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    Forget Antitrust Laws. To Limit Tech, Some Say a New Regulator Is Needed.

    For decades, America’s antitrust laws — originally designed to curb the power of 19th-century corporate giants in railroads, oil and steel — have been...

    OSHA Under Fire Over Regulation of Meatpacking in Pandemic

    When the pandemic hit in March, a JBS meatpacking plant in Greeley, Colo., began providing paid leave to workers at high risk of serious...

    Adyen alumni raise €2.6M seed to launch Silverflow, a ‘cloud-native’ card payments processor – TechCrunch

    Silverflow, a Dutch startup founded by Adyen alumni, is breaking cover and announcing seed funding. The pre-launch company has spent the last two years building...

    Hearings begin in Samsung vice chairman Jay Y. Lee’s accounting fraud trial – TechCrunch

    The trial of Samsung leader Jay Y. Lee, who is accused of accounting fraud and stock price manipulating, held its first hearing today at...

    Facebook Dating launches in Europe after 9-month+ delay over privacy concerns – TechCrunch

    Facebook’s dating bolt-on to its eponymous social networking service has finally launched in Europe, more than nine months after an earlier launch plan was...

    Health insurance startup Alan lets you chat with a doctor – TechCrunch

    French startup Alan is building health insurance products. And 100,000 people are now covered through Alan . I caught up with the company’s co-founder...

    Acapela, from the founder of Dubsmash, hopes ‘asynchronous meetings’ can end Zoom fatigue – TechCrunch

    Acapela, a new startup co-founded by Dubsmash founder Roland Grenke, is breaking cover today in a bid to re-imagine online meetings for remote teams. Hoping...

    10 Zurich-area investors on Switzerland’s 2020 startup outlook – TechCrunch

    European entrepreneurs who want to launch startups could do worse than Switzerland. In a report analyzing Europe’s general economic health, cost of doing business, business...

    This former Tesla CIO just raised $150 million more to pull car dealers into the 21st century – TechCrunch

    “I have to choose my words carefully,” says Joe Castelino of Stevens Creek Volkswagen in San Jose, Ca., when asked about the software on...

    It’s Google’s World. We Just Live in It.

    Outside smartphones, Google is the dominant force on our personal computers. By some estimates, more than 65 percent of us use Google’s Chrome web...

    Quibi, Short-Form Streaming Service, Quickly Shuts Down

    Quibi, the beleaguered short-form content company started by Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman, announced on Wednesday that it was shutting down just six months...

    TikTok Cracks Down on QAnon and Hate Speech

    The approach will not only target outright hate speech and Nazi paraphernalia, but less obvious references to white supremacist groups as well, like code...

    4 quick bites and obituaries on Quibi (RIP 2020-2020) – TechCrunch

    A new entry in the greatest collapses of startups ever In memory of the death of Quibi, here’s a quick sendoff from four of our...

    Tesla is a chain of startups, Elon Musk explains – TechCrunch

    Today during a call with investors and journalists, Tesla CEO Elon Musk was asked to expand a tweet from yesterday. In it, he stated:...

    Quibi is shutting down – TechCrunch

    The end is in sight for Quibi, PayPal adds cryptocurrency support and Netflix tests a new promotional strategy. This is your Daily Crunch...

    Something Goes Right – TechCrunch

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAMlzCvD_NM Here we sit in the valley of predespair, 2 weeks ahead of the election and God knows where we are in the pandemic. As...