American Express acquires Japan-based restaurant booking service Pocket Concierge
By Jon Russell From TechCrunch American Express has made an acquisition in Japan after it picked up restaurant booking service Pocket Concierge in an undisclosed deal. The acquisition was announced in Japanese and in English by James Riney, the head of 500 Startups Japan which invested…
China’s lunar probe makes history by successfully soft-landing on the far side of the moon
By Catherine Shu From TechCrunch It’s not Lunar New Year yet, but there is something new on the moon. In a major milestone for space exploration, China announced that its lunar program has successfully soft-landed a probe on the far…
Mozilla adds website breach notifications to Firefox
By Natasha Lomas From TechCrunch Mozilla is adding a new security feature to its Firefox Quantum web browser that will alert users when they visit a website that has recently reported a data breach. When a Firefox user lands on…
US: DLab is a new East Coast accelerator for crypto
By John Biggs From TechCrunch SOSV, a 20-year-old fund with $500 million in assets under management, has been running accelerators for years. Their oldest one, HAX, is the premier hardware accelerator in San Francisco and Shenzhen, and they’ve recently launched…
Google makes $550M strategic investment in Chinese e-commerce firm JD.com
By Jon Russell From TechCrunch Google has been increasing its presence in China in recent times, and today it has continued that push by agreeing to a strategic partnership with e-commerce firm JD.com, which will see Google purchase $550 million…
