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Female founders, apply now for Include Office Hours with Accel
1:00 am PST • November 18, 2016
Include Office Hours are coming to London! On Friday, December 2 from 4-6 p.m, partners from Accel will join TechCrunch to provide advice and feedback to startups. Apply now! Unlike previous sessions, the upcoming…
Startups
These are the TechCrunch Tokyo 2016 pitch competition winners
12:55 am PST • November 18, 2016
You’ve probably heard of TechCrunch Disrupt, but we run events all over the world. This week, it’s all about Tokyo. Twenty startups were battling for a spot in the final.…
Media & Entertainment
A Chinese streaming service will reportedly pay $700M to broadcast the English Premier League
12:10 am PST • November 18, 2016
Chinese money is set to pour into the English Premiership football league after PPTV, an online streaming platform in China, agreed to a three-year deal to broadcast matches between 2019-2022.
Media & Entertainment
Fresh from raising $175M, Indian chat app Hike clones Snapchat
11:21 pm PST • November 17, 2016
In its first act since raising $175 million from Chinese internet giant Tencent in August, India-based messaging app Hike has become the latest to clone Snapchat.
Media & Entertainment
Amazon Prime Video is finally going global to give Netflix some serious competition
9:49 pm PST • November 17, 2016
Since its global expansion in January, Netflix has pretty much sat alone as the sole video streaming site to be available in (almost) every country in the world. That situation…
Tesla Acquisition of SolarCity Approved | Crunch Report
8:28 PM PST • November 17, 2016
Recorded on November 17, 2016. LinkedIn now blocked in Russia, Tesla acquisition of SolarCity is approved, SpaceX wants to bring internet access to everyone, AOL…
Crunch Report | Tesla Acquisition of SolarCity Approved
8:28 pm PST • November 17, 2016
LinkedIn now blocked in Russia, Tesla acquisition of SolarCity is approved, SpaceX wants to bring internet access to everyone, AOL lays off 7 percent of workforce, Zesty replaces CEO and…
Hardware
Apple addresses ‘Touch Disease’ with reduced cost repair for iPhone 6 Plus
3:39 pm PST • November 17, 2016
Many an iPhone 6 Plus has been struck down by the scourge known as “Touch Disease,” but Apple has not acknowledged the problem was systematic or widespread — until now.…
Speaking from experience, finding jobs outside the region you went to college in is incredibly challenging. Sure, large Fortune 100 companies have programs in place to make it easy to recruit for offices…
These Adidas kicks are woven from Biosteel fiber, a material designed to replicate spider silk that was developed by a German biotech company. The material is lighter than other synthetic…
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Zesty, facing stiff competition, replaces its CEO and restructures
2:00 pm PST • November 17, 2016
TechCrunch has learned that there has been a management shakeup at Zesty, a business catering service that’s health-minded and tech enabled. Funded by Index Ventures, Founders Fund, Forerunner Ventures and Y…
Nom launches a redesigned app
1:36 PM PST • November 17, 2016
Recorded on November 15, 2016. Social media has completely changed the way chefs and dishes get discovered. Nom cofounders Steven Chen and Vijay Karunamurthy gave…
Media & Entertainment
Salesforce looks surprisingly good headed into the end of the year with a strong Q3
1:18 pm PST • November 17, 2016
Despite a weak second quarter and a lot of eyes on the end of the year, Salesforce is already starting to look pretty good again to Wall Street. The company…
Tesla and SolarCity leapt an important hurdle Thursday: getting shareholder sign off for the proposed acquisition of the latter by the former. Respective shareholder votes at both companies signaled a…
Biotech & Health
Grace Hopper and Margaret Hamilton awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom for computing advances
12:34 pm PST • November 17, 2016
President Obama awarded the country’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, to a batch of 21 deserving recipients, among them computing pioneers Grace Hopper and Margaret Hamilton.
Media & Entertainment
President Obama on fake news problem: “We won’t know what to fight for”
12:13 pm PST • November 17, 2016
President Barack Obama spoke in Berlin Thursday during a visit to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and during his remarks he addressed concerns about fake news circulating via social platforms like…
Hardware
Oculus is giving away its mesmerizing VR painting tool, Quill
11:49 am PST • November 17, 2016
VR has quite a bit to offer creative types in terms of building worlds and images that would be impossible otherwise. Oculus Story Studio is looking to redefine the concept…
Hardware
Alexa will soon be able to send text messages through AT&T
11:18 am PST • November 17, 2016
Alexa’s on a quite a roll of late. Amazon’s AI assistant is adding new skills all the time, and this week the company’s adding one of its highest profile partners.…
AI
How mixed reality and machine learning are driving innovation in farming
11:00 am PST • November 17, 2016
Farming is, by far, the most mature industry mankind has created. Dating back to the dawn of civilization, farming has been refined, adjusted and adapted — but never perfected. We,…
Startups
Airbnb is turning itself into an ‘experience’ machine beyond just booking places to stay
10:46 am PST • November 17, 2016
Airbnb is looking to move beyond the simple experience of booking a place to stay — moving part of the responsibility of figuring out what to do in those places…
