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The chat feature may soon return to Facebook's mobile app
Apr 12, 11:26AM
Facebook upset millions upon millions of users five years ago when it removed chat from its core mobile app and forced them to download Messenger to communicate privately with friends. Now it looks like it might be able to restore the option inside the Facebook app. That’s according to a discovery from researcher Jane Manchun […]
Backer of Musical.ly, Grindr and Opera to invest $50M in self-driving startup Pony.ai
Apr 12, 11:11AM
A games publisher in China is following the path of its larger peer Tencent to back a wide spectrum of startups for financial gains. Beijing Kunlun Wanwei, or Kunlun, announced in a filing this week that it plans to inject $50 million into autonomous driving startup Pony.ai in exchange for a 3 percent stake. Pony.ai […]
Naspers-owned PayU doubles down on India with $70M deal to buy Wibmo
Apr 12, 10:45AM
PayU, the Naspers-owned payments company that competes with the likes of PayPal but focuses mainly on emerging markets, has made an acquisition to expand its business in India. It has acquired Wibmo, a startup based out of the U.S. (Cupertino, to be exact) that mostly operates in India. PayU is paying $70 million for the […]
LumApps raises $24M Series B for its 'social intranet'
Apr 12, 8:00AM
LumApps, the “social intranet” for the enterprise, has closed $24 million in Series B funding. The round is led by previous backer IdInvest, and will be used to scale LumApps’ global sales and marketing and accelerate product development. Founded in Paris in 2012 — and now also with offices in London, Tokyo, San Francisco and […]
Uber has already made billions from its exits in China, Russia and Southeast Asia
Apr 12, 5:22AM
Uber’s exits from China, Russia and Southeast Asia were billed as failures from the company, but the ride-sharing giant has already made billions on paper from those moves, according to its IPO filing. Uber released its much-anticipated S1 on Thursday U.S. time and reporters and analysts are frantically digging into a treasure trove of previously-unreleased […]
China's largest stock photo provider draws fire over use of black hole image
Apr 12, 5:19AM
While the world marvels at the first black hole image ever taken, a Chinese photo-sharing community is setting off a huge public outcry over its use of the landmark photo and a wider debate over copyrights practices in China. As soon as the European Southern Observatory released the black hole photo on April 10, Visual […]
Disney+ streaming service launches on November 12, with a price of $6.99 per month
Apr 11, 11:47PM
Disney’s direct-to-consumer streaming strategy took center stage today at the company’s investor day. That strategy includes Hulu (where the recently-closed Fox acquisition has given Disney a contyrolling stake), ESPN+ and the Indian streaming service Hotstar, but executives spent most of their time hyping the upcoming launch of Disney+. The company said the service will launch […]
Equity Shot: A deep dive into the Uber S-1
Apr 11, 11:35PM
It's time for another Equity Shot, a quick-take episode centered around a breaking news event. This time, we dig into the Uber S-1. It's a huge, complex document, and we did our best to summarize it.
Marvel confirms upcoming streaming shows about Loki, Scarlet Witch and the Falcon
Apr 11, 11:29PM
At today’s Disney Investor Day, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige outlined the superheroic side of the upcoming streaming service Disney+. That includes a number of original shows: “Wanda Vision,” which will star Elizabeth Olsen as Scarlet Witch and Paul Bettany as The Vision; “Falcon and the Winter Soldier” starring Anthony Mackie and Sebastian Stan as […]
Uber spent $457 million on self-driving and flying car R&D last year
Apr 11, 11:00PM
Uber spent $457 million last year on research and development of autonomous vehicles, flying cars (known as eVTOLs) and other “technology programs” and will continue to invest heavily in the futuristic tech even though it expects to rely on human drivers for years to come, according to the company’s IPO prospectus filed Thursday. R&D costs […]
Trifecta! SpaceX launches first mission on Falcon Heavy and lands all three boosters
Apr 11, 10:56PM
SpaceX's Falcon Heavy launch vehicle undertook its first commercial mission today, taking a communications satellite to orbit and proving the viability of its heavy-lift rocket platform. And as a piece de resistance, all three rocket cores autonomously landed themselves back on Earth and will soon be ready to fly again.
The importance of seating at the investor meeting
Apr 11, 10:30PM
Alex Cornell Contributor Share on Twitter Alex Cornell is former Facebook employee whose still-in-stealth company was part of the Y Combinator 2019 Winter cohort. We just finished YCombinator. Surrounding Demo Day, we went to a lot of investor meetings. Such conversations are usually well-choreographed and methodical but their physical conditions can be variable and random. […]
Robocaller firm Stratics Networks exposed millions of call recordings
Apr 11, 10:27PM
If you’ve ever had a voicemail appear out of nowhere, there’s a good chance Stratics Networks was involved. The Toronto-based company is the self-proclaimed inventor of “ringless voicemails,” providing its customers a way of auto-dialing a list of phone numbers and dropping voicemails without leaving a missed call. The system uses a backdoor voicemail number […]
Twin astronaut study suggests interplanetary travel may not be a health risk
Apr 11, 10:26PM
The human body "remains robust and resilient" after almost a year in space, according to a long-term, multi-institutional study of twins, one of whom lived aboard the International Space Station for 340 days while the other remained on Earth. These heartening results remove a potential barrier to crewed interplanetary missions — and just in time for us to start planning them.
Trifecta adds Beyond Meat's products to its organic prepared food delivery service
Apr 11, 9:41PM
Organic meal delivery service Trifecta is partnering with Beyond Meat to bring the company’s plant-based meat replacements to its prepared meal and à la carte delivery service, the companies said today. Unlike its biggest competitor, Impossible Foods (which chose to go a business-to-business route supplying its meat replacement to restaurants), Beyond Meat primarily went through […]
Original Content podcast: Director Theo Love explains 'The Legend of Cocaine Island'
Apr 11, 9:24PM
Most documentary filmmakers want to convince you that the story they’re telling is important. But Theo Love, director of the new Netflix documentary “The Legend of Cocaine Island,” said he was attracted to his subject matter for the opposite reason. “A lot of the documentary subject matter that we had been considering and that we […]
Uber is dishing out 'appreciation awards' up to $10K to let prolific drivers buy stock
Apr 11, 9:19PM
As Uber gears up for its highly anticipated public debut, the company is setting aside some dough for drivers that have logged some serious rides on the platform as a reward for sticking with the service. The company follows Lyft, which also rewarded drivers with one-time cash bonuses during its public offering. Uber files for […]
Travis Kalanick stands to make billions from Uber's IPO
Apr 11, 8:40PM
Here's who's making the most money from Uber's upcoming IPO.
CEO Jennifer Tejada just took PagerDuty public; we talked about the roadshow, the IPO and what comes next
Apr 11, 8:16PM
PagerDuty debuted on the New York Stock Exchange today, and as we type, shares of the nine-year-old, San Francisco-based incident response software company are trading at nearly $39. That’s up more than 60 percent above their IPO range of $24 per share, which was itself adjusted from the range of $21 to $23 that had […]
Founders meet with Salesforce Ventures at TechCrunch Include's April Office Hours
Apr 11, 8:11PM
TechCrunch Include is partnering with Salesforce Ventures to host this month’s Include Office Hours on April 30th. From 2:00pm – 4:00pm, Salesforce Ventures investors Matt Garratt, Phoebe Peronto, Spencer Chavez, and Claudine Emeott will meet with founders one on one, for 20 minutes, to offer guidance, advice and product feedback. You can apply here. TechCrunch […]
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