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- Mozilla gets a new CFO
Tuesday - 01/22/2019 - 01:25 PMMozilla, the not-for-profit behind the Firefox browser and other open source projects, today announced that it has hired Roxi Wen, the former CFO of display manufacturer Elo Touch Solutions, as its new CFO.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Mooncard raises $5.7 million for its expense platform
Tuesday - 01/22/2019 - 11:45 AMFrench startup Mooncard raised a $5.7 million funding round (€5 million) from Raise Ventures, Aglaé Ventures and business angels. The company provides a service to track and manage your company’s expenses with the help of good old plastic cards.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Linux Foundation launches Hyperledger Grid to provide framework for supply chain projects
Tuesday - 01/22/2019 - 12:08 PMThe Linux Foundation’s Hyperledger Project has a singular focus on the blockchain, but this morning it announced a framework for building supply chain projects where it didn’t want blockchain stealing the show.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Adtech veteran Marcus Startzel becomes CEO at Whitebox
Tuesday - 01/22/2019 - 11:00 AMMarcus Startzel is moving from the adtech to ecommerce: He’s becoming the new CEO at Whitebox.
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One of his first tasks, apparently, will be raising a Series A. - Fresh tickets and New VC partners for the TechCrunch Winter Party
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More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Apple Pay is coming to Target, Taco Bell, Speedway and two other U.S. chains
Tuesday - 01/22/2019 - 09:38 AMA little more retail momentum for Apple Pay: Apple has announced another clutch of U.S. retailers will soon support its eponymous mobile payment tech — most notably discount retailer Target.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The iPhone is reportedly going OLED-only in 2020
Tuesday - 01/22/2019 - 10:04 AMApple could drop LCDs from the iPhone line next year, according to a new report from The Wall Street Journal. That interesting — if not altogether surprising — revelation in buried in a piece about a Japan supplier’s struggles in the wake of disappointing iPhone XR sales.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Adjust expands its anti-ad fraud tech by acquiring Unbotify
Tuesday - 01/22/2019 - 09:00 AMAdjust, a Berlin-headquartered company focused on mobile ad measurement and fraud prevention, is acquiring bot detection startup Unbotify.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Citizens Reserve is building a supply chain platform on the blockchain
Tuesday - 01/22/2019 - 09:04 AMCitizens Reserve, a Bay Area startup, has a broad goal of digitizing the supply chain. Last fall, the company launched the Alpha version of Suku, a Supply Chain as a Service platform built on the blockchain.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Just Eat acquires restaurant software platform Flyt for £22M
Tuesday - 01/22/2019 - 06:31 AMJust Eat, the takeout marketplace and food delivery service, has acquired Flyt, a startup that offers software for restaurants and restaurant suppliers. The acquisition price is £22 million, which Just Eat says it has financed from cash reserves.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Fender’s Acoustasonic Telecaster does electric/acoustic double duty
Tuesday - 01/22/2019 - 01:33 PMThe electric guitar has been floating around in some for or another since the early 30s. But given how much the instrument dominated the music landscape for the latter half of the 20th century, interesting innovations don’t really come along too often.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Microsoft’s Code Jumper makes programming physical for children with visual impairments
Tuesday - 01/22/2019 - 12:00 PMMicrosoft just unloaded a whole bunch of news in time for the BETT education show. The most interesting bit of the bunch, however, is probably Code Jumper. The tethered hardware device is design to teach children who are blind or have otherwise impaired vision how to code.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Google will start retiring Hangouts for G Suite users in October
Tuesday - 01/22/2019 - 12:45 PMGoogle’s strategy around its consumer messaging services remains baffling, especially since it killed off Allo (yet kept Duo on life support).
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Varsity Tutors acquires Veritas Prep to expand into live online classes
Tuesday - 01/22/2019 - 11:08 AMVarsity Tutors, the online learning platform that launched in 2011, has today announced the acquisition of Veritas Prep.
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The terms of the deal were not disclosed, but, according to the press release, the Veritas Prep team will remain at its Calabasas, CA office and that the product will continue on as a separate brand. - Netflix’s ‘Roma’ nominated for 10 Oscars, including best picture and director
Tuesday - 01/22/2019 - 09:35 AMNetflix and Hulu will both have films in the running at the Academy Awards this year. Netflix changed its rules for theatrical releases to give “Roma” a better chance during awards season and it paid off today when the Alfonso Cuarón film was nominated for 10 Oscars, including best picture and best director.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Starbucks expands its delivery service to 6 more U.S. cities, starting with San Francisco
Tuesday - 01/22/2019 - 09:52 AMStarbucks on Monday announced an expansion of its delivery service in partnership with Uber Eats, which is now headed to six other major U.S. cities, starting with San Francisco this week.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Elliott Management letter puts eBay on notice to improve stock performance, sell StubHub
Tuesday - 01/22/2019 - 10:23 AMElliott Management, a NYC investment firm well known for its activist streak, released a letter today sent to eBay’s management. The letter put the company on notice that the stock needs to do better, much better.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Starship deploys autonomous delivery bots on a college campus
Tuesday - 01/22/2019 - 09:00 AMStarship, an autonomous delivery robot startup, is deploying its first batch of robots as part of a commercial service. Starting today, Starship will begin delivering food to the 40,000 students, faculty and staff at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va. in partnership with Sodexo, a food and facilities management company.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The Pill Club raises $51M as VCs find new opportunities in women’s health
Tuesday - 01/22/2019 - 07:00 AMThrough telemedicine and direct-to-consumer sales platforms, startups are streamlining the historically arduous process of accessing contraception.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Axa Venture Partners raises $150 million early-stage fund
Tuesday - 01/22/2019 - 03:25 AMAxa Venture Partners, the venture capital arm of insurance company Axa, is raising an early-stage fund. Today’s new $150 million fund (€130 million) is called AVP Early Stage II.
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- Huawei Honor’s smartphone with a hole-punch display is real
Tuesday - 01/22/2019 - 01:29 PMHonor officially launched the Honor View 20 today in Paris. Honor is Huawei’s sub-brand for mid-range phones. And the View 20 doesn’t look like your average smartphone — the company traded the notch for a hole-punch display.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Waymo plans to open a self-driving car factory in Michigan
Tuesday - 01/22/2019 - 12:02 PMWaymo and Magna plan to build thousands of self-driving cars at a factory in southeast Michigan, including autonomous versions of the all-electric Jaguar I-PACE and Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid minivan.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Daily Crunch: Munchery shuts down
Tuesday - 01/22/2019 - 12:11 PMThe Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here:
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Twitter will get an even darker ‘dark mode’
Tuesday - 01/22/2019 - 11:19 AMTwitter’s dark mode is about to get darker.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - China’s JD.com tests drone delivery in Indonesia in first overseas pilot
Tuesday - 01/22/2019 - 09:16 AMWe hear a lot about drones having the potential to revolutionize delivery and logistics. It’s easy to be dismissive — in many cases, a robot may take what would be a human’s job — but there are some examples where drone technology could genuinely be transformative.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Wynd raises $82 million for its store management service
Tuesday - 01/22/2019 - 10:03 AMFrench startup Wynd raised another $82 million (€72 million) from Natixis, Sofina and BNF capital. The company started with a point-of-sale solution for restaurants and other brick-and-mortar stores. It now provides a one-stop-shop for all your digital needs when it comes to managing your offline and online sales.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Dosh raises $40M on $300M valuation as its cash back app passes $50M doled out to shoppers
Tuesday - 01/22/2019 - 10:13 AMWhen it comes to reaching would-be customers today, one of the biggest investments that brands and retailers will make is in advertising, to the tune of nearly $630 billion globally.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - UPS and Latch are expanding in-building deliveries to 10 more cities
Tuesday - 01/22/2019 - 09:00 AMAfter launching apparently successful pilot runs in San Francisco and New York, UPS announced today plans to expand its in-building delivery service to 10 additional U.S. cities. In mid-2019, the parcel service will be adding Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles, Houston, Dallas, Washington D.C., Philadelphia, Boston, Miami and Seattle to the list.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - UK startup veteran and investor Wendy Tan White joins Alphabet X as Vice President
Tuesday - 01/22/2019 - 06:55 AMWendy Tan White, a veteran of the U.K. startup scene — including founding SaaS website builder Moonfruit, which exited to Yell Group for $37 million — is joining Alphabet X (formerly Google X), TechCrunch has learned.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - TaxScouts, the UK startup that helps prepare your taxes, picks up £1.2M led by SpeedInvest
Tuesday - 01/22/2019 - 04:00 AMTaxScouts, the U.K. “tax preparation” startup founded by TransferWise and Marketinvoice alumni, has created some new paperwork of its own. The London-based company has raised £1.2 million in seed funding.
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