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Quizlet hits 50M monthly users
Oct 25, 11:20PM
Following a $20 million round earlier this year, Quizlet is seeing solid growth in revenue and MAUs.
Two hackers behind 2016 Uber data breach have been indicted for another hack
Oct 25, 11:17PM
Two hackers who stole millions of users’ data from ride-hailing firm Uber have been indicted on separate hacking charges related to a data breach at online learning portal Lynda, two people familiar with the case have told TechCrunch. Vasile Mereacre, a Canadian citizen living in Toronto, and Brandon Glover, a Florida resident, were indicted earlier […]
Inspired by spiders and wasps, these tiny drones pull 40x their own weight
Oct 25, 10:54PM
If we want drones to do our dirty work for us, they're going to need to get pretty good at hauling stuff around. But due to the pesky yet unavoidable restraints of physics, it's hard for them to muster the forces necessary to do so while airborne — so these drones brace themselves against the ground to get the requisite torque.
Vishal Makhijani steps down as chief executive of Udacity
Oct 25, 10:29PM
Vishal Makhijani, the longtime chief executive of online education company Udacity, is stepping down as its chief executive officer, TechCrunch has learned. Makhijani first joined the company in 2013 as chief operating officer under Sebastian Thrun, the company’s founder and chief executive at the time. In 2016, Thrun, the original architect of Alphabet’s self-driving car […]
Amazon shares fall as record profits are offset by conservative holiday forecasts
Oct 25, 10:03PM
Amazon is still raking in the cash, but its slower than expected customer growth in its web services offerings and a weaker than expected sales outlook for the holiday season shook investor confidence and caused the stock to slide around 5 percent in after-hours trading. Profits for the company continued to soar, reaching $2.9 billion, […]
Anker announces a new speaker, projector and tiny wall charger
Oct 25, 10:00PM
Master of all things gadget accessory, Anker announced a handful of new products at an event tonight in Manhattan. The biggest/smallest of the bunch is the PowerPort Atom, a compact wall charger designed to free up spaces around an outlet. The $30 device sports a USB-C port and is smaller than most standard smartphone chargers. […]
Google terminated 48 employees for sexual harassment in the last two years
Oct 25, 9:23PM
Earlier today, The New York Times published a bombshell story about Google's payout to Andy Rubin following reports of sexual misconduct by the Android creator. In the wake of the piece, CEO Sundar Pichai and VP People Operations Eileen Naughton co-signed a memo sent to Google staff detailing what it deems "an increasingly hard line […]
NBA All-Star Michael Jordan leads a $26 million round for esports group aXiomatic
Oct 25, 8:40PM
NBA legend Michael Jordan is playing the esports game now, leading a $26 million round of funding for the ownership group aXiomatic. For Jordan and new co-investor Declaration Capital — the family office investing the personal wealth of David Rubenstein, who co-founded and serves as co-executive chairman of the multi-billion-dollar private equity firm, The Carlyle Group — investing in […]
Snapchat loses 2M more users in Q3 as shares sink to new low
Oct 25, 8:15PM
Snapchat continued to shrink in Q3 2018 but its business is steadily improving. Snapchat’s daily active user count dropped again, this time by 1 percent to 186 million, down from 188M and a negative 1.5 percent growth rate in Q2. User count is still up 5 percent year-over-year, though. Snapchat earned $298 million in revenue with […]
What's next for podcasting?
Oct 25, 8:00PM
The podcast market will discover the answer to a foundational question about its future in the next few years. Will it continue along the path of music streaming, where all podcasts are available everywhere on free, ad-supported tiers? Or, will it follow the path of streaming TV into paid subscription services with exclusive content? Today, effectively […]
Airbnb is bringing on new CTO from Google
Oct 25, 8:00PM
Ahead of Airbnb’s expected initial public offering sometime within the next two years, the accommodation rental business has brought on a new chief technology officer. Aristotle Balogh, formerly Google’s VP of engineering, application storage, indexing and serving, is starting at Airbnb in mid-November. Airbnb co-founder Nathan Blecharczyk previously served as the company’s CTO up until January […]
Silicon Valley is waiting for the dust to settle in Saudi Arabia, but other headwinds are picking up
Oct 25, 7:17PM
It’s been painful, the silence of Silicon Valley with regards to Saudi Arabia, whose shifting accounts about the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi have nearly veered into slapstick. He freely walked out the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. Actually, rogue killers got to him. No, he was in a fist-fight and was subdued to death by Saudi […]
White House belatedly begins planning for 5G with memo asking for policy recommendations
Oct 25, 6:53PM
The White House has issued a memorandum outlining the need for a new national wireless connectivity strategy; the document doesn't really establish anything new, but does request lots of reports on how things are going. Strangely, what it proposes sounds a lot like what the FCC already does.
The biggest threat to drone innovation is a group you've never heard of
Oct 25, 5:30PM
A little-known but highly influential group of attorneys from across the country will soon meet in Detroit and could change our skies forever. They claim their draft model legislation concerning drones will help protect privacy. However, their actions could have far-reaching effects on innovation, safety and future drone operations.
CBS All Access places two-season order for animated series 'Star Trek: Lower Decks'
Oct 25, 4:55PM
CBS’ streaming plans have become even more Trek-centric with the announcement of a two-season order for a half-hour animated series called “Star Trek: Lower Decks.” Many Star Trek fans will probably recognize “Lower Decks” as the title of a popular “Next Generation” episode about four junior officers on the Enterprise, and it sounds like the […]
Fleksy's keyboard grabs $800k+ via equity crowdfunding
Oct 25, 4:55PM
The dev team that’s now engineering the Fleksy keyboard app has raised more than $800,000 via an equity crowdfunding route. As we reported a year ago, the development of Fleksy’s keyboard has been taken over by the Barcelona-based startup behind an earlier keyboard app called ThingThing. The team says their new funding raise — described […]
Bessemer Venture Partners has a brand new $1.85B fund
Oct 25, 4:49PM
Another VC firm has raised its largest fund ever.
Dropbox expands Paper into planning tool with timelines
Oct 25, 4:35PM
Dropbox has been building out Paper, its document-driven collaboration tool since it was first announced in 2015, slowly but surely layering on more functionality. Today, it added a timeline feature, pushing beyond collaboration into a light-weight project planning tool. Dropbox has been hearing that customers really need a way to plan with Paper that was lacking. […]
Daily Crunch: Tesla is profitable again
Oct 25, 4:30PM
The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here: 1. Tesla earns its first profit in two years Tesla reported a profit in the third quarter, reversing seven consecutive quarters of […]
This is the Fortnite Nerf gun
Oct 25, 4:28PM
Short of an actual apocalypse (which should be coming any day now), this Nerf-branded gun from Hasbro is (thankfully) probably the closest you're going to come to any real life Fortnite action in the near future. The dart-firing gun was announced recently, alongside a Fortnite version of Monopoly (which launched earlier this month), and now […]
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