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Facebook on Tuesday announced a new app that will let the company collect data on how people use their smartphones in exchange for money. The new app is called Study, and it is designed to give Facebook data on what apps participants install, how much time they spend on those apps, what features they use on those apps, what country...

Facebook on Tuesday announced a new app that will let the company collect data on how people use their smartphones in exchange for money. The new app is called Study, and it is designed to give Facebook data on what apps participants install, how much time they spend on those apps, what features they use on those apps, what country...

German automaker Daimler will stop selling its all-electric Smart EQ fortwo cars in the United States and Canada, according to a company spokesman. The company will stop selling Smart in the two countries after its 2019 model year, confirmed Robert Moran, director of corporate communication. TechCrunch first reported the information after learning of the decision from two people familiar with...

Authorities were investigating Saturday the online posting by a hacker group of the personal information of hundreds of federal agents and police officers apparently stolen from websites affiliated with alumni of the FBI’s National Academy.

Facebook asked users to add their phone numbers as an extra security measure, but now users are learning their numbers are being used as a way to look up their profiles and even target them with ads, without the option to opt out. TechCrunch first reported the feature after Jeremy Burge, who runs the site Emojipedia, called it out in...

Facebook Messenger now gives anyone the option to delete a regretful or mistaken message from their chat history. Facebook initially promised the feature after TechCrunch reported in April that multiple people said Facebook messages they received from CEO Mark Zuckerberg later appeared to have been deleted while their own messages remained. At the time, Facebook told TechCrunch Zuckerberg’s messages were...

Apple says Facebook can no longer distribute an app that paid users, including teenagers, to extensively track their phone and web use. In doing so, Apple closed off Facebook’s efforts to sidestep Apple’s app store and its tighter rules on privacy. The tech blog TechCrunch reported late Tuesday that Facebook paid people about $20 a month to install and use...

Are Twitter likes about to become a thing of the past? That’s what the social network’s founder, Jack Dorsey, reportedly suggested during a Twitter event last week.

It’s known as a place for startups to get noticed — and at this year’s TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco, some are hoping to be noticed by Priscilla Chan, the pediatrician and philanthropist at the helm of the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative.

The pediatrician, philanthropist and wife of Mark Zuckerberg is leading a fund aimed at curing all disease by the end of the century

Only a couple months after Uber partnered with startup Jump Bikes to launch a bike-sharing service in San Francisco, the ride-hailing company has revealed it is buying the startup.

Mystery no more. The contractor who deactivated President Donald Trump’s Twitter account for 11 minutes earlier this month has been identified by Tech Crunch.

The man who may have started the process that led Twitter to shut down President Donald Trump’s account early this month was quoted Wednesday as agreeing with the company that the 11-minute blackout was an accident, NBC News reported. The man, identified by the technology site TechCrunch as Bahtiyar Duysak, is quoted as saying he was working on his last...

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is putting its vast collection within people’s reach — literally.

A San Francisco virtual reality startup is being sued by a former employee who claims the company created an “unbearable environment for women.”

Salesforce’s annual customer conference kicks off Tuesday in San Francisco, and if you thought TechCrunch Disrupt and Oracle OpenWorld were big, Dreamforce is, well, just massive. In fact, it can easily be called the mother of all tech conferences in San Francisco.

Warriors guard Stephen Curry reiterated his support for Colin Kaepernick’s national anthem protest during an appearance at the TechCrunch Disrupt event in San Francisco on Tuesday.

TechCrunch has fallen victim to the hacking group OurMine.

Facebook’s emerging B2B platform just signed a company with 100,000 employees.

Snoop Dogg announced the creation of a cannabis-focused media company called Merry Jane at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco on Monday.