CoinBits launches as a passive investment app for bitcoin Erik Finman is a twenty-something bitcoin maximalist as famous for his precocity as he is for his $12 bet on the currency a few years ago. Now, Finman, who built his...
Livekick raises $3M to use live video for one-on-one training Livekick, a startup that gives customers access to one-on-one personal training and yoga from their home (or hotel room, or elsewhere), is announcing that it has...
SpaceX reveals more Starlink info after launch of first 60 satellites Last night's successful Starlink launch was a big one for SpaceX — its heaviest payload ever, weighed down by 60 communications satellites that will...
CFIUS Cometh: What this obscure agency does and why it matters to your fund or startup On January 12, 2016, Grindr announced it had sold a 60% controlling stake in the company to Beijing Kunlun Tech, a Chinese gaming firm,...
Daily Crunch: Assange faces Espionage Act charges The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can... Sonic the Hedgehog movie is getting delayed to redesign the title character To say that reaction to the first Sonic the Hedgehog trailer was mixed would be overly diplomatic. But at least fans were able to look beyond the thin ...
Online bank Simple makes things harder by removing bill pay With a growing number of challenger banks taking on the U.S. market, one of the original startup banks, Simple — now owned by BBVA — has taken the unusual step of...
You can do it, robot! Watch the beefy, 4-legged HyQReal pull a plane It's not really clear just yet exactly what all these powerful, agile quadrupedal robots people are working on are going to do, exactly, but even so it...
Streem buys Selerio in effort to boost its AR teleconferencing tech Streem, an AR startup that is meshing teleconferencing software with computer vision tech, has acquired a small UK startup called Selerio that’s also building ...
Fresh off a $530M round, Aurora acquires lidar startup Blackmore Aurora, the self-driving car startup backed by Sequoia Capital and Amazon, is in an acquiring mood. The company, founded in early 2017 by Chris Urmson, Sterling...
Daily Crunch: Indiegogo has a new CEO The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe...