Alphabet’s Verily scores FDA clearance for its ECG monitor
Big week for Google wearable news — which, honestly, is not a phrase I expected to write in 2019. But a day after the company announced an agreement to purchase… Read more »
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Veteran Googler heads to Lyft to lead 1,000-plus person engineering team
Eisar Lipkovitz, a veteran Google executive who most recently led the video and display advertising team there, is leaving the company to head up engineering efforts at Lyft . As… Read more »
Google starts pulling unvetted Android apps that access call logs and SMS messages
Google is removing apps from Google Play that request permission to access call logs and SMS text message data but haven’t been manually vetted by Google staff. The search and mobile… Read more »
Momo, Vietnam’s top payment app, lands big Series C investment led by Warburg Pincus
Fintech in Southeast Asia continues to pique the attention of global investors. Alibaba, Tencent and others have jumped into the region and deployed hundreds of millions of dollars, and now Warburg… Read more »
Former Facebook engineer picks up $15M for AI platform Spell
In 2016, Serkan Piantino packed up his desk at Facebook with hopes to move on to something new. The former Director of Engineering for Faceboook AI Research had every intention… Read more »
Google raises its G Suite prices
Google today announced that it is raising the price of its G Suite subscriptions for the first time. In the U.S., the prices of G Suite Basic and G Suite… Read more »
Nvidia’s T4 GPUs are now available in beta on Google Cloud
Google Cloud today announced that Nvidia’s Turing-based Tesla T4 data center GPUs are now available in beta in its data centers in Brazil, India, Netherlands, Singapore, Tokyo and the United States. Google… Read more »
Grab moves to offer digital insurance services in Southeast Asia
Grab is Southeast Asia’s top ride-hailing firm, thanks in no small part to its acquisition of Uber’s local business last year, but the company also houses an ambitious fintech arm,… Read more »
Google Docs, Sheets, Slides and Sites on the web are going Material Design
Google today announced that it has started the long-expected rollout of its Material Design update for Google Docs, Sheets, Slides and Sites, after first testing this update to the G… Read more »
Apple HomePod comes to China at $400 amid iPhone sales woes
Apple is finally launching HomePod in China, but the timing is tricky as the premium device will have to wrestle with local competitors and a slowing economy. The firm said over… Read more »
Why Silicon Valley needs more visas
Henrique Dubugras Contributor Share on Twitter Henrique Dubugras is the founder Brex, the billion-dollar corporate credit provider for startups. More posts by this contributor Lessons from building Brex into a… Read more »
Britons make 170,000 antisemitic Google searches a year, study finds
Research shows 10% of these searches involve violent phrases such as ‘Jews must die’ At least 170,000 antisemitic Google searches are made in the UK every year, with 10% of… Read more »
Shareholder suit alleges Google covered up its sexual harassment problems with big payouts
Months after an earth-shattering New York Times investigation exposed Google parent company Alphabet’s $90 million payout to Android co-founder Andy Rubin, despite the accusations of sexual misconduct made against him,… Read more »
LinkedIn now requires phone number verification for all users in China
LinkedIn’s China site looks and functions just like LinkedIn everywhere else, except now it asks users in the country to verify their identities through phone numbers. The American company is… Read more »
Go-Jek’s Southeast Asia expansion runs into a roadblock in the Philippines
Southeast Asian ride-hailing challenger Go-Jek has expanded into three new markets as it bids to expand beyond its native Indonesia, but it is having major issues getting into a fourth…. Read more »
Google Assistant lock screen access is coming to more Android devices
Here’s a quick tidbit buried beneath today’s deluge of Google Assistant news (not to mention the bizarre waking nightmare that is the CES Small World ride). The company announced today… Read more »
Apple takes HUGE dig at Google and Amazon with giant data privacy billboard at CES 2019
APPLE has taken a huge swipe at some of its biggest rivals with a cheeky billboard at the CES 2019 conference in Las Vegas. The Cupertino firm has erected an… Read more »
Even KitchenAid has a Google smart display
I mean, this makes sense, I guess. The kitchen has long been a case use manufacturers have pointed for these kinds of smart screens. So why wouldn’t KitchenAid/Whirlpool want in… Read more »
Apple’s increasingly tricky international trade-offs
Far from Apple’s troubles in emerging markets and China, the company is attracting the ire of what should really be a core supporter demographic naturally aligned with the pro-privacy stance… Read more »
The top smartphone trends to watch in 2019
This was a bad year for the smartphone. For the first time, its seemingly unstoppable growth began to slow. Things started off on a bad note in February, when Gartner… Read more »
Grab is messing up the world’s largest mapping community’s data in Southeast Asia
Grab, Southeast Asia’s top ride-hailing company, has hit a roadblock in its efforts to improve its mapping and routing service after running into trouble with OpenStreetMap, the world’s largest collaborative… Read more »
Report: Pinterest may go public as soon as April
Pinterest may follow Lyft and Uber to the public markets in the first half of 2019, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. The visual search engine and… Read more »
The Google Assistant can now alert you of potential flight delays
If you’re an experienced traveler, you know that plenty of your delays are due to your plane being stuck somewhere else or because the weather at your local or arrival… Read more »
TNB Aura closes $22.7M fund to bring PE-style investing to Southeast Asia’s startups
TNB Aura, a recent arrival to Southeast Asia’s VC scene, announced today that it has closed a maiden fund at SG$31.1million, or around US$22.65 million, to bring a more private equity-like… Read more »
Google’s year in search 2018: the World Cup, Fortnite GIFs and Bitcoin
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. It’s a reckoning, or computation, on… Read more »
After losing half its value, Nvidia faces reckoning
Nvidia is a company that has reached the highest highs and the lowest lows, all in the span of a couple of weeks. TechCrunch is experimenting with new content forms…. Read more »
Google CEO won’t rule out relaunching in China
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… Read more »
Google CEO admits company must better address the spread of conspiracy theories on YouTube
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. During his testimony on… Read more »
Google Lens arrives in iOS search app
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. By tapping on the Google… Read more »
Google’s search data shows YouTube’s influence over this season’s hottest toys
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. According… Read more »