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At Google Cloud Next today, the company announced it is bringing two brand new data centers online in the 2020 time frame, with one in Seoul, South Korea and one…
Teeth straightening startup Candid has raised another $63.4 million in a Series B round from Greycroft, Bessemer, e.ventures and others. The new injection of cash brings its total funding to…
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Two of the biggest trends in applications development in recent years have been the rise of serverless and containerization. Today at Google Cloud Next, the company announced a new product…
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Just three months after raising $40 million in a Series B funding, German HR and recruiting platform Personio is announcing it has acquired Rollbox, the Spanish startup that offers an…
Media & Entertainment
Roku is no longer a neutral platform after today’s Roku OS 9.1 update
8:19 am PDT • April 9, 2019
In the past, Roku seemed to be more of a neutral platform compared with streaming media player rivals like Amazon Fire TV or Apple TV. The company gave everyone else’s…
Enterprise
Slack integration with Office 365 one more step toward total enterprise integration
8:00 am PDT • April 9, 2019
Slack’s goal of integrating enterprise tools in the chat interface has been a major differentiator from the giant companies it’s competing with like Microsoft and Facebook. Last year, it bought…
Hardware
The Agazzi backpack has internal lighting and a fingerprint reader
7:45 am PDT • April 9, 2019
We love a good bag here at TechCrunch. Heck, it’s a dirty little secret that Bag Week can happen several times in a given year, if we’re so inclined. Generally…
Indian social commerce startup GlowRoad announced today that it has raised a $10 million Series B. The round was led by CDH Investments, a Chinese investment firm, with participation from…
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Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has released a new report about future Apple products — 9to5mac obtained the report. The company could be working on a new 31.6-inch external display with a 6K…
Transportation
Customers in Australian capital can get food and coffee delivered via drone
7:04 am PDT • April 9, 2019
Google X graduate Wing has begun making drone deliveries in a trio of suburbs just outside Canberra, Australia’s capital city. The Alphabet-owned company says it has tested the service 3,000…
AI
Meow Wolf, the George R.R. Martin-backed immersive experience designer, pushes into XR
6:52 am PDT • April 9, 2019
It’s been a long time since the original 10 members of Meow Wolf’s art collective had to scrounge in dumpsters for the raw materials to bring their galaxy-spanning visions to…
Media & Entertainment
Mozilla adds fingerprinting and cryptocurrency mining protection to Firefox
6:30 am PDT • April 9, 2019
Mozilla is adding a new feature to protect you against web annoyances in future releases of Firefox. The new feature is currently available in the beta version of Firefox 67,…
Mobile shopping startup Dote is announcing $12 million in new funding, as well as a new feature called Shopping Party. Founder and CEO Lauren Farleigh said her initial goal was…
A new map of nearly all of Africa shows exactly where the continent’s 1.3 billion people live down to the meter, which could help everyone from local governments to aid…
Enterprise
PubNub nabs $23M as its IaaS network hits 1.3T messages sent each month
5:40 am PDT • April 9, 2019
There’s been a huge increase in the last decade of applications and services that rely on real-time notifications and other alerts as a core part of how they operate, and…
Facebook has agreed to amend its terms and conditions under pressure from EU lawmakers. The new terms will make it plain that free access to its service is contingent on…
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Scaling a nonprofit, startup style
In its second year, All Raise plans to go far and wide to support women on both sides of the table.
5:00 am PDT • April 9, 2019
Transportation
Ousted Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn says ‘this is a conspiracy’ in video message
4:01 am PDT • April 9, 2019
While Carlos Ghosn, the former CEO of Nissan and Renault, is currently in jail, his lawyer and communication team released a new video statement. The seven-minute video was shot hours…
