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Gillmor Gang: Blocktrain
7:49 pm PST • November 9, 2017
The Gillmor Gang — Doc Searls, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, Denis Pombriant, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, November 3, 2017. G3: Social Security — Mary Hodder, Maria Ogneva, Tina…
Announcing the TechCrunch Meetup in Singapore on November 23
7:29 pm PST • November 9, 2017
Here at TechCrunch we serve a global audience which is why we’ve held casual meetup events across many different parts of the world. Now we’re excited to add a new…
Gillmor Gang: Blocktrain
7:21 PM PST • November 9, 2017
Recorded on November 3, 2017. The Gillmor Gang — Doc Searls, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, Denis Pombriant, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, November 3,…
Startups
China’s Bytedance is buying Musical.ly in a deal worth $800M-$1B
6:54 pm PST • November 9, 2017
Musical.ly, the lip-syncing app popular with teens and young people, has been sold to Chinese social media giant Toutiao, according to an announcement made today. The deal is undisclosed but…
Media & Entertainment
YouTube implements new policy to flag inappropriate videos targeted at children
5:23 pm PST • November 9, 2017
A New York Times piece and a subsequent Medium post this week highlighted an ongoing problem with YouTube Kids — bizarre and disturbing videos aimed at young children using key…
Media & Entertainment
New Stars Wars and Marvel TV shows planned for Disney’s streaming service
2:23 pm PST • November 9, 2017
Disney CEO Bob Iger revealed some amazing news on his company’s earnings call for this quarter, including a live-action Star Wars TV show that will be coming to Disney’s subscription…
Media & Entertainment
Twitch is finally releasing the nearly 30 million usernames associated with Justin.tv
2:23 pm PST • November 9, 2017
Justin.tv, the life-streaming service that eventually grew into Twitch, was shut down back in 2014. Since then, many Twitch users have asked when the company would release the old Justin.tv…
Privacy
Facebook defends revenge porn pilot that has people upload nude images of themselves
2:23 pm PST • November 9, 2017
Facebook Global Head of Safety Antigone Davis has clarified some things about how Facebook’s test pilot to combat revenge porn in Australia works. The strategy entails uploading your nude photos or…
Media & Entertainment
Brand new ‘Star Wars’ trilogy coming from ‘The Last Jedi’ director Rian Johnson
2:05 pm PST • November 9, 2017
Star Wars will get another film trilogy, which will be entirely new and will be separate from the current saga focusing on the Skywalker family and its close associates and…
How old is venture capital? Probably as old as the first hunter/gatherer. Yet, until the mid-20th century, it was mostly practiced by wealthy individuals and families. Modern VC was initiated…
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Redfin, the real estate brokerage site, saw its shares tumble about 7 percent in after-hours trading, shortly after sharing its earnings. The newly public business may have disappointed Wall Street,…
Nvidia’s huge run continues as its data center business surges
1:30 pm PST • November 9, 2017
Nvidia continues to ride the wave of a myriad of huge success stories for the company, like the rapid adoption of the Nintendo Switch and demand for technology to power…
Sogou, the Chinese search engine, debuted on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday, under the ticker “SOGO.” After pricing at the top of the range at $13 per share,…
Do cities still want a sharing economy?
12:30 pm PST • November 9, 2017
Cities make the sharing economy work, and the urban environment is the critical differentiator for experimentation, change and scale. In just a few years, the sharing economy has grown from…
Startups
Bolt Threads is raising $106 million from Foundation Capital and Formation 8
12:13 pm PST • November 9, 2017
Our spidey senses are tingling over here. According to an SEC filing, TechCrunch has learned Bolt Threads, the biotech company spinning microbes into spider silk, is raising a whopping $106…
Google’s improved image blending means a more seamless Street View
12:08 pm PST • November 9, 2017
Google is hard at work behind the scenes improving one of its ambitious technical projects ever – Street View. The company previously revealed that its been rolling out improved camera…
Apple releases first diversity report under new VP of diversity and inclusion
12:00 pm PST • November 9, 2017
Apple has released its first diversity and inclusion report since naming Denise Young Smith as VP of diversity and inclusion in May. It’s also Apple’s first report since Donald Trump…
Hardware
Essential Phone can now stream live to Facebook from the 360 camera add-on
11:09 am PST • November 9, 2017
The Essential Phone just got a camera software update that will allow owners of the device to broadcast live, 360-degree video right from the native camera app, provided they have…
Apple just pushed an iOS update to fix that ‘I’ autocorrect bug
10:38 am PST • November 9, 2017
Over the last few days, most iOS users have experienced the same peculiar bug: the letter “I” was autocorrecting to… something else. Sometimes it was an exclamation mark. Sometimes it…
Startups
Alphabet and Goldman Sachs are suing adtech startup Outcome Health for alleged fraud
10:32 am PST • November 9, 2017
Investors are suing Outcome Health, a startup selling ad space on screens in doctors’ offices, for alleged fraud and breach of contract eight months after pouring $500 million into the…
