2019
PayPal Chief Operating Officer Bill Ready is leaving the company at the end of the year, PayPal announced via a statement issued on Thursday. The exec joined PayPal when it…
African fintech has taken center stage for the Catalyst Fund, a JP Morgan Chase and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation-backed accelerator that provides mentorship and non-equity funding to emerging markets…
Facebook adds new limits to address the spread of hate speech in Sri Lanka and Myanmar
As Facebook grapples with the spread of hate speech on its platform, it is introducing changes that limit the spread of messages in two countries where it has come under…
Terry Gou resigns as Foxconn’s chairman to run for president of Taiwan
Terry Gou said at Foxconn’s annual general meeting today that he is leaving the electronics manufacturing giant as he prepares to run for president of Taiwan. Gou, who founded Foxconn…
Ethiopia’s bid to become an African startup hub hinges on connectivity
Ethiopia is flexing its ambitions to become Africa’s next startup hub. The country of 105 million with the continent’s seventh largest economy is revamping government policies, firing up angel networks…
Google responds to a WSJ report that concluded there are millions of fake business listings on Maps
After a Wall Street Journal investigation concluded that there are millions of fake business listings on Google Maps, the company has issued a response detailing the measures it takes to…
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Meet your new chief of staff: An AI chatbot
Navigator, the new project from the creators of Mailbox, launches with $12M
Study finds drivers are clueless about what driver assistance systems can (and can’t) do
Automakers like Audi, BMW, GM’s Cadillac, Nissan and Tesla have advanced driver assistance systems that are robust enough to take the sting out of that daily highway commute by handling…
A chat with Niantic CEO John Hanke on the launch of Harry Potter: Wizards Unite
Just shy of three years ago, Pokémon GO took over the world. Players filled the sidewalks, and crowds of trainers flooded parks and landmarks. Anywhere you looked, people were throwing…
The writing has been on the slate for some time now. Roughly this time last year, we reported that Google had wiped all tablet sales off its site. Turns out…
One of NASA’s robotic astronaut helpers just flew on its own in space for the first time
NASA’s very own free-floating Companion Cube equivalent took its own first tentative “steps” in space today, demonstrating its ability to rotate on its own in zero gravity inside the International…
It was a historic day for Slack (NYSE: WORK). The workplace communication software juggernaut debuted on the New York Stock Exchange up 48% at $38.50 per share after reports emerged…
The number of seed-stage funding deals in the U.S. declined for the fourth straight year in 2018. Yet there continues to be a huge surplus of available capital, with more…
In a world where the enterprise market hovers around $500 billion in annual sales, is it any wonder that hundreds of enterprise startups launch into that fiercely competitive arena every…
Behavioural advertising is out of control, warns UK watchdog
The online behavioural advertising industry is illegally profiling internet users. That’s the damning assessment of the U.K.’s data protection regulator in an update report published today, in which it sets…
Hasselblad’s new medium format camera is a tiny, beautiful nod to history
While mirrorless cameras accelerate into the future, medium format models are hearkening unto the past — and Hasselblad chief among them. Its new digital back fits lenses going back to…
Netflix wins rights to Lin-Manuel Miranda’s ‘Tick, Tick… Boom!’
“Hamilton” creator Lin-Manuel Miranda will be making his debut as a feature film director on Netflix. Variety reports that Netflix won the rights to Miranda’s film adaptation of “Tick Tick…
‘The Operators’: Acceleprise partner Whitney Sales and Docsend CEO Russ Heddleston on how to grow your sales strategies
Welcome to this transcribed edition of The Operators. TechCrunch is beginning to publish podcasts from industry experts, with transcriptions available for Extra Crunch members so you can read the conversation…
Tripping grad students over and over for science (and better prosthetic limbs)
Prosthetic limbs are getting better, but not as quickly as you’d think. They’re not as smart as our real limbs, which (directed by the brain) do things like automatically stretch…
A Netflix hack lets you feel the action in a scene by vibrating your phone
Netflix Hack Day, the company’s internal hackathon, has a habit of producing some amazing gems — like a brain-controlled interface, a Fitbit hack that shuts off Netflix when you fall…
Researchers create first mind-controlled robot arm that works well without surgery
Carnegie Mellon researchers working with peers from the University of Minnesota have made a big breakthrough in brain-computer interface (BCI) and robotic technology: They’ve developed a way for a person…
Transitioning from engineering to product with Adobe’s Anjul Bhambhri
Many roles inside of startups and tech companies are clear: marketers market, salespeople sell, engineers engineer. Then there are the roles like “product manager” that seem obvious on the surface…
Apple issues voluntary recall of 2015 MacBook Pro batteries due to overheating concern
Apple this morning announced a “voluntary” recall of MacBook Pro batteries due to potential overheating and safety risk. The recall only applies to mid-2015 15-inch MacBook Pros with Retina displays.…
We’re nearing the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing (on July 20) and, to celebrate, there’s an interactive augmented reality app called 321 LAUNCH that will bring a…
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Samsung’s Galaxy S10 5G arrives on Sprint tomorrow
You surely know the whole deal about carts and horses by now. When Samsung’s first 5G handset, the Galaxy S10 5G, arrives on Sprint tomorrow, users will be able to…
Fintech startup Brex went from 0 to a valuation of $1 billion in less than two years. It is a fascinating company, and so is Brex’s co-founder and CEO Henrique…
Machine learning for everyone startup Intersect Labs launches platform for data analysis
Machine learning is the holy grail of data analysis, but unfortunately, that holy grail oftentimes requires a PhD in Computer Science just to get started. Despite the incredible attention that…
Google ramps up competition with Facebook Pages with new tools for local businesses
Google has been steadily updating its tools for businesses looking to reach more customers across Google’s platforms, including Search and Google Maps. Last year, the company took on Facebook Pages…
Slack opens at $38.50, a pop of 48% on its first day of trading on NYSE as WORK
Slack, the workplace messaging platform that has helped define a key category of enterprise IT, made its debut as a public company today with a pop. Trading as “WORK” on…
