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    In Victory for Qualcomm, Appeals Court Throws Out Antitrust Ruling

    SAN FRANCISCO — A federal appeals court threw out an antitrust verdict against Qualcomm on Tuesday, overturning a ruling that had threatened the chip...

    Gong raises another $200M on $2.2B valuation – TechCrunch

    For the third time since last February, Gong has raised a significant sum. In February, the company scored $40 million. In December, it grabbed...

    Microsoft’s dual-screen Surface Duo arrives September 10 for $1,399 – TechCrunch

    I can’t recall the last time people were this intrigued by a (non-Xbox) piece of Microsoft hardware. Announced a little under a year...

    Conduit launches to help founders find actually useful angels and VCs – TechCrunch

    The bar for being a successful VC just keeps getting higher. With more and more capital sloshing around and not enough founders and startups...

    Industrial-grade VR company Varjo picks up ~$52M in Series C funding – TechCrunch

    Varjo, the Finnish startup that has developed a virtual and mixed reality headset capable of “human-eye resolution” for use in various enterprise applications, has...

    TikTok found to have tracked Android users’ MAC addresses until late last year – TechCrunch

    Until late last year social video app TikTok was using an extra layer of encryption to conceal a tactic for tracking Android users...

    QAnon Followers Are Hijacking the #SaveTheChildren Movement

    Part of the strategy’s perverse brilliance is that child sex trafficking is a real, horrible thing, and some politically connected people, including the financier...

    Digital mortgage company Habito completes £35M Series C – TechCrunch

    Habito, the London startup that has spent the last few years moving the mortgage process online, including offering its own mortgages beyond acting as...

    La Famiglia outs new €50M fund to back seed-stage European B2B startups – TechCrunch

    La Famiglia, the Berlin-based “female-led” VC firm that invests in European B2B tech startups at seed-stage, has raised a second fund totalling €50 million,...

    Former COO sues Pinterest, accusing it of gender discrimination, retaliation and wrongful termination – TechCrunch

    Pinterest’s former chief operating officer has filed a lawsuit accusing the company of gender discrimination. Françoise Brougher, who says she was abruptly fired from...

    Rivian fires back at Tesla in lawsuit, accuses automaker of attempting to ‘malign its reputation’ – TechCrunch

    Rivian has asked a judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Tesla, arguing that two of the three claims in the case...

    Kamala Harris brings a view from tech’s epicenter to the presidential race – TechCrunch

    Joe Biden’s decision to name California Senator Kamala Harris as his running mate in the quest to unseat President Trump means that the...

    Court dismisses Genius lawsuit over lyrics-scraping by Google – TechCrunch

    A state court has dismissed a high-profile case showing unsportsmanlike conduct by Google, which was caught red-handed using lyrics obviously scraped from Genius....

    Why Do People Think Scott Borgerson is Married to Ghislaine Maxwell?

    By the time Ghislaine Maxwell was fighting allegations that she had procured underage women to provide sexual services for her ex-boyfriend Jeffrey Epstein, there...

    Pinterest Accused of Gender Bias in Suit by Former No. 2 Executive

    SAN FRANCISCO — In April, Françoise Brougher, the chief operating officer of Pinterest and its top female executive, abruptly left the company with little...

    Android phones become earthquake detectors – TechCrunch

    Google is using accelerometers in an interesting new way, Twitter allows everyone to limit tweet replies and Mozilla announces major layoffs. This is...