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India moves closer to regulating internet services as it fears 'unimaginable disruption to democracy'
Oct 21, 9:58PM
India said on Monday that it is moving ahead with its plan to revise existing rules to regulate intermediaries — social media apps and others that rely on users to create their content — as they are causing "unimaginable disruption" to democracy. In a legal document filed with the country's apex Supreme Court, the Ministry […]
"People fix things. Tech doesn't fix things."
Oct 21, 9:54PM
Veena Dubal is an unlikely star in the tech world. A scholar of labor practices regarding the taxi and ride-hailing industries and an Associate Professor at San Francisco's U.C. Hastings College of the Law, her work on the ethics of the gig economy has been covered by the New York Times, NBC News, New York […]
Report: SoftBank is taking control of WeWork at an ~$8B valuation
Oct 21, 8:00PM
SoftBank expected to inject as much as $5B in the struggling business.
6 tips founders need to know about securing their startup
Oct 21, 8:00PM
If you’ve read anything of mine in the past year, you know just how complicated security can be. Every day it seems there’s a new security lapse, a breach, a hack, or an inadvertent exposure, such as leaving a cloud storage server unprotected without a password. These things happen, but they don’t have to; aecurity […]
NASA's Jim Bridenstine says 2035 is doable for human landing on Mars – provided budget is there
Oct 21, 7:33PM
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine took part in a joint presentation by the chiefs of a number of International space agencies at the annual International Astronautical Conference on Monday. At the end of the event, A question was put to the entire group – when do we get to Mars? After a joke answer of “Tuesday” […]
The Station: Volvo evolves, Skip trips and touchscreen tech
Oct 21, 7:21PM
The Station is back for another week of news and analysis on all the ways people and goods move from Point A to Point B — today and in the future. As always, I’m your host Kirsten Korosec, senior reporter at TechCrunch. Portions of the newsletter will be published as an article on the main […]
Daily Crunch: We review the Pixel 4
Oct 21, 7:14PM
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. Pixel 4 review: Google ups its camera game Brian Heater was impressed by the improvements in Google’s latest smartphone, including camera […]
Is there room for a U.S. equivalent to China's #1 news app?
Oct 21, 6:57PM
In China, Toutiao is literally big news. Not only has its parent company ByteDance achieved a $75 billion valuation, two of its apps — Toutiao, a news aggregator, and Douyin (Tik Tok in China) — are chipping into WeChat's user engagement numbers, no small feat considering the central role WeChat plays in the daily lives […]
New Facebook features fight election lies everywhere but ads
Oct 21, 6:36PM
Heaven forbid a political candidate’s Facebook account gets hacked. They might spread disinformation…like they’re already allowed to do in Facebook ads… Today Facebook made a slew of announcements designed to stop 2020 election interference. “The bottom line here is that elections have changed significantly since 2016,” and so has Facebook in response, CEO Mark Zuckerberg […]
Twitch hires former Zynga exec Doug Scott as chief marketing officer
Oct 21, 6:35PM
Amazon-owned game streaming service Twitch has snagged Zynga’s chief marketing officer, Doug Scott, to join as its own CMO, the company announced today. At Zynga, Scott led global marketing for just over three years. Prior to that, he was CMO at the music startup BandPage and the VP, Marketing and Revenue at mobile game publisher, […]
Superhuman founder seeks to raise debut venture fund
Oct 21, 5:35PM
The founder of one of 2019's most buzzworthy startups is putting on his VC hat.
Microsoft acquires Mover to help with Microsoft 365 cloud migration
Oct 21, 5:14PM
Microsoft wants to make it as easy as possible to migrate to Microsoft 365, and today the company announced it had purchased a Canadian startup called Mover to help. The companies did not reveal the acquisition price. Microsoft 365 is the company’s bundle that includes Office 365, Microsoft Teams, security tools and workflow. The idea […]
Shine Bathroom raises $750K for a smart home add-on that flushes away your toilet doldrums
Oct 21, 5:09PM
One ongoing theme in the world of smart homes has been the emergence of gadgets and other tools that can turn “ordinary” objects and systems into “connected” ones — removing the need to replace things wholesale that still essentially work, while still applying technology to improve the ways that they can be used. In the […]
Africa can list more gazelles at home than unicorn IPOs abroad
Oct 21, 5:00PM
At the recent TechCrunch Disrupt SF, Senegalese VC investor Marieme Diop suggested that Silicon Valley’s unicorn IPO model might not be right for African startups. The is largely because the continent’s startups face a vastly different macro business environment, Diop explained during a discussion of investing in Africa with 500 Startups’ Sheel Mohnot and IFC’s […]
YouTube founder secretly building sports fan game GreenPark
Oct 21, 4:48PM
Chad Hurley is hunting for what comes after fantasy sports. He envisions a new way for fans to play by watching live and cheering for the athletes they love. Beyond a few scraps of info the YouTube co-founder would share and his new startup’s job listings revealed, we don’t know what Hurley’s game will feel […]
Sydney's AirTree Ventures closes $275M fund as Aussie unicorns gather pace
Oct 21, 4:35PM
The Australian tech industry has, in the last few years, started to generate a swathe of startups that have broken through internationally. Prior to this current era, Australia’s industry has been very much a local market in tech terms, with only occasional breakouts, like Atlassian . In fact, it's now gaining a reputation as a […]
Moon's browser extension lets you pay with bitcoin on Amazon
Oct 21, 4:34PM
Meet Moon, a three-person startup that lets you pay for stuff on Amazon using bitcoin via the Lightning Network, bitcoin, Litecoin or Ether. The company has released a desktop browser extension for Google Chrome, Brave and Opera. While some e-commerce retailers let you pay with cryptocurrencies, the biggest e-commerce platforms have yet to accept cryptocurrencies. […]
Nielsen says it can now measure Amazon Prime Video
Oct 21, 4:16PM
Nielsen announced this morning it will now be able to measure the viewing taking place on Amazon Prime Video, through its Subscription Video on Demand Content Ratings solution. This product, first launched two years ago, was originally focused on measuring Netflix’s viewing numbers with promises to add support for measuring Prime Video in 2018. Though […]
Apple's control over the App Store is no longer sustainable
Oct 21, 3:53PM
Last week, Apple caved to the Chinese government and pulled an app called HKmap.live that was being used by Hong Kong protestors to crowdsource the location of police forces. While Apple CEO Tim Cook defended Apple's stance, the move is a reminder that Apple is the only judge and jury regarding what's acceptable in the […]
Digital ad spend reached $57.9B in the first half of 2019, but growth has slowed (IAB report)
Oct 21, 3:09PM
During the first six months of 2019, advertisers spent $57.9 billion on U.S. digital advertising, according to the latest report prepared by PwC for the Interactive Advertising Bureau (an online advertising trade group). That’s a 17% increase compared to the same period in 2018, and the most spending IAB has ever seen in the first […]
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