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WeChat e-wallet teams up with Line to target Japan's 7M Chinese tourists
Nov 27, 5:13AM
China’s biggest chat app WeChat is set to make its payments service more ubiquitous in Japan, a popular outbound desitnation for Chinese tourists. On Tuesday, the Tencent-run messenger unveils a partnership with Japan’s Line chat app on mobile payments. The tie-up allows Japanese brick-and-mortar merchants with a Line Pay terminal to process WeChat Pay transactions […]
AWS Global Accelerators helps customers manage traffic across zones
Nov 27, 4:40AM
Many AWS customers have to run in multiple zones for many reasons including performance requirements, regulatory issues or fail-over management. Whatever the reason, AWS announced a new tool tonight called Global Accelerators designed to help customers route traffic more easily across multiple regions. Peter DeSantis, VP of global infrastructure and customer support at AWS speaking […]
Lime launches electric-assist bikes in its first UK city
Nov 27, 3:07AM
Lime launched in the United Kingdom today, starting with a group of dockless electric-assist bikes in a Milton Keynes shopping center. The San Francisco-based startup says it plans to expand into more UK cities over the next few weeks. As in other markets, users in Milton Keynes find and unlock Lime's bikes, which use battery-powered […]
WhatsApp's chief business officer is leaving
Nov 27, 1:43AM
Neeraj Arora was widely believed to be the frontrunner to replace former CEO Jan Koum, who left the company shortly after co-founder Brian Acton earlier this year.
Enterprise messaging startup Eko Communications raises $20M for its European expansion
Nov 27, 1:00AM
After focusing on Asian markets, particularly in Southeast Asia, Bangkok-based Eko Communications is getting ready to take on Slack, Microsoft Teams, and other enterprise messaging apps in Europe. The startup announced today that it has raised a Series B of $20 million and opened offices in London (which will serve as its new commercial headquarters), […]
Facebook denies report that election war room was disbanded
Nov 26, 10:57PM
Facebook’s election war room monitors and dashboards remain, since so does the threat of election interference. Facebook has confirmed to TechCrunch that its election war room that it paraded reporters through in October has not been disbanded and will be used again for future elections. That directly contradicts a report from Bloomberg today about the […]
Apple launches app development program for female entrepreneurs
Nov 26, 9:30PM
Apple is looking to better support female-identifying founders through its new Entrepreneur Camp, a technology lab focused on app development. The free two-week camp, which kicks off in January, will give female founders the opportunity to receive one-on-one coding assistance from Apple engineers, as well as attend sessions on design, technology and App Store marketing. […]
That night, a forest flew: DroneSeed is planting trees from the air
Nov 26, 9:07PM
Wildfires are consuming our forests. The institutions and technologies to keep these environments healthy have suffered decades of neglect. DroneSeed is a Seattle-based startup that aims to combat this problem.
Apple to host free coding sessions at stores, rolls out new material for teachers
Nov 26, 7:36PM
Apple today opened registration for thousands of free “Hour of Code” sessions taking place at its Apple Store locations around the world from December 1st through the 14th. The sessions are one of several programs the company has underway focused on helping more people learn to code both inside and outside the classroom. For the […]
Amazon launches a cloud-based robotics testing platform
Nov 26, 6:34PM
Amazon's kicking off Re:Invent week with the launch of AWS RoboMaker. The cloud-based service utilizes the widely deployed open-source software Robot Operating System (ROS) to offer developers a place to develop and test robotics applications. RoboMaker essentially serves as a platform to help speed up the time-consuming robotics development process. Among the tools offered by […]
GM plans to cut more than 14,000 jobs, close factories as downturn looms
Nov 26, 6:07PM
First came the voluntary buyouts. Now, GM is ramping up its belt-tightening measures with cuts to factory and white-collar workers, plant closures in North America and the elimination of several car models as it tries to transform into a nimble company focused on high-margin SUVs, crossovers and trucks and investments in future products like electric and […]
Last-minute Cyber Monday deals
Nov 26, 5:57PM
Listen, I know you're tired of deals. I get it. You already woke up at 1AM on Black Friday to head to Best Buy in your pajama pants. But if we just stick together and follow the rules, we'll get through the holiday gift season in one piece. We got this. What follows is far […]
Google Maps biz reviews can now include hashtags
Nov 26, 5:44PM
Google Maps has quietly rolled out a new feature aimed at helping users discover places others have recommended: it now supports hashtags in reviews. For example, if you’re reviewing a restaurant that would make an excellent #datenight spot, you can simply add the appropriate hashtag. Or if the business is #familyfriendly or #wheelchairaccessible, you can […]
Amazon says it's making freely available the same machine learning courses that it uses to teach its own engineers
Nov 26, 5:43PM
It’s Cyber Monday and Amazon has one deal for its customers that’s a little unexpected. The company just announced that it has made available, for free, the same machine learning courses that it uses to train its own engineers. It’s a lot of information to digest — from a programming standpoint. According to a newly […]
Corvus Insurance lands a fresh $10 million to turn sensor data into actionable info for its food and pharma customers
Nov 26, 4:52PM
Corvus Insurance, a two-year-old, Boston-based insurance company that uses data across more than 50 criteria to predict and prevent losses for its corporate customers in the food and pharmaceutical industries, has attracted $10 million in funding from .406 Ventures and Hudson Structured, with participation from Bain Capital Ventures. The company had previously raised $4 million […]
Watch NASA's InSight Mars lander touch down live (Update: Landed!)
Nov 26, 4:43PM
Update: Insight has landed on the surface of Mars! It’ll be a little bit before we know for sure that everything is A-OK, but the most dangerous part — you know, entering the atmosphere of a distant planet at massive speed — is over. Congratulations to the Insight team and we’ll update when we hear […]
Red Dead Online launches in beta tomorrow
Nov 26, 4:41PM
A month after launching to universal acclaim, Red Dead Redemption 2 is finally getting its online component. Red Dead Online launches in beta this week, with access opening for users starting tomorrow. The roll out is admittedly a bit convoluted. Rockstar is clearly staggering things here, so as to avoid a repeat of the clustereff […]
Banuba raises $7M to supercharge any app or device with the ability to really see you
Nov 26, 4:12PM
Regardless of whether its immediate future is obvious or not, AR has a future if the amount of investment pouring into the space is anything to go by. In 2016 AR and VR attracted $2.3 billion worth of investments (a 300 percent jump from 2015) and is expected to reach $108 billion by 2021 — […]
Amazon closes its restaurant delivery service in London
Nov 26, 4:11PM
Amazon is shutting down its two-year-old restaurant delivery service in London, according to a report by the Evening Standard, which an Amazon spokesperson confirmed. Customers were sent emails which informed them of the change, saying they would no longer be able to order from Amazon Restaurants UK after Monday, December 3rd, the report said. The […]
Coinbase and others invest $12.75M in project to create 'digital security offerings'
Nov 26, 4:02PM
Coinbase, the $8 billion crypto exchange giant, is one of a bevy of big-name crypto investors backing a project aimed to revolutionize the U.S. securities industry using blockchain technology. Brian Armstrong, Coinbase CEO, told the audience at TechCrunch’s Disrupt event in San Francisco this past September that his company intends to be the de facto marketplace […]
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