material to carry labels disclosing who is promoting and funding the messaging. The proposal, which is ...
02:11 pm GMT - Wed, August 12, 2020
Techcrunch Duck Creek seeks $3B valuation for its software IPO
American software company Duck Creek has upped the stakes in its impending IPO, raising its price target from a range of $19 to $21 per shareto $23 to $25 per share. The bump comes as software and clo...
01:41 pm GMT - Wed, August 12, 2020
Techcrunch The Oura Ring is the personal health tracking device to beat in 2020
The Oura Ring has been getting a lot of attention lately because of its role in a number of COVID-19 studies, as well as its adoption by both the NBA and WNBA as a potential tool for helping prevent a...
01:30 pm GMT - Wed, August 12, 2020
Techcrunch Gong raises another $200M on $2.2B valuation
For the third time since last February, Gong has raised a significant sum. In February, the company scored $40 million. In December, it grabbed another $65 million, and today it was $200 million on a ...
01:11 pm GMT - Wed, August 12, 2020
Techcrunch Personal training sessions come to ClassPass
As the coronavirus hampers the fitness industry, leading to a rapid evolution toward digital classes, ClassPass is pressing onward with its product roadmap, albeit a bit ahead of schedule. The company...
01:00 pm GMT - Wed, August 12, 2020
Techcrunch Adaptive Shield raises $4M for its SaaS security platform
Adaptive Shield, a Tel Aviv-based security startup, is coming out of stealth today and announcing its $4 million seed round led by Vertex Ventures Israel. The company’s platform helps businesses...
12:00 pm GMT - Wed, August 12, 2020
Techcrunch Conduit launches to help founders find actually useful angels and VCs
The bar for being a successful VC just keeps getting higher. With more and more capital sloshing around and not enough founders and startups to invest in, founders are getting the opportunity to be ch...
11:30 am GMT - Wed, August 12, 2020
Techcrunch Industrial-grade VR company Varjo picks up ~$52M in Series C funding
Varjo, the Finnish startup that has developed a virtual and mixed reality headset capable of “human-eye resolution” for use in various enterprise applications, has closed a $51.7 million i...
11:30 am GMT - Wed, August 12, 2020
Techcrunch Industrial-grade VR company Varjo picks up $54M in Series C funding
Varjo, the Finnish startup that has developed a virtual and mixed reality headset capable of “human-eye resolution” for use in various enterprise applications, has closed a $54 million in ...
11:28 am GMT - Wed, August 12, 2020
Techcrunch Microsofts dual-screen Surface Duo arrives September 10 for $1,399
I cant recall the last time people were this intrigued by a (non-Xbox) piece of Microsoft hardware. Announced a little under a year ago amid a deluge of new devices, the Surface Duo turned a lot of he...
11:02 am GMT - Wed, August 12, 2020
Techcrunch TikTok found to have tracked Android users MAC addresses until late last year
Until late last year social video app TikTok was using an extra layer of encryption to conceal a tactic for tracking Android users via the MAC address of their device which skirted Google’s poli...
08:00 am GMT - Wed, August 12, 2020
Techcrunch Digital mortgage company Habito completes 35M Series C
Habito, the London startup that has spent the last few years moving the mortgage process online, including offering its own mortgages beyond acting as a broker, has completed 35 million in Series C fu...
05:00 am GMT - Wed, August 12, 2020
Techcrunch La Famiglia outs new 50M fund to back seed-stage European B2B startups
La Famiglia, the Berlin-based “female-led” VC firm that invests in European B2B tech startups at seed-stage, has raised a second fund totalling 50 million, up from its debut fund of 35 mil...
03:58 am GMT - Wed, August 12, 2020
Techcrunch Former COO sues Pinterest, accusing it of gender discrimination, retaliation and wrongful termination
Pinterests former chief operating officer has filed a lawsuit accusing the company of gender discrimination. Franoise Brougher, who says she was abruptly fired from the company in April, is suing the ...
12:57 am GMT - Wed, August 12, 2020
Techcrunch Rivian fires back at Tesla in lawsuit, accuses automaker of attempting to malign its reputation
Rivian has asked a judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Tesla, arguing that two of the three claims in the case fail to state sufficient allegations of trade-secret theft and poaching talent and instea...
12:18 am GMT - Wed, August 12, 2020
Techcrunch Kamala Harris brings a view from techs epicenter to the presidential race
Joe Biden’s decision to name California Senator Kamala Harris as his running mate in the quest to unseat President Trump means that the next White House could be occupied not only by a Black wom...
11:10 pm GMT - Tue, August 11, 2020
Techcrunch Court dismisses Genius lawsuit over lyrics-scraping by Google
A state court has dismissed a high-profile case showing unsportsmanlike conduct by Google, which was caught red-handed using lyrics obviously scraped from Genius. Unfortunately for the latter, the com...
10:07 pm GMT - Tue, August 11, 2020
Techcrunch Daily Crunch: Android phones become earthquake detectors
Google is using accelerometers in an interesting new way, Twitter allows everyone to limit tweet replies and Mozilla announces major layoffs. This is your Daily Crunch for August 11, 2020. The big sto...
09:22 pm GMT - Tue, August 11, 2020
Techcrunch The next-gen Xbox will ship in November
The last few months have provided a steady trickle of information about the next Xbox console or the Xbox Series X, as it’s known. We know what it looks like. We know a lot about what’s i...
09:10 pm GMT - Tue, August 11, 2020
Techcrunch Tesla announces 5 for 1 share split, rallies 8%
Today after the close of regular trading Tesla, a well-known American electric vehicle company, announced that it intends to split its shares 5 for 1. The split announcement comes after a sharp rally ...
07:58 pm GMT - Tue, August 11, 2020
Techcrunch Digital Startup Alley exhibitors: Tune in tomorrow for free media training
Tomorrows a big day for early-stage startup founders preparing to exhibit in Digital Startup Alley at Disrupt 2020. Were kicking off the first of three exclusive, interactive webinars to help exhibito...
07:27 pm GMT - Tue, August 11, 2020
Techcrunch Stalkerware phone spying apps have escaped Googles ad ban
Several companies offering phone-spying apps known as “stalkerware” are still advertising in Google search results, despite the search giant’s ban that took effect today, TechCrunc...
07:14 pm GMT - Tue, August 11, 2020
Techcrunch Zin Boats reinvents the electric speedboat in a bid to become the Tesla of the sea
The automotive industry is knee deep in the vast transition to electric, but one place where gas is still going strong is out on the water. Zin Boats wants to start what you might call a sea change by...
07:02 pm GMT - Tue, August 11, 2020
Techcrunch No pen required: The digital future of real estate closings
Every other expense in my life has gone digital, but the most significant purchase Ive ever made required hundreds of signatures and several handwritten checks delivered in person....
07:01 pm GMT - Tue, August 11, 2020
Techcrunch Scribd acquires presentation-sharing service SlideShare from LinkedIn
SlideShare has a new owner, with LinkedIn selling the presentation-sharing service to Scribd for an undisclosed price. According to LinkedIn, Scribd will take over operation of the SlideShare business...
06:49 pm GMT - Tue, August 11, 2020
Techcrunch The robots occupying our sidewalks
Cities and tech companies need to plan for accessibility early in the design process, include disabled people in solutions, and review the many published accessibility guidelines....
06:20 pm GMT - Tue, August 11, 2020
Techcrunch Emergences Jason Green still sees plenty of opportunities for enterprise SaaS startups
Jason Green, co-founder and partner at Emergence, has made some solid enterprise SaaS bets over the years, long before it was fashionable to do so. He invested early in companies like Box, ServiceMax,...
05:37 pm GMT - Tue, August 11, 2020
Techcrunch How Moovit went from opportunity to a $900M exit in 8 years
Now a private investor, former Moovit president Omar Tllez offers a look inside the company's early growth strategy, its efforts to achieve product-market fit and how rapid growth in Latin America spa...
05:29 pm GMT - Tue, August 11, 2020
Techcrunch Twitter now lets everyone limit replies to their Tweets
Twitter may describe itself as the town square, but that doesn’t mean you have to talk to everyone walking past your seat at the cafe. Today, to increase the amount of “meaningful conversa...
05:22 pm GMT - Tue, August 11, 2020
Techcrunch Airbnb could file to go public this month
According to the Wall Street Journal, Airbnb could file confidentially to go public as early as this month. The same report states that Airbnb could follow that filing with an IPO before year’s ...
05:18 pm GMT - Tue, August 11, 2020
Techcrunch Valence, the site dedicated to increasing economic opportunity for the Black community, raises $5.25 million
Valence, the Los Angeles-based online community dedicated to increasing economic opportunity for the Black community, has raised $5.25 million in financing as it looks to continue to expand its networ...
05:16 pm GMT - Tue, August 11, 2020
Techcrunch Accessing social groups through referrals
For higher responserates, mirror your prospect by having a person with the same job title from yourownteam reach out....
04:41 pm GMT - Tue, August 11, 2020
Techcrunch With technology to perfect product pitches in digital marketplaces Pattern raises $52 million
Pattern, a Lehi, Utah-based reseller that offers large and small brands a way to optimize their sales on marketplaces like Amazon, eBay, Walmart and Google Shopping, has raised $52 million in growth f...
04:41 pm GMT - Tue, August 11, 2020
Techcrunch With technology to perfect product pitches in digital marketplaces, Pattern raises $52 million
Pattern, a Lehi, Utah-based reseller that offers large and small brands a way to optimize their sales on marketplaces like Amazon, eBay, Walmart and Google Shopping, has raised $52 million in growth f...
04:27 pm GMT - Tue, August 11, 2020
Techcrunch Argo AI co-founder and CEO Bryan Salesky joins us at TC Sessions: Mobility 2020
This year’s TC Sessions: Mobility on October 6 & 7 will be a fantastic opportunity to find out all the latest on advancements in autonomy, micro-mobility, transportation AI and much more. Ar...
04:00 pm GMT - Tue, August 11, 2020
Techcrunch Till raises $8 million to try to prevent evictions
Till, a platform that serves as an intermediary between landlords and renters, has raised an $8 million seed round led by Route 66 Ventures with participation from MetaProp Ventures and NextGen Ventur...
03:46 pm GMT - Tue, August 11, 2020
Techcrunch Back to school sale: Students can join Extra Crunch for $50 per year
The summer is coming to an end, and fall is almost here. Which means its time for students to return to school. To help those looking to get ahead, we are offering an annual Extra Crunch membership to...
03:29 pm GMT - Tue, August 11, 2020
Techcrunch Mozilla lays off 250
Mozilla today announced a major restructuring of its commercial arm, the Mozilla Corporation that will see about 250 employees lose their jobs and the shuttering of the organization’s operations...
03:19 pm GMT - Tue, August 11, 2020
Techcrunch Join Extra Crunch Live today for a fintech extravaganza with Wealthfronts Andy Rachleff at 1 pm EDT/10 am PDT
Fintech is quite possibly the hottest investment area in the venture world these days, and that is why we are so excited to have one of the worlds leading operators and investors talk more about the f...
02:21 pm GMT - Tue, August 11, 2020
Techcrunch Parabola no-code platform raises $8M Series A as it focuses on eCommerce
Many workers today are still stuck doing a bushel of manual tasks, copying and pasting data into spreadsheets, sending out the same emails every morning and generally lacking any kind of automation be...
02:21 pm GMT - Tue, August 11, 2020
Techcrunch Parabola no-code platform raises $8M Series A as it focuses on e-commerce
Many workers today are still stuck doing a bushel of manual tasks, copying and pasting data into spreadsheets, sending out the same emails every morning and generally lacking any kind of automation be...
02:10 pm GMT - Tue, August 11, 2020
Techcrunch TikTok is being investigated by Frances data watchdog
More worries for TikTok: A European data watchdog that’s landed the biggest blow on a tech giant to date — slapping Google with a $57M fine last year (upheld in June) — now has an op...
01:56 pm GMT - Tue, August 11, 2020
Techcrunch Building a fintech giant is very expensive
Venture capitalists and other investors have poured capital into fintech startups around the world in recent years, including a record number of rounds worth $100 million or more in the second quarter...
01:48 pm GMT - Tue, August 11, 2020
Techcrunch Focusing on human and climate health, S2G Ventures launches ocean fund with $100 million in commitments
S2G Ventures, the Chicago-based investment firm focusing on startups developing technology and services for human and planetary health, is launching a new investment vehicle focused on seafood and oce...
01:05 pm GMT - Tue, August 11, 2020
Techcrunch Nurx has $22.5 million in new money, a path to profitability, and new treatments for migraines on the way
As the COVID-19 epidemic spread across the US earlier this year, Nurx, like most other digital providers of healthcare and prescription services saw a huge spike in demand. Now, with $22.5 million in ...
01:05 pm GMT - Tue, August 11, 2020
Techcrunch Nurx has $22.5 million in new money, a path to profitability and new treatments for migraines on the way
As the COVID-19 epidemic spread across the U.S. earlier this year, Nurx, like most other digital providers of healthcare and prescription services, saw a huge spike in demand. Now, with $22.5 million ...
01:01 pm GMT - Tue, August 11, 2020
Techcrunch Googles Lookout app for vision-impaired now scans food labels and long documents
Google has updated its Lookout app, an AI toolkit for people with impaired vision, with two helpful new capabilities: scanning long documents and reading out food labels. Paper forms and similarly-sha...
01:01 pm GMT - Tue, August 11, 2020
Techcrunch With former Misfit founder Sonny Vu at the helm, Arevo raises $25 million for its 3D printing tech
Sonny Vu, the former founder and chief executive of the wearable technology company, Misfit, has had a busy summer since he was named the new chief executive of 3D printing technology company, Arevo. ...
01:00 pm GMT - Tue, August 11, 2020
Techcrunch Google is turning Android Phones into seismometers
Google is launching a handful of new Android features today that don’t really have a lot in common but that are all interesting in their own right. There are updates to Android Auto and Android&...
01:00 pm GMT - Tue, August 11, 2020
Techcrunch Google, Nokia, Qualcomm are investors in $230M Series A2 for Finnish phone maker, HMD Global
Mobile device maker HMD Global has announced a $230M Series A2 — its first tranche of external funding since a $100M round back in 2018 when it tipped over into a unicorn valuation. Since late 2...
01:00 pm GMT - Tue, August 11, 2020
Techcrunch The all-electric Lucid Air gets an estimated EPA range of 517 miles
Lucid Motors said Tuesday that its upcoming all-electric luxury sedan can travel 517 miles on a single charge a range that, if validated by the U.S. EPA, blows past every other EV on the road today i...
01:00 pm GMT - Tue, August 11, 2020
Techcrunch Android Auto gets Google Calendar integration
Google today announced a number of updates to Android Auto (which runs on the user’s phone) and Android Automotive (which car manufacturers can natively build into their cars) that will affect b...
12:50 pm GMT - Tue, August 11, 2020
Techcrunch Dells latest Chromebook blends enterprise security with premium specs
The latest Dell Chromebook is designed for the at-home worker who still needs to connect to corporate systems. The Latitude 7410 Chromebook Enterprise boasts some of the best spec available on any Chr...
12:42 pm GMT - Tue, August 11, 2020
Techcrunch Parsable scores $60M Series D as pandemic forces faster digitization of industrial sector
It seems the pandemic has forced the business world to digitize faster, and the industrial sector is no different. Parsable, a San Francisco startup that is helping digitize industrial front line work...
12:27 pm GMT - Tue, August 11, 2020
Techcrunch Atomwises machine learning-based drug discovery service raises $123 million
With a slew of partnerships with large pharmaceutical companies under its belt and the successful spin out of at least one new company, Atomwise has already proved the value of its machine learning pl...
11:45 am GMT - Tue, August 11, 2020
Techcrunch 9 Berlin-based VCs discuss how COVID-19 has changed the landscape
A breeding ground for European entrepreneurs, Berlin has a knack for producing a lot of new startups: the city attracts top international, diverse talent, and it is packed with investors, events and a...
11:41 am GMT - Tue, August 11, 2020
Techcrunch Court finds some fault with UK police forces use of facial recognition tech
Civil rights campaigners in the UK have won a legal challenge to South Wales Police’s (SWP) use of facial recognition technology. The win on appeal is being hailed as a “world-first”...
11:03 am GMT - Tue, August 11, 2020
Techcrunch Tencent and Universal Music to take Chinese artists global under joint label
Digital entertainment titan Tencent continues to drum up its music ambitions. On Tuesday, Tencent Music Entertainment, majority-owned by Tencent with a 55.6% stake, announced establishing a new joint ...
09:46 am GMT - Tue, August 11, 2020
Techcrunch Vitesse, a fintech providing real-time cross-border payments for businesses, scores 6.6M Series A
Vitesse, the London-based fintech that offers real-time cross-border payments for businesses, has raised 6.6 million in Series A funding. The round is led by Octopus Ventures, with participation from ...
09:21 am GMT - Tue, August 11, 2020
Techcrunch EU-US Privacy Shield is dead. Long live Privacy Shield
As the saying goes, insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. And so we arrive at the news, put out yesterday in the horse latitudes of summer via joint pre...
08:00 am GMT - Tue, August 11, 2020
Techcrunch Power electronics and wireless charging startup Eggtronic raises $10M Series A
Eggtronic, the Italy-founded startup developing power electronics, wireless charging and data over power technology and products, has closed around $10 million in Series A funding. Backing the company...
06:26 am GMT - Tue, August 11, 2020
Techcrunch Google rolls out virtual visiting card in India
Google has rolled out a new Search feature in India that enables influencers, entrepreneurs, freelancers, or anyone else who wants to be easily discovered online create a virtual visiting card in what...
05:07 am GMT - Tue, August 11, 2020
Techcrunch Singapores trade finance startup Incomlend raises $20M led by Sequoia Capital India
Incomlend, a Singapore-headquartered startup that operates a trading platform to connect exporters and importers with investors, has raised $20 million in a new financing round, it said on Tuesday. Se...
04:59 am GMT - Tue, August 11, 2020
Techcrunch Tencent wants to merge Chinas esports archrivals Douyu and Huya
The war between two of China’s largest esports companies may soon come to a truce at the will of their investor Tencent. Tencent, the world’s biggest games publisher, announced late Monday...
10:35 pm GMT - Mon, August 10, 2020
Techcrunch Daily Crunch: Trying on Apples watchOS 7
The public beta of watchOS 7 is here, Amazon may be looking to turn malls into distribution centers and Skillshare raises $66 million. This is your Daily Crunch for August 10, 2020. The big story: Try...
10:20 pm GMT - Mon, August 10, 2020
Techcrunch Y Combinator President Geoff Ralston shares actionable advice for startup founders
Running a startup accelerator comes with a number of occupational hazards, but “skepticism is the easiest thing to fall into when you’ve seen too many companies,” said Y Combinator P...
10:15 pm GMT - Mon, August 10, 2020
Techcrunch Shares of Uber, Lyft drift lower after California judge says that contract drivers are employees
Shares of Uber and Lyft dipped modestly after a California judge granted a preliminary injunction that TechCrunch reports could force the two American ride-hailing companies to reclassify drivers as e...
09:12 pm GMT - Mon, August 10, 2020
Techcrunch Reddit CEO defends allowing Trump ads ahead of presidential election
Reddit is gearing up to run ads for President Donald Trump ahead of the 2020 presidential election despite concerns from employees, TechCrunch has learned. Reddit CEO Steve Huffman addressed some of t...
09:11 pm GMT - Mon, August 10, 2020
Techcrunch CA Judge grants preliminary injunction forcing Uber and Lyft to reclassify drivers as employees
California Superior Court Judge Ethan Schulman has granted a preliminary injunction forcing Uber and Lyft to reclassify its drivers as employees. This order is set to go into effect in ten days. ̶...
08:43 pm GMT - Mon, August 10, 2020
Techcrunch SpaceX reveals plans for a Texas spaceport resort in new job ad
SpaceX has big plans for its Boca Chica, Texas site where it’s currently building and testing Starship, the company’s next-generation passenger and cargo spacecraft. A new job posting spo...
08:13 pm GMT - Mon, August 10, 2020
Techcrunch DoubleVerify says ad fraudsters are using public domain content to create fake TV apps
The team at DoubleVerify, a company that helps advertisers eliminate fraud and ensure brand safety, said that it’s recently identified a new tactic used by ad fraudsters seeking to make money on...
07:30 pm GMT - Mon, August 10, 2020
Techcrunch Trump administration announces major midband spectrum auction for 5G
5G is increasingly coming into focus as a set of technologies that has the potential to dramatically expand the quality, bandwidth, and range of wireless connectivity. One of the major blocks to actua...
07:26 pm GMT - Mon, August 10, 2020
Techcrunch SpaceX takes a big hop forward in Starship development
Max Q is a weekly newsletter all about space. Sign up here to receive it weekly on Sundays in your inbox. It wasn’t the busiest week in space tech news much like a lot of the industry, it feels...
07:26 pm GMT - Mon, August 10, 2020
Techcrunch Max Q: SpaceX takes a big hop forward in Starship development
It wasn't the busiest week in space tech news -- much like a lot of the industry, it feels like we're entering into a bit of a summer doldrums period, when things slow down considerably....
07:22 pm GMT - Mon, August 10, 2020
Techcrunch Amazon tops 1 million Prime subscribers in India; reports record seller participation in Prime Day
Amazon has amassed at least 1 million subscribers for its Prime loyalty service in India, the e-commerce giant revealed today in a long rundown of how its platform fared during last weeks Prime Day in...
07:20 pm GMT - Mon, August 10, 2020
Techcrunch iOS 14 redirects web links from News publishers directly to the Apple News app
Apple’s still-in-beta operating systems will automatically redirect News+ subscribers to the Apple News app when they click on links from a News+ publisher. In other words, if you click or tap o...
06:59 pm GMT - Mon, August 10, 2020
Techcrunch Seed funding tips and tricks from Uncork Capital founder Jeff Clavier
Angel funding, seed investing and generally focusing on earlier stage investing is a huge business in the world of startups these days it helps investors get in early to the most promising companies,...
06:45 pm GMT - Mon, August 10, 2020
Techcrunch Hyundai to bring three new EVs to market under spin-off brand Ioniq
Hyundai has launched a dedicated EV brand called Ioniq with plans to bring three all-electric vehicles to market over the next four years. The Ioniq brand is part of the Korean automaker’s broad...
06:25 pm GMT - Mon, August 10, 2020
Techcrunch Apple watchOS 7 preview
Of the big three Apple operating systems, watchOS arguably gets the least love. That goes double in a year that sees macOS getting its biggest overhaul in recent memory. On the whole, the Apple Watchs...
06:11 pm GMT - Mon, August 10, 2020
Techcrunch Extra Crunch Partner Perk: Members save 20% on Canva Pro
We’re excited to announce an update to an existing Partner Perk from design platform Canva . Starting today, annual and two-year members of Extra Crunch can receive 20% off an annual plan for Ca...
05:11 pm GMT - Mon, August 10, 2020
Techcrunch A Faraday Future prototype hits the auction block
Faraday Future has yet to produce a production vehicle. The company burst out of nowhere in 2015 with wild claims of upsetting the electric vehicle market ruled by Tesla. That hasn’t happened ye...
04:44 pm GMT - Mon, August 10, 2020
Techcrunch Polestar 1 Review: A hybrid grand tourer worthy of its $155,000 price
The Polestar 1 is stunning inside and out. But it drives even better than it looks. This is a driver’s car. The Polestar 1 is an electric hybrid sports car, and yet it doesn’t feel like a ...
04:26 pm GMT - Mon, August 10, 2020
Techcrunch Nikola stock surges on order for 2,500 electric garbage trucks
Electric truck maker Nikola announced an order for 2,500 garbage trucks, which sent the startups stock soaring today. The order is expected to begin construction in 2023, with on-road testing schedule...
04:22 pm GMT - Mon, August 10, 2020
Techcrunch The Station: Uber eats rides, the next micromobility trend, Levandowksis day in court
The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation.Sign up here just click The Station to receive it every Saturday in your inbox. Hello and welcome back to The Station, a new...
04:08 pm GMT - Mon, August 10, 2020
Techcrunch Unpacking Duck Creek Technologies IPO and hoped-for $2.7B valuation
Tech stocks retain their highs as the second quarter’s earnings season begins to fade into the rearview mirror, and there are still a number of companies looking to go public while the times are...
04:01 pm GMT - Mon, August 10, 2020
Techcrunch Mux raises $37M Series C as its API-based video-streaming service scales
This morning, Mux, a startup that provides API-based video-streaming tooling and analytics, announced that it has closed a $37 million Series C round of capital. Andreessen Horowitz led the round, whi...
04:01 pm GMT - Mon, August 10, 2020
Techcrunch Mux raises $37M Series C as its API-based video streaming service scales
This morning, Mux, a startup that provides API-based video streaming tooling and analytics, announced that it has closed a $37 million Series C round of capital. Andreessen Horowitz led the round, whi...
04:00 pm GMT - Mon, August 10, 2020
Techcrunch Google Maps comes to Apples watchOS and CarPlay dashboard
Google Maps is now also available on the Apple Watch so you can get your walking, biking and driving directions right on your wrist. Don’t expect to get a full-blown Maps app on your wrist, thou...
03:57 pm GMT - Mon, August 10, 2020
Techcrunch Amazon relaunches Twitch Prime as Prime Gaming
Amazon Prime is highlighting its offerings for gamers today with the launch of a service called Prime Gaming. This is a new version of Twitch Prime, a service that Amazon launched four years ago tied ...
03:43 pm GMT - Mon, August 10, 2020
Techcrunch Three growth marketing experts share their best tools and strategies for 2020
At last month’s Early Stage virtual event, channel growth experts joined TechCrunch reporters and editors for a series of conversations covering the best tools and strategies for building startu...
03:26 pm GMT - Mon, August 10, 2020
Techcrunch ByteDance valuation under huge pressure as TikTok sale nears
As it reached an estimated valuation of $100 billion this year, TikTok’s parent company ByteDance solidified its status as the most valuable startup in private markets. Its success outside China...
03:10 pm GMT - Mon, August 10, 2020
Techcrunch Beware bankers talking TikTok
The next few weeks is going to be a critical time for ByteDance-owned TikTok. The company is weeks away from a ban signed by President Trump, and while the company is expected to sue the U.S. federal ...
03:00 pm GMT - Mon, August 10, 2020
Techcrunch Creators need better community tools. Circle wants to fill the gap
Entrepreneurial creators have to do a lot with limited time. They need to, well, create, but then they also need to build their marketing funnels, convert users to their paid products, and manage busi...
03:00 pm GMT - Mon, August 10, 2020
Techcrunch Creators need better community tools Circle wants to fill the gap
Entrepreneurial creators have to do a lot with limited time. They need to, well, create, but then they also need to build their marketing funnels, convert users to their paid products and manage busin...
02:12 pm GMT - Mon, August 10, 2020
Techcrunch Rep. Zoe Lofgren to talk privacy and policy at Disrupt 2020
We’re excited to announce that Rep. Zoe Lofgren is coming to Disrupt 2020 this September 14-18. Lofgren, a Democrat congresswoman and California native, has served at the heart of Silicon Valley...
02:08 pm GMT - Mon, August 10, 2020
Techcrunch U.S. gaming industry records another excellent quarter as pandemic fuels sales
The COVID-19 pandemic has utterly decimate a number of industries over the the past several months, but the U.S. gaming industry continues to benefit as people continue to be stuck at home. Yet anothe...
02:08 pm GMT - Mon, August 10, 2020
Techcrunch US gaming industry records another excellent quarter as pandemic fuels sales
The COVID-19 pandemic has utterly decimated a number of industries over the past several months, but the U.S. gaming industry continues to benefit as people continue to be stuck at home. Yet another r...
02:07 pm GMT - Mon, August 10, 2020
Techcrunch Watch the trailer for Netflixs new family space drama about a mission to Mars
As deep space missions and Mars colonies continue to shift from science fiction to potential near future reality, it’s not surprising to see Hollywood think about different types of stories to t...
02:00 pm GMT - Mon, August 10, 2020
Techcrunch With a renewed focus on creative skills, online learning company Skillshare raises $66M
Skillshare CEO Matt Cooper said 2020 has been a year of rapid growth even before the pandemic forced large swaths of the population to stay home and turn to online learning for entertainment and enri...
01:54 pm GMT - Mon, August 10, 2020
Techcrunch Equity Monday: The TikTok saga rolls on as earnings season starts to wrap
Hello and welcome back toEquity, TechCrunchs venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This is Equity Monday, our weekly kickoff that tracks the latest big news...
01:18 pm GMT - Mon, August 10, 2020
Techcrunch IFA cancels Global Markets event, but organizers say rest of show planning is in full swing
Late last-month, CESs organizers called an audible, canceling the in-person tech show for 2020. The news seemingly cause the forces behind Berlin-based IFA to double down on the messaging for their up...
01:00 pm GMT - Mon, August 10, 2020
Techcrunch Minecraft: Education Edition comes to Chromebooks
Microsoft today announced that Minecraft: Education Edition is now available on Chromebooks. Now, if you were hoping that this means that the standard Minecraft game is now available on Chromebooks, t...
09:25 am GMT - Mon, August 10, 2020
Techcrunch CakeResume, which wants to become Asias largest tech talent pool, raises $900,000 seed round
CakeResume is a startup creating an alternative for the tech industry to job search platforms like LinkedIn. The Taipei-based company, founded in 2016, announced today that it has raised $900,000 in s...
03:32 am GMT - Mon, August 10, 2020
Techcrunch VPN booms as countries around the world mull TikTok bans
As countries around the world ban or threaten to restrict TikTok, interest in virtual private networks has spiked. The use of VPNs can let users access an online service from an encrypted tunnel and t...
12:49 am GMT - Mon, August 10, 2020
Techcrunch Abandoned mall department stores may become Amazons next fulfillment centers
One of the largest owners of shopping mall real estate in the United Stages, Simon Property Group, has been talking to Amazon about transforming its anchor department stores into Amazon distribution h...
12:36 am GMT - Mon, August 10, 2020
Techcrunch Gillmor Gang: Tic Talks
The Gillmor Gang Frank Radice, Michael Markman, Keith Teare, Denis Pombriant, Brent Leary, and Steve Gillmor . Recorded live Sunday, August 2, 2020. For more, subscribe to the Gillmor Gang Newsletter...
10:39 pm GMT - Sun, August 9, 2020
Techcrunch Apple goes to war with the gaming industry
Most gamers may not view Apple as a games company to the same degree that they see Sony with PlayStation or Microsoft with Xbox, but the iPhone-maker continues to uniformly drive the industry with dec...
08:04 pm GMT - Sun, August 9, 2020
Techcrunch VenoStent has a new technology to improve outcomes for dialysis patients
Timothy Bour and his co-founder Geoffrey Lucks were both near broke when they moved to Dallas to join the first accelerator they entered after forming VenoStent, a company that aims to improve outcome...
05:15 pm GMT - Sun, August 9, 2020
Techcrunch New bidders reportedly emerge for TikTok in the US as powerful critics assail the process
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that TikTok and Twitter have held talks about a potential merger, even as the video sharing company defends itself against President Donald Trump’s pressure ...
02:33 pm GMT - Sun, August 9, 2020
Techcrunch TikTok is reportedly planning to challenge the Trump Administration ban
TikTok, the video-sharing app that’s moved to the center of the economic conflict between the US and China, is planning to challenge the executive order issued by President Donald Trump that wou...
01:00 pm GMT - Sun, August 9, 2020
Techcrunch Original Content podcast: The Umbrella Academy returns for a messy-but-delightful second season
The first season of “The Umbrella Academy” had its flaws, but empathetic portrayals of its seven superhero siblings (all adults bearing the emotional scars of an upbringing under their str...
08:00 pm GMT - Sat, August 8, 2020
Techcrunch IPO mistakes, fintech results, and the Zenefits mafia
Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter for your weekend enjoyment....
07:53 pm GMT - Sat, August 8, 2020
Techcrunch Moft is back with a clever laptop sleeve that converts into a stand
Moft is a clever company that makes clever products. For a while there, I was sporting their laptop stand. It was a head-turner when I used to unfold it during meetings back when we used to do those ...
06:00 pm GMT - Sat, August 8, 2020
Techcrunch Startups Weekly: What countries want your startup?
They say business needs certainty to succeed, but new tech startups are still getting funded aggressively despite the pandemic, recession, trade wars and various large disasters.......
05:57 pm GMT - Sat, August 8, 2020
Techcrunch Share Ventures, an LA-based studio for company creation, is MoviePass co-founder Hamet Watts next act
Nearly eight years ago, Hamet Watt and Stacy Spikes launched MoviePass, the subscription-based movie ticketing service that captured the minds and dollars of investors and brought thousands of cinephi...
04:00 pm GMT - Sat, August 8, 2020
Techcrunch How I accidentally gatecrashed a startups morning meeting
There’s a certain kind of panic that at some point gets us all. You just got to work but did you leave the oven on at home? The gut-punch “call me ASAP” message from your boss but no...
10:30 pm GMT - Fri, August 7, 2020
Techcrunch Daily Crunch: Trump bans transactions with ByteDance and Tencent
Trump escalates his campaign against Chinese tech companies, Facebook extends work from home until the middle of 2021 and Netflix adds support for Hindi. Here’s your Daily Crunch for August 7, 2...
10:07 pm GMT - Fri, August 7, 2020
Techcrunch Extra Crunch members get 20% off an annual Canva Pro plan
Extra Crunch is excited to announce an update to our Partner Perk from design and publishing platform Canva. Starting today, annual and two-year members of Extra Crunch can receive 20% off an annual C...
08:59 pm GMT - Fri, August 7, 2020
Techcrunch Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 hands-on
During an Unpacked event that featured the announcement of five key new devices, the Galaxy Tab S7 didnt get a ton of love. Understandable, perhaps. It doesnt quite have the star power of the Note lin...
08:27 pm GMT - Fri, August 7, 2020
Techcrunch Human Capital: Uber and Lyfts ongoing battle with the law and a brief history of diversity at Snap
Welcome back to Human Capital (formerly known as Tech at Work), which looks at all things labor in tech. This week presented Uber and Lyft with a fresh labor lawsuit as a judge heard arguments from Ub...
07:36 pm GMT - Fri, August 7, 2020
Techcrunch R&D Roundup: Supercomputer COVID-19 insights, ionic spiderwebs, the whiteness of AI
I see far more research articles than I could possibly write up. This column collects the most interesting of those papers and advances, along with notes on why they may prove important in the world o...
07:05 pm GMT - Fri, August 7, 2020
Techcrunch Federal judge approves ending consent decrees that prevented movie studios from owning theaters
A federal judge has approved the Department of Justice’s efforts to end the Paramount Consent Decrees 70-year-old court orders that prevented movie studios from engaging in a variety of anticom...
06:18 pm GMT - Fri, August 7, 2020
Techcrunch How to pick the right Series A investors
Early-stage startup founders who are embarking on a Series A fundraising round should consider this: their relationship with the members of their board might last longer than the average American marr...
06:03 pm GMT - Fri, August 7, 2020
Techcrunch IoT and data science will boost foodtech in the post-pandemic era
Leveraging data, hardware and biological solutions can help brick-and-mortar stores remain relevant and continue churning out cash....
05:38 pm GMT - Fri, August 7, 2020
Techcrunch How to access Americas Seed Fund, the $3 billion SBIR program
One of the best kept secrets in the world of capital is that the federal government has billions of dollars it’s dying to give away to early stage founders and inventors and all you have to do ...
05:26 pm GMT - Fri, August 7, 2020
Techcrunch Survey: Tell us what you think of Extra Crunch
Since launching our membership product Extra Crunch 1.5 years ago, weve added a number of new features at the request of our community. This includes improvements to login stability, introducing the v...
05:11 pm GMT - Fri, August 7, 2020
Techcrunch mmhmm, the virtual presentation software from Phil Libin, launches its Beta 2
mmhmm, the latest project from Evernote founder Phil Libin and All Turtles, has today announced the launch of the mmhmm Beta 2. The 100,000-strong waitlist of people who have requested access are gett...
05:05 pm GMT - Fri, August 7, 2020
Techcrunch Conversational analytics are about to change customer experiences forever
Today, companies can capture intent data through conversational interfaces for proactive customer interactions and hyper-personalized experiences....
05:02 pm GMT - Fri, August 7, 2020
Techcrunch Sign up for the next Pitchers & Pitches competition on 8/13
Heres a shout-out to all the early-stage founders attending Disrupt 2020. Dont forget to register for our next Pitchers & Pitches on August 13 and get ready to hone your 60-second pitch to a raz...
05:02 pm GMT - Fri, August 7, 2020
Techcrunch Register for our next pitch-off happening on August 13
Heres a shout-out to all the early-stage founders attending Disrupt 2020. Dont forget to register for our next Pitchers & Pitches on August 13 and get ready to hone your 60-second pitch to a raz...
04:59 pm GMT - Fri, August 7, 2020
Techcrunch Extra Crunch Live: Join Eric Hippeau for a live Q&A on August 13 at 11am PT/2pm ET
The media landscape is changing rapidly. Even before COVID, media companies were looking at new revenue models beyond your standard banner ad, all the while trying to navigate the oft-changing world o...
04:45 pm GMT - Fri, August 7, 2020
Techcrunch Clean.io raises $5M to continue its battle against malicious adtech
Clean.io, a startup that helps digital publishers protect themselves from malicious ads, recently announced that it has raised $5 million in Series A funding. The Baltimore-based company isn’t t...
04:40 pm GMT - Fri, August 7, 2020
Techcrunch Sign up to attend The Dos and Donts of Working with the Press
If youre exhibiting in Digital Startup Alley during Disrupt 2020 or you plan to do not miss this opportunity to sharpen your media skills. The first of our three-part interactive webinar series take...
04:18 pm GMT - Fri, August 7, 2020
Techcrunch Civic tech platform Mobilize launches a census hub for the 2020 counts critical final stretch
With the already narrow window of remaining time to complete a census count abruptly cut short by the Trump administration, getting every person living in the U.S. to fill out the form, already a scra...
04:13 pm GMT - Fri, August 7, 2020
Techcrunch Wendell Brooks has resigned as president of Intel Capital
When Wendell Brooks was promoted to president of Intel Capital, the investment arm of the chip giant, in 2015, he knew he had big shoes to fill. He was taking over from Arvind Sodhani, who had run the...
03:57 pm GMT - Fri, August 7, 2020
Techcrunch Hear how working from home is changing startups and investing at Disrupt 2020
Lets just say it has been a year. While a few ambitious startups like InVision and GitLab built their corporate cultures and talent hiring with a remote-first mentality, the reality is that the vast m...
03:44 pm GMT - Fri, August 7, 2020
Techcrunch Last chance to save on Disrupt 2020 passes
Its last call startup fans, last call. Were not talking about International Beer Day (which is a thing and its today look it up). No, we mean August 7 is your absolute last chance to save up to $300 ...
03:07 pm GMT - Fri, August 7, 2020
Techcrunch Hypotenuse AI wants to take the strain out of copywriting for ecommerce
Imagine buying a dress online because a piece of code sold you on its ‘flattering, feminine flair’ — or convinced you ‘romantic floral details’ would outline your figure ...
03:07 pm GMT - Fri, August 7, 2020
Techcrunch Hypotenuse AI wants to take the strain out of copywriting for e-commerce
Imagine buying a dress online because a piece of code sold you on its ‘flattering, feminine flair’ — or convinced you ‘romantic floral details’ would outline your figure ...
03:01 pm GMT - Fri, August 7, 2020
Techcrunch LivingPackets hopes to nurture a circular economy with its smart parcels
More than ever before, people are getting life’s essentials delivered good news for Amazon, but bad news for the environment, which must bear the consequences of the resulting waste. LivingPack...
02:45 pm GMT - Fri, August 7, 2020
Techcrunch Here are a few ways GPT-3 can go wrong
Because algorithmic bias is rarely straightforward, many GPT-3 applications will act as canaries in the growing coal mine that is AI-driven applications....
02:20 pm GMT - Fri, August 7, 2020
Techcrunch A look inside Gmails product development process
Google has long been known as the leader in email, but it hasn’t always been that way. In 1997, AOL was the world’s largest email provider with around ten million subscribers, but other pr...
01:57 pm GMT - Fri, August 7, 2020
Techcrunch As the world stays home, edtechs Q2 venture totals rose sharply
My friend and colleague Natasha Mascarenhas has been reporting on the edtech beat quite a lot in 2020. So far reading her coverage, I’ve discovered that not only is edtech less dull than I antic...
01:00 pm GMT - Fri, August 7, 2020
Techcrunch The rules of VC are being broken
Hello and welcome back toEquity, TechCrunchs venture capital-focused podcast (now on Twitter!), where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. As ever I was joined by TechCrunch managing editor Dan...
09:22 am GMT - Fri, August 7, 2020
Techcrunch Facebook extends coronavirus work from home policy until July 2021
Facebook has joined Google in saying it will allow employees to work from home until the middle of next year as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. “Based on guidance from health and governmen...
08:00 am GMT - Fri, August 7, 2020
Techcrunch Mashroom raises 4M for its end-to-end lettings and property management service
Mashroom, the London proptech that offers an “end-to-end” lettings and property management service, has raised 4 million in new funding. Backing comes from existing unnamed private investo...
07:30 am GMT - Fri, August 7, 2020
Techcrunch Netflixs latest effort to make inroads in India: Support for Hindi
Only about 10% of Indias 1.3 billion people know English. Yet, scores of firms operating in the country offer their services only in English. Netflix, one such company, said on Friday its aiming to br...
02:27 am GMT - Fri, August 7, 2020
Techcrunch Trump signs orders banning US business with TikTok and WeChat parent Tencent
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday banning transactions with ByteDance, the parent company of popular app TikTok . The White House also announced that he signed a similar ord...
02:27 am GMT - Fri, August 7, 2020
Techcrunch Trump signs orders banning US business with TikTok owner ByteDance and Tencents WeChat
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday banning transactions with ByteDance, the parent company of popular app TikTok . The White House also announced that he signed a similar ord...
11:31 pm GMT - Thu, August 6, 2020
Techcrunch Judge says Uber, Lyft preliminary injunction ruling to come in a matter of days
California Superior Court Judge Ethan P. Schulman heard arguments from Uber and Lyft, as well as lawyers representing the people of California, regarding the request for a preliminary injunction that ...
11:24 pm GMT - Thu, August 6, 2020
Techcrunch Cadillac reveals Lyriq, its all-electric SUV flagship loaded with luxury and tech
GM unveiled Thursday the Cadillac Lyriq, an all-electric crossover dripping in luxury, tech-forward touches and promising more than 300 miles of range that aims to propel the brand into a new electrif...
10:52 pm GMT - Thu, August 6, 2020
Techcrunch Google to roll out its digital learning platform to 23 million students and teachers in Indias Maharashtra state
Google has partnered with one of the largest states in India to provide its digital classroom services to tens of millions of students and teachers, the search giant said today, as it makes a further ...
10:25 pm GMT - Thu, August 6, 2020
Techcrunch Daily Crunch: Twitter and Facebook take action against Trump
Facebook and Twitter are taking a stronger stand against pandemic misinformation, we preview the latest version of macOS and a mental health startup raises $50 million. Here’s your Daily Crunch ...
10:01 pm GMT - Thu, August 6, 2020
Techcrunch Ubers delivery business is now larger than ride-hailing
Uber reported its second-quarter earnings Thursday and buried in the blizzard of less-than-rosy numbers is a stunning figure that illustrates how much the company has changed during the COVID-19 pande...
10:00 pm GMT - Thu, August 6, 2020
Techcrunch Security bugs let these car hackers remotely control a Mercedes-Benz
Few could ever forget back in 2015 when security researchers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek remotely killed a Jeep’s engine on a highway with a Wired reporter at the wheel. Since then, the car...
09:01 pm GMT - Thu, August 6, 2020
Techcrunch Uber shares drop 4% after it loses more money than expected in Q2
Today after the bell, American ride-hailing giant Uber released its second quarter results. The company’s revenue fell compared to both the year-ago quarter (Q2 2019), and the sequentially-prece...
08:51 pm GMT - Thu, August 6, 2020
Techcrunch Watch SpaceX launch its tenth Starlink mission to build out its satellite internet constellation
SpaceX is getting ready for a third try at launching its tenth Starlink mission, after two prior attempts were scrubbed, first in June and then again in July. Meanwhile, SpaceX has accomplished a lot ...
07:47 pm GMT - Thu, August 6, 2020
Techcrunch Brian Grazer, Ron Howard and Tyler Mitchell to talk Imagine Impact at Disrupt 2020
The world is changing quickly. It seems to be growing more complicated by the minute. Throughout the centuries, humans have used storytelling to make sense of the world around them. That is perhaps mo...
07:15 pm GMT - Thu, August 6, 2020
Techcrunch The tale of 2 challenger bank models
Emerging market challenger banks will have to look carefully at market conditions, possible target segments, sustainable revenue sources and the regulatory structure that best supports their desired b...
06:25 pm GMT - Thu, August 6, 2020
Techcrunch Casa pivots to provide self-custody services to secure bitcoin
Casa, a Colorado-based provider of bitcoin security services, is launching a managed service allowing customers to buy and hold their own bitcoin, rather than using an external custodian like Coinbase...
05:56 pm GMT - Thu, August 6, 2020
Techcrunch Can learning pods scale, or are they widening edtechs digital divide?
Lucia, a six-year old, hides from Zoom calls and has rejected every edtech tool from Seesaw to Khan Academy. She will spend all of first grade in quarantine. Her mother, Claire Daz-Ortiz, says her dau...
05:17 pm GMT - Thu, August 6, 2020
Techcrunch macOS 11.0 Big Sur preview
I honestly cant remember when I first started writing about the mobile creep in macOS. It has happened little by little, update after update. My earlier fears that it would fully surrender to the infl...
05:06 pm GMT - Thu, August 6, 2020
Techcrunch On-demand mental health service provider Ginger raises $50 million
Ginger, a provider of on demand mental healthcare services, has raised $50 million in a new round of funding. The new capital comes as interest and investment in mental health and wellness has emerged...
05:00 pm GMT - Thu, August 6, 2020
Techcrunch Google launches the final beta of Android 11
With the launch of Android 11 getting closer, Google today launched the third and final beta of its mobile operating system ahead of its general availability. Google had previously delayed the beta pr...
04:46 pm GMT - Thu, August 6, 2020
Techcrunch Twitter adds labels for government officials and state-controlled media
Twitter is introducing new labels for accounts and tweets tied to government officials and “state-affiliated media.” “Twitter provides an unmatched way to connect with, and directly ...
04:12 pm GMT - Thu, August 6, 2020
Techcrunch Extra Crunch Live: Join a live Q&A with Max Levchin today at 1pm PT/4pm ET
Money makes the world go round, as the saying goes. But how and where we spend it are still very much up for grabs. One person who has been pondering that question and providing answers very successfu...
04:12 pm GMT - Thu, August 6, 2020
Techcrunch Extra Crunch Live: Join a live Q&A with Max Levchin today at 1pm PDT/4pm EDT
Money makes the world go round, as the saying goes. But how and where we spend it are still very much up for grabs. One person who has been pondering that question and providing answers very successfu...
04:00 pm GMT - Thu, August 6, 2020
Techcrunch Apple 27-inch iMac review
At its first virtual World Wide Developers Conference back in June, Apple unveiled a huge piece of news about the future of the Mac. After years of rumors, the company finally confirmed plans to wean ...
04:00 pm GMT - Thu, August 6, 2020
Techcrunch Hackers say jackpotting flaws tricked popular ATMs into spitting out cash
In 2010, the late Barnaby Jack, a world-renowned security researcher, hacked an ATM live on stage at the Black Hat conference by tricking the cash dispenser into spitting out a stream of dollar bills....
04:00 pm GMT - Thu, August 6, 2020
Techcrunch Robinhoods Q2 soars
Robinhood’s huge, two-part Series F round came partially in Q2 and partially in Q3. The app-based trading platform announced the first $280 million in early May, valuing the company at around $8...
03:58 pm GMT - Thu, August 6, 2020
Techcrunch Eight trends accelerating the age of commercial-ready quantum computing
Quantum computing will represent the most fundamental acceleration in computing power that we have ever encountered, leaving Moore's law in the dust....
03:29 pm GMT - Thu, August 6, 2020
Techcrunch UK reported to be ditching coronavirus contacts tracing in favor of risk rating app
What’s going on with the UK’s coronavirus contacts tracing app? Reports in the national press today suggest a launch of the much delayed software will happen this month but also that the a...
03:22 pm GMT - Thu, August 6, 2020
Techcrunch 48 hours left on early-bird savings to Buy Disrupt 2020
You wont find a better deal than this on Disrupt 2020 passes, but you wont find it at all if you dont take action within 48 short hours. The opportunity to save up to $300 dollars on your pass disappe...
03:22 pm GMT - Thu, August 6, 2020
Techcrunch 48 hours left on early-bird savings to buy Disrupt 2020 passes
You wont find a better deal than this on Disrupt 2020 passes, but you wont find it at all if you dont take action within 48 short hours. The opportunity to save up to $300 dollars on your pass disappe...
03:21 pm GMT - Thu, August 6, 2020
Techcrunch 6 VCs on the future of Michigans startup ecosystem
The Michigan startup scene is growing and venture capitalists see several key areas of opportunities. What follows is a survey of some of the top VCs in the state and how they see COVID-19 affecting t...
03:21 pm GMT - Thu, August 6, 2020
Techcrunch 5 VCs on the future of Michigans startup ecosystem
The Michigan startup scene is growing and venture capitalists see several key areas of opportunities. What follows is a survey of some of the top VCs in the state and how they see COVID-19 affecting t...
03:05 pm GMT - Thu, August 6, 2020
Techcrunch Mode raises $33M to supercharge its analytics platform for data scientists
Data science is the name of the game these days for companies that want to improve their decision making by tapping the information they are already amassing in their apps and other systems. And today...
03:00 pm GMT - Thu, August 6, 2020
Techcrunch Sonys excellent over-ear headphones get smarter
Sony knows how to make a great pair of headphones. The WH-1000XM3 are one of the best received pairs of over-ear models in recent years. Two years later, the company is ready to unveil their successor...
02:33 pm GMT - Thu, August 6, 2020
Techcrunch Google discontinues the Pixel 4, nine months after release
Days after announcing the Pixel 4a, Google has quietly discontinued sales of the Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL. The move, noted early by the Verge, represents an extremely truncated lifecycle for a Google fl...
01:26 pm GMT - Thu, August 6, 2020
Techcrunch Special raises $2.26M to build a subscription platform for online creators
Special is a new startup offering online video creators a way to move beyond advertising for their income. The service was created by the team behind tech consulting and development firm Triple Tree S...
01:15 pm GMT - Thu, August 6, 2020
Techcrunch Majority of tech workers expect company solidarity with Black Lives Matter
Our survey found that 79% of tech employees expected public statements from their employer supporting #BLM....
01:09 pm GMT - Thu, August 6, 2020
Techcrunch Crossbeam announces $25M Series B to keep growing partnerships platform
As sales teams partner with other companies, they go through a process called account mapping to find common customers and prospects. This is usually a highly manual activity tracked in spreadsheets. ...
01:00 pm GMT - Thu, August 6, 2020
Techcrunch WordPress.com launches new P2 to take on internal communication tools
WordPress.com, a division of Automattic, is launching a new product called P2. And this time, its all about improving internal communications for private groups. As a remote company, Automattic has be...
11:24 am GMT - Thu, August 6, 2020
Techcrunch TikTok announces first data center in Europe
TikTok, the Chinese video sharing app that’s found itself at the center of a geopolitical power struggle which threatens to put hard limits on its global growth this year, said today it will bui...
08:19 am GMT - Thu, August 6, 2020
Techcrunch Uber picks up Autocab to push into places its own app doesnt go
Uber has bought UK based Autocab, which sells SaaS to the taxi and private hire vehicle industry, with the aim of expanding the utility of its own platform by linking users who open its app in places ...
08:18 am GMT - Thu, August 6, 2020
Techcrunch More Chinese phone makers could lose US apps under Trumps Clean Network
Over a third of the world’s smartphone sales come from Chinese vendors Huawei, Xiaomi and Oppo. These manufacturers have thrived not only because they offer value-for-money handsets thanks to Ch...
08:00 am GMT - Thu, August 6, 2020
Techcrunch Infermedica scores $10M Series A for its AI-driven diagnosis and triage platform
Infermedica, the Poland-founded health tech startup that offers an AI-driven platform for preliminary diagnosis and triage, has raised just over $10 million in Series A funding. The round is led by th...
03:08 am GMT - Thu, August 6, 2020
Techcrunch Attorneys general from twenty states call on Facebook to do more to fight discrimination, disinformation and harrassment
In an open letter to Facebook’s leadership posted earlier today, the attorneys general from twenty states called on the company to do more to fight intimidation, discrimination, disinformation, ...
03:08 am GMT - Thu, August 6, 2020
Techcrunch Attorneys general from twenty states call on Facebook to do more to fight discrimination, disinformation and harassment
In an open letter to Facebook’s leadership posted earlier today, the attorneys general from 20 states called on the company to do more to fight intimidation, discrimination, disinformation, hara...
01:41 am GMT - Thu, August 6, 2020
Techcrunch Twitter locked the Trump campaign out of its account for sharing COVID-19 misinformation
Twitter took action against the official Trump campaign Twitter account Wednesday, freezing @TeamTrump’s ability to tweet until it removed a video in which the president made misleading claims a...
12:14 am GMT - Thu, August 6, 2020
Techcrunch Facebook just took down a Trump post that claimed kids are immune to COVID-19
Facebook took down a video President Trump posted to his account Wednesday, citing its rules against false claims about the coronavirus. The decision to remove the video signals a new direction for Fa...
11:16 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2020
Techcrunch Uber and Lyft face new lawsuit from CA Labor Commissioner
Uber and Lyft are both facing another lawsuit from the office of the California Labor Commissioner alleging wage theft. Filed today, the suits argue both Uber and Lyft are misclassifying their drivers...
10:32 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2020
Techcrunch Unagi, the iPhone of scooters, now has a subscription service
Unagi, the portable and design-forward electric scooter company that made a splash with celebs and pop stars, has launched a subscription service. The service, called Unagi All-Access, will be offered...
09:14 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2020
Techcrunch YouTube bans thousands of Chinese accounts to combat coordinated influence operations
YouTube has banned a large number of Chinese accounts it said were engaging in “coordinated influence operations” on political issues, the company announced today. 2,596 accounts from Chin...
08:39 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2020
Techcrunch Black Founders Matter, a fund focused on Black entrepreneurs, makes first investment
Too often, Black founders are locked out of Silicon Valley before they even have a chance to get started, Marceau Michel, founder of venture capital firm Black Founders Matter, tells TechCrunch. ̶...
08:30 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2020
Techcrunch Match confirms plans for Tinder Platinum, a new top-level subscription for power users, arriving Q4
Tinder is testing a new top-level subscription plan, Tinder Platinum, which it expects to roll out before year-end. The news of the coming service was announced this week by Tinder parent Match Group ...
07:53 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2020
Techcrunch Instagrams hashtag searches gave Trump better treatment than Biden
Instagram apparently handled searches for popular hashtags related to the two presidential candidates differently, pointing Joe Biden search queries toward often negative related hashtags while making...
07:46 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2020
Techcrunch DoorDash launches a convenience store
On-demand delivery startup DoorDash has launched a digital storefront to sell household items, as well as the types of things you’d find at a convenience store. So, chips, ice cream, spices, and...
07:45 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2020
Techcrunch Krisp snags $5M A round as demand grows for its voice-isolating algorithm
Krisp’s smart noise suppression tech, which silences ambient sounds and isolates your voice for calls, arrived just in time. The company got out in front of the global shift to virtual presence,...
07:18 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2020
Techcrunch The story behind Rent the Runways first check
When Rent the Runway co-founders Jennifer Fleiss and Jennifer Hyman got their first term sheet, it had an exploding clause in it: If they didn’t sign the offer in 24 hours, they would lose the d...
06:12 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2020
Techcrunch Go public now while software valuations make no sense
Software valuations are bonkers, which means it’s a great time to go public. Asana, Monday.com, Wrike and every other gosh darn software company that is putting it off, pay attention. Heck, even...
06:00 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2020
Techcrunch A new technique can detect newer 4G stingray cell phone snooping
Security researchers say they have developed a new technique to detect modern cell-site simulators. Cell site simulators, known as “stingrays,” impersonate cell towers and can capture info...
05:38 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2020
Techcrunch Funding in an uncertain market: using venture debt to bridge the gap
Now more than ever, companies should examine all sources of capital and ensure they are sufficiently funded to emerge from this period stronger than they entered it....
05:08 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2020
Techcrunch Twitter says Android security bug gave access to direct messages
Twitter says a security bug may have exposed the private direct messages of its Android app users, but said that there was no evidence that the vulnerability was ever exploited. The bug could have all...
05:02 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2020
Techcrunch Here are all the things Samsung announced at todays Unpacked event
Samsungs first virtual Unpacked ranked somewhere between Microsoft and Apples recent events in terms of overall presentation and general awkwardness. The show kicked off seven minutes late, and a numb...
05:00 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2020
Techcrunch Microsoft launches Open Service Mesh
Microsoft today announced the launch of a new open-source service mesh based on the Envoy proxy. The Open Service Mesh is meant to be a reference implementation of the Service Mesh Interface (SMI) spe...
04:46 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2020
Techcrunch Just 72 hours left to save up to $300 on Disrupt 2020 passes
It takes a village or in this case a kickass global startup community to help you survive and thrive in challenging times. Tap into your village at Disrupt 2020, but do it quickly to gain entry at t...
04:30 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2020
Techcrunch Technologists: Consider Canada
If you want to build technology to be harnessed for equity, diversity and social advancement of the many rather than freedom and inclusion for the few we think Canada is a good place to do it....
04:23 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2020
Techcrunch Rolling updates on Beirut, a city and a tech community devastated
It was only relatively recently, in October 2018, that TechCrunch held Startup Battlefield MENA to unpack startups in the Middle East and North Africa. When TechCrunch went looking for a city in the r...
04:22 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2020
Techcrunch Gumroad founder Sahil Lavingia launches new seed fund in collaboration with AngelList
Gumroad founder Sahil Lavingia has teamed up with AngelList to launch his debut $5 million rolling fund to invest in early-stage entrepreneurs. He is cutting $100,000 to $250,000 checks for startups a...
04:12 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2020
Techcrunch Indias Byjus acquires WhiteHat Jr. for $300 million
Byjus has acquired edtech startup WhiteHat Jr. for $300 million as the Indian online learning giant looks to expand its dominant reach in the country. The all-cash deal makes 18-month-old Mumbai-headq...
04:03 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2020
Techcrunch TikTok updates policies to ban deepfakes, expand fact-checks, and flag election misinfo
As uncertainty swirls around TikTok’s future in the U.S., the company this morning announced new Community Guidelines focused on helping keep misleading and deceptive content off its platform. T...
04:03 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2020
Techcrunch TikTok updates policies to ban deepfakes, expand fact-checks and flag election misinfo
As uncertainty swirls around TikTok’s future in the U.S., the company this morning announced new Community Guidelines focused on helping to keep misleading and deceptive content off its platform...
04:00 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2020
Techcrunch Google updates G Suite for mobile with dark mode support, Smart Compose for Docs and more
Google today announced a major update to its mobile G Suite productivity apps. Among these updates are the addition of a dark theme for Docs, Sheets and Slides, as well as the addition of Google’...
03:45 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2020
Techcrunch Hear Cloudflare and PlanGrids amazing journey from founding to exit at Disrupt 2020
How and when should startup founders think about the exit? Its the perennial question in tech entrepreneurialism, but the hows and whens are questions to which there are a multitude of answers. For on...
03:43 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2020
Techcrunch Datafold is solving the chaos of data engineering
It seemed so simple. A small schema issue in a database was wrecking a feature in the app, increasing latency and degrading the user experience. The resident data engineer pops in a fix to amend the s...
03:32 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2020
Techcrunch PandaDoc announces second Series B extension worth $30M
PandaDoc, the startup that provides a fully digital sales document workflow from proposal to electronic signature to collecting payment, announced a $30 million Series B extension today, making it the...
03:28 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2020
Techcrunch Jump bikes are now on the Lime app and heading to more cities
Three months ago, Jump’s bright red bikes and scooters had disappeared from city streets after Uber unloaded the micromobility company to Lime as part of a complex $170 million fundraising round...
03:26 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2020
Techcrunch In a sign of digital healths rise, Livongo and Teladoc Health agree to $18.5 billion merger
In a sign of the growing importance and value of digital healthcare in the world of medicine, two of the industry’s publicly traded companies have agreed to a whopping $18.5 billion merger. The ...
02:39 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2020
Techcrunch The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 2 features a reinforced screen, upgraded hinge and larger front screen
Samsung promised five power devices for its virtually-only Unpacked event. We already know about the Note 20, Galaxy Watch 3, Tab S7 and Buds Live so whats left? We speculated based on an earlier new...
02:32 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2020
Techcrunch Dear Sophie: Can I bypass H-1B and sponsor a grad for a green card?
Given the challenges of getting an H-1B through the lottery and the visa ban, can we potentially sponsor someone for a green card?...
02:29 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2020
Techcrunch Extra Crunch Live: Join Wealthfront CEO Andy Rachleff August 11 at 1pm EDT / 10am PDT about the future of investing and fintech
Wealthfront was one of the earliest and remains one of the most formidable companies in the so-called robo-advisor space algorithmic apps that manage and optimize your savings and investments. Since ...
02:29 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2020
Techcrunch Extra Crunch Live: Join Wealthfront CEO Andy Rachleff August 11 at 1pm EDT/10am PDT about the future of investing and fintech
Wealthfront was one of the earliest and remains one of the most formidable companies in the so-called robo-advisor space algorithmic apps that manage and optimize your savings and investments. Since ...
02:26 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2020
Techcrunch Google Play Music to shut down starting in September, will disappear by December
Google’s plans to wind down its Google Play Music service in favor of the company’s newer YouTube Music have been known for some time. But Google this week has given users a deadline on ma...
02:21 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2020
Techcrunch As e-commerce accelerates, fintech startups raised record $100M rounds in Q2
Reading headlines here and there, one might assume that venture capital interest in fintech startups is setting records every quarter. After all: Didn’t Robinhood raise $280 million and $320 mil...
02:20 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2020
Techcrunch What Q2 fundraising data tells us about the rest of 2020
If the current level of interest represents the new normal for VCs, we expect it to only increase as we enter the fall....
02:20 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2020
Techcrunch Q3 2020 is primed to be an intense shopping season for VCs
Founders are in a great position to fundraise right now. VCs are ready to deploy capital and are activity searching for businesses to invest in. Time to make the most of it....
02:00 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2020
Techcrunch Samsungs Galaxy Note 20 ships August 21, starting at $1,000
Samsung promised a lot of gadgets for todays big Unpacked event five in all, as a matter of fact. As expected, the big headliners both figuratively and literally are the latest additions to the pop...
02:00 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2020
Techcrunch Samsungs new Galaxy Buds Live bring active noise cancelation for $170
Samsungs made quality earbuds for a number of years now. Theyre never particularly exciting or innovative, but theyre always a solid choice in an overcrowded market. Todays big Unpacked event adds yet...
02:00 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2020
Techcrunch The bezel is back for Samsungs Galaxy Watch 3
The rotating bezel has always felt like Samsungs secret weapon in the smartwatch battle. It is, without question, the best input device. No one, not even Apples crown, comes close. For that reason, it...
02:00 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2020
Techcrunch The Galaxy Tab S7 will bring 5G to Samsungs tablet line
Samsungs going all in on 5G. The company was an early adopter for the next-gen wireless technology and has just offered it across the newly announce Galaxy Note 20. Turns out its new tablets will be g...
02:00 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2020
Techcrunch Stix, offering D2C pregnancy and ovulation tests, raises $1.3 million in seed funding
Stix, a direct-to-consumer women’s health brand, today announced the close of a $1.3 million seed round. Investors such as BDMI, Rogue Women’s Fund, Vamos Ventures, Founders Factory New Yo...
01:30 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2020
Techcrunch Mozper launches digital banking service for Latin American parents and kids
Mozper, a new service launching from Y Combinator’s latest cohort to provide digital banking services, takes its name from the English words for money, prosperity, and generation Z, according to...
01:28 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2020
Techcrunch Direct-to-consumer cat food startup Smalls raises $9M
While dog owners have plenty of direct-to-consumer options if they want to order pet food online, we haven’t seen a similar wave of startups for cats. But that may be starting to change. Earlier...
01:19 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2020
Techcrunch Kubermatic launches open source service hub to enable complex service management
As Kubernetes and cloud native technologies proliferate, developers and IT have found a growing set of technical challenges they need to address, and new concepts and projects have popped up to deal w...
01:16 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2020
Techcrunch Genkis Covert Dock is the perfect dock for the Nintendo Switch and other gadgets, too
The Nintendo Switch’s ability to quickly transition from portable to home console is definitely one of its major selling points, but Nintendo’s official dock never really made much sense w...
01:00 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2020
Techcrunch Harness makes first acquisition, snagging open source CI company Drone.io
Harness has made a name for itself creating tools like continuous delivery (CD) for software engineers to give them the kind of power that has been traditionally reserved for companies with large engi...
01:00 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2020
Techcrunch Sight Diagnostics raises $71M Series D for its blood analyzer
Sight Diagnostics, the Israel-based health-tech company behind the FDA-cleared OLO blood analyzer, today announced that it has raised a $71 million Series D round with participation from Koch Disrupti...
01:00 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2020
Techcrunch Instagram Reels launches globally in over 50 countries, including US
Instagram Reels, the company’s significant effort in challenging TikTok on short-form creative content, is launching globally, starting today. The feature is being made available across 50 count...
12:00 pm GMT - Wed, August 5, 2020
Techcrunch Watch SpaceXs stunning Starship prototype hop test flight and landing
SpaceX achieved a big win in their Starship spacecraft development program on Tuesday evening, flying the SN5 prototype of that future vehicle to a height of around 500 feet, propelled by a single Rap...
11:46 am GMT - Wed, August 5, 2020
Techcrunch US tech needs a pivot to survive
James Stranko Contributor James Stranko is a writer and independent advisor to American tech companies expanding abroad. He was on the founding team of Fuel, McKinseys practice serving VC firms and pr...
11:01 am GMT - Wed, August 5, 2020
Techcrunch Springboard raises $31 million to expand its mentor-guided education platform to more geographies
Springboard, an online education platform that provides upskilling and reskilling training courses to people looking to learn in-demand roles, has raised $31 million in a new financing round as it loo...
11:00 am GMT - Wed, August 5, 2020
Techcrunch ChargePoint raises $127M as electric vehicle adoption grows among fleet operators
Electric vehicle charging networkChargePoint raised $127 million in funding in a bid to expand its platform for businesses and fleets in North America and Europe. A mix of existing investors from the ...
11:00 am GMT - Wed, August 5, 2020
Techcrunch Censys, a search engine for internet devices, raises $15.5M Series A
Internet device search engine Censys is one of the biggest search engines you’ve probably never heard of. If Google is the search engine for finding information sitting on the web, Censys is the...
09:28 am GMT - Wed, August 5, 2020
Techcrunch Amazon inks cloud deal with Airtel in India
Amazon has found a new partner to expand the reach of its cloud services business — AWS — in India, the worlds second largest internet market. On Wednesday, the e-commerce giant announced ...
08:00 am GMT - Wed, August 5, 2020
Techcrunch London-based Weezy raises seed funding for its 15-minute grocery delivery app
First there was same-day delivery. Then came one-hour delivery. Now a new London startup wants to make 15 minute delivery a thing. Putting the hyper hyper-local into online grocery shopping, Weezy com...
08:00 am GMT - Wed, August 5, 2020
Techcrunch London-based Weezy raises pre-seed funding for its 15-minute grocery delivery app
First there was same-day delivery. Then came one-hour delivery. Now a new London startup wants to make 15 minute delivery a thing. Putting the hyper hyper-local into online grocery shopping, Weezy com...
07:51 am GMT - Wed, August 5, 2020
Techcrunch Jakarta-based Wahyoo gets $5 million Series A to help small eateries digitize their operations
While growing up, Peter Shearer watched his mother get up every day at 2AM or 3AM to prepare for her catering business. For many people who own small food businesses in Indonesia, “everything is...
06:21 am GMT - Wed, August 5, 2020
Techcrunch Hollywoods Triller sets its own rhythm even as it gains from TikTok troubles
Triller, the short video app backed by a Hollywood mogul and music celebrities, is rapidly ballooning in both user size and valuation. It’s now seeking a new funding round of $250 million that w...
04:38 am GMT - Wed, August 5, 2020
Techcrunch YC-backed Statiq wants to bootstrap Indias EV charging network
Electric vehicles (EVs) are spreading throughout the world. While Tesla has drawn the most attention in the United States with its luxurious and cutting-edge cars, EVs are becoming a mainstay in marke...
12:01 am GMT - Wed, August 5, 2020
Techcrunch SpaceX successfully flies its Starship prototype to a height of around 500 feet
SpaceX has been developing Starship, its next-generation spacecraft, at its site in Boca Chica, Texas. The company has built a number of different Starship prototypes to date, include one prior versio...
10:57 pm GMT - Tue, August 4, 2020
Techcrunch Anthony Levandowski sentenced to 18 months in prison, as new $4B lawsuit against Uber is filed
Anthony Levandowski, the former Google engineer and serial entrepreneur who was at the center of a lawsuit between Uber and Waymo, has been sentenced to 18 months on one count of stealing trade secret...
09:10 pm GMT - Tue, August 4, 2020
Techcrunch Mulan is coming to Disney on September 4, for an additional price of $29.99
Those wondering whether The Walt Disney Company would eventually give up on a traditional theatrical release for “Mulan” now have their answer. While the coronavirus pandemic prompted Disn...
08:45 pm GMT - Tue, August 4, 2020
Techcrunch Disney grows to more than 60.5M subscribers
Disney+ had more than 60.5 million paying subscribers as of yesterday, according to The Walt Disney Company’s CEO Bob Chapek. Chapek shared the number during a call to discuss the company’...
06:58 pm GMT - Tue, August 4, 2020
Techcrunch Software stocks set new records despite earnings, pandemic
You might have missed it, but amidst the current political-M&A-pandemic-election-disinformation news cycle we find ourselves in this week, SaaS and cloud companies reached new public market record...
06:36 pm GMT - Tue, August 4, 2020
Techcrunch Parental control app Boomerang repeatedly blocked from Play Store, losing business
Apple isn’t the only one accused of kicking out competitive solutions from its App Store. Google did the same — for over a month at least — or so alleges parental control app maker B...
06:14 pm GMT - Tue, August 4, 2020
Techcrunch Apples veteran marketing chief Phil Schiller moves to smaller role inside company
After more than three decades climbing Apple’s ranks, marketing chief Phil Schiller is taking a step back at the company, being replaced by a long-time product marketing leader inside Apple. Sch...
05:11 pm GMT - Tue, August 4, 2020
Techcrunch More thoughts on growingpodcasts
Plus: how to monitor and fix Facebook/Instagram ad fatigue, and using mobile app ads to drive landing page conversions....
05:05 pm GMT - Tue, August 4, 2020
Techcrunch Qualified raises $12M make websites smarter about sales and marketing
Qualified, a startup co-founded by former Salesforce executives Kraig Swensrud and Sean Whiteley, has raised $12 million in Series A funding. Swensrud (Qualified’s CEO) said the startup is meant...
05:05 pm GMT - Tue, August 4, 2020
Techcrunch Qualified raises $12M to make websites smarter about sales and marketing
Qualified, a startup co-founded by former Salesforce executives Kraig Swensrud and Sean Whiteley, has raised $12 million in Series A funding. Swensrud (Qualified’s CEO) said the startup is meant...
05:03 pm GMT - Tue, August 4, 2020
Techcrunch Decrypted: How a teenager hacked Twitter, Garmins ransomware aftermath
A 17-year-old Florida teenager is accused of perpetrating one of the year’s biggest and most high-profile hacks: Twitter. A federal 30-count indictment filed in Tampa said Graham Ivan Clark used...
04:50 pm GMT - Tue, August 4, 2020
Techcrunch Rocket Lab boosts Electron rockets lift capacity by 660 lbs
Rocket Lab has managed to engineer a significant payload capacity bump into its existing Electron space launch vehicle, the company revealed today. Electron can now fly as much as 300 kg (660 lbs) to ...
04:50 pm GMT - Tue, August 4, 2020
Techcrunch Rocket Lab boosts Electron rockets lift capacity to 660 lbs
Rocket Lab has managed to engineer a significant payload capacity bump into its existing Electron space launch vehicle, the company revealed today. Electron can now fly as much as 300 kg (660 lbs) to ...
04:49 pm GMT - Tue, August 4, 2020
Techcrunch Microsoft, Amazon back a SoCal company making microchips specifically for voice-based apps
Microsoft’s venture capital fund, M12 Ventures has led a slew of strategic corporate investors backing a new chip developer out of Southern California called Syntiant, which makes semiconductors...
04:00 pm GMT - Tue, August 4, 2020
Techcrunch Rigetti raises $79M Series C for its quantum computing platform
Rigetti Computing, the quantum computing startup that is challenging industry heavyweights like IBM, Microsoft and D-Wave, today announced that it has closed a $79 million Series C funding round. The ...
03:51 pm GMT - Tue, August 4, 2020
Techcrunch Vectrix is developing cloud security marketplace built for and by security pros
In a typical security team, engineers write one-off scripts to track a particular problem on a cloud vendor such as an unauthorized user on your GitHub account, and while engineers are capable of writ...
03:45 pm GMT - Tue, August 4, 2020
Techcrunch Autonomous vehicle reporting data is driving AV innovation right off the road
All AV all disengagement reports have one thing in common: their usefulness is ubiquitously criticized by those who have to submit them....
03:28 pm GMT - Tue, August 4, 2020
Techcrunch Ford names Jim Farley as new CEO, Jim Hackett to retire
Ford Motor CEO Jim Hackett is retiring, leaving the company three years after being tapped to transform the automaker into a leaner, more competitive and profitable company while investing in technolo...
03:27 pm GMT - Tue, August 4, 2020
Techcrunch Get your early bird pass to Disrupt 2020 only 4 days left
You have just four days left to access the complete Disrupt 2020 experience for best possible price. You can save up to $300 with early bird pricing, but thats a fleeting opportunity. Get it in gear a...
03:27 pm GMT - Tue, August 4, 2020
Techcrunch Get your early-bird pass to Disrupt 2020 only 4 days left
You have just four days left to access the complete Disrupt 2020 experience for the best possible price. You can save up to $300 with early-bird pricing, but thats a fleeting opportunity. Get it in ge...
03:19 pm GMT - Tue, August 4, 2020
Techcrunch Google-Fitbit deal to be scrutinized in Europe over data competition concerns
In a set-back for Google’s plan to acquire health wearable company Fitbit, the European Commission has announced it’s opening an investigation to dig into a range of competition concerns b...
03:01 pm GMT - Tue, August 4, 2020
Techcrunch Apples 27-inch iMac gets a processing and graphics boost
Apple sold a lot of Macs last quarter a record, in fact, for Q3, jumping a full 21%, year over year. Given the state of the world, with most office workers moving to a remote setup, theres little sur...
02:41 pm GMT - Tue, August 4, 2020
Techcrunch Facebook doubles down on work-from-office with massive NYC lease near Penn Station
Weve had huge debates about the future of work are we going to be working from home, working from the office, or perhaps, working from anywhere? Work From Home is dead, long live Work From Anywhere W...
02:31 pm GMT - Tue, August 4, 2020
Techcrunch Messenger launches a new chat plugin for business websites to reach non-Facebook customers
Facebook is making it easier for businesses to leverage its Messenger service on their own websites. The company in November 2017 first launched a new customer chat plugin which allowed customers to t...
02:20 pm GMT - Tue, August 4, 2020
Techcrunch Serialized fiction startup Radish raises $63.2M from SoftBank and Kakao
Radish is announcing that it has raised $63.2 million in new funding. Breaking up book-length stories into smaller chapters that are released over days or weeks is an idea that was popularized in the ...
02:11 pm GMT - Tue, August 4, 2020
Techcrunch Rippling nabs $145M at a $1.35B valuation to build out its all-in-one platform for employee data
Big news today in the world of enterprise IT startups. Rippling, the startup founded by Parker Conrad to take on the ambitious challenge of building a platform to manage all aspects of employee data, ...
02:06 pm GMT - Tue, August 4, 2020
Techcrunch GreyNoise announces $4.8M seed investment to filter harmless security alerts
Security professionals are constantly dealing with an onslaught of information as their various tools trigger alerts, some of which require their attention and some which don’t. Unfortunately, i...
02:00 pm GMT - Tue, August 4, 2020
Techcrunch Intercom hires a CFO as it ramps towards an IPO
Today Intercom announced that it has hired a chief financial officer (CFO) as it ramps towards an IPO. The unicorn also promoted its COO to the CEO role earlier this year. The company’s recent C...
02:00 pm GMT - Tue, August 4, 2020
Techcrunch Intercom hires a CFO as it ramps toward an IPO
Today Intercom announced that it has hired a chief financial officer (CFO) as it ramps toward an IPO. The unicorn also promoted its COO to the CEO role earlier this year. The company’s recent CE...
02:00 pm GMT - Tue, August 4, 2020
Techcrunch AgentSync raises $4.4M for its insurtech compliance service
Today AgentSync announced that it has closed a $4.4 million Seed round, co-led by Elad Gil and Caffeinated Capital. Other well-known names from the Silicon Valley scene took part in its funding round,...
01:56 pm GMT - Tue, August 4, 2020
Techcrunch Mobile bank Current launches a points rewards program for debit card users
Amid a crowded market of mobile banking services, which will soon also include Google, U.S. challenger bank Current is launching a new program that will offer points-based rewards to its checking acco...
01:48 pm GMT - Tue, August 4, 2020
Techcrunch Amazons 16% bite of Deliveroo finally clears UK competition probe
It’s official: Days after Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos was peppered with awkward questions by US lawmakers concerned about the market power of his ecommerce empire, the UK’s competition regulator...
01:00 pm GMT - Tue, August 4, 2020
Techcrunch Microsoft showcases mobile gaming accessories designed to work with Xbox cloud gaming
Way back in the before times of October 2019, Microsoft announced that it would be expanding its Designed for Xbox stamp of approval to a line of mobile accessories. The play was pretty obvious: The c...
12:59 pm GMT - Tue, August 4, 2020
Techcrunch Yotpo raises $75M for its e-commerce marketing cloud
“Marketing Cloud” has become an increasingly popular concept in the world of marketing technology — used by the likes of Salesforce, Adobe, Oracle and others to describe their digita...
12:04 pm GMT - Tue, August 4, 2020
Techcrunch UK commits to redesign visa streaming algorithm after challenge to racist tool
The UK government is suspending the use of an algorithm used to stream visa applications after concerns were raised the technology bakes in unconscious bias and racism. The tool had been the target of...
09:17 am GMT - Tue, August 4, 2020
Techcrunch WhatsApp pilots new feature to fight misinformation: Search the web
WhatsApp, one of the most popular instant messaging platforms on the planet, has rolled out a new feature in select markets that makes it easier for users to verify whether the assertions made in mess...
08:32 am GMT - Tue, August 4, 2020
Techcrunch Twitter warns investors of possible fine from FTC consent order probe
Twitter has disclosed it’s facing a potential fine of more than a hundred million dollars as a result of a probe by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) which believes the company violated a 2011 ...
08:00 am GMT - Tue, August 4, 2020
Techcrunch TaxScouts raises 5M Series A to expand to Europe, first stop Spain
TaxScouts, the U.K. tax preparation startup founded by TransferWise and MarketInvoice alumni, has raised 5 million in Series A funding for European expansion. Leading the round is Octopus Ventures, wi...
05:14 am GMT - Tue, August 4, 2020
Techcrunch Grab launches new consumer financial services, including micro-investments and loans
Grab announced today that its financial unit, which previously focused mainly on services for entrepreneurs and small businesses, is launching a slew of consumer products, including micro-investments,...
11:57 pm GMT - Mon, August 3, 2020
Techcrunch FCC invites public comment on Trumps attempt to nerf Section 230
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has decided to ask the public for its thoughts on an attempt initiated in Trump in May to water down certain protections that arguably led to the creation of the modern internet ...
10:19 pm GMT - Mon, August 3, 2020
Techcrunch Daily Crunch: Microsoft-TikTok acquisition inches closer to reality
A possible Microsoft -TikTok acquisition is causing plenty of drama, we review Google’s new budget Pixel and SpaceX’s Crew Dragon returns to Earth. Here’s your Daily Crunch for Augus...
09:57 pm GMT - Mon, August 3, 2020
Techcrunch EventGeek relaunches as Circa to help marketers embrace virtual events
EventGeek was a Y Combinator-backed startup that offered tools to help large enterprises manage the logistics of their events. So with the COVID-19 pandemic essentially eliminating large-scale confere...
08:11 pm GMT - Mon, August 3, 2020
Techcrunch What Microsoft should demand in exchange for its payment to the US government for TikTok
In one of the crazier news stories (and in 2020, that is saying something), President Donald Trump said today during a media availability event that in order for the U.S. government to sign off on a p...
07:38 pm GMT - Mon, August 3, 2020
Techcrunch Extra Crunch Live: Join fintech legend Max Levchin for a live Q&A on August 6 at 4pm ET/1pm PT
We’ve got a great Extra Crunch Live chat coming up on Thursday, August 4, that you won’t want to miss. The one and only Max Levchin, is Silicon Valley icon and entrepreneur extraordinaire,...
07:00 pm GMT - Mon, August 3, 2020
Techcrunch Announcing Sight Tech Global, an event on the future of AI and accessibility for people who are blind or visually impaired
Few challenges have excited technologists more than building tools to help people who are blind or visually impaired. It was Silicon Valley legend Ray Kurzweil, for example, who in 1976 launched the f...
06:50 pm GMT - Mon, August 3, 2020
Techcrunch Trump calls TikTok a hot brand, demands a chunk of its sale price
Today the president appeared to bless the budding Microsoft-TikTok deal, continuing his evolution on a possible transaction. After stating last Friday that he’d rather see TikTok banned than sol...
06:38 pm GMT - Mon, August 3, 2020
Techcrunch After Shopifys huge quarter, BigCommerce raises its IPO price range
When BigCommerce, the Texas-based Shopify competitor, first announced an IPO price range, the numbers looked a little light. With a range of just $18 to $20 per share, it appeared that the firm was ta...
06:14 pm GMT - Mon, August 3, 2020
Techcrunch SaaS securitization will disrupt VCs biggest returns this coming decade
SaaS investing has been on fire the past decade and the returns have been gushing in, with IPOs like Datadog, direct listings like Slack and acquisitions like Qualtrics (which is now being spun back o...
05:46 pm GMT - Mon, August 3, 2020
Techcrunch The essential revenue software stack
Remote-virtual-digital work is going to be a key part of the playbook forever, and the essential revenue software stack is the best way to set up your teams for success....
05:26 pm GMT - Mon, August 3, 2020
Techcrunch Register for Disrupt to take part in our content series for Digital Startup Alley exhibitors
Theres no better way to expose your early-stage startup to global opportunities were talking thousands of potential investors, customers, tech journalists and other mighty influencers than by exhibi...
05:19 pm GMT - Mon, August 3, 2020
Techcrunch Google signs up six more partners for its digital banking platform coming to Google Pay
Google is expanding its plans to offer digital banking services in the U.S. The company announced today it’s partnering with half a dozen more banks to offer digital checking and savings account...
05:00 pm GMT - Mon, August 3, 2020
Techcrunch Reminder: Annual Extra Crunch members can save 20% on Disrupt passes
Calling all Extra Crunch annual and two-year members! Did you know that as a part of your membership plan, you can get a 20% discount on a Disrupt 2020 pass? Disrupt is our largest and most ambitious ...
04:35 pm GMT - Mon, August 3, 2020
Techcrunch Made in America is on (government) life support, and the prognosis isnt good
Intel and Boeing, two of the pillars of American industry. Intel makes some of the most impressive chips in the world and has for decades, driving high-performance computing to its limits while suppor...
04:27 pm GMT - Mon, August 3, 2020
Techcrunch Amid pandemic, returning to offices remains an open question for tech leaders
As COVID-19 infections surge in parts of the U.S., many workplaces remain empty or are operating with skeleton crews. Most agree that the decision to return to the office should involve a combination ...
04:27 pm GMT - Mon, August 3, 2020
Techcrunch Lordstown Motors becomes latest EV automaker to use a SPAC to go public
Lordstown Motors, the one-year-old Ohio electric automaker that revealed a pickup truck prototype in June, has reached a deal to merge with special-purpose acquisition company DiamondPeak Holdings Cor...
04:11 pm GMT - Mon, August 3, 2020
Techcrunch Virgin Orbit to fly 11 satellites for NASA on second orbital launch demo later this year
Virgin Orbit’s first attempt at an orbital launch demo may not have gone entirely to plan (the LauncherOne rocket released as planned but its flight was cut short just after that), but it has bo...
03:52 pm GMT - Mon, August 3, 2020
Techcrunch Is the 2020 SPAC boom an echo of the 2017 ICO craze?
I wanted to write an essay about Microsoft and TikTok today, because I was effectively a full-time reporter covering the software giant when it hired Satya Nadella in 2014. But, everyone else has alre...
03:47 pm GMT - Mon, August 3, 2020
Techcrunch A few words for DHS agents who have no intention of becoming immigration whistleblowers
Not that YOU would use these resources, but it might be fun to look at them in a hypothetical, haha what if I were to expose gross injustices? kind of way....
03:43 pm GMT - Mon, August 3, 2020
Techcrunch Snapchat to take on TikTok with a new music-powered featuring rolling out this fall
Snapchat is taking aim at TikTok. The company announced today it will begin testing a new feature that lets Snapchat users set their Snaps to music, similar to TikTok’s app. The feature may allo...
03:43 pm GMT - Mon, August 3, 2020
Techcrunch Snapchat to take on TikTok with a new music-powered feature rolling out this fall
Snapchat is taking aim at TikTok. The company announced today it will begin testing a new feature that lets Snapchat users set their Snaps to music, similar to TikTok’s app. The feature may allo...
03:41 pm GMT - Mon, August 3, 2020
Techcrunch Boston Dynamics CEO Rob Playter is coming to Disrupt 2020 to talk robotics and automation
Back in January, Robert Playter became the CEO of Boston Dynamics. It was a momentous occasion, marking the companys first new CEO since its founding in the early 1990s when the company was founded by...
03:40 pm GMT - Mon, August 3, 2020
Techcrunch Founded by a lifelong house-flipper, Inspectify is a marketplace for home inspections and repairs
  Josh Jensen bought his first house in Peoria, Ill., when he was twenty three. He sold the house to pay for a business school and over the course of his tech career — first as a mechanical...
03:12 pm GMT - Mon, August 3, 2020
Techcrunch The 4a and 5 will be Googles first 5G-enabled Pixels
Surprise. The latest version of Googles budget Pixel device will be one of the first two to get its next-gen technology. Its an odd strategy, to be sure, but sometimes roadmaps work out like that, I g...
03:00 pm GMT - Mon, August 3, 2020
Techcrunch Googles budget Pixel 4a addresses its premium predecessors biggest problem
The Pixel line has always felt like more of an underdog product than one should reasonably expect from a corporation as massive as Google. After years of partnerships and Nexus devices, when Google fi...
02:56 pm GMT - Mon, August 3, 2020
Techcrunch Facebook launches commerce and connectivity-focused accelerator programs
Facebook launched two 12-week accelerator programs for startups on Monday as the social juggernaut looks for new ideas and solutions to expand its commerce and connectivity efforts. Facebooks Commerce...
02:51 pm GMT - Mon, August 3, 2020
Techcrunch Mobile banking startup Varo is becoming a real bank
Mobile banking startup Varo is becoming its own bank. The company announced on Friday it has been granted a national bank charter from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and secured r...
02:23 pm GMT - Mon, August 3, 2020
Techcrunch When building a startup, think like a buyer
Every CEO is in sales. Pitching investors, selling to customers, recruiting all-stars, courting acquirers: its all sales...
02:02 pm GMT - Mon, August 3, 2020
Techcrunch Equity Monday: Could Satya and TikTok make Bytedance investors happy enough to dance?
Hello and welcome back toEquity, TechCrunchs venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This is Equity Monday, our weekly kickoff that tracks the latest big news...
01:39 pm GMT - Mon, August 3, 2020
Techcrunch OneKey wants to make it easier to work without a desktop by integrating apps into mobile keyboards
“The app that you use the most on your phone and you don’t realize it is your keyboard,” says Christophe Barre the co-founder and chief executive of OneKey. A member of Y Combinator&...
01:00 pm GMT - Mon, August 3, 2020
Techcrunch YC-backed Artifact looks to make podcasts more personal
Historically, podcasts have been focused on appealing to as many listeners as possible. But Artifact, a new YC-backed company launching today, has a different idea. It all started when cofounder and C...
12:59 pm GMT - Mon, August 3, 2020
Techcrunch Y Combinators Kuleana is making an animal-free substitute for raw tuna
Companies like Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat that are making vegetable-based meat substitutes have captured the imagination and wallets of consumers, but so far, there’s been no real corollar...
12:31 pm GMT - Mon, August 3, 2020
Techcrunch Facebook fights order to globally block accounts linked to Brazilian election meddling
Facebook has branded a legal order to globally block a number of Brazilian accounts linked to the spread of political disinformation targeting the country’s 2018 election as “extreme”...
12:00 pm GMT - Mon, August 3, 2020
Techcrunch Adobes plans for an online content attribution standard could have big implications for misinformation
Adobe’s work on technical solution to combat online misinformation at scale, still in its early stages, is taking some big steps toward its lofty goal of becoming an industry standard. The proje...
11:33 am GMT - Mon, August 3, 2020
Techcrunch Chinese internet users brand ByteDance CEO a traitor as TikTok seeks US buyer
ByteDance is not backing down from its ambitions to become a global technology powerhouse, even as TikTok loses its largest market India and faces insurmountable challenges in the US. But some in Chin...
11:13 am GMT - Mon, August 3, 2020
Techcrunch Virgin Galactic debuts design of future Mach 3 high-speed aircraft, signs deal with Rolls-Royce
Virgin Galactic is making strides towards its goal of creating high-speed commercial aircraft that operates a little closer to Earth than its existing passenger spacecraft. The company revealed the in...
11:09 am GMT - Mon, August 3, 2020
Techcrunch Metro Bank is acquiring peer-to-peer lender RateSetter for up to 12M
Incumbent banks acquiring fintechs is nothing new, and amidst the coronavirus crisis, we can likely expect to see that trend continue. The latest such move comes from publicly-listed Metro Bank which ...
10:28 am GMT - Mon, August 3, 2020
Techcrunch Google to invest $450M in smart home security solutions provider ADT
Google said on Monday it will invest $450 million in ADT and work with the Florida-headquartered firm’s 20,000 technicians to sell and install the search giant’s Nest family of smart home ...
03:18 am GMT - Mon, August 3, 2020
Techcrunch Pompeo says U.S. may take action against TikTok and other Chinese tech companies shortly
Days after President Donald Trump announced he could use an executive order to ban TikTok from the United States, Secretary of State Michael Pompeo said the administration is “closing in on a so...
11:47 pm GMT - Sun, August 2, 2020
Techcrunch Microsoft pursuing TikTok purchase by September 15th, may invite U.S. investors to deal
Microsoft has posted a statement today on its corporate blog that says it will continue discussions on a potential TikTok purchase in the U.S.. As a part of the statement, it says that it may invite o...
06:52 pm GMT - Sun, August 2, 2020
Techcrunch SpaceX and NASA successfully return Crew Dragon spacecraft to Earth with astronauts on board
SpaceX and NASA have made history once again, successfully completing the crucial final phase of their Demo-2 mission for the Crew Dragon spacecraft, SpaceX’s first spacecraft made for human fli...
05:21 pm GMT - Sun, August 2, 2020
Techcrunch It looks like Sequoia has hired a second partner in Europe: Revolut product lead George Robson
Silicon Valley venture capital firm Sequoia Capital recently set up shop in Europe after hiring Luciana Lixandru away from Accel’s London office. Now, according to a tweet by Revolut product lea...
05:21 pm GMT - Sun, August 2, 2020
Techcrunch Sequoia has hired a second partner in Europe: Revolut product lead George Robson
Silicon Valley venture capital firm Sequoia Capital recently set up shop in Europe after hiring Luciana Lixandru away from Accel’s London office. Now, according to a tweet by Revolut product lea...
03:00 pm GMT - Sun, August 2, 2020
Techcrunch AI is struggling to adjust to 2020
Identifying the new context were asking the system to understand is the first step towards moving visual AI forward. Then we need more content....
02:30 pm GMT - Sun, August 2, 2020
Techcrunch Future Fields is tackling cultured meats biggest problem
One possible solution to cellular agriculture’s biggest problem — how to develop a cheap, humane, growth material for cultured meat — may have come from a conversation in line at a T...
01:00 pm GMT - Sun, August 2, 2020
Techcrunch The Station: ADA turns 30, Panasonics new battery tech and delivery (data) woes
The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation.Sign up here just click The Station to receive it every Saturday in your inbox. Hello and welcome back to The Station, a new...
12:42 pm GMT - Sun, August 2, 2020
Techcrunch Watch SpaceXs Crew Dragon splash down in the Atlantic Ocean live as astronauts return to Earth
SpaceX and NASA are getting ready to complete their most important joint mission to date Crew Dragon Demo-2, which is the culmination of the partners’ work on their Commercial Crew program desi...
11:37 pm GMT - Sat, August 1, 2020
Techcrunch Astronauts successfully depart the ISS aboard SpaceX Dragon, starting their trip home
NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley have successfully undocked from the International Space Station, which is the first crucial stage of their return to Earth. Next, they’ll travel on a ...
08:31 pm GMT - Sat, August 1, 2020
Techcrunch As threats to the company mount, TikTok pushes back
As TikTok’s existential rollercoaster ride continues to rattle on, the company is trying to sway regulators and the public with a flood of dollars and arguments wrapped in free enterprise and fr...
08:17 pm GMT - Sat, August 1, 2020
Techcrunch The Exchange: Unicorn IPOs, tech earnings and my favorite VC round from the week
The TechCrunch Exchange newsletter just launched. Soon only a partial version will hit the site, so sign up to get the full download. Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-mar...
06:58 pm GMT - Sat, August 1, 2020
Techcrunch Gillmor Gang: 3 Weeks Ago
The Gillmor Gang Frank Radice, Michael Markman, Keith Teare, Denis Pombriant, Brent Leary, and Steve Gillmor . Recorded live Saturday, July 11, 2020. For more, subscribe free to the Gillmor Gang News...
06:00 pm GMT - Sat, August 1, 2020
Techcrunch Startups Weekly: Qualtrics IPO to be even more exciting this time around
Editors note:Get this free weekly recap of TechCrunch news that any startup can use by email every Saturday morning (7am PT).Subscribe here. German software giant SAP bought experience management plat...
03:17 pm GMT - Sat, August 1, 2020
Techcrunch TikTok says its not planning on going anywhere in response to pending U.S. ban
TikTok’s U.S. General Manager Vanessa Pappas has posted a video message to the platform that appears to be a response to reports from Friday that President Trump is working on an effective ̶...
03:16 pm GMT - Sat, August 1, 2020
Techcrunch What brands need to do if they want to break up with Facebook
With more than 90 major advertisers and counting announcing plans to dump Facebook, a significant question lingers: Where will brands go next for their digital marketing needs?...
02:23 pm GMT - Sat, August 1, 2020
Techcrunch This Week in Apps: A guide to the US antitrust case against Apple, Microsoft in talks to buy TikTok
This week, we're focused on rounding up the news from the U.S. antitrust investigation into Apple, as it pertains to apps, the App Store and developers....
02:00 pm GMT - Sat, August 1, 2020
Techcrunch Tech at Work: Amazon caravan protest, Genderifys algorithmic bias and using BIPOC
Welcome back to Tech at Work, where we look at labor, diversity and inclusion. Given the amount of activity in this space, we’re going to ramp this up from bi-weekly to weekly. This week, weR...
01:54 pm GMT - Sat, August 1, 2020
Techcrunch ByteDance and Microsoft offer deal to allow TikTok to remain in the U.S., per report
China’s ByteDance has agreed to divest its TikTok operations in the US, according to a report in Reuters. Under the deal, Microsoft would take over stewardship of the data of U.S.-based users. T...
01:54 pm GMT - Sat, August 1, 2020
Techcrunch ByteDance and Microsoft deal for TikTok to stay in the U.S. is waiting for a White House ruling
Update 8/1 1:30PM PT:The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the deal ByteDance and Microsoft were pitching as a way to keep TikTok running as a U.S. company here in the states is on hold. The reaso...
01:54 pm GMT - Sat, August 1, 2020
Techcrunch ByteDance and Microsoft deal for TikTok to stay in the U.S. waits for White House ruling
Update 8/1 1:30PM PT:The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the deal ByteDance and Microsoft were pitching as a way to keep TikTok running as a U.S. company here in the states is on hold. The reaso...
01:09 pm GMT - Sat, August 1, 2020
Techcrunch Watch live as SpaceX brings NASA astronauts back from the Space Station aboard Crew Dragon
SpaceX and NASA are now in the final stages of preparation for the conclusion of its Demo-2 Crew Dragon mission, which will see astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley depart the International Space St...
01:00 pm GMT - Sat, August 1, 2020
Techcrunch Original Content podcast: Netflixs Say I Do offers a wedding-focused twist on the Queer Eye formula
Parts of “Say I Do,” a new reality series on Netflix, will feel pretty familiar to fans of the streaming service’s popular reboot of “Queer Eye.” Like “Queer Eye,&#...
10:34 am GMT - Sat, August 1, 2020
Techcrunch Apples partners and Samsung apply for Indias $6.6 billion local smartphone production program
South Korean giant Samsung, Apples contract manufacturing partners Foxconn, Wistron and Pegatron, and Indian smartphone vendors Micromax and Lava among others have applied for Indias $6.6 billion ince...
03:05 am GMT - Sat, August 1, 2020
Techcrunch Trump told reporters he will use executive power to ban TikTok
President Donald Trump said he could act to ban the world’s most popular short video app TikTok from the US as early as Saturday, according to The Hill. The president said he could use “em...
12:03 am GMT - Sat, August 1, 2020
Techcrunch Disrupt 2020 early-bird savings extended until next week
Even the hard-charging world of early-stage startups has its share of procrastinators, lollygaggers, slow-pokes, wafflers and last-minute decision makers. If thats your demographic, today is your luck...
10:31 pm GMT - Fri, July 31, 2020
Techcrunch Twitter survey reveals the subscription options its eyeing, including an Undo Send button
Earlier this month, Twitter told investors it’s considering a subscription model as a means of generating additional revenue to support its business. Now we know what sort of value-add features ...
10:10 pm GMT - Fri, July 31, 2020
Techcrunch Daily Crunch: Florida teen arrested in Twitter hack
Three arrests are made following this month’s celebrity Twitter hack, Microsoft may be working to acquire TikTok’s U.S. business and Facebook launches licensed music videos. Here’s y...
10:05 pm GMT - Fri, July 31, 2020
Techcrunch Even as cloud infrastructure growth slows, revenue rises over $30B for quarter
The cloud market is coming into its own during the pandemic as the novel coronavirus forced many companies to accelerate plans to move to the cloud, even while the market was beginning to mature on it...
09:40 pm GMT - Fri, July 31, 2020
Techcrunch How one moonshot VC approaches investing in the COVID-19 era
"If you only draw upon 20% of the population for that talent, you're missing out on people who are going to create these watershed things that do have a different perspective."...
08:01 pm GMT - Fri, July 31, 2020
Techcrunch Rocket Lab clear to launch again after first mission failure attributed to electrical fault
Rocket Lab has received clearance to launch from the FAA following the failure of its Electron rocket on July 4 and the loss of the half-dozen satellites on board. “This was a very, very sneaky ...
07:11 pm GMT - Fri, July 31, 2020
Techcrunch The leading arguments for a Microsoft-TikTok tie-up
Here they are, ranked by how much weight we put behind them:  ...
06:58 pm GMT - Fri, July 31, 2020
Techcrunch Florida teen accused of being mastermind behind celebrity Twitter hack
Hillsborough State Attorney Andrew Warren announced today that he has filed 30 felony charges against a 17-year-old resident of Tampa, Florida, who was described by Warren’s office as “the...
06:55 pm GMT - Fri, July 31, 2020
Techcrunch First US apps based on Google and Apple Exposure Notification System expected in coming weeks
Google Vice President of Engineering Dave Burke provided an update about the Exposure Notifications System (ENS) that Google developed in partnership with Apple as a way to help public health authorit...
06:52 pm GMT - Fri, July 31, 2020
Techcrunch Delightree raises $3M to help franchise business owners simplify their operations
Owning one brick-and-mortar business seems complicated enough. But running multiple locations? For many owners, that’s a constant juggling act of phone calls, check lists and driving back and fo...
06:47 pm GMT - Fri, July 31, 2020
Techcrunch Report: Microsoft in talks to buy TikToks US business from Chinas ByteDance
President Trump has plans to order China’s ByteDance, the owner of hit social video app TikTok, to divest from the company, according to new reporting from Bloomberg. The app is increasingly a t...
06:07 pm GMT - Fri, July 31, 2020
Techcrunch Secret documents from US antitrust probe reveal big techs plot to control or crush the competition
Nearly 500 pages of evidence were made public during the House Judiciary’s marathon hearing this week on potential anti-competitive actions by Amazon, Facebook, Google and Apple. We’ve col...
04:48 pm GMT - Fri, July 31, 2020
Techcrunch Cisco acquires Modcam to make Meraki smart camera portfolio even smarter
As the Internet of Things proliferates, security cameras are getting smarter. Today, these devices have machine learning capability that helps the camera automatically identify what it’s looking...
04:17 pm GMT - Fri, July 31, 2020
Techcrunch Australia now has a template for forcing Facebook and Google to pay for news
Australia is closing in on a legally binding framework to force adtech giants Facebook and Google pay media companies for monetizing their news content when it’s posted to their social media pla...
03:59 pm GMT - Fri, July 31, 2020
Techcrunch Facebook will launch officially licensed music videos in the US starting this weekend
Facebook today confirmed it will begin rolling out official music videos across its platform in the U.S., as TechCrunch first reported, as well as introduce a new Music destination within Facebook Wat...
03:30 pm GMT - Fri, July 31, 2020
Techcrunch Its not an Apple Watch, its an Oppo Watch
Behold, the Opple Watch. Many have borrowed heavily from Apples wearable, but few, if any, have done so as brazenly as Oppo. Sure Fitbit received some guff for the squircle hardware design of its Vers...
03:00 pm GMT - Fri, July 31, 2020
Techcrunch Mammoth Biosciencess CRISPR-based COVID-19 test receives NIH fundings through RADx program
CRISPR tech startup Mammoth Biosciences is among the companies that revealed backing from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Rapid Accleration of Diagnostics (RADx) program on Friday. Mammoth rec...
03:00 pm GMT - Fri, July 31, 2020
Techcrunch Mammoth Biosciencess CRISPR-based COVID-19 test receives NIH funding through RADx program
CRISPR tech startup Mammoth Biosciences is among the companies that revealed backing from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx) program on Friday. Mammoth re...
03:00 pm GMT - Fri, July 31, 2020
Techcrunch Genomics startup Helix receives $33 million in NIH funding to scale COVID-19 testing
The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) is revealing the first beneficiaries of its Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx) program, and San Mateo-based Helix is on the receiving end of $33 mill...
02:36 pm GMT - Fri, July 31, 2020
Techcrunch Working to understand Affirms reported IPO pricing hopes
News broke last night that Affirm, a well-known fintech unicorn, could approach the public markets at a valuation of $5 to $10 billion. The Wall Street Journal, which broke the news, said that Affirm ...
02:00 pm GMT - Fri, July 31, 2020
Techcrunch Recruiting for diversity in VC
Like many industries with a high concentration of wealth and the careers that help professionals accumulate it investment firms have a severe dearth of diversity in their ranks....
01:15 pm GMT - Fri, July 31, 2020
Techcrunch Opportunities (and challenges) in church tech
Americans are rapidly becoming less religious, but now might be the perfect time for church tech to thrive....
01:02 pm GMT - Fri, July 31, 2020
Techcrunch Last day for early bird savings to Disrupt 2020
Its officially now oclock startup fans. All good things come to an end, and todays the last day you can score an early bird pass to Disrupt 2020.Dont miss your chance to save up to $300 and get busy b...
01:02 pm GMT - Fri, July 31, 2020
Techcrunch Last day for early-bird savings to Disrupt 2020
Its officially now oclock startup fans. All good things come to an end, and todays the last day you can score an early-bird pass to Disrupt 2020.Dont miss your chance to save up to $300 and get busy b...
01:00 pm GMT - Fri, July 31, 2020
Techcrunch The iron rule of founder compensation is dead
Hello and welcome back toEquity, TechCrunchs venture capital-focused podcast (now on Twitter!), where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. We had the full team this week: Myself, Danny, and Nat...
11:43 am GMT - Fri, July 31, 2020
Techcrunch Amazon gains FCC approval for Kuiper internet satellite constellation and commits $10 billion to the project
Amazon has received approval from the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to launch and operate a planned constellation of 3,236 internet satellites. That’s the backbone of Amazon’...
11:36 am GMT - Fri, July 31, 2020
Techcrunch Twitter finally bans former KKK leader, David Duke
Twitter has confirmed it has permanently banned the account of David Duke, former leader of white supremacist hate group the Ku Klux Klan. Duke had operated freely on its platform for years — am...
08:45 am GMT - Fri, July 31, 2020
Techcrunch Twitter says phone spear phishing attack used to gain network access in crypto scam breach
Twitter has revealed a little more detail about the security breach it suffered earlier this month when a number of high profile accounts were hacked to spread a cryptocurrency scam — writing in...
01:02 am GMT - Fri, July 31, 2020
Techcrunch Ford Bronco reservations surpass 150,000
The reception to Bronco 2021 Fords flagship series of 44 vehicles that were revealed earlier this month surpassed expectations of the company’s most optimistic initial projections, CEO Jim Hac...
12:41 am GMT - Fri, July 31, 2020
Techcrunch Self-driving startup Argo AI hits $7.5 billion valuation
Autonomous vehicle technology startup Argo AI is valued at $7.5 billion, just a little more than three years after the company burst on the scene with a $1 billion investment from Ford. The official v...