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Steve Jurvetson tells all: about his new $200 million fund, his new partner, his new shopping list, and more
Feb 16, 1:46AM
Steve Jurvetson is staging a comeback, disclosing today that his new San Francisco-based, early-stage venture firm Future Ventures, has raised $200 million for its debut fund. “It’s good to be back in the saddle again,” says Jurvetson, whose career was somewhat derailed in the fall of 2017 when a former girlfriend wrote a Facebook post, […]
Apple acquires talking Barbie voicetech startup PullString
Feb 15, 10:02PM
Apple has just bought up the talent it needs to make talking toys a part of Siri, HomePod, and its voice strategy. Apple has acquired PullString, also known as ToyTalk, according to Axios’ Dan Primack and Ina Fried. TechCrunch has received confirmation of the acquistion from sources with knowledge of the deal. The startup makes voice […]
Marriott now lets you check if you're a victim of the Starwood hack
Feb 15, 9:54PM
Hotel chain giant Marriott will now let you check if you’re a victim of the Starwood hack. The company confirmed to TechCrunch that it has put in place “a mechanism to enable guests to look up individual passport numbers to see if they were included in the set of unencrypted passport numbers.” That follows a statement […]
Deploy the space harpoon
Feb 15, 8:42PM
Watch out, starwhales.
GoTrendier raises $3.5 million to take on Spanish-language fashion marketplaces
Feb 15, 8:04PM
Thanks to environmentally conscious young buyers, throwaway culture is dying not only in the U.S., but also in Latin America — and startups are poised to jump in with services to help people recycle used clothing. GoTrendier, a peer-to-peer fashion marketplace operative in Mexico and Colombia, has raised $3.5 million USD to do just that. […]
Even years later, Twitter doesn't delete your direct messages
Feb 15, 6:57PM
When does "delete" really mean delete? Not always, or even at all, if you're Twitter.
Opendoor files to raise another $200M at a $3.7B valuation, documents show
Feb 15, 6:30PM
The housing market is predicted to cool this year, but the market for startups selling houses? It seems to be heating up. Opendoor, the company that aims to bypass real estate agents and brokers by providing an online platform — by way of a mobile app — for people to buy and sell properties direct, has […]
Daily Crunch: Amazon scraps HQ2 plans in NYC
Feb 15, 6:30PM
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. Did New York lose anything with Amazon's rejection? It's complicated. Amazon announced yesterday that it's taking its ball and going home, […]
As GE and Amazon move on, Google expands presence in Boston and NYC
Feb 15, 6:06PM
NYC and Boston were handed huge setbacks this week when Amazon and GE decided to bail on their commitments to build headquarters in the respective cities on the same day. But it’s worth pointing out that while these large tech organizations were pulling out, Google was expanding in both locations. Yesterday, upon hearing about Amazon’s decision […]
Uber reports $3B in Q4 revenue, rising operating losses
Feb 15, 6:00PM
Ahead of its anticipated initial public offering this year, Uber reported a net loss of $865 million in the fourth quarter. That figure, however, was aided by a tax benefit that saved the company from reporting a $1.2 billion net loss in the period. On an adjusted, pro-forma basis, Uber's net loss in the final […]
Twitter considering a tweet 'clarifying' function
Feb 15, 4:19PM
Clarification hasn't always been Twitter's strong suit. Fittingly, there's a bit of confusion around the longstanding suggestion that the service could add an "edit" button in order to save users from silly typos and, well, much, much worse. At a Goldman Sachs event this week, Jack Dorsey clarified that, rather than adding a controversial edit […]
Amazon leads $700M round in electric automaker Rivian
Feb 15, 4:08PM
Rivian, the electric automaker that debuted its first two vehicles just three months ago, has raised $700 million in a round led by Amazon . The news follows a report earlier this week by Reuters that GM and Amazon were in talks to invest in the electric vehicle company. "We're inspired by Rivian's vision for […]
Palmetto gets $20 million credit line for its solar and energy efficiency installation marketplace
Feb 15, 3:56PM
For homeowners that want to go green, but have trouble figuring out how to do it, Palmetto Clean Technologies has the answer. The company has an army of salespeople to pitch the benefits of solar power and energy efficiency, and will connect would-be clean energy consumers with financing options, installers, and software to monitor and manage […]
Dubai airport briefly halts flights after drone spotted
Feb 15, 3:39PM
Earlier today, Dubai's International airport shut down flights for roughly half an hour, owing to the sighting of a drone flying nearby. Departures were halted from 10:13 a.m. to 10:45 a.m over "suspected drone activity,” though arriving flights were still able to land. The airport's social team took to Twitter to update the situation, while […]
Urban unicorn renewal
Feb 15, 3:21PM
Three cities, three dead urban unicorn renewal projects. In just the past few days, we've had Foxconn renege on Wisconsin, Amazon renege on NYC and GE renege on Boston. Each followed the Anna Karenina principle that every unhappy economic development deal is unhappy in its own way: for Foxconn, it was trade tariffs and slowing […]
Coinbase users can now withdraw Bitcoin SV following BCH fork
Feb 15, 2:53PM
If you're a Coinbase user, you may have seen some new tokens on your account. The Bitcoin Cash chain split into two different chains back in November. It means that if you held Bitcoin Cash on November 15, you became the lucky owner of Bitcoin SV and Bitcoin ABC. And Coinbase just started handing out […]
How to decarbonize America — and the world
Feb 15, 2:30PM
The Green New Deal has burst onto the American stage, spurring more conversation about – and aspiration for – ambitious climate policy than at any point in at least a decade.
3DEN raises $2M to create pay-as-you-go urban spaces
Feb 15, 2:14PM
3DEN is building spaces for what it calls the “in-between moments” of your day. The name (pronounced “Eden”) comes from the idea of the “third place” — a space that’s neither home nor work. Founder and CEO Ben Silver told me the goal is to create a space that people can use if, say, they’ve […]
Peloton pedals toward an IPO, self-driving is big business and SaaS's new highs
Feb 15, 2:10PM
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch's venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week was a treat. We had TechCrunch’s own Connie Loizos in the studio along with your humble servant and General Catalyst’s Niko Bonatsos. A fine group for a busy week. We had to pare our topic list […]
BRCK acquires ISPs EveryLayer and Surf to boost Africa's public Wi-Fi
Feb 15, 1:30PM
Kenyan communications hardware company BRCK has acquired the assets of Nairobi-based internet provider Surf and its U.S. parent EveryLayer in a deal of an undisclosed amount.
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