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Uber has agreed to sell its Southeast Asia business to rival Grab
Mar 25, 3:45PM
After weeks of speculation, Uber has concluded a deal that will see it sell its business in Southeast Asia to local rival Grab . The company plans to announce the agreement this coming week and potentially as soon as Monday, two sources have confirmed to TechCrunch. Full details of the arrangement aren’t fully clear at this point, […]
Zuck apologizes for Cambridge Analytica scandal with full-page print ad
Mar 25, 2:57PM
Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg has taken out a full page ad in the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and six UK papers today to apologize Cambridge Analytica scandal, according to CNN’s Brian Stelter. The ad starts in bold letters, saying: “We have a responsibility to protect your information. If we […]
A $6 trillion wake up call for the tech industry
Mar 25, 1:30PM
Jim Fruchterman Contributor Share on Twitter Jim Fruchterman is the founder and chief executive of Benetech, a non-profit developer of technology for social good. Earlier this year, the business community received a wake-up call issued with all of the might that $6 trillion can muster. The call came from Laurence Fink, the founder and chief […]
Towards a world without Facebook
Mar 25, 1:00PM
Dear blockchain people: this is your hour. Abandon your transparently greedy get-rich-quick schemes, turn away from your casinos of de-facto modern-day penny stocks, and focus your decentralized attention on what the world needs. Save us, O blockchainers, from the scourge that is Facebook! Decentralize all the things! I’m kidding, of course. For now. Every year, […]
Israeli startups: Grab your exhibit table in Startup Alley at TC Tel Aviv
Mar 25, 9:02AM
Hey startups! TechCrunch is returning to Tel Aviv on 7 June, 2018 for its inaugural day-long conference at the Tel Aviv Convention Center. This year's event will be bigger and better than ever — featuring not only TechCrunch's signature stellar programming focused on mobility, but also a new expo area called Startup Alley, where hundreds […]
Monarch is a new platform from surgical robot pioneer Frederic Moll
Mar 24, 10:21PM
Auris Health (née Auris Surgical Robots) has done a pretty good job flying under the radar, in spite of raising a massive amount of capital and listing one of the key people behind the da Vinci surgical robot among its founders. With FDA clearance finally out of the way, however, the Redwood City-based startup medical […]
Facebook was warned about app permissions in 2011
Mar 24, 7:20PM
Who’s to blame for the leaking of 50 million Facebook users’ data? Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg broke several days of silence in the face of a raging privacy storm to go on CNN this week to say he was sorry. He also admitted the company had made mistakes; said it had breached the […]
JASK and the future of autonomous cybersecurity
Mar 24, 6:30PM
There is a familiar trope in Hollywood cyberwarfare movies. A lone whiz kid hacker (often with blue, pink, or platinum hair) fights an evil government. Despite combatting dozens of cyber defenders, each of whom appears to be working around the clock and has very little need to use the facilities, the hacker is able to […]
Hip hop finds its beat in the startup scene
Mar 24, 6:11PM
Hip hop stars are taking their reputations to Wall Street and Sand Hill road. Unlike their rock star brethren, who've historically been disinterested in dabbling with startups, quite a few hip hop artists have amassed good-sized portfolios. They've seen a few big hits too.
'Black Panther' just became North America's highest-grossing superhero movie
Mar 24, 6:09PM
After the remarkable string of weekends it's been having, it was really just a matter of time before Black Panther wrestled the top spot from his fellow Avengers. As of today, the Ryan Coogler-directed film is North America’s highest grossing superhero film of all-time (not adjusted for inflation, mind). The news comes via The Hollywood […]
Are corporations that use Wikipedia giving back?
Mar 24, 5:04PM
YouTube's plan to combat conspiracy videos with information sourced from Wikipedia got push back from a number of different quarters — including, surprisingly, Wikimedia itself. Seems Google didn't mention the plan to the foundation before unveiling it at SXSW earlier this month. Whoops. Wikimedia executive director Katherine Maher responded with an even-keeled statement reiterating that, […]
Gillmor Gang: Facelift
Mar 24, 5:00PM
The Gillmor Gang — Frank Radice, Denis Pombriant, Doc Searls, Esteban Kolsky, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, March 23, 2018. G3: Face the Music — Mary Hodder, Elisa Camehort Page, Denise Howell, Kristie Wells, and Tina Chase Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, March 22, 2018. @stevegillmor, @dsearls, @ekolsky, @DenisPombriant, @fradice Produced and directed by Tina […]
Cambridge Analytica raided by UK data watchdog
Mar 24, 4:30PM
The UK’s data watchdog, the ICO, finally obtained a warrant to enter and search the offices of Cambridge Analytica late Friday — carrying out an evidence gathering sweep of the company into the small hours of Saturday morning. Cambridge Analytica is at the centre of a data misuse storm that’s wiped billions off the value […]
Tim Cook addresses Facebook privacy, U.S./China relations at Beijing event
Mar 24, 3:14PM
Apple CEO Tim Cook kicked of this year's China Development Forum in Beijing today with an address that hit on a number of hot button topics, user privacy concerns and a looming U.S./China trade war. The executive touched on privacy regulations, in the wake of a breech of trust that found Cambridge Analytica harvesting information from […]
Original Content podcast: Confronting the tragedy of Hulu's 'Looming Tower'
Mar 24, 2:00PM
The Looming Tower, a new series on Hulu, approaches the September 11 terrorist attacks from an unusual angle — instead of focusing on the day itself, it tells the story of the FBI and CIA investigations into Al-Qaeda in the late 1990s. In some ways, the show feels like a police procedural, with Jeff Daniels […]
Establishing ethical guidelines for marketing cryptocurrencies
Mar 24, 10:30AM
The marketing of cryptocurrencies and Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) is currently operating like the Wild West. From Ethereum to Litecoin to Neo, there are over 1,300 offerings in the burgeoning crypto market, and people like James Altucher are here to profit off the confusion. However, change is afoot. Facebook banned advertising of ICOs and cryptocurrencies, […]
Snap reportedly bought its very own 3D game engine
Mar 24, 2:51AM
Snapchat’s parent company bought a web-based 3D game engine startup out of the UK this past May, Business Insider (paywalled) reports. PlayCanvas is a development tool focused on letting people easily design rich 3D environments. Unlike products from companies like Unity and Epic Games, PlayCanvas’s game engine was entirely browser-based and was optimized to run […]
The web will soon be a little safer with the approval of this new security standard
Mar 24, 12:27AM
Hear that? It's almost as if thousands of spooks and hackers suddenly cried out at once... The Internet Engineers Task Force has just unanimously approved a security framework that will make encrypted connections on the web faster and more resistant to snooping.
Watch Alexa rap with Too Many T's in this interactive music video
Mar 23, 11:31PM
Alexa can already sing and rap, but now she’s the star of a new music video by the English rap duo Too Many T’s. The London-based rappers this week released an interactive video that lets Alexa sing along by triggering with voice commands, then pausing while she answers. The result is essentially a duet between […]
IPOs are back, but for how long?
Mar 23, 11:16PM
The first quarter is almost over, and despite Dropbox’s splashy debut on the public market earlier today, it was preceded by just two other U.S. tech companies to IPO in 2018: Cardlytics and Zscaler. Will Dropbox turn things around? Will the fact that Spotify is readying its debut get the momentum going at long last? It […]
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