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    Twitter Has Labeled 39% of Trump’s Tweets Since Tuesday

    Throughout his term, President Trump has relied on Twitter to be his bullhorn. But since early Tuesday morning, the company has stepped up its...

    Why Florida residents may soon be seeing jet-powered ‘flying taxis’ – TechCrunch

    Florida is renowned for its strange news stories. In recent weeks alone, one resident reported an alligator in her garage that turned out to...

    Amazon launches its first Amazon Air regional hub in Europe – TechCrunch

    Amazon has officially started operations at its first European Amazon Air hub, based out of the Leipzig/Halle Airport in Germany. The new facility...

    Apple releases iOS 14.2 with new emojis and an accessibility feature that locates people with lidar – TechCrunch

    Apple has released iOS 14.2 today. It includes multiple new features as well as some important bug fixes and security updates. Among other...

    Huge delivery demand fails to stop Uber’s revenue from shrinking in Q3 – TechCrunch

    Despite surging delivery demand, Uber’s third-quarter ultimately failed to meet investor revenue expectations in the third quarter. Uber reported gross bookings of $14.7 billion,...

    On Election Day, Facebook and Twitter Did Better by Making Their Products Worse

    That gust of wind you felt coming from Silicon Valley on Wednesday morning was the social media industry’s tentative sigh of relief.For the last...

    Facebook blocks hashtags for #sharpiegate, #stopthesteal election conspiracies – TechCrunch

    Facebook today began to block select hashtags which were being used to share misinformation related to the 2020 U.S. presidential election. Now, searches for...

    TikTok takes down some hashtags related to election misinformation, leaves others – TechCrunch

    As social media platforms struggle to get U.S. election misinformation under control with varying degrees of success, TikTok has taken new actions to stop...

    Bentley is making the shift to an all-electric lineup – TechCrunch

    Bentley Motors, the ultra luxury automaker under VW Group, will only produce plug-in hybrid and all-electric cars starting in 2026 with an aim to...

    Fortnite is actually a SaaS company – TechCrunch

    Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast (now on Twitter!), where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. What a week from us...

    Vimeo raises $150M, whie IAC is ‘contemplating’ a spin-off – TechCrunch

    Vimeo has raised $150 million in new equity funding, announced in conjunction with the third quarter earnings of its parent company IAC. In a...

    Facebook takes down “Stop the Steal 2020” group organizing around false claims of election chicanery – TechCrunch

    Facebook has taken down a group that had amassed over 300,000 members and was sharing misinformation and organizing around false allegations of impropriety...

    Proctorio used DMCA to take down a student’s critical tweets – TechCrunch

    A series of tweets by one University of Miami student that were critical of a proctoring software company have been hidden by Twitter after...

    TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, is reportedly looking for $2B before its Hong Kong public offering – TechCrunch

    ByteDance, the company behind the social media sensation TikTok, is in talks to raise another $2 billion before the initial public offering of a...

    Autonomous drone startup Skydio taps Tesla, Samsara veterans in enterprise push – TechCrunch

    Autonomous drone company Skydio has hired three executives in product and engineering following its recent $100 million Series C funding round as part...

    The volcano method for understanding the fintech revolution – TechCrunch

    The Department of Justice moved to block the long-impending Visa-Plaid deal today. The transaction was announced in early 2020, making the decision by the government...