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    UK space launch startup Orbex raises $24 million for its reusable rockets – TechCrunch

    UK-based Orbex has raised a new $24 million funding round, led by BGF and Octopus Ventures, and including participation from existing investors High-Tech...

    Candu raises $5M to help software companies onboard users intelligently – TechCrunch

    This morning Candu, a software startup that provides no-code web tools for SaaS apps, announced a $5 million funding round. TechCrunch caught up with founder...

    New Relic acquires Kubernetes observability platform Pixie Labs – TechCrunch

    Two months ago, Kubernetes observability platform Pixie Labs launched into general availability and announced a $9.15 million Series A funding round led by...

    HiBob raises $70M on a $500M valuation for its new take on HR – TechCrunch

    Productivity software has been getting a major re-examination this year, and human resources platforms — used for hiring, firing, paying, and managing employees —...

    Ava expands its AI captioning to desktop and web apps, and raises $4.5M to scale – TechCrunch

    The worldwide shift to virtual workplaces has been a blessing and a curse to people with hearing impairments. Having office chatter occur in text...

    ‘It’s Hard to Prove’: Why Antitrust Suits Against Facebook Face Hurdles

    One challenge the F.T.C. will face is explaining why it decided not to block Facebook’s acquisitions of Instagram in 2012 and WhatsApp in 2014....

    France fines Google $120M and Amazon $42M for dropping tracking cookies without consent – TechCrunch

    France’s data protection agency, the CNIL, has slapped Google and Amazon with fines for dropping tracking cookies without consent. Google has been hit...

    Papercup, the UK startup using AI for realistic-sounding voice translation, raises £8M funding – TechCrunch

    Papercup, the U.K.-based AI startup that has developed speech technology that translates people’s voices into other languages and is already being used in the...

    Google and IAB adtech targeted with more RTB privacy complaints – TechCrunch

    Another batch of complaints has been filed with European Union data protection agencies urging enforcement action against the adtech industry’s abuse of Internet users’...

    Improving sound for hardware giants, Sweden’s Dirac finds its niche in China – TechCrunch

    The rise of U.S.-China tensions has accelerated the bifurcation of global technology, with the two superpowers each working on their own tech systems. While...

    Infra.Market raises $20 million for its B2B marketplace in India – TechCrunch

    A startup that is improving the way construction and real estate companies in India procure materials and handle logistics for their projects has received...

    Israeli Group Announces Second Moonshot by 2024

    An Israeli nonprofit will try again to land a robotic spacecraft on the moon after its first attempt ended in a crash last year.The...

    Seoul-based payment tech startup CHAI gets $60 million from Hanhwa, SoftBank Ventures Asia – TechCrunch

    Demand for contactless payments and e-commerce has grown in South Korea during the COVID-19 pandemic. This is good news for payment service operators, but...

    LabCorp COVID-19 test kit has just been approved for sale over-the-counter – TechCrunch

    LabCorp has now become the first company to receive approval to sell its COVID-19 test kit over-the-counter without a prescription, according to a...

    Airbnb said to price IPO between $67 and $68 – TechCrunch

    The WSJ is reporting that Airbnb is expected to price its IPO at either $67 or $68 per share. The American hospitality unicorn raised...

    SpaceX’s Starship Launches and Explodes in Crash Landing

    A test of a prototype of a rocket that Elon Musk has dreams of sending people to Mars in flew several miles high on...