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SoftBank could still walk away from Uber
Uber said Sunday that it agreed to move forward on a proposed investment from SoftBank Group. But SoftBank Investment Advisors sent a statement to reporters…
Amazon is making a ‘Lord of the Rings’ prequel series
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Facebook launches collaborative Stories for Groups and Events
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Facebook Stories replaces Messenger Day with synced cross-posting
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Apple could launch a bigger iPhone X Plus next year, report says
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Missouri Attorney General launches an anti-trust investigation against Google
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Snapchat’s epic strategy flip-flop
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The CNCF just got 36 companies to agree to a Kubernetes certification standard
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SnapType makes it easy for kids with learning disabilities to do their homework
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Polish startup Displate raises raises 2 million Euro to decorate your abode
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ESPN launches a short-form version of SportsCenter on Snapchat
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Qualcomm rejects Broadcom’s $70 per share takeover offer
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Roomi raises $11 million to find you a roommate
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Lyft’s first market outside the U.S. will be Canada with a December launch in Toronto
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Spotify expands merch to beauty products, sells out tickets for Who We Be
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Female VCs from Sequoia, Cowboy, Benchmark and others launch female founder office hours
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Gaming firm Razer surges 41% following Hong Kong IPO
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Carrier billing startup Boku to raise £45M in London IPO November 20
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Former PhotoBox CEO Stan Laurent joins Highland Europe as Partner
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Startups and investors get connected at Disrupt Berlin with CrunchMatch
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Graphcore raises $50M amid a flurry of AI chip activity
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Uber confirms SoftBank has agreed to invest billions in Uber
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SoftBank looks to finalize Uber investment today
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Uber’s new Asia chief wants to work with governments and taxi firms not against them
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What it’s like cooking with meal kit startup Chef’d
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Imagining Instagram: Stories-first
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Robin goes all in on robotic lawn care and focuses on franchising
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China’s second largest e-commerce firm just showed Alibaba has serious competition
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Alibaba smashes its Single’s Day record once again as sales cross $25 billion
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Alibaba hits nearly $18 billion in ‘Singles Day’ orders in 12 hours, already surpassing 2016 sales
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Crunch Report | Musical.ly to sell for at least $800 million
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Nintendo may make as many as 30 million Switches next year
Rumors in early October had Nintendo more than doubling production for the highly successful Switch in order to meet what will almost certainly be crushing…
Twilio competitor Bandwidth up 6% following IPO
Bandwidth, a company that helps businesses with voice and text communication, debuted on the Nasdaq on Friday, going up about 6 percent on its first day…
Amazon’s Echo Spot might not arrive by Christmas
A number of customers who pre-ordered Amazon’s new Echo Spot smart alarm clock are now being told the product’s ship date has been pushed back.…
Bike-share platform Spin poaches Seattle transit regulator and launches in a dozen new cities
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New startups like Mytime want to pay for your attention and time in cryptocurrency
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Uber “Express Pool” offers the cheapest fare if you’ll walk a little
Uber’s found a way to shave another 25% or so off the price of a ride. Uber Express Pool asks you to walk up to a few…
Instagram could let you follow hashtags soon
Instagram is testing a new feature with a small fraction of its user base. As spotted by Pippa Akram and The Next Web, some users…
Mysterious ‘green line of death’ appears on some iPhone X displays
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Online real estate startup ToLet acquires Jumia House Nigeria to create PropertyPro.Ng
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Apple’s iOS App Store adds weekend deals to boost app downloads
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Amazon expands its Influencer Program to include Twitter and Instagram, in addition to YouTube
Amazon is expanding its Influencer Program beyond YouTube to also include Twitter and Instagram, the company announced on Thursday. First launched into beta earlier this…
Original Content podcast: Marvel’s ‘Runaways’ looks like an all-around good time
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PayPal takes on crowdfunding with Money Pools, where groups chip in to raise money and buy things
When Airbnb acquired and subsequently shut down Tilt — a platform that let people pool together to pay for items or events — many (including former…
The OpenStack Foundation starts to look at projects beyond OpenStack
Over the last few years, we’ve seen the launch of a number of open source foundations like the Cloud Native Compute Foundation, the Cloud Foundry…
Equity podcast: Roku’s on a tear, and Snap had an awful week
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IBM makes 20 qubit quantum computing machine available as a cloud service
IBM has been offering quantum computing as a cloud service since last year when it came out with a 5 qubit version of the advanced…
Facebook relaunches Events app as Facebook Local, adds bars and food
Bad news for Yelp and good news for nightlife lovers. When you want to go out, it doesn’t necessarily have to be to an event.…
Facebook makes it easier to donate in times of crisis
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Ambitious new media firm ByteDance is no longer a secret outside of China
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Uber loses UK tribunal appeal over driver employment rights
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Parrot’s Henri Seydoux comes to Disrupt to talk about commercial drones
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Razer to raise upwards of $504 million in Hong Kong IPO
PC gaming company Razer is set to raise upwards of US$504 million (HK$3.9 billion) when it lists on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on Monday. The…
ESPN’s new streaming service will launch in the spring and be called “ESPN Plus”
Today on Disney’s Q3 earnings call CEO Bob Iger gave a preview of ESPN’s upcoming direct to consumer streaming service. The announcement comes after another disappointing…
Twitter fixes another important problem with support for 50-character usernames
Twitter has followed up its move to double the character limit of tweets to 280 by increasing the length of a username to 50 characters.…
Crunch Report | Uber eyes 2019 IPO
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Gillmor Gang: Blocktrain
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Announcing the TechCrunch Meetup in Singapore on November 23
Here at TechCrunch we serve a global audience which is why we’ve held casual meetup events across many different parts of the world. Now we’re…
China’s Toutiao is buying Musical.ly in a deal worth $800M-$1B
Musical.ly, the lip-syncing app popular with teens and young people, has been sold to Chinese social media giant Toutiao, according to an announcement made today.…
Youtube Kids implements new policy to flag inappropriate videos targeted at children
A New York Times piece and a subsequent Medium post this week highlighted an ongoing problem with Youtube Kids — bizarre and disturbing videos aimed…
New Stars Wars and Marvel TV shows planned for Disney’s streaming service
Disney CEO Bob Iger revealed some amazing news on his company’s earnings call for this quarter, including that there will be a brand new trilogy…
Twitch is finally releasing the nearly 30 million usernames associated with Justin.tv
Justin.tv, the life-streaming service that eventually grew into Twitch, was shut down back in 2014. Since then, many Twitch users have asked when the company…
Facebook defends revenge porn pilot that has people upload nude images of themselves
Facebook Global Head of Safety Antigone Davis has clarified some things about how Facebook’s test pilot to combat revenge porn in Australia works. The strategy entails…
Brand new ‘Star Wars’ trilogy coming from ‘The Last Jedi’ director Rian Johnson
Star Wars will get another film trilogy, which will be entirely new and will be separate from the current saga focusing on the Skywalker family…
70 years of VC innovation
How old is venture capital? Probably as old as the first hunter/gatherer. Yet, until the mid-20th century, it was mostly practiced by wealthy individuals and…
Redfin shares fall 7% after real estate earnings disappoint
Redfin, the real estate brokerage site, saw its shares tumble about 7% in after-hours trading, shortly after sharing its earnings. The company posted about $109.5…
Nvidia’s huge run continues as its data center business ramps up
Nvidia continues to ride the wave of a myriad of huge success stories for the company, like the rapid adoption of the Nintendo Switch and…
Chinese search engine Sogou up 4% following IPO
Sogou, the Chinese search engine, debuted on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday, under the ticker “SOGO.” After pricing at the top of the…
Do cities still want a sharing economy?
Cities make the sharing economy work, and the urban environment is the critical differentiator for experimentation, change, and scale. In just a few years, the…
Bolt Threads is raising $106 million from Foundation Capital and Formation 8
Our spidey senses are tingling over here. According to an SEC filing, TechCrunch has learned Bolt Threads, the biotech company spinning microbes into spider silk,…
Google’s improved image blending means a more seamless Street View
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Essential Phone can now stream live to Facebook from the 360 camera add-on
The Essential Phone just got a camera software update that will allow owners of the device to broadcast live, 360-degree video right from the native…
Apple just pushed an iOS update to fix that “I” autocorrect bug
Over the last few days, most iOS users have experienced the same peculiar bug: the letter “I” was autocorrecting to… something else. Sometimes it was…
Alphabet and Goldman Sachs are suing ad tech startup Outcome Health for alleged fraud
Investors are suing Outcome Health, a startup selling ad space on screens in doctor’s offices, for alleged fraud and breach of contract eight months after…
Apple updates its Clips video app with fancy selfie backgrounds and iCloud support
Apple is releasing version 2.0 of Clips, its free application for easily editing mobile videos. When the app first launched earlier this year, it was…
EV startup Nio reportedly raises $1B from Tencent and others
Electric cars are set to become an increasingly lucrative investment target, if they continuing enjoying the strong support of global initiatives to lower emissions and…
Facebook will teach the unemployed digital/social media skills in 30 cities
Whether it’s to “bring the world closer together” or improve its public image, Facebook today announced Community Boost. It’s a program travelling to 30 cities…
Thrive Capital leads health tech startup Welkin Health’s $8 million Series A
Digital patient relationship platform Welkin Health has landed $8 million in Series A financing, led by Jared Kushner’s Thrive Capital. This now brings the total…
Pinterest now lets you create sections within your boards to further tidy up ideas
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Where venture capitalists invest and why
Entrepreneurs looking to raise capital are often told that investors like to keep things close to home. Is that true? The question influences where people…
Twitter pauses account verifications after critics slam it for verifying Charlottesville rally organizer
Twitter today announced it’s pausing all account verifications – the process that gives public figures on Twitter a blue checkmark next to their names –…
Rep the Squad is a subscription service to borrow authentic sports jerseys
Authentic sports jerseys are expensive and infrequently worn, but that doesn’t stop fans from wanting to own as many as possible from all their favorite…
Conversive helps businesses build the virtual equivalent of face-to-face conversations
If you’ve ever interacted with a chatbot and felt like there was just something missing, the founders of a new startup called Conversive think they…
Apple has acquired imaging sensor startup InVisage Technologies
As Apple continues to work on ever-smaller but more powerful computing devices, it has acquired a startup focusing on nanotechnology, and specifically as it relates…
Uber CEO says 2019 is the target for IPO
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi was on stage at the New York Times’ Dealbook conference today, and the ride hailing company’s top executive put a timeline…
After leak, Google’s new file manager for Android, Files Go, launches into public beta
Google today decided to launch its new Files Go Android app into public beta to reach a wider group of testers. The company had been…
Facebook expands its Marketplace section with housing rentals
Facebook today announced its expanding its Marketplace listings section to include “hundreds of thousands” of housing rentals in a move that seems clearly designed to…
Elastic acquires search startup Swiftype
Swiftype isn’t just a startup that we write about — we also use the technology to provide site search on TechCrunch itself. Now it’s being…
Hulu is Nintendo’s first video streaming app for the Switch
Nintendo has released a list of the new releases for its Switch console eShop available today, and North Americans will be able to download Hulu,…
Dreamforce lacks the drama this year
Dreamforce took place this week in San Francisco, that magical gathering of over more than 150,000 Salesforce faithful that happens every fall. While I didn’t…
Amazon devices now sold at over 100 Whole Foods; holiday Pop-Up shops open next week
Amazon is putting its $13.7 billion Whole Foods acquisition to work in time for holiday shopping. The companies announced today that over 100 Whole Foods…
Uber brings five-star rating system to UberEATS app
UberEATS, Uber’s standalone app for on-demand food delivery, has added in-app restaurant reviews in order to help people make more informed decisions about what to…
Financial tech startup WeLab raises $220M from investors including Alibaba, the IFC and Credit Suisse
WeLab, an financial tech startup that operates online lending platforms in Hong Kong and China, has raised $220 million in combined equity and debt financing.…
Skyscanner buys Twizoo to add social content shout-outs to travel reviews
Travel metasearch giant Skyscanner has acquired Twizoo, a small London-based startup which makes a platform for brands to automate injecting relevant social content across their…
Apple’s ‘Everyone Can Code’ initiative expands to colleges and universities outside of the US
Apple is taking its coding course international after it announced that 20 college and university partners worldwide will begin offering the Everyone Can Code initiative to…
The Muscat micromeetup has been modified
I had originally planned to run a pitch-off in Muscat today from 3pm to 6pm but it looks like that is cancelled. I only received…
Pronoun, an ebook service for writers, shuts down
Pronoun, a self-publishing service for authors, is shutting down after promising free ebook distribution for authors. The company, which raised millions in funding and ended…
More free Hackathon tickets for Disrupt Berlin available now
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Natural Cycles gets $30M for its EU-certified “digital contraception”
European startup Natural Cycles is pushing to establish its EU-certified “digital contraceptive app” as a globally accepted contraception option — and compete with tried and tested…
AI pioneer Chris Boos talks about the future of machine learning
This week on Technotopia I talk to Chris Boos, the creator of a bot that can play FreeCiv, a Civilization clone. His solution demonstrates the…
Tencent could play a role redesigning Snapchat following $2B investment
Tencent, the Chinese internet giant valued at $470 billion, may have a hand in rebooting the Snapchat app to make it more competitive with Instagram…
TripAdvisor will mark pages for businesses where violent incidents, including rape, have been reported
TripAdvisor will place warning badges on the pages of businesses where safety issues, including violent incidents like assault and rape, have been reported. The travel…
Crunch Report | Yahoo hack is still a mystery
Today’s Stories Four years later, Yahoo still doesn’t know how 3 billion accounts were hacked Apple’s iPad could drop the home button and add Face…
Driverless shuttle in Las Vegas gets in fender bender within an hour
A driverless shuttle set free in downtown Las Vegas was involved in a minor accident less than an hour after it hit the streets, reported…
Reflex aims to Kickstart film photography with a new old SLR
Mating digital photography with film seems to me an alluring yet ultimately quixotic endeavor; who doesn’t love the idea of a camera that combines the…
Are flying cars the future of transportation or an inflated expectation?
It’s clear that flying cars are transitioning from a fascinating concept to a quite-mature technology and promising investment thesis. But will we see flying cars…
Senators push to ditch social security numbers in light of Equifax hack
Eyeing more secure alternatives to social security numbers, lawmakers in the U.S. are looking abroad. Today, the Senate Commerce Committee questioned former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer,…
Shernaz Daver, the CMO who helped to turn around Udacity, is leaving the company
Shernaz Daver, the chief marketing officer for Udacity, who company founder Sebastian Thrun credits with architecting the company’s dramatic revitalization four years ago, is stepping…
Square’s dominant year hits a snag
Square is continuing to make its bid to capture the payments of small businesses around the world, as well as tap into the momentum of…
Roku soars 26% after smashing first earnings report
Roku, the digital streaming business, had a huge first earnings report, greatly surpassing analyst expectations. The company quickly surged over 26% in initial after-hours trading.…
Uber gives top riders a 24/7 “Premium Support” hotline
If something scary or infuriating happens with your Uber, sending an email to support doesn’t always cut it. And if you’ve ridden thousands of miles…
Skype launches Photo Effects – sticker suggestions powered by machine learning
Not content with merely launching its own take on Instagram and Snapchat’s Stories, Skype today is adding another copycat-like feature to its app: photo stickers.…
Geospatial imaging service Enview raises $6 million to manage energy and utility infrastructure
Over the past 20 years there have been 11,459 accidents across the network of oil and gas pipelines that crisscross the U.S. The toll in…