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    Facebook’s Ban of Trump Upheld by Oversight Board

    SAN FRANCISCO — A Facebook-appointed panel of journalists, activists and lawyers ruled on Wednesday to uphold the social network’s ban of former President Donald...

    How to Power Up Your To-Do List

    Getting organized is serious business, judging by the number of checklist and chore-tracker programs available. If you’re new to mobile task-manager software, Apple and...

    “Knowledge-as-a-service” platform Lynk announces collaboration with UBS – TechCrunch

    Lynk announced today that its “knowledge-as-a-service” platform will be integrated into UBS’ investment process. The collaboration means the banking giant’s research analysts and institutional...

    With backers like Tiger Global, LatAm crypto exchange Bisto raises $250M at a $2.2B valuation – TechCrunch

    Bitso, a regulated crypto exchange in Latin America, announced today it has raised $250 million in a Series C round of funding that values...

    Disqus facing $3M fine in Norway for tracking users without consent – TechCrunch

    Disqus, a commenting plugin that’s used by a number of news websites and which can share user data for ad targeting purposes, has got...

    Peloton’s leaky API let anyone grab rider’s private account data – TechCrunch

    Halfway through my Monday afternoon workout last week, I got a message from a security researcher with a screenshot of my Peloton account data. My...

    Cymulate nabs $45M to test and improve cybersecurity defenses via attack simulations – TechCrunch

    With cybercrime on course to be a $6 trillion problem this year, organizations are throwing ever more resources at the issue to avoid being...

    Sprout.ai raises $11m Series A led by Octopus Ventures to apply AI to insurance claims – TechCrunch

    It was way back in 2018 that Omni:us appeared to disrupt the insurance market by applying AI to this most legacy of all industries....

    Facebook Oversight Board Set to Rule on Trump Ban

    Facebook has scheduled an announcement for 9 a.m. Eastern time Wednesday on whether former President Donald J. Trump can regain his megaphone on the...

    Lucid Motors taps Waymo, Intel veterans ahead of public listing – TechCrunch

    Lucid Motors is beefing up its executive and technical leadership team, hiring people from Waymo, Intel and Xperi as it prepares to become a...

    Egypt’s Flextock closes $3.25M in the largest pre-seed yet in MENA – TechCrunch

    Flextock, one of the 10 African startups from the recent Y Combinator winter batch, has bagged an impressive pre-seed round just two months after...

    StudySmarter books $15M for a global ‘personalized learning’ push – TechCrunch

    More money for the edtech boom: Munich-based StudySmarter, which makes digital tools to help learners of all ages swat up — styling itself as...

    Kenya’s Lami raises $1.8M to scale API insurance platform across Africa – TechCrunch

    Africa’s insurance market stands at a 3% penetration rate, per a McKinsey study in 2018 comparing six insurance regions on the continent. If the...

    Fewcents raises $1.6M to help publishers take payments for individual articles, videos and podcasts – TechCrunch

      Fewcents co-founders Dushyant Khare and Abhishek Dadoo Many publishers are focused on converting visitors to subscribers, but there’s another important bracket: people who want...

    Judge presses Epic on the impact of its antitrust suit against Apple.

    Last May, Epic Games was making plans to circumvent Apple’s and Google’s app store rules and ultimately sue them in cases that could reshape...

    Tech stocks hammered after US Treasury Secretary speculates on hiking interest rates – 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. Are startup...