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Week-in-Review: Google impersonates Apple and Bezos eyes the moon
May 12, 12:00PM
After Mark Zuckerberg’s privacy mea culpa at F8 last week, Google got its turn at I/O to promise consumers that their data wasn’t going anywhere that they didn’t want it to go. In short: they aimed to take a page from Apple. For Google, a clear strategy at the event was essentially highlighting how it […]
After burning through $1 billion, Jawbone's Hosain Rahman has raised $65 million more
May 11, 10:22PM
Not everyone gets a second chance in Silicon Valley. Entrepreneur Hosain Rahman has been given many more than that. Though his last company, Jawbone, which produced wireless speakers and Bluetooth earpieces, went kaput in 2017 after burning up $1 billion in venture funding over the course of ten years, Rahman has managed to raise $65.4 […]
As a founder, I mistook my work for self-worth
May 11, 8:03PM
Dale Stephens Contributor Share on Twitter Dale Stephens was one of the first Thiel Fellows and ran an education company for six years. These days he works an executive coach, helping entrepreneurs and executives grow as fast as their companies. These days, most days are good days. My clients are founder and executives, I set […]
HTC introduces a cheaper blockchain phone, opens Zion Vault SDK
May 11, 7:00PM
Happy Blockchain Week to you and yours. HTC helped kick off this important national holiday by announcing the upcoming release of the HTC Exodus 1s. The latest version of the company's intriguing blockchain phone shaves some of price off the Exodus 1 — which eventually sold for $699 when the company made it available in […]
EC-exclusive interview with Tim Cook, Slacklash, and tech inclusion
May 11, 6:00PM
An EC-exclusive interview with Apple CEO Tim Cook TechCrunch editor-in-chief Matthew Panzarino traveled to Florida this week to talk with Tim Cook about Apple's developer education initiatives and also meet with high school developer Liam Rosenfeld of Lyman High School. Apple wants to attract the next set of app developers like Liam into the Xcode […]
Cat vs best and worst robot vacuum cleaners
May 11, 6:00PM
If you’ve flirted with the idea of buying a robot vacuum you may also have stepped back from the brink in unfolding horror at the alphabetic soup of branded discs popping into view. Consumer choice sounds like a great idea until you’ve tried to get a handle on the handle-less vacuum space. Amazon offers an […]
Zuckerberg says breaking up Facebook "isn't going to help"
May 11, 5:41PM
With the look of someone betrayed, Facebook’s CEO has fired back at co-founder Chris Hughes and his brutal NYT op-ed calling for regulators to split up Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. “When I read what he wrote, my main reaction was that what he’s proposing that we do isn’t going to do anything to help solve […]
Original Content podcast: We're not impressed by Netflix's 'Extremely Wicked' Ted Bundy movie
May 11, 4:05PM
Despite its grandiose title, Netflix’s “Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile” turns out to be surprisingly forgettable. In this week’s episode of the Original Content podcast, we’re joined by Brian Heater to review the film, which features Zac Efron as serial killer Ted Bundy and Lily Collins as his initially unsuspecting girlfriend Liz Kendall. The […]
Startups Weekly: Venture capitalists are crazy for cannabis
May 11, 12:00PM
In this week's newsletter: Uber goes public, Carta collects $300 million and a small team of eight shows VC isn't always the answer.
Equity transcribed: Why Om Malik thinks 'the VC subsidized life is over'
May 11, 3:09AM
It’s time for another transcribed edition of Equity. This week for the regularly scheduled episode we had the whole crew pop into the San Francisco studio. Kate Clark, Connie Loizos and Alex Wilhelm were joined by Om Malik, former journalist and current VC at True Ventures. They convened just after Uber priced, so they had […]
India's most popular services are becoming super apps
May 11, 3:01AM
Truecaller, an app that helps users screen strangers and robocallers, will soon allow users in India, its largest market, to borrow up to a few hundred dollars. The crediting option will be the fourth feature the nine-year-old app adds to its service in the last two years. So far it has added to the service […]
These companies may smooth startups' path to the public market — if they don't kill each other first
May 11, 1:35AM
This morning, the SEC approved as the U.S.’s 14th stock exchange Long Term Stock Exchange (LTSE), an outfit that was conceived in 2012 by “Lean Startup” author Eric Ries as a place where public market shareholders who hold onto their shares through thick and thin would be rewarded for their loyalty. Ries thinks such rewards […]
Facebook sues analytics firm Rankwave over data misuse
May 11, 12:37AM
Facebook might have another Cambridge Analytica on its hands. In a late Friday news dump, Facebook revealed that today it filed a lawsuit alleging South Korean analytics firm Rankwave abused its developer platform’s data, and has refused to cooperate with a mandatory compliance audit and request to delete the data. Facebook’s lawsuit centers around Rankwave […]
Equity Shot: Judging Uber's less-than-grand opening day
May 10, 11:41PM
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch's venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.
A brief history of Uber's bumpy road to an IPO
May 10, 10:02PM
It’s been nine years since UberCab made its first appearance on the WordPress pages of this website. In the ensuing years, the startup has grown from an upstart looking to upend the taxi cab cartels, to a juggernaut that has its hands in every form of transportation and logistics service it can think of. In […]
Virgin Galactic is 'coming home' to Spaceport America in New Mexico
May 10, 9:42PM
Aspiring space tourism outfit Virgin Galactic has just announced its readiness to shift its operations to New Mexico's Spaceport America, from which the company's first commercial flights will take off. "Virgin Galactic is coming home to New Mexico where together we will open space to change the world for good," said Virgin founder Sir Richard Branson.
Elon Musk's 'pedo guy' defamation case is going to trial
May 10, 8:52PM
A defamation case filed last year against Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk after he repeatedly called a British cave diver “pedo guy” will go to trial on October 22, a U.S. district judge determined Friday. Vernon Unsworth, the British cave diver, filed a defamation lawsuit in September 2018 in the U.S. District Court for […]
GitHub gets a package registry
May 10, 8:30PM
GitHub today announced the launch of a limited beta of the GitHub Package Registry, its new package management service that lets developers publish public and private packages next to their source code. To be clear, GitHub isn’t launching a competitor to tools like npm or RubyGems. What the company is launching, however, is a service […]
Uber's first day as a public company didn't go so well
May 10, 8:14PM
Uber (NYSE: UBER) closed down nearly 8 percent after a rocky debut Friday.
Tinder is preparing to launch a lightweight version of its dating app called 'Tinder Lite'
May 10, 8:06PM
Tinder is preparing to launch a version of its popular dating app aimed at users in emerging markets. The app, which will be called “Tinder Lite,” offers a smaller, more lightweight version of the current flagship app, the company says. Smaller app size is a defining characteristic of most of today’s “Lite” apps, which are […]
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