Romain Dillet

Senior Reporter, TechCrunch

Romain Dillet is a Senior Reporter at TechCrunch.

He has written over 3,000 articles on technology and tech startups and has established himself as an influential voice on the European tech scene. He has a deep background in startups, privacy, security, fintech, blockchain, mobile, social and media.

With twelve years of experience at TechCrunch, he’s one of the familiar faces of the tech publication that obsessively covers Silicon Valley and the tech industry. In fact, his career started at TechCrunch when he was 21. Based in Paris, many people in the tech ecosystem consider him as the most knowledgeable tech journalist in town.

Romain likes to spot important startups before anyone else. He was the first person to cover N26, Revolut and DigitalOcean. He has written scoops on large acquisitions from Apple, Microsoft and Snap.

When he’s not writing, Romain is also a developer — he understands how the tech behind the tech works. He also has a deep historical knowledge of the computer industry for the past 50 years. He knows how to connect the dots between innovations and the effect on the fabric of our society.

Romain graduated from Emlyon Business School, a leading French business school specialized in entrepreneurship. He has helped several non-profit organizations, such as StartHer, an organization that promotes education and empowerment of women in technology, and Techfugees, an organization that empowers displaced people with technology.

Romain Dillet

In an interview with Fast Company, Apple executives looked back at the launch of the Maps app and its current state. The company has been hard at work on improving…

The Apple Maps launch fiasco led to the iOS public beta program

If you’ve been following Apple for a few years, you know that the company loves to remove buttons, ports and everything that sticks out. According to a new report from…

iPhone 7 could replace the home button with a touch surface

Popular password manager 1Password is trying a new distribution model. Instead of letting you pay for the 1Password app on your Mac or PC and pay again to upgrade to…

1Password is adding a subscription offering

This might sound like inside baseball, but I’ve been using Ulysses for all my writing for a few months now. It’s a rock-solid, well-designed writing app for iOS and macOS.…

Ulysses is now a damn good WordPress editor for Mac and iOS

Apple released a brand-new ad just in time for the Olympics. The video is all about diversity and happiness, and it features many different photos and short clips of people smiling…

Apple focuses on diversity with new ‘Shot on iPhone’ ad

Apple released its music streaming service for Android phones as a beta in November 2015. Nine months later, the app is now official at version 1.0. And yet, it only…

Apple Music exits beta on Android with 3.3 stars

Chinese tech company Cheetah Mobile has acquired French startup News Republic for $57 million. News Republic is a news aggregator — think about it as a sort of Flipboard, Apple…

Cheetah Mobile acquires News Republic for $57 million

Pokémon Go creator Niantic has released a statement on its Facebook page explaining some of the recent changes. You may have noticed on Twitter, Facebook and Reddit that some of…

Niantic explains why it killed third-party Pokémon Go tracking services

You can’t say you haven’t seen this coming. Apple CEO Tim Cook has said again and again that the iPad Pro is the company’s vision of the future of computing.…

Apple wants you to think about the iPad Pro as a computer

Apple just released the fourth beta for the next iteration of iOS, tvOS, macOS and watchOS. In particular, there’s a groundbreaking addition in this release. The company has updated or…

Apple drops a new iOS 10 beta with a hundred new emojis 😱🎉🙌

Let’s be honest — Apple Maps has had a rough start. Four years later, the company is still working hard on improving its location app with more data and features.…

Apple Maps adds more transit and parking data ahead of iOS 10 redesign

Meet Krawd, a French startup that wants to rethink the way advertising agencies work. Like in other industries, Krawd thinks that it’s more efficient to build a marketplace than build…

Krawd turns the ad agency into a marketplace

Step by step, Sketchfab is turning into the best platform to view 3D models using a virtual reality headset. First, the company added a VR button on every browsing page,…

Sketchfab makes it easier to look at 3D models in virtual reality

Illumina is one of the leading companies when it comes to DNA sequencing. And today, the company is announcing that Apple’s Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing Phil Schiller is…

Apple’s Phil Schiller named to the board of DNA sequencing company Illumina

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump wants to steal some of the Democratic Party’s spotlight during the Democratic Convention with yet another puzzling declaration. At a press conference in Florida today,…

Donald Trump irresponsibly asks Russia to find Hillary Clinton’s missing emails

Apple just reported its Q3 2016 earnings, and investors are sending its stock through the roof. While the company managed to beat analysts’ expectations, Apple is selling less iPhones, iPads…

iPhone, iPad and Mac sales are down, but Apple only cares about services now

In about an hour, Apple will announce its quarterly earnings. So you’ll soon be able to read all about it on TechCrunch as we have a team ready to look…

Some last-minute thoughts about Apple’s earnings

A bit more than a year after Automattic acquired WooCommerce, the popular service that turns any WordPress website into an e-commerce store is now integrating with Square. While this kind…

WooCommerce now works with Square to seamlessly run both online and offline stores

A few days after announcing its banking license, N26 (formerly known as Number26) is partnering with fellow German fintech startup vaamo to add a new service to its banking offering…

N26 launches its investment product in Germany

After a months-long bidding process and many layoffs, Yahoo has finally found a buyer. Verizon (which owns AOL, which owns TechCrunch) is officially acquiring Yahoo’s core business for $4.8 billion, which…

Verizon buys Yahoo for $4.83 billion

Apple has told TechCrunch that Pokémon Go has broken an impressive App Store record. While the game was only available in a few countries at the time, the app has…

Apple says Pokémon Go is the most downloaded app in a first week ever

Are you ready for the performance-enhancing drugs TV special called the Olympic Games? It looks like Apple is ready for the marketing branding extravaganza as the company is releasing limited…

Apple will sell limited edition Apple Watch bands for the Olympics as sales stall

Berlin-based startup Number26 is trying to reinvent the bank. This might sound crazy, and that's why the startup has processed step by step. After partnering with Wirecard for the banking…

Number26 is now a true bank as it now has a full banking license

That didn’t take long. Just a day after releasing the third iOS 10 developer beta, the second public beta of iOS 10 is now available to download. The second public…

Apple just dropped another iOS 10 public beta for you crazy testers

Right after launching in France, Apple Pay is now available in Hong Kong as well. As usual, only a few partnering banks are part of the launch, but the company…

Apple Pay is also launching in Hong Kong

If you’re tech-savvy and a serious writer, chances are you already know about Scrivener. The popular writing app has been available on OS X and Windows for years now. And…

Popular writing app Scrivener is now available on iOS

Even though Nokia acquired Withings for $190 million, the French company is going forward with its product releases. At CES, Withings announced the $100 Withings Thermo, a smart thermometer to…

Withings’ incredibly sophisticated thermometer is now available

Apple l’avait déjà annoncé lors de sa conférence d’inauguration de la WWDC en juin, mais maintenant c’est officiel. Apple Pay est désormais disponible pour les clients des banques partenaires possédant…

Apple Pay is now available in France

Welcome to rumorland, where we look at smoke from afar to figur out if there’s any fire. This time, signs point to a new iPhone 7 Pro. In addition to…

Apple could release an iPhone 7 Pro with a dual-camera system

Dear developers, today is update day. Apple just released the third beta for the next major iteration of iOS, macOS, tvOS and watchOS — that’s a lot of megabytes. The…

Apple releases new betas for iOS, macOS, watchOS and yes, even tvOS