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Nokia pulls out of OZO VR hardware, lays off 310, steps up in health and patents
Oct 10, 7:18AM
Nokia, the once-mighty phone maker that eventually retreated to a business based around networking equipment and targeted verticals like health and imaging, is rethinking its business strategy once again. Today, the company announced that it would cease building its pricey OZO virtual reality cameras after finding that the VR market was developing “slower than expected”. It will… Read MoreSoftTech's McLoughlin and Pipedrive's Rein join TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin
Oct 10, 7:01AM
TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin, our premier European event is fast approaching this December. And that means some of the top players from Silicon Valley will be coming over. In this context, we are always interested in the experiences of European entrepreneurs who have made it in the SF and the Valley. So we’re delighted to announce two new speakers for the conference. Andy McLoughlin… Read MoreThese are the 15 startups participating in Startup Battlefield Africa
Oct 10, 6:00AM
On Wednesday, October 11 at 9:00 AM EAT in Nairobi, Kenya, the first Startup Battlefield Africa kicks off and is available for viewing with this livestream. TechCrunch is honored to host this event and here’s the startups presenting at the event. Startup Battlefield Africa Companies: Session 1 – Productivity and Utility at 9:35 AM: WeCashUp, Form+, Delivery Science, Abacus… Read MoreVerve scores $18.5M to reward you for selling tickets to friends
Oct 10, 6:00AM
Verve, the U.K, startup formerly known as StreetTeam that offers a sales platform to enable brands to easily run advocacy programs, has picked up $18.5 million is Series B funding. The round is being led by publicly-listed VC Draper Esprit, with participation from previous investors Kindred, Frontline Ventures, and Backed. Read MoreHere's the new Star Wars: The Last Jedi trailer as scene-by-scene GIFs to tear apart
Oct 10, 4:57AM
As we often do when a new Star Wars trailer lands, a bunch of us at TechCrunch are doing the only reasonable thing: we’re watching it over and over and looking for small details to mull over for the next 2 months while we wait for the actual movie to come out. Read MoreTwitter will launch a bookmarking tool in the near future
Oct 10, 3:39AM
Twitter confirmed it’s planning to launch a bookmarking feature to save tweets for later reading. The addition will help users keep a separate list of items they want to refer back to, instead of using the heart (aka “favorite”) button, which can indicate more of a “like” – similar to the “thumbs up” button on Facebook. The feature’s… Read MoreCrunch Report | RIP Windows Phone
Oct 10, 3:00AM
Rest in peace, Windows phone, GV invests $20 million into GitLab and Cruise buys Strobe. All this on Crunch Report! Read More
The new trailer for 'Star Wars: The Last Jedi' focuses on Rey and Kylo Ren
Oct 10, 2:28AM
The first trailer for Star Wars: The Last Jedi reassured us that we were finally going to hear Luke Skywalker’s voice again — even if it was only so he could tell us that it was time for the Jedi to end. The new trailer (which was released on a Monday evening because football) shifts its focus to Daisy Ridley’s Rey and Adam Driver’s Kylo Ren — basically, the… Read MoreApple scraps Weinstein-produced Elvis series after harassment allegations
Oct 10, 12:08AM
A report from Deadline says that Apple is walking away from a Weinstein Company-produced series on Elvis, in light of the recent harassment allegations surrounding co-founder Harvey Weinstein. Weinstein has since been fired from The Weinstein Company. A source close to Apple confirmed the cancellation with TechCrunch. According to Deadline, “the Elvis project was in very early… Read MoreVR Mark Zuckerberg discusses how Facebook is using AI to aid the Red Cross in Puerto Rico
Oct 09, 11:13PM
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced today that his company is working with the American Red Cross to target aid efforts in Puerto Rico using artificial intelligence and satellite imagery to identify areas to deliver aid. Read MoreHere's a small way to start building your resistance to Y Combinator rejections
Oct 09, 10:44PM
Who loves a good niche? We sure as hell do. And we also love niche products that address those niche problems — especially tech niches. So here we are, with Today in Good Niche Things. This time it’s a small little thing on the internet that sends you a rejection letter from Y Combinator before you even had a chance to apply to Y Combinator. It, instead, will send you a… Read MoreGoogle acquires Relay Media to convert ordinary web pages to AMP pages
Oct 09, 9:24PM
AMP — Google’s collaborative project to speed up the loading time for mobile web pages — is getting an interesting acceleration of its own today. Relay Media, a company founded by an ex-Googler that had developed technology to help covert web pages to the AMP format, has been acquired by Google. Read MoreYouTube bans bump stock instructional videos following Las Vegas shooting
Oct 09, 9:11PM
Following a mass shooting in Las Vegas earlier this month that left 58 people dead and hundreds injured, YouTube is removing video tutorials demonstrating how to make rifles more deadly using a device called a “bump stock.” Read MoreHear the inside story on Australia's first ICO at Battlefield Australia Nov. 16 in Sydney
Oct 09, 9:00PM
TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield Australia (Nov. 16 in Sydney) is approaching fast, and the fifteen finalists, selected from 272 applicants, have just received the good news. The names of those companies will remain under wraps until the day of the show, and over the next five weeks TechCrunch’s Battlefield team and our partner Elevacao will be working closely with the founders… Read MoreMicrosoft just purchased all of GE's newest Irish wind farm capacity for the next 15 years
Oct 09, 8:14PM
Microsoft signed an agreement with GE today to purchase every last bit of the wind energy from GE’s brand-new 37-megawatt Tullahennel wind farm located in County Kerry, Ireland for the next 15 years. This is a big deal on several levels. First of all, it means Microsoft will be using a clean energy source to power at least some of its cloud data centers in Ireland. That will likely result… Read MoreThis week in very bad Brand Twitter
Oct 09, 7:25PM
Amazon is buying a lot of companies and spending many billions of dollars. The above is a brand, which sells burgers, that apparently wants some money from Amazon. We think. We’re not ENTIRELY sure this is a great or efficient way to deploy capital. We also think Jeff Bezos should buy a coffee shop before it buys anything else. Read MoreReport suggests Face ID camera tech will be in next iPad Pro models
Oct 09, 7:16PM
The tech which enables the iPhone X’s new Face ID feature may be coming to the 2018 iPad Pro line, a report from KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo suggests. The note sent to investors and reported by MacRumors and 9to5mac suggests that the TrueDepth Camera system will be available on all of the “high-end” iOS devices by year’s end. This is more of an inevitability… Read MoreThe SpiderMAV does whatever a spider can, spins a web, any size
Oct 09, 6:58PM
Researchers at the Imperial College London’s Aerial Robotics Laboratory have created the SpiderMAV – a robot that stabilizes itself by shooting out multiple strands of rope that can stick to magnetic surfaces. The drone, which is a standard quadcopter, has a built-in rope gun that blasts out little connectors. The drone then pulls against the ropes, stabilizing itself in flight.… Read MoreA chat with the creators of Arduino
Oct 09, 6:33PM
On this week’s Technotopia I talked to Massimo Banzi and Fabio Violante, the co-creators of Arduino. This pair of Italian artists saw their little single-board computers as a gateway to high-tech art but they’ve essentially created a world in which anyone – from an 11-year-old hacker to a huge corporation – can make amazing hardware in a few hours. The pair recently… Read MoreZume scores $48 million in funding to expand its robotic pizza empire
Oct 09, 5:58PM
Zume has long had grand ambitions for its food automation service, and the Mountain View-based startup is now $48 million closer to that goal, courtesy of a new series B. The funding, first spotted by CNBC, was detailed in an SEC filing, alongside the company’s plans to raise a total of $50 million. Cofounders/co-CEOs Julia Collins and Alex Garden confirmed the round this morning with… 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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