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Tencent left out as China approves the release of 80 new video games
Dec 29, 11:21PM
Chinese internet giant Tencent has been excluded from the first batch of video game license approvals issued by the state-run government since March. China regulators approved Saturday the released of 80 online video games after a months-long freeze, Reuters first reported. None of the approved titles listed on the approval list were from Tencent Holdings, the […]
Citi slashes sales outlook for iPhone XS Max by nearly half
Dec 29, 10:31PM
Citi Research has joined a growing list of analysts to lower first-quarter production estimates for Apple’s iPhones amid weakening demand for the smartphones. Citi Research analyst William Yang cut the overall iPhone shipment forecast by 5 million to 45 million for the quarter, reported Reuters. That’s a sting that falls in line with others such […]
FlixBus is testing VR on certain routes to Las Vegas
Dec 29, 8:36PM
FlixBus, the low-cost tech-forward bus service out of Europe that launched in U.S. this year, has added a VR experience to some long-distance routes to and from Las Vegas. For now, the FlixBus VR feature, which includes about 50 virtual reality games and travel experiences, is limited to routes from Tucson, Phoenix, Los Angeles and San […]
Crawling from the wreckage
Dec 29, 4:15PM
Things are tough all over — but especially in the digital media business of 2018. Probably the most high-profile flameout this year was at Mic, which laid off most of its staff ahead of an acquisition by Bustle. Mic had raised nearly $60 million in funding, with major media organizations like Time Warner and Bertelsmann […]
Chinese scientist who allegedly created the first genetically engineered babies is being detained
Dec 29, 4:07PM
The Chinese scientist who shocked the world with claims of creating the first genetically engineered babies is being detained in the Chinese city of Shenzhen, according to a report in The New York Times. He Jiankui, a Chinese research scientist at the Southern University of Science and Technology and an entrepreneur involved in two Chinese biotech […]
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 […]
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