Uber Eats is launching two autonomous delivery pilots in Los Angeles on Monday with Serve Robotics, a robotic sidewalk delivery startup, and Motional, an autonomous vehicle technology company. The new […]
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Back to news homeThis Week in Apps: Google I/O wraps, a new ARCore API, Twitter deal drama
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues […]
Twitter is testing a new ‘Liked by Author’ label for tweets
Twitter is testing a new “Liked by Author” label that appears when the creator of a tweet likes your reply. A reporter on the TechCrunch team spotted the new label […]
Uber shareholders get closer to passing lobbying disclosure proposal
Uber shareholders voted against a proposal that would have required the ride-hailing company to fully disclose its direct and indirect lobbying activities and expenditures, according to a regulatory filing released […]
Google TV app to add casting as Android TV ecosystem grows to 110M monthly active devices
Following last year’s makeover of the Google TV app, which added features like movie and TV recommendations, critics’ scores and more, the company today announced at its Google I/O developer […]
Altro has raised $18M to help you build credit just by paying for your Netflix subscription
Michael Broughton was the first in his family to go to college. But he almost didn’t, when he had trouble securing the necessary financing to pay his tuition. The experience […]
Japan’s Zeals raises $38.8M to scale its chat commerce platform
Zeals, a Tokyo-based startup that lets businesses communicate with their customers via its chat application, said Thursday it has secured $27.2 million (3.5 billion yen) in equity and $11.6 million […]
Watch Google I/O keynote live right here
Google’s developer conference Google I/O is back, which means that the company has a few things to announce. During the opening keynote, Google is expected to unveil new hardware products, […]
Coinbase CEO says India central bank’s ‘informal pressure’ prompted trading halt
Coinbase halted trading service in India because of “informal pressure” from the Reserve Bank of India, the crypto exchange’s chief executive said on Tuesday, addressing the notable Indian episode for […]
Predibase exits stealth with a low-code platform for building AI models
Data science teams are stymied by disorganization at their companies, impacting efforts to deploy timely AI and analytics projects. In a recent survey of “data executives” at U.S.-based companies, 44% […]