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    Jeff Wilke, Amazon’s Chief of Consumer Business, Will Retire Next Year

    As Mr. Bezos increasingly stepped away from the day-to-day of running Amazon, Mr. Wilke took on a broad array of work. He flew to...

    To Fight Apple and Google’s Grip, Fortnite Creator Mounts a Crusade

    SAN FRANCISCO — Tim Sweeney, chief executive and founder of the video game maker Epic Games, has antagonized the world’s most powerful technology giants...

    Eduardo Saverin on the ‘world of innovation past Silicon Valley’ – TechCrunch

    Eduardo Saverin will forever be known for cofounding Facebook 16 years ago with four other Harvard classmates (one of whom is still running the...

    Apple ordered to not block Epic Games’ Unreal Engine, but Fortnite to stay off App Store – TechCrunch

    A district court denied Epic Games’ motion to temporarily restore Fortnite game to the iOS App Store, but also ordered Apple to...

    Supermetrics raises €40M to bring all your marketing data together – TechCrunch

    Supermetrics, the data management and analysis tool for marketers, has raised €40 million in new funding. Leading the round is Highland Europe, with participation from...

    MIT wireless system can monitor what care facility residents are doing while preserving privacy – TechCrunch

    Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) have developed a way for a fully wireless system to monitor not only movement...

    After restricting a group critical of Thailand’s monarchy, Facebook says it will take legal action against the government – TechCrunch

    After restricting access to a popular group with posts critical of Thailand’s monarchy, Facebook is planning legal action against the Thai government, which...

    Connected Roombas get smarter with iRobot’s ‘Genius’ update – TechCrunch

    For iRobot, much of the last several years has been devoted to making its line of home-cleaning robots smarter. There hasn’t been much...

    Palantir’s S-1 alludes to controversial work with ICE as a risk factor for its business – TechCrunch

    Palantir’s mysterious work and its founding origins with Trump ally and anti-press crusader Peter Thiel have inspired a number of controversies in recent years, none...

    Sutter Hill strikes ice-cold, $2.5B pre-market return with Snowflake’s IPO filing – TechCrunch

    Today is the day for huge VC returns. We talked a bit about Sequoia’s coming huge win with the IPO of game engine Unity this...

    TikTok sues the US government – TechCrunch

    TikTok fights its U.S. ban, Twitter takes action against another Trump tweet and Unity files to go public. This is your Daily Crunch...

    As losses expand, Asana is confident it has the ticket for a successful public listing – TechCrunch

    Asana, the project management software developer, dropped its filing for a direct listing on one of the busiest days of a surprisingly busy late...

    Xwing plans short, regional flights for its autonomous cargo planes – TechCrunch

    The path to deploying commercial aircraft that can handle all aspects of flight without a pilot is long, winding, expensive and riddled with regulatory...

    Palo Alto Networks to buy digital forensics consulting firm for $265M – TechCrunch

    It’s been quite a day in the tech world with a bushel of S-1s being filed to go public. Not to be left out...

    Here are the 98 companies from Y Combinator’s Summer 2020 Demo Day 1 – TechCrunch

    Today was part one of Y Combinator’s two-parter Summer 2020 Demo Day, where nearly 100 companies debuted their efforts to the world for...

    Our 11 favorite companies from Y Combinator’s S20 Demo Day: Part I – TechCrunch

    Startup incubator and investment group Y Combinator today held the first of two demo days for founders in its Summer 2020 batch. So far, this...