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    Facebook to test new business discovery features in U.S. News Feed – TechCrunch

    Facebook announced this morning it will begin testing a new experience for discovering businesses in its News Feed in the U.S. When live, users...

    Social audio startup Stationhead looks beyond music as it hits 100K monthly active users – TechCrunch

    When I’ve written about Stationhead in the past, I’ve focused on how the startup aims to recapture bring personality and interactivity of a live...

    Pizza, picking and swimming snakes – TechCrunch

    Some weeks are slim pickings when it comes to pulling together interesting robotics stories. This is, decidedly, not one of those weeks. In fact,...

    Feels is a new dating app with profiles that look more personal – TechCrunch

    Meet Feels, a new French startup that wants to change how dating apps work. According to the company, scrolling through photos and reading descriptions...

    UserZoom raises $100M, acquires EnjoyHQ, to grow its platform to improve UX and other interactive design elements – TechCrunch

    Graphic designer Paul Rand once famously said that the public was more familiar with bad design than good design. While he was referring to...

    Goldman Sachs leads $23M in funding for Brazilian e-commerce startup Olist – TechCrunch

    Olist, a Brazilian e-commerce marketplace integrator, has raised $23 million in a Series D round extension led by new investor Goldman Sachs Asset Management...

    C2i, a genomics SaaS product to detect traces of cancer, raises $100M Series B – TechCrunch

    If you or a loved one has ever undergone a tumor removal as part of cancer treatment, you’re likely familiar with the period of...

    The Chainsmokers, Alexis Ohanian, Amy Schumer, Kevin Hart, Mark Cuban, Marshmello, and Snoop Dogg back Pearpop – TechCrunch

    Pearpop, the marketplace for social collaborations between the teeming hordes of musicians, craftspeople, chefs, clowns, diarists, dancers, artists, actors, acrobats, aspiring celebrities and actual...

    Polestar raises $500M from outside investors as EV market grows – TechCrunch

    Polestar, Volvo Car Group’s standalone electric performance brand, has raised $550 million in its first external round led by Chongqing Chengxing Equity Investment Fund Partnership,...

    Hear from Detroit VCs on how to raise cash in the Motor City today at TechCrunch’s free Detroit meetup – TechCrunch

    We hope you can make our virtual meetup in Detroit today. The event is free, features a pitch-off with Detroit startups, a talk regarding...

    Detroit’s native son, billionaire Dan Gilbert, makes the case for his town – TechCrunch

    Dan Gilbert loves his hometown of Detroit. He loves it so much that the billionaire founder of what would eventually become the mortgage lender...

    Persefoni’s carbon accounting platform raises $9.7 million – TechCrunch

    The carbon accounting and management platform Persefoni now has $9.7 million more in funding to support its international expansion, product development, and recruitment efforts. The...

    Walmart helps push Cruise’s latest investment round to $2.75B – TechCrunch

    Cruise, the autonomous vehicle company aiming to deploy robotaxis in San Francisco and Dubai, has added Walmart as an investor in an extended fundraising...

    NFT Inc. reimagines urban and rural living with flying car ASKA – TechCrunch

    A number of startups have promised to bring a drive-and-fly vehicle to market over the past few years, but none have yet managed to...

    BigEye (formerly Toro) scores $17M Series A to automate data quality monitoring – TechCrunch

    As companies create machine learning models, the operations team needs to ensure the data used for the model is of sufficient quality, a process...

    Yak Tack is a super simple app to boost vocabulary – TechCrunch

    Word nerds with a love for linguistic curiosities and novel nomenclature that’s more fulsome than their ability to make interesting new terms stick will...