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Watch India's Chandrayaan-2 make its historic moon landing attempt right here
Sep 06, 7:31PM
It's a big day for India's highly audacious Chandrayaan-2 mission. The nation will attempt to land its lunar orbit on the moon's surface shortly as it inches closer to become the fourth in the world to complete a successful lunar landing. ISRO, India's equivalent of NASA, is live streaming the landing on its website, and YouTube […]
Porsche increases stake in electric car maker Rimac Automobili to 15.5%
Sep 06, 7:00PM
Porsche AG is increasing its stake in Croatian electric vehicle components and hypercar company Rimac Automobili. The increased stake is the latest effort by Porsche to invest more into electric mobility, particularly in battery technology. It was just 14 months ago that Porsche took a 10% stake in Rimac. Now, the German automaker is pushing […]
Pagerduty's Jennifer Tejada and Box's Aaron Levie will talk IPOs at TC Disrupt SF
Sep 06, 6:46PM
Pagerduty‘s CEO Jennifer Tejada and Box co-founder and CEO Aaron Levie both guided their companies to successful IPOs, with Box going public in 2015 and Pagerduty listing its stocks only a few months ago. Both of them will join us on the first day of TechCrunch Disrupt SF on October 2 to talk about their […]
Daily Crunch: Apple Music comes to the web
Sep 06, 6:39PM
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. Apple Music launches a public beta on the web While this is the first time Apple has made its music service […]
Agave wants to fill the need Google Hire's impending shutdown will create
Sep 06, 6:26PM
With the scheduled 2020 shutdown of Google Hire, the tech giant’s applicant tracking system, there’s more room for startups to emerge as the go-to tool for hiring managers. Agave, which has $1 million in funding from SV Angel, Box Group and others, is aiming to serve that need. Agave is a free hiring platform that […]
Apple doesn't want Google 'stoking fear' about serious iOS security exploits
Sep 06, 5:57PM
Apple has issued a tart response to an extensive report by Google of a serious security flaw in iOS. The flaw, which let an attacker gain root access to a device visiting a malicious website, was reported last week. Apple wants to "make sure all of our customers have the facts," which is funny, because it's likely we wouldn't have any of the facts if Google had not so rigorously documented this issue.
APIs are the next big SaaS wave
Sep 06, 5:56PM
While the software revolution started out slowly, over the past few years it's exploded and the fastest-growing segment to-date has been the shift towards software as a service or SaaS...
Anti-utopian type design with Monotype's Charles Nix
Sep 06, 5:31PM
Monotype recently introduced a new typeface called Ambiguity, created by its chief type designer, Charles Nix. Its unusual proportions deliberately challenge typographical conventions, going wide where a letter was once narrow and vice versa. I had a chance to talk to Nix about the genesis of Ambiguity and the state of type design; The conversation was interesting enough that I felt I should publish it more or less intact.
Looking to become the video-based social network of the gaming world, Medal.tv raises $9 million
Sep 06, 4:49PM
When Medal.tv first launched on the scene, the company was an upstart trying to be the social network for the gaming generation. Since its debut in February, the clipping and messaging service for gamers has amassed 5 million total users with hundreds of thousands of daily active users. And now it has a $9 million […]
US senator demands answers from Amazon's Ring over its police partnerships
Sep 06, 4:02PM
Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) is looking for answers from Amazon about its doorbell camera Ring and the company’s relationships with law enforcement agencies around the U.S. In a letter published on Thursday, he writes to the technology giant how partnerships like Ring’s raise “serious privacy and civil liberties concerns,” and asks Amazon to further […]
Top VCs on the changing landscape for enterprise startups
Sep 06, 4:01PM
Yesterday at TechCrunch's Enterprise event in San Francisco, we sat down with three venture capitalists who spend a lot of their time thinking about enterprise startups. We wanted to ask what trends they are seeing, what concerns they might have about the state of the market and, of course, how startups might persuade them to […]
Only a few hours left for early-bird passes to Disrupt SF 2019
Sep 06, 4:00PM
We're in a price-hike homestretch, startup fans. Early-bird savings head south, and ticket prices head north in just a few short hours. Want to save up to $1,300 on passes to Disrupt San Francisco 2019? Buy your passes by 11:59 p.m. (PST) tonight, September 6 — avoid the costly stroke of midnight. Wring even more savings […]
Tile teams up with Google to bring its lost item finding technology to Google Assistant
Sep 06, 2:45PM
As rumors swirl about Apple’s plans to launch a Tile competitor, Tile today announced it’s teaming up with Google to make it easier for users to locate their lost items using their Android devices and others using Google Assistant. For the uninitiated, Tile is a small hardware accessory that you can attach to items like […]
NY attorney general will lead antitrust investigation into Facebook
Sep 06, 2:20PM
New York Attorney General Letitia James announced this morning that she’s leading an investigation into Facebook over antitrust issues — in other words, whether Facebook used its social media dominance to engage in anti-competitive behavior. In a statement, James said: Even the largest social media platform in the world must follow the law and respect […]
Huboo raises £1M to take the pain out of e-commerce fulfilment
Sep 06, 1:12PM
Huboo, a U.K. startup that operates a multi-channel fulfillment service for e-commerce businesses of varying sizes, has raised £1 million in seed funding. Backing the majority of the round is London venture capital firm Episode 1, alongside a number of unnamed private individual investors. Launched in November 2017 by Martin Bysh and Paul Dodd after […]
Why Box is one of the most underappreciated companies
Sep 06, 1:00PM
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch's venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week, we recorded on location at TechCrunch Sessions: Enterprise in San Francisco, a show that saw talks from Box’s Aaron Levie, Atlassian CEO Scott Farquhar and venture capitalists Maha Ibrahim, Rebecca Lynn and Jason Green. The latter, […]
Alibaba's UCWeb to launch an e-commerce service in India
Sep 06, 12:50PM
UCWeb, a subsidiary of Chinese giant Alibaba Group, plans to launch an e-commerce service in India in the coming months. In a statement to TechCrunch, a UCWeb spokesperson said the firm plans to build an e-commerce service around content platforms in India. It has no intention to compete with existing e-commerce businesses in the country, […]
Super early-bird pricing for Disrupt Berlin 2019 ends tonight
Sep 06, 8:39AM
The last few hours of serious euro-savings are upon us, startuppers. In the States, we'd say it's time to fish or cut bait. What we're trying to tell you is that super early-bird pricing for Disrupt Berlin 2019 ends tonight at 11:59 p.m. (CEST). Buy your passes now and save up to €600 or pay […]
Xiaomi has shipped 100 million smartphones in India
Sep 06, 8:32AM
Xiaomi said on Friday it has shipped more than 100 million smartphones in India, its most important market, since beginning operations in the nation five years ago. The company cited figures from research firm IDC in its claim. The Chinese giant, which has held the top smartphone vendor position in India for eight straight quarters, […]
Alibaba acquires NetEase Kaola in deal worth $2 billion
Sep 06, 12:56AM
Alibaba Group has acquired NetEase Kaola for $2 billion, the two companies said today, and will integrate it into Tmall, creating the largest cross-border e-commerce platform in China. The announcement follows weeks of media reports about a potential deal, which was said to have stalled in the middle of August after the companies reportedly disagreed […]
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