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47.3 million U.S. adults have access to a smart speaker, report says
Mar 07, 3:51PM
Nearly one in five U.S. adults today have access to a smart speaker, according to new research out this week from Voicebot.ai. That means adoption of these voice-powered devices has grown from around 1 percent reach among U.S. adults to nearly 20 percent in just two years – or 47.3 million U.S. adults. To clarify, “access to a smart speaker” means the adults have one in… Read MoreEcobee scores a $61 million Series C with help from Amazon
Mar 07, 3:44PM
Smart thermostat maker Ecobee just wrapped up a $61 million Series C, bringing the Toronto-based company’s total funding to $146 million. This latest round features investments from Energy Impact Partners, Thomvest, Relay Ventures and, most notably, Amazon’s Alexa Fund, which has taken a particularly interest in the company’s products of late. No surprise, really. Ecobee has… Read MoreGeniac, the office as a service, is shutting down after Grant Thornton pulls support
Mar 07, 3:22PM
Geniac, the London-based startup that provided an “office as a service” for small and medium-sized businesses, is soon to enter the deadpool. Read MoreWindows 10S will become 'S Mode' next year
Mar 07, 3:01PM
Windows 10S is, in the simplest terms, Microsoft’s Chrome OS competitor. A spiritual successor to RT, the operating system is a slimmed down version of Windows 10 with added security (by way of locked down app installs) and lower hardware requirements designed to be run on sub-$300 systems that can be purchased in bulk by schools. The messaging on the software was always a bit messy,… Read MoreS&P Global snares Kensho for $550 million
Mar 07, 2:50PM
S&P Global announced today that it will acquire Kensho, a Cambridge, Massachusetts startup that has concentrated on artificial intelligence and analytics for big financial institutions. The total value of the deal is $550 million in a mix of cash and stock. Kensho, which counted S&P Global as a client/partner and an investor, launched in 2013 and has raised $67.5 million, according… Read MoreMagic Leap raises $461 million in fresh funding from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Mar 07, 2:44PM
Magic Leap still hasn’t released a product, but they’re continuing to raise a lot of cash to get there. The Plantation, Florida-based augmented reality startup announced today that it has raised $461 million from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s sovereign investment arm, The Public Investment Fund. The Saudi Arabian fund contributed $400 million of the raise, with… Read MoreAmazon launches a low-cost version of Prime for Medicaid recipients
Mar 07, 2:00PM
Amazon announced this morning it will offer a low-cost version of its Prime membership program to qualifying recipients of Medicaid. The program will bring the cost of Prime down from the usual $10.99 per month to about half that, at $5.99 per month, while still offering the full range of Prime perks, including free, two-day shipping on millions of products, Prime Video, Prime Music, Prime… Read MoreAtomwise, which uses AI to improve drug discovery, raises $45M Series A
Mar 07, 2:00PM
Atomwise, which uses deep learning to shorten the process of discovering new drugs, has raised a $45 million Series A. The round was led by Monsanto Growth Ventures, Data Collective (DCVC) and B Capital Group. Baidu Ventures, Tencent and Dolby Family Ventures, which are all new investors in Atomwise, also participated, as well as returning investors Y Combinator, Khosla Ventures and DFJ. Read MoreFacebook adds video chat to Messenger Lite, its pared-down Android app
Mar 07, 1:57PM
After bringing its pared-down Android app Messenger Lite to mature markets like the US and UK last autumn, Facebook is expanding its features to ramp up engagement. Today, the company announced that it is adding video chat into the mix. Messenger Lite, first launched in 2015 was initially part of an effort from Facebook to build more apps to boost usage in developing countries, where… Read MoreAnnouncing the TechCrunch Hackathon at VivaTech in Paris
Mar 07, 1:41PM
Where do savvy developers, hackers, tech builders and makers go to test their mettle and push the very limits of their creativity and endurance? To a Hackathon, where else? We’re psyched to announce that the next TechCrunch Hackathon takes place at VivaTech on May 25-26 at the Paris Expo Porte de Versailles. It’s a perfect match in the City of Love as thousands of founders,… Read MoreVoicera lands $20 million with help from big-time enterprise investors
Mar 07, 1:28PM
It seems that everyone agrees that meetings are a time suck. There have been many attempts to use technology to make it easier to organize and run them, but Voicera, a Bay area startup, is attacking the problem from a different angle. It wants to make it simpler to record meetings and pull out action items automatically using artificial intelligence. Today, it announced a $20 million Series… Read MoreUK's Atom Bank raises another $206M led by BBVA for millennial and SMB financial services
Mar 07, 12:03PM
Atom Bank, the startup based out of Durham, England that operates a mobile-only bank targeting consumers between the ages of 18 and 34, has raised another big round of funding. The company today announced another £149 million ($206 million) in funding to double down on its existing business — focused currently on savings accounts, mortgages and small business loans — as well as… Read MoreUK kicks off driverless car law review to get tech on the road by 2021
Mar 07, 11:08AM
In 2021 the UK government intends the country to be well on its way to a driverless future. No, not a cheap joke about Brexit — yesterday it announced a three-year regulatory review to “pave the way for self-driving cars”. Read MoreAudi gets in on the flying car action with Airbus and Italdesign
Mar 07, 10:41AM
The Geneva Motor Show is home to many supercars and outlandish apparitions, but the collaboration between Italdesign, Audi and Airbus on the Pop.Up Next flying car concept is one of the more out there. It’s an updated version fo the Pop.Up that Italdesign and Airbus brought to the show last year, this time including an Audi-branded components of the modular flying/driving system. The… Read MoreLaunch at Startup Battlefield Europe: Applications Still Open
Mar 07, 10:15AM
TechCrunch is proud to bring Startup Battlefield Europe to Paris in partnership with VivaTech, which takes place on May 24th – 25. Thousands of founders, business leaders, investors, academics, students, and media will descend on the Paris Expo Porte de Versailles to see the future of tech. And TechCrunch will be there searching for the first winner of Startup Battlefield Europe. It… Read MoreGoogle is bringing messaging to its Tez payment app in India
Mar 07, 8:08AM
Messaging and payments continue to converge in India after Google added chat features to its Tez payment app in India. The move follows the introduction of peer-to-peer payments inside WhatsApp in India, its largest country worldwide with over 200 million users, last month and it now allows users of Tez to communicate directly with contacts via the app. Google told Gadgets 365 that the feature… Read MoreIBM's PAIRS Geoscope helps developers wrangle geospatial data
Mar 07, 5:01AM
IBM today announced PAIRS Geoscope, a new experimental cloud-based service that makes it easier for developers to work with large amounts of geospatial data from across a wide variety of sources. The service handles ingesting, integrating and managing the data and allows developers to focus on their queries. Read MoreParis-based VC firm Ventech is raising a new fund
Mar 07, 5:01AM
Ventech has been around for 20 years, which is the equivalent of 80 years in tech time. And the VC firm is still going strong as it just announced the initial closing of a new fund. The firm has raised $170 million (€140 million) and wants to reach the $250 million hard cap (€200 million) within a few months. And Ventech isn’t going to reinvent the wheel. The firm plans to do more of… Read MoreTinkerer Jonathan Zufi talks about design and Escape From New York
Mar 07, 4:28AM
This week on Technotopia I talked to Jonathan Zufi, creator of the LifeClock One, a replica of the watch worn by Snake Plissken in Escape From New York. Zufi loves design and his insight on what makes something a timeless classic – even when it comes to computer hardware – is fascinating. Zufi is also the author of Iconic, a book that details Apple products from the earliest days… Read MoreCondé Nast Traveler revamps its website and unveils 20 new city guides
Mar 07, 12:00AM
Travel websites get redesigned all the time, but you just need to visit the homepage to tell that the team at Condé Nast Traveler has something different in mind. Instead of a standard river of articles, or a menu for navigating to different sections and travel destinations, there’s just a declaration in large text: “To all the rulebenders, wanderlusters, and amrchair… 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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