- November 20th, 2019
- 07:14 AM
- Neon, which operates a digital bank in Brazil with nearly 2M accounts, has raised $94M in a round led by Banco Votorantim and General Atlantic (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
- 05:56 AM
- Israel-based Viisights, which develops a video intelligence service that uses AI to analyze and manage video surveillance streams, raises $10M Series A (Luana Pascu/Biometric Update)
- 04:38 AM
- CyCognito, a cybersecurity platform that analyzes a company's entire spectrum of internet-connected devices for vulnerabilities, raises $18M Series A (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
- 03:46 AM
- CyberCube Analytics, a cyber risk analytics platform for cybersecurity insurance underwriters, raises $35M Series B (FinSMEs)
- 02:54 AM
- NTSB finds Uber's safety driver the primary cause of fatal Tempe crash, also blames lack of "safety culture" at Uber; AI not detecting jaywalkers played no role (Brad Templeton/Forbes)
- 01:10 AM
- Facebook quietly releases Whale, a meme-making iOS app, in Canada (Jon Porter/The Verge)
- 12:18 AM
- Sources: ~20 Google employees staged a protest at Google offices during the interrogation of two staffers who have now been placed on administrative leave (Jennifer Elias/CNBC)
- November 19th, 2019
- 11:26 PM
- The Indian government says it is "empowered" to intercept, monitor, or decrypt any digital communication on a citizen's device in India, citing a law from 2000 (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
- 10:34 PM
- Amazon's Ring says police can request 12 hours of video from any users near suspected crime scenes and then keep the video forever and share it with anyone (Drew Harwell/Washington Post)
- 09:42 PM
- Patreon says it has paid out $1B+ to creators since its 2013 launch, up from $500M in Q4'18, has 4M+ members, up from 3M in Jan., and plans European expansion (Janko Roettgers/Variety)
- 08:50 PM
- Antivirus vendors and non-profits including Avira, the EFF, and Kaspersky form the Coalition Against Stalkerware to fight secretly installed snooping apps (Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet)
- 08:24 PM
- Snap pledges $750,000 to its top AR creators in 2020, 3x its 2019 commitment; 600,000+ Lenses, used 15B+ times, have been created by Snapchat creators (Garett Sloane/Ad Age)
- 07:58 PM
- Malware that steals cryptocurrency found embedded in some versions of Monero's official client app available on its site; Monero team says it is investigating (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
- 07:58 PM
- Abnormal Security, a cloud email security startup aimed at combating fraud, raises $24M Series A led by Greylock Partners (Robert Hackett/Fortune)
- 07:58 PM
- Facebook says its F8 developer conference will take place on May 5-6 in San Jose (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
- 07:32 PM
- Google announces Your News Update, an Assistant-powered audio feature that chooses stories based on interests, location, and more, available first in the US (Dieter Bohn/The Verge)
- 07:32 PM
- Clumio, which makes cloud data backup and recovery tools, raises $135M Series C led by Sutter Hill Ventures, after exiting stealth in Aug. with $51M in funding (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)
- 07:32 PM
- Blockchain startup Bison Trails, a founding member of Libra Association, raises $25.5M Series A led by Blockchain Capital with Coinbase, Consensys participating (Robert Stevens/Decrypt)
- 07:32 PM
- Brooklyn-based ICO promoter behind REcoin, charged by the SEC in 2017, is sentenced in federal court to 18 months for conspiring to commit securities fraud (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)
- 06:40 PM
- Apple launches a dedicated mobile app for its developer community, replacing the existing WWDC app, with video resources, news, account management, and more (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
- 06:40 PM
- Amazon unveils $34.99 Fire TV Blaster, a new infrared device that brings more TV voice commands for those with a Fire TV and Echo (Richard Vega/The Streamable)
- 06:14 PM
- WhatsApp says a recently-patched flaw in the way the messaging app handled video files could have let attackers remotely execute code on users' devices (Charlie Osborne/ZDNet)
- 06:14 PM
- DC attorney general brings charges against DoorDash, accusing it of pocketing tips meant for workers and misleading customers about where their money was going (Lauren Feiner/CNBC)
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- 06:14 PM
- Researchers reveal bugs in Google and Samsung camera apps before July 2019, which could let unauthorized apps record video, take pictures, and extract GPS data (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)
- 05:48 PM
- Spotify launches Your Daily Podcasts, a personalized podcast playlist, featuring trailers, older evergreen episodes, and more, to help listeners discover shows (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
- 05:22 PM
- Microsoft claims 20M DAUs for Teams, up from 13M in July, extending its lead over Slack, which in October said it had 12M; Slack's stock down +7% (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
- 04:30 PM
- Salesforce launches Cloud Voice, which integrates telephony inside Service Cloud, a revamped Einstein Voice Assistant, and a voice app development toolkit (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)
- 03:38 PM
- Spotify launches Your Daily Podcast, customized playlists with podcasts, featuring trailers, long podcast episodes, more, available in the US and elsewhere (Ashley Carman/The Verge)
- 03:38 PM
- BlueVine, which offers financing and other banking services to SMBs, raises $102.5M Series F, bringing its total raised between $240M and $250M (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
- 02:20 PM
- DeepMind outlines collaboration with Google on the Play Store's recommendation engine, claims app recommendations are now more personalized than they used to be (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)
- 01:02 PM
- Apple's integrated approach is fostering monopolistic behavior and has started to stifle innovation resulting in user-hostile keyboards and no NFC based apps (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
- 10:26 AM
- Berlin-based Enway, which is developing autonomous street-sweeping machines and other special purpose vehicles, raises €6M in seed funding led by Redalpine (FinSMEs)
- 06:06 AM
- Aerospike, which provides a high-scale NoSQL database platform for processing data queries really quickly, raises $32M Series D, bringing total raised to $78M (Jason D. Rowley/Crunchbase News)
- 03:30 AM
- A look at Facebook and Google's funding of nonprofits shaping the privacy debate; together they gave $960K+ to Center for Democracy and Technology alone in 2018 (Bloomberg Law)
- 12:03 AM
- Czech government approves a proposal for a 7% digital tax covering revenue from large companies gained via targeted ads, user data sales, and more (Jason Hovet/Reuters)
- 12:03 AM
- 16" MacBook Pro teardown shows a new thermal system, keyboard similar to the standalone Magic Keyboard, a six-speaker system, and a high-performance mic array (Craig Lloyd/iFixit News)
- 12:03 AM
- Home insurance startup Luko raises $22M Series A led by Accel for AI that aims to prevent domestic accidents like pipes leaking water (Paul Sawers/VentureBeat)
- 12:03 AM
- Amazon expands its free ad-supported version of Amazon Music to its mobile apps, FireTV, and the web, with access to select playlists and radio-like stations (Tim Ingham/Music Business Worldwide)
- November 18th, 2019
- 11:11 PM
- Uber Chief Product Officer Manik Gupta, who joined from Google in 2015, says he is leaving the company (Megan Rose Dickey/TechCrunch)
- 11:11 PM
- Apple announces press event on December 2 in NYC, says the event will be focused on "honoring our favorite apps and games of 2019" (Todd Haselton/CNBC)
- 10:45 PM
- Twitter adds a way to report abusive use of Lists, like when users get added to public lists with derogatory titles, which has been a problem for years (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
- 10:45 PM
- Evan Spiegel says Snapchat has a team that fact checks all political advertising on the platform, in stark contrast to Facebook (William Feuer/CNBC)
- 09:53 PM
- Google buys Microsoft-backed CloudSimple to help its customers run VMware workloads on the Google Cloud Platform, after partnering with the company in July (CNBC)
- 08:35 PM
- Investigation finds that, once adjusted for duplicate and fake accounts, Facebook users grew 7% in the past two years, rather than 18% as calculated by Facebook (Financial Times)
- 07:43 PM
- Facebook launches Oculus Link software for Oculus Quest in beta, allowing users to access Rift PC games using a USB-C cable (Sam Machkovech/Ars Technica)
- 07:43 PM
- GOP Sen. Josh Hawley debuts a bill aimed at US companies' data storage practices in countries like China and Russia, which would impact companies like Apple (Margaret Harding McGill/Axios)
- 07:43 PM
- Israeli ride-hailing service Gett to shut down operations in NYC, known there as Juno, says Lyft will take on its 15,000 enterprise clients starting next year (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
- 07:17 PM
- Google Stadia review: works well and has a clearer picture than early rivals but 4K games do not look 4K, tons of features are missing, and it feels like a beta (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
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- 06:51 PM
- Google Maps tests a social networking feature with the ability to "Follow" Local Guides, which will surface their recommendations to their followers (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
- 06:51 PM
- Filings show that the US Commerce Department is giving Huawei another reprieve of three months before the US ban takes effect, now slated for February 16, 2020 (Colin Lecher/The Verge)
- 05:07 PM
- AI-powered news aggregation app SmartNews raises $92M, including a $28M raise in August, at a valuation of $1.2B, bringing its total raised to $182M (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)
- 05:07 PM
- Salesforce launches redesigned Salesforce Mobile App alongside Trailhead GO, a mobile version of its learning platform, and a new version of its mobile SDK (Larry Dignan/ZDNet)
- 04:15 PM
- Chinese government data suggests Apple shipped 10M iPhones in the country during Sept. and Oct., up 6% YoY, as overall smartphone shipments dropped 5% to 69.3M (Bloomberg)
- 04:15 PM
- Inside Facebook's efforts to fight revenge porn using AI and a 25-person team; source: Facebook gets about 500K reports of revenge porn per month (Olivia Solon/NBC News)
- 03:23 PM
- How Binance survived China's crypto crackdown, a $40M hack, and the bursting of the crypto bubble to become one of the most successful crypto exchanges (Tim Copeland/Decrypt)
- 03:23 PM
- Palantir unveils a $150M deal with Japanese financial services company Sompo Holding, with an initial focus on health and cybersecurity clients in Japan (Bloomberg)
- 03:23 PM
- Bolt Bikes, which operates an e-bike subscription platform for gig workers in Sydney and Melbourne, expands to San Francisco and London (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)
- 03:23 PM
- T-Mobile President and COO Mike Sievert to succeed John Legere as CEO on May 1, 2020 (Lauren Feiner/CNBC)
- 02:31 PM
- Huawei launched an invite-only bug bounty program last week for its Android devices, with a maximum payout of $220,000 (Thomas Brewster/Forbes)
- 02:05 PM
- Musical.ly founder Alex Zhu, who now heads TikTok, says TikTok doesn't share data with China or Bytedance and doesn't censor videos at China's behest (Raymond Zhong/New York Times)
- 01:39 PM
- Microsoft updates its privacy rules for commercial cloud contracts, after a EU probe found that it failed to protect data under EU law (Paul Hill/Neowin)
- 12:21 PM
- Elavon, the payments subsidiary of US Bancorp, to acquire Sage Pay, a payment processor operating in the UK and Ireland, for £232M in cash (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
- 10:37 AM
- Opera's Africa focused fintech startup OPay raises $120M Series B from Chinese investors including Meituan-Dianping and SoftBank Asia (Jake Bright/TechCrunch)
- 09:19 AM
- Northzone raises a new $500M fund to invest primarily in Series A and B rounds of European and East Coast US startups, amid a slew of new European VC funds (Steve O'Hear/TechCrunch)
- 06:43 AM
- Chrome, Edge, Safari hacked at elite hacking contest Tianfu Cup, which is now China's top competition after a participation ban on foreign contests like Pwn2Own (Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet)
- 02:49 AM
- Self-driving startup Wayve, which considers sophisticated sensor tech like lidar unnecessary for safe autonomous driving systems, raises $20M Series A (Paul Sawers/VentureBeat)
- 02:23 AM
- Line and SoftBank's Yahoo Japan announce merger plan, aim to sign a deal by December 2019, and integrate the businesses by October 2020 (Nikkei Asian Review)
- 01:57 AM
- Sources: ByteDance is in talks with record companies to launch a music streaming service as soon as next month, would debut it initially in Brazil, India, more (Anna Nicolaou/Financial Times)
- 01:57 AM
- Intel unveils plans for a 7nm Xe GPU, codenamed Ponte Vecchio, meant to rival Nvidia in handling datacenter AI workloads, but fails to give a release window (Dylan Martin/CRN)
- 01:05 AM
- After ICANN lifted price caps on .org domains in June, the Internet Society has sold Public Interest Registry, the top level domain's operator, to PE firm Ethos (Andrew Allemann/Domain Name Wire)
- 12:39 AM
- The White House confirms that President Trump will tour Apple's manufacturing plant in Austin on November 20 (Eric Rosenbaum/CNBC)
- November 17th, 2019
- 11:22 PM
- Sensor Tower: TikTok has passed 1.5B downloads worldwide on the App Store and Google Play, with 614M downloads in 2019 so far, up 6% YoY (Abrar Al-Heeti/CNET)
- 08:46 PM
- HP board unanimously rejects Xerox's bid to acquire the company (Emma Newburger/CNBC)
- 06:36 PM
- How the mesh Wi-Fi router startup Plume is winning partnerships with some of the biggest US and international ISPs, despite Eero's fire sale to Amazon (Jim Salter/Ars Technica)
- 01:50 PM
- Profile of Mixhalo, a live-music app being offered by bands like Aerosmith as a VIP experience, to let fans hear the music at live shows as the band intended (Mike Murphy/Quartz)