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- FTC, Justice Dept. takes coordinated action against robocallers
Tuesday - 06/25/2019 - 11:47 AMFederal authorities have announced its latest crackdown on illegal robocallers — taking close to a hundred actions against several companies and individuals blamed for the recent barrage of spam calls.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Microsoft adds an extra security layer to its OneDrive storage service
Tuesday - 06/25/2019 - 12:00 PMMicrosoft today announced OneDrive Personal Vault, a new security layer on top of its OneDrive online file storage service that adds additional security features to keep your files save.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - U.S. Senator and consumer advocacy groups urge FTC to take action on YouTube’s alleged COPPA violations
Tuesday - 06/25/2019 - 12:36 PMThe groups behind a push to get the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to investigate YouTube’s alleged violation of children’s privacy law, COPPA, have today submitted a new letter to the FTC that lays out the appropriate sanctions the groups want the FTC to now take.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - ‘This is Your Life in Silicon Valley’: Former Pinterest President, Moment CEO Tim Kendall on Smartphone Addiction
Tuesday - 06/25/2019 - 01:23 PMWelcome to this week’s transcribed edition of This is Your Life in Silicon Valley. We’re running an experiment for Extra Crunch members that puts This is Your Life in Silicon Valley in words – so you can read from wherever you are.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Millennials don’t want to get drunk. What do they want? Apéritifs.
Tuesday - 06/25/2019 - 02:12 PMGen Z doesn’t want to get drunk. Millennials are tired of the obligatory after-work drinks.
Haus, a new startup selling apéritifs online, has a solution for them. The company’s beverages have a lower alcohol content than standard hard liquors on the market, which means you can drink one, even a few, without getting wasted.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Only 100 seats left: Apply to hack at the TC Hackathon at Disrupt SF
Tuesday - 06/25/2019 - 03:00 PMHustle up, hackathon fans. The TechCrunch Hackathon at Disrupt San Francisco 2019 on October 2-4 may be more than three months away, but it’s filling up fast. There’s no application deadline. Instead, we’re capping the number of participants at 800 — and we have approximately 100 spots left.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Facebook’s searchable political ads archive is now global
Tuesday - 06/25/2019 - 03:33 PMFacebook has announced it’s rolled out a basic layer of political ads transparency globally, more than a year after launching the publicly searchable ads archive in the US.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Used car marketplace Motorway picks up £11M Series A
Tuesday - 06/25/2019 - 04:00 AMMotorway, the U.K. used car marketplace, has raised £11 million in Series A funding. Leading the round is Marchmont Ventures, the fund managed by Hugo Burge and Alan Martin (the former CEO and CFO of Momondo Group, respectively), along with participation from existing backer LocalGlobe.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Indonesia’s KoinWorks raises $12 million to grow its P2P SME lending platform
Tuesday - 06/25/2019 - 04:35 AMKoinWorks, an Indonesian startup that helps small and medium-sized businesses secure financial services through its online peer-to-peer platform, has raised $16.5 million SGD ($12 million USD) in a new funding round as money continues to flow in what has become a hot space for investors.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Telegram adds location-flavored extras and full group ownership transfers
Tuesday - 06/25/2019 - 06:47 AMMessaging platform Telegram has added a new bunch of location-based features via an update.
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Users of the latest version of the app will find an ‘Add People Nearby’ setting which they can use to quickly exchange contact details without the need to type in digits.
- Snowflake co-founder and president of product Benoit Dageville is coming to TC Sessions: Enterprise
Tuesday - 06/25/2019 - 12:00 PMWhen it comes to a cloud success story, Snowflake checks all the boxes. It’s a SaaS product going after industry giants. It has raised bushels of cash and grown extremely rapidly — and the story is continuing to develop for the cloud data lake company.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Sidewalk Labs’ blueprint for a ‘mini’ smart city is a massive data mine
Tuesday - 06/25/2019 - 12:02 PMSidewalk Labs, the smart city technology firm owned by Google’s parent company Alphabet, released a plan this week to redevelop a piece of Toronto’s eastern waterfront into its vision of an urban utopia — a ‘mini’ metropolis tucked inside a digital infrastructure burrito and bursting with gee-whiz tech-ery.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Barbershop management platform Squire raises $8 million Series A round
Tuesday - 06/25/2019 - 01:00 PMSquire, a Y Combinator-backed business management platform for barbershops, just raised an $8 million Series A round led by Trinity Ventures.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Wedding dress customizer Anomalie raises $13M as bridal stores crumble
Tuesday - 06/25/2019 - 01:35 PMDavid’s Bridal once owned 50% of the $36 billion wedding gown market before it filed for bankruptcy last year. Brides were growing sick of the lack of styles and sizes plus high prices at expensive brick & mortar shops.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- How to scale a start-up in school
Tuesday - 06/25/2019 - 02:57 PMJulianna Keeling
ContributorJulianna Keeling is the founder of Terravive (sustainable packaging company). Formerly Product at Juicero.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - With a portfolio including Acorns, Sweetgreen and Ro Health, Torch Capital raises $60M for its first fund
Tuesday - 06/25/2019 - 03:20 PMJonathan Keidan, the founder of Torch Capital, had already built a portfolio that included Acorns, Compass, Digital Ocean and Sweetgreen, before he raised single dollar for his inaugural venture capital fund, which just closed with $60 million.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Learn ‘How-To’ at the Extra Crunch Stage at Disrupt Berlin 2019
Tuesday - 06/25/2019 - 04:00 AMTechnology never stops evolving and neither do we. That’s why we’re excited to tell you about the new Extra Crunch Stage at Disrupt Berlin 2019. Our premiere tech conference dedicated to early-stage startups takes place 11-12 December.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Here is BMW’s new electric motorcycle concept
Tuesday - 06/25/2019 - 04:30 AMBMW has a long history of building motorcycles, but it hasn’t done all that well in the electric motorcycle department. Clearly, though, this is something the company is thinking hard about and today, at its inaugural NextGen event, the company showed its newest electric concept bike, the BMW Motorrad Vision DC Roadster.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Showpad, a sales enablement platform for presentations and other collateral, raises $70M
Tuesday - 06/25/2019 - 06:12 AMSales teams have long turned to tech solutions to help improve how they source leads, develop relationships and close deals. Now, one of the startups that helps out at a key point in that trajectory is announcing a round of growth funding to help fuel its own rapid growth.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- SpaceX records another first for reusable rocketry by catching Falcon Heavy fairing with a boat
Tuesday - 06/25/2019 - 07:29 AMSpaceX has managed to do another thing that seemed audacious and highly unlikely after a few early botched attempts. It used a ship at sea to catch the falling nosecone that shielded the cargo aboard its Falcon Heavy rocket during launch.
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- Join raises $4M seed round to build a better construction planning platform
Tuesday - 06/25/2019 - 12:00 PMStartup Join wants to modernize the back office for an industry that’s everywhere, but maybe not top of mind, especially when it comes to project management software: Commercial construction. The company has raised a $4 million seed round, co-led by Signalfire and Building Ventures and including participation by existing investor Bolt.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Daily Crunch: We preview new Apple operating systems
Tuesday - 06/25/2019 - 12:10 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
- Peter Thiel-backed auto commerce startup Drive Motors has a new name and $5M in capital
Tuesday - 06/25/2019 - 12:53 PMNot that long ago, visiting the website of an auto dealership was a little like going to a store without a cash register. The retailer’s website might list all the cars, trucks and SUVs in its inventory, but there would be no way to actually buy one online.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - AI services startup Hypergiant brings on Bill Nye as an advisor
Tuesday - 06/25/2019 - 01:50 PMHypergiant, a startup launched last year to address the execution gap in bringing applied AI and machine learning technologies to bear for large companies, has signed on a high-profile new advisor to help out with the new ‘Galactic Systems’ division of its services lineup.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Walmart now accepts SNAP for online grocery orders at all 2,500+ pickup locations
Tuesday - 06/25/2019 - 02:14 PMWalmart has been working to address the needs of low-income shoppers for some time. More recently, it’s been introducing new ways to serve customers on public assistance. In fall 2017, the retailer began a small test allowing customers to pay for online grocery orders using their SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) benefits — more casually known as food stamps.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Facebook may finally let you turn off those annoying notification dots
Tuesday - 06/25/2019 - 03:30 PMSick of those anxiety-inducing red dots constantly appearing on the Groups, Watch, or other tabs in your Facebook app? Well the social network may be easing up a little in its unending war for your attention.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Dirty Lemon parent Iris Nova will fund and distribute third-party beverages
Tuesday - 06/25/2019 - 03:56 PMIris Nova, the Coca-Cola-backed startup that creates Dirty Lemon beverages, is announcing plans to spend $100 million over the next three to five years to expand its offerings.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - BMW says its running ahead of its electrification goals
Tuesday - 06/25/2019 - 04:30 AMAt its NEXTGen event in Munich, BMW today announced that it is running ahead of schedule in its efforts to offer at least 25 electrified vehicles. Previously, the German luxury car manufacturer was shooting for 2025, but it now says that it will offer these 25 vehicles by 2023.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - India’s Open ‘neo-bank’ raises $30 million to help businesses automate their finances
Tuesday - 06/25/2019 - 06:01 AMOpen, a Bangalore-based startup that operates a “neo-bank” to help businesses automate and run their finances, has bagged $30 million in a new funding round as investors look to replicate a globally tried and tested business idea in emerging markets.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Indonesia’s Kopi Kenangan raises a sweet $20M to expand its coffee business
Tuesday - 06/25/2019 - 07:47 AMKopi Kenangan, a startup that wants to make quality, fresh coffee affordable to Indonesian consumers, has raised $20 million as it begins to consider overseas expansion in Southeast Asia.
The round comes courtesy of Sequoia India and Southeast Asia, via the $695 million investment fund it closed last year.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share