California passes law that bans default passwords in connected devices

TechCrunch Good news! California has passed a law banning default passwords like “admin,” “123456,” and the old classic “password” in all ...

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Former Formation 8 GP Shirish Sathaye joins Cervin Ventures

TechCrunch Longtime venture capitalist Shirish Sathaye has quietly joined early-stage investor Cervin Ventures as a general partner. Mos...

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Bose hearing aid gets FDA approval

TechCrunch For the 37.5 million adults who have trouble hearing without a hearing aid, Bose has a new product for you. The U.S. Food and D...

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The comic inspired by the podcast inspired by the comic

TechCrunch It’s 2018, and pop culture is one giant ouroboros. Exhibit A.: Wolverine: The Long Night , the new comic miniseries inspired by ...

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Search company Elastic pops over 90% on NYSE after raising $252M at a $2.5B market cap in its IPO

TechCrunch When many consumers think of search, they think of Google, but under the hood of hundreds of businesses and other organizations,...

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Study says the US is quickly losing its entrepreneurial edge

TechCrunch Photographer: Daro Sulakauri/Bloomberg According to a new study conducted by the Center for American Entrepreneurship and N...

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Gillmor Gang: Sync or Swim

TechCrunch The Gillmor Gang — Frank Radice, Keith Teare, Michael Markman, Denis Pombriant, and Steve Gillmor . Recorded live Sunday, ...

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African financial technology startups move beyond payment services

TechCrunch Jake Bright Contributor Jake Bright is a writer and author in New York City. He is co-author of The Next Africa . More po...

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Magic Leap buys mesh-computing startup Computes

TechCrunch Magic Leap has announced that they’re acquiring Computes, a decentralized mesh computing startup. Terms of the deal weren’t disc...

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Scaleway adds object storage

TechCrunch Cloud hosting company Scaleway is launching object storage in public beta. The company uses an Amazon S3-compatible API, which...

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Salesforce acquires Rebel, maker of ‘interactive’ email services, to expand its Marketing Cloud

TechCrunch Salesforce’s Marketing and Commerce Cloud is the company’s smallest division today, so to help beef it up, the company is makin...

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YouTube TV’s DVR now lets you fast-forward through ads on more major channels

TechCrunch Since its launch, one of the top  complaints about YouTube’s live TV streaming service, YouTube TV, was that its DVR feature w...

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Chinese investment into computer vision technology and AR surges as U.S. funding dries up

TechCrunch Tim Merel Contributor Tim Merel is managing director of Digi-Capital . More posts by this contributor The Reality Ecosys...

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Most iOS devices now run iOS 12 according to Mixpanel’s data

TechCrunch Analytics company Mixpanel is currently tracking the install base of iOS 12. And the latest version of iOS is quite popular as...

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Deliverr raises $7M to help e-commerce businesses compete with Amazon Prime

TechCrunch When Amazon rolled out its membership-based two-day shipping service in 2005, e-commerce and customer expectations around fulfi...

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Spotify Podcast submissions are open to all

TechCrunch Statistically speaking, there are roughly five podcasts for every human on the face of the Earth. And now they all finally have ...

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Amazon’s revamped Alexa app makes it easier to manage your smart home

TechCrunch Amazon’s Alexa app has just been given a major visual overhaul, largely focused on helping users set up and control their smart...

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Elon’s sick burn, Coinbase funding rumors, and VC hiring trends

TechCrunch Hello and welcome back to  Equity , TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headli...

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Siilo injects $5.1M to try to transplant WhatsApp use in hospitals

TechCrunch Consumer messaging apps like WhatsApp are not only insanely popular for chatting with friends but have pushed deep into the wor...

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Rejected journalist visa sparks press freedom fears in Hong Kong

TechCrunch There’s concern for the freedom of the press in Hong Kong after the government declined to renew the visa of a veteran Financial...

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