If you love ubiquitous Japanese virtual idols and solid Chinese mid-range phones, has Xiaomi ever got the collaboration for you: behold the Hatsune Miku Mi 6X. The limited edition device comes in a...

Amazon’s Prime Day, the company’s annual sales event that’s now its biggest, will be held this year on July 16, starting at 12 PM PT/3 PM ET, and will feature over a million deals, the retailer announced today. One big change this time around is the event’s…

Prime Day is back

The robotic monk is facing a wall, charging up when I first approach the Longquan Temple’s booth at TechCrunch’s event in Hangzhou, China. There’s probably a good metaphor here for meditation or mindfulness, but as a terrible meditator who semi-regularly…

TechCrunch is headed to Lagos to host our second Startup Battlefield Africa competition on December 11! Last year, we held our first Startup Battlefield Africa in Nairobi, where startups from across the continent highlighted how technology is optimizing supply…

Each has been inscribed with ‘1/1’ to signify its one-of-a-kind status

MeetFrank, aka a ‘secret’ recruitment app that uses machine learning plus a chatbot wrapper to take the strain out of passive job hunting and talent-to-vacancy matching, has closed a €1 million (~$1.1M) seed funding round to fuel market expansion in Europe.

Our TC Sessions: Blockchain event takes place in Zug, Switzerland, this coming Friday (July 6), but we are also excited to host the TechCrunch Ethereum Meetup the very next day. We are putting on t…

Airwallex, a three-year-old fintech startup focused on international payments for SMEs and businesses, is putting itself on the map after it raised an $80 million Series B round.

Microsoft’s cheaper 10-inch Surface tablet appears to have passed through the FCC, meaning it could launch very soon for a rumored $400 price

Another take on Alexa in a soundbar

Screw everything, we’re doing nine blades

If you’re looking for a way to launch your pre-Series A startup to the world, there’s no better platform for that than TechCrunch’s premier startup-pitch competition, Startup Battlefield. And now, for the first time ever, founders of early-stage startups…

Trov, the on-demand personal property insurance service, is launching in the U.S., the company announced today.

Plus, Facebook’s latest privacy glitch "unblocked" up to 800,000 users; Dell is going public again; the birth of a planet.

Airbnb is testing a new payments feature for hosts, letting them get partially paid out at the time of booking.

PlayStation Vue, welcome to the price hike party. Sony’s over-the-top TV streaming service is the latest to raise the price of its subscription service, which will now cost $5 more per month across all four tiers. That means Vue’s cheapest plan will now cost…

Skeptics say full autonomy could be farther away than the industry admits

When we last met UDOO the team was building a powerful Raspberry Pi-based DIY board with a bunch of impressive features including more ports and a better processor. Now the team behind the first units has released the UDOO BOLT, a DIY board that can run “AAA…

This makes sense

Light, the company behind the wild L16 camera, is building a smartphone equipped with multiple cameras. According to The Washington Post, the company is prototyping a smartphone with five to nine cameras that’s capable of capturing a 64 megapixel shot.