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    General Motors takes $2 billion stake in electric truck startup Nikola – TechCrunch

    Nikola and General Motors today announced a strategic partnership. Through the deal, GM gets 11% ownership in startup Nikola, and will, in turn,...

    Limited Testing for Children Creates a Covid ‘Blind Spot’

    CVS Health has slowly dropped the age minimum at its 1,944 drive-through testing sites across the country. The pharmacies initially accepted only adult patients...

    Google Cloud launches its Business Application Platform based on Apigee and AppSheet – TechCrunch

    Unlike some of its competitors, Google Cloud has recently started emphasizing how its large lineup of different services can be combined to solve...

    Peloton launches new Bike+ and Tread smart home gym equipment, both at $2,495 – TechCrunch

    Peloton has launched two new products for its home smart gym lineup, the Bike+ ($2,495) and the Tread ($2,495). While both carry the...

    China presents ‘global standard for data security’ – TechCrunch

    As tensions between the U.S. and China heighten over data security issues, Beijing took a proactive step to unveil a “data security initiative” that...

    Microsoft confirms compact, $299 Xbox Series S next-gen game console – TechCrunch

    Microsoft has confirmed via its official Xbox Twitter account that a discless, tiny Xbox called the Series S will be released alongside its...

    TikTok joins Europe’s code on tackling hate speech – TechCrunch

    TikTok, the popular short video sharing app, has joined the European Union’s Code of Conduct on Countering Illegal Hate Speech. In a statement on...

    Diffblue launches a free community edition of its automated Java unit testing tool – TechCrunch

    Diffblue, a spin-out from Oxford University, uses machine learning to help developers automatically create unit tests for their Java code. Since few developers enjoy...

    PUBG cuts publishing ties with Tencent Games in India a week after ban – TechCrunch

    PUBG said on Tuesday Chinese giant Tencent Games will no longer be the publishing partner of the popular game in India as it attempts...

    Thunes, a fintech startup serving emerging markets, raises $60 million led by Africa-focused Helios Investment Partners – TechCrunch

    Thunes, a Singapore-based startup developing a cross-border payments network to make financial services more accessible in emerging markets, announced today it has raised a...

    Skin Analytics raises £4M Series A to use AI for skin cancer screening – TechCrunch

    Skin Analytics, a U.K.-based startup that has developed a skin cancer screening service that uses artificial intelligence, has raised £4 million in Series A...

    Silver Lake leads $500 million round in India’s Byju’s – TechCrunch

    Byju’s has raised $500 million in a new financing round that valued the Indian online learning platform at $10.8 billion, a source familiar with...

    Sarbacane, maker of Mailify, raises $27M for marketing tools – TechCrunch

    Marketing technology — and specifically tools that help companies leverage the internet to connect with customers in a way that is compliant with a...

    Do Ventures launches $50 million fund for Vietnamese startups, backed by Naver, Vertex and other notable LPs – TechCrunch

    Vy Le and Dzung Nguyen, the founders and general partners of Do Ventures, an investment firm focused on early-stage Vietnamese startups New investment firm Do...

    Revolut launches its financial app in Japan – TechCrunch

    Fintech startup Revolut is expanding to Japan. After testing the service with 10,000 users, anybody can now sign up and open an account. The...

    Dutch payments startup Mollie raises $106M at $1B+ valuation – TechCrunch

    E-commerce has seen a huge jump in the last eight months, driven by consumers shopping more for goods online while spending more time at...