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Canal+ launches streaming service in France for €7 per month
Mar 12, 9:32AM
French premium TV channel Canal+ is facing increased competition from Netflix in France. The company is trying to reinvent itself with a new over-the-top offering called Canal+ Séries. The new service is launching today. As the name suggests, Canal+ Séries is focused on TV series — you won’t find any movie on the streaming service. […]
The Dubler Studio Kit lets you use your voice to control synths, drum machines and other MIDI gear
Mar 12, 9:00AM
Vochlea Music, a U.K. startup and alumni of Abbey Road Red, the music tech incubator from Abbey Road Studios, is launching a crowdfunding campaign today for “Dubler Studio Kit,” a new device and app that turns your voice into a MIDI controller for synths, drum machines, DAWs and other music gear. Described as a “vocal […]
Time is Ltd. uses data from Slack and other cloud software to help companies improve productivity
Mar 12, 9:00AM
Time is Ltd., a Prague-based startup offering “productivity software analytics” to help companies gain insights from employees’ use of Slack, Office 365, G Suite and other enterprise software, has raised €3 million in funding. Leading the round is Mike Chalfen — who previously co-founded London venture capital firm Mosaic Ventures but has since decided to […]
The responsibility for a sustainable digital future
Mar 12, 7:03AM
Mounir Mahjoubi Contributor Share on Twitter Mounir Mahjoubi is the French Secretary of State for Digital Affairs. On March 12, 2019, we celebrate the 30th anniversary of the “World Wide Web”, Tim Berners-Lee's ground-breaking invention. In just thirty years, this flagship application of the Internet has forever changed our lives, our habits, our way of […]
Amazon reportedly nixes its price parity requirement for third-party sellers in the U.S.
Mar 12, 5:40AM
Amazon will stop forbidding third-party merchants who list on its e-commerce platform in the United States from selling the same products on other sites for lower prices, reports Axios. The company's decision to end its price parity provision comes three months after Sen. Richard Blumenthal urged the Department of Justice to open an antitrust investigation […]
Elon Musk's lawyers argue he should not be held in contempt for tweet about Tesla's production rate
Mar 12, 4:32AM
Elon Musk's legal team responded late Monday, just before a deadline, to the Securities and Exchange Commission’s request to hold him in contempt of court over a tweet he made about Tesla’s production rate. In the filing submitted to a federal court in Manhattan, Musk's lawyers say the tweet, posted last month, did not violate […]
Russia blocks encrypted email provider ProtonMail
Mar 12, 2:43AM
Russia has told internet providers to enforce a block against encrypted email provider ProtonMail, the company’s chief has confirmed. The block was ordered by the state Federal Security Service, formerly the KGB, according to a Russian-language blog, which obtained and published the order after the agency accused the company and several other email providers of […]
Facebook's ad team shoots itself in the foot by pulling Elizabeth Warren campaign ads
Mar 12, 1:06AM
Facebook’s gang that couldn’t shoot straight advertising department has made another blunder, this time by pulling Elizabeth Warren campaign ads touting the Senator’s proposal to break up big tech. The offending ads were pulled, according to Politico, over their use of the Facebook brand in their copy. Meanwhile, other ads that the Senator’s Presidential campaign […]
Instagram founders say losing autonomy at Facebook meant "winning"
Mar 11, 11:57PM
Rather than be sore about losing independence within Facebook, Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom told me it was an inevitable sign of his app’s triumph. Today at South By South West, Systrom and fellow co-founder Mike Krieger sat down for their first on-stage talk together since leaving Facebook in September. They discussed their super hero origin […]
US rule changes could mean more startups would need government approval to hire immigrants
Mar 11, 10:30PM
Big changes in DC could mean that more startups will need the government's permission before foreign nationals do work at the company. In some cases, the foreign national will need to leave the company.
F5 acquires NGINX for $670M to move into open-source, multi-cloud services
Mar 11, 10:28PM
Multi-cloud architecture is a huge trend in enterprise, and today F5 made a big move to bring its own business closer to it. The company, which provides cloud and security application services, announced that it has acquired NGINX, the commercial company behind the popular open-source web server, for $670 million. We’d actually been hearing murmurs of […]
OpenAI shifts from nonprofit to 'capped-profit' to attract capital
Mar 11, 10:15PM
OpenAI may not be so open going forward. The former nonprofit announced today that it is restructuring as a "capped-profit" company that cuts returns from investments past a certain point. But some worry that this move — or rather the way they made it — may result in making the innovative company no different from the other AI startups out there.
Report: Google's Waymo seeks outside investment and a sky-high valuation
Mar 11, 10:14PM
Waymo would raise capital at a valuation "at least several times that of Cruise."
Tesla issues $13.8M in stock to buy trailers in bid to improve electric vehicle deliveries
Mar 11, 9:55PM
Tesla is using more than $13 million worth of stock to buy trucks and trailers that will transport its electric vehicles to customers, the latest effort by the automaker to improve its logistics and delivery services. Instead of using cash, Tesla issued $13.8 million in stock, a new securities filing posted Monday shows. Tesla used […]
Google paid $105 million to two executives accused of sexual harassment
Mar 11, 9:51PM
Google paid a total of $105 million to Andy Rubin and Amit Singhal after they were accused of sexual harassment at the company, The Wall Street Journal first reported. This confirms The New York Times report that Google paid $90 million to Rubin and reveals Google also paid $15 million to Singhal, who left Uber […]
Taika Waititi will write and direct 'Time Bandits' series for Apple
Mar 11, 9:22PM
Taika Waititi, the comedic filmmaker best known for directing “Thor: Ragnarok,” has signed on to co-write and direct the pilot of a “Time Bandits” series currently in development for Apple. The series is being co-produced by Anonymous Content, Paramount Television and Media Rights Capital. Deadline broke the news of Waititi’s involvement. The “Time Bandits” series was first […]
GM Cruise snags Dropbox HR head to hire at least 1,000 engineers by end of year
Mar 11, 9:00PM
GM Cruise plans to hire hundreds of employees over the next nine months, doubling its engineering staff, TechCrunch has learned. It’s an aggressive move by the autonomous vehicle technology company to double its size as it pushes to deploy a robotaxi service by the end of the year. Arden Hoffman, who helped scale Dropbox, will […]
Andreessen Horowitz is making the move to San Francisco at long last
Mar 11, 8:01PM
One of the last top-tier venture firms to resist coming to San Francisco has apparently decided that it’s time to make the move. According to a source familiar with the thinking of Andreessen Horowitz, the firm is opening a San Francisco office later this year. The WSJ had reported on Friday that the firm has […]
Apple sends out invites for March 25 'special event'
Mar 11, 7:32PM
Apple sent out invites to reporters this afternoon for a March 25 special event at the Steve Jobs Theater in Cupertino. Reports have suggested that the company will focus its keynote on the content side of its business. The invite offers some pretty heavy-handed hints that the video content service will be on full display […]
4 days left to save on tickets to TC Sessions: Robotics + AI 2019
Mar 11, 7:00PM
When you love anything and everything related to robots and artificial intelligence, the only thing better than going to TechCrunch Sessions: Robotics + AI is saving $100 on the price of admission. But our $249 early-bird price flies the proverbial coop in just four days, on March 15, so buy your ticket now and keep […]
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