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FutureLearn takes $65M from Seek Group for 50% stake in UK online degree platform
Apr 29, 11:53AM
Edtech and recruitment continue to converge. London-based online degree platform, FutureLearn, is taking £50 million (~$64.6M) from Australian-based online job matching group, Seek, in exchange for a 50 per cent stake in the business — just days after the same group led a massive Series E in U.S. online learning giant Coursera. U.K. distance learning […]
2019 Audi RS 5 review: A bruising high-tech cruiser
Apr 29, 11:50AM
The Audi RS 5 Sportback is an animal. Tamed, sure, but not domesticated. It’s important to remember as one day, maybe next week or next year or both, the RS 5 will revert to its natural state and become fervid, wild and unforgiving. The RS 5 sedan shares a similar look to the everyday Audi […]
Spotify Q1 hits 100m paying users, 217M overall, beats on sales but loss widens to $47M
Apr 29, 11:44AM
As Amazon reportedly gears up to offer its own hi-fi music streaming service, Spotify has posted its Q1 figures. One significant milestone: the world’s currently biggest music streaming service reported that it now has 100 million paying users (up 32 percent on a year ago) and 217 million subscribers overall in 79 markets, picking up […]
Tray.io hauls in $37 million Series B to keep expanding enterprise automation tool
Apr 29, 11:00AM
Tray.io, the startup that wants to put automated workflows within reach of line of business users, announced a $37 million Series B investment today. Spark Capital led the round with help from Meritech Capital, along with existing investors GGV Capital, True Ventures and Mosaic Ventures. Under the terms of the deal Spark’s Alex Clayton will […]
Starbucks CEO says Chinese rival Luckin's 'heavy discount' strategy isn't sustainable
Apr 29, 10:21AM
A war of words in the coffee world is brewing after the CEO of Starbucks claimed Chinese upstart Luckin can’t last just days after it filed for a U.S IPO. Kevin Johnson, who leads the American coffee giant, told CNBC that competitors in China including Luckin have adopted a strategy of building market share using […]
Sanofi, Cegedim and IBM add a data challenge to the TC Hackathon at VivaTech
Apr 29, 9:00AM
Hundreds of the world's top hackers, coders, developers and creative makers will descend upon TechCrunch Hackathon at VivaTech 2019 on 17-18 May. They'll burn through two intense days competing to build something amazing. Do you have what it takes to go up against the best? Competing in the TechCrunch Hackathon at VivaTech is free, but […]
Apple defends its takedown of some apps monitoring screen-time
Apr 29, 12:42AM
Apple is defending its removal of certain parental control apps from the app store in a new statement. The company has come under fire for its removal of certain apps that were pitched as tools giving parents more control over their children’s screen-time, but that Apple said relied on technology that was too invasive for […]
Autonomous vehicles make congestion pricing even more critical
Apr 29, 12:00AM
Brooks Rainwater Contributor Share on Twitter Brooks Rainwater is the director of the Center for City Solutions and Applied Research at the National League of Cities. More posts by this contributor Cities that didn't win HQ2 shouldn't be counted out As tasks wane, skills rise Autonomous vehicles will soon be ubiquitous on city streets. Before […]
Travel activity platform GetYourGuide is raising a big round, says €500M report is 'inaccurate'
Apr 28, 11:33PM
As we head into the summer travel season, GetYourGuide, which lets people search for and book tours and other experiences in their destinations of choice from a catalog of some 35,000 activities, is raising a big round of funding, which we understand is not get closed but in the works. German blog Deutsche Startups this weekend reported that […]
Avengers: Endgame becomes the first film to break $1 billion in an opening weekend
Apr 28, 6:03PM
In its opening weekend, “Avengers: Endgame” made breaking box office records look like a snap. The last film in what Marvel Studios dubbed phase three of its rollout of characters and plots in an ever-expanding cinematic universe is a box office marvel raking in an estimated $1.2 billion at the box office. Thanos will snap […]
The demise and rebirth of the ethical engineer
Apr 28, 3:37PM
Whatever happened to the ethics of engineering? We've seen just one disastrous news story after another these past few years, almost all knowable and preventable. Planes falling out of the sky. Nuclear power plants melting down. Foreign powers engorging on user data. Environmental testing thrashed. Electrical grids burning states to the ground. The patterns are […]
Week-in-Review: Tesla's losses and Elon Musk's new promises
Apr 28, 2:00PM
What a complicated week for Tesla. The electric car-maker announced this week that it had lost more than $700 million in the first quarter of 2019, an unpleasant surprise for investors that came during its quarterly earnings report. But that was just like the 3rd or 4th most interesting piece of Tesla news that took […]
Meet the tech boss, same as the old boss
Apr 28, 1:00PM
“Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” It seems darkly funny, now, that anyone ever dared to dream that tech would be different. But we did, once. We would build new companies in new ways, was the thinking, not like the amoral industrial behemoths of old. The corporate villains of 90s cyberpunk were fresh in […]
Bad PR ideas, esports, and the Valley's talent poaching war
Apr 27, 10:24PM
Sending severed heads, and even more PR DON'Ts I wrote a "master list" of PR DON'Ts earlier this week, and now that list has nearly doubled as my fellow TechCrunch writers continued to experience even more bad behavior around pitches. So, here are another 12 things of what not to do when pitching a startup: […]
Sending severed heads, and even more PR DON'Ts
Apr 27, 9:33PM
This week, I published a piece called the "The master list of PR DON'Ts (or how not to piss off the writer covering your startup)." The problem, of course, with writing a "master list" is that as soon as you publish it, everyone takes the opportunity to point out all the (hopefully) long-tail stories that […]
Original Content podcast: 'Game of Thrones' delivers one of its best episodes yet
Apr 27, 6:46PM
We’re barely more than 24 hours away from what’s widely expected to be the most spectacular and devastating battle that we’ve seen on “Game of Thrones,” but before then, the Original Content podcast revisits last weekend’s episode, “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.” In the past, we’ve tended to discuss TV shows in a more […]
'The Division 2' is the brain-dead, antipolitical, gun-mongering vigilante simulator we deserve
Apr 27, 5:30PM
In The Division 2, the answer to every question is a bullet. That’s not unique in the pervasively violent world of gaming, but in an environment drawn from the life and richly decorated with plausible human cost and cruelty, it seems a shame; and in a real world where plentiful assault rifles and government hit […]
As measles returns, Indiegogo joins other tech platforms in banning Anti-Vaccine campaigns
Apr 27, 5:20PM
The last year has been the worst on record in the US for measles outbreaks since the disease was declared ‘eradicated’ in 2000. Even though vaccination rates across the country are still high, (according to the CDC) there remains some communities where disinformation campaigns which claim that ‘vaccines are dangerous’ (often called ‘anti-vaxx’ campaigns) have […]
Samantha Bee: Canadian, comedian, and defender of the free press
Apr 27, 5:11PM
The only job named in and protected by the U.S. constitution is journalism. But when it’s under attack from fake news, misinformation, and the supposed defender-of-the-constitution-in-chief, who looks out for the press? Reporters have an unlikely ally in the late night comedy circuit. Late night television has a steady stream of male comedians ready to […]
Here's everything you missed at TC Sessions: Robotics + AI
Apr 27, 5:06PM
Last week we held our third annual robotics event at UC Berkeley. It's my favorite TechCrunch event, and this year's was our best show to date. We had some amazing conversations with a number of the top names in robotics and artificial intelligent, demoed some incredible robots and broke some exciting news about the future […]
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