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YouTube confirms a test where the comments are hidden by default
Jun 21, 4:01PM
YouTube’s comments section has a bad reputation. It’s even been called “the worst on the internet,” and a reflection of YouTube’s overall toxic culture where creators are rewarded for outrageous behavior — whether that’s tormenting and exploiting their children, filming footage of a suicide victim, promoting dangerous “miracle cures” or sharing conspiracies, to name a […]
Three years after moving off AWS, Dropbox infrastructure continues to evolve
Jun 21, 3:35PM
Conventional wisdom would suggest that you close your data centers and move to the cloud, not the other way around, but in 2016 Dropbox undertook the opposite journey. It (mostly) ended its long-time relationship with AWS and built its own data centers. Of course, that same conventional wisdom would say, it’s going to get prohibitively […]
Early-bird pricing ends tonight for TC Sessions: Mobility 2019
Jun 21, 3:30PM
The robotaxi's blowin' its horn and zooming autonomously down the home stretch. At 11:59 p.m. (PT) on June 21 — that's tonight, people — we hit the brakes on early-bird pricing for TC Sessions: Mobility 2019. Don't miss your chance to join us in San Jose, Calif. on July 10 and save a smooth $100. […]
Space startup Wyvern wants to make data about Earth's health much more accessible
Jun 21, 3:25PM
The private space industry is seeing a revolution driven by cube satellites, which are affordable, lightweight satellites that are much easier than traditional satellites to design, build and launch. It’s paving the way for new businesses like Wyvern, an Alberta-based startup that provides a very specific service that wouldn’t even have been possible to offer […]
eBay and Facebook told to tackle trade in fake reviews
Jun 21, 2:51PM
Facebook and eBay have been warned by the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to do more to tackle the sale of fake reviews on their platforms. Fake reviews are illegal under UK consumer protection law. The CMA said today it has found “trouble evidence” of a “thriving marketplace for fake and misleading online reviews”. Though […]
Northzone's Paul Murphy goes deep on the next era of gaming
Jun 21, 2:44PM
As the gaming market continues to boom, billions of dollars are being invested in new games and new streaming platforms vying to own a piece of the action. Most of the value is accruing to the large incumbents in a space, however, and the entrance of Google and other big tech companies makes it difficult […]
PayPal COO Bill Ready to depart at end of 2019
Jun 21, 2:14PM
PayPal Chief Operating Officer Bill Ready is leaving the company at the end of the year, PayPal announced via a statement issued on Thursday. The exec had first joined PayPal when it acquired his startup, the payments gateway Braintree back in 2013 for $800 million in cash. He became PayPal’s COO a few years later, […]
African fintech dominates Catalyst Fund's 2019 startup cohort
Jun 21, 1:00PM
African fintech has taken center stage for the Catalyst Fund, a JP Morgan Chase and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation-backed accelerator that provides mentorship and non-equity funding to emerging markets startups. The organization announced its 2019 startup cohort and three out of the four finance ventures — Chipper Cash, Salutat and Turaco — have an […]
The VCs behind Libra, Facebook's new cryptocurrency
Jun 21, 1:00PM
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch's venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.
Facebook adds new limits to address the spread of hate speech in Sri Lanka and Myanmar
Jun 21, 8:21AM
As Facebook grapples with the spread of hate speech on its platform, it is introducing changes that limit the spread of messages in two countries where it has come under fire in recent years: Sri Lanka and Myanmar. In a blog post on Thursday evening, Facebook said that it was "adding friction" to message forwarding […]
Terry Gou resigns as Foxconn's chairman to run for president of Taiwan
Jun 21, 5:08AM
Terry Gou said at Foxconn's annual general meeting today that he is leaving the electronics manufacturing giant as he prepares to run for president of Taiwan. Gou, who founded Foxconn (also known as Hon Hai Precision Industry Co.) 45 years ago and is also its biggest shareholder, will remain on the company's board. Young Liu, […]
Ethiopia's bid to become an African startup hub hinges on connectivity
Jun 21, 3:45AM
Ethiopia is flexing its ambitions to become Africa's next startup hub. The country of 105 million with the continent's seventh largest economy is revamping government policies, firing up angel networks, and rallying digital entrepreneurs. Ethiopia currently lags the continent's tech standouts—like Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa—that have become focal points for startup formation, VC, and […]
Google responds to a WSJ report that concluded there are millions of fake business listings on Maps
Jun 21, 2:47AM
After a Wall Street Journal investigation concluded that there are millions of fake business listings on Google Maps, the company has issued a response detailing the measures it takes to combat the problem. According to estimates from online advertising experts surveyed by the WSJ, there are "roughly 11 million falsely listed businesses on any given […]
Meet your new chief of staff: An AI chatbot
Jun 20, 11:24PM
Navigator, the new project from the creators of Mailbox, launches with $12M
Study finds drivers are clueless about what driver assistance systems can (and can't) do
Jun 20, 11:05PM
Automakers like Audi, BMW, GM’s Cadillac, Nissan and Tesla have advanced driver assistance systems that are robust enough to take the sting out of that daily highway commute by handling some driving tasks. The problem: Drivers don’t understand the limitations of these systems, according to two new studies released Thursday by Insurance Institute for Highway […]
A chat with Niantic CEO John Hanke on the launch of Harry Potter: Wizards Unite
Jun 20, 10:19PM
Just shy of three years ago, Pokémon GO took over the world. Players filled the sidewalks, and crowds of trainers flooded parks and landmarks. Anywhere you looked, people were throwing Pokéballs and chasing Snorlax. As the game grew, so did the company behind it. Niantic had started its life as an experimental “lab” within Google […]
Google says it's not making any more tablets
Jun 20, 9:28PM
The writing has been on the slate for some time now. Roughly this time last year, we reported that Google had wiped all tablet sales off its site. Turns out that was just a bug, but it seemed like an ominous portent of things to come. Google still went ahead and launched the Pixel Slate […]
One of NASA's robotic astronaut helpers just flew on its own in space for the first time
Jun 20, 8:12PM
NASA’s very own free-floating Companion Cube equivalent took its own first tentative “steps” in space today, demonstrating its ability to rotate on its own in zero gravity inside the International Space Station. The robot, called “Bumble” and one of a series of Astrobee robots that NASA developed to work along with astronauts on the ISS, […]
Slack's value rockets as stock closes up 48.5% in public debut
Jun 20, 8:03PM
It was a historic day for Slack (NYSE: WORK). The workplace communication software juggernaut debuted on the New York Stock Exchange up 48% at $38.50 per share after reports emerged Wednesday night that the business had agreed to a reference price of $26 per share. Slack, founded in 2009 as Tiny Speck, closed up 48.5% […]
Is seed investing still a local business?
Jun 20, 8:00PM
The number of seed-stage funding deals in the U.S. declined for the fourth straight year in 2018. Yet there continues to be a huge surplus of available capital, with more funds out there than ever.
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