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    Swyg raises $1.2M pre-seed to use peer-interviewers and AI to reduce bias in recruitment – TechCrunch

    Swyg, a Dublin-based startup that believes it can reduce bias in recruitment by combining a peer-interview process with its own AI, has picked up...

    Viral article puts the brakes on China’s food delivery frenzy – TechCrunch

    For China’s food delivery workers, life can feel like a constant battle with algorithms, traffic police, and disgruntled customers. An essay detailing the hazardous work...

    Dawn Capital closes another $400M fund to focus on B2B software – TechCrunch

    Dawn Capital, the London-based VC that focuses on B2B software, has closed its fourth and largest fund: $400 million that it plans to use...

    Reliance Retail to raise $1 billion from Silver Lake – TechCrunch

    Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s retail venture Reliance Retail said on Wednesday it will raise $1.02 billion from Silver Lake, kickstarting a fundraising...

    TikTok is trying to remove a disturbing video showing up on people’s For You pages – TechCrunch

    A graphic video of a man committing suicide spread across TikTok early this week, and the company is still working to remove it....

    Panasonic to expand battery capacity at Tesla Gigafactory – TechCrunch

    Panasonic is adding another production line to the massive factory it operates with Tesla in Nevada, an expansion that will increase battery cell...

    Taboola and Outbrain call off their $850M merger – TechCrunch

    Online advertising is a game of scale, but one attempt to consolidate two competitors to better take on Google and Facebook has fallen apart....

    Gillmor Gang: Table Stakes – TechCrunch

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_tCujLX3nU I quite like the iPad Pro 11 inch with the Magic Keyboard. In the Land of Pandemic, where every day is Saturday, the tablet...

    Sign up to learn about funding options with the IFundWomen team – TechCrunch

    Disrupt 2020 is mere days away, but we’ve added pre-Disrupt events to help startup founders up their game, increase their ROI and drive their...

    Apple files countersuit against Epic – TechCrunch

    Apple strikes back at Epic Games, Android 11 is here and Microsoft announces a new stripped-down Xbox. This is your Daily Crunch for...

    Twitter begins adding headlines and descriptions to some of its ‘trends’ – TechCrunch

    Twitter is working to make its real-time Trending section less confusing. Last week, the company announced it would begin pinning a representative tweet...

    Lucid Motors’ all-electric Air will start below $80,000 – TechCrunch

    After months of teasers and announcements, Lucid Motors will finally reveal its first all-electric luxury sedan, the Air, during a live stream on...

    DNX Ventures launches $315 million fund for U.S. and Japanese B2B startups – TechCrunch

    DNX Ventures, an investment firm that focuses on early-stage B2B startups in Japan and the United States, announced today that it has closed a...

    The $10B JEDI contract is locked, loaded and still completely stuck – TechCrunch

    The other day I took a moment to count the number of stories we’ve done on TechCrunch on the DoD’s $10 billion, decade-long, winner-take-all,...

    Snowflake’s IPO could value it as high as $24B, Salesforce and Berkshire to invest – TechCrunch

    On the heels of new filings from both Sumo Logic and JFrog, Snowflake, a venture-backed unicorn looking to go public on the strength of...

    Lidar startup Ouster raises $42M in push to grow sales, diversify products – TechCrunch

    Lidar startup Ouster has spent the past several years expanding and improving its line of sensors as it jostles for a piece of...