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Blue Apron will start selling its meal kits in stores
Mar 15, 4:30PM
Blue Apron announced today it will bring its meal kits to stores. The news arrives at a time when the meal kit subscription company is struggling to grow and retain its users, who are often put off by the expense of the direct-shipped meal kits and the need to commit to an ongoing subscription. In […]
Android Wear is becoming 'Wear OS by Google'
Mar 15, 4:17PM
Android Wear hasn’t exactly been the rocket ship of success Google was no doubt banking on when it was launched four years ago this week. After a slow start, the company issued a 2.0 refresh of the wearable operating system in early 2017 — but the update was fairly minimal and didn't appear to move […]
GM will build its production autonomous Cruise cars at Michigan assembly plant
Mar 15, 4:16PM
GM revealed today that it’s going to be starting proper production of its Cruise autonomous vehicle at its Orion township assembly plant in Michigan, with the roof modules for the vehicles assembled nearby at its Brownstowne battery assembly plant. Alongside the Cruise AV, Orion will also continue to build the Bolt EV, as well as […]
SwiftKey gets stickers
Mar 15, 4:00PM
Back in 2016, Microsoft bought the popular SwiftKey keyboard for Android and iOS for $250 million. It’s still one of the most popular third-party keyboard on both platforms and today, the company is launching one of its biggest updates since the acquisition. With SwiftKey 7.0, which is out now, the company is adding stickers — because […]
We want to hear about your robotics company
Mar 15, 4:00PM
As you might have heard, last year's TC Robotics event in Boston was such a hit we've decided to do it again — only on the West Coast, this time. On Friday, May 11, we'll be holding TC Sessions: Robotics on the U.C. Berkeley campus. We've got a lot of big industry luminaries lined up […]
Facebook opens Instant Games to all developers
Mar 15, 3:39PM
Facebook’s Instant Games are now open to all developers, Facebook announced this week in advance of the Game Developers Conference. First launched in 2016, the platform lets developers build mobile-friendly games using HTML5 that work on both Facebook and Messenger, instead of requiring users to download native apps from Apple or Google’s app stores. The […]
Washington waking up to threats of AI with new task force
Mar 15, 3:02PM
Elon Musk has been one of the few Silicon Valley luminaries to place intense attention on the potential dangers of AI, raising a billion dollars with Y Combinator's Sam Altman to found OpenAI . Musk has continued the drumbeat on AI's dangers, telling a crowd at SXSW this week that "A.I. is far more dangerous […]
The red-hot AI hardware space gets even hotter with $56M for a startup called SambaNova Systems
Mar 15, 3:00PM
Another massive financing round for an AI chip company is coming in today, this time for SambaNova Systems — a startup founded by a pair of Stanford professors and a longtime chip company executive — to build out the next generation of hardware to supercharge AI-centric operations. SambaNova joins an already quite large class of […]
Don't foul this free-throwing Toyota basketball robot
Mar 15, 2:56PM
Because if it gets to the free-throw line, it sinks the shot – every. single. time. This robot (via The Verge) is the project of a group of Toyota engineers using their spare time, to build a robot inspired by the manga Slam Dunk, which is about a Japanese high school basketball team. The engineers […]
YouTube's Global Head of Music Lyor Cohen teases a new premium music subscription service
Mar 15, 2:45PM
In a keynote speech at SXSW, YouTube’s Global Head of Music Lyor Cohen spoke briefly of YouTube’s plans for a music subscription service, amid a longer discussion of the changes he’s witnessed throughout his career in the industry, as well as those still in the horizon. YouTube’s new music subscription service had been expected to launch […]
Amazon's top original shows generated an estimated 5M new Prime members
Mar 15, 2:37PM
Amazon’s original content efforts are paying off, at least in terms of driving new sign-ups for Prime, which is ostensibly their main value to the commerce giant. Documents obtained by Reuters show that the top Prime video original programming, including 19 shows covered within, were accountable for as many as a quarter of the total […]
Hootsuite nabs $50M in growth capital for its social media management platform, passes 16M customers
Mar 15, 2:19PM
Over the last several years, social media has become a critical and central way for businesses to communicate, and market to, their customers. Now, one of the startups that helped spearhead this trend has raised a round of growth funding to expand its horizons. Hootsuite, the Vacouver-based social media management company that counts some 16 […]
Drover picks up £5.5M funding for its car subscription marketplace
Mar 15, 2:06PM
Drover, a London-based startup that lets you take out a “car subscription” as an alternative to car ownership, has picked up £5.5 million in seed funding. The round was led by VC firms Cherry Ventures, Partech and BP Ventures (the venture arm of BP), and adds to an earlier £2 million ‘pre-seed’ investment from Version […]
My Tamagotchi Forever brings the 90s to your smartphone
Mar 15, 2:05PM
We had all but forgotten about Tamagotchis. But those attention-starved little creatures are coming back. Today, My Tamagotchi Forever launches on Google Play and the App Store. For those of you who didn’t ride the wave of handheld digital pets in the late 90s and early aughts, or those of you who are too young […]
Fortem gets a $15 million Series A for its drone-hunting tech
Mar 15, 2:01PM
Startup pitches invariably involve futures where the skies are thick with drones — delivery, transportation, emergency response. In that seemingly inevitable scenario, tracking and hunting down out of control and malicious unmanned vehicles will likely be a pretty lucrative field. It's something Fortem's been working on for a few years now. In May of 2016, […]
Google is launching playable in-game ads
Mar 15, 2:00PM
Maybe you’ve seen this kind of ad in a game you have played: your character dies and then the game asks you to watch a short video ad in return for an extra life. That’s actually a feature of Google’s AdMob advertising service, and today it’s extending this with playable ads, a new type of […]
Strix Leviathan raises $1.625M for its enterprise crypto trading platform
Mar 15, 2:00PM
Seattle-based Strix Leviathan, an enterprise trading and management platform for crypto assets founded by startup vet Jesse Proudman, today announced that it has raised a $1.625 million seed round led by Joe Montana’s Liquid 2 Ventures (yes, that Joe Montana). Other investors include Founders' Co-op, Future\Perfect Ventures and 9Mile Labs, as well as angel investors like Chris […]
John Chen to stay on as BlackBerry CEO through 2023
Mar 15, 12:47PM
BlackBerry today announced it reached an agreement to keep CEO John Chen in his current position through 2023. Chen joined the company in 2013 and is responsible for leading the company’s recovery as it left smartphones and embraced services. When Chen took over the company, the company was struggling on all fronts. Its time as […]
Experian acquires UK's ClearScore and its financial product matching engine for $385M
Mar 15, 12:30PM
While credit-scoring behemoth Equifax continues to work through the fallout from its massive security breach, one of its big competitors is snapping up a startup in the UK to diversify its business. Experian today announced that it is acquiring ClearScore, which has built a platform that — like Experian — offers you a credit score, […]
SpaceX and United Launch Alliance land $640 million in Air Force launches
Mar 15, 11:40AM
The U.S. Air Force wants to maintain its options: It awarded a total of $640 million in satellite launch contracts to both SpaceX and the United Launch Alliance (Boeing and Lockheed Martin’s joint space launch venture), with the goal of making sure it has access to at least two options for launching its payloads to […]
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