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    Blackstone’s growth investors lead a $200 million investment into Oatly, the oat milk juggernaut – TechCrunch

    Investors’ love affair with new, plant-based alternatives to animal products continues as Blackstone Growth, a (newish) investment vehicle from one of the world’s largest...

    NS1 nets $40M “true coronavirus fundraise” amidst surging customer demand – TechCrunch

    Apparently, the internet is still popular. With the novel coronavirus marooning people at home for work and play, those “tubes” carrying our data back and...

    U.K. Bans Huawei From 5G Network, Raising Tensions With China

    LONDON — Britain announced on Tuesday that it would ban equipment from the Chinese technology giant Huawei from the country’s high-speed wireless network, a...

    Lattice, a people management platform, picks up $45M at a $400M valuation – TechCrunch

    Working these days is not what it used to be. To enforce social distancing and slow the spread of the COVID-19 health pandemic, many...

    Google Cloud launches Confidential VMs – TechCrunch

    At its virtual Cloud Next ’20 event, Google Cloud today announced Confidential VMs, a new type of virtual machine that makes use of...

    New Acquia platform looks to bring together developers, marketers and data – TechCrunch

    Acquia, the commercial company built on top of the open source Drupal content management system has pushed to be more than a publishing platform...

    3M and MIT partner to develop a new, affordable rapid COVID-19 test – TechCrunch

    A heavyweight partnership between industry and academic sciences is throwing their considerable weight into an important task: Creating a new low-cost, rapid diagnostic test...

    Liteboxer, the Peloton for boxing, enters the ring – TechCrunch

    In the vein of increasingly popular at-home connected fitness machines like Peloton, Mirror, and Hydrow, boxing fans now have an option when it comes...

    Pricefx raises $65M Series C for its cloud-based pricing software – TechCrunch

    Pricefx, the Munich-founded startup that offers cloud-based pricing software, has raised $65 million in Series C funding. The round was led by funds advised by...

    Walmart invests additional $1.2 billion in India’s Flipkart to increase stake – TechCrunch

    Walmart is increasing its stake in Flipkart by investing an additional $1.2 billion in the Indian e-commerce giant, the two said Tuesday. The...

    Verizon partners with Airtel to launch BlueJeans in India – TechCrunch

    India’s Bharti Airtel today announced on Tuesday it has partnered with Verizon* to launch BlueJeans video-conferencing service in India to serve business customers...

    Writing app Ulysses gets new document dashboard and advanced grammar and style check – TechCrunch

    Ulysses, a popular writing app for the Mac, iPhone and iPad, is receiving an update with some new features. The user interface has been...

    Hello Robot emerges out of stealth to launch a mobile robotic gripping platform for the home – TechCrunch

    This is Stretch — or, more precisely, the Stretch Research Edition. The name certainly conveys the tall, skinny and minimalist design of the home...

    White Castle becomes the first fast food chain to test out the robot fry cook, Flippy, from Miso Robotics – TechCrunch

    The next time Harold and Kumar go to a White Castle, there may be a robot making their French Fries. In one of the first...

    Legaltech startup Orbital Witness scores £3.3M to create a ‘universal risk rating’ for real estate – TechCrunch

    Orbital Witness, a U.K.-based legaltech startup developing “AI-powered” software to transform the £4 billion U.K. property due diligence market, has raised £3.3 million in...

    App Annie launches ad analytics product Ascend – TechCrunch

    App Annie is building on last year’s acquisition of analytics company Libring with the launch of a new version of Libring, rebranded as App...