October 2015
I realize I’m a bit late with all the Back To The Future jazz but how about we all get together for a moment to watch a self-driving DeLorean drift…
BlaBlaCar COO Nicolas Brusson To Talk About France’s New Unicorn At Disrupt London
It seems like nothing can stop BlaBlaCar. The company has been building a global ride-sharing marketplace for long distance rides. And it’s working, as it recently raised €180 million at…
When we last met MiniBrew, the team had been stopped at the US border with their mini beer brewing system and had to exhibit at TechCrunch Disrupt with a tri-fold…
Roli, Makers Of The New Seaboard Rise, Acquire betaworks-Backed Blend.io
Roli, the makers of the Seaboard Grand audio board, have today announced the close of their second acquisition, with betaworks-backed Blend.io coming on board. The terms of the deal were…
Hong Kong Investor Buys 65% Of Russia’s Yota, Maker Of Dual-Screen Android Phones, For $100M
Yota Devices, the Russian company that sells two-screened Android smartphones, has a new owner after shareholder Telconet Capital sold its majority 64.9 percent holding to Hong Kong-listed REX Global Entertainment…
Nigeria-Based Printivo Wants To Become The Vistaprint Of Africa
Vistaprint has been around for twenty years, so if you live in the U.S. or Europe, ordering printed material online might not seem like a big deal. In Nigeria, however,…
AirConsole Is A Browser-Based Gaming Platform Where Your Smartphone Is The Controller
Gamers with a penchant for old school gaming have another platform to add to their entertainment mix: AirConsole is a recently launched browser-based games platform that repurposes players’ smartphones as…
Naspers Buys Majority Stake In Russian Classifieds Site Avito For $1.2B
Naspers, the South Africa conglomerate that invested in China’s Tencent among others, is upping its stake in Russia-based Avito, the third largest classifieds site in the world, by way of…
Huawei Overtakes Xiaomi To Top China’s Smartphone Market For First Time: Report
Huawei, the Chinese tech firm that produces smartphones in addition to networking equipment, became the top seller of smartphones in China for the first time during the last quarter.
Cloud-Based IT Monitoring Software Numerify Raise $37.5M
It’s easy enough for IT costs to get out of control. That’s where Numerify, a software service that helps large companies keep track of choke points and better manage their…
Google Says It Will Not De-List Entire Sites For Copyright Violations
In an open letter to the Office and Management and Budget’s Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator, Google announced today that it opposes the practice of removing entire sites from search results.…
Boombox Helps Publishers Add An Interactive Touch To Their Content
Quizzes! Lists! Quizlists! Okay, I made the last one up. My point is, it seems like publishers are always trying something new to keep visitors clicking and reading. But if you…
Jack Dorsey Gives One-Third Of His Twitter Stock Back To Employees
Jack Dorsey is giving about a third of his Twitter shares — or 1% of the company — back to Twitter’s employees, he said in a tweet today. A move like…
Ticket sales startup SeatGeek is the latest company joining the move to paperless tickets. Thanks to a new feature, when you buy a ticket on SeatGeek, you’ll no longer have…
Microsoft promised that Bing would stop losing money in its fiscal year 2016. Today, the company reported the first quarter’s results of that fiscal period and dropped an interesting tidbit:…
Sport is about triumph, passion, pain and belonging. Yet it loses every iota of truth and meaning for fans when dirty money corrupts the players and referees. Unfortunately, in 2015,…
Catch Top VCs David Hornik, Thomas Korte, and Andy McLoughlin at Disrupt London
One day, things in the tech startup world are ticking along nicely. The next, investor Bill Gurley is calling private valuations “fake,” billion-dollar companies are losing their sheen, and venture capitalists…
Tech Companies Reveal Mystery Eye Emoji Is Part Of Anti-Bullying Campaign
The Ad Council and a cohort of tech companies shed some light today on an eye emoji that has been perplexing Apple watchers since the release of iOS 9.1. The…
Facebook Says It Fixed A Bug That Caused Silent Audio To Vampire Your iPhone Battery
Facebook engineering manager Ari Grant has posted an explanation for the recent issues with the app gorging itself on power. Grant says that the battery issues were caused by a…
Google CEO Sundar Pichai Cites “Real Sense Of Energy And Focus” For Success
Today, Alphabet beat Q3 earnings projections. During the earnings call, Google CEO Sundar Pichai took the (micro)phone (for the first time) to discuss the business and product highlights from the…
The Stock Buyback Driving Up Alphabet Shares Is The Square Root Of 26
How did Alphabet come up with the weirdly specific number of $5.099 billion for its buyback of class C shares? By taking the square root of 26, which not-so-coincidentally is the number…
Some Finnish Engineers Would Like You To Put This Tiny Square Computer In Your Pocket
[tc_aol_on code=”519175772″] Solu is a coaster-sized cloud-based portable computer that fits in your pocket. A team of Finnish engineers behind the device hope Solu will change the way we think…
Pandora Shares Down 20% In After-Hours Trading After Company Posts Q3 Loss
After the market closed Thursday, online music streaming service Pandora reported a third quarter loss of $85.9 million. The company lost 40 cents per share. Pandora met street estimates and…
Microsoft Jumps 6% On Profit, Revenue Beat In Its FQ1
Today Microsoft reported the financial performance it recorded during the first quarter of its fiscal 2016. Microsoft generated $0.67 in adjusted per-share profit off non-GAAP revenue of $21.66 billion in…
Hardware Battlefield Applications Are Open Now
We’re back. Hardware Alley is TechCrunch’s premier hardware event and will be taking CES by storm again this year. Applications for TechCrunch’s Hardware Battlefield are now open. Submit your application…
Amazon Handily Beats Analyst Expectations With $25.4B In Sales, Stock Spikes 11%
Amazon — once again — surprised investors by beating analyst expectations for its third-quarter earnings report, bringing in $25.4 billion in net sales and earnings of 17 cents cents per share. Analysts were…
Alphabet Beats Q3 Expectations With EPS Of $7.35 And $18.68B In Revenue, Stock Jumps 9% After Hours
Today following the bell, Alphabet reported its third-quarter financial performance, including revenue of $18.68 billion in revenue, and adjusted per-share profit of $7.35. Analysts had expected the company to earn…
Watch Out, VCs: Chris Farmer Plans To Massively Disrupt The Industry
For years, Chris Farmer worked as a venture partner at General Catalyst Partners, helping develop its then-nascent seed-investing program while simultaneously working on a big idea: a database that could…
Theranos Takes Yet Another Swipe At WSJ Allegations In A Lengthy Statement
Theranos continued playing defense this morning with a much more in-depth post on what the company claims the news organization got wrong in two damning articles published last week. One…
You Can Now Tie Your Twitter And Vine Profiles Together, Vine Displaying Your Total Loops
You’re on Twitter. You’re on Vine. Now, people who follow your tweets will be able to reach your Vine profile and vice versa.
