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Ousted Flipkart founder Binny Bansal aims to help 10,000 Indian founders with new venture
Feb 05, 8:27AM
Flipkart co-founder Binny Bansal’s next act is aimed at helping the next generation of startup founders in India. Bansal has already etched his name into India’s startup history after U.S. retail giant Walmart paid $16 billion to take a majority stake in its e-commerce business to expand its rivalry with Amazon. Things turned sour, however, […]
Databricks raises $250M at a $2.75B valuation for its analytics platform
Feb 05, 8:01AM
Databricks, the company behind the Apache Spark big data analytics engine, today announced that it has raised a $250 million Series E round led by Andreessen Horowitz. Coatue Management, Microsoft and NEA, also participated in this round, which brings the company’s total funding to $498.5 million. Microsoft’s involvement here is probably a bit of a […]
Coda's programmable document editor comes out of beta, launches iOS app
Feb 05, 8:01AM
Coda, which is coming out of its limited beta today, wants to reinvent how you think about documents and spreadsheets. That’s about as tough a challenge as you can set yourself, given how ingrained tools like Word, Excel and their equivalents from the likes of Google, Zoho and others are. Coda’s secret weapon is that […]
Festicket, the festival booking platform, picks up $4.6M backing from creative investor Edge Investments
Feb 05, 8:00AM
Festicket, the U.K.-headquartered festival booking platform, has picked up another $4.6 million in funding, an extension of the startup’s $10.5 million Series D late last year. The new backing comes from Edge Investments, the creative industries investor that counts music industry veteran Harvey Goldsmith as a director. Edge joins an existing roster of Series D […]
Apeel partners with Nature's Pride to bring spoilage resistant fruits and veggies to Europe
Feb 05, 6:56AM
Apeel Sciences, the developer of a new technology that makes fruits and vegetables more resistant to spoilage, and Nature's Pride, one of the largest vendors of avocados and mangos in Europe, are partnering to bring longer-lived avocados to market. Subject to regulatory approval in the EU, Nature’s Pride said it will integrate Apeel’s plant-based preservation […]
Toyota's new car subscription company Kinto is gamifying driving behavior
Feb 05, 6:42AM
Toyota has officially launched Kinto, a company first revealed late last year that will manage a car subscription program and other mobility services in Japan, including the sale and purchase of used vehicles as well as automotive repair and inspection. Kinto is jointly funded by Toyota Financial Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of Toyota, and Sumitomo Mitsui […]
Lunchr grabs $34 million for its corporate lunch card
Feb 05, 6:01AM
French startup Lunchr is raising a $34 million funding round (€30 million) from Index Ventures, with existing investors Daphni, Idinvest and Kima Ventures also participating. The company had already raised $13 million 7 months ago (€11 million). In France, companies of a certain size have to support employees in one way or another when it […]
Account linking could make Instagram the heir to Facebook Login
Feb 04, 11:12PM
Teens’ aversion to Facebook jeopardizes not only the company’s feed ad revenue, but its dominance as an identity provider. The Facebook Login platform keeps people tied to the social network in order to easily access other apps without a separate username and password. But for younger users who ditch or neglect Facebook in favor of […]
Equity Shot: All about Slack's confidential IPO filing
Feb 04, 10:23PM
Hello, and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch's venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. Today we’re bringing back an old Equity format: The Shot. No, I haven’t started drinking again. Equity Shots are short takes on breaking news. And no news was more explosive recently than word that Slack has filed to […]
Alphabet revenues are up 22% but the stock is still dropping
Feb 04, 9:30PM
Despite delivering a Q4 earnings revenue beat, Google parent company Alphabet’s stock is seeing a bit of a drop. The massive search company reported revenue of $39.3 billion, up 22 percent year-over-year with an EPS of $12.77. Alphabet stock dropped more than 2 percent in after-hours trading. The company’s beat of analyst estimates would have been a […]
Women's networking company Elpha launches out of Y Combinator
Feb 04, 9:01PM
Leap, the women’s networking group that was developed by Y Combinator, is spinning out of the company with a new name — Elpha. Co-founded by Cadran Cowansage, Abadesi Osunsade and Kuan Luo, Elpha is designed as a professional network for women offering content and access to a directory to make it easier for women in the technology industry to […]
Nest's security system can now be a Google Assistant
Feb 04, 8:37PM
A bit over a year after its release, Nest’s security alarm system is picking up a new trick: it can now double as a Google Assistant device. Nest announced the new functionality this afternoon, saying that it’s being “pushed out to all Nest Secure systems both new and old” today. This update effectively turns the […]
YouTube expands test of its Instagram-like Explore tab to more devices
Feb 04, 7:39PM
YouTube is expanding the test of its “Explore” feature, a new discovery tool it first introduced as an experiment within its iPhone app last year. Similar to Instagram’s Explore page, the new YouTube feature aims to introduce users to a diverse set of personalized recommendations so they can more easily find something new to watch. […]
VW's Electrify America will use Tesla battery packs to lower charging costs
Feb 04, 7:21PM
Electrify America, the entity set up by Volkswagen as part of its settlement with U.S. regulators over its diesel emissions cheating scandal, plans to install Tesla Powerpack battery systems at more than 100 of its electric vehicle charging stations this year. Electrify America aims to use the Tesla Powerpacks to offset the cost of charging for […]
Google brings Chrome OS Instant Tethering to more Chromebooks and phones
Feb 04, 6:30PM
Tethering your laptop and phone can be a bit of a hassle. Google’s Chrome OS has long offered a solution called Instant Tethering that makes the process automatic, but so far, this only worked for a small set of Google’s own Chromebooks and phones, starting with the Nexus 6. Now Google is officially bringing this feature […]
Daily Crunch: Google launches Live Transcribe
Feb 04, 6:20PM
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. Google intros a pair of Android accessibility features for people with hearing loss Live Transcribe is, perhaps, the more compelling of […]
Firefox will soon mute all autoplaying videos
Feb 04, 6:07PM
There are many things worse than autoplaying video and audio on the web. The world is a messy place, after all. But it sure is distracting when you surf to a website and suddenly some video starts playing at full volume. Google’s Chrome browser and Microsoft Edge both offer tools to disable these annoyances and, […]
Amazon's 2018 acquisitions totaled $1.65B, led by PillPack and Ring
Feb 04, 6:05PM
Amazon’s annual 10-K filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission confirmed the high prices the e-commerce giant paid for its two biggest M&A deals last year. According to the filing, the company paid approximately $839 million in cash for Ring and $753 million for PillPack, with all other acquisitions totaling $57 million. GeekWire was […]
Periscope's latest feature turns your broadcast into a radio talk show
Feb 04, 6:04PM
When it comes to live streaming, the viewer contributions are pretty light. In Periscope, you can drop a comment of leave a floating heart icon, but there isn’t a deep way to contribute to a stream. Today, Twitter is rolling out a change to Periscope that hands broadcast viewers the microphone, allowing a video stream […]
Tesla's $218M Maxwell acquisition aims to give its batteries a boost
Feb 04, 6:02PM
Tesla has acquired energy storage company Maxwell Technologies in an all-stock deal valued at $218 million, a deal aimed at helping the electric automaker improve its batteries and lower costs as more competitors enter the market. The offer will value each of Maxwell’s 45.9 million shares at $4.75. The merger is expected to close in the […]
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