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Daily Crunch: GitHub blocks developers in sanctioned countries
Jul 29, 5:51PM
The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here. 1. GitHub confirms it has blocked developers in Iran, Syria and Crimea U.S. trade restrictions are trickling down to the developer community: […]
PBS coming to YouTube TV later this year
Jul 29, 5:40PM
YouTube TV has landed another network partner: PBS. The public broadcaster’s member stations will be able to stream live and o-demand to YouTube TV subscribers beginning later this year, PBS and YouTube announced today. This is the first digital TV provider partnership for PBS, and the broadcaster is intent upon providing local livestreams to “as […]
Flutterwave and Alipay partner on payments between Africa and China
Jul 29, 5:25PM
San Francisco and Lagos based fintech startup Flutterwave has partnered with Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba to offer digital payments between Alipay and African merchants. Flutterwave is a Nigerian founded B2B payments service (primarily) for companies in Africa to pay other companies on the continent and abroad. Alipay is Alibaba’s digital wallet and payments platform. In […]
Dark emerges from stealth with unique 'deployless' software model
Jul 29, 4:55PM
Dark has been keeping its startup in the dark for the last couple of years while it has built a unique kind of platform it calls “deployless” software development. If you build your application in Dark’s language inside of Dark’s editor, the reward is you can deploy it automatically on Dark’s infrastructure on Google Cloud […]
Google's Pixel 4 smartphone will have motion control and face unlock
Jul 29, 4:47PM
Google’s Pixel 4 is coming out later this year, and it’s getting the long-reveal treatment thanks to a decision this year from Google to go ahead and spill some of the beans early, rather than saving everything for one big, final unveiling closer to availability. A new video posted by Google today about the forthcoming […]
Microsoft acquires data privacy and governance service BlueTalon
Jul 29, 4:24PM
Microsoft today announced that it has acquired BlueTalon, a data privacy and governance service that helps enterprises set policies for how their employees can access their data. The service then enforces those policies across most popular data environments and provides tools for auditing policies and access, too. Neither Microsoft nor BlueTalon disclosed the financial details […]
The Exit: The acquisition charting Salesforce's future
Jul 29, 4:15PM
Before Tableau was the $15.7 billion key to Salesforce’s problems, it was a couple of founders arguing with a couple of venture capitalists over lunch about why its Series A valuation should be higher than $12 million pre-money. Salesforce has generally been one to signify corporate strategy shifts through their acquisitions, so you can understand […]
Adobe's latest Customer Experience Platform updates take aim at data scientists
Jul 29, 4:00PM
Adobe’s Customer Experience Platform provides a place to process all of the data that will eventually drive customer experience applications in the Adobe Experience Cloud. This involves bringing in vast amounts of transactional and interactional data being created across commerce platforms. This process is complex and involves IT, applications developers and data scientists. Last fall, […]
Bindu Reddy, co-founder and CEO at RealityEngines, is coming to TechCrunch Sessions: Enterprise
Jul 29, 4:00PM
There is surely no shortage of data in the modern enterprise, and data is the fuel for AI. Yet packaging that data in machine learning models remains a huge challenge for large companies. Without that capability, automating processes with AI underpinnings remains elusive for many companies. RealityEngines wants to change that by creating research-driven cloud […]
Y Combinator-backed Vahan is helping low-skilled workers in India find jobs on WhatsApp
Jul 29, 3:27PM
The emergence of online hyperlocal services and e-commerce firms in India has led to the creation of about 200,000 jobs for blue-collar workers who deliver items to customers, according to industry estimates. But it is also the kind of job that continues to see a high attrition rate. This means that companies like Zomato, Swiggy, […]
Yes, slack is down Update: Slack's back
Jul 29, 3:14PM
Update: It’s baaaaaack. Back to work, erm, slackers. Official word, per Slack, We’re pleased to report that we have the all clear, and all functionality is now restored. Thanks so much for bearing with us in the meantime. Are your co-workers ignoring you? Welcome to my world! In your case, however, that is probably because Slack […]
Huawei's first 5G phone goes on sale in China next month
Jul 29, 2:08PM
Huawei on Friday announced the upcoming release of its first 5G handset in its home market. Following on the heels of its U.K. debut, the Mate 20 X is currently up for pre-order, with an expected China arrival of August 16. The handset beats the foldable Mate X to market, in spite of that handset […]
Tesla will deliver in-car YouTube and Netflix video streaming 'soon'
Jul 29, 2:05PM
Tesla is getting ready to “soon” deliver the in-car video streaming services that CEO Elon Musk suggested would eventually come to the automaker’s cars. Musk shared this (somewhat vague) updated timeline on Twitter over the weekend, after noting earlier in June at E3 that Tesla’s infotainment displays would eventually be getting YouTube and streaming video […]
Europe's top court sharpens guidance for sites using leaky social plug-ins
Jul 29, 1:11PM
Europe’s top court has made a ruling that could affect scores of websites that embed the Facebook ‘Like’ button and receive visitors from the region. The ruling by the Court of Justice of the EU states such sites are jointly responsible for the initial data processing — and must either obtain informed consent from site […]
Takeaway and Just Eat to merge in $10B deal to take on Deliveroo and Uber Eats in Europe
Jul 29, 9:14AM
The food delivery wars in Europe remain hotter than a vindaloo, and that’s leading to some major consolidation: today Just Eat and Takeaway.com, two of the bigger take-out and delivery businesses in the region, announced that they are in the “advanced stages” of a merger. The deal would help them combine forces and take on […]
Minut raises $8M Series A for its camera-less home security device
Jul 29, 9:11AM
Minut, a Swedish startup that has developed a camera-less home security device that it claims protects privacy better than competitors, has raised $8 million in Series A funding. The round is led by KPN Ventures, with participation from international energy and services company Centrica. Existing backers Karma Ventures, SOSV, and Nordic Makers also followed on, […]
GitHub confirms it has blocked developers in Iran, Syria and Crimea
Jul 29, 8:44AM
The impact of U.S. trade restrictions is trickling down to the developer community. GitHub, the world’s largest host of source code, is preventing users in Iran, Syria, Crimea and potentially other sanctioned nations from accessing portions of the service, chief executive of the Microsoft-owned firm said. Over the weekend, GitHub CEO Nat Friedman wrote on […]
SoftBank pumps $2B into Indonesia through Grab investment, putting it head to head with Gojek
Jul 29, 8:32AM
Grab — the on-demand transportation app worth $14 billion that is the Uber of Southeast Asia — today announced how it would be using some of the $7 billion or so that it has raised to date: $2 billion provided by SoftBank is being earmarked Grab’s operations in Indonesia — the biggest economy in Southeast […]
Prenetics partners with Watsons, one of Asia's largest personal care retailers, to sell its new consumer DNA tests
Jul 29, 8:00AM
Genetics testing startup Prenetics today announced a major new deal for its brand in Asia. The company is partnering with A.S. Watson Group, the personal care giant whose stores are ubiquitous in many East and Southeast Asian countries. That means Watsons' Hong Kong stores and website will be the first retailer in Asia to sell […]
Applications are open for Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin 2019
Jul 29, 6:03AM
Listen up founders — TechCrunch is on the lookout for game-changing, early-stage startups to feature at TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin‘s Startup Battlefield. This is your chance to launch on the famous TechCrunch stage and compete for the a $50,000 equity-free prize and the attention of top global investors and hundreds of media outlets from around the […]
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