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    Discord is raising up to $140M at a valuation of up to $7B – TechCrunch

    The world of virtual communications continues to hold a central place in our socially-distanced lives, and today it looks like one of the companies...

    Whatnot raises $4M as it gets into livestreamed auctions and Pokémon cards – TechCrunch

    Whatnot, a company I first wrote about back in February, has spent the months since growing rapidly — both in terms of feature set...

    Virgin Orbit, Relativity Space and Astra dish on the economics and efficiencies of space launches – TechCrunch

    Relativity Space CEO Tim Ellis, Astra CEO Chris Kemp, and VOX Space (Virgin Orbit’s national security-focused subsidiary) President Mandy Vaughn all joined us at...

    Google slammed for ‘monopoly power’ in new antitrust lawsuit from 35 states – TechCrunch

    Another day, another major antitrust effort seeking to dismantle the unprecedented power of the world’s biggest tech companies. On Thursday, a group of 38 attorneys...

    ‘Gas stations in space’ startup Orbit Fab extends seed round to $6M with strategic investor Munich Re – TechCrunch

    On-orbit servicing startup Orbit Fab, which bills itself as the company focused on creating “gas stations in space,” has added an additional investor...

    NASA’s Kathy Lueders discusses the Artemis Moon landing 2024 target and team selection – TechCrunch

    NASA’s head of human spaceflight Kathy Lueders joined us on stage at TechCrunch Sessions: Space, where she spoke to scientist and Netflix host...

    No, there are no microchips in coronavirus vaccines.

    There are 10 ingredients in Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccines. Contrary to several conspiracy theories circulating online, a tracking microchip planted by the government to surveil...

    Increasing diversity in tech hiring requires a common-ground approach – TechCrunch

    Michelle Ferguson Contributor Kasheef Wyzard Contributor Kasheef Wyzard is National Programming Initiatives Director for Dream Corps TECH. The pandemic is surging in America once more. If this past year...

    With Bambee, Allan Jones wants to give small businesses HR services their employees can trust – TechCrunch

    Allan Jones’s first startup was Fourth and Grand, a Trunk Club-like service backed by the venture studio and accelerator, Science, out of Santa Monica. While...

    Just how bad is that hack that hit US government agencies? – TechCrunch

    It’s the nightmare scenario that has worried cybersecurity experts for years. Since at least March, hackers likely working for Russian intelligence have embedded themselves without...

    Walnut raises $3.5M from Ron Conway and others to stop remote sales pitches breaking – TechCrunch

    Amid the rise of remote selling due to the pandemic, Walnut, billing itself as a ‘Wix for Sales teams,’ has raised $3.5m from SV...

    Axios Buys Charlotte Agenda, a Digital Start-Up, as Part of Push Into Local News

    He added: “I think media is a very simple business that people tend to overcomplicate.”Mr. Williams, who grew up in a Florida beach town...

    GitHub says goodbye to cookie banners – TechCrunch

    Microsoft -owned GitHub today announced that it is doing away with all non-essential cookies on its platform. Thanks to this, starting today, GitHub .com...

    Google grants $3 million to the CNCF to help it run the Kubernetes infrastructure – TechCrunch

    Back in 2018, Google announced that it would provide $9 million in Google Cloud Platform credits — divided over three years — to...

    Look at what’s happening at day two of TC Sessions: Space 2020 – TechCrunch

    Yesterday, day one of TC Sessions: Space 2020, was (brace yourself) out of this world. Bad puns aside, today’s lineup promises even more in-depth...

    Spryker raises $130M at a $500M+ valuation to provide B2Bs with agile e-commerce tools – TechCrunch

    Businesses today feel, more than ever before, the imperative to have flexible e-commerce strategies in place, able to connect with would-be customers wherever they...