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Alibaba-backed Hellobike bags new funds as it marches into ride-hailing
Dec 29, 3:07AM
2018 has been a rough year for China’s bike-sharing giants. Alibaba-backed Ofo pulled out of dozens of international cities as it fought with a severe cash crunch. Tencent-backed Mobike puts a brake on expansion after it was sold to neighborhood services provider Meituan Dianping. But one newcomer is pedaling against the wind. Hellobike, currently the country’s […]
TechCrunch's Favorite Things of 2018
Dec 28, 11:15PM
As we do each year, the TechCrunch Staff — our writers, our illustrators, our editors and more — have gathered together and come up with a mega list of our favorite things of 2018.
A year's worth of Porsche Taycans are already reserved, mostly by Tesla owners
Dec 28, 10:26PM
Porsche’s first all-electric sports car might be the most hotly anticipated vehicle of 2019. Even Tesla owners are hooked. In a recent interview with CNET, Porsche North America president and CEO Klaus Zellmer said if everyone who has placed a deposit to pre-order the car actually buys it, the Taycan will be sold out in its […]
Mark Zuckerberg is 'proud' of how Facebook handled its scandals this year
Dec 28, 10:00PM
After the year Mark Zuckerberg’s had, you’d think he’d struggle to appear so chipper. “I’m proud of the progress we’ve made,” he said in an end-of-year note posted on his Facebook page for everyone to see. Acknowledging that the social network played its part in the spread of hate speech, election interference and misinformation, Zuckerberg’s […]
'Bird Box' breaks a Netflix record with 45M+ people watching in its first week
Dec 28, 8:59PM
Sandra Bullock’s star power can still sell a movie, apparently. Though reviews for the Netflix horror film “Bird Box” have been lukewarm — the movie has a respectable, but not outstanding, score of 65 percent on Rotten Tomatoes — it has still managed to break records for the streaming service, Netflix said this afternoon. The company […]
The Very Slow Movie Player shows a film over an entire year
Dec 28, 7:36PM
It seems someone took Every Frame a Painting literally: The Very Slow Movie Player is a device that turns cinema into wallpaper, advancing the image by a single second every hour. The result is an interesting household object that makes something new of even the most familiar film.
Samsara banks $100M at a $3.6B valuation for its internet-connected sensors
Dec 28, 6:55PM
Sensor data platform Samsara is closing out the year with a fresh investment from Andreessen Horowitz and General Catalyst.
Capsicum launches a beautiful daily planner for iOS
Dec 28, 5:15PM
Calendaring and note-taking apps have never really filled the void left behind when we moved away from our old, paper-based daily planners to digital devices. But a newly launched iOS app called Capsicum may help to change that. Like real-world daily planners from years ago, Capsicum lets you not only track your events and to-dos, it […]
911 emergency services go down across the US after CenturyLink outage
Dec 28, 4:19PM
911 emergency services in several states across the U.S. went down after a massive outage at a CenturyLink data center. The outage began after 12pm ET on Thursday, according to CenturyLink’s status page, and caused disruption across 911 call centers through Friday. Some states saw their services restored throughout the day. CenturyLink did not sy what […]
Smart speakers hit critical mass in 2018
Dec 28, 3:15PM
We already know Alexa had a good Christmas — the app shot to the top of the App Store over the holidays, and the Alexa service even briefly crashed from all the new users. But Alexa, along with other smart speaker devices like Google Home, didn’t just have a good holiday — they had a […]
Private equity buyouts have become viable exit options — even for early-stage startups
Dec 28, 3:06PM
About 13 years ago I faced an excruciating decision: whether to sell my company, Pinnacle Systems, to a private equity firm or to another large public company.
Tesla names Oracle's Larry Ellison, Walgreens executive to board as part of SEC settlement
Dec 28, 2:42PM
Tesla has added two independent directors to its board — Oracle founder, chairman and CTO Larry Ellison and Walgreens executive Kathleen Wilson-Thompson — as part of a settlement with U.S. securities regulators over CEO Elon Musk’s infamous tweets about taking the company private. The pair joined the board as of December 27, Tesla said in an […]
Bradley Tusk on mobile voting, Uber's IPO race with Lyft and the Dems taking over the House
Dec 28, 2:10PM
Hello! Welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch's venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. As you know, typically, a few of us try cramming into the Equity podcast dungeon, including the nimble Alex Wilhelm, the scholarly Danny Crichton and, when we can lasso her, the razor-sharp Kate Clark, plus a guest from the investment world. With […]
Put down your phone if you want to innovate
Dec 28, 11:43AM
We are living in an interstitial period. In the early 1980s we entered an era of desktop computing that culminated in the dot-com crash — a financial bubble that we bolstered with Y2K consulting fees and hardware expenditures alongside irrational exuberance over Pets.com . That last interstitial era, an era during which computers got smaller, […]
This wristband detects an opiate overdose
Dec 28, 9:44AM
A project by students at Carnegie Mellon could save lives. Called the HopeBand, the wristband senses low blood oxygen levels and sends a text message and sounds an alarm if danger is imminent. "Imagine having a friend who is always watching for signs of overdose; someone who understands your usage pattern and knows when to […]
Grab raises fundraising target to $5B as Southeast Asia's ride-hailing war heats up
Dec 28, 8:35AM
Southeast Asian ride-hailing firm Grab is aiming to start the new year with a bang and an awful lot of bucks. The company, which acquired Uber’s local business earlier this year, is planning to raise as much as $5 billion from its ongoing Series H round, up from an original target of $3 billion, a […]
Venture capital, global expansion, blockchain and drones characterize African tech in 2018
Dec 28, 8:01AM
2018 saw Africa's tech sector become more dynamic and international. Here's a snapshot of the news that shaped African tech over the last year.
Indonesia unblocks Tumblr following its ban on adult content
Dec 28, 5:32AM
Indonesia, the world’s fourth largest country by population, has unblocked Tumblr nine months after it blocked the social networking site over pornographic content. Tumblr — which, disclaimer, is owned by Oath Verizon Media Group just like TechCrunch — announced earlier this month that it would remove all “adult content” from its platform. That decision, which angered […]
Porsche's top-of-the-line EV to get the Turbo name and a $130,000-plus price tag
Dec 28, 12:18AM
Porsche’s upcoming Taycan, which is expected to go on sale next year, will have at least three variants of the all-electric sports car, including an all-wheel drive version. But it’s the Taycan Turbo — the name Porsche is giving its top-of-the-line variant — that reveals the automaker’s strategy. The names — the Taycan for the […]
Watch the ANYmal quadrupedal robot go for an adventure in the sewers of Zurich
Dec 28, 12:01AM
There's a lot of talk about the many potential uses of multi-legged robots like Cheetahbot and Spot — but in order for those to come to fruition, the robots actually have to go out and do stuff. And to train for a glorious future of sewer inspection (and helping rescue people, probably), this Swiss quadrupedal bot is going deep underground.
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