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Gjirafa raises a $6.7M Series B from Rockaway Capital to digitise the Balkans

Mar 25, 9:49AM

There's nothing like a niche language to create a sort of lock-in for a startup, and that's exactly what's happened with e case of Gjirafa. Focusing exclusively on Albanian-speaking countries, co-founder and CEO Mergim Cahani started out developing an Albanian language search engine and then literally digitizing the country’s information, from bus timetables to a […]


Omers Ventures outs €300M European fund — Q&A with Managing Partner Harry Briggs

Mar 25, 9:44AM

Omers Ventures, the venture capital arm of Canadian pension fund Omers, is officially launching a new €300 million fund aimed at European technology startups. Headed up by Harry Briggs, who was previously at BGF Ventures, Omers Europe will back companies at Series A to B stage. The new fund will typically invest between €5m-€10m per […]


How to watch the live stream for today's Apple keynote

Mar 25, 7:01AM

Apple is holding a keynote today on its campus in Cupertino, and the company is expected to talk about new services. Don't expect any new device, today's event should be all about content. At 10 AM PT (1 PM in New York, 5 PM in London, 6 PM in Paris), you'll be able to watch […]


Alibaba acquires Israeli VR startup Infinity Augmented Reality

Mar 25, 4:36AM

Infinity Augmented Reality, an Israeli virtual reality startup, has been acquired by Alibaba, the companies announced this weekend. The deal's terms were not disclosed. Alibaba and InfinityAR have had a strategic partnership since 2016, when Alibaba Group led InfinityAR's Series C. Since then, the two have collaborated on augmented reality, computer vision and artificial intelligence […]


Peek into an empty Steve Jobs Theater before tomorrow's big Apple event

Mar 24, 8:10PM

What are you up to this afternoon? If your answer is anything "watching the livestream of an empty Steve Jobs Theater," honestly, I'm not sure how you call yourself an Apple fan. A day before the company's event in Cupertino, Apple's streaming video of what looks to be an empty theater, bathed in darkness, with […]


Meet the Texas startup that wants to decarbonize the chemical industry

Mar 24, 7:30PM

Solugen, a startup that has set itself up with no less lofty a goal than the decarbonization of a massive chunk of the petrochemical industry, may be the first legitimate multi-million dollar company to start out in a meth lab. When company co-founders Gaurab Chakrabarti and Sean Hunt began hunting for a lab to test […]


Apple could charge $9.99 per month each for HBO, Showtime and Starz

Mar 24, 6:34PM

The Wall Street Journal has published a report on Apple's media push. The company is about to unveil a new video streaming service and an Apple News subscription on Monday. According to The WSJ, you'll be able to subscribe to multiple content packages to increase the video library in a new app called Apple TV […]


Apple could announce its gaming subscription service on Monday

Mar 24, 4:45PM

Apple is about to announce some new services on Monday. While everybody expects a video streaming service as well as a news subscription, a new report from Bloomberg says that the company might also mention its gaming subscription. Cheddar first reported back in January that Apple has been working on a gaming subscription. Users could […]


Transportation weekly: Nuro dreams of autonomous lattes, what is a metamaterial, Volvo takes the wheel

Mar 24, 4:45PM

Welcome back to Transportation Weekly; I’m your host Kirsten Korosec, senior transportation reporter at TechCrunch. We love the reader feedback. Keep it coming. Never heard of TechCrunch’s Transportation Weekly? Read the first edition here.  As I’ve written before, consider this a soft launch. Follow me on Twitter @kirstenkorosec to ensure you see it each week. […]


Where did social media go wrong?

Mar 24, 4:34PM

For most of my life, the Internet, particularly its social media — BBSes, Usenet, LiveJournal, blogosphere, even MySpace, early Twitter and Facebook — consistently made people happier. But roughly 5 years ago it began to consistently make people more miserable. What changed? I posted that question to Twitter a week ago, and the most notable […]


It's not so obvious that this VC firm is focused on impact

Mar 24, 4:06PM

Obvious Ventures was founded in 2014 by Ev Williams, Vishal Vasishth and James Joaquin. Its mission? To invest in startups that make a positive impact on the world.


MoviePass parent's CEO discusses the service's rocky year

Mar 24, 4:03PM

In the space of a few months, MoviePass went from being the hottest startup on the block to a cautionary tale about growing too big, too fast. By the time the summer of MoviePass came to an end, the company that was going to permanently disrupt the box office was hemorrhaging money. It changed its […]


The ethics of internet culture: a conversation with Taylor Lorenz

Mar 24, 2:58PM

Taylor Lorenz was in high demand this week. As a prolific journalist at The Atlantic and about-to-be member of Harvard's prestigious Nieman Fellowship for journalism, that's perhaps not surprising. Nor was this the first time she's had a bit of a moment: Lorenz has already served as an in-house expert on social media and the […]


Hackers conquer Tesla's in-car web browser and win a Model 3

Mar 24, 12:44AM

A pair of security researchers dominated Pwn2Own, the annual high-profile hacking contest, taking home $375,000 in prizes including a Tesla Model 3 — their reward for successfully exposing a vulnerability in the electric vehicle’s infotainment system. Tesla handed over its new Model 3 sedan to Pwn2Own this year, the first time a car has been […]


Flying taxi startup Blade is helping Silicon Valley CEOs bypass traffic

Mar 23, 7:34PM

Blade, backed by Lerer Hippeau and Airbus, has begun chauffering the Bay Area's elite.


A family tracking app was leaking real-time location data

Mar 23, 7:13PM

A popular family tracking app was leaking the real-time locations of more than 238,000 users for weeks after the developer left a server exposed without a password. The app, Family Locator, built by Australia-based software house React Apps, allows families to track each other in real-time, such as spouses or parents wanting to know where […]


A week of game streaming and earthquakes

Mar 23, 6:01PM

>From Extra Crunch We hope all of you enjoyed the conversation with Eric Peckham and Lucas Matney on GDC and game streaming. For those who couldn't join, a transcript should be coming shortly. Our enterprise reporter Ron Miller has a dive into how Salesforce became the model for enterprise SaaS companies, with some great early […]


Planning for the uncertain future of work

Mar 23, 5:35PM

In a recently published, roughly 75-page report, British non-profit organization The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts (RSA) outlined several scenarios for how the UK labor market will be impacted by frontier technologies such as automation, AI, AVs and more. The analysis titled "The Four Futures of Work" was conducted in collaboration with design […]


Corporate biotech venture funding rises again

Mar 23, 5:33PM

Biotech venture funding has been on a tear for the past couple of years, and corporate investors in the space are doing their part to boost the totals.


The damage of defaults

Mar 23, 5:00PM

Apple popped out a new pair of AirPods this week. The design looks exactly like the old pair of AirPods. Which means I’m never going to use them because Apple’s bulbous earbuds don’t fit my ears. Think square peg, round hole. The only way I could rock AirPods would be to walk around with hands […]



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