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500 Intel drones to replace fireworks above Travis Air Force base for Fourth of July
Jul 03, 9:59PM
The Fourth of July will be a little different tomorrow at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield, Calif. Instead of fireworks, 500 Intel Shooting Star drones will take to the sky to perform an aerial routine in honor of the holiday and the base’s 75th anniversary. These are the same drones that preformed at Disney […]
Facebook quietly relaunches apps for Groups platform after lockdown
Jul 03, 9:36PM
Facebook is becoming a marketplace for enterprise apps that help Group admins manage their communities. To protect itself and its users in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook locked down the Groups API for building apps for Groups. These apps had to go through a human-reviewed approval process, and lost access to Group […]
The hottest new space to disrupt is immigration
Jul 03, 7:30PM
Tech CEOs and founders are disrupting everything from travel to food, to space, to sleep. Now it's time to disrupt a process that so many of us have relied on to get where we are today: immigration.
The state of the IPO market
Jul 03, 7:30PM
Fifteen months ago, I predicted 2017 would be "the best year for tech IPOs since the dot-com heyday almost two decades ago." Well, that was not exactly what happened.
Win cash and prizes in the Virtual Hackathon at Disrupt SF 2018
Jul 03, 7:00PM
Our Startup Battlefield pitch competition may be legendary, but it's not the only throw-down going on at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2018 on September 5-7. This year, in honor of the largest Disrupt event ever, we've launched the Virtual Hackathon. Thousands of the best developers, coders and hackers will compete — from anywhere in the world — to build […]
The brains behind one of marketing's biggest hits are out to reshape the industry again… with direct mail
Jul 03, 5:52PM
Postie, a new Los Angeles-based startup, has a vision for the future of advertising and marketing — and it’s direct mail. Founded by some of the men responsible for the biggest hits in online marketing (like the Dollar Shave Club commercial that launched what became a billion-dollar acquisition) think that it’s time to take technology where […]
Spotify users push back at the over-the-top Drake promotion
Jul 03, 5:48PM
Some Spotify users were so annoyed by the recent Drake promotion that they asked for and were granted refunds, according to a report from Billboard. The streaming service had heavily promoted the artist’s latest album, “Scorpion,” even using his image on playlists that didn’t even contain his music, like “Massive Dance Hits,” “Best of British” […]
Facebook confirms that it's acquiring Bloomsbury AI
Jul 03, 4:37PM
Facebook announced this morning that the London-based team at Bloomsbury AI will be joining the company. My colleague Steve O’Hear broke the news about the acquisition, reporting that Facebook would deploy the team and technology to assist in its efforts to fight fake news and address other content issues. In fact, Bloomsbury AI co-founder and […]
Google Cloud's COO departs after 7 months
Jul 03, 4:36PM
At the end of last November, Google announced that Diane Bryant, who at the time was on a leave of absence from her position as the head of Intel’s data center group, would become Google Cloud’s new COO. This was a major coup for Google, but it wasn’t meant to last. After only seven months […]
Alan launches Alan Map to find doctors around you
Jul 03, 4:01PM
Health insurance startup Alan has launched a new product in France called Alan Map. It's a dead simple way to find GPs, dentists, ophthalmologists and more around you. You first type your address and the name of a doctor or the type of doctor you're looking for. There's a big map front and center with […]
Planck Re scores $12M Series A to simplify insurance underwriting with artificial intelligence
Jul 03, 4:00PM
Planck Re, a startup that wants to simplify insurance underwriting with artificial intelligence, announced today that it has raised a $12 million Series A. The funding was led by Arbor Ventures, with participation from Viola FinTech and Eight Roads. Co-founder and CEO Elad Tsur tells TechCrunch that the capital will be used to expand Planck […]
UK job ad indicates Amazon wants to bring TV advertising and free TV channels to Prime
Jul 03, 3:58PM
People have long wondered if one of Amazon’s goals in video and advertising — two key areas in Amazon’s media strategy — ultimately would be to bring the two together, with Amazon-powered ads running in video streams also served by Amazon. A job ad in the U.K. appears to indicate that the company might be […]
New malware highjacks your Windows clipboard to change crypto addresses
Jul 03, 3:15PM
In what amounts to be an amazingly nefarious bit of malware, hackers have created an exploit that watches 2.3 million high-value crypto wallets and replaces the addresses in the Windows clipboard with an address associated with the hackers. In other words, you could paste your own wallet address – 3BYpmdzASG7S6WrpmrnzJCX3y8kduF6Kmc, for example – and the […]
PayPal sells its consumer credit portfolio to Synchrony for $7 billion
Jul 03, 3:02PM
In November 2017, PayPal announced it had agreed to sell $5.8 billion in consumer credit receivables to Synchrony Financial as a part of an expanded relationship between the two companies. That deal has now closed, with Synchrony actually acquiring $7.6 billion in receivables, including PayPal’s U.S. consumer credit portfolio, totaling $6.8 billion at the close, as […]
Light is building a smartphone with five to nine cameras
Jul 03, 2:50PM
Light, the company behind the wild L16 camera, is building a smartphone equipped with multiple cameras. According to The Washington Post, the company is prototyping a smartphone with five to nine cameras that’s capable of capturing a 64 megapixel shot. The entire package is not much thicker than an iPhone X, the Post reports. The additional […]
The UDOO BOLT is a powerful computer on a tiny board
Jul 03, 2:46PM
When we last met UDOO, the team was building a powerful Raspberry Pi-based DIY board with a bunch of impressive features, including more ports and a better processor. Now the team behind the first units has released the UDOO BOLT, a DIY board that can run “AAA games” thanks to a built-in AMD Ryzen Embedded […]
Sony's streaming TV service PlayStation Vue raises its prices, too
Jul 03, 1:52PM
PlayStation Vue, welcome to the price-hike party. Sony’s over-the-top TV streaming service is the latest to raise the price of its subscription service, which will now cost $5 more per month across all four tiers. That means Vue’s cheapest plan will now cost $44.99 per month instead of $39.99 per month. The most expensive plan […]
Airbnb tests earlier payouts for hosts
Jul 03, 1:50PM
Airbnb is testing a new payments feature for hosts, letting them get partially paid out at the time of booking. This feature isn’t rolling out to everyone just yet, as Airbnb says that this is just a preliminary test to gauge interest. Invited hosts simply opt in to payout splitting to check out the feature. […]
Trōv launches its on-demand personal property insurance services in the US
Jul 03, 1:13PM
Trōv, the on-demand personal property insurance service, is launching in the U.S., the company announced today. Trōv’s first port of call in the U.S. will be Arizona. The service is already available in the U.K. and Australia, where customers have signed up to insure items 1 million times since the company first launched its business. […]
Launch your early-stage company at Startup Battlefield MENA 2018
Jul 03, 1:00PM
If you're looking for a way to launch your pre-Series A startup to the world, there's no better platform for that than TechCrunch's premier startup-pitch competition, Startup Battlefield. And now, for the first time ever, founders of early-stage startups across the Middle East and North Africa can take advantage of that awesome launch pad. You […]
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