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    Pinterest Is Said to Be in Talks to Acquire the Photo App VSCO

    SAN FRANCISCO — Pinterest has held talks to buy VSCO, a photography app that spawned a teenage social media craze, according to two people...

    Apple Arcade expands with classic games – TechCrunch

    Apple adds classic titles to Apple Arcade, Microsoft experiences an outage and Coinbase is going public. This is your Daily Crunch for April 2,...

    Tonal EC-1, Deliveroo’s rocky IPO, is Substack really worth $650M? – TechCrunch

    For this morning’s column, Alex Wilhelm looked back on the last few months, “a busy season for technology exits” that followed a hot Q4...

    Want to take a road trip with Kevin Costner? Investors are betting you might – TechCrunch

    Woody Sears has long been interested in storytelling. After spending several years in sales after nabbing an MBA from Pepperdine — and following the...

    Three ways VC firms can construct sustainably diverse portfolios – TechCrunch

    Leslie Feinzaig Contributor Venture capital has a diversity problem: Data show that Black and Latinx founders received just 2.6% of overall funding in 2020. Women-founded teams...

    A CISO and a hacker detail how they’d respond to the Exchange breach – TechCrunch

    Aaron Fosdick Contributor Aaron Fosdick is CISO at Randori, a cybersecurity firm that provides offensive security services. David Wolpoff Contributor A career hacker, David "Moose" Wolpoff is CTO and...

    RPA market surges as investors, vendors capitalize on pandemic-driven tech shift – TechCrunch

    When UIPath filed its S-1 last week, it was a watershed moment for the robotic process automation (RPA) market. The company, which first appeared...

    Uruguayan payments startup dLocal quadruples valuation to $5B with $150M raise – TechCrunch

    Cross-border payments startup dLocal has raised $150 million at a $5 billion valuation, less than seven months after securing $200 million at a $1.2...

    Private equity, a SPAC and an IPO walk into a bar – TechCrunch

    The first quarter of 2021 was a busy season for technology exits. Coming off a hot period in the final quarter of 2020, it...

    Apple expands Apple Arcade with classic App Store games – TechCrunch

    Apple has announced an expansion for its subscription gaming service Apple Arcade. In addition to exclusive game releases, the company is adding two new...

    Clubhouse will create billions in value and capture none of it – TechCrunch

    Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. Natasha and Danny and Alex and Grace were all here to chat through the...

    Backflip offers an easier way to turn used electronics into cold, hard cash – TechCrunch

    Mike Barile spent two years and racked up nearly $20,000 in credit card debt to bring his first startup, Backflip, to life. The former management...

    Don’t miss the Pitch Off today at TC Early Stage 2021 – TechCrunch

    Ten global startups, three rounds of pitching, nine expert judges. It’s not the 12 Days of Startups (no robotic partridge in a pear tree...

    A confluence of Latin America, the US and Asia – TechCrunch

    Kevin Xu is an early-stage investor and founder of Interconnected, a bilingual newsletter covering tech, business and U.S.-Asia relations. Mexico has been known as an...

    Microsoft outage knocks sites and services offline – TechCrunch

    Microsoft is experiencing a major outage, so that’s why you can’t get any work done. Besides its homepage, Microsoft services are down, log-in pages aren’t...

    How is edtech spending its extra capital? – TechCrunch

    Edtech unicorns have boatloads of cash to spend following the capital boost to the sector in 2020. As a result, edtech M&A activity has...