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Airbnb confirms $150M-$200M investment in India's OYO
Apr 01, 10:44AM
Airbnb is continuing to widen its focus beyond ‘unconventional’ hotels as it gets ready for a much-anticipated IPO. Following its acquisition of HotelTonight last month, the company has picked today (April Fool’s Day) to confirm that it invested in India’s OYO — a startup that manages budget hotels and other stays. The deal has been […]
Bringing affiliate marketing and outsourced customer acquisition to Brazil nets Escale $22.6 million
Apr 01, 10:30AM
Despite not being Brazilian and having their first exposure to the country only a few years ago, the two co-founders of Escale have managed to raise $22.6 million for their company, which provides customer acquisition services to companies in telecommunications and healthcare across Brazil. Their secret? A knowledge of search engine optimization technologies honed through […]
Gmail turns 15, gets smart compose improvements and email scheduling
Apr 01, 10:00AM
Exactly fifteen years ago, Google decided to confuse everybody by launching its long-awaited web-based email client on April 1. This definitely wasn’t a joke, though, and Gmail went on to become one of Google’s most successful products. Today, to celebrate its fifteenth birthday (and maybe make you forget about today’s final demise of Inbox and […]
Jio Health combines online and offline healthcare in Southeast Asia, starting in Vietnam
Apr 01, 8:44AM
The internet is often lauded for the potential to increase the impact of a range of primary services in emerging markets, including education, commerce, banking and healthcare. While many of those platforms are now being built, a few are finding that a hybrid approach combining online and offline is advantageous. That’s exactly what Jio Health, […]
Krablr nets new leadership
Apr 01, 7:37AM
News just in: We’re getting reports the board of Krablr has voted overwhelmingly to jettison the sole remaining founder, Wilson Poney, and install an interim CFO to take the company in a new old direction. “We’re going to make Krablr great again,” said chairman of the board, Goldie Seamann. “We’re not 100% sure what’s been […]
Sign up for the TechCrunch Hackathon at VivaTech in Paris
Apr 01, 7:08AM
Calling all hackathon fans across Europe and beyond. It's time once again to put your creative coding skills to the test at the TechCrunch Hackathon at VivaTech 2019, which returns to Paris on May 17-18. Brush up on your parlez-vous français, stock up on RedBull and get ready to compete against some of the best […]
New Facebook tool answers the question "Why am I seeing this post?"
Apr 01, 3:34AM
Facebook announced today that it is adding a feature called "Why am I seeing this post?" to News Feeds. Similar to "Why am I seeing this ad?," which has appeared next to advertisements since 2014, the new tool has a dropdown menu that gives users information about why that post appeared in their News Feed, […]
We don't need no education?
Apr 01, 12:05AM
I’ve been doing a lot of interviews lately, and I’ve been watching the rise of Lambda School — which I think is fantastic, incidentally — and the combination has me wondering two things: how educated do software engineers need to be? And how well does that map to what they actually learn from formal education? […]
Elon Musk, SoundCloud rapper
Mar 31, 11:04PM
How's your weekend going? Good, good. Now, here, have a billionaire's super autotuned rap track about a famous deceased gorilla: Tesla/Space X/Boring Company guy, Elon Musk has apparently uploaded a SoundCloud track titled "RIP Harambe," about the 17-year-old Western lowland gorilla who was shot to death at a Cincinnati zoo in 2016 after a three-year-old […]
China's grocery delivery battle heats up with Meituan's entry
Mar 31, 1:38PM
Fast, affordable food delivery service has been life-changing for many working Chinese, but some still prefer to whip up their own meals. These people may not have the time to pick up fresh ingredients from brick-and-mortar stores, so China’s startups and large companies are trying to make home-cooked meals more effortless for busy workers by […]
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 […]
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