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    Detroit-based Signal Advisors raises $10m Series A led by General Catalyst – TechCrunch

    Signal Advisors is building a specialized financial platform for financial advisors, and the company is announcing it raised a $10 million Series A led...

    Thoma Bravo buys cybersecurity vendor Proofpoin for $12.3B in cash – TechCrunch

    Moree M&A activity underway in the red-hot field of cybersecurity. In the latest development, private equity giant Thoma Bravo is buying Proofpoint, the SaaS...

    How Mark Zuckerberg and Apple’s C.E.O. Became Foes

    “It really spoke to the power of Apple controlling the operating system,” said Brian Wieser, president of business intelligence at GroupM, an advertising industry...

    Investors eat up Orbillion Bio’s plans for lab-grown wagyu beef, elk, and bison – TechCrunch

    Orbillion Bio’s plans to make high end meats in a lab have investors lining up for a seat at the company’s cap table. Mere weeks...

    Mighty Networks raises $50M to build a creator economy for the masses – TechCrunch

    Mighty Networks, a platform designed to give creators and brands a dedicated place to start and grow communities, has closed on $50 million in...

    Breaking Point: How Mark Zuckerberg and Tim Cook Became Foes

    SAN FRANCISCO — At a confab for tech and media moguls in Sun Valley, Idaho, in July 2019, Timothy D. Cook of Apple and...

    Where Does a Candle Go When It Burns?

    Where does a candle go when it burns, anyway? Is it healthy to be breathing in melted candle particles? How concerned should I be?—...

    To Be Tracked or Not? Apple Is Now Giving Us the Choice.

    If we had a choice, would any of us want to be tracked online for the sake of seeing more relevant digital ads?We are...

    Insurgent UK broadband startup Cuckoo Internet raises $6M round led by RTP Global, with JamJar Investments – TechCrunch

    Cuckoo Internet, which is aiming to be an insurgent startup in the broadband provider space in the UK, has closed a $6 million investment...

    AI startup Faculty wins contract to predict future requirements for the UK’s NHS – TechCrunch

    Faculty, a VC-backed artificial intelligence start-up, has won a tender to work with the NHS to make better predictions about its future requirements for...

    China’s e-commerce giant JD.com starts paying some staff in digital yuan – TechCrunch

    China’s plan to introduce its digital currency is getting a lot of help from its tech conglomerates. JD.com, a major Chinese online retailer that...

    India’s Lead School raises $30 million to reach more students – TechCrunch

    An Indian startup that is helping digitize and transform affordable private schools to better serve students from middle and low-income groups of families said...

    Hacker publishes alleged records of 20 million BigBasket users – TechCrunch

    An alleged database of about 20 million BigBasket users has leaked on a well-known cybercrime forum, months after the Indian grocery delivery startup confirmed...

    YC-backed Kidato raises $1.4M seed to scale its online school for K-12 students in Africa – TechCrunch

    In public schools across Africa, classrooms are often overcrowded and this affects how teachers and students interact. The large classroom creates too much work...

    Robo-advisor StashAway gets $25M Series D led by Sequoia Capital India – TechCrunch

    Investment app StashAway has raised a $25 million Series D led by Sequoia Capital India, with participation from returning investors Eight Roads Ventures and...

    NASA Mars Helicopter Ingenuity Makes Longest and Fastest Flight

    NASA’s Mars helicopter went up again, going faster and traveling a total distance that was about the length of an American football field on...