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    Tencent lays off nearly all of staff at its gaming site Fanbyte • TechCrunch

    The first rule of conducting layoffs is to not be a jerk about it. The second rule is to make sure the social media...

    Indonesian crypto platform Reku is built for both new and experienced traders • TechCrunch

    Cryptocurrency transactions in Indonesia hit $60 billion last year, according to the country’s commodities futures trading agency. Crypto exchange and marketplace Reku has been...

    AC Ventures reaches first close of a $250M fund for Southeast Asian startups • TechCrunch

    AC Ventures (ACV), a venture firm focused on early-stage startups in Indonesia and the rest of Southeast Asia, has reached the first close of...

    New Starbucks Odyssey loyalty program ‘happens to be built on blockchain and web3’ • TechCrunch

    To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Happy new...

    The tech industry needs a labor movement • TechCrunch

    Ed Zitron is the CEO of EZPR, a media relations company. He also contributes to publications like Insider and The Atlantic, and has a...

    The week an Apple event and YC Demo Day collided • TechCrunch

    Happy Saturday, friends. Welcome back to Week in Review, the newsletter where we very quickly sum up the most read TechCrunch stories from the...

    Alphabet’s Verily raises $1 billion as tech giants enter red hot healthcare sector • TechCrunch

    Verily, the life sciences business under Alphabet, said Friday that it has raised $1 billion, capital that will be used to expand its data-driven...

    Renowned founder Brian Lee and Derek Jeter have a new sports card biz with a digital bent • TechCrunch

    L.A.-based entrepreneur Brian Lee, who previously co-founded and ran The Honest Company, ShoeDazzle.com, and LegalZoom, has launched a new sports card collecting platform that’s...

    Edupia raises Series A to close the education gap in Vietnam • TechCrunch

    There’s a large education gap in Vietnam between urban centers, which have access to more resources, and the smaller cities and rural areas where...

    Josys secures $32M Series A for its SaaS management platform 

    Corporations have been dealing with IT operations and security management since the coronavirus pandemic that has changed the way in which people work —...

    Y Combinator, Global Brain back Tailor, a Japanese headless ERP startup – TechCrunch

    Tailor, a Japan-based back-end enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform, said today it has raised $4.3 million in seed funding from Y Combinator and Global...

    SkorLife gives control of credit data back to Indonesian consumers – TechCrunch

    Indonesia’s credit bureaus currently have about 92 million credit records, but the founders of SkorLife say many people have trouble accessing their own data....

    Apple readies its next iPhone, Joe Rogan interviews Zuck, and Twitter purportedly pauses plans to compete with OnlyFans – TechCrunch

    Hello again! Welcome back to Week in Review, the newsletter where we quickly recap the last week’s worth of TechCrunch’s most read posts. Want...

    Google lets the Parler app back into the Play Store – TechCrunch

    Truth Social isn’t allowed in Google’s app store yet, but another ostensibly anything-goes social network in the same orbit just made a comeback there....

    Rocket Lab fires up its first recovered engine, on track to full booster reusability – TechCrunch

    Four months after the spectacular feat that was catching a descending rocket stage in mid-air, Rocket Lab has re-ignited one of the engines from...

    Snap lays off one-fifth of its workforce after missing revenue and growth targets – TechCrunch

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