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Crunch Report | Patreon is raising a Series C at $450M

Sep 16, 3:17AM

Patreon is raising at a $450 millon valuation, Chrome mutes autoplaying videos and Hulu is spending $2.5 billion for original content. All this on Crunch Report. Read More



China's three largest bitcoin exchanges will all stop offering local trading

Sep 16, 3:02AM

 Well, that didn’t take long. Yesterday, China’s longest running bitcoin exchange, BTC China, announced it will suspend its local trading service at the end of this month, and today the country’s two other major exchanges — Huobi and OKCoin — followed suit to say they will cease at the end of October. The writing was on the wall when The Wall Street Journal… Read More



Disrupt SF Hackathon – Sponsor prizes and spectator tickets

Sep 16, 2:14AM

 The Disrupt SF Hackathon kicks off this Saturday, September 16 at Pier 48. Check out these prizes being awarded from our partners, in addition to the overall “best of” prize awarded from TechCrunch – a sweet $5K to the winning team. Accenture The Accenture Hackathon Social Impact Challenge tasks you with building an app that helps improve the lives of those affected after… Read More



Nike and the NBA unveil connected jerseys… and they're super cool

Sep 16, 1:49AM

 Nike just announced the “Nike NBA Jersey with NikeConnect”, a connected jersey that allows wearers to get highlight reels, scores, stats and exclusive content from and about their favorite players and teams with a tap of their phones on the jersey’s tag. Read More



Apple defends new ad-tracking prevention measures in Safari

Sep 16, 1:37AM

 Apple isn’t backing down from a new approach that limits how web visitors can be tracked by online advertisers. The new feature in Safari, called Intelligent Tracking Prevention, was first announced at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference in June. It incorporates a number of different ways that Apple is trying to cut back on ad-tracking, for example by limiting the use of… Read More



Report: Facebook gave special investigator Robert Mueller detailed info on Russian ad buys

Sep 16, 1:30AM

 An official for Facebook told TechCrunch that the company is “continuing to cooperate with the relevant U.S. authorities,” as investigations into the Russian hack of last year’s presidential election continue to expand. In the latest development, authorities are now investigating how agents used online advertising on social networks and search platforms, and tech companies… Read More



FutureFuel.io adds new features to make paying off student loans easier

Sep 16, 1:00AM

 FutureFuel.io, the company offering student loan payment management services as an employee benefit, is adding new features to make it easier for companies to manage the loan repayment process. The company is offering real time account linking and updates on loan repayments through the fintech company Quovo. And through a partnership with Credible, will provide information on the lending… Read More



Corporate venture in Brazil gains steam as giants amp up startup investments

Sep 15, 11:00PM

 What a difference one year makes. Since showing noteworthy signs of a maturing tech ecosystem last summer, corporate venture in Latin America has begun to crescendo in just 12 months, led by Brazil. Read More



A look back in IPO: Apple, the early PC purveyor

Sep 15, 10:00PM

 To wrap up our series of looks into the IPOs of tech’s Big 5, we turn to Apple. Being the first of five to go public, what can we learn from Cupertino’s debut? Heading back in time as we are, we lack readily accessible S-1 documents that the younger entrants to the group have posted. So what was Apple’s story as it raced to the public markets? Read More



Angry Birds IPO expected to value parent Rovio at $1 billion

Sep 15, 9:49PM

 Remember Angry Birds? Apparently enough people are still playing it to justify an IPO. Rovio Entertainment, the Finnish parent of the popular smartphone game, is getting ready to go public on the Helsinki Nasdaq in two weeks. Read More



Equifax security and information executives are stepping down

Sep 15, 9:27PM

 Top executives at Equifax are retiring effective immediately, according to the WSJ. Susan Mauldin was the company’s chief security officer and David Webb was the chief information officer. The report says the executives are retiring though, in the wake of the company’s major security breach, “retire” feels like an euphemism for “fired.” Read More



A typical day for researchers on Google's Brain Team

Sep 15, 9:15PM

 What do you and researchers on Google’s Brain Team have most in common? You both probably spend a lot of time triaging email. In a Reddit AMA, 11 Google AI researchers took time to share the activities that consume the greatest chunks of their days. Email was a frequent topic of conversation, in addition to less banal activities like skimming academic papers and brainstorming with… Read More



Tencent tried to buy Spotify earlier this year

Sep 15, 9:05PM

 Spotify has long been linked with going public in the U.S. — it is speculated to be preparing for an IPO-less listing next year — but it has emerged that the company rebuffed the opportunity to sell to a major tech name earlier this year: Tencent, the Chinese internet giant valued at $380 billion. Tencent is said to have approached Spotify with a view to acquiring the company to… Read More



How startups can avoid Bodega's PR disaster

Sep 15, 9:00PM

 Oh, Bodega. The newly launched startup’s insensitivity hit some pretty tender nerves during a time when cultural and societal tensions are high. The first article published about Bodega read almost like a Silicon Valley parody. Read More



Tim O'Reilly thinks focusing less on shareholders just might save the world

Sep 15, 8:25PM

 There’s no shortage of angst in Silicon Valley. Tim O’Reilly, founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media and author of a new book, “WTF: What’s the Future and Why It’s Up to Us,” thinks a lot of problems could be solved if big tech would focus less on profits and more on enabling other companies to be built atop of, or in partnership, with their platforms.… Read More



The AI ecosystem to be on display at Disrupt SF

Sep 15, 8:21PM

 As AI creeps deeper into each and every industry vertical, demand for experienced technical talent continues to increase. Now online education tools like Udacity and Coursera are being thrust into the spotlight as potential solutions to the problem. But Fortune 2000 companies are still paying an unsustainable premium for data scientists. We’re excited to showcase this ecosystem at… Read More



South Park trolled Amazon Echo owners in the best way possible

Sep 15, 8:18PM

 This is one of the minor dangers of owning an Amazon Echo. Most anyone can activate the device by just saying the wake word, including Cartman. And in the season opener of South Park, that’s exactly what happened. Read More



Interview: Apple's Craig Federighi answers some burning questions about Face ID

Sep 15, 8:07PM

 Face ID is easily the most hot-button topic to come out of Apple’s iPhone event this week, notch be damned. As people have parsed just how serious Apple is about it, questions have rightly begun to be raised about its effectiveness, security and creation. To get some answers, I hopped on the phone with Apple’s SVP of Software Engineering, Craig Federighi. Read More



Original Content investigates the mysteries of Netflix's 'American Vandal'

Sep 15, 7:58PM

american vandal American Vandal takes the investigative approach of shows like Making a Murderer and applies it to something a little less serious — not a murder, but the spraypainting of dicks on teachers’ cars at a fictional California high school. Yes, it’s a Netflix parody of a Netflix show (among other things). The snake eats its own tail! American Vandal was created by Tony Yacenda… Read More



Meet the startups that just pitched at EF's 8th Demo Day in London

Sep 15, 7:29PM

 Entrepreneur First (EF), the company builder and “talent first” investor, has just held Demo Day for its eighth London cohort, seeing 14 newly-formed startups pitch their wares onstage to investors, press and other actors in the European tech scene. What’s particularly interesting about EF is that it backs individuals “pre-team, pre-idea” — meaning that, as… Read More




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