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    Dating app S’More adds blurred video calling and launches in LA – TechCrunch

    The pandemic hasn’t slowed down dating app S’More — at least according to CEO Adam Cohen-Aslatei, who said that the app’s daily active user...

    The UK government to acquire satellite company OneWeb in deal funded in part by India’s Bharti Global – TechCrunch

    Distressed satellite constellation operator OneWeb, which had entered bankruptcy protection proceedings at the end of March, has completed a sale process, with a...

    US plans to rollback special status may erode Hong Kong’s startup ecosystem – TechCrunch

    For two months, the people of Hong Kong waited in suspense after China’s legislature approved a new national security law. The legislation’s details were...

    What Hong Kong’s Pandemic Experience Taught Uber About Other Cities

    OAKLAND, Calif. — In late February, Uber executives were set to gather in San Francisco to form business plans for the year as the...

    Lime puts Jump bikes back on London streets – TechCrunch

    Jump bikes are returning to London — this time through its new owner Lime . London is the first city in Europe to see Jump...

    The #Vanlife Business Is Booming

    I do not own a car or a house or even a bicycle. Nor am I prone to following Instagram trends. Yet for weeks...

    Intel to invest $253.5 million in India’s Reliance Jio Platforms – TechCrunch

    Intel said on Friday it will invest $253.5 million in Jio Platforms, joining a roster of high-profile investors including Facebook and Silver Lake...

    Festo’s latest biomimetic robots are a flying feathered bird and ball-bottomed helper arm – TechCrunch

    You could be excused for thinking that German robotics company Festo does nothing but put together fabulous prototype robots built to resemble kangaroos, jellyfish,...

    Can an Algorithm Predict the Pandemic’s Next Moves?

    The Google Flu Trends algorithm, as it is known, performed poorly. For instance, it continually overestimated doctor visits, later evaluations found, because of limitations...

    Sprint 5G is no more, as T-Mobile focuses on its own network – TechCrunch

    A day after formally completing the sale of Boost, Virgin and other Sprint prepaid networks to Dish, T-Mobile is pulling the plug on Sprint...

    Flex CEO Revathi Advaithi – TechCrunch

    Uber has a new, independent board member, shows a new SEC filing: CEO Revathi Advaithi of 51-year-old Flex, which is among the world’s largest...

    ‘Westworld’ creators are developing a ‘Fallout’ TV series for Amazon – TechCrunch

    “Fallout,” the post-apocalyptic video game franchise published by Bethesda Softworks, is being turned into a TV series by Kilter Films, the production company...

    Police roll up crime networks in Europe after infiltrating popular encrypted chat app – TechCrunch

    Hundreds of alleged drug dealers and other criminals are in custody today after police in Europe infiltrated an encrypted chat system reportedly used by...

    Goodbye to the Wild Wild Web

    More recently, the hallmark of the Wild Wild Web became a kind of shoot-first, aim-later approach to corporate strategy. Terms like “permissionless innovation” and...

    Velodyne becomes latest tech company to go public using a SPAC, eschewing the traditional IPO path – TechCrunch

    Velodyne Lidar, the leading supplier of a sensor widely considered critical to the commercial deployment of autonomous vehicles, said Thursday it has struck a...

    Project M acquires punk rock satire site The Hard Times – TechCrunch

    Matt Saincome knows that compared to many of the startup acquisitions that we write about on TechCrunch, selling a website for a little...