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    Coursera set to roughly double its private valuation in impending IPO – TechCrunch

    In a new S-1/A filing, Coursera set an initial IPO price range between $30 and $33 a share, signaling the market views its edtech...

    Investors back away from Dispo – TechCrunch

    Dispo is in the midst of a sexual assault controversy, Zoom introduces an SDK and Android owners will have to continue waiting for Clubhouse...

    Investors distance themselves from the photo-sharing app Dispo after controversy.

    Some investors have started distancing themselves from Dispo, a fast-growing photo-sharing app, after its co-founder, the YouTube creator David Dobrik, became embroiled in...

    Box shares rise on report company is exploring sale – TechCrunch

    Shares of Box, a well-known content-and-collaboration company that went public in 2015, rose today after Reuters reported that the company is exploring a sale....

    Biden will nominate big tech critic and antitrust star Lina Khan to the FTC – TechCrunch

    Biden didn’t campaign on getting tough against big tech, but his early actions are speaking louder than his words. The White House confirmed its intentions...

    Still Don’t Get What an NFT Is?

    Still Don’t Get What an NFT Is?Erin GriffithReporting from San FranciscoA digital artwork by the artist Beeple recently sold for $69 million. Instead of...

    Google Cloud hires Intel veteran to head its custom chip efforts – TechCrunch

    There has been a growing industry trend in recent years for large scale companies to build their own chips. As part of that, Google...

    Accel’s Dan Levine and Scale’s Alexandr Wang will chat about how to create a category on Extra Crunch Live – TechCrunch

    Alexandr Wang has spent the last five years looking to accelerate the development of AI and machine learning algorithms with Scale AI. The company...

    Where is the e-commerce app ecosystem headed in 2021? – TechCrunch

    Ashwin Ramasamy Contributor Ashwin Ramasamy is the co-founder of PipeCandy, an online merchant graph company that discovers and analyzes business and consumer perception metrics about D2C...

    Techstars NYC is more global than ever with its latest class of startups – TechCrunch

    Techstars NYC just announced the 10 startups participating in this year’s program, making up what Managing Director Jenny Fielding described as the accelerator’s most...

    BMW and PG&E team up to prepare the electric grid for millions of EVs – TechCrunch

    BMW Group and California utility Pacific Gas & Electric are rolling out the next phase of a pilot that aims to test — and...

    H3x rethinks the electric motor to power the next phase of mobility – TechCrunch

    It’s plain to see that electric vehicles are the future, but there’s more to making that change happen than swapping out a gas motor...

    Your Pandemic Tech Habits – The New York Times

    This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays.A rock musician and a chamber orchestra...

    Clubhouse says its Android launch will take ‘a couple of months’ – TechCrunch

    Social audio app Clubhouse has now promised a time frame of sorts for the launch of its anticipated Android version, following its recent hire...

    Social shopping-focused Chums announces $3.5M raise ahead of YC Demo Day – TechCrunch

    With Y Combinator Demo Day kicking off tomorrow morning, startups in the current batch are hurrying to make a little news before they show...

    Early investors in Dispo to donate any profits from the photo-sharing app – TechCrunch

    After Spark Capital announced it would ‘sever all ties’ with Dispo following allegations around co-creator and famous YouTuber David Dobrik, two of the app’s...