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Bessemer is reportedly raising $1.6B for its tenth fund
Aug 29, 11:51PM
Bessemer Venture Partners is gearing up for its next billion-dollar fund. The early-stage venture capital firm, which had filed to raise new capital in early August, has reportedly set a $1.6 billion target for its tenth flagship fund, an amount that a source familiar with the fundraise tells us is “directionally correct.” Bessemer declined to […]
Netflix releases the trailer for Orson Welles' final film
Aug 29, 10:40PM
“The Other Side of the Wind” has had a long, torturous path to completion. In a way, it’s one of the final chapters in the longer saga of Orson Welles — who, after making “Citizen Kane” (often cited as the greatest film of all time) and “The Magnificent Ambersons,” spent most of the ensuing decades in […]
Tesla is having some big network issues
Aug 29, 9:50PM
Tesla’s fleet internet network and website appear to currently be down for some users and it’s causing problems for vehicle owners who rely on the Tesla app. Electrek reported on the outage earlier and users across Twitter have been complaining about being unable to log into the company’s desktop site or mobile app. Reports have been […]
Tesla's chief people officer takes leave of absence
Aug 29, 9:49PM
Tesla’s chief people officer Gaby Toledano, and one of the few female executives at the automaker, is on leave of absence 15 months after taking the senior management position. The company confirmed she was on leave and did not provide a timeline of when she might return or if this move was more permanent. "Gaby […]
SurveyMonkey files for NASDAQ IPO
Aug 29, 9:02PM
SurveyMonkey, which helps businesses gather feedback through its survey platform, has submitted paperwork to the SEC for its upcoming NASDAQ public offering. The company plans to raise $100 million in the IPO, per the filing, though that’s likely a placeholder amount. The company, which will list under the symbol SVMK, has yet to price its […]
Announcing the winners of Disrupt SF 2018's sponsored hackathon contests
Aug 29, 9:00PM
Thousands of developers, designers, hackers and marketers from around the world worked for months to submit their creations to our first Virtual Hackathon, which takes place at Disrupt San Francisco on September 5-7. It wasn't easy, but we narrowed the field down to 30 semi-finalists, and we can't wait to reveal the winner at the […]
Google, Facebook, Twitter chiefs called back to Senate Intelligence Committee
Aug 29, 8:55PM
Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey and Facebook chief operations officer Sheryl Sandberg will testify in an open hearing at the Senate Intelligence Committee next week, the committee’s chairman has confirmed. Larry Page, chief executive of Google parent company Alphabet, was also invited but has not confirmed his attendance, a committee spokesperson confirmed to TechCrunch. Sen. […]
Valimail offers US election boards, campaigns and voting vendors its email anti-spoofing service for free
Aug 29, 6:36PM
Valimail, an enterprise email security firm, announced that it will offer its email protections for free to relevant government workers and campaigns through the 2018 midterms. That offer covers state election boards, voting system vendors and major party U.S. election campaigns, including congressional, statewide and gubernatorial candidates. The company will also offer the same email […]
DuckDuckGo gets $10M from Omers for global privacy push
Aug 29, 6:18PM
Pro-privacy search engine DuckDuckGo, which offers an alternative to surveillance engines like Google, has quietly picked up $10M in fresh funding from Canadian pension fund Omers’ VC arm. The Globe and Mail reported the news earlier this month. It’s only the second funding round for the ten year old company — which last picked up $3M in […]
Privacy groups ask senators to confirm US surveillance oversight nominees
Aug 29, 6:14PM
A coalition of privacy groups are calling on lawmakers to fill the vacant positions on the government’s surveillance oversight board, which hasn’t fully functioned in almost two years. The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, known as PCLOB, is a little-known but important group that helps to ensure that intelligence agencies and executive branch policies […]
Bernie Sanders fires back against Amazon, calling subsidy reliance 'absurd'
Aug 29, 6:03PM
Next week, Bernie Sanders will introduce legislation aimed firmly at large companies he believes have taken advantage of "corporate welfare" by underpaying employees. Amazon and Walmart in particular have bore the brunt of the Senator's criticisms, and the rhetoric has become increasingly heated over the the past few days. Earlier today, Amazon accused Sanders of […]
The Atlantic poaches Alex Hardiman from Facebook to lead product
Aug 29, 5:45PM
The Atlantic has hired Facebook's Alex Hardiman to lead its business and product efforts. She'd been with Facebook, serving as the social media giant's head of news products.
Space investors are coming to Disrupt SF 2018
Aug 29, 4:59PM
In the past couple of decades, Elon Musk's efforts with SpaceX have partially kicked off a space race in the VC-funded rocket startup scene. At Disrupt SF 2018, we're thrilled to host a panel of some of Silicon Valley's top investors whose firms are eyeing the stars. Rob Coneybeer from Shasta Ventures, Tess Hatch from […]
Diver attacked by Elon Musk as 'pedo guy' is prepping a libel suit
Aug 29, 4:51PM
A British cave diving expert who helped save the young Thai football team that got trapped in caves this summer is preparing a legal action against Elon Musk for making “false and defamatory statements”, TechCrunch has confirmed. BuzzFeed reported the development earlier, after obtaining a letter sent to Musk’s home on August 6 by a firm […]
Playstation Vue expands its lineup with 200 more local channels
Aug 29, 4:31PM
Sony’s Playstation Vue, the over-the-top TV streaming service that’s now up against a host of new competitors including Hulu and YouTube TV, is expanding its lineup to include more local stations. While the service had already offered some limited access to locals in select markets, this expansion brings 200 more stations across the U.S. to […]
Google takes a step back from running the Kubernetes development infrastructure
Aug 29, 4:09PM
Google today announced that it is providing the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) with $9 million in Google Cloud credits to help further its work on the Kubernetes container orchestrator and that it is handing over operational control of the project to the community. These credits will be split over three years and are meant to cover the […]
Nintendo's next mobile game arrives September 27
Aug 29, 4:09PM
Nintendo was slow on the draw to enter the mobile market, but now that the company's in, the titles are starting to come at pretty steady clip. The gaming giant's got another RPG arriving on Android and iOS September 27. We don't know a ton about Dragalia Lost at the moment. The title was announced […]
Sonos releases new speaker Amp, partners with Sonance for in-wall speakers
Aug 29, 4:00PM
Sonos is doubling down on the custom in-home audio market with new products and partnerships. The company today announced a new version of the Sonos Amp and a partnership with Sonance that will result in three architectural speakers — in-wall, in-ceiling and outdoor — that Sonos says will gain additional functionality when paired with a […]
Box builds a digital hub to help fight content fragmentation
Aug 29, 4:00PM
The interconnectedness of the cloud has allowed us to share content widely with people inside and outside the organization and across different applications, but that ability has created a problem of its own, a kind of digital fragmentation. How do you track how that piece of content is being used across a range of cloud […]
Vernā Myers joins Netflix in new VP role focused on inclusion
Aug 29, 3:56PM
Netflix has hired Vernā Myers in the newly-created role of vice president, inclusion strategy. Myers has spent the past two decades at the head of The Vernā Myers Company, where she consulted on issues around diversity and inclusion. She’s also written and spoken broadly on those topics. In the announcement, Netflix notes that it’s already […]
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