National Grid forms $250 million venture fund led by former Intel Capital exec Lisa...
National Grid, a big utility company in the Northeastern U.S., has launched a new venture capital arm to invest in startups related to...
Google Home now answers follow-up questions without ‘OK, Google’ wake word
Google Home smart speakers can now answer follow-up questions without your needing to say “Ok Google” each time.
Called Continued Conversation by Google, the...
Uber is expected to seek $10 billion in IPO
Uber is reportedly making its S-1 publicly available tomorrow, according to Reuters. According to the IPO paperwork, Uber will sell around $10 billion...
Love 3.0: How technology changes our definition of love, sex, and relationships
Last month, I traveled to Singapore to moderate a panel on Love 3.0 at the IMI Festival. The goal of the discussion was...
Disney Plus: Here’s what we know so far about the upcoming streaming service
Disney is bringing the full weight of its massive content library to its own streaming service in 2019. How will Disney Plus compare...
Heartland Tech Weekly: Preparing the trucking industry for driverless vehicles
Last week, I attended an event hosted by The Atlantic on the future of work. One of the discussions centered around autonomous trucking — whether...
If VCs Aren't Socially Responsible, the Robots Will Win
When a man overseeing $5.7 trillion speaks, the global business community tends to listen. So when BlackRock founder Larry Fink, head of the...
Lyft’s IPO, Casper the friendly unicorn and WeWork’s staggering losses
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.
This week we had the full gang...
Google Tasks will become a G Suite ‘core service’ on June 28
Google has revealed that its Tasks app will graduate to become a G Suite core service on June 28.
Google Tasks, if you recall,...