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- This Week in Apps: League of Legends goes mobile, Tim Cook talks to China and more
Saturday - 10/19/2019 - 02:00 PMWelcome back to This Week in Apps, the Extra Crunch series that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they support, and the money that flows through it all.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - HTC releases a cheaper blockchain phone
Saturday - 10/19/2019 - 09:22 AMWhatever you might say about HTC (and believe me, there’s plenty to say), at least the company takes some fascinating chance. As newly minted CEO Yves Maitre admitted to me at Disrupt a couple of weeks back, the once mighty smartphone giant has lost the thread in recent years.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - HuffPost is reportedly on the auction block
Saturday - 10/19/2019 - 01:29 PMLate last night the Financial Times reported that HuffPost, arguably one of the crown jewels of Verizon Media Group’s remaining network of media properties (which includes TechCrunch), is up f
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - VR/AR startup valuations reach $45 billion (on paper)
Friday - 10/18/2019 - 05:09 PMDespite early-stage virtual reality market and augmented reality market valuations softening in a transitional period, total global AR/VR startup valuations are now at $45 billion globally — include non-pure play AR/VR startups discussed below, and that amount exceeds $67 billion.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Apple’s China stance makes for strange political alliances, as AOC and Ted Cruz slam the company
Friday - 10/18/2019 - 08:26 PMIn a rare instance of bipartisanship overcoming the rancorous discord that’s been the hallmark of the U.S. Congress, senators and sepresentatives issued a scathing rebuke to Apple for its decision to take down an app at the request of the Chinese government.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Three of the best tackle the thorny issue of Brexit for startups at Disrupt Berlin
Friday - 10/18/2019 - 10:29 AMThe turbulence of Brexit has left both U.K. and European startups alike wondering about the best path forward. From recruiting to acquiring investment to scaling into other parts of Europe, the challenges seem to be mounting.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Exclusive: 2019 HAX report reveals hardware startup trends
Friday - 10/18/2019 - 12:04 PMHardware startups are expanding from the world of consumer tech; global hardware accelerator HAX knows this better than most and details the latest trends in its yearly report. One of the most active early-stage hardware investors, the group today released exclusively to TechCrunch its yearly report with insights on hardware startups.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - $35B face data lawsuit against Facebook will proceed
Friday - 10/18/2019 - 01:53 PMFacebook just lost a battle in its war to stop a $35 billion class action lawsuit regarding alleged misuse of facial recognition data in Illinois. Today it was denied its request for an en banc hearing before the full slate of ninth circuit judges that could have halted the case.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Daily Crunch: Zuckerberg has thoughts on free speech
Friday - 10/18/2019 - 02:44 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
- Mobile game startup Madbox raises $16.5 million after 100 million downloads
Friday - 10/18/2019 - 03:10 AMFrench startup Madbox is raising a $16.5 million (€15 million) Series A funding round from Alven. The company is developing mobile games and handles everything from start to finish, from game design to publishing and user acquisition.
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- Startups Weekly: The unicorn from down under, an Uber TV show and All Raise’s expansion
Saturday - 10/19/2019 - 08:00 AMHello and welcome back to Startups Weekly, a weekend newsletter that dives into the week’s noteworthy news pertaining to startups and venture capital. Before I jump into today’s topic, let’s catch up a bit.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Mercedes-Benz app glitch exposed car owners’ information to other users
Saturday - 10/19/2019 - 11:05 AMMercedes-Benz car owners have said that the app they used to remotely locate, unlock and start their cars was displaying other people’s account and vehicle information.
TechCrunch spoke to two customers who said the Mercedes-Benz’ connected car app was pulling in information from other accounts and not their own, allowing them to see other car owners’ names, recent activity, phone numbers, and more.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Tilting Point acquires game monetization startup Gondola
Friday - 10/18/2019 - 05:04 PMTilting Point announced yesterday that it has acquired Gondola, a company that aims to increase game monetization by optimizing in-game offers and video ads.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Adam Neumann planned for his children and grandchildren to control WeWork
Friday - 10/18/2019 - 06:22 PMWeWork co-founder Adam Neumann didn’t plan for his family’s control of WeWork to end at his death but instead expected to pass that control to future generations of Neumanns, too, says Business Insider.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - T-Mobile partners with Jeffrey Katzenberg’s mobile streaming service Quibi
Friday - 10/18/2019 - 09:51 AMOn the heels of getting the FCC’s proposal to merge with Sprint, T-Mobile announced a plan to partner with Jeffrey Katzenberg’s mobile streaming service, Quibi.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - A set of new tools can decrypt files locked by Stop, a highly active ransomware
Friday - 10/18/2019 - 11:00 AMThousands of ransomware victims may finally get some long-awaited relief.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Bloomberg Beta, now six years old, closes its third $75 million fund
Friday - 10/18/2019 - 01:44 PMBloomberg Beta, a San Francisco-based outfit that uses Bloomberg LP’s money to make bets on startups, has closed its third fund with $75 million, according to Roy Bahat, who’d previously run the online media company IGN and who operates the fund as an equal partnership with Karin Klein and James Chan.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Who will own the future of transportation?
Friday - 10/18/2019 - 02:18 PMAutonomous vehicles are often painted as a utopian-like technology that will transform parking lots into parks and eliminate traffic fatalities — a number that reached 1.35 million globally in 2018.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Kenyan telco Safaricom’s Alpha incubator faces uncertain future
Friday - 10/18/2019 - 01:34 AMSafaricom’s Nairobi based Alpha innovation incubator may have an uncertain future, according to sources.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Last few hours to apply: TC Top Picks @ Disrupt Berlin 2019
Friday - 10/18/2019 - 04:00 AMThis is it, startup founders. Today, October 18, is the last day and your final opportunity to be chosen as a TC Top Pick, to score a free Startup Alley Exhibitor Package and to shine a bright spotlight on your company at Disrupt Berlin 2019 on 11-12 December.
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- MediaLab acquires messaging app Kik, expanding its app portfolio
Saturday - 10/19/2019 - 04:47 PMPopular messaging app Kik is, indeed, “here to stay” following an acquisition by the Los Angeles-based multimedia holding company, MediaLab.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The new iPhone is ugly
Saturday - 10/19/2019 - 12:45 PMI’ll be the first to admit that I’m a bit old-fashioned when it comes to phones. Everyone scoffs at my iPhone SE, but the truth is it’s the best phone Apple ever made — a beautiful, well designed object in just about every way.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Where are US fintech’s next billion-dollar startups?
Friday - 10/18/2019 - 04:14 PMAs fintech investments soar to new heights, investors are looking at the bottom and top levels of the services stack to find the next billion-dollar startups.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - AI is helping scholars restore ancient Greek texts on stone tablets
Friday - 10/18/2019 - 07:24 PMMachine learning and AI may be deployed on such grand tasks as finding exoplanets and creating photorealistic people, but the same techniques also have some surprising applications in academia: DeepMind has created an AI system that helps scholars understand and recreate fragmentary ancient Greek texts on broken stone tablets.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Greylock GP Sarah Guo is as bullish on SaaS as ever
Friday - 10/18/2019 - 09:00 AMHello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where each week we discuss other people’s money and what sense their investment choices make (or don’t).
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Former Oracle co-CEO Mark Hurd has passed away
Friday - 10/18/2019 - 12:01 PMMark Hurd, who until last month was one of two CEOs leading the database software giant Oracle, has passed away at age 62, one month after telling employees in a letter that he was taking a leave of absence owin
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - YellowHeart allows musicians and concert organizers to take more control of resold tickets
Friday - 10/18/2019 - 12:05 PMYellowHeart is trying to solve a problem that should be familiar to anyone who’s ever tried to buy a ticket for a popular concert: Those tickets will often get snatched up by scalpers, who then resell them at a much higher price.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Harley-Davidson has resumed production of the LiveWire
Friday - 10/18/2019 - 02:18 PMHarley-Davidson has resumed production and deliveries of its electric LiveWire motorcycle after determining an issue with charging was isolated to a single vehicle.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Alphabet’s Wing begins making first commercial drone deliveries in the U.S.
Friday - 10/18/2019 - 02:49 PMAlphabet -owned drone delivery spin-out Wing is starting to service U.S.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Watch NASA’s first ever all-woman spacewalk live
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