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- Dish is the first TV provider to offer support for Apple’s Business Chat
Friday - 07/20/2018 - 10:30 AMDish today announced it’s becoming the first TV provider to offer customer support over Apple’s Business Chat.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Blavity raises $6.5 million Series A round led by GV
Friday - 07/20/2018 - 08:35 AMBlavity, the digital lifestyle media company geared toward black millennials, recently closed a $6.5 million Series A round led by GV with participation from Comcast Ventures, Plexo Capital and Baron Davis Enterprises.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- EBay paid $573M to buy Japanese e-commerce platform Qoo10, filing reveals
Friday - 07/20/2018 - 07:16 AMEBay is a very distant second behind Amazon when it comes to e-commerce sales in the U.S., but abroad — and in particular in Asia — it is willing to invest to grow its footprint in a targeted way.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- AnyVision AI startup locks in $28M for its body and facial recognition tech
Thursday - 07/19/2018 - 08:56 PMAs image recognition advances continue to accelerate, startups with a mind towards security applications are seeing some major interest to turn surveillance systems more intelligent.
AnyVision is working on face, body and object recognition tech and the underlying system infrastructure to help companies deploy smart cameras for various purposes.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Shared electric scooters probably won’t return to SF until August
Thursday - 07/19/2018 - 07:34 PMThe San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency is still reviewing the 12 applications from companies to operate electric scooters in the city.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Walmart acquiring Shopify is no longer a laughable idea
Thursday - 07/19/2018 - 06:30 PMSujay Seetharaman
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More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Why self-regulation is better than legislative regulation
Thursday - 07/19/2018 - 05:00 PMYale Fox
ContributorYale Fox is founder and CEO at Rentlogic.
We are moving toward a society controlled by algorithms, but very few of us actually understand how they work.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - UK government panel issues inconclusive Huawei security report
Thursday - 07/19/2018 - 05:57 PMHuawei’s had a rough go of it here in the States, after concerns around ties to the Chinese government have left the company scrambling to gain a commercial toehold. Over the past several years, top U.K.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Microsoft caps off a fine fiscal year seemingly without any major missteps in its last quarter
Thursday - 07/19/2018 - 04:22 PMMicrosoft is capping off a rather impressive year without any major missteps in its final report for its performance in its 2018 fiscal year, posting a quarter that seems to have been largely non-offensive to Wall Street.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Self-driving car startup Voyage brings on ex-Tesla, Cruise and Uber exec as CTO
Thursday - 07/19/2018 - 03:09 PMVoyage, the autonomous driving startup that currently operates self-driving cars in retirement communities, has brought on its first CTO, Drew Gray.
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- Tempow’s Bluetooth stack can improve your TV setup
Friday - 07/20/2018 - 11:12 AMFrench startup Tempow has been working on improving the Bluetooth protocol at a low level to make it more versatile. The company is introducing a new audio profile for your TV or set-top box.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Zoox’s fresh $500M, how to spend $6.3B and Microsoft’s fine fiscal year
Friday - 07/20/2018 - 09:00 AMHello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Public shareholders got high today on Tilray, the first marijuana company to IPO on Nasdaq
Thursday - 07/19/2018 - 08:22 PMTilray, a five-year-old, British Columbia-based medical cannabis company that sells its products to patients, researchers, pharmacies and even governments, saw its shares get high (sorry) on the Nasdaq today, after the company priced 9 million shares at $17 apiece and watched them soar, closing at $22.39, a jump of slightly more than 32 percent.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Farfetch acquires CuriosityChina to expand its social media efforts on the Mainland
Thursday - 07/19/2018 - 07:24 PMFarfetch — the e-commerce startup that works with some 900 high end fashion boutiques and labels to present and sell clothes, shoes, accessories and jewellery online, and we and others have heard is gearing up for a $6 billion IPO — is making an acquisition to double down China, one of the fastest-growing markets for luxury goods.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Autonomous trucking startup Embark lands $30 million in funding
Thursday - 07/19/2018 - 06:24 PMEmbark Trucks has raised $30 million in a Series B funding round led by Sequoia Capital in its bid to be the first to develop and launch a commercially viable driverless truck.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Jido Maps is building a ‘save button’ for persistent AR worlds
Thursday - 07/19/2018 - 06:45 PMAugmented reality tech is in this incredibly weird position where it has the world’s biggest tech companies cheerleading consumer-facing products highlighting it but there are some very base issues that haven’t been solved yet.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Yelp partners with event management startup Gather to make planning your next party easier
Thursday - 07/19/2018 - 05:43 PMEvent management software company Gather today announced the introduction of its Gather Booking Network, and inaugural partners Yelp and EVENTUp.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - FCC issues ‘de facto merger death sentence’ to Sinclair-Tribune deal
Thursday - 07/19/2018 - 04:08 PMA broadcast merger that has been the poster boy for the FCC’s pro-industry agenda has been ordered to undertake a lengthy and potentially embarrassing process that amounts to, in the words of one commissioner, a “de facto merger death sentence.”
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Here’s what Facebook employees were saying about Holocaust denial … in 2009
Thursday - 07/19/2018 - 03:05 PMMark Zuckerberg has been in hot water this week thanks to comments he made during an interview with Kara Swisher about the kinds of content that should and shouldn’t be removed from the platform.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - With new tech coming online, cities need a department of urban testing
Thursday - 07/19/2018 - 03:45 PMShaun Abrahamson
ContributorShaun Abrahamson is a managing partner at Urban Us Ventures and serves on the Investment Committee at URBAN-X.
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- Prices for Disrupt SF 2018 passes increase in a few days
Friday - 07/20/2018 - 11:00 AMThere isn’t a business person alive who doesn’t appreciate an advantage, but sometimes folks need to be reminded of an advantage that’s staring them right in the face. This is that reminder.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Facebook, Google and more unite to let you transfer data between apps
Friday - 07/20/2018 - 09:08 AMThe Data Transfer Project is a new team-up between tech giants to let you move your content, contacts, and more between apps. Founded by Facebook, Google, Twitter, an Microsoft, the DTP today revealed its plans for an open source data portability platform any online service can join.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - WhatsApp limits message forwarding in bid to reduce spam and misinformation
Friday - 07/20/2018 - 02:57 AMIn a bid to cut down on the spread of false information and spam, WhatsApp recently added labels that indicate when a message has been forwarded. Now the company is sharpening that strategy by imposing limits on how many groups a message can be sent on to.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Surprise! Top sites still fail at encouraging non-terrible passwords
Thursday - 07/19/2018 - 07:31 PMYou would think that Amazon, Reddit, Wikipedia and other highly popular websites would by now tell you that “password1” or “hunter2” is a terrible password — just terrible. But they don’t.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Disney to debut its first VR short next month
Thursday - 07/19/2018 - 07:50 PMWalt Disney Animation Studio is set to debut its first VR short film, Cycles, this August in Vancouver, the Association for Computing Machinery announced today.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Last call for tickets to TechCrunch Summer Party at August Capital
Thursday - 07/19/2018 - 05:00 PMThe TechCrunch Summer Party at August Capital is the stuff of Silicon Valley legend. We’re celebrating 13 years of libations and convivial conversation while toasting the entrepreneurial spirit on the deck at August Capital in Menlo Park on July 27.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Disney’s streaming service is resurrecting ‘The Clone Wars’
Thursday - 07/19/2018 - 05:28 PMStar Wars: The Clone Wars, an animated series that ran on Cartoon Network for five seasons, is coming back.
Created by George Lucas and overseen by Dave Filoni, the show depicted the adventures of Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, as well as new characters like Ahsoka Tano, during the titular Clone Wars.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Instagram adds a status indicator dot so people know when you’re ignoring them
Thursday - 07/19/2018 - 04:10 PMIn a blog post today, Instagram announced a new feature: a green status dot that indicates when a user is active on the app. If you’re cruising around Instagram, you can expect to see a green dot next to the profile pics of friends who are also Instagramming right then and there.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Euro startup FlixBus expands its $10 bus service in California
Thursday - 07/19/2018 - 04:46 PMFlixBus, the low-cost bus service out of Europe, is doubling down on its U.S. launch. The parent company, FlixMobility, started cheap bus routes between Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Phoenix, and Tucson just two months ago.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - That $20 Wyze Cam now works with Alexa
Thursday - 07/19/2018 - 03:45 PMThe Wyze Cam has long been a strong contender for the best deal in connected home security. I haven’t actually tried the thing out, but Greg was “surprisingly impressed” with his hands-on time with the 1080p camera.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share