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Razer to raise upwards of $504 million in Hong Kong IPO
Nov 10, 9:55AM
PC gaming company Razer is set to raise upwards of $504 million (HK$3.9 billion) when it lists on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on Monday. The company, which develops gaming-focused accessories for PCs, laptops and is preparing to sell its first smartphone, today priced its shares at HK$3.88. That comes in towards the high-end of its HK$2.93-HK$4.00 price range set last month, The listing… Read MoreESPN's new streaming service will launch in the spring and be called "ESPN Plus"
Nov 10, 5:27AM
Today on Disney’s Q3 earnings call CEO Bob Iger gave a preview of ESPN’s upcoming direct to consumer streaming service. The announcement comes after another disappointing quarter for ESPN, with decreased ad revenue and higher programing costs compared to the prior year. The service will be called ESPN Plus, and live inside a new app that will be launched by the sports… Read MoreTwitter fixes another important problem with support for 50-character usernames
Nov 10, 4:52AM
Twitter has followed up its move to double the character limit of tweets to 280 by increasing the length of a username to 50 characters. This is far less impacting that the 280 character expansion, and certainly less controversial, but it may be useful for people with longer names or those who like to add emojis or change their name to witty statements regularly. The name function… Read MoreCrunch Report | Uber eyes 2019 IPO
Nov 10, 4:43AM
Today’s Stories Uber CEO says 2019 is the target for IPO Apple has acquired imaging sensor startup InVisage Technologies Twitter pauses account verifications after critics slam it for verifying Charlottesville rally organizer Credits Written by: MRD Hosted by: MRD Filmed by: Joe Zolnoski Edited by: Joe Zolnoski Read More
Gillmor Gang: Blocktrain
Nov 10, 3:49AM
The Gillmor Gang — Doc Searls, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, Denis Pombriant, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, November 3, 2017. G3: Social Security — Mary Hodder, Maria Ogneva, Tina Hui, and Tina Chase Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, November 3, 2017. @stevegillmor, @dsearls, @kteare, @DenisPombriant, @kevinmarks Produced and directed by Tina Chase Gillmor @tinagillmor Read MoreAnnouncing the TechCrunch Meetup in Singapore on November 23
Nov 10, 3:29AM
Here at TechCrunch we serve a global audience which is why we’ve held casual meetup events across many different parts of the world. Now we’re excited to add a new region to that list: Southeast Asia. As someone who has watched the region’s startup ecosystem grow in recent years, I’m delighted to announce that we’re teaming up with Google and VC firm SeedPlus to… Read MoreChina's Toutiao is buying Musical.ly in a deal worth $800M-$1B
Nov 10, 2:54AM
Musical.ly, the lip-syncing app popular with teens and young people, has been sold to Chinese social media giant Toutiao, according to an announcement made today. The deal is undisclosed but sources tell TechCrunch that Bytedance, the company behind China’s top news aggregator service Toutiao, will pay between $800 million and $1 billion to buy Musical.ly, which claims 60 million users… Read MoreYouTube implements new policy to flag inappropriate videos targeted at children
Nov 10, 1:23AM
A New York Times piece and a subsequent Medium post this week highlighted an ongoing problem with YouTube Kids — bizarre and disturbing videos aimed at young children using key words and popular children’s characters. Now YouTube says it is putting in place a new process to age-restrict these types of videos in the main YouTube app. Read MoreNew Stars Wars and Marvel TV shows planned for Disney's streaming service
Nov 09, 10:23PM
Disney CEO Bob Iger revealed some amazing news on his company’s earnings call for this quarter, including a live-action Star Wars TV show that will be coming to Disney’s subscription streaming service with a target premiere date by the end of 2019. It’s going to live alongside a Monsters, Inc. adaptation, a High School Musical show and one original series from… Read MoreTwitch is finally releasing the nearly 30 million usernames associated with Justin.tv
Nov 09, 10:23PM
Justin.tv, the life-streaming service that eventually grew into Twitch, was shut down back in 2014. Since then, many Twitch users have asked when the company would release the old Justin.tv usernames – requests that escalated after Twitch introduced the ability to change usernames earlier this year. As it turns out, Twitch is now doing just that. In an email sent confidentially to… Read MoreFacebook defends revenge porn pilot that has people upload nude images of themselves
Nov 09, 10:23PM
Facebook Global Head of Safety Antigone Davis has clarified some things about how Facebook’s test pilot to combat revenge porn in Australia works. The strategy entails uploading your nude photos or videos to Messenger in order to help Facebook tag it as non-consensual explicit media. Read MoreBrand new 'Star Wars' trilogy coming from 'The Last Jedi' director Rian Johnson
Nov 09, 10:05PM
Star Wars will get another film trilogy, which will be entirely new and will be separate from the current saga focusing on the Skywalker family and its close associates and friends. The news comes direct from Star Wars’ official blog, and we also now know that the new saga will be led by Rian Johnson, the director of Star Wars: The Last Jedi, set for a release this December. Read More70 years of VC innovation
Nov 09, 10:00PM
How old is venture capital? Probably as old as the first hunter/gatherer. Yet, until the mid-20th century, it was mostly practiced by wealthy individuals and families. Modern VC was initiated by French-born American Georges Doriot in 1946, who founded the world’s first publicly owned VC firm. Since then, VC has not stopped finding new ideas to provide an edge for success. Read MoreRedfin shares fall 7% after real estate earnings disappoint
Nov 09, 9:32PM
Redfin, the real estate brokerage site, saw its shares tumble about 7 percent in after-hours trading, shortly after sharing its earnings. The newly public business may have disappointed Wall Street, but it’s still growing. Revenue was up 35 percent from last year and net income nearly doubled, from $5.7 million to $10.6 million. Read MoreNvidia's huge run continues as its data center business surges
Nov 09, 9:30PM
Nvidia continues to ride the wave of a myriad of huge success stories for the company, like the rapid adoption of the Nintendo Switch and demand for technology to power AI computation within data centers, as it saw yet another quarter where its business continued to expand significantly. It’s a wave that’s tripled Nvidia’s stock in the last year. Nvidia’s significant… Read MoreChinese search engine Sogou up 4% following IPO
Nov 09, 9:05PM
Sogou, the Chinese search engine, debuted on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday, under the ticker “SOGO.” After pricing at the top of the range at $13 per share, the company raised $585 million. Sogou then hovered around $13.50 for most of its first day of trading, closing the day at $13.51, up about 4 percent. Read MoreDo cities still want a sharing economy?
Nov 09, 8:30PM
Cities make the sharing economy work, and the urban environment is the critical differentiator for experimentation, change and scale. In just a few years, the sharing economy has grown from a niche service only found in tech hubs to a larger share of the economic pie — and it has significantly impacted the local economies of cities. Read MoreBolt Threads is raising $106 million from Foundation Capital and Formation 8
Nov 09, 8:13PM
Our spidey senses are tingling over here. According to an SEC filing, TechCrunch has learned Bolt Threads, the biotech company spinning microbes into spider silk, is raising a whopping $106 million in Series D financing. Bolt Threads has been on a meteoric rise since it first told TC about its ambitious endeavor to make spider silk, a material stronger than teflon but softer than a cloud. Read MoreGoogle's improved image blending means a more seamless Street View
Nov 09, 8:08PM
Google is hard at work behind the scenes improving one of its ambitious technical projects ever – Street View. The company previously revealed that its been rolling out improved camera cars with better photographic equipment to improve the quality and resolution of images that make up its street-level views in Google Maps, but it’s also fixing the sometimes messy stitching that… Read MoreApple releases first diversity report under new VP of diversity and inclusion
Nov 09, 8:00PM
Apple has released its first diversity and inclusion report since naming Denise Young Smith as VP of diversity and inclusion in May. It’s also Apple’s first report since Donald Trump took the office of president of the United States. 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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