Google Brings Chrome Os Instant Tethering To More Chromebooks And Phones
YouTube expands test of its Instagram-like Explore tab to more devices: Sarah Perez
YouTube is expanding the test of its “Explore” feature, a new discovery tool it first introduced as an experiment within its iPhone app last year. Similar to Instagram’s Explore page, the new YouTube feature aims to introduce users to a diverse set of persona…
VW's Electrify America will use Tesla battery packs to lower charging costs: Kirsten Korosec
Electrify America, the entity set up by Volkswagen as part of its settlement with U.S. regulators over its diesel emissions cheating scandal, plans to install Tesla Powerpack battery systems at more than 100 of its electric vehicle charging stations this year…
Google brings Chrome OS Instant Tethering to more Chromebooks and phones: Frederic Lardinois
Tethering your laptop and phone can be a bit of a hassle. Google’s Chrome OS has long offered a solution called Instant Tethering that makes the process automatic, but so far, this only worked for a small set of Google’s own Chromebooks and phones, starting w…
Daily Crunch: Google launches Live Transcribe: Anthony Ha
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. Google intros a pair of Android accessibility features for people…
Firefox will soon mute all autoplaying videos: Frederic Lardinois
There are many things worse than autoplaying video and audio on the web. The world is a messy place, after all. But it sure is distracting when you surf to a website and suddenly some video starts playing at full volume. Google’s Chrome browser and Microsoft …
Amazon's 2018 acquisitions totaled $1.65B, led by PillPack and Ring: Sarah Perez
Amazon’s annual 10-K filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission confirmed the high prices the e-commerce giant paid for its two biggest M&A deals last year. According to the filing, the company paid approximately $839 million in cash for Ring and…
Periscope's latest feature turns your broadcast into a radio talk show: Lucas Matney
When it comes to live streaming, the viewer contributions are pretty light. In Periscope, you can drop a comment of leave a floating heart icon, but there isn’t a deep way to contribute to a stream. Today, Twitter is rolling out a change to Periscope that han…
Tesla's Maxwell acquisition aims to gives its batteries a boost: Kirsten Korosec
Tesla has acquired energy storage company Maxwell Technologies in an all-stock deal valued at $218 million, a deal aimed at helping the electric automaker improve its batteries and lower costs as more competitors enter the market. The offer will value each of…
Instagram's Adam Mosseri to meet UK health secretary over suicide content concerns: Natasha Lomas
The still fresh-in-post boss of Instagram, Adam Mosseri, has been asked to meet the UK’s health secretary, Matt Hancock, to discuss the social media platform’s handling of content that promotes suicide and self harm, the BBC reports. Mosseri’s summons follows…
After 5 years, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has transformed more than the stock price: Ron Miller
Five years ago today, Satya Nadella took over as CEO at Microsoft, and by most any measure has been wildly successful. It’s common to look at the stock price as the defining metric of Nadella’s tenure, but the stock price triumph has followed something more f…
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