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    As activist investors loom, what’s next for Box? – TechCrunch

    Box could be facing troubled times if a Reuters story from last week is accurate. Activist investor Starboard Value took a 7.9% stake in...

    Cashify raises $15 million for its second-hand smartphone business in India – TechCrunch

    Tens of millions of people each year purchase a second-hand smartphone in India, the world’s second largest market. Phone makers and giant online sellers...

    Bank of America is bringing VR instruction to its 4,000 banks – TechCrunch

    As consumer VR begins to have a moment following years of heavy investment from Facebook and other tech giants, corporate America is similarly beginning...

    Twitter tests new e-commerce features for tweets – TechCrunch

    Twitter confirmed it’s testing a new way to display tweets that link out to e-commerce product pages — like products on a Shopify store,...

    Okta acquires cloud identity startup Auth0 for $6.5B – TechCrunch

    As Okta announced earnings today after the bell, it revealed that it’s buying cloud identity startup Auth0 for a hefty $6.5 billion. With Auth0, Okta...

    Toro acquires robotic tractor/snow blower maker, Left Hand Robotics – TechCrunch

    Toro this week announced its intentions to acquire Left Hand Robotics. The Colorado-based startup (not to be confused with Righthand Robotics) is a natural...

    Amazon Fire TV expands live TV features, adds Alexa support for live content – TechCrunch

    Amazon is rolling out a new experience for its Fire TV platform that puts more focus on subscription-free streaming and other live content. The...

    Can you demystify the H-1B process and E-3 premium processing? – TechCrunch

    Sophie Alcorn Contributor Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year...

    Bottomless closes $4.5M Series A to scale its subscription coffee business – TechCrunch

    As a devoted coffee drinker I was enthused by the idea of Bottomless. The Y Combinator-backed startup sends its users coffee as they run...

    A Golden Age of Local Digital Stars

    This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays.The global internet is becoming a little...

    11 words and phrases to cut from your VC pitch deck – TechCrunch

    May Habib is co-founder and CEO of Writer.com, an AI writing assistant for teams that helps everyone at a company write with the same...

    Version 2 of Google’s Flutter toolkit adds support for desktop and web apps – TechCrunch

    At an online event, Google today announced Flutter 2, the newest version of its open-source UI toolkit for building portable apps. While Flutter started...

    What Job Sites Reveal About the Economy

    This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays.This software sales job isn’t really in...

    Postscript raises $35M to give Shopify stores SMS superpowers – TechCrunch

    Postscript helps Shopify stores stay in touch with customers via SMS, with a focus on keeping everything opt-in, legally compliant, and spam free. The...

    GSV Ventures doubles assets managed with new fund focused on global edtech – TechCrunch

    GSV Ventures, co-founded by Deborah Quazzo and Michael Cohn, has raised $180 million in its second fund, exclusively focused on backing edtech startups across...

    From the ashes of nearly a billion dollars, Ample resurrects Better Place’s battery swapping business model – TechCrunch

    A little over thirteen years ago, Shai Agassi, a promising software executive who was in line to succeed the chief executive at SAP, then...