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    Sorbet raises $6M Seed led by Viola Ventures to tackle the thorny financials of Paid Time Off – TechCrunch

    A US/Israeli startup, Sorbet — which is tackling what companies do with the financial risks as employees accrue Paid Time Off (PTO) — has...

    Cloud infrastructure market keeps rolling in Q1 with almost $40B in revenue – TechCrunch

    Conventional wisdom over the last year has suggested that the pandemic has driven companies to the cloud much faster than they ever would have...

    Computer vision inches towards ‘common sense’ with Facebook’s latest research – TechCrunch

    Machine learning is capable of doing all sorts of things as long as you have the data to teach it how. That’s not always...

    The second shot is kicking in – TechCrunch

    Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. First and foremost, Equity was nominated for a...

    Geothermal technology has enormous potential to power the planet and Fervo wants to tap it – TechCrunch

    Tapping the geothermal energy stored beneath the Earth’s surface as a way to generate renewable power is one of the new visions for the...

    The health data transparency movement is birthing a new generation of startups – TechCrunch

    Ariel Katz is the founder and CEO of H1, a global healthcare platform that helps life sciences companies, hospitals, academic medical centers and health...

    Rapchat tunes into $2.3M as its music-making app hits 7M users – TechCrunch

    YouTube, Snapchat, Twitter, TikTok and Facebook’s Instagram have upended the film and TV industries, with a new wave of cinematographers, directors and actors leveraging...

    Developer-focused video platform Mux achieves unicorn status with $105M funding – TechCrunch

    Barely more than eight months after announcing a $37 million funding round, Mux has another $105 million. The Series D was led by Coatue and...

    Roku removes YouTube TV from its channel store following failed negotiations – TechCrunch

    Earlier this week, Roku warned customers that the YouTube TV app may be removed from its streaming media players and TVs, and alleged that...

    As concerns rise over forest carbon offsets, Pachama’s verified offset marketplace gets $15 million – TechCrunch

    Restoring and preserving the world’s forests has long been considered one of the easiest, lowest cost, and simplest ways to reduce the amount of...

    Europe charges Apple with antitrust breach, citing Spotify App Store complaint – TechCrunch

    The European Commission has announced that it’s issued formal antitrust charges against Apple, saying today that its preliminary view is Apple’s app store rules distort...

    After Vaccination, The Surprise Family Reunion Video

    Josh Reynolds, who works in tech sales and lives in American Fork, Utah, got vaccinated without telling his extended family. Two weeks after his...

    Eclipse Ventures has $500 million more to digitize old-line industries and bring them up to speed – TechCrunch

    Two years ago, we talked with Lior Susan, the founder of now six-year-old Eclipse Ventures in Palo Alto, Ca. At the time, the outfit...

    The era of the European insurtech IPO will soon be upon us – TechCrunch

    Phil Edmondson-Jones Contributor Phil Edmondson-Jones is a principal at Oxx, the specialist SaaS VC backing Europe and Israel's most promising B2B SaaS businesses at the scale-up...

    Lambda School lays off 65 employees amid restructuring – TechCrunch

    Nearly a year after its last layoff, online coding bootcamp Lambda School just announced more cuts amid a broader structuring. In a blog post,...

    Biden’s labor secretary says gig workers should be reclassified – TechCrunch

    The Biden administration hints at gig economy changes, Blue Origin will be taking passengers and we interview Jim Belushi about weed. This is your...