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Spotify buys AI startup Niland to develop its music personalization and recommendations
May 18, 10:47PM
Spotify has made its fourth acquisition of the year: AI startup Niland has joined its ranks. Paris-based Niland offered an API-based product focused on providing more accurate search and recommendation options for music. Spotify said the French company will join its R&D team to help hone its personalization and recommendation features for users. Read MoreSennheiser's PC 373D Dolby 7.1 gaming headphones sound best with it disabled
May 18, 10:32PM
Sennheiser is great at doing a lot of things, namely in the audio space. Headphones, microphones and the like. When Sennheiser combines the two and creates a gaming headset, you’d expect it to be pretty good, if not great. The 373D is an attempt at integrating 7.1 Dolby Surround Sound into a pair of headphones. The problem with that is, it’s not exactly as interesting as it sounds. Read MoreRestaurant guide Zomato got off lightly after a hacker grabbed 6.6M user passwords
May 18, 10:08PM
Restaurant guide and food delivery service Zomato looks like it is getting off lightly after it suffered a hack that compromised personal information belonging to 6.6 million users. The India-based company, which offers services in more than 20 countries worldwide, set off alarm bells when it revealed that a hacker had made off with 17 million user records. Read MoreIn the car with Android in the Car
May 18, 10:05PM
One of the areas that Google talked up regarding Android beyond phones at I/O this year was in vehicles, and Android in the Car was the main way it’s expanding its in-car presence. The expansion of its Android Auto software offers deeper integration with vehicle infotainment and climate control systems, and putting Assistant front and center for more voice control inside the car and out. Read MoreKickstarter launches tools for creators, because hardware is hard
May 18, 10:02PM
Kickstarter and its crowdfunding brethren have played a pivotal role in the hardware revolution of the past decade. But even now that developers have a wide range of democratizing tools at their disposal, hardware is, as ever, hard. Today the service launched Hardware Studio, a new suite of tools aimed at helping developers navigate the choppy waters of hardware development. Read MoreTelegram now lets users buy things from chatbots in its messaging app
May 18, 9:54PM
Messaging app Telegram has dropped a major update today that sees its service gain support for chatbot payments. It has also added short video messages and new design options for its Instant View reading mode. Read MoreATAP goes AWOL at Google I/O
May 18, 9:27PM
For the last few years, Google’s skunkworks ATAP unit always held its own keynote at I/O, Google’s flagship developer conference. Often, this was where Google would show off its most experimental and interesting projects — and sometimes, this ATAP keynote was more fun than the larger, flashier I/O keynotes. This year, however, ATAP is nowhere to be found on the I/O schedule. Read MoreTwitter hires a new GM of revenue products
May 18, 9:22PM
Meanwhile, at Twitter HQ, the leadership revolving door at the entrance stops spinning clockwise for just a moment as a new face enters the building… Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey today announced that the company has hired Bruce Falck, previously the CEO of adtech firm Turn, as its head of revenue product. Read MoreProfiting socially on nickels and dimes
May 18, 8:30PM
As the #DeleteUber count increases, Lyft has cleverly seized the opportunity to distinguish itself as a beacon of goodwill. In its most recent attempts to gain public favor, Lyft will soon be taking a stand by pledging fixed commitments to charities when you take a seat as a Lyft passenger. Read MoreFacebook and MLB partner to bring live-streamed games to the social network
May 18, 7:42PM
Facebook and the MLB announced today a new live-streaming partnership that will bring 20 live, regular season games to the social network. The games will air weekly on Facebook, with the first — Rockies at Reds — showing tomorrow night at 7:10 PM ET on the official MLB Facebook Page. Additional games and times will be announced later. Read MoreGoogle's AMP now powers 2B+ mobile pages and 900K domains, loads 2x faster
May 18, 7:40PM
As Google looks for ways to keep people using its own mobile search to discover content — in competition with apps and other services like Facebook’s Instant Articles — the company is announcing some updates to AMP, its collaborative project to speed up mobile web pages. Today at the Google I/O developer conference, Google announced that there are now over 2 billion… Read MoreMedium launches audio versions of stories for members
May 18, 7:13PM
Medium has launched a new feature that could add more incentive to its paid membership program: audio stories. The paid member exclusive offering will provide an audio version of every story created specifically for its members, and will also be made available for some of the best posts on Medium, as selected from the company’s own staff. These aren’t just text-to-speech… Read MoreThe FCC officially proposes to end net neutrality rules (but it's not over yet)
May 18, 7:09PM
Today the FCC voted to officially propose an order that would eliminate net neutrality rules as we know them. To be clear, the rules are not being adopted today — that vote will be about three months from now, during which time the proposal is open for comment. Read MoreFacebook, Messenger and Instagram unite with cross-app notifications
May 18, 6:41PM
Facebook’s family of apps are moving in together. Facebook, Messenger and Instagram are each testing a feature that shows notification counters from the other apps and lets you instantly switch between them. Read MoreAndroid Pay to expand to new markets, add improved loyalty card features
May 18, 6:38PM
Yesterday at Google’s developer conference I/O, the company announced upgrades to its Payment API that will make it easier for end users to switch between their multiple payment cards when checking out on the mobile web, or paying for things in apps – even if those cards were not saved in Android Pay. Today, Google announced a few more changes to its payments business –… Read MoreFor investors seeking a purpose-built CRM toolkit, Affinity raised $13.5 million to get you covered
May 18, 6:30PM
For the venture capitalists, hedge funders, investment bankers and private equity folks trawling the skyways looking for deals, there’s nothing more important than a strong network. But for most firms keeping track of meetings, managing follow-ups, and plotting a next move is still a pretty low-tech process (ironic considering all the CRM tools these guys have built for others). Well,… Read More
Microsoft will soon open its first two data centers in Africa
May 18, 6:17PM
Microsoft today announced that it will soon open two data center regions for its cloud-based services in Johannesburg and Cape Town South Africa. This marks Microsoft’s first data center expansion into Africa, and the plan is to get these new regions online in 2018. Read MoreAmazon Charts, Amazon's new bestseller list, ranks titles by 'most read' and more
May 18, 6:02PM
Amazon has long relied on customers providing feedback and providing other ranking data as part of the process of encouraging more sales on its platform, and now the e-commerce giant is adding a new twist on this to spur more buying in its books business. Today, Amazon announced Amazon Charts, a new kind of bestseller list that will give users, for the first time ever, a top 20 list of… Read MoreNo, YouTube's mobile live streaming is not yet open to all – but it's very close
May 18, 5:56PM
YouTube appears to be further opening up mobile live streaming by dropping requirements on subscriber counts in order to gain access to the feature, according to reports out today. Google, however, has disputed claims saying the new functionality is now available to all users, instead stating that only a subset of YouTube’s users have access for the time being. That said, mobile… Read MoreGoogle's Seurat for mobile VR means you can finally truly step into Star Wars
May 18, 5:45PM
At Google’s I/O developer event on Thursday, the company revealed Seurat, a new tool that allows for rendering of very high resolution immersive content even on mobile VR devices that don’t necessarily have the best specs. To demonstrate Seurat’s capabilities, Google showed off a collaboration with ILMxLAB, which brings cinematic-quality renders from Star Wars to… 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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