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    Google Aims to Be the Anti-Amazon of E-Commerce. It Has a Long Way to Go.

    OAKLAND, Calif. — Google tried to copy Amazon’s playbook to become the shopping hub of the internet, with little success. Now it is trying...

    One of Canada’s top investors, John Ruffolo, is back from the brink with a new $500 million fund – TechCrunch

    John Ruffolo isn’t as famous as some investors but he’s very well-known in Canadian business circles. The longtime head of Arthur Andersen’s tech, media,...

    Amazon makes PR push ahead of union vote – TechCrunch

    Amazon pushes back against unionization, WeWork eyes the SPAC route and there’s new spyware on Android. This is your Daily Crunch for March 26,...

    Clubhouse UX teardown, YC Demo Day favorites, proptech VC survey, more – TechCrunch

    Since the pandemic began, I have been pushing the limits of my imagination to try to picture what cities will look and feel like...

    How our SaaS startup improved net revenue retention by more than 30 points in two quarters – TechCrunch

    NRR is the most underrated metric out there Tim Kopp is the chairman and CEO of Terminus, an ABM platform that powers high-performing go-to-market teams....

    Slack wants to be more than a text-based messaging platform – TechCrunch

    Last October as Slack was preparing for its virtual Frontiers conference, the company began thinking about different ways people could communicate on the platform....

    Y Combinator-backed Vue Storefront aims to be the ‘glue’ for e-commerce – TechCrunch

    “Headless commerce” is a phrase that gets thrown around lot (I’ve typed it several times today already), but Vue Storefront CEO Patrick Friday has an especially...

    Computer vision software has the potential to reinvent the way cities move – TechCrunch

    Harris Lummis Contributor Harris Lummis is the co-founder and chief technical officer at Automotus. In October 2019, The New York Times reported that 1.5 million packages were...

    E-commerce roll-ups are the next wave of disruption in consumer packaged goods – TechCrunch

    Alanna Gregory Contributor Alanna is a marketing executive who is currently serving as vice president of growth and digital at Hairstory. She previously founded VIVE Lifestyle...

    Amazon goes on the offensive ahead of next week’s union vote counting – TechCrunch

    This week’s Amazon public relations push will no doubt go down as one of the odder public-facing strategies in tech. As some of the...

    5 mistakes creators make building new games on Roblox – TechCrunch

    Joe Ferencz is the founder and CEO of Gamefam, a game publisher operating exclusively on Roblox. With Roblox’s massive IPO this month, game developers, brands...

    Woven Capital kicks off portfolio with investment in autonomous delivery company Nuro – TechCrunch

    Woven Capital, the investment arm of Toyota’s innovation-focused subsidiary Woven Planet, has announced an investment into Silicon Valley-based autonomous delivery vehicle company Nuro. This...

    Hub, a productivity platform for technical sales professionals, launches with $1M in funding – TechCrunch

    Hub, a productivity platform for technical pre-sales, has formally launched with $1 million in seed funding. CEO Freddy Mangum and CTO Karl Gainey founded Hub...

    UIPath’s meteoric rise from unknown startup to $35B RPA juggernaut – TechCrunch

    When TechCrunch covered UIPath’s Series A in 2017, it was a small startup out of Romania working in a little known area of enterprise...

    The Agency at the Center of America’s Tech Fight With China

    “When you start cutting off capital profits that can flow into R&D, many of them coming from the huge Chinese market, you really undermine...

    Headless commerce startup Swell raises $3.4M – TechCrunch

    While new headless commerce platforms are emerging all the time, Swell CEO Eric Ingram told me that it remains “really hard to do something...