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Volkswagen reveals its mass-market ID.3, an electric car with up to 341 miles of range
Sep 09, 7:51PM
Volkswagen introduced Monday the ID. 3, the first model in its new all-electric ID brand and the beginning of the automaker’s ambitious plan to sell 1 million EVs annually by 2025. The ID.3 debut, which ahead of the IAA International Motor Show in Frankfurt, is an important milestone for Volkswagen. The company upended its entire […]
With its Kubernetes bet paying off, Cloud Foundry double down on developer experience
Sep 09, 7:25PM
More than fifty percent of the Fortune 500 companies are now using the open-source Cloud Foundry Platform-as-a-Service project — either directly or through vendors like Pivotal — to build, test and deploy their applications. Like so many other projects, including the likes of OpenStack, Cloud Foundry went through a bit of a transition in recent […]
Annual Extra Crunch members get 100,000 Brex Rewards points upon credit card signup
Sep 09, 6:55PM
We're excited to announce an addition to the Extra Crunch community perks. Starting today, annual Extra Crunch members can get 100,000 Brex Rewards points after signing up for a Brex corporate credit card. This offer is worth about $1,000 in credit card points. Brex's corporate credit card is designed for startups, and Extra Crunch was […]
Forty-nine states and the District of Columbia are pushing an antitrust investigation against Google
Sep 09, 6:30PM
Fifty attorneys general are pushing forward with an antitrust investigation against Google, led by the Texas state Attorney General Ken Paxton. In an announcement on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court building, Paxton and a gathering of attorneys general said that the focus of the investigation would be on Google’s advertising practices, but that […]
The CEO of Naspers — one of the world's most powerful and lowest-flying investment firms — is coming to Disrupt
Sep 09, 5:33PM
In 2001, Naspers, a media company that launched in 1915 and later evolved into a media holding company with pay TV interests, agreed to invest $32 million for a 46.5% stake in Tencent. The China-based company had been founded just three years earlier, and, as Quartz notes in a 2014 story about the deal, Tencent […]
Workout app Fitplan adds Alex Rodriguez as a trainer… and an investor
Sep 09, 5:30PM
Former New York Yankees all star Alex Rodriguez is racking up quite an impressive batting average in his new career as an investor and has added Fitplan to his roster of portfolio companies. The Los Angeles-based workout app launched by Landon Hamilton and Cam Speck has closed on $4.5 million led by A-Rod and Corazon […]
Root Insurance valuation hits $3.65 billion in latest round led by DST Global and Coatue
Sep 09, 5:13PM
Root Insurance, an Ohio-based car insurance startup that uses smartphone technology to understand individual driver behavior, said Monday it has raised $350 million on a $3.65 billion valuation in a Series E funding round. The amount of the round was reported last month by Axios, citing anonymous sources. This official announcement fills in the remaining details, […]
Why am I seeing this ad? AI, ML & human error in advertising
Sep 09, 4:30PM
Ad platforms create equal opportunities for businesses but not equal outcomes. They're mostly marketed as self-service and easy to use, however, there are new features added regularly and...
Daily Crunch: Joi Ito resigns from MIT Media Lab
Sep 09, 4:30PM
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. Joi Ito resigns as MIT Media Lab head in wake of Jeffrey Epstein reporting Joi Ito and the MIT Media Lab […]
Microsoft debuts a new version of its To Do app as Wunderlist founder expresses remorse
Sep 09, 4:29PM
Microsoft several years ago acquired the popular iOS app Wunderlist with the intention of building out its own list-making productivity app that brings the best of Wunderlist’s feature set to a larger group of mobile consumers. This is a similar path as Microsoft took with email app Accompli, which later became Microsoft Outlook for mobile […]
Uber commits $200 million to Uber Freight expansion in bet on trucking and Chicago
Sep 09, 3:57PM
Uber Freight is establishing its headquarters in Chicago as part of Uber’s broader plan to invest more than $200 million annually in the region, including hiring hundreds of workers. Uber said Monday it will hire 2,000 new employees in the region over the next three years; most will be dedicated to Uber Freight . Uber […]
Apple tweaks its App Store algorithm as antitrust investigations loom
Sep 09, 3:39PM
That Apple has used its App Store to offer itself a competitive advantage is nothing new. TechCrunch and others have been reporting on this problem for years, including those times when Apple chose to display its apps in the No. 1 position on the Top Charts, for example, or when it stole some of the […]
Adarga closes £5M Series A funding for its Palantir-like AI platform
Sep 09, 3:15PM
AI startup Adarga has closed a £5 million Series A fundraising by Allectus Capital. But this news rather cloaks the fact that it has been building up a head of steam since its founding in 2016, building up what they say is a £30 million-plus sales pipeline through strategic collaborations with a number of global […]
Telegram fixes bug that failed to delete 'unsent' photos and videos
Sep 09, 3:00PM
Mobile messaging app Telegram has fixed a bug allowing users to recover photos and videos “unsent” by other people. Telegram, which has more than 100 million users, has an ephemeral messaging feature that allows users to “unsend” sent messages from other people’s inboxes, such as when a message is sent by mistake. But one security […]
Syte snaps up $21.5M for its smartphone-based visual search engine for e-commerce
Sep 09, 2:55PM
Visual search has become a key component for how people discover products when buying online: If a person don’t know the exact name of what he or she wants, or what they want is not available, it can be an indispensable tool for connecting them with things they might want to buy. Now, one of […]
Spotify users can now share music and podcasts to Snapchat
Sep 09, 1:46PM
Spotify users can now share their favorite music and podcasts with friends on Snapchat, the company announced this morning, with added support for sharing a song, playlist, artist profile or podcast either directly to your friends on Snapchat or to your Snapchat Story. Snapchat is now one of several destinations that Spotify users can share […]
YC-backed Brave Care raises $5 million for pediatric urgent care clinics
Sep 09, 1:29PM
Brave Care, the YC-backed urgent care clinic for kids, has today announced the close of a $5 million seed round of funding. The company graduated out of the recent batch of Y Combinator companies but sat out of demo day because this round was already oversubscribed, according to co-founder Darius Monsef . Investors that participated […]
Fitbit Versa 2 review
Sep 09, 1:00PM
The Versa didn't single-handedly save Fitbit, but it gave the struggling wearable company a way forward. The smartwatch demonstrated the potential for life beyond the fitness tracker. It also proved that Fitbit was finally ready to offer a product that could compete with the utterly dominant Apple Watch. Last year's Versa Lite was, by all […]
Drivetime nabs $11M from Makers Fund, Amazon and Google to build voice-based games for drivers
Sep 09, 12:52PM
Fully autonomous cars may (or may not) be just around the corner, but in the meantime, a startup that’s building in-car apps to help human drivers pass the time when behind the wheel has raised a round of funding. Drivetime — which makes voice-based trivia quizzes, games and interactive stories that people can play while […]
Google Nest Hub Max review
Sep 09, 12:00PM
There were two standout features I really appreciated off the bat about the original Nest (nee Google Home) Hub: its compact size and its lack of camera. The new Nest Max has decidedly neither of those things. After releasing a model that offered an interesting alternative to the Echo Show, Google's taking Amazon's flagship smart […]
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