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The Predictive Index brings in $50M to help businesses create winning teams
Jan 25, 11:19PM
Silicon Valley VC firm General Catalyst has led the round and says it's the largest first check they've ever written a company.
BioWare's ambitious Anthem is off to a rough start as players bring servers to their knees
Jan 25, 11:13PM
The gaming world is excited to play Anthem, BioWare's answer to Destiny and other big-budget online shooters — but an exclusive preview weekend for the mech-flying game has struggled to get off the ground. Of course, it wouldn't be a game launch these days without a few hiccups to spice things up, but it is a little embarrassing.
Tinder agrees to settle age discrimination lawsuit
Jan 25, 8:49PM
Tinder recently agreed to settle a $23 million class-action age discrimination lawsuit. The lawsuit, filed last April in California, alleged Tinder charged people over 30 years old twice the amount for its subscription services. The class consists of every person 29 years of age or older at the time who subscribed to Tinder Plus or […]
Trump agrees to reopen the federal government through mid-February
Jan 25, 8:47PM
On Friday, President Trump announced his intentions to back off of his demand for border wall funding, allowing the federal government to reopen for three weeks through February 15. The president touted the decision to reopen the government as a deal in spite of his failure to obtain a multi-billion-dollar agreement toward a physical perimeter […]
Pentagon stands by finding of no conflict of interest in JEDI RFP process
Jan 25, 8:14PM
A line in a new court filing by the Department of Defense suggests that it might reopen the investigation into a possible conflict of interest in the JEDI contract RFP process involving a former AWS employee. The story has attracted a great deal of attention in major news publications, including The Washington Post and The Wall […]
New iPad mini and entry-level iPad are around the corner
Jan 25, 8:10PM
Apple has registered new iPad models in the Eurasian Economic Commission reference database. The Moscow-based commission keeps a product database pretty much like the FCC in the U.S. And it sounds like Apple is about to launch a new iPad mini 5 and an updated entry-level iPad. That database has shown information on new Apple […]
Daily Crunch: Facebook is shutting down Moments
Jan 25, 7:09PM
The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here: 1. Facebook is shutting down Moments; here's how to save all your photos Facebook Moments, the standalone mobile app designed to let […]
Airbnb acquires Denmark's Gaest to expand in bookings for meetings and offsites
Jan 25, 5:12PM
Airbnb, now valued upwards of $30 billion and inching toward an IPO possibly as early as this year, has made an acquisition to continue to diversify its revenues beyond basic booking services for overnight accommodations in private homes. It has acquired Gaest, a startup out of Aarhus, Denmark that provides a marketplace-style platform for people […]
Metroid Prime 4 development was going so badly, Nintendo is starting over
Jan 25, 4:56PM
For all those wondering why we haven't heard much out of the Metroid Prime 4 camp since the title was announced at E3 2017 (with an admittedly underwhelming trailer), Nintendo just offered a surprisingly frank answer. Senior Managing Executive Officer Shinya Takahashi appeared in a video to explain that game development thus far has failed […]
Facebook to encrypt Instagram messages ahead of integration with WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger
Jan 25, 4:12PM
Facebook is planning to roll out end-to-end encryption for Instagram messages, as part of a broader integration effort across the company’s messaging platforms, including WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger. First reported by The New York Times, the social media giant said reworking the underlying infrastructure of its three messaging apps will allow users to talk to each other more […]
Crypto wallet BRD raises $15M for Asian expansion
Jan 25, 4:10PM
Mobile cryptocurrency wallet BRD is announcing that it has raised $15 million in Series B funding. The funding comes from SBI Crypto Investment, a subsidiary of Japanese financial services company SBI Holdings (formerly a subsidiary of SoftBank). BRD said the funding will allow it to grow its product and engineering teams, and to expand in […]
HMD Nokia phones are coming to Verizon, Cricket and Rogers
Jan 25, 4:00PM
The North American market can be a tough one to crack for a number of reasons, not the least of which is consumers' continued reliance on carriers. Without their distribution channels, most handset makers just can't get a foothold here. In a meeting earlier this week, HMD told me that North America is going to […]
Vodafone pauses Huawei network supply purchases in Europe
Jan 25, 3:52PM
Huawei had a very good 2018, and it's likely to have a very good 2019, as well. But there's one little thing that keeps putting a damper on the hardware maker's global expansion plans. The U.S. and Canada have already taken action over the company's perceived link to the Chinese government, and now Vodafone is […]
Meet the little-known Chinese Wi-Fi startup that rubs shoulders with WeChat and Alipay
Jan 25, 2:31PM
A service that connects people to Wi-Fi hotspots for free turned out to be one of China’s most popular apps, nestling in the top ranks with Tencent’s WeChat messenger and Alibaba’s digital wallet affiliate Alipay. According to a report from app tracking service App Annie, WiFi Master Key was China’s fifth-largest app and the world’s ninth […]
Scooters 2.0, Munchery ghosts and solving contraceptive deserts
Jan 25, 2:00PM
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch's venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week we had the gang back together with our own Connie Loizos at the helm, Kate Clark in the studio as well, Alex on the phone and Ed Sim from Boldstart Ventures also on board. A good crew […]
Lydia launches shared accounts for its mobile payment app
Jan 25, 10:15AM
French startup Lydia now lets you share your Lydia sub-accounts with other people. The company wants to make it easier to manage money when you're traveling with friends, sharing an apartment with someone and more. When Lydia introduced its premium offering back in March 2018, the company completely rethought the way Lydia accounts worked. Users […]
Theranos documentary review: The Inventor's horrifying optimism
Jan 25, 4:35AM
A blood-splattered Theranos machine nearly pricks an employee struggling to fix it. This gruesome graphical rendering is what you'll walk away with from HBO's "The Inventor." It finally gives a visual to the startup's laboratory fraud detailed in words by John Carreyrou's book "Bad Blood." The documentary that premiered tonight at Sundance Film Festival explores […]
Go-Jek makes first close of $2 billion round at $9.5 billion valuation
Jan 25, 2:05AM
Southeast Asia-based ridesharing firm Go-Jek is making progress with its plan to raise up to $2 billion in fresh capital to fund its battle with close rival Grab . Indonesia-headquartered Go-Jek has closed an initial chunk of that round after a collection of existing investors, including Google, Tencent and JD.com, agreed to invest around $920 million […]
Ultima Thule shows its lumps in latest images from New Horizons flyby
Jan 25, 1:37AM
The rendezvous between the New Horizons probe and the distant object known as Ultima Thule was an historic moment, but after the mind-blowing imagery the craft sent back from Pluto, you could be forgiven for being a little disappointed in how indistinct the early imagery was. Those concerns should be partly alleviated by the latest image from the probe, which shows the rocky world in considerably greater detail.
Hidden screen in iOS 12.2 beta hints at AirPods that can handle 'Hey Siri'
Jan 25, 12:54AM
It’s a weird quirk of the current generation of AirPods: they support Siri, but only if you double-tap one of the earbuds first. Unlike with iPhones, iPads, Apple Watches and HomePods, you can’t just say “Hey Siri” and babble out your request. Rumors have been floating around for a while suggesting that a new iteration […]
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