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    Good vaccine news, three rounds, and why IPOs are trending – TechCrunch

    Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This is Equity Monday, our weekly kickoff...

    Snapchat launches a TikTok-like feed called Spotlight, kick-started by paying creators – TechCrunch

    After taking on TikTok with music-powered features last month, Snapchat this morning is officially launching a dedicated place within its app where users can...

    Metigy gets $20 million AUD to making online marketing easier for SMEs – TechCrunch

    David Fairfull, CEO and co-founder of Metigy Metigy, a marketing platform created to help small businesses automate more of the decision making in their...

    Corporate services platform Sleek lands $4 million in new funding – TechCrunch

    Sleek, the corporate services platform that helps entrepreneurs launch and run new companies in Singapore and Hong Kong, has raised $4 million. The new funding...

    Digital marketing firms file UK competition complaint against Google’s Privacy Sandbox – TechCrunch

    Google’s push to phase out third party tracking cookies — aka its ‘Privacy Sandbox’ initiative — is facing a competition challenge in Europe....

    Resilience raises over $800 million to transform pharmaceutical manufacturing in response to COVID-19 – TechCrunch

    Resilience, a new biopharmaceutical company backed by $800 million in financing from investors including ARCH Venture Partners and 8VC, has emerged from stealth to...

    Oxford University’s COVID-19 vaccine shows high efficacy, and is cheaper to make and easier to store – TechCrunch

    Oxford University’s COVID-19 vaccine, being developed in partnership with drugmaker AstraZeneca, has shown to be 70.4% effective in preliminary results from its Phase...

    Can a Computer Devise a Theory of Everything?

    “By the times that A.I. comes back and tells you that, then we have reached artificial general intelligence, and you should be very scared...

    Q3 smartphone sales down 5.7% to 366M, stemming Covid-19 declines earlier this year – TechCrunch

    As we head into the all-important holiday sales period, new numbers from Gartner point to some recovery for the smartphone market as vendors roll...

    The promise and challenge of Roblox’s future in China – TechCrunch

    In a much-anticipated move, California-based gaming firm Roblox filed to go public last week. One aspect driving the future growth of the children-...

    Intel and Nvidia Chips Power a Chinese Surveillance System

    URUMQI, China — At the end of a desolate road rimmed by prisons, deep within a complex bristling with cameras, American technology is powering...

    ‘The Crown’ introduces its Princess Diana – TechCrunch

    “The Crown,” Netflix’s lavish historical drama about the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, has returned for a fourth season that focuses on Elizabeth’s...

    WhiteHat Jr’s founder files $2.6M defamation suit against critic – TechCrunch

    Karan Bajaj, an Indian entrepreneur who teaches meditation and in a recent book guides others on how to avoid noise, is going after the...

    Week in Review: Venture-backed loneliness – TechCrunch

    Hello everyone and welcome back to Week in Review! Natasha here, subbing in for Lucas while he’s out. This week, we’ll talk about loneliness...

    Hollywood’s ‘We’re Not in Kansas Anymore’ Moment

    LOS ANGELES — In explaining why WarnerMedia had decided to release the much-anticipated big-budget “Wonder Woman 1984” simultaneously in theaters and on the streaming...

    A bug meant Twitter Fleets could still be seen after they disappear – TechCrunch

    Twitter is the latest social media site to allow users to experiment with posting disappearing content. Fleets, as Twitter calls them, allows its...