Multilingual Indian video app Roposo raises $10M from Tiger Global and Bertelsmann
India has 22 official languages, which often presents a challenge for businesses that want to scale ...View More
China’s Tencent Music raises $1.1 billion in downsized US IPO
Tencent Music, China’s largest streaming company, has raised $1.1 billion in a U.S. IPO after ...View More
Indonesia e-commerce leader Tokopedia raises $1.1B from Alibaba and SoftBank’s Vision Fund
Indonesia-based e-commerce firm Tokopedia is the latest startup to enter the Vision Fund after it ra ...View More
Watch Google CEO Sundar Pichai testify in Congress — on bias, China and more
[embedded content] Google CEO Sundar Pichai has managed to avoid the public political grillings that ...View More
Apple Pay finally launches in Germany
Apple’s mobile payment technology has finally launched in Germany, some four years after it de ...View More
Apple says iPhones remain on sale in China following court injunction
Apple has filed an appeal to overturn a court decision that could ban iPhone sales in China, the co ...View More
Google Fit gets improved activity logging and a breathing exercise
Google Fit, Google’ s activity-tracking app for Android, is getting a small but meaningful up ...View More
Google has acquired one of India’s most popular train-tracking apps
Google is increasing its efforts in India after it snapped up the team behind popular transportatio ...View More
Taiwan-based travel startup AsiaYo raises $7M Series B led by Alibaba Taiwan Entrepreneurs Fund
AsiaYo, a travel accommodation booking platform based in Taipei, Taiwan, has raised a $7 million Ser ...View More
Announcing the final batch of judges for Startup Battlefield Africa
Startup Battlefield Africa in Lagos, Nigeria, is coming up fast. As usual, we have a great line ...View More
Netflix rival Iflix launches $5M search for up-and-coming filmmakers in Asia
Netflix is increasing its efforts in Asia after it commissioned more local content and began&n ...View More
Google is killing off Allo, its latest messaging app flop
It’s official: Google is killing off Allo. The messaging app was only launched in September 2 ...View More
You can now once again flip the camera during FaceTime calls with just one tap
With the release of iOS 12, Apple hid the button that lets you jump from front camera to rear camer ...View More
Seized cache of Facebook docs raise competition and consent questions
A UK parliamentary committee has published the cache of Facebook documents it dramatically sei ...View More
JioSaavn becomes India’s answer to Spotify and Apple Music
India finally has its answer to Spotify after Reliance Jio merged its music service with Saavn ...View More
‘Google You Owe Us’ claimants aren’t giving up on UK Safari workaround suit
Lawyers behind a UK class-action style compensation litigation against Google for privacy violation ...View More
AWS wants to rule the world
AWS, once a nice little side hustle for Amazon’s eCommerce business, has grown over the years ...View More
Floom, the online marketplace and SaaS for florists, receives $2.5M seed
Floom, the online marketplace and SaaS for independent florists, has raised $2.5 million in a seed f ...View More
Lime tries to back-peddle on VP’s line on why it hired Definers
Scooter startup Lime has sought to back peddle on an explanation given by its VP of global exp ...View More
The Coinmine One is a box that mines crypto at home
For $799 you can start mining cryptocurrencies in your home, a feat that previously either required ...View More
V2X Network gives developers the keys to in-vehicle data
Data is king. But if there isn’t a way to capture, sort and use it, then there it sits &md ...View More
How a startup mindset can help the refugee crisis
Startup entrepreneurs have a crucial role to play in building a more agile response to the global re ...View More
Google Fi now officially supports most Android devices and iPhones
Google is making a major move to expand the availability of its Fi wireless service. It’s bee ...View More
Google faces GDPR complaint over ‘deceptive’ location tracking
A group of European consumer watchdogs has filed a privacy complaint against Google — arguing ...View More
The US Postal Service exposed data of 60 million users
A broken US Postal Service API exposed from over 60 million users and allowed a researcher to pull m ...View More
Hospital in China denies links to world’s first gene-edited babies
News of the world’s first ever gene-edited human babies being born in China caused a huge ...View More
Cyber Monday Special: Buy a pass to Disrupt Berlin 2018 and snag a $200 gift
Disrupt Berlin 2018 kicks off in just three days, the holidays are upon us, and we here at TechCrunc ...View More
Affetto is the wild-boy-head robot of your nightmares
[embedded content] Affetto is a robot that can smile at you while it pierces your soul with its endl ...View More
On Black Friday, you’ll be able to watch the entire ‘Lego Movie’ in a YouTube ad
On Black Friday, YouTube says it’s teaming up with Warner Bros. Pictures to allow viewers to ...View More
Cloud communications platform Agora closes $70M Series C to create new developer tools
Part of Agora’s team. The cloud communications startup has offices in Santa Clara and Shanghai ...View More