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    Vitalik Buterin donates $1 billion worth of ‘meme coins’ to India Covid Relief Fund – TechCrunch

    Vitalik Buterin, the creator of Ethereum, on Wednesday donated Ethereum and “meme coins” worth $1.5 billion in one of the largest-ever individual philanthropy efforts. Buterin...

    Elon Musk, Technoking of Tesla orders a halt to bitcoin car payments  – TechCrunch

    Tesla CEO and self-dubbed technoking is back peddling on the company’s stance about bitcoin and has suspended purchases of its electric vehicles with the...

    The early-stage tech talent crunch is real – TechCrunch

    To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. By now...

    When Doves Cry – TechCrunch

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yV1CeEwY48 Usually we wait a few days until a show has settled. While we stall, our producer and director Tina Chase Gillmor scours the recording...

    Bessemer’s Kent Bennett and Toast’s Aman Narang to discuss how to become a unicorn on ECL – TechCrunch

    Toast has a reported valuation over $5 billion and has raised more than $900 million since launch. The restaurant POS service has clearly been...

    Latest News on the Shutdown: Pipeline Resumes Operation

    The operator of Colonial Pipeline said on Wednesday that it had started to resume pipeline operations.“It will take several days for the product delivery...

    AWS releases tool to open source that turns on-prem software into SaaS – TechCrunch

    AWS announced today that it’s releasing a tool called AWS SaaS Boost as open source distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. The tool, which...

    GasBuddy tops the App Store for the first time due to Colonial Pipeline attack – TechCrunch

    The GasBuddy mobile app, which typically helps consumers find the cheapest gas nearby, has now become the No. 1 app on the U.S. App...

    Waymo to lose its CFO and head of automotive partnerships – TechCrunch

    Waymo’s chief financial officer Ger Dwyer and its head of automotive partnerships and corporate development Adam Frost — two longtime executives at the autonomous...

    TikTok removes 500k+ accounts in Italy after DPA order to block underage users – TechCrunch

    Video sharing social network TikTok has removed more than 500,000 accounts in Italy following an intervention by the country’s data protection watchdog earlier this...

    36 hours left to apply to Startup Battlefield at TC Disrupt 2021 – TechCrunch

    Do you and your early-stage startup have what it takes to be a modern-day gladiator and compete in Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021?...

    Does it make sense to sponsor immigrant talent to work remotely? – TechCrunch

    Sophie Alcorn Contributor Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year...

    Bird Ride’s SPAC filing shows scooter-nomics just doesn’t fly – TechCrunch

    Scooter unicorn Bird Rides is going public, per an agreement to merge with a special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC. After rumors and reports...

    Direct-to-consumer orthodontic startup Impress raises $50M to scale across Europe – TechCrunch

    As the famous phrase goes, ‘software is eating the world’ and now software is eating dentistry. Or, perhaps more accurately, the arena of orthodontics...

    TikTok launches a Green Screen Duet feature, tests dedicated ‘Topics’ feeds – TechCrunch

    As competition with tech giants heats up, TikTok is rolling out a series of new features to help keep its short-form video app ahead...

    Feeling Stuck on Twitter and Facebook? So Is Everyone Else.

    Stuckness is also the inevitable result of a commercialized social and civic space, built only to grow. Stuckness is not quite the same as...