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    Upsie’s direct-to-consumer swing at the warranty space nets $18.2M – TechCrunch

    Upsie, a consumer warranty startup, has raised $18.2 million in a Series A round led by True Ventures.  The financing brings the total raised for...

    Amazon’s new Echo Buds are a nice upgrade – TechCrunch

    It’s hard to recall a consumer electronics category that matured quite as quickly as the fully wireless earbuds. Things went from a handful of...

    BRD’s Blockset unveils its white-label cryptocurrency wallet for banks and other enterprise clients – TechCrunch

    Blockset, the blockchain infrastructure platform for enterprises by BRD, announced early access to its Wallet-as-a-Service today. The white-label solution gives clients, like financial institutions,...

    Google Cloud teams up with SpaceX’s Starlink for enterprise connectivity at network’s edge – TechCrunch

    SpaceX’s bourgeoning Starlink satellite-based broadband internet service just got a big boost from a significant new partner: Google Cloud. Thanks to a new partnership...

    Roku will launch original programming fueled by Quibi’s content on May 20 – TechCrunch

    Roku today announced the launch of its own original programming, which will initially become available to viewers in the U.S., U.K., and Canada through...

    Morressier wants academic conferences to feel cutting edge – TechCrunch

    While a unicorn named Hopin tends to dominate the virtual conferencing space, a new startup just raised millions of dollars by focusing on what...

    With its newest round, Liquid Death will exclusively ‘murder your thirst’ at Live Nation events – TechCrunch

    Liquid Death, a  four-year-old, L.A.-based canned mountain water startup that has steadily garnered market share and press coverage by promising, amusingly, to “murder your...

    Ford is bringing significant wireless software updates to its vehicles – TechCrunch

    The Internet of Things just got bigger. Four years after Ford Motor Company introduced an integration with Amazon’s suite of smart home devices, the...

    Xbox teams up with Tencent’s Honor of Kings maker TiMi Studios – TechCrunch

    TiMi Studios, one of the world’s most lucrative game makers and is part of Tencent’s gargantuan digital entertainment empire, said Thursday that it has...

    SpaceX’s inaugural Moon tour private astronaut is heading to the International Space Station first – TechCrunch

    SpaceX private spaceflight ambitions got a big boost in 2018 when Japanese entrepreneur and billionaire Yusaku Maezawa announced he’d be taking a trip aboard...

    A Phishing Test Promised Workers a Covid Bonus. Now They Want an Apology

    A report released this week by Britain’s National Cyber Security Centre showed a 15-fold increase in the number of scams removed from the internet,...

    Google hit with $123M antitrust fine in Italy over Android Auto – TechCrunch

    Google has been fined just over €100 million (~$123M) by Italy’s antitrust watchdog for abuse of a dominant market position. The case relates to Android...

    Tesla stops accepting Bitcoin as payment for its cars.

    Three months after Tesla said it would begin accepting the cryptocurrency Bitcoin as payment, the electric carmaker has abruptly reversed course.In a message posted...

    ‘Antitrust’ by Amy Klobuchar, and ‘The Tyranny of Big Tech’ by Josh Hawley

    Would you like to read a U.S. senator’s book about antitrust law? No? How about two U.S. senators’ books about antitrust law?Senator Josh Hawley,...

    Vietnamese flexible pay startup Nano raises $3M seed round – TechCrunch

    Nano Technologies, a startup that lets workers in Vietnam access their earned wages immediately through an app called VUI, has raised $3 million in...

    China’s WeRide secures more funding, pushing valuation to $3.3 billion – TechCrunch

    Only four months after securing Series B fundraising of $310 million, Chinese autonomous driving company WeRide says it has achieved its Series C funding...