Meet Facebook’s latest fake
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, a 35-year-old billionaire who keeps refusing to sit in front of international parliamentarians to answer questions about his ad business’ impact on democracy and human rights… Read more »
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YouTube CEO says it ‘missed the mark’ with verification overhaul
Less than 24 hours after YouTube announced that it would be changing its creator verification process, CEO Susan Wojcicki admitted that the news hasn’t gone over very well. “To our… Read more »
Google is investing $3.3B to build clean data centers in Europe
Google announced today that it was investing 3 billion euro (approximately $3.3 billion USD) to expand its data center presence in Europe. What’s more, the company pledged the data centers… Read more »
The Mate 30 is a moment of truth for Huawei
We’ve known this day would come for a long time now. Over the past several months, however, it feels like it has arrived in slow motion. Seemingly legitimate concerns over… Read more »
Wing will test drone delivery in the US with Walgreens and FedEx
Wing, the drone delivery company that started its life within the Google X lab before spinning out into its own thing under the Alphabet umbrella, is prepping for takeoff. The… Read more »
YouTube overhauls its problematic verification program
YouTube’s verification program is getting a massive overhaul, the company announced today, which will likely result in a number of less prominent creators losing their verification status. Previously, YouTube allowed… Read more »
Private search engine Qwant’s new CEO is Mozilla Europe veteran Tristan Nitot
French startup Qwant, whose non-tracking search engine has been gaining traction in its home market as a privacy-respecting alternative to Google, has made a change to its senior leadership team… Read more »
How to profit from valuable peer referrals hiding in Slack
Colin Bendell Contributor Share on Twitter Colin is Senior Director of Analytics and Strategy for Cloudinary, the co co-author of High Performance Images, and passionate about data, web performance and… Read more »
The portrait of an avatar as a young artist
Alice Lloyd George Contributor Share on Twitter Alice Lloyd George is an early stage investor based in New York and the host of Flux, a series of podcast conversations with… Read more »
Google Fi gets an unlimited plan
For the longest time, Google Fi didn’t play the unlimited calls, text and data game and instead focused on offering pretty affordable and flexible plans with a price cap of… Read more »
How to get people to open your emails
Julian Shapiro Contributor Share on Twitter Julian Shapiro is the founder of BellCurve.com, a growth marketing agency that trains you to become a marketing professional. He also writes at Julian.com…. Read more »
How to work with top influencers and avoid ad blockers
Julian Shapiro Contributor Share on Twitter Julian Shapiro is the founder of BellCurve.com, a growth marketing agency that trains you to become a marketing professional. He also writes at Julian.com…. Read more »
Web feature developers told to dial up attention on privacy and security
Web feature developers are being warned to step up attention to privacy and security as they design contributions. Writing in a blog post about “evolving threats” to Internet users’ privacy… Read more »
Paytm’s annual loss doubles to $549M
Running a payments business in India is not cheap. Just ask Paytm . One of India’s largest payment companies reported a net loss of Rs 3959 crore ($549 million) for… Read more »
Forty-nine states and the District of Columbia are pushing an antitrust investigation against Google
Fifty attorneys general are pushing forward with an antitrust investigation against Google, led by the Texas state Attorney General Ken Paxton. In an announcement on the steps of the U.S…. Read more »
Google Nest Hub Max review
There were two standout features I really appreciated off the bat about the original Nest (nee Google Home) Hub: its compact size and its lack of camera. The new Nest… Read more »
As college football attendance slumps, new ways to ticket may hold an answer
Jesse Lawrence Contributor Jesse Lawrence has been in media and tech for 20 years. Prior to TicketIQ, he worked at MediaMath and IAC. He started his career as a writer…. Read more »
Looking to become the meme-based social network of the gaming world Medal.tv raises $9 million
When Medal.tv first launched on the scene, the company was an upstart trying to be the social network for the gaming generation. Since its debut in February, the clipping and… Read more »
Top VCs on the changing landscape for enterprise startups
Yesterday at TechCrunch’s Enterprise event in San Francisco, we sat down with three venture capitalists who spend a lot of their time thinking about enterprise startups. We wanted to ask… Read more »
Tile teams up with Google to bring its lost item finding technology to Google Assistant
As rumors swirl about Apple’s plans to launch a Tile competitor, Tile today announced it’s teaming up with Google to make it easier for users to locate their lost items… Read more »
Google launches an open-source version of its differential privacy library
Google today released an open-source version of the differential privacy library it uses to power some of its own core products. Developers will be able to take this library and… Read more »
Reps from DHS, the FBI and the ODNI met with tech companies at Facebook to talk election security
Representatives from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Department of Homeland Security met with counterparts at tech companies including Facebook, Google,… Read more »
How Zhihu’s become one of China’s biggest hubs for experts
Zhihu may not be as well known outside of China as WeChat or ByteDance’s Douyin, but over the past eight years, it has cultivated a reputation for being one of… Read more »
Google releases Android 10
Android 10 is now available, assuming you have a phone that already supports Google’s latest version of its mobile operating system. For now, that’s mostly Google’s own Pixel phones, though… Read more »
13 ways to screw over your internet provider
Internet providers are real bastards: they have captive audiences whom they squeeze for every last penny while they fight against regulation like net neutrality and donate immense amounts of money… Read more »
Sources say China used iPhone hacks to target Uyghur Muslims
A number of malicious websites used to hack into iPhones over a two-year period were targeting Uyghur Muslims, TechCrunch has learned. Sources familiar with the matter said the websites were… Read more »
Google lets David Drummond do the talking
Anyone wondering if Alphabet might reprimand its chief legal officer, David Drummond, for a long-ago extramarital, inter-office affair that continues to be a distraction to the company, the answer seems… Read more »
‘The Operators’: Finance in startups with Duda CFO Stephanie Hsiung and Zeus Living’s Head of Finance Mark Kang
Tim Hsia & Neil Devani Contributor Share on Twitter Tim Hsia is the CEO of Media Mobilize and a Venture Partner at Digital Garage. Neil Devani is an angel investor… Read more »
The Void’s Curtis Hickman on scaling, creative IP and the future of VR experiences
What can you do with virtual reality when you have complete control of the physical space around the player? How “real” can virtual reality become? That’s the core concept behind… Read more »
Udacity names former LendingTree executive to CEO post
Online education startup Udacity has hired former LendingTree executive Gabriel Dalporto as its new CEO, an appointment that follows months of layoffs and a restructuring directed by the company’s co-founder… Read more »