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    Vegetarian or Vegan? Watch Your Bone Health

    Vegetarian diets are generally considered healthy, but new research suggests they may have a significant risk: an increased chance of bone fractures.Between 1993 and...

    Australia’s spy agencies caught collecting COVID-19 app data – TechCrunch

    Australia’s intelligence agencies have been caught “incidentally” collecting data from the country’s COVIDSafe contact tracing app during the first six months of its launch,...

    Good Sleep Habits Tied to Lower Risk of Heart Failure

    A combination of healthy sleep habits may help reduce the risk for heart failure, new research suggests.Scientists studied 408,802 generally healthy people aged 27...

    HMBradley raises $18.25 million planting a flag as LA’s entrant into the challenger bank business – TechCrunch

    With $90 million in deposits and $18.25 million in new financing, HMBradley is making moves as the Los Angeles-based entrant into the challenger bank...

    Giving Thanks for My Imperiled Nurse

    One of the people I credit with extending my life is struggling for her own. Over the past eight years, Alesha Arnold has served...

    Proxyclick visitor management system adapts to COVID as employee check-in platform – TechCrunch

    Proxyclick began life by providing an easy way to manage visitors in your building with an iPad-based check-in system. As the pandemic has taken...

    Mobile banking app Current raises $131M Series C, tops 2 million members – TechCrunch

    U.S. challenger bank Current, which has doubled its member base in less than six months, announced this morning it raised $131 million in...

    Three new $100M ARR club members and a call for the next generation of growth-stage startups – TechCrunch

    Time flies. It was nearly a year ago that The Exchange started keeping tabs on startups that managed to reach $100 million in annual...

    Altana raises $7M to protect supply chains from disruptions, child labor – TechCrunch

    Supply chains used to be one of those magical elements of capitalism that seemed to be designed by Apple: they just worked. Minus the...

    Adobe expands customer data platform to include B2B sales – TechCrunch

    The concept of the customer data platform (CDP) is a relatively new one. Up until now, it has focused primarily on pulling data about...

    Two-year-old Day One Ventures raises new $52.5M fund to invest in Valley startups – TechCrunch

    Back in 2018 Day One Ventures launched in Silicon Valley specifically designed to be both a VC and an investor that would also lead...

    India bans another 43 Chinese apps – TechCrunch

    India is not done banning Chinese apps. The world’s second largest internet market, which has banned over 175 apps with links to the neighboring...

    5 top investors in Dutch startups discuss trends, hopes and 2020 opportunities – TechCrunch

    The Netherlands’ ecosystem has been flourishing; more than $85 million was invested in regional startups in 2019 alone. The nation’s proximity to the U.K.,...

    Europe’s data strategy aims to tip the scales away from big tech – TechCrunch

    Google wants to organize the world’s information but European lawmakers are in a rush to organize the local digital sphere and make Europe “the...

    Looking to emulate Venmo, JoomPay preps a Euro launch for easy bill splitting and cash payments – TechCrunch

    JoomPay, a startup with a similar product to PayPayl-owned Venmo in the US, is set to launch in Europe shortly after being granted a...

    New TikTok feature allows users to avoid videos with epileptic seizure triggers – TechCrunch

    TikTok announced today it is rolling out a new feature that will allow people with photosensitive epilepsy to automatically skip videos that can...