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    Twitter survey reveals the subscription options it’s eyeing, including an ‘Undo Send’ button – TechCrunch

    Earlier this month, Twitter told investors it’s considering a subscription model as a means of generating additional revenue to support its business. Now we...

    Florida teen arrested in Twitter hack – TechCrunch

    Three arrests are made following this month’s celebrity Twitter hack, Microsoft may be working to acquire TikTok’s U.S. business and Facebook launches licensed...

    Even as cloud infrastructure growth slows, revenue rises over $30B for quarter – TechCrunch

    The cloud market is coming into its own during the pandemic as the novel coronavirus forced many companies to accelerate plans to move to...

    British Airways Pilots Vote To Accept Temporary Pay Cuts

    British Airways and its pilots have reached a deal to avoid mass layoffs. Amid the current crisis, BA has been working to come out...

    I Tried to Live Without the Tech Giants. It Was Impossible.

    The chief executives of Amazon, Facebook, Google and Apple were called before a House antitrust committee this week, ostensibly to answer questions about whether...

    Recruiting for diversity in VC – TechCrunch

    Dan is a Partner at True Search where he leads the firm's Investment Professional practice, having worked with many top VC & PE firms...

    Working to understand Affirm’s reported IPO pricing hopes – TechCrunch

    How much revenue does it takes to earn an eleven-figure valuation? News broke last night that Affirm, a well-known fintech unicorn, could approach the public...

    Genomics startup Helix receives $33 million in NIH funding to scale COVID-19 testing – TechCrunch

    The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) is revealing the first beneficiaries of its Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx) program, and San Mateo-based Helix...

    Mammoth Biosciences’s CRISPR-based COVID-19 test receives NIH funding through RADx program – TechCrunch

    CRISPR tech startup Mammoth Biosciences is among the companies that revealed backing from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics...

    Australia now has a template for forcing Facebook and Google to pay for news – TechCrunch

    Australia is closing in on a legally binding framework to force adtech giants Facebook and Google pay media companies for monetizing their news...

    GOL Expects To Raise Over $550 Million In Liquidity

    Brazilian airline GOL Linhas Aereas expects to raise over to US$550 million by the end of the third quarter. Despite the recent controversy and...

    Delightree raises $3M to help franchise business owners simplify their operations – TechCrunch

    Owning one brick-and-mortar business seems complicated enough. But running multiple locations? For many owners, that’s a constant juggling act of phone calls, check lists...

    First US apps based on Google and Apple Exposure Notification System expected in ‘coming weeks’ – TechCrunch

    Google Vice President of Engineering Dave Burke provided an update about the Exposure Notifications System (ENS) that Google developed in partnership with Apple...

    Lufthansa Has Seen No Resistance To Its Mask Policy

    Lufthansa has seen no resistance to its policy of mandatory mask-wearing, the airline told Simple Flying yesterday. The German flag carrier was one of...

    Rocket Lab clear to launch again after first mission failure attributed to electrical fault – TechCrunch

    Rocket Lab has received clearance to launch from the FAA following the failure of its Electron rocket on July 4 and the loss...

    Pandemic Loneliness in Late Life

    By the end of June, when my husband landed in the hospital, its administrators had begun allowing one visitor per patient, much to my...