Nearly five years after announcing its acquisition of OculusVR, Facebook is finally ready to put the drama surrounding its founding behind it.

Bloomberg today updated its earlier reporting on Apple’s plans for a news and magazine subscription service.

Uber, which is gearing up to go public early next year, is really doubling down on this whole multi-modal transportation provider effort.

Fintech startup YayPay just raised another $8. 4 million for its software-as-a-service solution focused on collecting money from outstanding invoices.

Accenture announced today that it’s reached an agreement to acquire Adaptly.

Tigera, a startup that offers security and compliance solutions for Kubernetes container deployments, today announced that it has raised a $30 million Series B round led by Insight Partners.

Non-tracking search engine, DuckDuckGo, is now a little easier to find online after the company acquired the premium generic domain name  duck.

Future Family is a startup (and a Disrupt Startup Battlefield alum!) that helps families more easily afford fertility services like IVF and egg freezing.

Google’s annual Year in Search is more than a digital record of the events, stories and phenomena that captured our attention over 12 months.

Nvidia is a company that has reached the highest highs and the lowest lows, all in the span of a couple of weeks.

Americans are regularly checking a second screen while watching TV, according to a new report from Nielsen which examined the media consumption habits of U.

Guru, the enterprise-focused information sharing platform, has today announced the close of a $25 million Series B funding led by Thrive Capital, with participation from existing investors Emergence Capital, FirstMark Capital, Slack Fund, and Michael Dell’s MSD Capital.

Workers in a recently opened Staten Island Amazon warehouse have announced their intention to unionize.

Walker & Company Brands, a startup making health and beauty products for people of color, has been acquired by consumer giant Procter & Gamble.

If you’ve been browsing the App Store for long enough, chances are you’ve seen djay at some point.

In my never-ending quest to wrap everything in brown leather, I’m pleased with this AirPod case from Nomad.

Facebook today announced a redesign of its “Life Events” feature, which allows people to share significant milestones in their life, like an engagement, graduation, a new job, a move to a new city, and more.

China’s online youth entertainment platform Bilibili said it has agreed to buy major assets from the comics arm of gaming giant NetEase, which helped introduce Marvel’s first batch of Chinese superheroes in May.

Hello, Las Vegas! We are all heading to LV for CES next month and instead of spending all our cash on a booth we’ll be wandering the halls and want to meet you as far away from the Convention Center as possible without ending up in the Grand Canyon.

AtScale, the startup that helps companies move massive amounts of data into business intelligence and analytics tools, announced a $50 million Series D round today.

According to a new report from Bloomberg, Apple is thinking about multiple scenarios when it comes to tariffs and iPhone production.

After raising $55 million in October at a $500 million valuation, business software marketplace G2 Crowd is making its first-ever acquisition to bring more features to its platform.

I’m heading back to Europe to hang out in Wroclaw and Warsaw, Poland.

This is the Echo I’ve been waiting for. Throughout my house, I have Amazon Echo Dots connected to stereo systems.

Juniper Square, which operates an enterprise software platform for commercial real estate investment firms, raised the funds from Ribbit Capital.

Audi has a new CEO. Bram Schot was just named the car company’s chief executive after serving in that role on an interim basis since June.

Luckin, a startup that vows to topple Starbucks’ dominance in China, announced on Wednesday that it’s lifted its valuation to $2.

As companies compete for talent, a startup that has built a platform to help ensure that the talent — once it’s working for you — doesn’t get bogged down by IT frustration, has raised a significant round of funding.

India has 22 official languages, which often presents a challenge for businesses that want to scale across the entire country.

Tencent Music, China’s largest streaming company, has raised $1.

Indonesia-based e-commerce firm Tokopedia is the latest startup to enter the Vision Fund after it raised $1.

A building in Facebook’s Menlo Park campus was evacuated after a bomb threat early Tuesday evening.

Two years ago, a couple of VCs from Shea Ventures, a 50-year-old, L.

The decision concludes a three-days-long court hearing in which the judge and the public prosecutor debated whether Wanzhou would breach her bail conditions.

Wix is taking a big step beyond website building today with the launch of a suite of products called Ascend.

Instead of a standard based on wealth, or even knowledge -- one based on users’ contributions of time and attention.

"I want The Riveter to be the place people think of when they think of women and work," says its CEO Amy Nelson.

Internet users are already being tracked to death, with ads that follow us around, search histories that are collected and stored, emails that report back to senders when they’ve been read, websites that know where you scrolled and what you clicked, and much more.

Almost one year after a California judge dismissed Apartment Investment & Management Company’s lawsuit against Airbnb, both companies have agreed to settle all of their disputes.

When Dell voted to buy back the VMware tracking stock and go public again this morning, you had to be wondering what exactly the strategy was behind these moves.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has floated the idea for an all-electric pickup truck numerous times in the two years.

There's lots of research going into tiny drones, but one of the many hard parts is keeping them in the air for any real amount of time.

The investment bank is said to be leading Uber's IPO, expected in the first quarter of 2019.

The question of how self-driving cars will interact and communicate with humans is one that has come up before, but the answer is still up in the air.

Google may have evaded the first few rounds of grill-a-tech-exec, but its CEO Sundar Pichai wound up in the hotseat on the Hill after all.

Ah, holiday board gaming. A roaring fire.. A glass of nog.. And a raging debate over whether the blue guy was next to the red square or vice versa.

We were promised jetpacks, but let's be honest, they're just plain unsafe.

Thought VR was too expensive and too bulky? Well, VRgineers is here with a giant $5,800 headset to prove that you lack perspective.

Apparently, a lot of people realize at the last minute that they don’t have either beer, wine, or liquor in their home when they need it.

Tesla is now seeking $167 million in a lawsuit against Martin Tripp, the former Tesla employee who CEO Elon Musk has referred to as a saboteur, CNBC first reported.

Members of the House Judiciary committee have today closely questioned Google’s CEO about the company’s intentions in China, following reports this summer it’s planning a controversial return to the market despite local censorship of Internet services.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai admitted today that YouTube needs to do better in dealing with conspiracy content on its site that can lead to real world violence.

At the heart of the lightweight augmented reality glasses that you’ve been promised is the a display engine that a handful of tech companies are racing to improve.

No one has any trouble tracking their steps today. But how can you make sure people know you're doing it? Ostentatiously checking your phone or watch every five minutes is a pain.

TechCrunch Startup Battlefield Africa just finished in Lagos, Nigeria, where 15 companies took the stage for the chance of winning the $25,000 equity-free grand prize, a trip for two to TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco 2019 and the coveted title of “Africa’s Favorite Startup.

It’s an ad duoply battle. Facebook is starting to test search ads in its search bar and Marketplace, directly competing with Google’s AdWords.

Access to healthy food is particularly difficult in food deserts — areas where more than 40 percent of households don’t have access to a car, are located more than half a mile away from a grocery store and have a median income of less than 185 percent of the federal poverty level for a family […].

Sidecar, an early player in the ride-hailing market, is suing Uber: "It was never a fair fight.

How do other dating apps compete with Tinder? By further distancing themselves from Tinder’s “hot-or-not” user interface design to focus on differentiating features – like conversation starters, commenting, and richer profiles.

Google today announced an update to GKE, the Google Kubernetes Engine, that brings integrated support for the Istio service mesh to service.

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), the open source home of projects like Kubernetes and Vitess, today announced that its technical committee has voted to bring a new project on board.

National Geographic and YouTube are launching a new series of virtual reality experiences starting today with a virtual exploration of the Okavango Delta in Botswana.

French startup Lydia announced a partnership with Banque Casino today for small credit lines.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai thinks Android users have a good understanding of the volume of data Google collects on them, when they agree to use the Android mobile operating system.

It’s KubeCon/CloudNativeCon this week, the world’s largest confab for all things cloud-native, containers, Kubernetes and DevOps.

Daimler plans to buy $23 billion worth of battery cells by 2030 as the maker of Mercedes-Benz vehicles and commercial trucks prepares to bring dozens of electric and hybrid vehicles to market.

The defining question of the 21st century is pretty simple: who owns what? Who owns the telecommunications infrastructure that powers our mobile devices? Who owns the OS that powers those devices? Who owns our data? Today, we see these intersecting arcs with two prominent tech leaders mired in legal and political processes.

Verizon, the telecoms giant that is the parent of Oath (and therefore owns TechCrunch), has been through the re-organizational ringer in recent quarters and today it announced the full financial effect of that process.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai has managed to avoid the public political grillings that have come for tech leaders at Facebook and Twitter this year.

Dell just announced that it has agreed to buy back the VMware tracking stock from the EMC acquisition.

Pitching app developers with a new way to convert app browsers into actual customers, AppOnboard has raised $15 million in a new round of funding, the company said.

Spotnist has made a living finding budget resources on cloud platforms and reselling them to developers at a deep discount over cloud vendor retail pricing.

Chatbots and other AI-based tools have firmly found footing in the world of customer service, used either to augment or completely replace the role of a human responding to questions and complaints, or (sometimes, annoyingly, at the same time as the previous two functions) sell more products to users.

Three dimensional modeling used to be hard. It used to require something at least as big as the Xbox Kinect to get really high quality scans you needed high-powered laser sensor systems.

“The screen is becoming the most important place in the world,” says InVision CEO and founder Clark Valberg .

Supermicro has sent a letter to its customers saying that it has found no evidence of malicious chips on its motherboards.

In the latest instalment of VC revolving doors, Carolina Brochado, a Partner at European venture capital firm Atomico, is joining Softbank’s Vision Fund.

A string of bugs when chained together created the perfect attack to gain access to someone’s Microsoft account — simply by tricking a user into clicking a link.

Apple’s mobile payment technology has finally launched in Germany, some four years after it debuted in the U.

Southeast Asia is a growing digital marketplace and increasingly a focus for startups across the world but there haven’t been many exits.

Vroom, an online platform for buying and selling cars, has raised $440 million to date.

Mary Meeker, the author of the Internet Trends report, has led the round for Plaid via Kleiner Perkin's growth fund.

First it was the notch, now the hole-punch has emerged as the latest tech for concealing selfie cameras whilst keeping our smartphones as free of bezel as possible to maximize the screen space.

There is no shortage of up-and-comers jostling for a spot in China’s massive ecommerce industry, and oftentimes they pick a niche market and present a novel business model different from the establishment of Alibaba or JD.

French VC firm Hardware Club just announced the final closing of its first fund.

French startup Molotov is slowly becoming the leading platform to stream TV in France.

At 9:30 AM local time, we kick off TechCrunch Startup Battlefield Africa, where 15 companies will take the stage, along with panels from industry investors, Main One, and speakers from Facebook (our partner on the event through the FB Start program).

Apple has filed an appeal to overturn a court decision that could ban iPhone sales in China, the company said on Monday, adding that all of its models remain available in its third-largest market.

Walmart is continuing its strategy of revamping its businesses in Asia after the U.

Less than a week before a Uber self-driving SUV prototype struck and killed a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona last March, a manager sent executives an email cautioning that its autonomous vehicle unit needed to “work on establishing a culture rooted in safety,” reports The Information.

China and the United States have been slapping each other with massive tariffs and more may come if the trade war continues to escalate, prompting some companies to move manufacturing out of China.

Google is bringing its Lens visual search feature to the iOS Google app, giving iPhone users a new way to search the web on mobile.

I’ve been thinking hard about the concept of sponsored content – you can find some of it on TechCrunch if you look hard enough and it appears almost everywhere else.

25 years ago, anyone old enough to navigate DOS was likely playing Doom every spare minute, assuming their parents weren't around.

If there was any doubt about YouTube’s power to influence children, look no further than this year’s list of the hottest holiday toys, based on Google shopping search data.

Softbank continues to invest in the future of transportation — this time in ParkJockey, a startup that has built a technology platform aimed monetizing parking lots.

A House Oversight Committee report out Monday has concluded that Equifax’s security practices and policies were sub-par and its systems were old and out-of-date, and bothering with basic security measures — like patching vulnerable systems — could’ve prevented its massive data breach last year.

The race to replace the mouse and keyboard has yielded a lot of weird tech, but as various hardware startups try to find the missing link between what we have now and some sort of embedded brain chip, we’re seeing some fascinating solutions surface.

On the heels of an employee-led protest against Google, a group of 35 Google employees is banding together to take it a step further and end the practice of forced arbitration across the entire tech industry.

A group of U. S.. tech giants, including Apple, Google and Microsoft, have collectively denounced the new so-called “anti-encryption” law passed by the Australian parliament last week.