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Experian leads $10M investment in Southeast Asia fintech startup Jirnexu
Dec 05, 4:46AM
Consumer credit giant Experian is continuing to back Asian fintech startups after it led a $10 million investment in Southeast Asia’s Jirnexu . Jirnexu, which is headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, operates financial comparison services in Malaysia and Indonesia. Those services aggregate offerings and deals from banks and financial services companies, effectively acting as a user acquisition […]
Facebook ends platform policy banning apps that copy its features
Dec 04, 11:09PM
Facebook will now freely allow developers to build competitors to its features upon its own platform. Today Facebook announced it will drop Platform Policy section 4.1, which stipulates "Add something unique to the community. Don't replicate core functionality that Facebook already provides." That policy felt pretty disingenuous given how aggressively Facebook has replicated everyone else's […]
Faraday Future furloughs more employees as cash woes continue
Dec 04, 10:35PM
For a company with such a forward-looking name, the road ahead has been looking pretty bleak for Faraday Future. Debts, fleeing executives and payroll delays have clouded the last year of the automaker's history — with ultimately very little to show for it. Faraday took to Twitter today to note the latest in its continued […]
Elowan is the plantdroid you've been looking for
Dec 04, 10:13PM
With Big Dog busy pulling Santa’s sleigh, what horrible robotic hybrid is left to haunt our dreams? How about Elowan! Elowan is a project out of the MIT Media Lab and it’s essentially a mobile houseplant. The plant sends signals to a wheeled transport that rolls back and forth trying to find light. Created by […]
Commercial insurtech is like an exclusive club — and Google and Amazon aren't invited
Dec 04, 10:00PM
Commercial insurtech startups have been woefully underfinanced relative to insurtech companies addressing personal lines, distribution and other areas. As a result, commercial insurtech is heavily under-penetrated relative to the broader insurtech movement.
Electric scooters are flimsy, so Superpedestrian is making more robust ones to sell to operators
Dec 04, 10:00PM
If you’ve been on an electric scooter from Bird, Lime, Lyft, JUMP via Uber, Skip, Scoot or others, you’re probably familiar with that feeling of impending doom. Superpedestrian, makers of the Copenhagen Wheel, is today emerging with a sturdier, safer and smarter electric scooter. But instead of operating a shared electric scooter network, the plan […]
Samsung fakes test photo by using a stock DSLR image
Dec 04, 9:39PM
Samsung’s Malaysian arm has some explaining to do. The company, in an effort to show off the Galaxy A8 Star’s amazing photo retouching abilities, used a cleverly shot portrait, modified it and then ostensibly passed it off as one taken by the A8. The trouble began when Serbian photographer Dunja Djudjic noticed someone had bought […]
Google 'incognito' search results still vary from person to person, DDG study finds
Dec 04, 9:10PM
A study of Google search results by anti-tracking rival DuckDuckGo has suggested that escaping the so-called ‘filter bubble’ of personalized online searches is a perniciously hard problem for the put upon Internet consumer who just wants to carve out a little unbiased space online, free from the suggestive taint of algorithmic fingers. DDG reckons it’s […]
Qualcomm announces the Snapdragon 855 and its new under-display fingerprint sensor
Dec 04, 9:00PM
This week, Qualcomm is hosting press and analysts on Maui for its annual Snapdragon Summit. Sadly, we’re not there, but a couple of weeks ago, Qualcomm gave us a preview of the news. There’ll be three days of news and the company decided to start with a focus on 5G, as well as a preview […]
Consumer electronics giant Samsung just became the world's spendiest advertiser, bypassing Procter & Gamble
Dec 04, 8:53PM
Who rules the roost in the business world is very much in flux. We see it on a daily basis, with the mantle of “most valuable company” being passed between Apple, Amazon and Microsoft, depending on the day. Another interesting data point that highlights some of the jockeying for dominance behind the scenes: For the first […]
Cove.Tool wants to solve climate change one efficient building at a time
Dec 04, 8:01PM
As the fight against climate change heats up, Cove.Tool is looking to help tackle carbon emissions one building at a time. The Atlanta-based startup provides an automated big-data platform that helps architects, engineers and contractors identify the most cost-effective ways to make buildings compliant with energy efficiency requirements. After raising an initial round earlier this […]
Hulu to top 23 million subscribers by year-end
Dec 04, 7:20PM
Hulu will top 23 million subscribers by year-end, according to comments made by Hulu CEO Randy Freer speaking at Business Insider’s Ignition conference this morning. While Freer didn’t state the number outright, he said that the business will have added more subscribers in the second half of 2018 than it did in the first. Based […]
Birth control delivery startup Nurx now offers an at-home HPV testing kit
Dec 04, 6:58PM
Kleiner Perkins-backed Nurx provides birth control, emergency contraception, the HIV prevention medication PrEP and an at-home HPV testing kit.
New York's Taxi and Limousine Commission approves minimum wage rules for app-based drivers
Dec 04, 6:50PM
The New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission has approved new rules designed to provide a minimum hourly wage of $17.22 (after expenses) for drivers who work with app-based services like Uber, Lyft, Via and Juno. Fast Company reports that the rules try to deliver that wage by requiring drivers be paid according to a […]
Uber Eats test lets restaurants trade discounts for ranking boost
Dec 04, 6:30PM
Uber Eats has effectively invented its own native ad unit. Uber confirmed to TechCrunch that a test quietly running in markets around India allows restaurants to bundle several food items together and sell them at a discounted price in exchange for promoted placement by Uber Eats in a featured section of local “Specials.” In some […]
Google's Flutter toolkit goes beyond mobile with Project Hummingbird
Dec 04, 6:15PM
Flutter, Google’s toolkit for building cross-platform applications, hit version 1.0 today. Traditionally, the project focused on iOS and Android apps, but as the company announced today, it’s now looking at bringing Flutter to the web, too. That project, currently called Hummingbird, is essentially an experimental web-based implementation of the Flutter runtime. “From the beginning, we […]
Facebook announces dates for 2019 F8 conference
Dec 04, 6:02PM
Facebook was in the news a bit more than they would have preferred in 2018, but the company’s leadership will be taking to the stage to talk about its next product evolutions for consumers and developers. The social media giant has just announced its dates for its annual developer conference — Facebook will be returning to […]
Google's cross-platform Flutter UI toolkit hits version 1.0
Dec 04, 5:20PM
Flutter, Google’s UI toolkit for building mobile Android and iOS applications, hit its version 1.0 release today. In addition, Google also today announced a set of new third-party integrations with the likes of Square and others, as well as a couple of new features that make it easier to integrate Flutter with existing applications. The […]
Why Oath keeps Tumblring
Dec 04, 5:05PM
I dig on my employer Oath, and then Tencent Music notes and a major loss for the NYC ecosystem and what it means for open source. TechCrunch is experimenting with new content forms. This is a rough draft of something new – provide your feedback directly to the author (Danny at danny@techcrunch.com) if you like […]
AT&T says it's getting that 5G Samsung phone, too
Dec 04, 4:58PM
Samsung announced yesterday that it's set to bring a 5G phone to market in the first half of next year, name-checking Verizon in the promise. This morning, however, AT&T was quick to note that it will also be getting its hand on the still-unnamed handset in the first half of 2019. The carrier issued a […]
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