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Exhibit for free in Startup Alley at Disrupt Berlin 2017 — applications close Friday
Oct 09, 8:01AM
Startup Alley at Disrupt Berlin 2017 is the premier exhibit hall for international cutting-edge tech startups. If you aspire to show your stuff alongside hundreds of other early-stage companies, you absolutely can — we’ll even tell you how you can do it for free. But you must act quickly, because you have only until October 13 to submit your application. Read MoreBlackBerry ditches the keyboard in latest handset
Oct 09, 7:11AM
Yesterday at GITEX Technology Week in Dubai, BlackBerry announced the Motion, an all-screen smartphone with a massive battery. Made by TCL under the BlackBerry Mobile brand, the Motion packs a 5.5-inch screen and running on a Snapdragon 625 SoC platform. The phone will be initially available in Middle Eastern markets for around $460 USD. North American availability was not announced. The… Read Morebpost acquires Radial, formerly eBay enterprise, for $820M
Oct 09, 6:34AM
The global e-commerce race — and how it is underpinned by logistics, delivery and economies of scale — continues to heat up. And today, the Belgian Post Group, also known as bpost, announced its latest move to bulk up its operations in North America. It has acquired Radial, the fulfilment company formerly known as eBay enterprise, for $820 million. This is important because Radial… Read MoreWalmart launches Mobile Express Returns to refund or exchange online items in physical stores
Oct 09, 4:11AM
As Walmart continues to build out its e-commerce business to rival Amazon’s, its latest development will build on some of the retail giant’s most established operations: Walmart is launching a new in-store returns service called Mobile Express Returns. People who purchase items online and then need to return them can do so by logging them on the Walmart app, generating a QR code… Read MoreAccelerating fintech in China
Oct 09, 1:30AM
Saturday night on a Shenzhen street corner, a young guitarist dressed in Johnny Cash black strums away, singing melodies. His open guitar case has a laminated QR reader, propped up, welcoming digital tips from passersby. China’s expeditious adoption of fintech is generating profits not only for startups, but also the companies investing in them. Sitting in the headquarters of FinPlus,… Read MoreAustralia's Startmate accelerator announces its most recent class
Oct 08, 10:34PM
As the startup tech scene blossoms in Australia, despite challenges like a small pool of local institutional investors and natural threats like the predatory Dropbear, one of the key components of its success has been the development of its national incubator and accelerator programs. One of the best of the bunch is Startmate, which is announcing their eighth cohort on Monday. Founded in… Read More'Star Wars: The Last Jedi' tickets go on sale Monday
Oct 08, 9:49PM
Your first chance to buy tickets to see The Last Jedi will be this Monday. The movie’s official trailer will be debuting during Monday Night Football tomorrow and tickets for the film will be going up on sale directly after, though we don’t have exact timing details. Lucasfilm teased a number of promos with various movie theater companies for giveaways, exclusive posters and… Read MoreJeff Koons' augmented reality Snapchat artwork gets 'vandalized'
Oct 08, 9:20PM
Earlier this week, Snapchat launched a new augmented reality art exhibiting feature as part of a collaboration with the artist Jeff Koons. ART, as it’s called, will plaster the digital artwork and sculptures of artists into geo-tagged physical locations across the world that viewers can see as a Lens inside the Snapchat app. There has already been a backlash by some in the artistic… Read MoreDear Silicon Valley: America's fallen out of love with you
Oct 08, 7:30PM
Dear Silicon Valley, You used to be the envy of the world. Over the last decade I’ve seen countless cities try to become you, from the Silicon Savannah to the Silicon Bayou. At last year’s Global Entrepreneurship Summit on Stanford’s campus, hundreds of entrepreneurs from Mongolia to South Sudan came to listen to President Obama and Mark Zuckerberg and get a touch of… Read MoreTech leaders weigh in on diversity, inclusion and sexual harassment on stage at Disrupt
Oct 08, 6:53PM
At TechCrunch Disrupt SF last month, themes around diversifying the tech industry emerged in both in panels explicitly about those challenges and in unexpected places too. We’ve collected some of the highlights, pulling together the collective wisdom of a number of our on-stage founders and figures to tackle tech’s thorniest culture issues. Read MoreWhy Freada Kapor Klein thinks there's a moral crisis in Silicon Valley
Oct 08, 4:30PM
Every week, it seems, brings new ethical questions about Silicon Valley. A seemingly endless rash of sexual scandals in the venture community. Twitter supposedly used by anonymous Russian trolls to rig the American election. A straight-faced Mark Zuckerberg denying Facebook has a problem with fake news. Uber banned in London and vilified everywhere else. Google guilty of… Read MoreCuring the incurable
Oct 08, 1:00PM
Very rarely, an app comes along that changes your life. I want to tell you about such an app, and how it changed mine. I had nothing to do with its making; I have never installed or opened it on my phone; and yet, I expect that this will be the most personal of the almost 400 pieces I have written for TechCrunch over the years. It is estimated that between one-third and one-half of adults in… Read MoreComparing Alexa, Google Assistant, Cortana and Siri smart speakers
Oct 08, 12:51PM
The smart home assistant race has been building to a fever pitch over the course of the last couple of years. Things really came to head this past two weeks, when Amazon, Google and Sonos all held big events highlighting their latest smart speaker plays, making the already busy field a heck of a lot more crowded. The burgeoning category can be a tough one to navigate. A lot of picking the… Read MoreGoogle parent Alphabet looks to restore cell service in Puerto Rico with Project Loon balloons
Oct 07, 10:28PM
The FCC has given approval for Google parent company, Alphabet, to help Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands regain wireless service. The company will attempt to enable LTE connectivity using its high-flying Project Loon balloons. BREAKING: FCC issues experimental license to Google to provide emergency cellular service in Puerto Rico through Project Loon balloons. — Matthew Berry… Read MoreAngry young men
Oct 07, 9:19PM
I used to build bombs in my basement. My friend, a guy who called himself Damage Inc. on the BBSes, built pipe bombs and made a rocket launcher that shot small Estes rockets tipped with razors. We set them off in abandoned fields and fired rockets into trees. We lived in Columbus, Ohio, where there were wide stretches of open field and wide vistas of open time and we were bored and we made and… Read MoreIn defense of the Amazon Fire Phone
Oct 07, 8:55PM
The Fire Phone is widely regarded as one of Amazon’s biggest misfires — and rightfully so. After debuting in the top spot of the company’s retail charts, things quickly spun out of control. It’s more than enough to put a company off making phones permanently. But given all that’s happened in the industry in the three and a half years since, maybe it’s time for… Read MoreFacebook security chief rants about misguided "algorithm" backlash
Oct 07, 6:48PM
“I am seeing a ton of coverage of our recent issues driven by stereotypes of our employees and attacks against fantasy, strawman tech cos” wrote Facebook Chief Security Officer Alex Stamos on Saturday in a reeling tweetstorm. He claims journalists misunderstand the complexity of attacking fake news, deride Facebook for thinking algorithms are neutral when the company knows they… Read MoreGermans are doing deep scans of ancient instruments to uncover their secrets
Oct 07, 6:31PM
I don’t know if you’re into baroque music, but I can tell you that Germans sure are. So it’s no surprise that German R&D outfit Fraunhofer has turned its considerable resources towards learning about and conserving every little detail of the instruments for which the likes of Bach and Handel composed their music. Specifically, they’re putting them into an enormous… Read MoreShould VCs be investing in beauty brands?
Oct 07, 5:47PM
In the last two years, Unilever acquired Carver Korea for $2.7 billion. Estee Lauder purchased Too Faced Cosmetics for $1.45 billion. CVC Capital Brands bought PDC Brands for $1.43 billion. L’Oreal purchased a trio of skincare brands for $1.3 billion, and also IT Cosmetics for $1.2 billion. E.l.f. Beauty did an IPO. Venture capitalists didn’t invest in any of these beauty… Read MoreQ3 2017 US VC report: Exit options dwindle while late-stage dealmaking reaches new heights
Oct 07, 4:15PM
U.S. startup investors were good at putting capital to work this past quarter. They weren’t as good at getting it back. 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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