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    India bans PUBG and over 100 additional Chinese apps – TechCrunch

    India has banned more than 100 additional apps with linkage to China including popular mobile game PUBG citing cybersecurity concerns as geopolitical tension between...

    Mulberry, the warranty service for direct to consumer brands, approaches $10 million ARR – TechCrunch

    In the two years since Chinedu Eleanya founded Mulberry to be the warranty service for direct-to-consumer brands, business has boomed.  Already riding a shakeup in...

    Point72, the firm investing hedge fund mogul Steven A Cohen’s personal wealth, gets into healthcare – TechCrunch

    Point72 Ventures, the early stage investment firm that’s now solely investing the personal wealth of the multi-billionaire hedge fund magnate Steven A. Cohen, is...

    India’s online learning platform Unacademy raises $150 million at $1.45 billion valuation – TechCrunch

    India has a new unicorn startup. On Wednesday, Bangalore-based online learning startup announced it has raised $150 million in a new financing round that...

    Microsoft launches a deepfake detector tool ahead of US election – TechCrunch

    Microsoft has added to the slowly growing pile of technologies aimed at spotting synthetic media (aka deepfakes) with the launch of a tool for...

    Klaxoon teases new interactive meeting product for video calls – TechCrunch

    French startup Klaxoon is currently testing a new product called Board. The company expects to launch Board at some point during the second half...

    China’s logistics titan YTO nets close to $1B from Alibaba in overseas push – TechCrunch

    E-commerce has brought in a logistics boom in China over the last decade, transforming small-town delivery businesses into multinational corporations. One leading player, YTO,...

    3one4 Capital launches $100M fund to back early-stage startups in India – TechCrunch

    3one4 Capital, a venture capital firm in India, today announced a $100 million fund as the young investment firm looks to back more early-stage...

    Indonesian insurtech startup PasarPolis gets $54 million Series B from investors including LeapFrog and SBI – TechCrunch

    PasarPolis, the Indonesian-based startup focused on making insurance policies more accessible in Southeast Asia, announced today it has closed a Series B round totaling...

    GM, Ford wrap up ventilator production and shift back to auto business – TechCrunch

    As the COVID-19 pandemic spread to the United States, a number of automakers and other manufacturers announced plans to retrofit factories to help ease...

    Toss Lab raises $13 million Series B for its collaboration platform JANDI, the “Slack of Asia” – TechCrunch

    As Slack ramps up its investment in Asia, Toss Lab, the South Korea-based creator of enterprise collaboration platform JANDI, is preparing to become a...

    Dizziness Upon Standing Can Lead to Falls and Fractures

    In an interview, Dr. Gibbons said orthostatic hypotension can be “a presymptomatic sign of Parkinson’s disease, dementia and other disorders of the autonomic nervous...

    Helping Children With Pandemic Grief

    Acknowledge your own sadness, and that you miss the person who has died.We’re living in a world right now where experts on grief and...

    Apple launches ‘Exposure Notification Express’ for COVID-19 – TechCrunch

    Apple and Google are adding support for app-less exposure notifications, Facebook says it might block news sharing in Australia and Samsung has a...

    Student-led accelerator Envision reaches demo week for class one, looks to class two – TechCrunch

    Back in early July, TechCrunch covered the Envision Accelerator. The program was put together by a group of students and recent graduates, often with...

    Apple launches COVID-19 ‘Exposure Notification Express’ with iOS 13.7 — Android to follow later this month – TechCrunch

    Apple and Google are continuing to make good on their planned roll-out of exposure notification technology for helping with COVID-19 contact-tracing efforts....