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    Nick Clegg Steers Facebook’s Trump Decision

    Facebook wanted Mr. Clegg to help repair its relationships with regulators, political leaders and the media after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, when data improperly...

    Supercell likes Metacore’s games so much it just gave it another $180M credit line – TechCrunch

    Metacore, a Finnish mobile games company, seems to have an amazing ‘relationship’ with Supercell, another (quite successful) Finnish mobile games company. Back in September 2020,...

    Uber shows signs of recovery from the pandemic slowdown.

    Uber said its business was recovering from the slowdown caused by the pandemic, although it continued to lose money.The company said on Wednesday that...

    Beyond the fanfare and SEC warnings, SPACs are here to stay – TechCrunch

    Matt Johnson is CEO and co-founder of QC Ware, a quantum computing software company. Matt was a managing director in private equity at Apollo...

    Mobility 2021 to talk about how to build a startup – TechCrunch

    GM might be best known for the millions of Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet and GMC-branded vehicles it designs, produces, finances and sells each year. But...

    For M&A success, tap legal early and often – TechCrunch

    While mergers and acquisitions may be the right strategic path for many businesses, organizations tend to underestimate the role in-house legal teams play in...

    Facebook launches Neighborhoods, a Nextdoor clone – TechCrunch

    Facebook is launching a new section of its app designed to connect neighbors and curate neighborhood-level news. The new feature, predictably called Neighborhoods, is...

    Twitter rolls out improved ‘reply prompts’ to cut down on harmful tweets – TechCrunch

    A year ago, Twitter began testing a feature that would prompt users to pause and reconsider before they replied to a tweet using “harmful”...

    Tinder to roll out new 48-hour, in-app events called ‘Vibes’ – TechCrunch

    On the heels of strong first quarter earnings, dating app giant Match announced its plan to introduce a new live event experience to its...

    Despite gains, gender diversity in VC funding struggled in 2020 – TechCrunch

    People have been discussing the importance of expanding opportunities for women in venture capital and startup entrepreneurship for decades. And for some time it...

    Emerging open cloud security framework has backing of Microsoft, Google and IBM – TechCrunch

    Each of the big cloud platforms has its own methodology for passing on security information to logging and security platforms, leaving it to the...

    Text Blaze raises $3.3M for its speed-writing automation service – TechCrunch

    Text Blaze, which was a part of the recent Winter 2021 Y Combinator accelerator batch, announced that it has closed a $3.3 million seed...

    The Limits of Facebook’s ‘Supreme Court’

    This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays.What Facebook calls its “Supreme Court” ruled...

    One CMO’s honest take on the modern chief marketing role – TechCrunch

    Daniel Incandela Contributor Daniel Incandela is the chief marketing officer of Terminus, an ABM platform that powers high-performing go-to-market teams. There’s no shortage of commentary around the...

    Here’s all the biz dev support Startup Alley+ founders get at TC Disrupt 2021 – TechCrunch

    We’re looking for motivated early-stage founders who want to take advantage of every possible opportunity to launch their startups to new levels of success....

    Peloton stock crashes following recalls, security report – TechCrunch

    Shares of home-exercise giant Peloton are falling today, off some 13.6% as of the time of writing. This comes after the company announced a...