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    Announcing the Disrupt 2020 agenda – TechCrunch

    For the past 10 years, Disrupt has been a place for the tech community to come together to connect and learn. And while thousands...

    Spotify’s new party mode feature, ‘Group Session,’ goes remote – TechCrunch

    Spotify announced today it’s updating its recently launched shared-queue feature, Group Session, to support remote usage.  Essentially a “party mode,” the feature first...

    GitHub starts publishing a public roadmap – TechCrunch

    GitHub today announced that it will start publishing a public roadmap to help its users understand when it will ship new features across its...

    Uber and Lyft Drivers Win Ruling on Unemployment Benefits

    Drivers for Uber and Lyft won a key victory in their yearslong campaign to secure traditional unemployment insurance on Tuesday, when a federal judge...

    Explorium reels in $31M Series B as data discovery platform grows – TechCrunch

    In a world with growing amounts of data, finding the right set for a particular machine learning model can be a challenge. Explorium has...

    Advertima rings up $17.5M for computer vision-powered behavioral analytics for in-store retail – TechCrunch

    Swiss computer vision startup, Advertima, has raised a €15 million Series A (~$17.5M) to build out a machine learning platform for physical retail stores...

    ClimaCell raises $23M Series C for its weather intelligence platform – TechCrunch

    ClimaCell, the weather forecasting and intelligence service that is using a number of interesting new techniques to gather weather data, today announced that it...

    Nanox raises $59M more for low-cost, downsized scanning tech to replace X-rays – TechCrunch

    Israeli startup Nanox has big ambitions to take on the world of medical imaging and imaging analytics with hardware that reduces the size and...

    ComplyAdvantage nabs $50M for an AI platform and database to detect and stop financial crime – TechCrunch

    The growth of digital banking has opened up a wealth of opportunities for making the world of finance more accessible and transparent to a...

    Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google Prepare for Their ‘Big Tobacco Moment’

    Amazon is accused of abusing its role as both a retailer and a platform hosting third-party sellers on its marketplace. Apple has been accused...

    Their Businesses Went Virtual. Then Apple Wanted a Cut.

    ClassPass built its business on helping people book exercise classes at local gyms. So when the pandemic forced gyms across the United States to...

    Withings raises $60 million to bridge the gap between consumer tech and healthcare providers – TechCrunch

    Since being re-acquired from Nokia in 2018 by a group including its original founders and some of its original investors, health tech company...

    All dogs in Shenzhen, China will get microchipped by 2020 – TechCrunch

    The world’s hardware haven is taking a digital leap for pets. In May, China’s southern city Shenzhen announced that all dogs must be implanted...

    As remote work booms, Everphone grabs ~$40M for its ‘device as a service’ offer – TechCrunch

    The latest startup to see an uplift in inbound interest flowing from the remote work boom triggered by the coronavirus pandemic is Berlin-based Everphone,...

    India’s Flipkart gives hyperlocal delivery service another try – TechCrunch

    Flipkart on Tuesday launched a hyperlocal service in suburbs of Bangalore, four years after the e-commerce group abruptly concluded its previous foray into this...

    Google is building a new private subsea cable between Europe and the U.S. – TechCrunch

    Google today announced its plans to build a new subsea cable with landing points in New York in the U.S. and Bude, UK...