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    ‘I Forget About the World:’ Afghan Youth Find Escape in a Video Game

    KABUL, Afghanistan — Rifle fire, hurried footsteps and distant explosions. The rat-a-tat of a firefight. Cars mangled from grenades. The young man was transfixed.It...

    Video mentoring platform Superpeer raises $8M and launches paid channels – TechCrunch

    Superpeer, a startup that helps experts share and monetize their knowledge online, is announcing that it has raised $8 million in additional funding. As I...

    Space Black Friday ticket sale starts today – TechCrunch

    Nothing signals the start of the holiday shopping season like a Black Friday sale. It’s been an incredibly challenging year for everyone on every...

    Facebook launches ‘Drives,’ a U.S.-only feature for collecting food, clothing and other necessities for people in need – TechCrunch

    Facebook today is introducing a new feature that will allow users in the U.S. to collect food, clothing, and other necessities for people...

    Brexit’s data compliance burden could cost UK firms up to £1.6BN, says think tank – TechCrunch

    An analysis of the total cost to UK businesses if the country fails to gain an adequacy agreement from the European Commission once it...

    AvePoint to go public via SPAC valued at $2B – TechCrunch

    AvePoint, a company that gives enterprises using Microsoft Office 365, SharePoint and Teams a control layer on top of these tools, announced today that...

    LA-based Boulevard raises $27 million for its spa management software – TechCrunch

    Boulevard, a spa management and payment platform, has raised $27 million in a new round of funding despite a business slowdown caused by the...

    Uncool Can Beat Flashy Tech

    This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays.One of my missions is to get...

    6 reasons why reporters aren’t interested in your content marketing – TechCrunch

    Amanda Milligan Contributor Amanda Milligan is the marketing director at Fractl, a prominent growth marketing agency that’s helped Fortune 500 companies and boutique businesses alike earn...

    Serenade snags $2.1M seed round to turn speech into code – TechCrunch

    Several years ago Serenade co-founder Matt Wiethoff was a developer at Quora when he was diagnosed with a severe repetitive stress injury to his...

    Save 25% on annual Extra Crunch membership with the Green Days sale – TechCrunch

    The holiday season is upon us, and that means big savings on Extra Crunch membership with the Green Days sale. From now until November...

    Google brings ‘The Mandalorian’ to AR in its new app – TechCrunch

    Google has teamed up with Disney and Lucasfilm to bring the Star Wars streaming series “The Mandalorian” to augmented reality. The company...

    Good vaccine news, three rounds, and why IPOs are trending – TechCrunch

    Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This is Equity Monday, our weekly kickoff...

    Snapchat launches a TikTok-like feed called Spotlight, kick-started by paying creators – TechCrunch

    After taking on TikTok with music-powered features last month, Snapchat this morning is officially launching a dedicated place within its app where users can...

    Metigy gets $20 million AUD to making online marketing easier for SMEs – TechCrunch

    David Fairfull, CEO and co-founder of Metigy Metigy, a marketing platform created to help small businesses automate more of the decision making in their...

    Corporate services platform Sleek lands $4 million in new funding – TechCrunch

    Sleek, the corporate services platform that helps entrepreneurs launch and run new companies in Singapore and Hong Kong, has raised $4 million. The new funding...