- A Chinese streaming service will reportedly pay $700M to broadcast the English Premier League
Chinese money is set to pour into the English Premiership football league after PPTV, an online streaming platform in China, agreed to a three-year deal to broadcast matches between 2019-2022. Read More - Fresh from raising $175M, Indian chat app Hike clones Snapchat
In its first act since raising $175 million from Chinese internet giant Tencent in August, India-based messaging app Hike has become the latest to clone Snapchat. Read More - Amazon Prime Video is finally going global to give Netflix some serious competition
- Crunch Report | Tesla Acquisition of SolarCity Approved
- Apple addresses ‘Touch Disease’ with reduced cost repair for iPhone 6 Plus
- Confirmed: DraftKings and FanDuel are merging into one company
After months of speculations and rumors that the deal was all but closed, we finally have confirmation that DraftKings and FanDuel will merge into one company. The move is being called a “strategic merger of equals.” While the company isn’t yet announcing how the combined organization will be struc... - This weekend, Alexa will tell you what’s on sale
“Alexa, order a Star Wars robot” is an undeniably awesome thing to say to your helpful home AI assistant. And for this weekend, at least, it’ll actually mean something — and get you $30 off of one of those Sphero BB-8 robots in the process. In Amazon’s tireless quest to take all the pain points out... - Apple adds former Wall Street Journal editor to its China PR team
- French IoT startup Sigfox confirms €150M Series E at €600M valuation
- Telemedicine company Syounika Online snags top prize at TechCrunch Tokyo
- Three UK suffers major data breach via compromised employee login
- Report: Apple asked manufacturing partners to explore making iPhones in the U.S.
- Female founders, apply now for Include Office Hours with Accel
- These are the TechCrunch Tokyo 2016 pitch competition winners
- Seen enough? Here’s how to get the SEC’s attention
McKessy left the agency in late July to join the Washington office of the whistleblower law firm Phillips & Cohen. He was in San Francisco this week, however, and we sat down with him to discuss a range of things, including how often the agency hears from the startup world, whether the SEC is l... - Japanese unicorn Mercari is gunning for eBay’s crown
After raising a $75 million investment at a $1 billion valuation earlier this year, Mercari announced it has seen more than 20 million app downloads in the U.S. The company started a North American hiring binge earlier this year and is aiming to double its staff in the U.S over the next 12 months. ... - 500 Startups ditches the ‘accelerator’ brand as it looks to differentiate
- Here’s the 19th batch of 500 Startups companies
- McDonald’s releases a VR video to show what it’s like eating at a McDonald’s
- BMW and Baidu’s self-driving car partnership has reportedly run out of gas
- Sesame Street’s VC fund makes its first investment in tutoring app Yup
- Sony’s Xperia Ear wearable voice assistant will be available in December for $200
- Google reverses its ‘digital death sentence’ for Pixel phone resellers
- This security camera was infected by malware 98 seconds after it was plugged in
Here’s an object lesson on the poor state of the so-called Internet of Things: Robert Stephens plugged a Wi-Fi-connected security camera into his network and it was compromised in… 98 seconds. Read More - BuzzFeed authorizes $200 million flat round
A Delaware filing has confirmed that BuzzFeed authorized $200 million in Series G financing. At $45.04, this is the same share price as their round last year, which valued the digital media company at $1.5 billion. Recode reported last month that NBCUniversal was talking about making another invest... - Debug Politics says it’s time for the tech industry to help solve political problems
- Razer’s Blade 14 successfully merges mobile gaming with slick hardware
- App abandoment is on the rise as consumers stick to the apps they know
- Airspace Systems’ ‘Interceptor’ can catch high-speed drones all by itself
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- Pokémon Sun and Moon break 3DS records with 10M units shipped globally
- Listen makes phone numbers smarter with auto-responders, muting, reminders and more
- Watch Tesla Model S P85D’s instant speed avoid a potential rear-end collision
Tesla’s focusing on its work on autonomous driving as a huge potential gain for driver safety, but a video from a Tesla Model S P85D shows that some current features not related to self-driving are actually already helping prevent accidents. Tesla owner Jason Hughes captured a narrow miss in his ca... - Inside Google Shop, where Google is reinventing how it sells devices
This fall saw Google introduce its Pixels, the Chromecast Ultra and the Daydream View VR headset, and to help sell those devices and show customers what they can do, the company is launching a store-within-a-store debuting in North America at select Best Buy locations in Canada. When it launched th... - Big data can’t bring objectivity to a subjective world
- Facebook authorizes a $6B stock buyback
- Hands-on with Play-Doh Touch, the app that brings kids’ creations to life
- Weekly Roundup: Facebook’s fake news, MacBook Pro reviewed, first human CRISPR-ed
- Running with the Apple Watch Nike+
- Cogito closes $15M Series B to improve customer support with science
- Conan O’Brien tries VR and things get a bit scandalous
- The tech that will feed the world
Twenty years from now, the most important tool for putting food on your table won’t be a harvester, combine or a plow. It will be a piece of software. Agriculture is in the process of transitioning into a fully high-tech enterprise. This is a long-overdue revolution in the way things have been done... - So you think you elected an autocrat
Welp. I’m sorry to hear that. Whether you are Venezuelan, Zimbabwean, Russian, Turkish, or American; whether your democratic process has been fatally compromised, or your fellow citizens have knowingly voted in a monster; indeed, even whether you’re right or wrong — I feel your pain. But for what i... - Crunch Report | FanDuel and DraftKings Merge
- How the cloud, infused with analytic insights, impacts athletes and sports fans
- Paint 3D is now a part of the Microsoft’s Creators Update test build
- FilmStruck is a streaming service for lovers of art-house films and foreign classics
- Here’s Intel’s abandoned wearable, the Basis Ruby
- Intel is laying off a major portion of its wearables group
- Hyperloop One has settled the lawsuit with former co-founder Brogan BamBrogan
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