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Apple addresses Spotify’s claims, but not its demands Two days after Spotify announced that it had filed a suit against Apple with the European Commission over anticompetitive practices, Apple today issued its own response of sorts. In a lengthy statem... techcrunch.com/2019/03/15/app…

Following 'stellar' flat sales growth, operating profit dip, Oracle says it has 1,000 Autonomous Database customers Ellison insists Oracle Cloud is less expensive, more secure than AWS – which is why, er, so many people are flocking to it Oracle on Thu... go.theregister.com/feed/www.there…

Bipartisan bill proposes oversight for commercial facial recognition On Thursday, Hawaii Senator Brian Schatz and Missouri Senator Roy Blunt introduced a bill designed to offer legislative oversight for commercial applications of facial recognition tec... techcrunch.com/2019/03/14/fac…

Facebook blames 'server config change' for 14-hour outage. Someone run that through the universal liar translator Is a single tweet enough when millions of people's communications are affected? Facebook has said a "server configuration change" was to b... go.theregister.com/feed/www.there…

This robot can park your car for you French startup Stanley Robotics showed off its self-driving parking robot at Lyon-Saint-Exupéry airport today. While I couldn’t be there in person, the service is going live by the end of March 2019. And here’s what... techcrunch.com/2019/03/14/thi…

Cloudera shakes off Hortonworks fixation, realises AWS was the big baddie all along Plans to squeeze out enterprise data cloud in next two quarters Cloudera and former open-source database rival Hortonworks may have merged in a defensive manoeuvre but ... go.theregister.com/feed/www.there…

London proptech startup Nested has laid off 20% of its workforce citing ‘Brexit uncertainty’ Nested, the London-based “data-driven” estate agency that provides a cash advance to help you buy a new home before you’ve sold your old one, has laid off 20 p... techcrunch.com/2019/03/14/nes…

Microsoft open sources its data compression algorithm and hardware for the cloud The amount of data that the big cloud computing providers now store is staggering, so it’s no surprise that most store all of this information as compressed data in some f... techcrunch.com/2019/03/14/zip…

Microsoft launches Game Stack, brings Xbox Live to Android and iOS Microsoft today announced a new initiative that combines all of the company’s gaming-related products for developers like Xbox Live, Azure PlayFab, Direct X, Mixer, Virtual Studio, Simp... techcrunch.com/2019/03/14/mic…

ProdPerfect gets $2.6 million to automate QA testing for web apps ProdPerfect, a New York-based startup focused on automating QA testing for web apps, has announced the close of a $2.6 million Seed round co-led by Eniac Ventures and Fika Ventures, with... techcrunch.com/2019/03/14/pro…

That's Numberwang! Google Cloud staffer breaks record for most accurate Pi calculation Four months to arrive at 31,415,926,535,897 digits Emma Haruka Iwao, a developer advocate at Google Cloud, has celebrated Pi Day (3/14) by setting a new Guinness Wor... go.theregister.com/feed/www.there…

UK asks competition watchdog to put adtech market review top of its to-do list The UK government has written to the country’s competition authority to ask the watchdog to respond to concerns about the lack of transparency in the digital advertising mar... techcrunch.com/2019/03/14/uk-…

Telegram gets 3M new signups during Facebook apps’ outage Messaging platform Telegram claims to have had a surge in signups during a period of downtime for Facebook’s rival messaging services. In a message sent to his Telegram channel, founder Pavel Du... techcrunch.com/2019/03/14/tel…

Determined AI nabs $11M Series A to democratize AI development Deep learning involves a highly iterative process where data scientists build models and test them on GPU-powered systems until they get something they can work with. It can be expensive an... techcrunch.com/2019/03/13/det…

Google has quietly added DuckDuckGo as a search engine option for Chrome users in ~60 markets In an update to the chromium engine, which underpins Google’s popular Chrome browser, the search giant has quietly updated the lists of default search engines... techcrunch.com/2019/03/13/goo…

Automation Hero picks up $14.5 million led by Atomico Automation Hero, formerly SalesHero, has secured $14.5 million in new funding led by Atomico, with participation by Baidu Ventures and Cherry Ventures. As part of the deal, Atomico principle Ben Blu... techcrunch.com/2019/03/13/aut…

Email app Spark adds delegation feature for teams Email app Spark added collaboration features back in May 2018. And Readdle, the company behind the app, is going one step further with a new feature specifically designed to delegate an email to one of ... techcrunch.com/2019/03/13/ema…

Competition policy must change to help startups fight ‘winner takes all’ platforms, says UK report A independent report commissioned by the UK government to examine how competition policy needs to adapt itself for the digital age has concluded that tec... techcrunch.com/2019/03/13/com…

Microsoft shows off Project xCloud with Forza running on an Android phone Microsoft has shared some more information and the first look at Project xCloud. The company has been working on a cloud game streaming service for a while. Microsoft is preparin... techcrunch.com/2019/03/13/mic…

Creative agency Virtue introduces genderless voice Q to challenge biases in technology Siri, Alexa, Google Assistant, Cortana and Bixby–almost all virtual assistants have something in common. Their default voices are women’s, though the role that plays... techcrunch.com/2019/03/12/cre…