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MacKenzie Bezos pledges to give away more than half her $37B fortune to charity and philanthropy
May 28, 2:50PM
MacKenzie Bezos, the world’s third-richest woman following her divorce from Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos, has signed the Giving Pledge — a commitment that will see her giving away more than half her wealth to philanthropy or charitable causes, either during her lifetime or in her will. Bezos recently made headlines when she gave […]
Glovo faces safety protests after delivery rider killed on the job
May 28, 2:44PM
Spanish on-demand delivery startup Glovo is facing angry protests from couriers on its platform following the death of a 22-year-old rider on Saturday in Barcelona where the business is headquartered. Local press reports that the man, a Nepalese national called Pujan Koirala, had been substituting for a registered Glovo courier at the time he was […]
Huawei reassesses FedEx relationship over 'misrouted' packages
May 28, 2:35PM
Huawei is understandably reexamining a number of relationships in the wake of a recent U.S. trade ban. While various component and software providers including Google and ARM have suspended dealings with the Chinese hardware giant, the latest issue comes from an altogether different source. The company told Reuters this week that it's reassessing its relationship […]
Q&A with J Crowley, Head of Product at Airbnb Lux, on what makes a great PM
May 28, 2:12PM
The role of Product Manager can mean very different things at various companies. Should a product manager be technical? Scientific? Opinionated? J Crowley has run product at three big-name companies. At Foursquare, he led the rebuild of Swarm after a rocky initial launch and eventually became Head of Product. He then moved on to Blue […]
Paladin Drones picks up $1.3M to give first responders a live feed of emergencies
May 28, 2:11PM
In emergency situations, minutes can mean the difference between life and death. Paladin Drones, a company launching out of Y Combinator, wants to use technology to minimize the amount of time between a 911 call and a response through autonomous drones. The company today announced the close of a $1.3 million seed round with participation […]
Out of stealth, Stratio emerges with predictive AI to stop your bus breaking down
May 28, 2:00PM
Remember that future we were promised where our vehicle magically tells us that we're about to break down? Or actually never does? Or that the pick-up truck arrives before the driver even knows something wrong? That future is arriving. But like many things, the practical reality is that this technology starts to arrive in the […]
DJI launches a new onboard drone computer for enterprise users
May 28, 1:51PM
DJI this morning announced the latest version of its Manifold onboard drone computer. The second generation device can be programmed for myriad different enterprise purposes, from research to routine inspections. The Manifold 2 packs either an Intel Core i7 or NVIDIA Jetson TX2, integrating with the built-in sensors on the company's Matrice 210 and 600 […]
Google makes mobile-first indexing the default for all new domains
May 28, 1:50PM
At the end of 2018, Google said mobile-first indexing — that is, using a website’s mobile version to index its pages — was being used for over half the web pages in Google search results. Today, Google announced that mobile-first indexing will now be the default for all new web domains as of July 1, […]
Amazon defeated shareholder's vote on facial recognition by a wide margin
May 28, 1:27PM
Efforts by shareholders to instruct Amazon to stop selling its facial recognition technology to government customers failed by a wide margin, according to a new corporate filing with regulators. About 2.4 percent of shareholders voted for the proposal, a fraction of the 50 percent necessary to pass. The measure needed to reach a 5 percent threshold […]
Super Mario Maker 2 builds on Nintendo's rich history
May 28, 1:00PM
In 1992, Nintendo released Mario Paint. The SNES title was a strange departure, even as far as the diverse and wide-ranging gameplay of Mario's world goes. For one thing, it shipped with a mouse, perhaps the unsexiest of all Nintendo peripherals. For another, it was far more focused on creation than gameplay — drawing, music, […]
Seedlegals closes $4M Series A, led by Index Ventures, to automate startup fundraisings
May 28, 12:53PM
When SeedLegals launched in 2017 in the UK, I'd say many of us thought "why has that not been done before?". After all, two things have happened which make this an obvious idea for a startup: startup funding rounds are now so common that there is no reason large amounts of automation could be done. […]
Apple announces a new… iPod touch
May 28, 12:42PM
Apple is updating the iPod touch with an A10 Fusion system-on-a-chip. Other than that, it looks pretty much like the old iPod touch with a 4-inch display, a classic home button and many different color options. The A10 Fusion chip was first introduced with the iPhone 7. In other words, the new iPod touch performs […]
Indonesia's vegetable hawkers are going digital thanks to a new startup
May 28, 12:37PM
Few things are more interesting that the convergence of old and new. It’s with that in mind that we once again look to Indonesia where East Ventures, an early-stage VC that’s behind a project to digitize the country’s street vendors, has backed a new startup that is modernizing street vendors who sell fresh produce. In […]
India's Ather Energy raises $51 million to grow its electric scooters business
May 28, 12:33PM
There’s more money racing into India’s increasingly-competitive two-wheeler market after electric scooter maker Ather Energy said today it has raised $51 million in new funding. The round was led by early backer Sachin Bansal, the co-founder of Flipkart, who invested $32 million. The rest of the money was provided by Hero MotoCorp, which added $19 million […]
EU-US Privacy Shield complaint to be heard by Europe's top court in July
May 28, 10:24AM
A legal challenge to the EU-US Privacy Shield, a mechanism used by thousands of companies to authorize data transfers from the European Union to the US, will be heard by Europe’s top court this summer. The General Court of the EU has set a date of July 1 and 2 to hear the complaint brought […]
Devices built with Intel's Ice Lake and Project Athena specifications will be available in time for the holidays
May 28, 8:18AM
Even before Computex officially launched today, AMD and Qualcomm threw down the gauntlet at Intel with a new chip and a 5G PC, respectively. Today Intel responded in kind during its keynote presentation in Taipei, introducing new processors and laptops, in addition to unveiling Ice Lake, its 10th generation Intel Core chips. Now shipping to […]
SoundCloud buys artist distribution platform Repost Network
May 28, 8:09AM
The past year has seen Spotify embark on a series of acquisitions to beef up its service, particularly on podcast content. Now it is the turn of SoundCloud, another European music startup — albeit one that had lost its way in recent years — to go deal-making: the Berlin-based company has picked up Repost Network, […]
Future Positive Capital outs $57M fund to back European startups tackling world's 'most pressing problems'
May 28, 7:01AM
Future Positive Capital, an early-stage VC firm co-founded by ex-Index Ventures associate Sofia Hmich, breaks cover today. The new pan-European fund, which has a first close of $57.1 million, will invest in “deep tech” startups right across the region that are attempting to solve “the world’s most pressing problems”. Specifically, Hmich and her co-founders Alexandre […]
Alibaba reportedly mulling to raise $20B through a second listing in Hong Kong
May 28, 12:06AM
Massive news just dropped for Hong Kong’s capital markets. Alibaba, one of the world’s largest tech companies, is considering raising $20 billion through a second listing in Hong Kong, Bloomberg reported on Monday citing sources. TechCrunch has reached out to Alibaba for comment and will update the story if and when we have more information. […]
An original Apple I in a briefcase just sold for nearly $500k
May 27, 7:23PM
Most people wouldn’t think too much of a computer crammed into a briefcase — but if it’s one of the few remaining examples of the first computer ever built by Apple? That’s a whole different story. An original Apple I from 1976 — as hand-built by Steve Wozniak — just sold for £371,260 (or […]
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