Symphony CEO David Gurle, left, and Bloomberg CEO Michael Bloomberg, right. Symphony/Drew Angerer/Getty Images/Jenny Cheng/BI Graphics "Thank you David Gurle," French President Emmanuel Macron tweeted in June. "Your trust and your enthusiasm show, once again,…

Joanna Glasner Contributor More posts by this contributor Which public US universities graduate the most funded founders? Big revenues, huge valuations and major losses: charting the era of the unicorn IPO Sometimes a person (I’m…

Across the ideological spectrum, the calls are growing louder: Washington must do more to rein in big business. A mounting backlash against technology giants—especially Facebook Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s GOOG 2.08% Google—has provided the spark…

“I’d blush if I could.” That was Siri’s programmed response to a user saying, “You’re a slut.” And really, there couldn’t be a more perfect example to illustrate the arguments in a new paper from…

Uber’s best hope to beat all its ride sharing and food delivery competitors is that it does both. Through cross-promotion, it can combine activities people might only do a few times per week or month…

Endpoint security — the branch of cybersecurity that focuses on data coming in from laptops, phones, and other devices connected to a network — is an $8 billion dollar market that, due to the onslaught…

YouTube is a confusing mess of an internet platform. In what appears to be a moment that draws a line in the sand around how online platYouTube says homophobic taunts don't violate its policies forms…

Google has unveiled updates for its artificially intelligent voice assistant and new privacy tools to give people more control over how they're being tracked on the go or at home. The company also unveiled a…

REUTERS/Adam Hunger Mark Zuckerberg may be ready to forgive the Winklevoss twins, who sued him for stealing their idea of a social network. Facebook has held talks with Gemini, the bitcoin billionaires' cryptocurrency exchange, about…

Ashley Merson and her brother Kevin on the porch of the house Ashley is trying to buy in the Hampden neighborhood of Baltimore. A ransomware attack on the city's digital services has delayed the home…

JD.com, the Chinese answer to Amazon and Alibaba’s long-time rival, is looking to further automate its logistics network after agreeing to pour 376 million yuan (around $55 million) into Jiangsu Xinning Modern Logistics in exchange…

In November 2017, Spotify picked up the online music studio Soundtrap as part of its efforts to offer more services to artists on its platform. Now that Spotify has a growing interest in podcasts and…

Breaking News Emails Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. SUBSCRIBE May 9, 2019, 9:36 AM UTC By Ben Popken A co-founder of Facebook is calling…

Smart cities are designed to make life easier for their residents: better traffic management by clearing routes, making sure the public transport is running on time and having cameras keeping a watchful eye from above.…

Update: Delayed and they’ll be trying again 24 hours later, so come back tonight. Standing down from today's launch to conduct additional payload checks. The next launch opportunity is no earlier than 06:00 UTC /…

Greetings from Seattle, the land of Amazon, Microsoft, two of the world’s richest men and some startups. I’m always surprised the Seattle startup ecosystem hasn’t grown to compete with the likes of Silicon Valley —…

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 here. 1. Facebook…

Recent California court rulings have invalidated common employee non-solicit provisions Nick Saenz & John Frost 1 day Nick Saenz & John Frost Contributor Several recent court decisions have changed the landscape of California’s competition law,…

Tesla,  Elon Musk and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission reached an agreement Friday that will give the CEO freedom to use Twitter —within certain limitations — without fear of being held in contempt for violating…

TechCrunch’s Connie Loizos published some interesting stats on seed and Series A financings this week, courtesy of data collected by Wing Venture Capital. In short, seed is the new Series A and Series A is…

Zipline, the San Francisco-based UAV manufacturer and logistics services provider, has launched a program in Ghana today for drone delivery of medical supplies. Working with the Ghanaian government, Zipline will operate 30 drones out of…

Lots of news has surfaced from China’s gaming industry in recent weeks as the government hastens to approve a massive backlog of titles in the world’s largest market for video games. Last Friday, the country’s…