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    5 trends in the boardrooms of high-growth private companies – TechCrunch

    Ann Shepherd is co-founder of social impact venture Him For Her. She serves on the board of fintech startup HoneyBook. More posts by this contributor How...

    Instagram and WhatsApp hit by outage – TechCrunch

    Instagram and WhatsApp are currently experiencing an outage. At the time of writing, Instagram was showing a 500 error message, indicative of a back-end server...

    Why fintechs need social features – TechCrunch

    John S. Kim is CEO of Sendbird, makers of a customizable chat and messaging API service for mobile and web applications. Social+ companies are upping...

    Attend Disrupt 2021 for less than $100 – TechCrunch

    If three jam-packed days of TechCrunch Disrupt 2021, the mother of all tech conferences that takes place on September 21-23, wasn’t enough to get...

    Uber under pressure over facial recognition checks for drivers – TechCrunch

    Uber’s use of facial recognition technology for a driver identity system is being challenged in the UK where the App Drivers & Couriers Union...

    Cloud infrastructure spending passed on prem data centers in 2020 – TechCrunch

    There is a prevailing notion that while the cloud infrastructure market is growing fast, the vast majority of workloads remain on prem. While that...

    Fetcher raises $6.5M to automate parts of the recruiting process – TechCrunch

    Fetcher, a startup that promises to make the recruiting process easier while also diversifying the candidate pool, is announcing that it has raised $6.5...

    Timing your bootstrap with Calendly’s Tope Awotona and OpenView’s Blake Bartlett at TC Early Stage – TechCrunch

    Once the path less traveled, bootstrapping today has become a much more viable and common approach to building a startup. By not taking venture...

    Hear how Poshmark went from Series A to the public markets with Manish Chandra and Mayfield’s Navin Chaddha – TechCrunch

    Poshmark has come a long way over the last decade. Launched in 2011, the social fashion marketplace has raised upwards of $150 million, and...

    Brian Brackeen returns as an advisor to facial recognition startup Kairos following his ouster as CEO – TechCrunch

    Brian Brackeen, the founder and former CEO of facial recognition startup Kairos, has made his way back to the company following his ouster in...

    AI fintech products are operating at scale and investor interest is maturing – TechCrunch

    Recently public unicorn Upstart announced earnings that blew the socks off of Wall Street this week. After closing on Wednesday at around $61 per...

    New markets emerge for carbon accounting businesses as cities like LA push proposals – TechCrunch

    Earlier this month, Los Angeles became the latest city to task its various departments with prepping a feasibility study for deploying new software and...

    SpaceX nears final assembly of its first massive testing rocket booster for Starship – TechCrunch

    SpaceX has completed what’s known as the ‘stacking’ of its first Super Heavy prototype, the extremely large next-generation first-stage rocket booster that it will...

    India tells court to block WhatsApp’s policy update, says new change violates laws – TechCrunch

    As WhatsApp spends months to address users’ concerns and confusion about its planned policy update, there is evidently one entity it hasn’t had much...

    Forget medicine, in the future you might get prescribed apps – 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...

    Share feedback on Extra Crunch – TechCrunch

    Over the last few months, we’ve added a number of new Extra Crunch features at the request of the community. This includes Group Membership,...