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    Lemonade and Accolade open sharply higher as public markets rally – TechCrunch

    Despite today’s bucket of plus-and-minus economic data, stocks are heading higher in regular trading. And among the shares rising the most are today’s two...

    Are virtual concerts here to stay? – TechCrunch

    The COVID-19 pandemic pushed the music industry to experiment seriously with virtual concerts. Historically, musicians and their managers have been careful about challenging the traditional...

    JetBlue Pilots Won’t Face Involuntary Furlough Until May 2021

    JetBlue’s 3,600 pilots are today breathing a sigh of relief after it was revealed yesterday that the airline had reached an agreement with its...

    Get your pitchdeck critiqued by Accel’s Amy Saper and Bessemer’s Talia Goldberg at Early Stage – TechCrunch

    The art of the pitchdeck. Few things are more critical to the success of startups seeding capital. And make no mistake, it is an...

    British Airways Repatriates Nearly 40,000 UK Citizens In 3 Months

    British Airways has repatriated almost 40,000 British citizens since it started such flights in late March. The airline’s flight schedule has been minimal since...

    Facebook discovers it shared user data with at least 5,000 app developers after a cutoff data – TechCrunch

    Facebook accidentally allowed around 5,000 developers to access data from their app’s inactive users, even though that access should have been cut off....

    Why I flip-flopped on opposing remote work – TechCrunch

    COVID-19 forced me to reevaluate many of my assumptions David Cancel, a five-time entrepreneur and author of the book "Conversational Marketing," is CEO and founder...

    Advertiser Exodus Snowballs as Facebook Struggles to Ease Concerns

    The company’s executives continued the campaign on Tuesday morning with another video meeting with advertisers, followed by separate sessions with ad holding companies. At...

    China’s Software Stalked Uighurs Earlier and More Widely, Researchers Learn

    The malicious apps mimicked so-called virtual private networks, which are used to set up secure web connections and view prohibited content inside China. They...

    Walmart partners with Tribeca to turn 160 store parking lots into drive-in theaters – TechCrunch

    Just ahead of the Fourth of July weekend, Walmart announced a partnership with Tribeca Enterprises (most notably the purveyors of the film festival of...

    High-flying IPOs for Lemonade and Accolade may encourage other unicorns to go public – TechCrunch

    If you’d predicted in late March and early April that Q3 would kick off with a wide-open IPO market and receptive investors, I doubt...

    QuestDB nabs $2.3M seed to build open source time series database – TechCrunch

    QuestDB, a member of the Y Combinator summer 2020 cohort, is building an open source time series database with speed top of mind. Today...

    The Simple Flying Podcast Episode 21: 737 MAX Recertification, Au Revoir To Air France’s A380

    Simple Flying’s latest podcast is live and ready for you to enjoy. Hosted by Joanna Bailey, our editor, and Tom Boon, our content manager, our 21st...

    Growth capital investor Kennet raises $250M fund, backed by Edmond de Rothschild – TechCrunch

    Venture capital is “not the only fruit” for entrepreneurs, as the often quieter ‘Growth Capital’ can also see great returns for entrepreneurs who prefer...

    DoubleVerify names adtech exec Mark Zagorski as new CEO – TechCrunch

    Ad measurement company DoubleVerify announced this morning that it has a new: CEO Mark Zagorski, who was most recently president and COO of adtech...

    State Set To Take A Stake In TAP Air Portugal

    The Portuguese government is set to take a larger stake in TAP Air Portugal as it avoids nationalization. The state will increase its share...