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Report: China's Didi to buy Brazil's 99 in $1B deal to take on Latin America
Jan 03, 12:31PM
A year ago, Didi made a big move into Brazil when it laid down over $100 million to take a stake in 99, a local competitor to Uber in the app-based ride hailing market. Now, on the heels of getting a massive $4 billion investment of its own, it appears that Didi is looking to double down the Latin American region. According to several local reports, Didi is buying up 100 percent of the… Read MoreApply today for TechCrunch's Startup Battlefield Dubai
Jan 03, 12:05PM
Technology innovation and entrepreneurial genius exists across the globe. That’s why in 2017 TechCrunch took the Startup Battlefield to Africa, Australia, Europe, and of course San Francisco. In 2018, we’re heading to Dubai — a moonshot city in the making — and joining forces with the UAE’s new innovation hub, Area 2071. We’re looking for 15 of the… Read MoreThe US government blocks MoneyGram's $1.2B sale to Alibaba's Ant Financial
Jan 03, 7:06AM
The proposed acquisition of global payment service MoneyGram by Alibaba’s Ant Financial is off after the U.S. government blocked the $1.2 billion deal. Ant Financial, the Alibaba affiliate which controls Alipay — China’s top mobile wallet — and other financial services, announced a deal to buy Nasdaq-listed MoneyGram in April 2017 after it beat off a rival bid from… Read MoreCrunch Report | Telegram and Instagram Are Being Restricted in Iran
Jan 03, 5:00AM
Amazon Prime shipped 5 billion Items in 2017, SuperMeat gets $3 million in funding and Telegram and Instagram are being restricted in Iran. All this on Crunch Report. Read More
These psychedelic stickers blow AI minds
Jan 03, 1:23AM
Machine learning systems are very capable, but they aren’t exactly smart. They lack common sense. Taking advantage of that fact, researchers have created a wonderful attack on image recognition systems that uses specially-printed stickers that are so interesting to the AI that it completely fails to see anything else. Why do I get the feeling these may soon be popular accessories? Read MoreSamsung's C-Lab projects include smart glasses and a portable directional speaker
Jan 03, 12:11AM
Samsung’s Creative Lab is one of the more entertaining additions to CES in the last several years. Deemed C-Lab for short, the department is a sort of in-house accelerator, where Samsung employees can build and spin off startups, all while leveraging the electronics giants’ seemingly bottomless resources. Read MoreThe FCC is still tweaking its net neutrality repeal (but that's normal)
Jan 02, 10:40PM
You may think, from the pomp accompanying the FCC’s vote in December to repeal net neutrality, that the deed was done. Not so. In fact, the order hasn’t even reached its final form: the Commission is still working on it. While it may be frustrating, this is business as usual for regulations like this, and concerned advocates should conserve their outrage for when it’s… Read MoreSpotify faces $1.6 billion lawsuit from music publisher alleging copyright infringement
Jan 02, 10:26PM
Spotify is facing a $1.6 billion lawsuit from Wixen Music Publishing, the publisher that represents artists like Tom Petty, Missy Elliot, Stevie Nicks and Neil Young, The Hollywood Reporter first reported. The suit, filed December 29, alleges copyright infringement, specifically alleging Spotify is using thousands of its songs without a proper license. Read MoreYou can get that $29 battery replacement, regardless of your iPhone's health
Jan 02, 10:25PM
Apple hasn’t been super specific when it comes to those $29 iPhone battery replacements. After all, the company would no doubt like to the whole business behind it. What precisely it would take to qualify one’s out-of-warranty handset for the $50 discount hasn’t been spelled out, but it seems to be easier than anticipated. The company had previously mentioned the threshold… Read MoreAirbnb beats big property landlord's lawsuit in California
Jan 02, 8:24PM
A California judge has dismissed Apartment Investment & Management Company’s lawsuit against Airbnb. Last February, Aimco, which owns or manages about 50,000 properties, sued Airbnb, saying that the company is deliberately incentivizing people to breach their leases. Read MoreApple buys app development service Buddybuild
Jan 02, 8:02PM
Apple continues to ramp up its efforts to court developers by making it easier to create and iterate their apps for its platforms. The iPhone giant has now acquired Buddybuild, a Vancouver-based app tools startup that describes itself as “mobile iteration platform” focused on continuous integration and debugging tools. Read MoreWhat to expect at CES 2018
Jan 02, 8:00PM
I know, right? Christmas just ended and the New Year hasn’t even dawned — but we’re already ramping up for CES mode, and we’re taking you down with us. The biggest tech show of the year is set to kick off January 9, so here’s what we know (or think we know) about the upcoming show’s biggest news, pulled from exhibitor lists, the rumor mill and an examination… Read MoreSome apps were listening to you through the smartphone's mic to track your TV viewing, says report
Jan 02, 7:33PM
There may be a reason why that ol’ “Facebook is listening to you talk” conspiracy theory refuses to die – and not just because Facebook’s ad technology has gotten so good, it’s downright creepy. As it turns out, some apps are actually listening. Well, kind of! According to a recent report from The NYT, a number of apps using software from a company called… Read MoreFacebook, not Twitter, will live stream this year's Golden Globes' red carpet pre-show
Jan 02, 4:45PM
Facebook has scored the exclusive rights to live stream this year’s Golden Globes’ red carpet pre-show – a deal that last year went to Twitter. On Tuesday, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) and dick clark productions announced the two-hour event would be exclusively available on the Golden Globes Facebook page from 6 to 8 p.m. ET (3 to 5 p.m. PT) on Sunday… Read MoreIt's the New Year and you're getting laundry-folding robots, because the 1960s thought of everything
Jan 02, 4:30PM
The robot laundry-folding wars are heating up. The German appliance manufacturing giant BSH is in the early stages of partnering with the U.S. and Israeli-based laundry-folding robot designer FoldiMate on product development and manufacturing in the latest volley in the battle to bring a commercially viable laundry-folding robot to market. Read MoreAmazon shipped over 5 billion items with Prime in 2017
Jan 02, 3:30PM
Amazon still won’t officially reveal how many consumers worldwide participate in its Amazon Prime membership program, but it did today offer a few new stats related to that program’s adoption and growth. The company on Tuesday announced that more new, paid members joined Prime worldwide in 2017 than any other year. It also noted that over 5 billion items worldwide shipped with Prime… Read MoreUK eyeing 'extremism' tax on social media giants
Jan 02, 2:21PM
The UK government has kicked off the new year with another warning shot across the bows of social media giants. Read MoreFast-growing Chinese media startup ByteDance enters 2018 with some uncertainty
Jan 02, 11:10AM
One of the fastest rising Chinese startups of last year had a bumpy ride into 2018 after falling foul of China’s internet censors for the first. ByteDance, the new media firm behind news app Toutiao and the owner of Musical.ly courtesy of a $1 billion deal, had a standout 2018. Its valuation jumped to more than $20 billion, it picked a number of international services —… Read MoreTelegram and Instagram being restricted in Iran
Jan 02, 11:03AM
Messaging app Telegram and Facebook-owned social sharing platform Instagram appear to be being blocked in Iran. Read MoreLab-made meat startup SuperMeat raises $3M seed to develop 'clean' chicken
Jan 02, 10:00AM
SuperMeat, an Israeli biotech and food-tech startup that is developing lab-made chicken meat, has raised $3 million in seed funding, as it becomes the latest of a crop of so-called ‘clean meat’ companies to get off the ground. Others in the space include Bill Gates, Atomico and DFJ-backed Memphis Meats, and Hampton Creek, which is also exploring lab-grown meat. 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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