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SoftBank Corp shares drop 14% on their first day of trading, but it’s still one of the largest IPOs ever
SoftBank Corp’s initial public offering today started with a bang before trailing off into a whimper, with the stock falling 14.5 percent during its first day of trading on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
Amnesty International used machine-learning to quantify the scale of abuse against women on Twitter
Update: Twitter’s response has been added to the end of this post. A new study by Amnesty International and Element AI attempts to put numbers to a problem many women already know about: that
Ford comes up with a prototype noise-cancelling kennel to shelter dogs from fireworks
Dogs have a much wider range of hearing than humans, and noises that don’t bother us can give them a very ruff time. Fireworks are especially tough on many pups, and also hard on owners who have to
Google will make it easier for people without accounts to collaborate on G Suite documents
Soon it will be easier for people without Google accounts to collaborate on G Suite documents. Currently in beta, a new feature will enable G Suite users to invite people without G Suite subscriptions
Multilingual Indian video app Roposo raises $10M from Tiger Global and Bertelsmann
India has 22 official languages, which usually presents a challenge for businesses that want to scale across the entire country. Video-sharing app Roposo, however, uses that to its advantage by offeri
Building in Facebook’s Menlo Park campus evacuated after bomb threat
Update 2: Everyone has been cleared to return to the buildings. Facebook spokesperson Genevieve Grdina issued this statement: “Late this afternoon, we received a bomb threat and took swift actio
Report: A manager at Uber’s self-driving unit warned executives about safety issues just days before fatal crash
Less than a week before an Uber self-driving SUV prototype struck and killed a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona last March, a manager sent executives an email cautioning that its autonomous vehicle unit n
GoPro will move production of most US-bound cameras out of China by next summer
China and the United States have been slapping each other with massive tariffs, and more may come if the trade war continues to escalate, prompting some companies to move manufacturing out of China. O
Some things Jack Dorsey didn’t mention in his Myanmar meditation travelogue
Twitter co-founder and chief executive officer Jack Dorsey recently went on a birthday trip to Myanmar. As Dorsey recounted in a series of tweets to his 4.1 million followers, he studied Vipassana med
Alibaba Group takes majority control of loss-making movie unit Alibaba Pictures with $160M share purchase
Alibaba Group announced today that it will increase its stake in Alibaba Pictures from 49 percent to 50.92 percent, making it the loss-making movie production company’s controlling shareholder.
Taiwan-based travel startup AsiaYo raises $7M Series B led by Alibaba Taiwan Entrepreneurs Fund
AsiaYo, a travel accommodation booking platform based in Taipei, Taiwan, has raised a $7 million Series B led by Alibaba Taiwan Entrepreneurs Fund, a nonprofit initiative run by the Chinese e-commerce
Apple’s HomePod will be available in China starting early next year
“嘿 Siri!” Apple’s HomePod will be available for sale in China early next year. A listing is already up on Apple’s China site, with the smart speaker priced at RMB 2,799 (about $407), or abou
Gift Guide: Ideas for bullet journalers
Welcome to TechCrunch’s 2018 Holiday Gift Guide! Need more gift ideas? Check out our Gift Guide Hub. Since digital product designer Ryder Carroll’s list-based method for organizing his life first
Tiger Global and Accel lead facility management startup Facilio’s $6.4M Series A
Facilio, an IoT startup that focuses on facility management software, announced today that it has raised a $6.4 million Series A led by Tiger Global and returning investor Accel. The funding will be u
Tencent Music moving ahead with its $1.2B US stock market debut
Tencent Music Entertainment’s initial public offering is back in motion, two months after the company reportedly postponed it amid a global sell-off. In a regulatory filing today, the company, China
Quora says 100 million users may have been affected by data breach
Quora said today that a security breach may have compromised data from about 100 million users. In an email sent to users today and a blog post by CEO Adam D’Angelo, the company said a “malicious
SoftBank sets indicative share price of 1,500 yen for next month’s IPO
In a regulatory filing today, SoftBank Group said it has set an indicative price of 1,500 yen ($13.22) per share for the initial public offering of its domestic telecoms unit next month. This means th
Netflix cancels ‘Daredevil’ after third season
Despite strong reviews and a fan petition, Netflix said today that it is cancelling “Daredevil” after three seasons. This is the latest Marvel series, after “Luke Cage” and “Iron Fist,” th
Amazon’s newest service uses machine learning to extract medical data from patient records
Amazon has launched a new service that uses machine learning to extract key data from patient records and can potentially help healthcare providers and researchers save money, make treatment decisions
Lime launches electric-assist bikes in its first UK city
Lime launched in the United Kingdom today, starting with a group of dockless electric-assist bikes in a Milton Keynes shopping center. The San Francisco-based startup says it plans to expand into more