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Sami Atiya from ABB says industrial robots will add jobs, not take them away
In and interview earlier this week at the TechCrunch Robotics Session held on the MIT campus in Cambridge, MA, Sami Atiya, president of ABB’s Robotics and Motion division, said he believes bringing robots into the manufacturing process actually adds jobs instead of killing them. ABB certainly has some data points with over 300,000 industrial robots installed worldwide, and Atiya… Read More
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SF city attorney seeks court order to force Lyft and Uber to hand over driver data
San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera is seeking a court order to force both Uber and Lyft to share records on driver safety, disability access and other operations, in compliance with the city attorney’s subpoenas from last month. Read More
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Playkey raises $2.8M to fund its US expansion
Playkey, a game streaming service we saw earlier this year at Disrupt NY, has just closed an additional $2.8 million round of funding from Russia’s Internet Initiatives Development Fund (IIDF). Created at the suggestion of Vladimir Putin in 2013, the IIDF has invested in 293 companies to-date with the objective to strengthen infrastructure for Russian businesses. However, the investment… Read More
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Silent Echo lets you chat with Alexa over Slack
Want to chat with Alexa via Slack? A new bot called Silent Echo now makes that possible. The idea is that there are times when you want to interact with Amazon’s virtual assistant, Alexa, but you don’t want to do it by voice. For example, if things are too noisy in the room for Alexa to properly hear you, or, alternately, if you need things to be very quiet. The service… Read More
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Dropbox CTO Aditya Agarwal is leaving
Aditya Agarwal, who came to Dropbox via its acquisition of Cove way back in 2012 and was given the CTO role last year, will be leaving the company. Agarwal held the CTO role for about 9 months and was previously the VP of engineering. Agarwal is leaving the company as it begins to aggressively tout its success as a business. Read More
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Experience the future of reality simulations at Disrupt SF 2017 with Unity and Improbable
Video games have never been just games, but as developers grow their ambitions, thanks to evolving, powerful game development tools, the line between real life and simulation has been growing much murkier. To hear more about it, join us at Disrupt SF 2017, where we’ll be chatting with John Riccitiello, the CEO of Unity, and Herman Narula, the CEO and co-founder of Improbable. Read More
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Graphcore’s AI chips now backed by Atomico, DeepMind’s Hassabis
Is AI chipmaker Graphcore out to eat Nvidia’s lunch? Co-founder and CEO Nigel Toon laughs at that interview opener — perhaps because he sold his previous company to the chipmaker back in 2011. Read More
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GM now lets developers test their in-car apps running in actual cars
GM has been doing a lot to try to make it easier for developers to create software for use in their vehicle infotainment systems. Back in January, it opened up access to a wide range of data points from the vehicle, and made it possible to develop using a simulator on the desktop, instead of having to use very specific developer hardware based in Detroit. Now, GM is introducing GM Dev Client… Read More
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Netflix drops the full trailer for ‘Bright,’ its $90M+ potential blockbuster hit
Netflix may have its first blockbuster movie on its hands. The new, full-length trailer for the upcoming Will Smith movie, “Bright,” from “Suicide Squad” director David Ayer, dropped during San Diego’s Comic-Con yesterday. The trailer gives viewers a longer look into the upcoming film, which takes place in a futuristic world where magical creatures like orcs and… Read More
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Snap tests the retail waters by selling Spectacles in Harrods
There’s no arguing that the Snapbot is an impressive display of retail technology, But if Snap wants to achieve widespread distribution of Spectacles (and presumably other forthcoming hardware devices), it eventually had to expand beyond the Snapbot. So yesterday the camera company opened a pop-up shop inside the famous London department store Harrods, which marks the first time you can… Read More
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Lyft launches a new self-driving division and will develop its own autonomous ride-hailing technology
Lyft is betting the future of the road centers on sharing autonomous vehicles. It aims to be at the forefront of that technology with a new self-driving division and a self-driving system car manufacturers could plug into their self-driving cars. The company expects to hire “hundreds” of people for the new division by the end of next year and has just signed a lease for… Read More
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Y Combinator is reportedly raising a $1 billion fund
Silicon Valley startup accelerator Y Combinator is raising up to $1 billion for a new venture capital fund, Axios is reporting this morning. The fundraising comes less than two years after YC announced the close of its first big investing vehicle, a $700 million growth fund called the Y Combinator Continuity fund that it hired Ali Rowghani to oversee. Read More
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Optoma’s UHD60 projector delivers great, affordable 4K performance
If you’re among those who use a projector for your home theater, you haven’t really had a great option for jumping on the 4K bandwagon, and you might be feeling left out now that the high-resolution tech is more common among TV manufacturers. But now there’s a great, relatively affordable way to get onboard 4K with a projection-based setup, thanks to Optoma’s new… Read More
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AngelList co-founder Babak Nivi out ‘for my own reasons’
“Mr. Nivi has no role at the company” AngelList COO Graham Jenkin told TechCrunch in response to questions regarding the curious absence of the investment platform’s co-founder. It’s atypical for the creator of such a high-profile company to seemingly disappear without any form of announcement. Read More
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Hulu’s Live TV service arrives on Amazon Fire TV
Hulu’s Live TV service, the expanded version of Hulu launched in May which provides access to live television in addition to Hulu’s existing on-demand library, is now available on Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV Stick. This is the first major platform expansion since the service’s debut, as it was initially available on iOS, Android, Chromecast, Apple TV and Xbox One. Amazon Fire… Read More
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Fintech startup Klarna taps Permira for around $250M at $2.5B valuation
Klarna, the Swedish startup that works with e-commerce businesses and retailers to provide financing and other payment services, today announced that it has picked up yet another large investment, its third inside of two months. Permira, the private equity firm and prolific late-stage tech investor, has taken a minimum 10 percent stake in the fintech business. Klarna and Permira are not… Read More
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Equity podcast: Roku’s IPO, Netflix’s momentum and Shyp’s layoffs
Roku is doing an IPO this year, Netflix shares soared after an earnings beat and Shyp is throwing in the towel everywhere but San Francisco. Cord-cutting was the theme of the latest episode of TechCrunch’s “Equity,” a podcast about tech business news. This week, our special guest was Roy Bahat, head of Bloomberg Beta. TechCrunch’s Silicon Valley editor Connie Loizos… Read More
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Stargate returns with Stargate Origins series, an MGM streaming exclusive
Stargate is the epic, storied TV and movie sci-fi franchise that gets the least amount of credit, overshadowed by the likes of Star Trek and Star Wars. But fans of the series know the truth: Stargate is a deep well of space adventure fiction that you can lose yourself in, and it’s fantastic that it’s coming back with Stargate Origins, a new series coming to MGM’s… Read More
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Hong Kong is showing promise as a destination for tech IPOs
The U.S. tech IPO window may have reopened in 2017 following a lull last year, but the outlook is also looking rosier for another listing platform located on the other side of world. The Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKSE) is experiencing a renaissance of sorts among the tech industry. Selfie app company Meitu held the largest listing from a tech company for nearly a decade in December —… Read More
Recent Funding Data by
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Group K Diagnostics
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Citus Health
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Marmo Health
- $50K Seed
- HQ: London, England
- Categories: Health Care
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Premy
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Limitless
- 60K EUR Angel
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MortgageGym
- 20K GBP Series A
- HQ: Camberley, Surrey
- Categories: Social Network
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Elimu Digital Media
- $100K Grant
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Relab.co.nz
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Monsoon CreditTech
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Cargo
- $1.8M Seed
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FableStreet
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EatOut.co.ke
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- HQ: Nairobi, Nairobi Area
- Categories: Online Portals, Restaurants
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Geneseeq
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- HQ: Toronto, Ontario
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Betterment
- $70M Series E
- HQ: New York, New York
- Categories: Finance, Financial Services, Impact Investing, FinTech
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Dreamleague Gaming
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SoT - Security of Things
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Nuheara
- $9.0M Post IPO Equity
- HQ: San Francisco, California
- Categories: Wearables, Fitness, Health Care
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Tine Health
- Not available Seed
- HQ: San Francisco, California
- Categories: SaaS, Augmented Reality, Health Care, Enterprise Software
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HCR ManorCare
- $550M Debt Financing
- HQ: Toledo, Ohio
- Categories: Medical, Health Care, Hospital
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BrainStorm Cell Therapeutics
- $16M Grant
- HQ: New York, New York
- Categories: Health Care, Biotechnology, Therapeutics
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Cinq Music
- $20M Series B
- HQ: Santa Monica, California
- Categories: Music
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Minka
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- HQ: Bogotá, Distrito Especial
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Borrowell
- 12M CAD Series A
- HQ: Toronto, Ontario
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Borrowell
- 45M CAD Debt Financing
- HQ: Toronto, Ontario
- Categories: Financial Services, Finance, Credit
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Sportr
- $350K Seed
- HQ: London, England
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markr
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- HQ: Columbus, Ohio
- Categories: Location Based Services, Photo Editing, Advertising Platforms, Photo ... See More
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Monkeybox
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- HQ: Bangalore, Karnataka
- Categories: Communities, Children, Food and Beverage
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