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    NextView Ventures closes its fourth fund with $89 million – TechCrunch

    NextView Ventures, a Boston-based venture capital fund, has raised an $89.6 million fund, according to SEC filings. The firm’s fourth fund, its largest...

    Google pulls the plug on Expeditions VR app, migrates tours to Arts & Culture – TechCrunch

    Google today announced that it is ending support for Expeditions. The VR app will also be pulled from its own Play Store and...

    Uber in talks to sell ATG self-driving unit to Aurora – TechCrunch

    Eighteen months ago, Uber’s self-driving car unit, Uber Advanced Technologies Group, was valued at $7.25 billion following a $1 billion investment from Toyota,...

    Inside DoorDash’s IPO, first-person founder stories, the latest in fintech VC and more – TechCrunch

    One of my favorite series of Monty Python sketches is built around the concept of surprise: Chapman: I didn’t expect a kind of Spanish Inquisition. Cardinal Ximénez: NOBODY expects...

    The first truly next-gen game is a lopsided but impressive showcase – TechCrunch

    The next generation of gaming is here with the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X — except it isn’t, because there are almost no...

    How COVID-19 accelerated DoorDash’s business – TechCrunch

    DoorDash filed to go public today, publishing numbers that showed rapid growth, enhanced profitability and an improving cash flow record which helped explain how...

    Online learning marketplace Udemy is raising up to $100M at a $3.32B valuation – TechCrunch

    Online education has been one of the hotspots in the tech world this year, as people turn to e-learning tools to fill in the...

    Trump Administration Gives TikTok More Time to Reach Deal

    WASHINGTON — The Trump administration gave TikTok’s Chinese owner more time to reach a deal to sell the app, after demanding that it divest...

    Getaround tops up $25M debt financing to its $140M Series E – TechCrunch

    Silicon Valley peer-to-peer car rental startup Getaround has secured a $25 million loan from Horizon Technology Finance Corporation. The financing announcement comes one month...

    Which emerging technologies are enterprise companies getting serious about in 2020? – TechCrunch

    Scott Kirsner Contributor Scott Kirsner is CEO and co-founder of Innovation Leader, a research and events firm that focuses on innovation in Global 1000 companies, and...

    Here’s how often election fraud has come up on right-wing radio talk shows.

    While President Trump’s baseless accusations of election fraud are losing steam with some Republicans, interest in the topic on the biggest right-wing talk shows...

    Food Delivery Is Magical Thinking

    This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays.The food delivery company DoorDash on Friday...

    Nintendo’s Mario Game & Watch is a choice gaming stocking stuffer of 2020 – TechCrunch

    Nintendo will never stop mining its past for new nostalgia-based products, but at least it tends to do so with aplomb and occasionally...

    T-minus 24 hours left to save on tickets to TC Sessions: Space 2020 – TechCrunch

    We’ve initiated the final countdown, and we’re just hours away from the deadline for early bird savings to TC Sessions: Space 2020 (December 16-17). It’s...

    Springtide, an autism treatment center network, raises $15.6 million – TechCrunch

    With one in 54 children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder in the US, the issue of how to treat patients diagnosed with the condition...

    NASA’s head of human spaceflight, Kathryn Lueders, will join us at TC Sessions: Space – TechCrunch

    NASA’s human spaceflight program took big strides in 2020 with the official kick-off of the commercial crew program with SpaceX, and on plans...