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Spotify files a complaint against Apple with the European Commission over "Apple tax" and restrictive rules
Mar 13, 10:23AM
Spotify is taking its gloves off in what has up to now been a behind-the-scenes tug-of-war with Apple, where it competes against Apple Music but also relies heavily on the company for distribution in its app on iOS devices. Today CEO Daniel Ek announced that his company has filed a complaint against the iPhone giant […]
Microsoft shows off Project xCloud with Forza running on an Android phone
Mar 13, 9:33AM
Microsoft has shared some more information and the first look at Project xCloud. The company has been working on a cloud game streaming service for a while. Microsoft is preparing the future of gaming platforms with a device-agnostic service that lets you stream games made for the Xbox One. And the first demo is Forza […]
Drivezy, India's vehicle sharing startup, is raising $100M+ at a $400M valuation, eyes US expansion
Mar 13, 7:44AM
Drivezy — the startup out of India that wants to turn private car usage on its head through a car-sharing network where people lend their cars and two-wheeled vehicles but also have options to use vehicles from a fleet managed by Drivezy — said it is raising more money as it gears up for the […]
Creative agency Virtue introduces genderless voice Q to challenge biases in technology
Mar 13, 6:23AM
Siri, Alexa, Google Assistant, Cortana and Bixby–almost all virtual assistants have something in common. Their default voices are women’s, though the role that plays in reinforcing gender stereotypes has been long documented, even inspiring the dystopian romance "Her.” Virtue, the creative agency owned by publisher Vice, wants to challenge the trend with a genderless voice […]
CXA, a health-focused digital insurance startup, raises $25M
Mar 13, 2:30AM
CXA Group, a Singapore-based startup that helps make insurance more accessible and affordable, has raised $25 million for expansion in Asia and later into Europe and North America. The startup takes a unique route to insurance. Rather than going to consumers directly, it taps corporations to offer their employees health flexible options. That’s to say […]
Netflix is pursuing more interactive content, including, maybe, a rom-com
Mar 13, 12:39AM
On the heels of its groundbreaking foray into interactive storytelling with the choose-your-own-adventure style “Black Mirror” episode, Bandersnatch, Netflix will look to produce much more interactive entertainment, according to vice president of content, Todd Yellin. Speaking at the FICCI-Frames conference for Indian media and entertainment in Mumbai, Yellin said in a keynote that audiences could […]
Blind users can now explore photos by touch with Microsoft's Seeing AI
Mar 12, 11:19PM
Microsoft's Seeing AI is an app that lets blind and limited-vision folks convert visual data into audio feedback, and it just got a useful new feature. Users can now use touch to explore the objects and people in photos.
TPG's Bill McGlashan is put on indefinite leave after being charged in a giant college admissions cheating scandal
Mar 12, 10:49PM
Bill McGlashan, who built his career as a top investor at the private equity firm TPG, has been put on “indefinite administrative leave, effective immediately,” says the firm after McGlashan was caught up in what the Justice Department said today is the largest college admissions scandal it has ever prosecuted. McGlashan is among 49 others […]
Former CEO Zain Jaffer files wrongful termination lawsuit against Vungle
Mar 12, 10:37PM
Vungle founder Zain Jaffer filed a lawsuit today accusing the mobile advertising company of wrongfully terminating him from the role of CEO. The lawsuit cites a section of the California labor code that it says “expressly and specifically prohibits discrimination and retaliation by employers based upon an arrest or detention that did not result in […]
National Cancer Institute chief tapped as acting FDA Commissioner
Mar 12, 10:02PM
In the wake of FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb’s abrupt resignation, Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex M. Azar III announced that Dr. Ned Sharpless will serve as interim commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration. Since October 2017, Dr. Sharpless served as director of the National Cancer Institute and, before that, worked as a […]
Democracy is good for business
Mar 12, 9:00PM
Watching our democracy function (or malfunction) over the past few years, I have come to the conclusion that there is a slow-moving crisis developing for our democracy — and our economy.
Uber's self-driving car unit was burning $20 million a month
Mar 12, 8:54PM
Uber thought it would have 75,000 autonomous vehicles on the roads this year and be operating driverless taxi services in 13 cities by 2022, according to court documents unsealed last week. To reach those ambitious goals, the ridesharing company, which hopes to go public later this year, was spending $20 million a month on developing […]
A first look at Twitter's new prototype app, twttr
Mar 12, 8:21PM
Yesterday, Twitter rolled out its much-anticipated prototype application to the first group of testers. We’ve now gotten our hands on the app and can see how the current version differs from the build Twitter introduced to the world back in January. While the original version and today’s prototype share many of the same features, there […]
Flight-hailing startup BlackBird raises $10 million to replace driving with flying
Mar 12, 8:08PM
The origin story of BlackBird, a startup that links travelers to planes and commercial pilots through an app, didn’t begin with air travel. It was prompted by car sickness. BlackBird CEO and founder Rudd Davis, who was getting his pilot’s license at the time, asked his flight instructor if he would fly his family to […]
Boeing is moving to address potential issues in new 737s as Europe bans its plane
Mar 12, 7:54PM
In the wake of the second fatal crash in six months involving Boeing 737 Max 8 airplanes, the European Aviation and Safety Administration is grounding the planes as Boeing said it was taking additional steps to address an issue that may have contributed to the crash. On Sunday, a Boeing 737 Max 8 plane operated […]
Startup Law A to Z: Employment Law
Mar 12, 7:27PM
Your startup will not succeed unless you, the founder, build an exceptional team. Great teams are built on top of great culture. Yet any venture-backed startup founder will tell you, myself included, that developing a positive corporate culture is more art than science, requiring constant and creative recalibration as your company grows. What then does […]
Scaleway updates its high-performance instances
Mar 12, 6:58PM
Cloud-hosting company Scaleway refreshed its lineup of high-performance instances today. These instances are now all equipped with AMD EPYC CPUs, DDR4 RAM and NVMe SSD storage. The more you pay, the more computing power, RAM, storage and bandwidth you get. High-performance plans start at €0.078 per hour or €39 per month ($44.20), whichever is lower […]
Google's new voice recognition system works instantly and offline (if you have a Pixel)
Mar 12, 6:21PM
Voice recognition is a standard part of the smartphone package these days, and a corresponding part is the delay while you wait for Siri, Alexa, or Google to return your query, either correctly interpreted or horribly mangled. Google's latest speech recognition works entirely offline, eliminating that delay altogether — though of course mangling is still an option.
African e-commerce startup Jumia files for IPO on NYSE
Mar 12, 6:02PM
Pan-African e-commerce company Jumia filed for an IPO on the New York Stock Exchange today, per SEC documents and confirmation from CEO Sacha Poignonnec to TechCrunch. The valuation, share price and timeline for public stock sales will be determined over the coming weeks for the Nigeria-headquartered company. With a smooth filing process, Jumia will become […]
Disney says Fox acquisition will close on March 20
Mar 12, 4:46PM
More than a year after the deal was first announced, it looks like Disney’s acquisition of 21st Century Fox is about to close. Disney announced today that the deal is “expected to become effective at 12:02 a.m. Eastern Time on March 20, 2019,” suggesting that it has obtained the final approval needed, specifically from regulators […]
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