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    Qualcomm’s new chipset for wireless earbuds promises improved noise cancellation and all-day battery life – TechCrunch

    There are now so many wireless earbuds, it’s hard to keep track, but one of the reasons why we’ve seen this explosion in new...

    Upstart and Wish price their debuts as the 2020 IPO cycle slows – TechCrunch

    Today we’re digging into the IPO pricing of Upstart and Wish, perhaps the final fintech and e-commerce debuts of the year. Both unicorns priced...

    OpenSensors secures $4M for air-monitoring platform which allows offices to be more Covid-safe – TechCrunch

    Today, the acute asthma attack of primary school-aged girl in February 2013 was ruled by a UK court to be due to air pollution....

    Dry cleaning robotics startup Presso raises $1.6M as it shifts focus to Hollywood – TechCrunch

    Robotic dry cleaning startup Presso today announced that it has closed a $1.6 million pre-seed with investment from Pathbreaker, AME Cloud Ventures, SOSV, ...

    Major U.S. news publishers join the Coalition for App Fairness advocacy group to fight the ‘Apple tax’ – TechCrunch

    A group of major U.S. news publishers have joined the Coalition for App Fairness (CAF), the advocacy group pushing for increased regulation over app...

    BigID keeps rolling with $70M Series D on $1B valuation – TechCrunch

    BigID has been on the investment fast track, raising $94 million over three rounds that started in January 2018. Today, that investment train kept...

    Capella Space now offers the highest resolution SAR imagery commercially available – TechCrunch

    SF-based small satellite startup Capella Space is now exclusively offering the most cutting-edge synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery available on the commercial market. The...

    Motional and Lyft target 2023 to deploy driverless robotaxi services in major U.S. cities – TechCrunch

    Motional, the Aptiv-Hyundai $4 billion joint venture aimed at commercializing autonomous vehicles, plans to launch in 2023 fully driverless robotaxi services in major U.S....

    ZeroAvia’s hydrogen-powered vision for aviation nets $21.4 million from Amazon, Shell, and Bill Gates-backed fund – TechCrunch

    ZeroAvia, the company that’s on a mission to move the world to zero-emission, hydrogen-fueled flight, has just received some corporate jet fuel in the...

    Bicycle Health, the virtual opioid use disorder therapy service, will soon be available in 25 states – TechCrunch

    The startup opioid use disorder therapy service Bicycle Health will soon be available to patients in half the country, just three years after its...

    Zoomin raises $21M for a platform to make fragmented product content troves easier to use – TechCrunch

    Technical manuals and other product content may not be the first things that come to mind when you are thinking of software. But if...

    How to Send a Recap of 2020 to Friends and Family

    For many people, 2020 has been a disruptive, frustrating, heartbreaking and disorienting year. But as December winds down, it’s also an opportunity to take...

    New Wave is a new European seed fund headed up by ex-Accel VC Pia d’Iribarne – TechCrunch

    Pia d’Iribarne, formerly of Accel and Stride, is heading up a new European early stage venture capital firm co-founded with French entrepreneur and...

    StockX raises $275m Series E, valuing the retailer at $2.8b – TechCrunch

    StockX today announced its Series E funding led by Tiger Global. The $275 million funding round values the company at $2.8 billion at a...

    Facebook to move UK users out of EU’s privacy jurisdiction next year, post-brexit – TechCrunch

    Facebook is to follow Google’s lead and move millions of UK users out of the jurisdiction of EU privacy laws to the US...

    Why Alibaba rival Pinduoduo is investing in agritech – TechCrunch

    Back in 2018, Pinduoduo sent shock waves through the investor community when it raised $1.6 billion from a Nasdaq listing as a three-year-old...