Alibaba-backed Hellobike bags new funds as it marches into ride-hailing
2018 has been a rough year for China’s bike-sharing giants. Alibaba-backed Ofo pulled out of dozens of international cities as it fought with a severe cash crunch....
TechCrunch’s Favorite Things of 2018
2018! We did it! Way to go, Earth! We’re number one! We’re number one! As we do each year, the TechCrunch Staff — our writers, our...
A year’s worth of Porsche Taycans are already reserved, mostly by Tesla owners
Porsche’s first all-electric sports car might be the most hotly anticipated vehicle of 2019. Even Tesla owners are hooked. In a recent interview with CNET, Porsche North...
Mark Zuckerberg is ‘proud’ of how Facebook handled its scandals this year
After the year Mark Zuckerberg’s had, you’d think he’d struggle to appear so chipper. “I’m proud of the progress we’ve made,” he said in an end-of-year...
‘Bird Box’ breaks a Netflix record with 45M+ people watching in its first week
Sandra Bullock’s star power can still sell a movie, apparently. Though reviews for the Netflix horror film “Bird Box” have been lukewarm — the movie has...
The Very Slow Movie Player shows a film over an entire year
It seems someone took Every Frame a Painting literally: The Very Slow Movie Player is a device that turns cinema into wallpaper, advancing the image by...
Samsara banks $100M at a $3.6B valuation for its internet-connected sensors
Sensor data platform Samsara confirmed this morning that it had closed a new round of funding from existing investors Andreessen Horowitz and General Catalyst that values...
Capsicum launches a beautiful daily planner for iOS
Calendaring and note-taking apps have never really filled the void left behind when we moved away from our old, paper-based daily planners to digital devices. But...
911 emergency services go down across the US after CenturyLink outage
911 emergency services in several states across the U.S. went down after a massive outage at a CenturyLink data center. The outage began after 12pm ET...
Smart speakers hit critical mass in 2018
We already know Alexa had a good Christmas — the app shot to the top of the App Store over the holidays, and the Alexa service...
