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    Afresh has a $100 million valuation and a software service that keeps food fresh in grocery stores – TechCrunch

    Afresh, a company selling software to track demand and manage orders for fresh produce in grocery stores, is now worth $100 million. That hefty valuation...

    ZenBusiness snags $55M Series B for its incorporation and growth platform for micro businesses – TechCrunch

    Starting a small company used to be simple. Get some space on Main Street, put out a shingle, and begin plying your trade. Then...

    Datafold raises seed from NEA to keep improving the lives of data engineers – TechCrunch

    Data engineering is one of these new disciplines that has gone from buzzword to mission critical in just a few years. Data engineers design...

    Zillow Surfing Is the Escape We All Need Right Now

    The sheer absurdity of listings also makes for engaging content. “It’s really fun to have a virtually unending supply of very interesting things to...

    SellerX raises $118M to buy up and grow Amazon marketplace businesses – TechCrunch

    As Amazon’s Marketplace continues to grow and mature, a new opportunity has emerged in the world of e-commerce for a new breed of...

    Portugal’s Faber reaches $24.3M for its second fund aimed at data-driven startups from Iberia – TechCrunch

    Portuguese VC Faber has hit the first close of its Faber Tech II fund at €20.5 million ($24.3 million). The fund will focus on...

    Greece’s Marathon Venture Capital completes first close for Fund II, reaching $47M – TechCrunch

    Marathon Venture Capital in Athens, Greece has completed the first closing of its second fund, reaching the €40m / $47M mark. Backing the...

    Juni, the banking platform for e-commerce and online marketing companies, raises €2M seed – TechCrunch

    Juni, a Swedish pre-launch startup that’s building a banking app and platform for e-commerce and online marketing entrepreneurs, has raised just over €2.1 million...

    African fintech startup Chipper Cash raises $30M backed by Jeff Bezos – TechCrunch

    African cross-border fintech startup Chipper Cash has raised a $30 million Series B funding round led by Ribbit Capital with participation of Bezos Expeditions —...

    Affirm files to go public – TechCrunch

    Affirm, a consumer finance business founded by PayPal mafia member Max Levchin, filed to go public this afternoon. The company’s financial results show that Affirm,...

    Election misinformation often evaded YouTube’s efforts to stop it.

    YouTube videos endorsing the false idea that there was widespread election fraud were viewed more than 138 million times on the week of Nov....

    G.O.P. officials refused to certify Michigan ballots over issues that are fairly common.

    For a few hours on Tuesday, it looked as though two Republican officials in Wayne County, Mich., might reject the will of hundreds of...

    Local officials rebut 3 dead-voter claims by the Trump campaign.

    Last week, the Trump campaign published a series of posts on Facebook and Twitter identifying dead Americans whose names, the campaign alleged, were used...

    GM to leverage driver data as it jumps back into the insurance business – TechCrunch

    General Motors is launching an insurance service, returning to a business that it abandoned more than a decade ago, but this time more in...

    Apple cuts App Store fees – TechCrunch

    Apple is making a big shift in App Store fees, Duolingo raises more funding and Pfizer releases updated vaccine results. This is your...

    Mac-optimized TensorFlow flexes new M1 and GPU muscles – TechCrunch

    A new Mac-optimized fork of machine learning environment TensorFlow posts some major performance increases. Although a big part of that is that until now...