Starbucks partners with Alibaba on coffee delivery to boost China business
Starbucks is palling up with Alibaba as it seeks to rediscover growth for its business in China. China has been a bright spot for some time for the U.S. coffee...
The dramatic rise and fall of online P2P lending in China
Editor’s note: This post originally appeared on TechNode, an editorial partner of TechCrunch based in China. When Emily Zhang was interning with a peer-to-peer (P2P) lending firm in the Summer...
Grab picks up $2 billion more to fuel growth in post-Uber Southeast Asia
Grab, the ride-hailing service that struck a deal to take Uber out of Southeast Asia, has announced that it has pulled in $2 billion in new capital as it...
Mayfield Robotics ceases production of Kuri robot amid a questionable future
In a letter to backers today, Bay Area-based Mayfield Robotics said it was “crushed” to announce that it has ceased manufacturing of its home robot, Kuri. The note finds...
Google is baking machine learning into its BigQuery data warehouse
There are still a lot of obstacles to building machine learning models and one of those is that in order to build those models, developers often have to move...
Google launches a stand-alone version of Drive for businesses that don’t want the full...
If you are a business and want to use Google Drive, then your only option until now was to buy a full G Suite subscription, even if you don’t...
Google is making a fast specialized TPU chip for edge devices and a suite...
In a pretty substantial move into trying to own the entire AI stack, Google today announced that it will be rolling out a version of its Tensor Processing Unit...
Blue Origin successfully lands both booster and crew capsule after test launch
Today, at its Texas launch facility, Blue Origin preformed its most critical test to date. It preformed a live separation test of its crew capsule from the rocket booster...
Prices for Disrupt SF 2018 passes increase next week
It’s not easy for budget-conscious founders to part with cold, hard cash. Or for time-strapped investors to push a to-do item higher up the priority list. But do it...
Watch Blue Origin’s most critical rocket launch right here
The launch is scheduled for 11:00 am EDT on July 18, 2018. Blue Origin is about to preform a critical rocket test. For the first time Jeff Bezos’ rocket company...
