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    Data brokers track everywhere you go, but their days may be numbered – TechCrunch

    Everywhere you go, you are being followed. Not by some creep in a raincoat, but by the advertisers wanting to sell you things. The more...

    GoPro turns the Hero 8 Black into a $249 webcam – TechCrunch

    The GoPro Hero 8 action camera can now be used as a webcam thanks to a software utility. The software, which is still...

    Smartwatch hack could trick patients to ‘take pills’ with spoofed alerts – TechCrunch

    Security researchers say a smartwatch, popular with the elderly and dementia patients, could have been tricked into letting an attacker easily take control of...

    Singaporean startup Karana raises $1.7 million for meat substitutes made from jackfruit – TechCrunch

    Singaporeans have a growing appetite for plant-based meat substitutes. In fact, demand for products from companies like Beyond Meat, Impossible Foods and Quorn have...

    LogDNA announces $25M Series C investment and new CEO – TechCrunch

    LogDNA, a startup that helps DevOps teams dig through their log data to find issues, announced a $25 million Series C investment today along...

    MariaDB raises $25M more to expand its SkySQL cloud database platform – TechCrunch

    Cloud services continue to be a key component of how organisations remain operational even as so much else — such as physically working in...

    Google expands its Swirl 3D ad format – TechCrunch

    Google is announcing the global availability of Swirl, an ad format that the company unveiled in beta just over a year ago. The Swirl...

    Kernel raises $53 million for its non-invasive ‘Neuroscience as a Service’ technology – TechCrunch

    LA-based bio science startup Kernel has raised $53 million from investors including General Catalyst, Khosla Ventures, Eldridge, Manta Ray Ventures, Tiny Blue Dot and...

    TikTok saw a rise in government demands for user data – TechCrunch

    Earlier this year, TikTok’s parent company ByteDance joined the raft of American tech giants that publish the number of government demands for user data...

    Handsome and nippy, new VanMoof e-bikes could be the shape of cities to come – TechCrunch

    I have to admit, I was an e-bike virgin. Sure, I’d tried out Uber’s Jump bikes and similar e-bikes, but these are more like...

    14 VCs discuss COVID-19 and London’s future as a tech hub – TechCrunch

    The UK has created 63 tech unicorns in the past decade (according to Dealroom), and it almost goes without saying that the vast majority...

    WhatsApp Business, now with 50m MAUs, adds QR codes and catalog sharing – TechCrunch

    The global COVID-19 health pandemic has raised the stakes for businesses when it comes to using digital channels to connect with customers, and today WhatsApp...

    Flipkart invests $35 million in Indian giant Arvind Fashion’s unit – TechCrunch

    Flipkart on Thursday announced it has invested $35 million in Arvind Fashions for a significant minority stake in one the decades-old Indian firm’s...

    LocalGlobe and TransferWise’s Taavet Hinrikus back ‘frictionless finance’ startup Radix – TechCrunch

    Radix, a U.K. startup that’s building a decentralised finance protocol on which new financial apps can connect and be built on top of, has...

    Yamo scores €10.1M Series A to offer healthier food choices for young children – TechCrunch

    Yamo, a self-described “foodtech” startup that produces and sells healthier food for babies and young children, has raised €10.1 million in Series A funding. Backing...

    Nuggs rebrands as Simulate with new cash, a new CTO and an expanded line of faux-meat foods – TechCrunch

    Nuggs, the alternative-meat company founded by serial entrepreneur Ben Pasternak (who previously co-founded the social media app Monkey), has raised $4.1 million and gotten...