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Facebook shouldn't block you from finding friends on competitors
Apr 13, 5:58PM
Twitter, Vine, Voxer, MessageMe. Facebook has repeatedly cut off competitors from its feature for finding your Facebook friends on their apps…after jumpstarting its own social graph by convincing people to upload their Gmail contacts. Meanwhile, Facebook’s Download Your Information tool merely exports a text list of friends’ names you can’t use elsewhere. As congress considers […]
Is Android Popsicle next?
Apr 13, 5:56PM
Barring any sort of major shakeup at Google's mobile division, there are two things we know for sure about the next Android's name: it will start with the letter "P" and it will be a dessert food. That already narrows things down quite a bit — you've got pudding, pecan pie, peanut brittle… Then, of […]
Google's 'Semantic Experiences' let you play word games with its AI
Apr 13, 5:50PM
Google does have a little fun now and then, when the master AI permits it, and today it has posted a few web experiments that let you engage with its word-association systems in a playful way.
Coinbase acquires decentralized app browser/wallet Cipher Browser
Apr 13, 5:13PM
Coinbase announced today that it has acquired Cipher Browser, a decentralized app browser and wallet for the Ethereum blockchain that it will be using to bolster its own similar product. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. We're excited to welcome @CipherBrowser to Coinbase! https://t.co/CIqK0EtDbb — Coinbase (@coinbase) April 13, 2018 Coinbase operates a decentralized mobile […]
Zuora's IPO is another step in golden age of enterprise SaaS
Apr 13, 4:39PM
Zuroa’s founder and CEO Tien Tzuo had a vision of a subscription economy long before most people ever considered the notion. He knew that for companies to succeed with subscriptions, they needed a bookkeeping system that understood how they collected and reported money. The company went public yesterday, another clear sign post on the road […]
Users and advertisers are mostly unfazed by Facebook scandal
Apr 13, 4:08PM
Facebook's downfall has, it seems, been greatly exaggerated — at least according to Facebook . Even with the Cambridge Analytica fallout and subsequent #DeleteFacebook campaigns, the site appears to be largely unfazed. An executive confirmed as much in a recent interview with The Wall Street Journal. A majority of users haven't altered their settings and […]
U.S. iPhone users spent 23% more in apps in 2017 than the year before
Apr 13, 4:00PM
Games, dating apps and streaming services contributed to a rise in consumer spending in iPhone apps last year, according to new data from app store intelligence firm, Sensor Tower. The firm found that U.S. iPhone users spent 23 percent more on in-app purchases in 2017 than they did the year prior – or, an average […]
Here are the 12 startups in Techstars NYC's Winter 2018 class
Apr 13, 3:33PM
The latest startups to participate in Techstars NYC have spent the past week pitching investors, journalists and the broader New York community. I swung by the accelerator’s new office a few days ago to meet each team. In a two-hour period, I found myself discussing everything from cryptocurrency to kitchen sanitation to gene sequencing. Here’s what the […]
After bashing Amazon deals, Trump orders investigation of U.S. Postal Service
Apr 13, 2:53PM
The president issued an executive order after hours last night, aimed at evaluating the U.S. Postal Service. Citing the mail service's "unsustainable financial path," Trump's order demands a "thorough" task force evaluation of the USPS's finances and operations. The service has been a long time talking point for Trump, with Twitter attacks dating back to […]
The Roadie 2 tuner ups your guitar game
Apr 13, 2:40PM
The first Roadie tuner was a modern marvel. An automatic guitar tuning system, the little device connected to your phone to listen to your guitar strings and then set them to the proper tuning using an internal motor. The new model, the $129 Roadie 2, is even cooler. I’ve been using the Roadie 2 for […]
Comcast will start bundling Netflix into its cable subscriptions
Apr 13, 2:12PM
Today’s development in weird potential frenemy relationships is an interesting one with Comcast now planning to bundle Netflix into its cable subscriptions, the companies announced today. Known as the original cord-cutting service, Netflix serves as a hub for not only a ton of original content, but also a huge catalog of movies and shows that […]
Podcasting app Anchor can now find you a cohost
Apr 13, 2:03PM
Fresh off its relaunch as an app offering a suite of tools for podcasters, Anchor today is rolling a new feature that will make it easier for people to find someone to podcast with: Cohosts. As the name implies, the app will now connect you – sometimes immediately, if people are available – with another […]
Google is testing self-destructing emails in new Gmail
Apr 13, 1:56PM
Google is working on a brand new design for the web version of Gmail. Yesterday, I published screenshots of the new design. TechCrunch's tipster Chaim also discovered an interesting new feature in the new Gmail. You’ll soon be able to send expiring emails. Working on an email service is hard as you have to be […]
PullRequest pulls in $8M Series A just months after scoring seed round
Apr 13, 1:51PM
PullRequest has been on a whirlwind lately, but it’s the kind that any startup would likely welcome. The company was in Y Combinator last August just trying to learn the startup ropes. By December it had scored a $2.3 million seed round — and it’s keeping it going. Today the company announced an $8 million Series […]
Exit scammers run off with $660 million in ICO earnings
Apr 13, 1:27PM
A Vietnamese cryptocurrency company Modern Tech launched an ICO for its Pincoin token, raising $660 million from approximately 32,000 people. The company first ran the Pincoin ICO, promising constant returns to investors, and then launched another token, iFan (a social network token for celebrities). Picoin investors first received cash from their investment and then the […]
Telegram hit with block in Russia over encryption
Apr 13, 1:06PM
A Russian court has ordered a block on access to the Telegram messaging app — with the block coming into force immediately, according to the BBC. The messaging platform has been under pressure to hand over encryption keys to Russian authorities so they can access user data — which they claim is needed for counterterrorism […]
VCs are hungry for Instacart, big money for bikes and a slew of enterprise IPOs
Apr 13, 1:01PM
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch's venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week was a damn corker. Instacart is fighting back! Zuora went public and it went well! There were other IPOs! Uber loves bikes! And what is #AllRaise? We happily had a good crew on hand to sift through […]
Sensu raises $10M to build a robust monitoring system for all your different operations
Apr 13, 1:00PM
While companies’ operations become increasingly fragmented into a wide variety of different spots — especially if they exist somewhere in a group of different cloud tools — making sure those operations are still healthy has become more and more critical. And for companies whose lifeblood is directly keeping that software online longer, it’s even more […]
Privacy Shield now facing questions via legal challenge to Facebook data flows
Apr 13, 11:57AM
The Irish High Court has referred for a second time a legal challenge to Facebook’s EU-US data transfers to Europe’s top court, seeking a preliminary ruling on a series of fundamental questions pertaining to the clash between US mass surveillance law and EU citizens’ fundamental privacy rights. The sustainability of the EU-US Privacy Shield mechanism […]
Backpage pleads guilty to sex trafficking, CEO faces up to 5 years for money laundering
Apr 13, 1:43AM
Backpage.com, for years the primary online platform for the sex trade, has pleaded guilty as a company to charges of sex trafficking in Texas, the state's attorney general announced today. Its CEO, Carl Ferrer, pleaded guilty to money laundering, for which he may be sentenced to up to 5 years in prison.
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