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Apple pledges $350 billion investment in US economy over next five years
11:07 am PST • January 17, 2018
Apple is about to give the U.S. economy a huge boost in the form of a $350 billion five-year investment. As part of that, it will commit $55 billion this…
Media & Entertainment
Siri’s podcast-promoting ‘Give me the News’ feature is now out of beta
10:41 am PST • January 17, 2018
A few weeks back, Apple added “Give me the news” to Siri’s repertoire of tricks in the latest beta version of iOS. The feature comes as the company is readying…
Join TechCrunch at our 1st Annual Winter Party
10:34 am PST • January 17, 2018
After last year’s stellar turn out of almost 1,000 Silicon Valley shakers and movers at our 1st Annual Winter Party, TechCrunch will be hosting the 2nd Annual Winter Party in San…
Entrepreneur First (EF), the London-headquartered company builder that invests in individuals “pre-team, pre-idea” to help create new technology startups, is continuing to expand internationally. Following adding an outpost and program…
Media & Entertainment
Google will make page speed a factor in mobile search ranking starting in July
10:19 am PST • January 17, 2018
Google today announced a significant change in how it ranks websites for mobile searches: it will now take page speed into consideration as one of its signals, the company says. The change,…
Enterprise
Planning your startup’s acquisition just got easier with Slack’s private shared channels
10:00 am PST • January 17, 2018
A few months ago Slack launched a beta feature called Shared Channels, which let two organizations share a common channel. So for example a startup could have a channel that…
Media & Entertainment
Facebook “Watch Party” lets Groups view videos simultaneously
10:00 am PST • January 17, 2018
Facebook’s turning its push for well-being through active, not passive, content consumption into a feature with its new test of “Watch Party”. It allows Group admins to pick any public…
Startups
Natural home products startup Grove Collaborative bets niche wins over the Amazonization of everything
9:45 am PST • January 17, 2018
Who needs Amazon when you can make your own online distribution channel? At least, that’s the idea behind Grove Collaborative, a natural home care products company that ships natural cleaning…
Mark Zuckerberg wants you to call your congressperson in support of DACA
9:40 am PST • January 17, 2018
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants you to call your congressperson to act on DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals). Since 2012, 800,000 undocumented immigrants have received DACA status. “Every day that…
Startups
The Ocean Solutions Accelerator will nurture companies looking to keep our planet blue
9:28 am PST • January 17, 2018
You can’t swing a cat in the Bay Area without hitting some startup accelerator or another, but it can be hard to find one with a mission. That’s the easy…
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CircleCI raises $31M Series C for its DevOps platform
9:21 am PST • January 17, 2018
CircleCI was recently in the news because its founder, Paul Biggar, wrote about his experience at the now infamous Silicon Valley sex party that was also attended by the likes…
Startups
Sketchfab launches a store to become a stock photo site for 3D models
9:20 am PST • January 17, 2018
Sketchfab just launched a store so that you can buy and sell 3D models and reuse them in commercial projects. This is a major new feature for Sketchfab, which has…
Enterprise
Google and Salesforce unveil first elements of partnership
9:07 am PST • January 17, 2018
Last fall at Dreamforce, Google and Salesforce announced a partnership. Today, the two companies unveiled the first pieces of that agreement. For starters, Google Analytics 360 users can now import…
Google’s Project Fi cell service never played the “unlimited data” game that most carriers in the U.S. like to play (and which is never truly unlimited). Instead, Google simply offered…
Security
Google’s new G Suite security center gives admins a new perspective on their organization’s security
9:00 am PST • January 17, 2018
Google today launched a new tool for G Suite admins that gives them a better view of the state of their organization’s security. The new G Suite Security Center, which…
Media & Entertainment
Amazon takes on Wish with an “Under $10” selection of products that ship for free
8:57 am PST • January 17, 2018
Amazon has quietly launched a new feature that’s seemingly aimed at helping the retailer better compete with discount shopping apps such as Wish and others. In the Amazon mobile app…
Media & Entertainment
Arkadium brings its interactive content to the Associated Press
8:52 am PST • January 17, 2018
The Associated Press is partnering with Arkadium to use InHabit, an interactive content tool launched last year. Arkadium’s goal for InHabit is to automatically add interactive polls, quizzes and games…
Thinknum is remixing data to create cool content
8:10 am PST • January 17, 2018
Archimedes once said “Give me a place to stand, and I shall move the world.” For Thinknum, a data startup, that saying should go “Give me statistics, and I shall…
Media & Entertainment
Global app downloads topped 175 billion in 2017, revenue surpassed $86 billion
7:22 am PST • January 17, 2018
Global app downloads topped 175 billion and consumer spending exceeded $86 billion in 2017, thanks to growth in emerging markets including China, India, Brazil and Russia, according to a new…
Hardware
This small robotic stingray could be the future of biological bots
7:10 am PST • January 17, 2018
What do you get when you smush a bunch off live heart cells, specialized biomaterials, and electrodes into a tiny, stingray-shaped package? If you said “lunch” than you’re wrong. Instead,…
