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Facebook is finally rolling out its “how long do I spend on Facebook” dashboard
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15 weeks after Facebook announced its “Your Time On Facebook” tool that counts how many minutes you spend on the app, the feature is finally rolling out around the world. Designed to help you manage your social networking, the dashboard reveals how...
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With investors knocking, PlayVS opens the door to a $30M Series B
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PlayVS, the company bringing esports infrastructure to high schools across the country, has today announced the close of a $30.5 million Series B financing. The round was led by Elysian Park Ventures, the investment arm of the L.A. Dodgers, with...
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Tumblr booted from App Store due to child porn
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Tumblr’s app was booted out of the iOS App Store a few days ago due to an issue with child pornography getting its way past the app’s filtering technology, according to a report from CNET, which Tumblr then confirmed. The app’s disappearance was...
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The WT2 in-ear translator arrives in January, with real-time feedback coming soon
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Timekettle was eager to show us the progress it’s made on the WT2 since it first showed us its wearable translation device at TechCrunch Shenzhen, this time last year. Unlike their 3D printed state at last year’s event, the crowdfunded earpieces are...
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TechCrunch The WT2 in-ear translator arrives in January, with real-time feedback coming soon by 16h
Move over Le Creuset? A new cookware startup founded by and for millennials is getting down to business
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Sometimes, it’s hard to imagine a product or industry that a new e-commerce startup hasn’t tried to remake already, from slippers to mattresses, from luggage to lipstick. Yet two childhood friends in New York have seemingly struck on a fresh idea:...
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TechCrunch Move over Le Creuset? A new cookware startup founded by and for millennials is getting down to business by 24h
Today in brighter crypto news: SEC says tokens are securities
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Crypto news got a little boost last week after a dark month of crashes, stablecoins, and birthdays. The SEC ruled that two ICO issuers, CarrierEQ Inc. and Paragon Coin Inc., were in fact selling securities instead of so-called utility tokens. “Both...
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TechCrunch Today in brighter crypto news: SEC says tokens are securities by 24h
Genies brings lifelike avatars to other apps with $10M from celebrities
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Genies is emerging as the top competitor to Snapchat’s wildly popular Bitmoji as Facebook, Apple, and Google have been slow to get serious about personalized avatars. Over one million people have customized dozens of traits to build a realistic...
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TechCrunch Genies lands $10 from a network of celebrities including A$AP Rocky, Tony Robbins and Carmelo Anthony 26h
Instagram kills off fake followers, threatens accounts that keep using apps to get them
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Instagram is fighting back against automated apps people use to leave spammy comments or follow then unfollow others in hopes of growing their audience. Today Instagram is removing inauthentic follows, Likes, and comments that violate its policies...
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TechCrunch Instagram kills off fake followers, threatens accounts that keep using apps to get them by 27h
Google report: Southeast Asia’s digital economy to triple to $240 billion by 2025
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It may sit in the shade of China and India, but tech has real growth potential in Southeast Asia. Home to a cumulative 650 million people, the region’s digital economy is forecast to triple in size and reach $240 billion over the next seven years,...
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TechCrunch Google report: Southeast Asia’s digital economy to triple to $240 billion by 2025 by 41h
VOI Technology, the e-scooter startup from Sweden, raises $50M led by Balderton Capital
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VOI Technology, an e-scooter startup headquartered in Sweden but with pan-European ambitions, has raised $50 million in Series A funding, confirming our earlier scoop. As I previously reported, London-based venture capital firm Balderton Capital has...
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TechCrunch VOI Technology, the e-scooter startup from Sweden, raises $50M led by Balderton Capital by 46h
YouTube quietly added free, ad-supported movies to its site
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YouTube quietly added around 100 ad-supported Hollywood movies to its site, beginning last month, according to a new report from AdAge. The titles include a mix of classics like “Rocky” and “The Terminator,” as well as other family fare like...
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TechCrunch You can now watch "Rocky," "The Terminator," "Legally Blonde" and more for free on YouTube 3d
WhatsApp could wreck Snapchat again by copying ephemeral messaging
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WhatsApp already ruined Snapchat’s growth once. WhatsApp Status, its clone of Snapchat Stories, now has 450 million daily active users compared to Snapchat’s 188 million. That’s despite its 24-hour disappearing slideshows missing tons of features...
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The Boring Company goes brick-and-mortar with The Brick Store
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Elon Musk has shot out some crazy, unbelievable tweets over the last year, but he wasn’t joking about the bricks. Musk has started a company called The Brick Store LLC to produce and sell bricks, according to public documents obtained by TechCrunch....
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Stoop aims to improve your news diet with an easy way to find and read newsletters
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Stoop is looking to provide readers with what CEO Tim Raybould described as “a healthier information diet.” To do that, it’s launched an iOS and Android app where you can browse through different newsletters based on category, and when you find one...
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Uber’s financials, Qualtric’s $8B exit and what’s going on at WeWork
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Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week we had the excellent Connie Loizos on the air, we had Danny Crichton on the horn from New York, I was in the...
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Musca is the winner of TechCrunch Battlefield Tokyo 2018
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TechCrunch is in the heart of Japan and we’ve been hearing from some of Tokyo’s brightest entrepreneurs competing to win the Battlefield startup competition here. We’ve whittled down the group of 20 startups that have presented onstage for our...
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TechCrunch Musca is the winner of TechCrunch Battlefield Tokyo 2018 by 4d
Hong Kong is adding QR code payments to its subway stations
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A new dispatch from our ‘QR Codes Are Very Much Alive In Asia’ reporting program: Hong Kong’s subway system will soon allow its commuters to pay by scanning QR codes thanks to a deal with Alibaba that was announced this week. The partnership — which...
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TechCrunch Hong Kong is adding QR code payments to its subway stations by 5d
Sheryl Sandberg claims she didn’t know Facebook hired agency behind ‘abhorrent’ anti-Soros campaign
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Sheryl Sandberg has denied that she obstructed early investigations into election meddling and claimed that she was unaware Facebook was involved with an agency that ran “abhorrent” anti-Semitic campaigns that targeted George Soros among others....
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TechCrunch Sheryl Sandberg claims she didn’t know Facebook hired agency behind ‘abhorrent’ anti-Soros campaign by 5d
Citrix pays $200M to acquire Sapho, which connects legacy software with ‘micro apps’
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As large organizations grapple with adopting modern work practices without throwing out all of their legacy software, a company that works with them is making an acquisition that it hopes will help with that process. Citrix today is announcing that...
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TechCrunch Citrix pays $200M to acquire Sapho, which connects legacy software with ‘micro apps’ by 5d
Meet Uber’s newly promoted Chief Product Officer, Manik Gupta
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Manik Gupta got his first taste of solving logistics nightmares when fresh out of college, he was delivering Palm Pilots around Singapore. He’d started a precursor to Groupon called BuyItTogether. “We were a full stack marketplace where we were also...
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