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In San Francisco, a fight over a homeless shelter shines a harsh light on a conflicted population
Mar 30, 1:22AM
As of 2017, there were roughly 7,000 people living without homes in San Francisco, a number that comprises minors — a lot of them. The San Francisco Unified School District estimates that as of 2017, roughly 2,100 of the children in the school system were homeless — a number that it said looked to be […]
Valve is building its own high-end VR headset called 'Index'
Mar 30, 12:44AM
Valve is ready to sell its own full VR hardware getup. The gaming giant behind some classic titles and the ubiquitous Steam store has revealed a teaser image on its site of a VR headset called the Valve Index. Alongside the photo, text reads “Upgrade your experience. May 2019” suggesting a near-term full announcement or […]
Toast, the restaurant management platform, has raised $250M at a $2.7B valuation
Mar 29, 9:38PM
Restaurant sales hit $825 billion last year in the U.S., but with margins averaging at only three to five percent per business, they’re always looking for an edge on efficiency and just generally running things in a smarter way. A startup called Toast, which has built a popular platform for restaurant management, has closed a […]
Equity Shot: Lyft is public — what does that mean for other IPO-ready unicorns?
Mar 29, 9:03PM
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch's venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.
Apple sells wireless charging AirPods, cancels charger days later
Mar 29, 8:54PM
“Works with AirPower mat”. Apparently not. It looks to me like Apple doesn’t treat customers with the same “high standard” of care it apparently reserves for its hardware quality. Nine days after launching its $199 wireless charging AirPods headphones that touted compatibility with the forthcoming Apple AirPower inductive charger mat, Apple has just scrapped AirPower […]
Lyft closes up 9% on first day of trading
Mar 29, 8:08PM
Pink confetti fell from the ceiling Friday as Lyft co-founders Logan Green and John Zimmer celebrated their company’s IPO. The stock offering was a bona fide success, with shares selling for $87.24 apiece Friday morning — 21 percent higher than Lyft’s initial $72 share price — and closing at $78.29 per share. Lyft raised roughly […]
Should your company do an April Fools' Day prank this year?
Mar 29, 7:39PM
No. No. Absolutely not.
ServiceNow teams with Workplace by Facebook on service chatbot
Mar 29, 7:36PM
One of the great things about enterprise chat applications, beyond giving employees a common channel to communicate, is the ability to integrate with other enterprise applications. Today, Workplace, Facebook’s enterprise collaboration and communication application, and ServiceNow announced a new chatbot to make it easier for employees to navigate a company’s help desks inside Workplace Chat. […]
Apple cancels AirPower product, citing inability to meet its high standards for hardware
Mar 29, 7:14PM
Apple has canceled the AirPower product completely, citing difficulty meeting its own standards. "After much effort, we've concluded AirPower will not achieve our high standards and we have cancelled the project. We apologize to those customers who were looking forward to this launch. We continue to believe that the future is wireless and are committed to push […]
20 years for swatter who got a man killed
Mar 29, 6:32PM
Tyler Barriss, a prolific and seemingly unremorseful repeat swatter and bomb hoaxer whose fakery got a man killed in 2017, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison. This hopefully closes the book on a long and disturbing career of random and mercenary harassment and threats.
Viacom-owned kids streaming service Noggin acquires educational app Sparkler
Mar 29, 6:25PM
Viacom’s Nickelodeon is doubling down on the educational aspects of its preschooler-focused streaming service, Noggin, with the acquisition of the early childhood learning platform Sparkler. Announced on Friday, the deal will see Sparkler’s technology integrated into Noggin over the next year, and makes Sparkler’s co-founder and CEO Kristen Kane the new head of the Noggin […]
1stdibs, the high-end online marketplace, just nabbed $76 million in Series D funding
Mar 29, 5:24PM
1stdibs began pushing the antiques business into the 21st century long ago. Apparently, investors think it can push further and faster with $76 million in new funding. That’s how much the now-18-year-old, New York-based company says it just closed on for its Series D round, led by T. Rowe Price Associates, with participation from earlier […]
How a Google side project evolved into a $4B company
Mar 29, 5:07PM
How did Niantic happen? How did the company behind Pokémon GO and (soon) Harry Potter: Wizards Unite come to be? When anyone talks about Niantic, they generally mention that it’s “a Google spinout” and move on. As if that’s something that just happens every day. That dozens of people within a massive company come together, […]
The Niantic EC-1
Mar 29, 5:07PM
Few software companies have transformed the way we think about moving through physical space like Niantic . The creators of Pokémon GO and soon Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, Niantic has become an incredible unicorn success story, with a reported valuation of nearly $4 billion. One part AR, one part gaming, one part location, and many […]
Daily Crunch: Lyft debuts on Nasdaq
Mar 29, 4:30PM
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. Lyft prices IPO at top of range Lyft raised more than $2 billion Thursday afternoon after pricing its shares at $72 […]
Lyft pops 21% on its first day of trading on Nasdaq after raising $2.2B in its IPO at a $24B valuation
Mar 29, 3:51PM
Ride-hailing startup Lyft may bear the distinction of having highest net loss of any maiden public company ever going public, but despite that, it made its debut in a high gear this morning. Trading as LYFT on Nasdaq, the company’s shares opened at nearly noon today at just under $87/share, a pop of 21 percent on […]
Sidewalk Labs launches an app to crowdsource public space surveys
Mar 29, 3:47PM
Alphabet's urban planning subsidiary announced today the launch of CommonSpace. The new app was created to give park operators and community members a place to enter and organize observations about parks and other public spaces. Interested parties can create a web portal for a space. The organizer defines the parameters of a study, outlining what […]
Focaldata thinks it has some answers for campaigners in the age of Trump and Brexit
Mar 29, 3:41PM
Political parties, campaigns and brands can't get an accurate and cost-effective understanding of opinion in small geographic areas, like the constituencies of lawmakers. This is a big problem in political campaigning. And all political campaigning now has a huge online element, as we know. We also know political turbulence is one of the defining themes […]
Apple to close Texture on May 28, following launch of Apple News+
Mar 29, 3:26PM
A year ago, Apple acquired the digital newsstand app Texture to form the basis of its new subscription-based service, Apple News+, which launched on Monday. As some have expected, the standalone Texture app will soon shut down as a result. According to emails sent to current Texture subscribers pointing to a FAQ on the company’s […]
Alibaba has acquired Teambition, a China-based Trello and Asana rival, in its enterprise push
Mar 29, 3:13PM
Alibaba has made an acquisition as it continues to square up to the opportunity in enterprise services in China and beyond, akin to what its U.S. counterpart Amazon has done with AWS. TechCrunch has confirmed that the e-commerce and cloud services giant has acquired Teambition, a Microsoft and Tencent-backed platform for co-workers to plan and […]
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