Delivery Hero acquires foodpanda as Rocket Internet shuffles online takeout pack once again

 Rocket Internet has shuffled the online takeout pack of cards once again. This time the publicly-listed German ‘startup factory’ and investor is selling foodpanda to its much larger rival Delivery Hero, of which it also holds a significant stake. A move that should help fatten up Delivery Hero a little more for a long-rumoured planned IPO of its own. Terms of the acquisition… Read More

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Segment adds Google BigQuery to expand its customer data platform

 Segment helps businesses manage all their data from services like Google Analytics, Mixpanel and Salesforce — and send that data to a variety of destinations, whether it’s an attribution product or a data warehouse. The company announced yesterday that it’s expanding its offerings on by integrating with BigQuery, Google’s data warehousing service. This might seem like… Read More

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Verizon won’t push Samsung’s Note 7 bricking update

{rss:content:encoded} Verizon won’t push Samsung’s Note 7 bricking update http://ift.tt/2gJA88R http://ift.tt/2bb8dOm December 09, 2016 at 06:29PM  Early this morning Samsung announced plans to finally extinguish the on-going fire that is the Note 7 once and for all here in the States by way of a software update that won’t allow the troubled phone to charge at all. Apparently not everyone involved is on-board with the move. Verizon (the parent company to TechCrunch’s parent company) quickly issued a follow up statement, citing… Read More

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Gamer chat app Discord hits 25 million users, can now be used in developers’ own games

 Jason Citron, who previously founded and sold the early mobile social gaming network OpenFeint, returned to gaming startups with the launch of Discord in May 2015. This voice and text chat app for gamers – a challenger to incumbents like Skype and Teamspeak – has since grown to 25 million registered users, who are sending 100 million messages per day across its platform.… Read More

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Workplace by Facebook begins to take shape

 Workplace by Facebook has been in general release for just two months now, but it’s clear that Facebook has big plans for its enterprise social product. Just this week, at TechCrunch Disrupt in London, the company announced a new platform to integrate enterprise applications with Workplace, putting it in direct competition with Slack, the enterprise social darling of the moment. But… Read More

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Yahoo Answers makes its official mobile debut

 Yahoo Answers has officially launched on mobile. As TechCrunch reported last month, Yahoo’s experimental app code-named Yahoo Hive had been rebranded as Yahoo Answers Now – a move that indicated Yahoo’s plans to bring its desktop Q&A site to the App Store. However, at the time, the app still required an invite in order to test it out – that restriction… Read More

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Yahoo Answers makes its official mobile debut

{rss:content:encoded} Yahoo Answers makes its official mobile debut http://ift.tt/2hd9OYc http://ift.tt/2gfXplt December 09, 2016 at 04:52PM  Yahoo Answers has officially launched on mobile. As TechCrunch reported last month, Yahoo’s experimental app code-named Yahoo Hive had been rebranded as Yahoo Answers Now – a move that indicated Yahoo’s plans to bring its desktop Q&A site to the App Store. However, at the time, the app still required an invite in order to test it out – that restriction… Read More

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Facebook corrects more metrics affecting ad reach, streaming reactions, plus Like & Share counts

 Facebook today announced it’s correcting a few more issues with its metrics in areas like audience estimation for ads, live video reaction counts, and its Like and Share buttons. Though the fixes are referencing several of Facebook’s more high-profile products, the issues being addressed aren’t as significant as the ones Facebook identified earlier in 2016, when it… Read More

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Google is testing user ratings for movies and TV within search results

 Google is disrupting yet another industry by including light-weight services directly within search results. This time, Rotten Tomatoes and IMDb, with Google testing out movie ratings from within search itself. Google confirmed to Search Engine Land that the feature is currently just an experiment, and beyond that, the company has nothing to announce at this time. Unlike other movie and TV… Read More

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Fading anonymous social network Yik Yak is reportedly laying off most of its employees

 Yik Yak, the once universally recognized anonymous social network that virally took over college campuses back in 2014, is planning to lay off a “significant” number of employees, according to The Verge. The company is said to be retaining mostly engineers as it notified its team of about 50 employees earlier this morning. Yik Yak was founded as I started college in 2013. I… Read More

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Fading anonymous social network Yik Yak is reportedly laying off most of its employees

 Yik Yak, the once universally recognized anonymous social network that virally took over college campuses back in 2014, is planning to lay off a “significant” number of employees, according to The Verge. The company is said to be retaining mostly engineers as it notified its team of about 50 employees earlier this morning. Yik Yak was founded as I started college in 2013. I… Read More

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Sean Rad steps away from CEO role (again) to run Tinder’s new Swipe Ventures

 Today, Tinder is launching a new M&A branch of the company called Swipe Ventures, which will be led by Sean Rad. As part of the launch, Rad will step down as Tinder CEO and become Chairman of both Tinder and Swipe Ventures, with Match CEO and Chairman Greg Blatt swapping out as Tinder Chairman to become Tinder CEO. He will remain Chairman and CEO of Tinder parent company Match. Put more… Read More

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Sean Rad steps away from CEO role (again) to run Tinder’s new Swipe Ventures

 Today, Tinder is launching a new M&A branch of the company called Swipe Ventures, which will be led by Sean Rad. As part of the launch, Rad will step down as Tinder CEO and become Chairman of both Tinder and Swipe Ventures, with Match CEO and Chairman Greg Blatt swapping out as Tinder Chairman to become Tinder CEO. He will remain Chairman and CEO of Tinder parent company Match. Put more… Read More

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BuzzFeed hires Gilad Lotan as VP of data science

 BuzzFeed has a new vice president leading its data science team. Gilad Lotan has a long résumé in the field, having most recently served as chief data scientist at New York-based startup studio Betaworks, and before that working in data-related roles at SocialFlow, Microsoft and Endemol. Publisher Dao Nguyen told me that this is a new role at BuzzFeed — the closest equivalent being… Read More

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Apple Maps adds EV charging station data from ChargePoint

{rss:content:encoded} Apple Maps adds EV charging station data from ChargePoint http://ift.tt/2gpmx8R http://ift.tt/2h8hHLp December 08, 2016 at 09:40PM  Just in time for that cross country holiday trip, Apple’s bringing so key electric vehicle charging info to its ecosystem, courtesy of ChargePoint. The partnership brings location info for 30,000 charging stations, which will pop up in Maps as badges, along with available pricing and hours of operation. Apple’s AI assistant will, naturally, be getting in on the action, with the… Read More

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Sheryl Sandberg: “People don’t want to see hoaxes on Facebook”

 Today on “Today,” Sheryl Sandberg dismissed Facebook’s role in the 2016 presidential election. Still, she didn’t want you to forget that Facebook plays a relevant part in political and social movements, just not in a way that went on to influence the results of the most divisive election in modern American history. “People come to Facebook to share what matters… Read More

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BuzzFeed hires Gilad Lotan as VP of data science

 BuzzFeed has a new vice president leading its data science team. Gilad Lotan has a long résumé in the field, having most recently served as chief data scientist at New York-based startup studio Betaworks, and before that working in data-related roles at SocialFlow, Microsoft and Endemol. Publisher Dao Nguyen told me that this is a new role at BuzzFeed — the closest equivalent being… Read More

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Why edtech startups need to build for overlooked communities

 The education world has been transformed thanks to the power of technology. But not all communities have been privy to the benefits; low-income students are still shut out of the edtech revolution. The digital divide is no longer just about connectivity. Many edtech startups are not designed with the specific needs of low-income, under-connected kids in mind. That’s where nonprofits come in. Read More

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Facebook’s new tool lets anyone create custom profile frames

 Facebook is launching a series of new features to help people customize their photos and videos in the social network’s continuing battle with Snapchat, an app that put the camera, photos and video at the front-and-center of social interactions. Today, Facebook is unveiling a new tool that will allow anyone, including Facebook Page owners, to create custom profile frames for… Read More

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Molotov activates the cloud DVR feature and raises $23.3 million

 French startup Molotov launched five months ago, but a key feature had yet to go live. Molotov users can now bookmark TV shows and movies in the cloud so that they can watch them later. That’s not all, the startup has also raised $23.3 million (€22 million). I’ve already written quite a few words about Molotov, but it’s worth reiterating that it’s the best way to watch… Read More

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Joe Lonsdale pours $4.55M for alcohol IoT startup Nectar

 Nationally, bars today lose billions of dollars from improperly managed alcohol inventory. These losses add up quickly a result of oversized pours, spills and even theft. Nectar, a stealth connected device startup operating out of a Palo Alto dentists office (of all places), just locked down a $4.55 million seed funding round from the likes of Joe Lonsdale (8VC + Palantir), Lior Susan… Read More

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Facebook tests turning comment reels into message threads

 Comments on Facebook posts can get quite chatty, so Facebook is trying a new way to help you keep up. Some users now see comment reels appearing as persistently visible chat windows that pop up on their desktop versions of the site, just like traditional message threads.  TechCrunch reader Russell Smith sent us this screenshot. Facebook confirmed to us this is a new feature test on desktop for… Read More

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