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Airspace Systems’ ‘Interceptor’ can catch high-speed drones all by itself
10:52 am PST • November 18, 2016
San Leandro-based Airspace Systems is making a business out of solving the toughest problems facing the emerging drone industry. The company designed a drone of its own, jam-packed with sensors and…
Gillmor Gang LIVE 11.18.16
10:01 am PST • November 18, 2016
This is a LIVE recording session of The Gillmor Gang – today with: Frank Radice, John Borthwick, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Today’s LIVE recording starts at 10:00am…
Media & Entertainment
Pokémon Sun and Moon break 3DS records with 10M units shipped globally
9:39 am PST • November 18, 2016
Nintendo’s Sun and Moon sequels in the popular Pokémon franchise have handily beat 3DS game sales records and past Pokémon launch performance, beating previous entries X and Y by 150…
Startups
Listen makes phone numbers smarter with auto-responders, muting, reminders and more
9:30 am PST • November 18, 2016
A new mobile application called Listen wants to make phone numbers smarter by giving you more control over who’s texting and calling, thanks to a variety of features like whitelists,…
Seen enough? Here’s how to get the SEC’s attention
9:28 am PST • November 18, 2016
McKessy left the agency in late July to join the Washington office of the whistleblower law firm Phillips & Cohen. He was in San Francisco this week, however, and we…
Media & Entertainment
Japanese unicorn Mercari is gunning for eBay’s crown
9:13 am PST • November 18, 2016
After raising a $75 million investment at a $1 billion valuation earlier this year, Mercari announced it has seen more than 20 million app downloads in the U.S. The company…
Startups
500 Startups ditches the ‘accelerator’ brand as it looks to differentiate
9:00 am PST • November 18, 2016
As of today, founders have a lot of options as to what kinds of accelerator programs they might want to try to get in to. There’s Y Combinator, Techstars and…
Media & Entertainment
Here’s the 19th batch of 500 Startups companies
9:00 am PST • November 18, 2016
500 Startups just wrapped up its 18th batch of company launches last month — which means it’s already looking forward to the next one. This time around, in its 19th…
Hardware
McDonald’s releases a VR video to show what it’s like eating at a McDonald’s
8:56 am PST • November 18, 2016
Every generation gets the McDonald’s it deserves. And every so often, the ubiquitous fast food chain looks to reinvent invent itself for the times. There’s the McCafé coffee shop-style restaurant that…
Transportation
BMW and Baidu’s self-driving car partnership has reportedly run out of gas
8:29 am PST • November 18, 2016
It’s been an up-and-down week for Baidu and its autonomous-driving car vision. On the plus, the Chinese tech firm yesterday announced that it had begun testing self-driving vehicles in Wuzhen,…
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Sesame Street’s VC fund makes its first investment in tutoring app Yup
8:15 am PST • November 18, 2016
A venture fund formed by Sesame Workshop and New York-based Collaborative Fund early this year has made its first investment in a tutoring platform called Yup. Specifically, Yup (formerly known as MathCrunch)…
Hardware
Sony’s Xperia Ear wearable voice assistant will be available in December for $200
7:58 am PST • November 18, 2016
The Xperia Ear has existed in some form or another for some time now, but up until this year’s IFA, the strange little wearable looked to be little more than a…
Google reverses its ‘digital death sentence’ for Pixel phone resellers
7:27 am PST • November 18, 2016
Google has now lifted a controversial ban which wiped out the digital identities — meaning Gmail accounts, access to photos, voicemails and files — of those consumers who used a…
Startups
Confirmed: DraftKings and FanDuel are merging into one company
7:01 am PST • November 18, 2016
After months of speculations and rumors that the deal was all but closed, we finally have confirmation that DraftKings and FanDuel will merge into one company. The move is being…
“Alexa, order a Star Wars robot” is an undeniably awesome thing to say to your helpful home AI assistant. And for this weekend, at least, it’ll actually mean something —…
Apple adds former Wall Street Journal editor to its China PR team
4:37 am PST • November 18, 2016
It isn’t uncommon to see Apple hire from the media to staff its PR roster, and now the iPhone-maker has done so in Asia, too. Wei Gu, a long-time China…
Enterprise
French IoT startup Sigfox nabs €150M Series E, reportedly at €600M valuation
3:24 am PST • November 18, 2016
Sigfox, the IoT company based out of France that is building a dedicated, global network to connect, monitor and control devices like smart-home alarms, machinery, refrigerators and city streetlights, today confirmed…
Startups
Telemedicine company Syounika Online snags top prize at TechCrunch Tokyo
3:00 am PST • November 18, 2016
As a parent, if your child breaks out with a rash, what do you do? You panic, you search the internet for what could possibly be wrong and the next…
Security
Three UK suffers major data breach via compromised employee login
2:45 am PST • November 18, 2016
Three UK is the latest company to suffer what looks to be a major data breach — potentially exposing the personal information of millions of customers.
Hardware
Report: Apple asked manufacturing partners to explore making iPhones in the U.S.
1:51 am PST • November 18, 2016
Foxconn, Apple’s key manufacturing partner, is among a number of supply chain companies that are said to be exploring the potential to relocate iPhone production facilities from Asia to the U.S.,…
