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    ConductorOne raises $5M in seed round led by Accel to automate your access requests – TechCrunch

    Over the course of their careers, Alex Bovee and Paul Querna realized that while the use of SaaS apps and cloud infrastructure was exploding,...

    India’s Swiggy nears $5 billion valuation in new $800 million fundraise – TechCrunch

    Swiggy has raised about $800 million in a new financing round, the Indian food delivery startup told employees on Monday, as it looks to...

    Chinese startups rush to bring alternative protein to people’s plates – TechCrunch

    On a recent morning in downtown Shenzhen, Lingyu queued up to order her go-to McMuffin. As she waited in line with other commuters, the...

    FinanZero, Brazil’s free online credit marketplace, raises $7M – TechCrunch

    FinanZero, a Brazilian online credit marketplace, announced today that it has closed a $7 million round of funding – its fourth since it launched...

    Amazon Illegally Fired Activist Workers, Labor Board Finds

    SEATTLE — Amazon illegally retaliated against two of its most prominent internal critics when it fired them last year, the National Labor Relations Board...

    Can the Gleam of High-End Watches Thrive on Audio-Only Clubhouse?

    It has been called the perfect social media platform for a pandemic, and also a lockdown fad.Clubhouse, the invitation-only social audio app valued at...

    Amazon’s Clashes With Labor: Days of Conflict and Control

    In recent weeks, a heated discussion about whether Amazon’s workers must urinate in bottles because they have no time to go to the bathroom...

    Byju’s acquires Indian tutor Aakash for nearly $1 billion – TechCrunch

    Why did Byju’s raise over $1 billion last year and is already inching closer to securing another half a billion dollars? We are getting...

    Facebook-backed Indian social commerce Meesho raises $300M at $2.1B valuation – TechCrunch

    Meesho said on Monday it has raised $300 million in a new financing round led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 as the Indian social...

    LG is shutting down its smartphone business worldwide – TechCrunch

    LG said on Monday it will close its loss-making mobile phone business worldwide as the once pioneer brand looks to focus its resources in...

    You might have just missed the best time to sell your startup – TechCrunch

    Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s broadly based on the daily column that appears on Extra Crunch, but free,...

    Amazon addresses pee bottle denial tweet – TechCrunch

    Amazon kicked off the holiday weekend by backtracking slightly on a social media offensive that unfolded in the waning days of a historic unionization...

    How Jamaica failed to handle its JamCOVID scandal – TechCrunch

    As governments scrambled to lock down their populations after the COVID-19 pandemic was declared last March, some countries had plans underway to reopen. By...

    Nonobvious acquisitions are on my 2021 bingo board – TechCrunch

    At the end of 2020, I argued that edtech needs to think bigger in order to stay relevant after the pandemic. I urged founders...

    NASA SBIR march 21 – TechCrunch

    NASA’s SBIR program regularly doles out cash to promising small businesses and research programs, and the lists of awardees is always interesting to sift...

    Clubhouse clones, WWDC21, apps have their best-ever quarter – TechCrunch

    Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy....