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Battlefield winner Forethought adds tool to automate support ticket routing
Sep 05, 7:00PM
Last year at this time, Forethought won the TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield competition. A $9 million Series A investment followed last December. Today at TechCrunch Sessions: Enterprise in San Francisco, the company introduced the latest addition to its platform called Agatha Predictions. Forethought CEO and co-founder, Deon Nicholas, said that after launching its original product, Agatha […]
Google's new feature will help you find something to watch
Sep 05, 6:33PM
Google Search can now help you find your next binge. The company this morning announced a new feature which will make personalized recommendations of what to watch, including both TV shows and movies, and point you to services where the content is available. The feature is an expansion of Google’s existing efforts in pointing web […]
Daily Crunch: Facebook Dating comes to the US
Sep 05, 6:32PM
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. Facebook Dating launches in the US, adds Instagram integration The integration means users will be able to add their Instagram accounts […]
Adam Draper gives his oddball accelerator a makeover
Sep 05, 6:31PM
Adam Draper, the son of that Draper, is changing things up a bit at his accelerator. Boost VC has been living life on the fringe of Bay Area accelerators, chasing trends like VR and crypto (and sometimes a combo of the two) hard while courting outliers, including a “robot fish platform” and a “cold metal […]
Lenovo slims down its Google smart display
Sep 05, 6:30PM
Before there was the Nest Home — heck, before there was even the Google Home Hub — there was the Lenovo Smart Display. The smart screen was far and away the nicest of the original Google Assistant screens, and the partnership between the two companies continues to be a fruitful, including the recent Smart Clock, […]
Shared inbox startup Front adds WhatsApp support
Sep 05, 6:01PM
Front, the company that lets you manage your inboxes as a team, is adding one more channel, WhatsApp. Starting today, you can read and reply to people contacting you through WhatsApp. This feature is specifically targeted at users of WhatsApp Business. You can get a business phone number through Twilio and then hand out that […]
Porsche Taycan configurator: The 11 details that stood out
Sep 05, 6:00PM
The Porsche Taycan is here — actually two flavors, the Turbo S and the Turbo — in case you haven’t seen the deluge of media coverage. The upshot: the “lower” priced Turbo starts at $150,900 while the Turbo S begins at $185,000. While Porsche is promising cheaper variants of the Taycan next year, well-heeled drivers […]
Upflow grabs $2.7 million to streamline payment processes
Sep 05, 5:26PM
French startup Upflow has raised a $2.7 million funding round (€2.5 million) from Kima Ventures, eFounders and various business angels. The company tracks your outstanding invoices and makes sure you get paid on time. If you're running a small company, chances are you're using Excel spreadsheets to enter invoice information, check your company's bank account […]
Facebook's lead EU regulator is asking questions about its latest security fail
Sep 05, 5:15PM
Facebook’s lead data protection regulator in Europe has confirmed it’s put questions to the company about a major security breach that we reported on yesterday. "The DPC became aware of this issue through the recent media coverage and we immediately made contact with Facebook and we have asked them a series of questions. We are […]
Facebook is making its own deepfakes and offering prizes for detecting them
Sep 05, 5:15PM
Image and video manipulation powered by deep learning, or so-called “deepfakes,” represent a strange and horrifying facet of a promising new field. If we’re going to crack down on these creepy creations, we’ll need to fight fire with fire; Facebook, Microsoft, and many others are banding together to help make machine learning capable of detecting […]
Stripe launches Stripe Capital to make instant loan offers to customers on its platform
Sep 05, 5:08PM
A year ago we broke the news that payment giant Stripe was quietly making its first move into business finance by testing a service for advancing cash to existing customers. Now, nearly 12 months on to the day, the company is finally unveiling an official product: today, starting first in the US, it is launching […]
Teaching ethics in computer science the right way with Georgia Tech's Charles Isbell
Sep 05, 5:01PM
The new fall semester is upon us, and at elite private colleges and universities, it's hard to find a trendier major than Computer Science. It's also becoming more common for such institutions to prioritize integrating ethics into their CS studies, so students don't just learn about how to build software, but whether or not they […]
Atlassian launches free tiers for all its cloud products, extends premium pricing plan
Sep 05, 5:00PM
At our TC Sessions: Enterprise event, Atlassian co-CEO Scott Farquhar today announced a number of updates to how the company will sell its cloud-based services. These include the launch of new premium plans for more of its products, as well as the addition of a free tier for all of the company’s services that didn’t […]
After announcing Galaxy Fold release date, Samsung cancels older preorders
Sep 05, 4:55PM
The good news: Samsung says it has addressed the early problems with the Galaxy Fold and finally has a release date (in Korea at least). The bad news: The company is canceling the first round of U.S. pre-orders. The gooder news: If you were among those early adopters, the company is giving you a $250 […]
Parallel Markets is trying to make it easy to buy and sell private stock
Sep 05, 4:52PM
Parallel Markets is a new startup aiming to make it as easy to buy and sell private company shares as it is for public company stock. COO Nicholas Goss said this is becoming issue for startups as they stay private for longer, which means early employees can find their equity locked up for longer periods […]
Tyson Ventures has invested in New Wave Foods, a startup making a plant-based shrimp substitute
Sep 05, 4:50PM
Tyson Foods is getting into the seafood business. Through the company’s venture capital arm, Tyson is investing in New Wave Foods, a San Francisco-based startup that’s making a plant-based shrimp substitute. The company, founded by marine biologist Dominique Barnes and chief technology officer Michelle Wolf, who studied biomedical engineering at Carnegie Mellon, is helmed by […]
Watch TC Sessions: Enterprise live stream right here
Sep 05, 4:32PM
TechCrunch is live from San Francisco’s YBCA’s Blue Shield of California Theater, where we’re hosting our first event dedicated to the enterprise. Throughout the day, attendees and viewers can expect to hear from industry experts and partake in discussions about the potential of new technologies like quantum computing and AI, how to deal with the […]
There's an ocean of opportunity for startups targeting the seafood industry
Sep 05, 4:30PM
Seafood has blown past its iceberg lettuce stage and entered trendy greens territory, with eaters loading up on oceanic superfoods and falling in love with previously unknown species as fast as daters swipe right.
Netflix officially launches a 'Latest' section with built-in reminders
Sep 05, 4:09PM
Last month, Netflix was spotted testing a new section in its TV app called “Latest,” which would connect viewers with a personalized list of upcoming content due to be released over the course of the current week and the next. Today, Netflix is formally announcing the launch of the feature, with a focus on its […]
Only 48 hours left on early-bird pricing to Disrupt SF 2019
Sep 05, 4:00PM
Holy price hike, startuppers — you have just 48 hours left to save up to $1,300 on passes to Disrupt San Francisco 2019 on October 2-4. Don't let time stand in your way of saving serious dough. Release your inner savvy shopper and beat the deadline. Early-bird savings disappear at 11:59 p.m. (PST) on September […]
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