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Sprint customers can now use Apple Business Chat to reach an agent
9:43 am PST • January 16, 2019
Sprint today announced it will support Apple’s Business Chat — the new platform that allows businesses and customers to interact over iMessage. According to the carrier, customers can now message…
Enterprise
We Company CEO in hot water over being both a tenant and a landlord
9:27 am PST • January 16, 2019
The company formerly known as WeWork has come under scrutiny for potential conflict of interest issues regarding CEO Adam Neumann’s partial ownership of three properties where WeWork is (or will…
Daily Crunch: Snap CFO departs
9:10 am PST • January 16, 2019
The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you…
Enterprise
Nvidia’s T4 GPUs are now available in beta on Google Cloud
9:02 am PST • January 16, 2019
Google Cloud today announced that Nvidia’s Turing-based Tesla T4 data center GPUs are now available in beta in its data centers in Brazil, India, Netherlands, Singapore, Tokyo and the United States. Google…
Media & Entertainment
Tinder is testing the ability to share Spotify music clips in chat
9:01 am PST • January 16, 2019
Tinder has already developed a fairly robust chat platform within its dating app, with support for sharing things like Bitmoji and GIFs, and the ability to “like” messages by tapping…
Media & Entertainment
Anchor says it’s ‘powering’ 40 percent of new podcasts
9:00 am PST • January 16, 2019
Podcasting’s greatest asset has always been its accessibility — for consumer and creator alike. But even the simplest medium requires a little know-how, and Anchor’s overarching goal has long been…
Startups
Byju’s buys Osmo for $120M to add blended learning to its $4B digital education business
8:39 am PST • January 16, 2019
Weeks after it raised a massive $540 million funding round, Indian education unicorn Byju’s is on the M&A path. The company announced today it has snapped up U.S.-based Osmo, a…
Startups
Niantic finalizes its Series C at $245M with a valuation of nearly $4B
8:36 am PST • January 16, 2019
We’ve known since around December that Niantic (the company behind Pokémon GO and the soon to be released Harry Potter Wizards Unite) was in the middle of raising a ton…
Innovation’s leading-edge lives at the intersection of robotics and AI. What could possibly be more exciting than attending TechCrunch Sessions: Robotics + AI on April 18 — where you’ll spend…
Infor, a NYC-based enterprise software company, announced a massive $1.5 billion investment today that could be the precursor to an IPO in the next 12-24 months. One analyst is estimating…
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Media & Entertainment
China accounted for nearly half of app downloads in 2018, 40% of consumer spend
7:41 am PST • January 16, 2019
Global app downloads topped 194 billion in 2018, up 35 percent from 2016, according to App Annie’s annual “State of Mobile 2019” report released today. Consumer spending across app stores…
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EVs and online marketplaces thrive despite slump in Chinese car sales
7:04 am PST • January 16, 2019
China’s massive auto market hit the brakes last year as trade tensions and a softening economy dampened consumer confidence, but one segment soared on account of increasing internet penetration —…
Startups
HyperScience, the machine learning startup tackling data entry, raises $30 million Series B
7:00 am PST • January 16, 2019
HyperScience, the machine learning company that turns human readable data into machine readable data, has today announced the close of a $30 million Series B funding round led by Stripes…
Startups
Techstars will build and launch startups with new venture studio
7:00 am PST • January 16, 2019
Techstars is announcing Techstars Studio, its latest attempt to bring corporations closer to the startup ecosystem.
You can now order meals via DoorDash in Alaska, Montana and South Dakota.
Media & Entertainment
Most Facebook users still in the dark about its creepy ad practices, Pew finds
7:00 am PST • January 16, 2019
A study by the Pew Research Center suggests most Facebook users are still in the dark about how the company tracks and profiles them for ad-targeting purposes. Pew found three-quarters…
Hardware
The Motorola Razr could return as a $1,500 foldable smartphone
6:44 am PST • January 16, 2019
Motorola has revived the Razr name a few times over the years, but the once-mighty brand has failed to regain the heights of its early days as an ultra-slim flip…
AI
Alexa gets a professional ‘newscaster’ voice for reading the day’s news
6:42 am PST • January 16, 2019
Amazon already gave Alexa the ability to whisper, and now it’s rolling out another way to change the assistant’s speaking style — it’s giving Alexa a “newscaster” voice. Starting today,…
Startups
Instamojo raises $7M to help SMEs and ‘micro-entrepreneurs’ in India sell online
6:21 am PST • January 16, 2019
In India, startups are quietly building the tools and platforms to enable a different kind of gig economy: one that allows “micro-entrepreneurs” to tap growing access to the internet to…
The popular image of a Chapter 7 bankruptcy might be a large company like Enron failing, or maybe some lazy drifter trying to shirk their financial responsibilities. The reality is…
