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    Egyptian VC firm Sawari Ventures finally closes $71M fund for North African startups – TechCrunch

    Egyptian-based VC firm Sawari Ventures has closed its $71 million fund for North Africa’s rapidly growing startup ecosystem. The firm first announced its fund in...

    Taiwan-based MLOps startup InfuseAI raises $4.3M Series A led by Wistron Corporation – TechCrunch

    AI models not only take time to build and train, but also to deploy in an organization’s workflow. That’s where MLOps (machine learning operations)...

    KKR closes $15 billion fund targeting consumption and urbanization in Asia – TechCrunch

    KKR has just closed $15 billion for its Asia-focused private equity fund, exceeding its original target size after receiving “strong support” from new and...

    Singapore-based career platform Glints gets $22.5M in Series C funding – TechCrunch

    Glints, the Singapore-based career platform, announced today it has raised $22.5 million in Series C funding led by Japanese human resources management firm PERSOL...

    Hipmunk’s founders launch Flight Penguin to bring back Hipmunk-style flight search – TechCrunch

    Hipmunk’s founders are building a successor to their now-defunct flight search service. The startup was acquired by SAP-owned travel and expense platform Concur in 2016,...

    Clubhouse launches payments so creators can make money – TechCrunch

    Clubhouse, a one-year-old social audio app reportedly valued at $1 billion, will now allow users to send money to their favorite creators — or...

    The Supreme Court sides with Google in Oracle suit – TechCrunch

    The Supreme Court announces several tech-related rulings, LG will shut down its smartphone business and we take a deep dive into the story of...

    LG’s exit from the smartphone market comes as no surprise – TechCrunch

    For those who follow the space, LG will be remembered fondly as a smartphone trailblazer. For a decade-and-a-half, the company was a major player...

    Tim Cook drops hints about autonomous tech and the Apple car – TechCrunch

    Apple CEO Tim Cook dropped a few hints in an interview released Monday about the direction of the much-anticipated Apple car, including that autonomous...

    The Supreme Court sided with Google in its epic copyright fight against Oracle – TechCrunch

    The highest court in the land has a lot to say about tech this week. The Supreme Court weighed in on Google’s long legal...

    Labor relations board sides with Amazon employees over firings – TechCrunch

    Last year, Amazon fired Emily Cunningham and Maren Costa. The pair of employees had been among the company’s most outspoken critics on staff, openly...

    Clarence Thomas plays a poor devil’s advocate in floating First Amendment limits for tech companies – TechCrunch

    Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas flaunted a dangerous ignorance regarding matters digital in an opinion published today. In attempting to explain the legal difficulties...

    US indicts California man accused of stealing Shopify customer data – TechCrunch

    A grand jury has indicted a California resident accused of stealing Shopify customer data on over a hundred merchants, TechCrunch has learned. The indictment charges...

    What happens to your NFTs and crypto assets after you die? – TechCrunch

    Erin Bury is CEO and co-founder of Willful, a comprehensive online estate planning service based in Toronto. As consumers build their wealth, assets are typically...

    Fortnite users can now live stream gameplay to Houseparty’s social video app – TechCrunch

    Houseparty, the social video app acquired by Fortnite maker Epic Games in 2019, has just announced a major new step in terms of integrating...

    Supreme Court tosses ruling that said Trump blocking Twitter critics was unconstitutional – TechCrunch

    The Supreme Court has vacated a previous ruling that found former President Trump violated the First Amendment by blocking his Twitter foes. The ruling was...