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A look at new power banks from OmniCharge and Fuse Chicken
Mar 30, 9:38PM
When you've been doing this job long enough, you start to develop strange interests (though some might compellingly argue that strange interests are a prerequisite). Lately for me it's been power banks. Quite possibly the least sexy product in all of consumer electronics outside of the ever-ubiquitous dongle. I don't know what to tell you. […]
Mark Zuckerberg actually calls for regulation of content, elections, privacy
Mar 30, 8:41PM
It's been a busy day for Facebook exec op-eds. Earlier this morning, Sheryl Sandberg broke the site's silence around the Christchurch massacre, and now Mark Zuckerberg is calling on governments and other bodies to increase regulation around the sorts of data Facebook traffics in. He’s hoping to get out in front of heavy-handed regulation and […]
CMU team develops a robot and drone system for mine rescues
Mar 30, 8:41PM
On our final day in Pittsburgh, we find ourself in a decommissioned coal mine. Just northeast of the city proper, Tour-Ed's owners run field trips and tours during the warmer months, despite the fact that the mine's innards run a constant 50 degrees or so, year round. With snow still melted just beyond the entrance, […]
Equity transcribed: What the Lyft IPO means for IPO-ready unicorns
Mar 30, 6:30PM
Welcome back to this week's transcribed edition of Equity, TechCrunch's venture capital-focused podcast that unpacks the numbers behind the headlines. We're running an experiment for Extra Crunch members that puts the words of our wildly popular venture capital podcast, Equity, in your eyes instead of your ears. This week, Kate Clark and Alex Wilhelm recorded […]
Sheryl Sandberg says Facebook is 'exploring' restrictions following Christchurch attacks
Mar 30, 6:13PM
In an open letter published by the New Zealand Herald, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg finally addressed the shocking mass shootings that left 50 dead at two Christchurch mosques. The first of part of the deadliest mass shooting in modern new Zealand history was live-streamed on Facebook by the attacker. But while the site's technology was […]
Yoshi's Crafted World is classic gaming joy, Nintendo-style
Mar 30, 5:00PM
In 1995, Yoshi had his moment. The character's Super Mario World debut was so strong, Nintendo handed the dinosaur sidekick his own sequel. A surprise divergence from the Mario franchise found the character escorting a baby version of the plumber in search of his kidnapped twin. Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island was regarded as […]
Ride-hailing, bike and scooter companies probably raised less money than you thought
Mar 30, 4:51PM
Jason Rowley Contributor Jason Rowley is a venture capital and technology reporter for Crunchbase News. More posts by this contributor To get big faster, younger unicorns start buying startups sooner Small VC funds continue to raise, despite pressure from above After years of fierce competition as private companies, Uber and Lyft are going public on U.S. markets. […]
Covert data-scraping on watch as EU DPA lays down "radical" GDPR red-line
Mar 30, 4:00PM
An interesting decision came out of Poland’s data protection agency this week after the watchdog issued its first fine under Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). On the surface the enforcement doesn’t look so remarkable: A ‘small’ ~€220K fine was handed to a Sweden-headquartered European digital marketing company, Bisnode, which has an office in Poland, […]
Sega's Genesis/Mega Drive Mini arrives in September
Mar 30, 3:16PM
Whether you call it the Genesis or the Mega Drive, Sega's 16 bit system holds a special place in the hearts of many a gamer who came of age in the 80s and 90s. Like the NES and Super Nintendo before it, the console that gave us a ring-hoarding hedgehog is about to get miniaturized. […]
EC Weekly: Gaming, crypto, shipping and the multiple future strategies of tech
Mar 30, 2:18PM
Niantic EC-1 Greg Kumparak published the first part of his planned four part EC-1 series on Niantic yesterday, focusing on the founding story of the AR/gaming unicorn from Keyhole and Google Earth to a complicated spinout from Alphabet. Lots of great nuggets on how companies get formed and built, but one I particularly enjoyed was […]
Remote workers and nomads represent the next tech hub
Mar 30, 2:00PM
Amid calls for a dozen different global cities to replace Silicon Valley — Austin, Beijing, London, New York — nobody has yet nominated "nowhere." But it's now a possibility. There are two trends to unpack here. The first is startups that are fully, or almost fully, remote, with employees distributed around the world. There's a […]
Startups Weekly: Why Lyft's $2.2B IPO wasn't "crazy land" or "nuts"
Mar 30, 12:00PM
In this week's newsletter: Casper raises big bucks, more podcast M&A and Uber's Careem deal.
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. […]
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