Alibaba-Backed Hellobike Bags New Funds As It Marches Into Ride-Hailing

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Alibaba-backed Hellobike bags new funds as it marches into ride-hailing: Rita Liao


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. Tencent-backed Mobike puts a brake on expansion after it was sold to neighborhood services prov…

TechCrunch's Favorite Things of 2018: Greg Kumparak


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 illustrators, our editors and more — have gathered together and come up with a mega list of our favorite things of 2018. “Things…

A year's worth of Porsche Taycans are already reserved, mostly by Tesla owners: Kirsten Korosec


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 America President and CEO Klaus Zellmer said if everyone who has placed a deposit to pre-…

Mark Zuckerberg is "proud" of how Facebook handled its scandals this year: Zack Whittaker


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 note posted on his Facebook page for everyone to see. Acknowledging that the social network played its pa…

'Bird Box' breaks a Netflix record with 45M+ people watching in its first week: Sarah Perez


Sandra Bullock’s star power can still sell a movie, apparently. Though reviews for Netflix horror film “Bird Box” have been lukewarm – the movie has a respectable, but not outstanding, score of 65% on Rotten Tomatoes – it has still managed to break records fo…

The Very Slow Movie Player shows a film over an entire year: Devin Coldewey


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 a single second every hour. The result is an interesting household object that makes something new of even …

Samsara banks $100M at a $3.6B valuation for its internet-connected sensors: Kate Clark


Sensor data platform Samsara is closing out the year with a fresh investment from Andreessen Horowitz and General Catalyst.

Capsicum launches a beautiful daily planner for iOS: Sarah Perez


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 a newly launched iOS app called Capsicum may help to change that. Like real-world daily planners…

911 emergency services go down across the US after CenturyLink outage: Zack Whittaker


911 emergency services in several states across the U.S. remain down after a massive outage at a CenturyLink datacenter. The outage began after 12pm ET on Thursday, according to CenturyLink’s status page, and continues to cause disruption across 911 call cent…

Smart speakers hit critical mass in 2018: Sarah Perez


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 even briefly crashed from all the new users. But Alexa, along with other smart speaker devices like Google Home, didn’t just have a …



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