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Oracle acquires Grapeshot, a marketing tech startup that helps ensure ‘brand safety’

Oracle acquires Grapeshot, a marketing tech startup that helps ensure ‘brand safety’

In the era of fake news and controversies over how brands’ advertising — via programmatic platforms — unwittingly ends up…
Roku’s adds news to its free channel, including the new streaming network ABC News Live

Roku’s adds news to its free channel, including the new streaming network ABC News Live

Last fall, Roku launched its own channel to provide its cord-cutting customers with access to free movies and TV shows…
Delivery robotics company Marble raises $10 million, with plans to move beyond food

Delivery robotics company Marble raises $10 million, with plans to move beyond food

San Francisco-based robotics company Marble announced this morning that it’s just closed a $10 million Series A. The round, which…
Credit Karma expands its identity theft monitoring tool to include dark web data

Credit Karma expands its identity theft monitoring tool to include dark web data

Credit Karma is best known for being the only reason anyone is ever willing to peek at their credit score,…
BuildingConnected lands $15 million for its service linking contractors and developers

BuildingConnected lands $15 million for its service linking contractors and developers

BuildingConnected, which provides software linking contractors and developers has raised $15 million from a strategic investor — Brookfield Ventures, the…
Enterprise firm Mitel to be acquired for $2B by Rackspace investor Searchlight

Enterprise firm Mitel to be acquired for $2B by Rackspace investor Searchlight

Mitel, the enterprise communications company that tried but failed to buy Polycom for $2 billion, is now being acquired for…
Bag Week is coming and we need your recommendations

Bag Week is coming and we need your recommendations

Every year your faithful friends at TechCrunch spend an entire week looking at bags. Why? Because bags – often ignored…
DoorDash makes a big push into grocery delivery through a pilot program with Walmart

DoorDash makes a big push into grocery delivery through a pilot program with Walmart

DoorDash is about to make a huge move into grocery delivery, but instead of going all out as a delivery…
Despite IPO surge, Hong Kong investors aren’t tech savvy, warns Razer CEO

Despite IPO surge, Hong Kong investors aren’t tech savvy, warns Razer CEO

Xiaomi and Ant Financial are two of a cluster of major tech names being linked with IPOs in Hong Kong.…
Belgium’s Cowboy raises $3M led by Index to launch a smarter e-bike

Belgium’s Cowboy raises $3M led by Index to launch a smarter e-bike

Cowboy, the startup that’s building a new, smarter electronic bicycle, quietly launched in its home country of Belgium this past…
You can now give Amazon the keys to your car

You can now give Amazon the keys to your car

Last week, I was sitting in the office, waiting for an Amazon package to be delivered to my house. Typically,…
Alibaba is bringing its smart assistant to cars from Daimler, Audi and Volvo

Alibaba is bringing its smart assistant to cars from Daimler, Audi and Volvo

Alibaba is jumping behind the wheel after it announced that Daimler, Audi and Volvo will bring its voice assistant to…
Uber to stop storing precise location pick-ups/drop-offs in driver logs

Uber to stop storing precise location pick-ups/drop-offs in driver logs

Uber is planning to tweak the historical pick-up and drop-off logs that drivers can see in order to slightly obscure…
Facebook reveals 25 pages of takedown rules for hate speech and more

Facebook reveals 25 pages of takedown rules for hate speech and more

Facebook has never before made public the guidelines its moderators use to decide whether to remove violence, spam, harassment, self-harm,…
Media monitor Meltwater acquires social analytics player Sysomos

Media monitor Meltwater acquires social analytics player Sysomos

Meltwater, best known for coming from the media-monitoring space, has been on a tear recently, acquiring startups in the social…
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