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Hong Kong's Qupital raises $2M led by Alibaba to finance invoice loans for SMES
May 18, 12:00AM
Qupital, a one-year-old Hong Kong-based startup that addresses cash flow issues for SMEs, has closed a $2 million seed funding round. The is certainly a notable size for an early stage investment in Hong Kong’s nascent but growing startup scene. The financing was led by Hong Kong-London firm MindWorks Ventures and the $130 million Alibaba Entrepreneurs Fund which launched in 2015.… Read MoreOSVehicle comes out of stealth with a modular self-driving car called EDIT
May 17, 10:37PM
OSVehicle is a B2B Self-Driving vehicle startup, backed by Y Combinator, which creates what they call ‘white-label solutions’ for auto fleets owners. Dubbed ‘EDIT’ this claims to be the first “ready-to-use Self-Driving EV” which is modular, open to different designs and “white-labelled”, in that it can be branded with any car marque. Emerging out… Read MoreAnd the winner of Startup Battlefield at Disrupt NY 2017 is… RecordGram
May 17, 9:47PM
Startups participating in the Startup Battlefield have all been hand-picked to participate in our highly competitive startup competition. They all presented in front of multiple groups of VCs and tech leaders serving as judges for a chance to win $50,000 and the coveted Disrupt Cup. After hours of deliberations, TechCrunch editors pored over the judges’ notes and narrowed the list down… Read MoreWith MIXhalo, Incubus guitarist Mike Einziger aims to deliver studio-quality sound at live events
May 17, 9:45PM
Most of you have probably been to concerts where the sound sucked, where all of the music was blown out and you couldn’t make out a single word of the lyrics. Now, you might have had a great time regardless (concerts are funny that way), but bad sound isn’t exactly a selling point. It can be particularly frustrating if you’re seeing a musician you love playing… Read MoreGoogle will now let users pay with any card they have on file, not just those saved in Android Pay
May 17, 9:00PM
Google is today making it easier for users to make payments within third-party apps and mobile website, as well as in Google Assistant, when they’re out and about. No longer will the company rely that the card users want to pay with be preloaded in Android Pay – they’ll be able to choose from any payment card they’ve previously used with their Google Account. The… Read MoreApp developers can now advertise on the Google Play homepage and app listing pages
May 17, 9:00PM
Google announced today a change to its Google Play platform that will allow app makers to now place ads on the Google Play home page and app listing pages. These ads are an expansion of Google’s previously announced “Universal Ad Campaigns,” which are designed to simplify the process of advertising across Google’s online properties – including the Google Play… Read MoreGoogle's Play Console now gives developers more data about their apps before and after launch
May 17, 8:55PM
The Google Play Console, Google’s main tool for helping developers manage their Android applications in its store from beta to retirement, is getting a major update at Google I/O today. Read MoreGoogle Firebase gets Fabric integration, better analytics and an alpha program
May 17, 8:50PM
Google today announced a slew of updates to its Firebase app platform that touch many of the service’s core features (or will do so in the near future). More than a million developers have now created projects with Firebase (though not all of these are active, of course), Google said today, and that number is growing rapidly. Read MoreGoogle's Instant Apps are now generally available to all Android developers
May 17, 8:26PM
With Instant Apps, Google is trying to bridge the worlds of web and native apps by making native apps — even those you haven’t installed on your phone — load as fast as a web page. The company first announced this project at its Google I/O developer conference last year and at this year’s event but only made it available to a select number of developers until now.… Read MoreGoogle announces the first preview of Android Studio 3.0, puts emphasis on speed and smarts
May 17, 8:18PM
The vast majority of Android developers use Google’s own Android Studio integrated development environment (IDE). Google offered a first look at what Android Studio 3.0 will look like. Most of these upcoming features are now available in the Android Studio early release channel. Read MoreThe very simple argument for the rise of co-living: people need people
May 17, 8:15PM
People, people who need people, are the luckiest people in the world. So go the lyrics of the famous Barbara Streisand song. It was also a theme at a future of cities panel at Disrupt today, where the discussion came back and time again to community as a competitive advantage — particularly when it comes to startups that are trying to shake up the long-staid but quickly evolving $200… Read More'A robot doesn't have to shoot back,' Rodney Brooks says of machines in the military
May 17, 8:06PM
Rethink Robotics co-founder and CTO, former CSAIL director and all-around robot luminary Rodney Brooks joined the Disrupt New York stage this afternoon to tackle some complex questions, ranging from robots place in the living room to the battlefield. Brooks has a fair bit of experience in both categories, as a cofounder of iRobot, whose product offerings have ranging from vacuuming to bomb… Read MoreEverything Google announced at its Google I/O keynote
May 17, 7:51PM
Google just kicked off its annual Google I/O developer conference. It’s a great opportunity to get a sneak peek at what’s next for Android and other platforms. This year was no different as the company announced a ton of stuff. In case you missed it, here’s everything Google announced today. Read MoreGoogle has an indoor positioning tech in the works, called VPS
May 17, 7:28PM
Google has announced it’s working on a service to offer detailed indoor location positioning using its Tango 3D sensing computer vision tech. Read MoreGoogle to launch a jobs search engine in the U.S.
May 17, 7:20PM
Google announced today it’s launching a jobs search engine in the U.S. The service will focus on all types of jobs – from entry-level and service industry positions to high-end professional jobs. It will also leverage Google technologies like machine learning and A.I. to better understand how jobs are classified and related, among other things. Google CEO Sundar Pichai gave a… Read MoreGoogle is giving a cluster of 1,000 Cloud TPUs to researchers for free
May 17, 7:16PM
At the end of Google I/O, the company unveiled a new program to give researchers access to the company’s most advanced machine learning technologies for free. The TensorFlow Research Cloud program, as it will be called, will be application based and open to anyone conducting research, rather than just members of academia. If accepted, researchers will get access to a cluster of 1,000… Read MoreGoogle's TensorFlow Lite brings machine learning to Android devices
May 17, 6:54PM
While discussing the future of Android at Google I/O, Dave Burke, a VP of engineering, announced a new version of TensorFlow optimized for mobile called TensorFlow lite. The new library will allow developers to build leaner deep learning models designed to run on Android smartphones. As Google rolls out a greater number of AI-enabled services that run on Android, it makes sense to use a… Read MoreGoogle partners with HTC, Lenovo for new standalone VR headset platform
May 17, 6:52PM
Today, at Google’s I/O developer conference, the company teased that it will be working on Daydream all-in-one virtual reality headsets with partners like HTC, maker of the Vive VR headset, as well as Lenovo. These headsets will be coming in “late 2017.” The big announcement is that these headset will have positional tracking which means that the hardware can tell the… Read MoreAndroid Go is a lightweight version of Android for crazy cheap phones
May 17, 6:50PM
There are 2 billion Android devices currently in use around the world. Google is now thinking about the next 2 billion devices. In order to do this, Google has a new project called Android Go. It’s a lightweight version of the upcoming version of Android (Android O) with optimized apps and Play Store. Google focused on devices with very low specs, users with limited connectivity and… Read MoreDaydream VR support is coming to Samsung's Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus this summer
May 17, 6:46PM
Onstage at Google I/O, VR Head Clay Bavor announced that Daydream support for the Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus will be coming this summer. Last year, when Google announced that Samsung would be a partner on Daydream, many expectedly guessed that the upcoming Galaxy S8 would add Daydream support. Well, Samsung finally appears to have gotten on board, perhaps only to give its Gear VR platform a period… Read MoreIf at any time you'd like to stop receiving these messages, just send an email to feeds_feedburner_com_techcrunch+unsubscribe-hmdtechnology=gmail.com@mail.feed2email.net.
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