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I’ll be heading back to Europe in December to run a pitch-off in Wroclaw and Warsaw, Poland. Are you ready? The Wrocwal event, called In-Ference, is happening on December 17 and you can submit to pitch here. The team will notify you if you have been chosen to pitch. The winner will receive a table at […]... →

Walgreens is gearing up for a battle with Amazon. The country’s second largest pharmacy chain announced this week that it it’s teaming up with FedEx to offer quick drug delivery. Through Walgreens Express, patients will be able to get prescriptions delivered to their home as quickly as the next day. Customers will get a text […]... →

Яндекс выводит из беты турбо-страницы Директа — они быстрее загружаются на смартфонах, помогают снизить отказы и улучшить конверсионность. Теперь Турбо-страницы можно создавать для графических и видеообъявлений и добавлять к медийным кампаниям в Директе. В новом товарном шаблоне можно указывать и редактировать цены на товары в рублях или евро. Те, кто привлекает клиентов с помощью акций и распродаж, могут в шаблоне указать старую цену рядом с новой — Директ автоматически посчитает […] Сообщение Турбо-стран... →

A problem with the software in Ericsson equipment is causing outages across the world including O2 users in Great Britain and Softbank users in Japan, according to a report in the Financial Times earlier today. Ericsson took blame for the outage in a press release. It apparently involves faulty software on certain Ericsson equipment used […]... →

Contentful, a Berlin- and San Francisco-based startup that provides content management infrastructure for companies like Spotify, Nike, Lyft and others, today announced that it has raised a $33.5 million Series D funding round led by Sapphire Ventures, with participation from OMERS Ventures and Salesforce Ventures, as well as existing investors General Catalyst, Benchmark, Balderton Capital and Hercules. In […]... →

Want to run your own home shopping network? Facebook is now testing a Live video feature for merchants that lets them demo and describe their items for viewers. Customers can screenshot something they want to buy and use Messenger to send it to the seller, who can then request payment right through the chat app. […]... →

After last year’s stellar turn out of almost 1,000 Silicon Valley shakers and movers at our inaugural Winter Party, TechCrunch is returning with the 2nd Annual Winter Party in San Francisco on February 8. The party will feature tasty cocktails and canapés, party games and activities, plenty of photo ops, giveaways and some fun surprises. […]... →

Firefly, a startup that allows rideshare drivers to make money through digital advertising, is officially launching today. It’s also announced that it has raised $21.5 million in seed funding. The idea of sticking advertising on a cab isn’t new, but Firefly offers drivers what it calls a “digital smart screen,” allowing advertisers to run targeted, […]... →

The rumors were true: Microsoft Edge is moving to the open-source Chromium platform, the same platform that powers Google’s Chrome browser. And once that is done, Microsoft is bringing Edge to macOS, too. In addition, Microsoft is decoupling Edge from the Windows update process to offer a faster update cadence — and with that, it’ll […]... →

Last month, Pandora announced it would soon be bringing its “Genome” technology to a new space outside of music: it would leverage a similar classification system to make podcast recommendations, too. Initially, the feature was only available to select users on mobile devices, ahead of a broader public launch. Today, Pandora says its Podcast Genome […]... →

Mogu, a Tencent-backed service that offers fashion content and products to young women, has joined a string of Chinese tech companies pressing ahead to sell their shares through initial public offerings in the US before the year-end. Mogu priced its sale at $14 per share on Wednesday, toward the lower end of a marketed range. […]... →

Around 40 partners of venture capital firms as well as limited partners came to Paris to talk about tech in France, from Andreessen Horowitz to Greylock Partners, Khosla Ventures and more. The two-day roadshow took place at Station F, the Vision Institute, iBionext and the Elysée Palace. I grew up in France and it always […]... →

First, background checks at startups, then Huawei’s finance chief is arrested, SoftBank’s IPO is subscribed, and I am about to record our next edition of TechCrunch Equity. It’s Thursday, December 6, 2018. TechCrunch is experimenting with new content forms. This is a rough draft of something new – provide your feedback directly to the author […]... →

Рейтинг Рунета опубликовал Рейтинг разработчиков дизайна мобильных приложений-2018. В этом году в него  впервые вошло сразу 20 новых компаний, одна из которых, Trinity Digital, попала сразу в ТОП-10. Существенно улучшить предыдущие позиции удалось King Bird Studio (8 строчек), AGIMA.mobile (7 строчек) и Heads and Hands (6 строчек). ТОП-10 рейтинга: REDMADROBOT (Москва)Touch Instinct (Санкт-Петербург)King Bird Studio […] Сообщение Опубликован Рейтинг разработчиков дизайна мобильных приложений-2018 появились ... →

If you’ve got an Echo device at home, you’ve almost certainly played a few rounds of “stump Alexa,” asking Amazon’s assistant increasingly arcane questions in an attempt to elicit some baffled response. Likely you found it was all that difficult to confuse the AI. After all, Amazon doesn’t have the advantage of Google’s deep Knowledge […]... →

Movies Anywhere, the Disney-led service movie service operated in partnership Universal, WB, Sony Pictures and 20th Century Fox, is adding its first pay TV partner. Starting today, Comcast Xfinity TV customers will be able to sync their accounts with Movies Anywhere in order to access their movie purchases from the Xfinity Digital Store alongside those […]... →

Qualcomm’s big Snapdragon Summit has become yet another battleground for smartphone oneupmanship, as companies duke it out around the latest flagship chips. OnePlus, which has carved out a name for itself by producing high quality handsets on a budget, clearly intended to use the Maui-based event to establish itself among innovation leaders in the category. […]... →

В партнерском интерфейсе появилась упрощенная версия формы создания RTB-блока в одном окне. Создать RTB-блок теперь можно всего за пять кликов: Выбрать из списка площадку.Указать произвольное название RTB-блока — оно поможет быстро находить нужный блок в общем списке.Выбрать версию сайта: мобильную или десктопную.Выбрать, как размещать объявления внутри рекламного блока: вертикально или горизонтально.Указать максимальное количество объявлений, которое может показываться в вашем RTB-блоке, и нажмите «Создать... →

Fire TV Cube owners can now use their media streaming device to broadcast announcements around the home, similar to a one-way intercom. Amazon says it’s launching a feature called “Alexa Announcements,” which allows customers to speak to Alexa on the Fire TV Cube, then have their message announced in their own voice to all other […]... →

The Linux Foundation’s OpenChain project helps company find ways to comply with open source licensing requirements. Today at the Open Compliance Summit in Yokohama, Japan it announced Google, Facebook and Uber have joined the project as platinum members. As platinum members the three companies become part of the governing board. Shane Coughlan, OpenChain General Manager […]... →