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    Gawq wants to burst your ‘echo chamber’ with its smarter news app – TechCrunch

    A new startup called Gawq wants to tackle the problem of fake news and the “echo chamber” problem created by social media, where our...

    Is rising usage driving crypto’s recent price boom? – TechCrunch

    Everything is dumb until it works. As 2020 comes to a close, the cryptocurrency world is experiencing another late-year surge of consumer interest as prices...

    Adobe brings over 10,000 design assets to Spark – TechCrunch

    Adobe is launching an update to its Spark social media design tool today that will bring more than 10,000 new design assets to the...

    Spotify adds a centralized hub to learn more about songwriters – TechCrunch

    Royalties aside, songwriters are often unsung heroes of music making. Sure, some — like Carole King and Jimmy Webb — become well-known in their...

    Google now lets you virtually try on makeup using AR, shop from influencer videos – TechCrunch

    If you’ve ever used a Snapchat or Instagram filter, you know that one of the popular use cases for AR (augmented reality) is to...

    Europe clears Google-Fitbit with a ten-year ban on using health data for ads – TechCrunch

    Europe has greenlit Google’s $2.1BN acquisition of fitness wearable maker Fitbit, applying a number of conditions intended to shrink competition concerns over letting it...

    2020’s top 10 enterprise M&A deals totaled a staggering $165B – TechCrunch

    While 2020 won’t be remembered fondly by many of us for much of anything, it was a blockbuster year for enterprise M&A with the...

    Perigee snares $1.5M seed to secure HVAC and other infrastructure – TechCrunch

    It’s been an eventful fall for Perigee CEO and founder Mollie Breen. The former NSA employee participated in the TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield in...

    Canoo targets last-mile delivery with its second electric vehicle – TechCrunch

    Canoo, the Los Angeles-based electric vehicle startup that will make its debut later this month on the Nasdaq as a publicly traded company, revealed...

    Health insurer Oscar adds another $140 million in what’s likely a pre-IPO round – TechCrunch

    Oscar, the New York-based health insurance upstart at the vanguard of a wave of venture capital healthcare investment made in the wake of the...

    Robinhood pays $65M to settle SEC charges for past “inferior” pricing execution, misleading customers – TechCrunch

    Today, American securities watchdog the SEC  href="https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2020-321">announced that Robinhood, a free-to-trade broker that has grown rapidly in recent years, has paid a $65 million...

    The embedded API opportunity – TechCrunch

    Simon is an Investment Director with Cathay Innovation where he responsible for screening, evaluating and executing potential investments as well as post-investment monitoring. More posts...

    Cloudflare launches Cloudflare Pages, a platform to deploy and host JAMstack sites – TechCrunch

    Cloudflare is launching a new product today called Cloudflare Pages. It competes directly with Netlify or Vercel, two cloud hosting companies that let you...

    H1’s Linkedin for the healthcare industry raises $58 million – TechCrunch

    The idea sounds almost too simple. Create a version of Linkedin that’s specifically for the healthcare industry, where professionals can find out not just...

    Walmart to pilot test live-streamed video shopping on TikTok – TechCrunch

    Walmart and TikTok announced this morning they will be partnering on the first pilot test of a new shoppable product experience on TikTok’s social...

    Three different space launch companies – three very different approaches to solving for cost and efficiency – TechCrunch

    Launch startup Astra had a monumental week, achieving their first spaceflight with a rocket test on Tuesday. Astra CEO Chris Kemp joined Relativity...