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    TradeDepot adds $10 million to add financial services to its supply chain services for African SMBs – TechCrunch

    Nigeria’s e-commerce startup TradeDepot, which connects international brands to small businesses in Africa, has raised $10 million in a new round of funding to...

    Amazon Backtracks From Demand That Employees Delete TikTok

    ByteDance has made a series of moves in response to the concerns. The company said that it would separate TikTok from much of its...

    Sports in a Pandemic Don’t All Stink

    This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays.The Tour de France, like many major...

    How the United Arab Emirates Set Its Sights on Mars

    As a girl growing up in Abu Dhabi, one of the United Arab Emirates, Sarah al-Amiri looked at an astronomy book with a photograph...

    Huawei posts revenue growth in H1 despite sanctions and pandemic – TechCrunch

    Huawei reported a 13.1% year-over-year revenue growth in the first half of 2020, even if countries around the world continued to weigh up bans...

    Luckin Coffee replaces chairman Charles Lu – TechCrunch

    Luckin Coffee has replaced co-founder and (now ex-) chairman Charles Zhengyao Lu, despite his efforts to maintain control over the troubled Beijing-based coffee chain....

    Ford blends tech and nostalgia in the 2021 Bronco – TechCrunch

    The Bronco is officially back. After 24 years, Ford relaunched the 2021 Bronco in a splashy reveal streamed Monday evening on ABC, ESPN and...

    BigCommerce files to go public – TechCrunch

    As expected, BigCommerce has filed to go public. The Austin, Texas, based e-commerce company raised over $200 million while private. The company’s IPO filing...

    Snapchat tests TikTok-style navigation for exploring public content – TechCrunch

    Snapchat could be gearing up to more directly challenge TikTok. The company confirmed it’s testing a new experience that allows users to move through...

    Mighty Health created a wellness app with older adults top of mind – TechCrunch

    Virtual classes might make it easier to work out anywhere, anytime, but not for anyone. Mainstream fitness tech often targets the young and fit,...

    Former Tinder VP Jeff Morris Jr. opens up Product Club, an accelerator meant to stay small and focused – TechCrunch

    Startup accelerators tend to grow the size of each new class over time, as more of their portfolio companies find exits, their network of...

    SaaS and cloud stocks finally give back ground – TechCrunch

    After a heated run, SaaS and cloud stocks dipped sharply during regular trading on Monday. According to the category-tracking Bessemer cloud index, public SaaS and...

    Trump’s account is back on Twitch following ‘hateful conduct’ suspension – TechCrunch

    It’s been two weeks since Reddit and Twitch made key moves to ban political content over service violations. As Twitch noted at the time,...

    FlexJobs CEO Sara Sutton on what newly remote companies tend to get right and wrong – TechCrunch

    Over the last few months, just about any tech company that can go remote has gone remote. Are companies adopting remote for the long haul, or...

    A pledge to unite international students and tech – TechCrunch

    Sophie Alcorn Contributor Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year...

    Edtech exits show a need for better plumbing – TechCrunch

    The world’s massive experiment with remote learning has done more than emphasize the cracks in the way we learn. It’s brought much needed attention...