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Original Content podcast: Amazon's 'Carnival Row' mixes fairies, politics and murder
Sep 07, 5:58PM
“Carnival Row” offers an unlikely mix of genres, laying out a murder mystery in a world of fairies and other mythical creatures, while also delivering a healthy dose of allegorical politics. And as we explain in the latest episode of the Original Content podcast, the show (recently released on Amazon Prime Video) does take some […]
Wikipedia blames malicious DDOS attack after site goes down across Europe, Middle East
Sep 07, 3:56PM
Wikipedia was forced offline in several countries Friday after a cyber attack hit the global encyclopedia. Users across Europe and parts of the Middle East experienced outages shortly before 7pm, BST, according to downdetector.com. Wikimedia's German Twitter account posted: "The Wikimedia server…is currently being paralysed by a massive and very broad DDOS [distributed denial of […]
What top enterprise VCs are thinking, using data effectively, ethics, Light, and Flipkart
Sep 07, 3:35PM
Top VCs on the changing landscape for enterprise startups TechCrunch had our debut confab for enterprise types this week at Yerba Buena Center in SF, where we heard from Aaron Levie, CEO of Box, Apple VP Susan Prescott of Apple, and Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich. We were sold out, which perhaps isn't all that […]
Uber has surveyed some drivers on small loans, suggesting financial products are coming
Sep 07, 2:17PM
Back in June Uber went on a hiring spree in New York, hiring at least 100 fintech-oriented tech workers to ostensibly look at creating products to increase loyalty and engagement among users and drivers, including things like banking. Cue a flurry of speculation. It now looks like Uber is taking baby-steps towards building such a […]
Startups Weekly: Stripe's grand plan
Sep 07, 12:00PM
In this week's newsletter: A new car-sharing unicorn, WeWork's IPO expectations and an introduction to Stripe Capital.
PrimaryBid closes $8.6M round for its platform aimed to help retail investors
Sep 07, 9:37AM
PrimaryBid, a UK-regulated platform connecting publicly listed companies with everyday investors for discounted share issuances has previously raised $3M. It’s now upped those stakes with an $8.6M funding round, led by UK VCs Pentech and Outward VC with participation from new and existing investors. Craig Anderson, a partner at Pentech, will join the PrimaryBidBoard of […]
Roku expands its TV licensing program to Europe
Sep 07, 8:30AM
Roku TV today represents more than 1 in 3 smart TVs sold in the U.S. Now, the company is bringing its TV licensing program to European markets. At the consumer tech show IFA in Berlin, Roku announced it will now allow manufacturers to license its TV reference designs and use its Roku OS to build […]
India loses contact with spacecraft during historic moon landing attempt
Sep 07, 7:54AM
India's attempt to become the first nation to soft land a robotic spacecraft at the moon's South Pole, an unexplored region, has ended in failure, the space agency said Saturday. Less than two miles above the lunar surface, the Vikram lander (named after Vikram Sarabhai, the father of India's space program) lost communications with the […]
CDC says stop vaping as mystery lung condition spreads
Sep 06, 11:39PM
Vape lung is spreading and the CDC is warning people not to use vaping products while they are investigating the cause. In a media briefing, the public health agency said that some 450 people are now thought to be affected, and as many as five have died.
Paid streaming music subscriptions in US top 60M, says RIAA
Sep 06, 8:01PM
Streaming music subscriptions continue to drive the U.S. music industry’s growth and revenues, according to a new report from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) released this week. The organization said total music revenue grew 18% to $5.4 billion in the first half of 2019, with streaming music accounting for 80% of industry revenues. […]
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 on the moon's surface shortly as it inches closer to becoming 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 channel (embedded […]
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 […]
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 (October 2) to talk about their experiences […]
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 […]
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