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Google's search app now sports an incognito mode
Sep 28, 1:40PM
Looking to surf the mobile web privately, but generally prefer the Google Search app over standalone browsers like Safari or Chrome? Then you’ll appreciate the latest update to the Google Search app for iOS, which now introduces an “incognito mode” that you can further protect using Touch ID, along with a host of other changes. While private browsing has long been an option… Read More
Where Pokémon Go is going, and Tesla's trajectory: Listen to TCBC Episode 4 with Greg Kumparak
Sep 28, 1:22PM
On this week’s episode of TCBC, after a brief Disrupt-induced hiatus, longtime TechCruncher Greg Kumparak dishes on Pokémon Go – what made it so appealing at launch, what’s going on with product development, and where he’d like to see it go in the future. Me and Greg are both big Pokémon fans, so it’s a subject about which we have no shortage of things to say. Read More 
Amazon's Fire TV Stick gets updated with faster hardware and an Alexa-enabled remote
Sep 28, 1:00PM
Slowly but surely, Amazon is incorporating Alexa functionality into its numerous existing hardware lines. A few weeks ago, the company announced an update that would bring its friendly voice assistant to its TV streaming hardware solutions, the set top Fire TV and its smaller dongle-based brethren, the Fire TV Stick. A newly announced version of the latter will now ship with that… Read More 
Figma now lets interface designers collaborate on projects
Sep 28, 1:00PM
Interface design collaboration tool Figma is launching its Multiplayer feature, which allows designers to collaborate in real time on the same projects. Read More 
Techstars the first class of its New York-based IoT accelerator
Sep 28, 1:00PM
Techstars has selected the first class for its New York-based internet of things accelerator. It’s the first program that Techstars has done with a consortium of industry partners instead of just linking up with a single, large corporate partner. For the accelerator, the first class is the culmination of a year of work putting the pieces together for the new initiative. One of the big… Read More 
Blackberry bows out of making its own hardware
Sep 28, 12:15PM
Former smartphone giant Blackberry has said it will no longer manufacture its own devices. Instead it intends to outsource hardware making to development partners, although the core focus of its business is firmly on software services at this point. Read More 
Eyeing an IPO, Druva raises $51M for its data backup, recovery and discovery services
Sep 28, 12:00PM
Setting its sights on a public offering within the next year, Druva, which sells software so businesses can manage all of the information they’re forced by law to hold onto, has raised $51 million. In the old days, data management and protection was an analog affair — or existed on big server farms inside a corporate firewall. Now, like everything else, forecasts are more…… Read More 
Tink Labs raises $125M to put its free-to-use smartphone in more hotel rooms worldwide
Sep 28, 11:29AM
Tink Labs offers a free-to-use smartphone for hotel guests that lets them enjoy free services, and gives hotels a powerful channel to engage their guests. Read More 
Only two more days to save £400 on Disrupt London tickets
Sep 28, 9:00AM
We’ve given you an extra week, but your time to save £400 on Disrupt London tickets is ending soon. You have until this Friday, September 30 to secure extra early-bird tickets to Disrupt London 2016 for just £800 each, or £700 each when you buy more than one. Read More 
Google Play Music is now available in India
Sep 28, 8:45AM
Google looks to have launched its Play Music store in India today. Read More 
Uber-owned Otto to offer freight hauling services using autonomous trucks in 2017
Sep 28, 6:42AM
Uber acquired self-driving lorry startup Otto this summer in a deal worth up to $680 million and it plans to put the company to work next year. Read More 
Crunch Report | DJI releases its new drone, the Mavic Pro
Sep 28, 3:00AM
DJI releases its new drone, the Mavic Pro, Nissan builds a line-waiting chair that automatically moves you in line, the Department of Labor sues Palantir Technologies, Cogenra and Khosla Ventures are suing SolarCity, and Elon Musk gave a keynote speech about becoming a multi-planetary species. All this on Crunch Report. Read More
Three things venture capitalists need to show their own investors
Sep 28, 12:30AM
“The table stakes for [venture capitalists] has never been higher,” says Judith Elsea, co-founder of the fund-of-funds Weathergage Capital, in our latest interview. With the rise of stronger and stronger operational models, like Andreessen Horowitz, the value add VCs must provide has increased significantly. So in this world of heightened competition for LP money, what do LPs… Read More 
Tyra Banks on startup investing and her new TV show
Sep 28, 12:06AM
Tyra Banks rang the closing bell at the Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center in San Francisco this afternoon. The supermodel turned entrepreneur and startup investor was there to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the launch of Tyra Beauty. Tyra Beauty is both “beauty business and badassery,” Banks quipped in a video chat with TechCrunch. It’s a “cosmetics experience, not… Read More 
Musk says under 5 percent of SpaceX is working on Mars mission, 2024 launch is 'optimistic'
Sep 27, 11:56PM
Elon Musk has a plan to colonize Mars, but he’s not rushing it. In a conference call following the SpaceX CEO’s presentation today at the International Astronautical Conference, Musk noted that the project is still essentially a hobby at the company, drawing only a fraction of its efforts. Read More 
Samsung waiting to see where VR hype cycle lands before moving on standalone headsets, next-gen 10K displays
Sep 27, 10:47PM
At a company event today in San Francisco, Samsung President & Chief Strategy Officer Young Sohn detailed that the company is actively pursuing both smartphone-focused VR headsets and standalone solutions. The decision to market and ship a dedicated all-in-one device would rely largely on where the VR market goes in the upcoming months and years, he says, and whether the clunky headsets… Read More 
GoGoGuest helps coffee shops manage their Wi-Fi, customer-by-customer
Sep 27, 10:46PM
Be honest: Have you ever spent an entire day working at a coffee shop, despite only buying a single cup of coffee? I’ve definitely been guilty of this, and I’ve also been to coffee shops that try to fight back by removing outlets, turning off their Wi-Fi or outlawing laptops on certain tables. A startup called GoGoGuest is taking a different approach that could help coffee shops… Read More 
Best Buy partners with PCH to bring hardware startups to its brick and mortar
Sep 27, 10:16PM
“It is still incredibly important for startups to get their products in front of customers in stores,” explains Highway1 head Brady Forrest. “Startups traditionally face hurdles to entering brick and mortar retail, and that is why PCH is working with Best Buy to innovate in-store retail with things like direct to store shipping, which drastically reduces inventory cost for… Read More 
Tinder Boost lets you pay your way to the front of the line
Sep 27, 10:10PM
Tinder is introducing a new premium feature called Tinder Boost. The feature will let users pay to have their profiles displayed first to other users on the app in the same locale for 30 minutes. According to the announcement, it’s all about saving users’ time and making sure that the Tinder experience is maximized during the time that they’re actually using the app. From… Read More 
What to look for in the next Pokémon Go
Sep 27, 10:00PM
If you had to crown an “App of the Summer,” Pokémon Go would undoubtedly be at the top of the list. The app became a household name within days of its July launch and was the most downloaded iOS app in a first week — ever. Pokémon built one of the most resilient brands in recent memory, and provided a playbook for other brands looking to catapult their intellectual… Read More 
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