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Perkbox, the London-based startup now calling itself an “employee experience platform,” has raised a further £13.5 million in funding. The round is led by existing investor Draper Esprit, alongside a…
Startups
Prisma Labs raises $6M for its AI-powered approach to visual editing
1:00 am PDT • April 30, 2019
Remember Prisma? The Moscow-based team behind the app that sparked a style transfer craze in 2016 has raised a $6 million Series A, led by early stage artificial intelligence focused…
Fintech
Struggling EV firm Faraday Future gets another financial lifeline with new $225M investment
12:33 am PDT • April 30, 2019
Editor’s note: This post originally appeared on TechNode, an editorial partner of TechCrunch based in China. It may have lost its original founding team, but the wheels are still rolling for…
Samsung sees Q1 profit plummet 60%
10:14 pm PDT • April 29, 2019
Samsung’s Q1 earnings are in and, as the company itself predicted, they don’t make for pretty reading. The Korean giant saw revenue for the three-month period fall by 13 percent…
Startups
Jungle Ventures hits $175M first close on its third fund for Southeast Asia
5:00 pm PDT • April 29, 2019
Southeast Asia’s startup ecosystem is set to get a massive injection of funds after Jungle Ventures reached a first close of $175 million for its newest fund, TechCrunch has come…
Hardware
Alphabet cites ‘headwinds’ in smartphone sales, teases I/O hardware announcement
3:50 pm PDT • April 29, 2019
Alphabet’s Q1 earnings were a disappointment for Wall Street, courtesy primarily of ad revenue shortcomings. The hardware team met with some difficulties, as well, owing in part to a stagnating…
Equity Shot transcribed: Slack’s S-1 and Uber’s IPO terms
3:44 PM PDT • April 29, 2019
We’re deep in IPO news, and last week was no different. When this happens, Equity’s Kate Clark and Alex Wilhelm fire up their mics and…
Media & Entertainment
Twitter announces new content deals with Univision, The Wall Street Journal and others
3:30 pm PDT • April 29, 2019
Twitter is unveiling a number of new content deals and renewals tonight at its NewFronts event for digital advertisers. It’s only been two years since Twitter first joined the NewFronts.…
Hardware
Amazon is testing a Spanish-language Alexa experience in the US ahead of a launch this year
3:25 pm PDT • April 29, 2019
Amazon announced today it has begun to ask customers to participate in a preview program that will help the company build a Spanish-language Alexa experience for U.S. users. The program,…
Enterprise
Canonical’s Mark Shuttleworth on dueling open-source foundations
2:50 pm PDT • April 29, 2019
At the Open Infrastructure Summit, which was previously known as the OpenStack Summit, Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth used his keynote to talk about the state of open-source foundations — and…
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Update August 14th: The We Company has officially dropped its S-1 this morning. This analysis from earlier this year explored what we needed to see in the filing in order to…
Mobile marketing company ManyChat has raised $18 million in Series A funding. The startup, co-founded by CEO Mikael Yang, is currently focused on Facebook Messenger. It offers tools for creating…
No one ever said consumer robots were easy. But Anki’s actually made a pretty strong go of it, all things considered. After wowing the world at Apple’s 2013 WWDC keynote…
Featured Article
Getting a piece of Uber
How Menlo Ventures landed a stake in Uber worth billions.
1:45 pm PDT • April 29, 2019
Alphabet misses on Q1 revenues of $36.3B; EPS of $9.50 weighed down by the $1.7B European fine
1:13 pm PDT • April 29, 2019
After warning investors that it would be taking a $1.7 billion (€1.5 billion) charge this quarter due to a fine from the European Commission over anticompetitive advertising practices, today Google…
Privacy
Diving into TED2019, the state of social media and internet behavior
1:00 pm PDT • April 29, 2019
Extra Crunch offers members the opportunity to tune into conference calls led and moderated by the TechCrunch writers you read every day. Last week, TechCrunch’s Anthony Ha gave us his…
Featured Article
Why did last night’s ‘Game of Thrones’ look so bad? Here comes the science!
Last night’s episode of “Game of Thrones” was a wild ride and inarguably one of an epic show’s more epic moments — if you could see it through the dark and the blotchy video. It turns out even one of the most expensive and meticulously produced shows in history can fall prey to the scourge…
12:51 pm PDT • April 29, 2019
Media & Entertainment
Interactive content is coming to Walmart’s Vudu & the BBC
12:22 pm PDT • April 29, 2019
Netflix’s early experiments with interactive content may not have always hit the mark. Its flagship effort on this front, “Black Mirror: Bandersnatch,” was a frustrating experiment — and now, the…
WeWork has submitted confidential documents to the SEC, the first step toward another highly anticipated unicorn IPO.
Media & Entertainment
Overcast makes it easy to turn clips from podcasts into viral clips
11:17 am PDT • April 29, 2019
The popular iOS podcasts app Overcast wants to make it easier for people to share across social media clips from their favorite shows. The feature will likely be well-received by…
