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Tesla deliveries a record 97,000 electric vehicles
Oct 02, 9:13PM
Tesla said Wednesday it delivered a record 97,000 electric vehicles in the third quarter, a nearly 2% increase from the previous period, but still short of analysts’ expectations. Tesla shares fell nearly 6% in after market trading on the news. The company reported Wednesday that it produced 96,155 vehicles in the third quarter, a 10% […]
Mutiny creates personalized plans for B2B marketing
Oct 02, 9:00PM
Mutiny, a personalized marketing startup for businesses that sell to other businesses, is taking the stage today at TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield, where it’s announcing new funding and new features. CEO Jaleh Rezaei told me that she and co-founder Nikhil Mathew created Mutiny to solve a problem they saw as early employees at HR services company […]
Render challenges the cloud's biggest vendors with cheaper, managed infrastructure
Oct 02, 8:48PM
Render, a participant in the TechCrunch Disrupt SF Startup Battlefield, has a big idea. It wants to take on the world’s biggest cloud vendors by offering developers a cheaper alternative that also removes a lot of the complexity around managing cloud infrastructure. Render’s goal is to help developers, especially those in smaller companies, who don’t […]
Lookout, Robinhood. E*Trade, Schwab, Ameritrade go zero-fee
Oct 02, 8:48PM
The biggest players in online stock trading all just copied Robinhood by removing their fees for stock and ETF trading. Charles Schwab announced yesterday it would drop its $4.95 fee, leading to plummeting share prices for it as well as competitors. By the end of yesterday Ameritrade announced it too would axe its $6.95 fees, […]
Sendmi lets you allocate part of your paycheck for remittance
Oct 02, 8:36PM
Meet Sendmi, a fintech startup that is launching today in the Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt SF. Sendmi works pretty much like a 401k or a Flexible Spending Account. But instead of saving money for later, you set it aside to send it to your family abroad. And this mix of payroll and remittance is […]
Delos uses satellite imagery and AI to help homeowners in wildfire areas get insurance
Oct 02, 8:30PM
If your home is in a wildfire area, insurance companies tend to not want to go anywhere near it. But “wildfire areas” tend to be pretty broad. What if companies could evaluate the risk on a more granular level — tapping things like satellite imagery and machine learning combined with wind, weather and topology data, […]
Traptic uses 3D vision and robotic arms to harvest ripe strawberries
Oct 02, 8:11PM
At some unspecified time, somewhere down the road, Traptic would love to expand its robots to pick a wide variety of crops. For now, however, the South Bay-based team is focused solely on strawberries. With roughly 88 percent of the fruit's total U.S. yield occurring in California, the berries represent ample opportunity for disruption. A […]
How Bongo, the 'Netflix of Bangladesh', won the local video streaming market with just $10M
Oct 02, 7:48PM
Thousands of miles away from the U.S., where technology giants, cable networks, and studios are locked in an intense multi-billion dollar battle to court users to their video streaming services, a startup in Bangladesh has already won the local video streaming market. And it did all of this in six years with just $10 million. […]
The first details about Volvo's upcoming electric XC40 SUV
Oct 02, 7:44PM
Volvo is teasing its upcoming, and first, all-electric car, with some initial sketches and a few details of the XC40 SUV. The upshot: Volvo is emphasizing a simpler design that discards some of the features found on gas-powered vehicles. The XC40 SUV won’t have tailpipes, for instance. The traditional front grille, which is used to […]
Kong acquires Insomnia, launches Kong Studio for API development
Oct 02, 7:23PM
API and microservices platform Kong today announced that it has acquired Insomnia, a popular open-source tool for debugging APIs. The company, which also recently announced that it had raised a $43 million Series C round, has already put this acquisition to work by using it to build Kong Studio, a tool for designing, building and […]
YouTube's Neal Mohan describes the company's efforts on safety and trust
Oct 02, 7:18PM
YouTube Chief Product Officer Neal Mohan gave an update on all things YouTube at TechCrunch Disrupt SF. He touched on many different subjects, from YouTube Music updates to advertiser-friendly guidelines and tweaking YouTube's recommendation algorithm. Mohan started right away with an update on YouTube Music. YouTube has accidentally become one of the biggest music streaming […]
Foursquare's location-aware Pilgrim SDK gets a free tier
Oct 02, 7:17PM
Ten years later, Foursquare is far past its scrappy consumer days as it builds out its B2B services, but its latest announcement is thrusting it back into the scrappy consumer business. Onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt SF, Foursquare co-founder Dennis Crowley announced that the company is launching a free version of their Pilgrim SDK, which allows […]
Demand for Porsche Taycan prompts automaker to add 500 more jobs
Oct 02, 6:38PM
Demand for the all-electric Porsche Taycan sports car has prompted the German automaker to add 500 more jobs at its headquarters in Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen. The move, which will boost jobs dedicated to the Taycan by one-third (to 2,000), is designed to give Porsche the flexibility it might need to boost production. “With the Taycan, we are […]
Blue Origin's passengers will pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for a ticket on New Shepard
Oct 02, 6:29PM
After committing to having a first crewed launch of its rocket ship in 2019, Blue Origin, the rocket manufacturer and launch services company backed by Jeff Bezos, is likely going to have to push that timeline back to 2020. Speaking onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco, Blue Origin chief executive Bob Smith said that the […]
YouTube Music is launching three new personalized playlists
Oct 02, 6:23PM
YouTube Music is preparing to better challenge Spotify and others with the launch of three new personalized playlists — Discover Mix, New Release Mix and Your Mix — said YouTube Chief Product Officer Neal Mohan in an onstage interview this morning at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2019. Discover Mix, YouTube Music’s version of Spotify’s Discover Weekly, […]
Actor and HitRecord founder Joseph Gordon-Levitt says we should all get off YouTube
Oct 02, 6:16PM
The multi-hyphenate actor-director-entrepreneur, Joseph Gordon-Levitt (best known for roles in "3rd Rock from the Sun," "Inception," "Snowden" and "10 Things I Hate About You,") came to TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2019 this morning to talk about his startup, the collaborative media platform HitRecord. Specifically, he addressed how HitRecord differs from other platforms for creators. In doing […]
How Lime, Scoot, JUMP and Spin plan to deploy adaptive scooters
Oct 02, 6:05PM
As part of San Francisco’s program to operate shared electric scooters in the city, it’s requiring providers to pilot adaptive scooters to ensure people with disabilities are not left out from this new form of transportation. Companies are expected to deploy these adaptive scooters within the first three months of the permit, which begins this […]
Flir purchases IP and assets from defunct drone company, Aria
Oct 02, 5:59PM
Back in March, Aria Insights suddenly went dark. The news was a bit of a surprise from a startup that had just announced a name change and pivot in tech focus. Today, thermal imaging company Flir announced that it has acquired the intellectual property and some operating assets from the former company. Flir, best known […]
Snaplogic raises $72M more for its enterprise data integration platform
Oct 02, 5:43PM
Cloud services and the adoption of apps that rely on them are continue to grow in popularity, but a persistent theme in enterprise technology has been that a lot of organizations still continue to use legacy software and architectures, for reasons of cost, migration headaches and simply because sometimes, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix […]
India's Udaan raises $585M to expand its B2B e-commerce platform
Oct 02, 5:16PM
Udaan, a three-year-old business-to-business e-commerce platform in India, has raised more than half a billion dollars in a new financing round as it looks to bring more kirana stores, chemists and other small businesses online through its marketplace. The startup said today it has raised $585 million in a Series D round from Tencent, Altimeter, […]
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