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    Bumble will exist as long as women do, CEO says – TechCrunch

    Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd wants to build a truly timeless company. “You can never disrupt the need for humans to connect. And the...

    Nikola disputes fraud claims in carefully worded rebuttal – TechCrunch

    Nikola Corp., the hydrogen electric vehicle startup that went public this year through a merger with a special purpose acquisition company, released Monday a...

    Amazon rebrands FreeTime to Amazon Kids, expands paid catalog for Amazon Kids+ – TechCrunch

    Amazon today announced it will rebrand its kid-friendly services formerly known as Amazon FreeTime and Amazon FreeTime Unlimited to Amazon Kids and Amazon...

    Sentinel loads up with $1.35M in the deepfake detection arms race – TechCrunch

    Estonia-based Sentinel, which is developing a detection platform for identifying synthesized media (aka deepfakes), has closed a $1.35 million seed round from some seasoned...

    Google will announce a new Pixel, smart speaker and Chromecast September 30 – TechCrunch

    Hardware season is in full swing. Apple’s big Watch event kicks off tomorrow and Samsung is readying itself for a third (!) Unpacked event...

    Facebook investor Jim Breyer picks Austin as Breyer Capital’s second home – TechCrunch

    For Jim Breyer, the mantra, “Silicon Valley is a state of mind” has always been behind Breyer Capital, his personal investment fund. While many of...

    Here’s what’s happening today on day 1 of Disrupt 2020 – TechCrunch

    Welcome to Day One of Disrupt 2020, our biggest Disrupt ever! Over the next five days (cue Star Trek theme), you’ll explore strange new...

    Courier raises $10.1M Series A to help developers integrate multi-channel notifications – TechCrunch

    Courier is an API platform with a no-code twist that helps developers add multi-channel user notifications to their applications. The company today announced that...

    Blue Origin’s human lunar lander all-star space team completes first key milestone for Moon mission – TechCrunch

    Blue Origin, along with it partners Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Draper, was one of three companies to be awarded contracts by NASA...

    ARM co-founder starts ‘Save Arm’ campaign to keep independence amid $40B Nvidia deal – TechCrunch

    ARM Holdings, the UK semiconductor company, made history for the second time today, becoming the country’s biggest tech exit when Nvidia announced over the...

    Scientists detect a gas that typically indicates the presence of biological life in the atmosphere of Venus – TechCrunch

    In a press briefing today, scientists rom the Royal Astronomical Society announced a potentially revolutionary scientific discovery: They’ve detected the presence of phosphine in...

    YouTube launches its TikTok rival, YouTube Shorts, initially in India – TechCrunch

    As TikTok’s fate in the U.S. remains murky, YouTube today announced the launch of a new short-form video experience it’s calling YouTube Shorts. The...

    The Woman Taking Over TikTok at the Toughest Time

    Six weeks ago, as TikTok grappled with escalating tensions between the United States and China, the social media app’s top executives huddled together to...

    The TikTok mess, two funding rounds, and NVIDIA will buy ARM – 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 that...

    Europe starts testing app interoperability service to power cross-border COVID-19 exposure alerts – TechCrunch

    The European Commission has begun testing backend infrastructure that’s needed to make national coronavirus contacts tracing apps interoperate across the bloc’s internal borders. It’s...

    ByteDance’s Need for a TikTok-Oracle Deal: China is Slowing

    Besides Douyin, it runs two other video apps, Xigua and Huoshan. Its news aggregator, Jinri Toutiao, was its first blockbuster in China and remains...