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Venture
83North closes $250M fourth fund focused on European, Israeli startups
2:56 am PDT • April 5, 2017
European VC firm 83North (formerly Greylock IL), which since 2008 has focused on backing startups in Europe and Israel, has closed its fourth fund — taking $250M in a raise…
Startups
London-based Forward Partners closes new £60M fund to invest in startups at idea and Seed stage
12:00 am PDT • April 5, 2017
Forward Partners, the London-based VC firm originally founded by Forward Internet Group and Nic Brisbourne, has closed a new £60 million fund to continue investing in tech startups from idea…
Are you ready for the internet of toll roads?
9:35 pm PDT • April 4, 2017
With the appointment of Ajit Pai as the new FCC chairman and his public opposition to current regulations, the death of net neutrality is likely upon us. As a result,…
AdAsia, an ambitious one-year-old ad tech startup, raises $12M for expansion
9:15 pm PDT • April 4, 2017
AdAsia, a one-year-old online advertising startup based in Singapore, has closed a $12 million Series A round from Japanese investor JAFCO. The company was founded in April 2016 by CEO Kosuke Sogo,…
Yahoo and AOL combine to become Oath | Crunch Report
8:03 PM PDT • April 4, 2017
Recorded on April 4, 2017. Yahoo and AOL combine under Verizon to become Oath, Yelp acquires Wi-Fi marketing company Turnstyle Analytics, Apple improves the specs…
Crunch Report | Yahoo and AOL combine to become Oath
8:03 pm PDT • April 4, 2017
Yahoo and AOL combine under Verizon to become Oath, Yelp acquires Wi-Fi marketing company Turnstyle Analytics, Apple improves the specs of the Mac Pro and a new sentiment index aims…
Privacy
New bipartisan bill seeks to stop warrantless device searches at US borders
6:57 pm PDT • April 4, 2017
After signaling in late February that such legislation was on the way, a bipartisan group of lawmakers has introduced a bill that aims to protect the digital privacy of American…
Media & Entertainment
Amazon will live stream 10 NFL games this season, replacing Twitter
5:14 pm PDT • April 4, 2017
Amazon has reportedly reached a deal with the NFL to stream 10 Thursday Night Football games this year, the company confirmed to TechCrunch. The one-year deal is reportedly valued at…
AI
Researchers use a pair of robotics platforms in hopes of developing drought-resistant crops
4:30 pm PDT • April 4, 2017
A team of researchers at the University of Missouri are using a pair of robotics platforms and a $20 million grant from the National Science Foundation to develop a system…
Startups
CheckRecipient, a London startup that uses machine learning to stop misaddressed emails, raises $2.7M
4:00 pm PDT • April 4, 2017
CheckRecipient is a London startup that uses machine learning to help prevent emails from being sent to the wrong recipient.
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TechCrunch has learned that Mike Swartz, an operations veteran from Amazon who joined Instacart in February last year, has left the company. Instacart confirmed the departure.
Media & Entertainment
After an unexpected reveal, AOL’s CEO explains that Oath is about B2B branding
2:38 pm PDT • April 4, 2017
You weren’t supposed to know about Oath. Not this week, at least. And certainly not under these circumstances. The newly minted and already much maligned poster child of the forthcoming…
Venture
Tusk Ventures quietly held a first close on $25 million for its debut fund
2:38 pm PDT • April 4, 2017
Bradley Tusk is a former political operative who currently runs a consultancy that helps Fortune 500 companies launch political-style campaigns, as well as a separate outfit, Tusk Ventures, that that…
Google’s Project Zero has been on a roll lately, unveiling sophisticated bugs in Cloudflare, LastPass and now Broadcom, a Wi-Fi chip supplier whose product is found in iPhones, Nexuses and…
Enterprise
Fae is a new open-source content management system based on Rails
1:15 pm PDT • April 4, 2017
FINE, a San Francisco- and Portland-based brand agency, is open sourcing the content management system (CMS) it has developed in-house to build sites for brands like Anchor Brewing, Kimpton Residences…
Startups
High school junior launches TagDat, an emoji-based local reviews app
1:11 pm PDT • April 4, 2017
Buffy Li was very patient when she took time off from her Spring Break to talk to me. Li, an 11th grader at Santa Cruz’s Kirby prep school, spent most…
Media & Entertainment
Kanye West’s The Life of Pablo is the first album to go platinum from streaming only
12:56 pm PDT • April 4, 2017
Kanye West’s last album has just made streaming history. The Life of Pablo, released a little over a year ago, just went Platinum with over 1.5 billion song streams in…
Apple’s subscription streaming service, Apple Music, rolled out a major (ver. 2.0) release to Android users today, introducing a new design that largely brings the app to parity with its…
Transportation
Aurora’s massive LightningStrike VTOL UAV just got one step closer to reality
12:24 pm PDT • April 4, 2017
A vertical take-off and landing craft (VTOL) that can stand toe-to-toe with combat helicopters a concept taken directly from sci-fi – it’s almost the default futuristic military ship among Hollywood…
Startups
How Winnipeg focused on local strengths to create a tech hub in central Canada
12:00 pm PDT • April 4, 2017
The brick warehouses that line Winnipeg’s Exchange District look the same as they did in the mid-nineteenth century, but commodity traders and grain transporters have moved out and tech companies…
