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Chattermill raises £600K to use ‘deep learning’ to help companies make sense of customer feedback
Chattermill, a London-based startup that uses ‘deep learning’ to help companies make better sense of customer feedback, has raised £600,000 in seed funding. Backing comes…
Patreon’s new service fee spurs concern that creators will lose patrons
Patreon announced a new service fee policy that it says will help creators keep more money, but many are worried because they believe it will…
Facebook co-founder’s B Capital leads $10M investment in Indian payment startup Mswipe
B Capital, the investment firm from Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin that is backed by BCG, has stepped into India after it backed smart point-of-sale company…
WorldRemit nabs $40M at a $670M valuation to boost its money transfer business
WorldRemit, a London-based startup with some 2 million users that offers a quick way for people to send money to each other with a focus…
Bitcoin mining marketplace NiceHash loses tens of millions of dollars following hack
Bitcoin is flying sky high after crossing the $14,000 mark for the first time, but one projected aimed at helping mine coins is short of…
Okta reports earnings, moves headquarters and launches free service for startups
It was a big day for online identity management provider, Okta. After reporting better-than-expected third-quarter earnings, the company also made a slew of announcements. Okta,…
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 845 focuses on AI, VR and battery life
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ProtonMail encrypted mail service adds support for Apple Mail, Outlook and Thunderbird
Mr. Robot’s email service of choice just expanded its support for a handful of popular email clients. ProtonMail just introduced a new tool, called ProtonMail…
Facebook’s former Oculus Story Studio team isn’t done quite yet
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As Cook and Pichai leave China, Valley confronts rising internet tyranny in world’s second largest market
It’s been a bad few months for internet freedom in China (and really a bad few decades, but who is counting?). The government brought into…
New Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen brings her cybersecurity focus to domestic defense
After a Senate vote on Tuesday, Kirstjen Nielsen has now been confirmed as John Kelly’s replacement to lead the Department of Homeland Security. The top…
Leesa mattresses are now in Pottery Barn
You can now find Leesa mattresses, one of the many mattress-in-a-box startups, at Pottery Barn online. Pottery Barn parent company Williams-Sonoma announced the partnership today,…
Lyft’s self-driving pilot with nuTonomy begins rolling out in Boston
Lyft is beginning its self-driving car pilot with self-driving car company nuTonomy in Boston as it looks to ramp up its self-driving efforts, and is…
9 of the most ridiculous pet gifts for your fur-loving friends
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Sonos and Ikea are collaborating on sound products for the home
Sonos and Ikea just announced a new collaboration to “create future home sound experiences”. The companies say they want to make it easier to play…
Latest Google Sheets release helps automate pivot table creation
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Watch Pitch@Palace Global live right here
The Duke of York will be at St. James’s Palace today for #pitchatpalace Global. Pitch@Palace Global brings together entrepreneurs from 2017 Pitch@Palace events that took place in…
Blockchain browser Brave makes push to reward content makers and YouTubers
Brave, the blockchain-based browser initiative that raised $35 million in an ICO earlier this year, is making its first major move to build an ecosystem…
Lytro’s ‘living pictures’ cease to live
As part of its move away from consumer gear towards professional cinema hardware, Lytro has killed off the site that once hosted “living pictures,” still…
Gomer is a soft robot that can bother your cat
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Looks like HQ Trivia is coming to Android
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Oath and Mozilla are suing each other after Firefox switches back to Google search
Firefox’s default search engine has become the subject of a hotly contested legal battle, a few weeks after Mozilla announced it would be moving from…
ClassPass will soon help you break a sweat at home with ClassPass Live
ClassPass is today introducing a new layer to its business with ClassPass Live. Taking a hint from Peloton, ClassPass is now letting users work out…
Inflect raises $3M seed round to make buying internet infrastructure easier
Inflect, a startup that wants to make it easier for businesses to buy their own internet infrastructure, today announced that it has raised a $3…
With the Los Angeles tech scene exploding, CrossCut Ventures raises $125 million to invest
CrossCut Ventures, a Los Angeles-based seed investment firm has just closed its fourth (and largest) fund with $125 million in new cash. It’s been a…
PerceptIn has raised $11 million to help robotic vacuums and self-driving cars see
PerceptIn’s been operating mostly behind the scenes since launching in March of last year. Even so, the company has managed to raise a decent chunk…
Pokémon GO’s gameplay will soon change based on the real world weather around you
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Pokémon GO will get 50+ new Gen III Pokémon this week
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Amazon Prime Video finally lands on Apple TV
Tim Cook said six months ago Amazon Prime Video was coming to Apple TV sometime before the end of the year. And here it is:…
Amazon launches its Prime membership service in Singapore
Amazon is increasing its focus on Southeast Asia after the e-commerce giant launched its Prime service in Singapore. The U.S. firm landed in Singapore, its…
PiTunnel connects your Raspberry Pi to the world
Raspberry Pis are usually very lonely. These tiny, single-board computers sit quietly under desks or inside 3D printed cases, staring wistfully into the far distance…
Viola FinTech is a new $100M Israel-based VC fund targeting fintech startups around the world
Viola, the Israel-based technology investment group, is launching new independent VC fund targeting fintech startups from anywhere in the world. Dubbed Viola FinTech, the “cross-stage…
Health2Sync raises $6M to expand its diabetes tracking and management service in Asia
Health2Sync, a Taiwan-headquartered company that offers a diabetes tracking service, has closed a $6 million Series B round aimed at expanding its business in Japan…
For some reason Tim Cook thinks China will allow VPNs to return to the App Store
This year has seen Apple widely criticized for aiding China’s censorship push by removing VPN apps from its App Store in China. Company CEO Tim…
Google launches a data-friendly search app for users in emerging markets
Google is continuing its push to make its services accessible for people with lower-end mobile devices or slow internet connections after it introduced Google Go,…
These are the 10 best tech companies to work for in the U.S., according to Glassdoor
Glassdoor just released its top 100 U.S.-based companies to work for next year. Since we cover technology over here at TechCrunch, we broke out the…
Microsoft shows off Windows PCs that run on Qualcomm chips
Intel’s stumbles in the mobile arena grew to become Qualcomm’s gains with its Snapdragon platform, but now it appears that Qualcomm intends to upend their…
Why America could miss out big time on India’s fintech revolution
There’s an old trope in the West that India is like Indian trains — exotic, lurching and slow. But tropes can be bad as a…
The Snapdragon 845 is Qualcomm’s next flagship processor
It was a busy day in Maui as Qualcomm kicked off this year’s Snapdragon Tech Summit. The San Diego chipmaker announced a two-in-one PC form…
Microsoft’s collaborative Whiteboard app is now available for Windows 10 users
When it announced the new Surface Pro a few months back, Microsoft also used the opportunity to preview Whiteboard, a Windows 10 app designed to…
Foursquare VP of business development Mike Harkey has left for Google
Foursquare’s VP of business development Mike Harkey, who has been with the company for more than 5 years, has left to join Google as its…
Intuit’s “rise of the rest” M&A strategy means large paydays outside the Valley
This morning, Frederic reported that Intuit has acquired Tsheets, a time-tracking service, for $340 million. That’s one of the highest prices that Intuit has ever…
As tbh popularity wanes, Facebook launches ‘Did You Know’ social questionnaire
Facebook wants you to share a bit more about yourself on your profile, so today it’s launching a new feature to web and mobile users…
Apple introduces a new pay-per-install ad product called Search Ads Basic
Apple today is introducing a new way for app developers to acquire users for their apps: it’s launching a pay-per-install advertising product called Search Ads…
Africa Roundup: ToLet Acquires JumiaHouse NG, Facebook announces NG_Hub, Interswitch IPO Update
Lagos based online real estate startup ToLet.com.ng acquired Jumia House Nigeria for an undisclosed amount. Jumia House is a subsidiary of the continent’s lone tech…
Microsoft launches Windows 10 on ARM, with HP and ASUS promising 20+ hours of battery life
Windows laptops and tablets have traditionally run on X86 processors from the likes of Intel and AMD. Microsoft experimented with using ARM-based processors when it…
Google is pulling YouTube from Echo Show and Fire TV, as feud with Amazon continues
Amazon and Google’s feud continues today, as Google is pulling its YouTube app – again – from Amazon’s Alexa-powered Echo Show device. This will be…
‘Wolverine: The Long Night’ is Marvel’s first scripted podcast
Having conquered just about every other form of media, Marvel’s getting into the scripted podcasting game. Launching in Spring of next year, ’Wolverine: The Long…
Mashable laying off 50 people as it refocuses toward tech news after fire sale to Ziff Davis
Publishing conglomerate Ziff Davis has officially bought online news site Mashable for a mere $50 million, according to Recode. The all-out sale of Mashable comes…
Shervin Pishevar takes immediate leave of absence from Hyperloop One and Sherpa Capital
Shervin Pishevar, co-founder of Sherpa Capital and co-founder of Hyperloop One, is taking an immediate leave of absence from both companies, as well as from…
Pinterest integrates deeper with Facebook with a new bot and messenger extension
As Pinterest looks to further expand beyond just the audience you’d expect to use it, it’s going to have to start chasing down users and…
Lyft increases latest funding round by $500M to $1.5B
Lyft just announced that it has added an additional $500 million to its most recent funding round, a $1 billion raise announced in October. The…
Rico-owned Henchman acquires Jinn’s app, will rebrand to ‘new on-demand concierge’ early next year
Jinn, the London on-demand delivery startup that shut down and was put into administration after being unable to pay creditors, has found a buyer for…
Apple buys podcast search startup Pop Up Archive
Apple’s played a central role in podcast since its earliest days — heck, even the term was borrowed from its big hardware product at the…
Pivotal has something for everyone in the latest Cloud Foundry Platform release
Pivotal wants to be the development platform that serves everyone, and today at their SpringOne Platform (S1P) developer conference in San Francisco, they announced a…
Amagi launches its cloud-based TV delivery platform in the U.S.
Amagi, a startup trying to rethink the way TV broadcasters deliver their content, is launching in the United States. As a TV viewer, you may…
Watch Ultrahaptics use ultrasound to let you feel imaginary objects
Ultrahaptics lets you touch what you see in virtual and augmented reality, or even give a 2D poster 3D feeling. It uses small speaker-like ultrasound…
And the winner of Startup Battlefield at Disrupt Berlin 2017 is… Lia Diagnostics
Startups participating in the Startup Battlefield have all been hand-picked to participate in our highly competitive startup competition. They all presented in front of multiple…
Netflix’s choose-your-own-adventure shows will now also aim at adults
Netflix has been experimenting with TV shows that provide an element of interactivity, allowing viewers to alter the course of the program by choosing among…
French peer-to-peer payment app Lydia adds Apple Pay support
A peer-to-peer payment app that works similarly to Venmo from startup Lydia in France now works with Apple Pay (a feature originally announced in July),…
Fitbit’s Ionic smartwatch is getting 60 new apps including Yelp, Uber and Deezer
A lack of apps wasn’t my biggest issue with the Fitbit Ionic — but it was up there. The inclusion of a third-party app store…
Instagram lets you Archive expired Stories and Highlight favorites on your profile
Instagram is copying Snapchat’s Memories feature and going a step further, letting you create a permanent home to show off formerly ephemeral content. Rolling out…
Hope grows that a larger SEC crackdown on ICOs is coming — and soon
That wait-and-see stance looks to evolve into much more action 2018, suggest those who’ve either spoken with the Securities & Exchange Commission or otherwise have…
Nissan will kick off self-driving Leaf EV taxi service test in March
Nissan is the latest automaker to make its autonomous vehicle testing intentions clear – it’ll begin a pilot of self-driving Nissan Leaf electric vehicles that…
CoreOS Tectonic 1.8 makes it easy to plug external services into Kubernetes
CoreOS announced Tectonic 1.8, its latest update of the popular Kubernetes container orchestration tool. It features a new open services catalog that enables DevOps personnel…
Volocopter: Expect our flying taxis running for real in “two to three years”
So how far out are flying cars that you can actually hail via an app, get inside and be whisked off to your destination? Germany…
Consumer spending across app stores worldwide to top $110 billion in 2018
Consumer spending on all mobile app stores will surpass $110 billion in 2018, according to a new report from App Annie, out today, which forecasts…
Assa Abloy finalizes purchase of smart lock maker August Home
Swedish lock maker Assa Abloy completed its acquisition of August Home this week. The deal, first announced back in October, has the U.S.-based smart lock…
The company behind Dots is changing CEOs
Playdots, the company that lets gamers play with Dots, will soon have a new CEO as co-founder and current COO Patrick Moberg takes over for…
XPrize’s $5 million AI competition is down to 59 teams
A year after launching, the IBM Watson-sponsored AI XPrize has been whittled down to 59 teams. That number’s down from 147 in May, which, in…
Joy raises $7M for a smart photo album that will cost you $499
Smartphones have made flipping through photo albums a relic of the past. It’s easy to peruse and share a digital photo archive, but some people…
Earny raises $9M to refund your purchases when prices drop
Have you ever bought something only to see it go on sale the next day? It may seem like bad luck, but you’re often still…
Nvidia’s Shield TV offers Wii and GameCube games in HD in China
Nvidia just rolled out a very interesting selection of software for its over-the-top Shield TV box in China – Wii games, running in 1080p resolution, including…
Pi Charging raises $11.4 million to fix wireless charging
Pi Charging, the company that won at TechCrunch Disrupt SF with its wireless charging tech, has closed a series A round of $11.4 million dollars.…
Intuit acquires time-tracking service TSheets for $340M
Intuit, the company behind products like QuickBooks and TurboTax, today announced that it has acquired TSheets, a time-tracking service and employee scheduling app with over…
Revolut merges mobile banking with cryptocurrency trading
Revolut is merging traditional banking and cryptocurrency to let you buy, sell, trade, and hold Bitcoin, Litecoin, and Ether alongside 25 world fiat currencies. The…
ResearchGate CEO denies scraping accounts from rival site to generate sign-ups
Ijad Madisch, co-founder and CEO of ResearchGate – the so-called Facebook for scientists – shot down an accusation about a questionable way it may have…
Former Disrupt Battlefield competitor Coronet automates security for SMBs in latest update
Coronet, a startup that launched as part of the TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield competition in New York City in 2015, announced the release of the latest…
Kespry lands $33M Series C as industrial drone business use cases continue to expand
Kespry, the industrial drone startup, announced a fresh infusion of cash today in the form of a $33M Series C. It brings the total raised…
IBM’s new Power9 chip was built for AI and machine learning
In a world that requires increasing amounts of compute power to handle the resource-intensive demands of workloads like artificial intelligence and machine learning, IBM enters…
Intel and Hyper partner with the OpenStack Foundation to launch the Kata Containers project
It’s no secret that the OpenStack Foundation has been looking to branch out beyond its eponymous cloud infrastructure project, which, until now, was always its…
With your help, Code First: Girls wants to teach 20,000 young women to code by 2020
Today the organisation is upping the stakes, kicking off a campaign to teach 20,000 young women in the U.K. and Ireland how to code for…
CEO of automation company ABB says we shouldn’t fear automation
Here’s a surprise: at our Disrupt Berlin event, Ulrich Spiesshofer, the CEO of 125-year old automation giant ABB, argued that automation is nothing to fear.…
Zeta Global acquires commenting service Disqus
Marketing tech company Zeta Global is making good use of its recent $140 million Series F funding round. After acquiring Boomtrain, the company today announced…
Digital ethicist James Williams talks about the rise of bad social media
James Williams is a doctoral candidate at the Oxford Internet Institute. He studies the ethics of attention and persuasion in technology design and spoke with…
Amazon brings its Handmade items to Prime Now through the holidays
Amazon announced today it’s expanding its product selection on Prime Now, its one and two-hour delivery service, to now include last-minute holiday gifts with the…
The menopause is on our roadmap, says Clue’s Ida Tin
Femtech startup Clue is looking at expanding the feature-set of its period tracking app to attract women outside its current younger demographic. Read More
YouTube promises to increase content moderation staff to over 10K in 2018
Now that its bottom line is being affected, YouTube says it will begin to take additional steps to protect its advertisers and creators from inappropriate…
GM launches Marketplace for in-car shopping and reservations
GM is making it possible to shop right from your vehicle’s infotainment system, while on the go. The carmaker is pushing out an update for…
N26 launches a premium credit card for ‘the digital customer,’ partners with WeWork
N26, the European mobile banking service, today announced the launch of N26 Metal, the company’s premium Mastercard-affiliated credit card “tailored to the needs of digital…
Parity CEO is confident that $150M in frozen Ethereum isn’t lost forever
Earlier this year, Parity Technologies seemingly lost about $150 million worth of Ethereum (513,774.16 Ether) when a user of its wallet accidentally deleted a code…
Boom partners with Japan Airlines on supersonic commercial flight
Boom Supersonic wants to revitalize and improve the world of supersonic passenger flight, and it now has a new partner on board in its mission…
Watch Disrupt Berlin Day 2 LIVE right here!
Disrupt Berlin 2017 pushes onward, and today we have a jam-packed lineup of tech super stars. We’ll be joined on stage by Parrot’s Henri Seydoux,…
Spotify’s Wrapped feature is now live to break down your 2017 listening habits
Spotify’s annual Wrapped feature is now up to give users insights into what they streamed over the past twelve months. While obviously a promotion for…
Steve Case’s $150M Rise of the Rest seed fund launches with an impressive roster of investors
A long list of prominent American businesspeople have joined AOL co-founder Steve Case’s new Rise of the Rest seed fund for startups in the Midwest…
Google’s lightweight OS Android Go launches as Android Oreo (Go Edition)
Google’s made a number of tweaks since announcing Android Go back at I/O in May. The lightweight version is finally ready to launch, albeit with…
SEC’s new cyber unit takes its first action to halt an initial coin offering ‘scam’
The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged Canadian crypto company PlexCorp with violating securities laws by selling up to $15 million in an initial coin…
Apple Pay Cash starts rolling out to iPhone users in the US
Apple Pay Cash is finally starting to roll out to users in the States, bringing the ability to send other iOS users payments directly through…
The loss of first check investors
Victor Basta hit a nerve with his article on TechCrunch last week describing the “implosion” of venture capital over the past 36 months. Using PitchBook…
Meet the five finalists at the Disrupt Berlin Startup Battlefield
Disrupt is back in Berlin, where 15 teams have just taken the stage as part of the Startup Battlefield. Each startup demonstrated their product and…
Sheryl Sandberg says we need access to computer science education
At today’s Computer Science Education Week kickoff, the theme was women in coding. In the U.S., just 18 percent of computer science college graduates are…
New York Attorney General joins 27 senators to call for a delay of critical net neutrality vote
Today in a press conference, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman elaborated on his office’s efforts to investigate the FCC’s flood of fake anti-net neutrality…
Target launches its own mobile payments system with debut of ‘Wallet’
As promised earlier, Target today launched its own mobile payments system with the introduction of “Wallet” in the Target app. Wallet, as the name implies,…
You can now import your Instagram contacts into Messenger
Facebook and Instagram have begun testing a feature that allows you to more easily bring your Instagram contacts into Messenger. The experience, which is entirely…
House of Cards will resume production on final season early next year without Kevin Spacey
Popular Netflix political drama House of Cards is set to return to production early next year — but it will do so without its embattled…
Consensys Ventures has made its first four investments
A scant three months after its launch, the $50 million Consensys Ventures fund that was created to back companies developing applications on Ethereum (by Ethereum…
Kinin puts aromatherapy in your mouth
Kinin is a new portable aromatherapy vaporizer that, in theory, offers a refreshing break from THC and nicotine based vapes. Multi-use products let you inhale…
Ten predictions for digital media in 2018
In reaction to 2017’s sobering and frequently shocking negative societal forces, many digital media companies will take things even further by infusing their offline efforts…
Watch every panel from Disrupt Berlin 2017 Day 1
We’re here at Arena Berlin for Disrupt Berlin 2017, TechCrunch’s annual Europe event where our stage plays host to speaker panels featuring top figures in…
Justin Kan’s Atrium is starting a boot camp to help founders raise money
Raising a Series A is hard for a founder. Especially when you consider they’re usually doing it for the first time, while the VCs on…
Contentful, a Stripe for content management, raises $28M led by General Catalyst
There has been a veritable explosion of connected devices that people are using these days to interact with apps and the internet, from smartphones and…
So what if bitcoin is another bubble? The dot-com bubble gave us the modern internet
“I get asked a lot… is this another dot-com bubble” said Mona El Isa, the chief executive and co-founder of Melonport onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin.…
Blik brings warehouse logistics into the 21st century
Knowing what’s in your warehouse, where certain items are stored and where they are in the production process is highly valuable information for any manufacturer.…
Go body-hopping with Netflix’s next original sci-fi series on February 2
Netflix has a new sci-fi series coming that’s likely to please fans of the genre. The trailer for the show is now available, giving you…
Why scaling to the U.S. is way more complicated than it looks
Earlier today, at the TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin event, founder Timo Rein took the stage alongside venture capitalists Andy McLoughlin of the early-stage firm Uncork Capital…
WICASTR brings data to the edge
Content distribution is hard. You want to keep enough of it close enough to favorite customers so they don’t have to wait and reduce latency…
The Sun Exchange funds solar installations with micro-investments and bitcoin
Solar power could transform small communities around the world, but remote villages can’t always scrape together the thousands of dollars required to install the cells.…
Caspar Health makes rehabilitative care more accessible by putting treatment plans in an app
Caspar Health, a startup launching today at TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin, wants to make access to rehabilitative care easier and more accessible. The digital platform allows…
New spacesuit ‘go home’ function could save astronaut lives
New research from Draper into technology that could build a self-return system into spacesuits would produce a significant leap in astronaut safety during activities in…
Index on gender in VC: “It should be half”
European VC firm Index Capital is just over two decades old and has 200+ companies in its investment portfolio at this point — but it’s…
OnePlus celebrates ‘The Last Jedi’ with a limited edition Star Wars 5T
Star Wars has had a strange smartphone history. The franchise was a no brainer for the Motorola Droid — Verizon actually had to license the…
For founders and investors, it’s time for some “real talk” about money
Consciously or not, founders’ attitudes toward money play an enormous role in how they run their startups. These attitudes shape whether to bet on a…
Code.org raises $12 million from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and others
Code.org, the non-profit organization that aims to increase access to computer science education, has raised $12 million in philanthropic funding from the Bill and Melinda…
Broadcom piles fresh pressure on Qualcomm to talk takeover
Last month Qualcomm rejected a $70 per share acquisition offer from Broadcom — but the rival chipmaker isn’t stepping away. Today it’s announced it’s nominated a…
Auroom is an AI assistant for managers and meetings
Thanks to technology, making an audio recording of a meeting is a trivially easy task these days. While speech to text services can help tackle…
eTrack Tech has a mission to make manufacturing safer for small businesses
It took Barbara Timm-Brock one near-death experience and three career changes to bring her to the stage at TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin to launch eTrack Tech. Timm-Brock…