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    Learning how to ask questions is an essential skill for startup founders – TechCrunch

    Mercedes Bent Contributor Mercedes Bent is a partner at Lightspeed where she invests in consumer, edtech and fintech companies. For many of us, learning to ask...

    Justice Dept. Case Against Google Is Said to Focus on Search Dominance

    WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice’s impending lawsuit against Google has narrowed to focus on the company’s power over internet search, a decision that...

    Roli’s light-up learning keyboard goes up for pre-order at $299 – TechCrunch

    Roli is cool startup that makes fascinating music products. The Seaboard led the way, with a clever take on the keyboard that allowed players...

    Rephrase.ai raises $1.5M to use synthetic media for personalized sales pitches – TechCrunch

    Bangalore-based Rephrase.ai has an ambitious vision for reshaping how movies and videos are made. CEO Ashray Malhotra laid it out for me yesterday, saying that...

    Spontaneous Nosebleeds Tied to High Blood Pressure

    High blood pressure may increase your risk for nosebleeds, a new study reports.Korean researchers studied 35,749 people, average age 52, with hypertension, and matched...

    Airship acquires SMS commerce company ReplyBuy – TechCrunch

    Airship is announcing that it has acquired mobile commerce startup ReplyBuy. The startup (which was a finalist at TechCrunch’s 1st and Future competition in 2016)...

    WHO | Chikungunya – Congo

    From July through 20 September 2020, a total of 27 540 cases were reported in...

    NUVIA raises $240M from Mithril to make climate-ready enterprise chips – TechCrunch

    Climate change is on everyone’s minds these days, what with the outer Bay Area on fire, orange skies above San Francisco, and a hurricane...

    E-commerce platform Whitebox raises $18M – TechCrunch

    Whitebox, a startup that manages e-commerce logistics and fulfillment for a variety for brands, has raised $18 million in Series B funding. While discussing the...

    Spectrum Labs raises $10M for its AI-based platform to combat online toxicity – TechCrunch

    With the US presidential election now 40 days away, all eyes are focused on how online conversations, in conjunction with other hallmarks of online...

    Ohio-based collaboration service for biotech and pharma research, Within3, raises $100 million – TechCrunch

    Within3, a collaboration and communication service for the biotech and pharma industries, has raised over $100 million in new financing, the company said. The investment...

    United Airlines is making COVID-19 tests available to passengers, powered in part by Color – TechCrunch

    There’s still no clear path back to any sense of ‘business-as-usual’ as the COVID-19 pandemic continues, but United Airlines is embarking on a...

    India’s ShareChat raises $40 million, says its short-video platform Moj now reaches 80 million users – TechCrunch

    ShareChat, an Indian social network that focuses entirely on serving users in non-English languages, said on Thursday it has raised $40 million from...

    To Fight Apple and Google, Smaller App Rivals Organize a Coalition

    SAN FRANCISCO — For months, complaints from tech companies against Apple’s and Google’s power have grown louder.Spotify, the music streaming app, criticized Apple for...

    Snyk acquires DeepCode to boost its code review smarts – TechCrunch

    Switzerland-based machine learning code review startup DeepCode — which bills itself as ‘Grammarly for coders’ — has been acquired by Snyk, a post-unicorn valuation...

    YouTube will add mail-in voting info box next to videos that discuss voting by mail – TechCrunch

    YouTube has been relatively quiet about its strategy to battle the flow of misinformation leading into the 2020 U.S. election, but the platform...