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    Online garden shop Bloomscape raises $15M Series B, acquires plant care app Vera – TechCrunch

    If you thought to invest in more plants or started growing a small garden during 2020’s coronavirus lockdowns, you weren’t alone. According to Bloomscape,...

    Will October 2020 Visa Bulletin changes expedite my immigration case? – TechCrunch

    Here’s another edition of “Dear Sophie,” the advice column that answers immigration-related questions about working at technology companies. “Your questions are vital to the spread...

    Dfinity’s valuation soars to $9.5Bn after revealing its governance system and token economics – TechCrunch

    We’ve been tracking one of the few genuinely interesting stories to come out of the blockchain world, ever since Dfinity raised $102M from Andreessen...

    How Voting by Mail Tops Election Misinformation

    Of all the election misinformation this year, false and misleading information about voting by mail has been the most rampant, according to Zignal Labs,...

    Voting by Mail Tops Election Misinformation

    Here are the top three for the month of September: 1. Absentee voting or ballots, such as the false idea that it will be...

    Twitch launches a rights-cleared music catalog for streamers, Soundtrack by Twitch – TechCrunch

    Twitch today is introducing a new tool, Soundtrack by Twitch, that will allows it creators to add licensed music within their streams. The...

    See what’s new from Chargepoint, Wejo, Waymo and Planet M at TechCrunch’s mobility event next week – TechCrunch

    We’re in the final run up to TC Sessions: Mobility 2020 on October 6-7, and the great stuff just keeps on coming. We’ve stacked...

    Brands building for scale should look to hypercultural Latinx consumers – TechCrunch

    Ilse Calderon Contributor Ilse Calderon is an investor at OVO Fund where she specializes in pre-seed investments across capital-efficient markets. Prior to OVO, Ilse spent a...

    Drudge Report, a Trump Ally in 2016, Isn’t in 2020

    In December, to raise awareness of a website he had started, Dan Bongino, a conservative radio host and frequent guest on Fox News programs,...

    Gusto is expanding from payroll into a full suite financial wellness platform – TechCrunch

    When we caught up with Gusto last year, the small business payroll startup had just raised $200 million and was launching a new office...

    Juno Bio launches a vaginal microbiome test kit — targeting the women’s health data gap – TechCrunch

    Entrepreneur First -backed Juno Bio has launched a home test kit for women wanting to get a better understanding of their vaginal microbiome while...

    Coralogix lands $25M Series B to rethink log analysis and monitoring – TechCrunch

    Logging and monitoring tends to be an expensive endeavor because of the sheer amount of data involved. Companies are therefore forced to pick and...

    Homer nabs $50M from Lego, Sesame Workshop and Gymboree for its early learning apps – TechCrunch

    For better or worse, tablets and smartphones have become a cornerstone of how many smaller children pass the time. Today, a company that builds...

    Prosus Ventures leads $13 million investment in Pakistan’s ride-hailing giant Bykea – TechCrunch

    Bykea, which leads the ride-hailing market in Pakistan, has raised $13 million in a new financing round as the five-year-old startup looks to...

    Element acquires Gitter to get more developers on board with the open Matrix messaging protocol – TechCrunch

    Some interesting news for lovers of open, decentralized communications tech: Element, the company behind the eponymous Matrix -based Slack competitor (formerly known as Riot)...

    Silverlake adds a $2 billion “longterm” hedge fund backed by Abu Dhabi to its tech finance toolkit – TechCrunch

    Silver Lake Partners, the multi-billion dollar tech-focused investment firm, is adding a longterm hedge fund backed by Abu Dhabi’s sovereign wealth fund, Mubadala, to...