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    Alibaba faces antitrust probe – TechCrunch

    Chinese authorities investigate an e-commerce giant, Google may be tightening its grip on research and VCs weigh in on the year’s biggest surprises. This...

    Robinhood’s 2020 Recaps Are a Meme for a Volatile Year

    In 2020, wild fluctuations in the stock market caused by the pandemic turned millions of people into opportunistic investors. After stocks plunged in March,...

    An Oscar Winner Made a Khashoggi Documentary. Streaming Services Didn’t Want It.

    Bryan Fogel’s first documentary, “Icarus,” helped uncover the Russian doping scandal that led to the country’s expulsion from the 2018 Winter Olympics. It also...

    Not even 5G could rescue smartphone sales in 2020 – TechCrunch

    This was going to be the year of 5G. It was going to be the year the next-generation wireless technology helped reverse some troubling...

    Elon Musk says SpaceX to double launch pad usage for Starship tests, Super Heavy flights coming in a ‘few months’ – TechCrunch

    SpaceX is set to significantly ramp up its Starship development program in the new year, in more ways than one. SpaceX CEO and...

    Use Git data to optimize your developers’ annual reviews – TechCrunch

    3 metrics can help you understand true performance quality Alex Circei is CEO and co-founder of Waydev, a Git analytics tool that measures engineers' performance...

    US seed-stage investing flourished during pandemic – TechCrunch

    As the United States entered its first wave of COVID-19 lockdowns, there were wide expectations in startup land that a reckoning had arrived. But...

    Why China Turned Against Alibaba’s Jack Ma

    Mr. Xi made no secret about what his ideal capitalist should be like. Ten days after the Ant I.P.O. debacle, he toured a museum...

    National Grid sees machine learning as the brains behind the utility business of the future – TechCrunch

    If the portfolio of a corporate venture capital firm can be taken as a signal for the strategic priorities of their parent companies, then...

    Bollywood, Reeling From the Pandemic, Shifts to Streaming

    “Coolie No. 1” has all the hallmarks of a big Bollywood film: colorful costumes, larger-than-life sets, foot-tapping music and a melodramatic story about a...

    Why China Turned Against Jack Ma

    Now the chances that those bold statements become real have heightened. “Given what has happened, eventually Ant will have to be controlled or even...

    Five VCs discuss what surprised them the most in 2020 – TechCrunch

    Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture-capital-focused podcast (now on Twitter!), where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. Today is our holiday look-back at...

    The built environment will be one of tech’s next big platforms – TechCrunch

    From the beginning, the plan for Sidewalk Labs (a subsidiary of Alphabet and — by extension — a relative of Google) to develop a...

    TechCrunch editors share their top stories of 2020 – TechCrunch

    As the year draws to a close, a few members of our edit staff shared stories that defined the last 12 months for their...

    Bristol’s Brightpearl raises $33M Series C round led by Sage to boost its platform for retailers – TechCrunch

    Brightpearl, which allows retailers to streamline their operations thus boosting sales, has raised $33 million in funding to scale its business. This Series C round...

    With Money, and Waste, China Fights for Chip Independence

    “There have been some stunning absurdities that defy logic and common sense,” China Economic Weekly said.Yet there has also been progress. Two companies, Yangtze...