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Soundbrenner's wearable metronome gets a modular upgrade
Nov 23, 1:59AM
It took all of 14 minutes for the Soundbrenner Core to hit full funding. Not too shabby. Last week, the wearable maker closed out its campaign with more than 10x its $50,000 goal. A few days later, we sat down with the startup at the headquarters of Hong Kong-based accelerator, Brinc. Soundbrenner has already made […]
Thanksgiving e-commerce spend to top $3.5B, mobile accounting for one-third of sales
Nov 22, 5:53PM
The 2018 holiday season is predicted to be a bumper year for e-commerce, helped by economic forces like lower unemployment and underlying trends like an ever-growing proportion of shoppers opting to spend their money online, and specifically on mobile devices. Thanksgiving, a day when brick-and-mortar stores tend to be closed, is a big one for […]
Be a Thanksgiving security hero with these family-friendly tips
Nov 22, 5:36PM
If you're reading this, chances are you're: Pretty good at tech stuff Spending time with your family for Thanksgiving Bored because you're reading this article right now You may not celebrate Thanksgiving where you live, but most of our readers are American. So let's use this opportunity to review the tech setup of your family. […]
Zizoo, a booking.com for boats, sails for new markets with $7.4M on board
Nov 22, 5:20PM
Berlin-based Zizoo — a startup which self describes as booking.com for boats — has nabbed a €6.5 million (~$7.4M) Series A to help more millennials find holiday yachts to mess about taking selfies in. Zizoo says its Series A — which was led by Revo Capital, with participation from new investors including Coparion, Check24 Ventures and PUSH […]
MQT builds classy Swiss watches for the truly debonair
Nov 22, 4:37PM
Ah, wonderful to see you again, sir. The usual? Kool-Aid Grain Alcohol Martini with a twisty straw. Of course. And I see you’re wearing a new watch. The MQT Essential Mirror. Quite striking. I see the watch has a quartz ETA movement – an acceptable movement by any standard – and a very elegant face […]
Google lays outs narrow "EU election advertiser" policy ahead of 2019 vote
Nov 22, 4:28PM
Google has announced its plan for combating election interference in the European Union, ahead of elections next May when up to 350 million voters across the region will vote to elect 705 Members of the European Parliament. In a blog post laying out a narrow approach to democracy-denting disinformation, Google says it will introduce a […]
Gift Guide: 16 fantastic computer bags
Nov 22, 3:58PM
Give the gift of organization this year. Bags are often ignored but are a critical part of anyone’s mobile gear. They’re the outward representations of our techie styles, and we put far too little thought into where we keep our most prized possessions. Here’s a collection of bags TechCrunch reviewed over the last year. You’ll find waxed canvas […]
Amazon reverses tax-triggered block on US shop in Australia
Nov 22, 1:37PM
Amazon has reversed a decision it made six months ago to shut off its US ecommerce site to Australian shoppers. Reuters reports that the U-turn comes after a customer backlash. Since July shoppers in Australia trying to browse stuff to buy on Amazon.com have been redirected to the local site, Amazon.com.au. Shipping to Australia from Amazon.com was also […]
China's Geek+ raises $150M to build robots for warehouses and logistics
Nov 22, 1:17PM
One of the most immediate — and already live — applications for robotics and artificial intelligence in general has been in using unmanned robots in warehouses and other environments, where they replace humans in repetitive jobs such as sorting and moving objects from A to B. Now, Beijing-based robotics startup Geek Plus (aka Geek+) says […]
Wluper, a London-based startup building a better conversational AI, picks up $1.3M seed
Nov 22, 1:11PM
Wluper, the London-based tech startup building a conversational AI to power knowledge-based voice assistants, has raised $1.3 million in seed funding. Leading the round is “deep tech” VC IQ Capital, with participation from Seedcamp, Aster, and Magic Pony co-founder Dr Zehan Wang. Founded in 2016 and originally backed by Jaguar Land Rover’s InMotion Ventures, Wluper’s […]
October lets 11 public companies borrow money on its platform
Nov 22, 9:45AM
French crowd-lending platform October (formerly known as Lendix), wants to educate more people about new ways to borrow money. That's why the company is launching a project called Grandir Ensemble (grow together). 11 big companies are borrowing €100,000 each on October at a 2.5 percent interest rate. October users will be able to lend as […]
Only one week left until Disrupt Berlin 2018 begins
Nov 22, 9:03AM
Heiliger Strohsack! Holy smokes — Disrupt Berlin 2018 kicks off in exactly one week! We're beyond excited to welcome thousands of startup movers, shakers and makers to Europe's premier tech startup conference. We've packed a ton of top-notch programming into 29-30 November, and we can't wait for you to arrive in Berlin and get the […]
As Taiwan prepares to vote on LGBTQ issues, a homophobic group is running ads before kids videos on YouTube
Nov 22, 9:02AM
This Saturday, several issues related to LGBTQ equality, including marriage, are up for referendum in Taiwan's mid-term elections. A little more than a year after the country's top court ruled in favor of same-sex marriage, the LGBTQ community is once again fighting for their rights due to efforts by anti-gay groups. The battle has reached […]
Movinga, the European house removals platform, raises further €15M
Nov 22, 8:00AM
Movinga, the European house removals and relocation platform, has closed €15 million in further funding. The round was led by London-based growth investor ETF Partners, with participation from existing backers Santo Venture Capital, Earlybird, and Rocket Internet. The company says the new capital will support “further process automation”, the launch of new services, and international […]
Cross-border fintech startup Instarem raises $20M for global expansion
Nov 22, 4:27AM
Instarem, a Singapore-based startup that helps banks transfer money overseas cheaply, has raised a Series C round of over $20 million for global expansion. The round is led by MDI Ventures — the VC arm of Indonesian telecom operator Telkom — and Beacon — the fund belonging to Thai bank Kasikorn — as well as […]
Tencent e-wallet is following Alibaba to Hong Kong subways
Nov 22, 4:00AM
China’s payments giants have taken their battle to Hong Kong. Less than a week after Ant Financial announced adding QR codes to the city’s MTR public transport network of rail, Tencent’s WeChat Pay unveiled a similar scheme on Wednesday. Starting mid-2021, commuters in Hong Kong can scan a barcode to enter the subway turnstile through […]
Teaching STEM through the wonders of larva harvesting
Nov 22, 1:52AM
There's hardly enough room to turn around in Livin Farms' office. Pretty standard, really, in Central, Hong Kong, where space is at a perpetual premium. It's a small operation for the HAX-backed startup — there's space for a few desks and not much more. The startup's last product, the Hive, stands next to the door. […]
With no moving parts, this plane flies on the ionic wind
Nov 22, 12:10AM
Since planes were invented, they've flown using moving parts to push air around. Sure, there are gliders and dirigibles, which float more than fly, but powered flight is all about propellers (that's why they call them that). Today that changes, with the first-ever 'solid state' aircraft, flying with no moving parts at all by generating "ionic wind."
They're making a real HAL 9000, and it's called CASE
Nov 21, 8:34PM
Don't panic! Life imitates art, to be sure, but hopefully the researchers in charge of the Cognitive Architecture for Space Exploration, or CASE, have taken the right lessons from 2001: A Space Odyssey, and their AI won't kill us all and/or expose us to alien artifacts so we enter a state of cosmic nirvana.
LinkedIn cuts off email address exports with new privacy setting
Nov 21, 8:24PM
A win for privacy on LinkedIn could be a big loss for businesses, recruiters and anyone else expecting to be able to export the email addresses of their connections. LinkedIn just quietly introduced a new privacy setting that defaults to blocking other users from exporting your email address. That could prevent some spam, and protect […]
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