Tech
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How Brex more than doubled its valuation in a year
Brex, a fintech company that provides corporate cards and spend-management software to businesses, announced earlier today that it closed a $425 million...
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Hear about building AVs under Amazon from Zoox CTO Jessie Levinson at TC Sessions: Mobility 2021
Last year, autonomous driving startup Zoox was acquired by Amazon in a deal worth $1.3 billion. Since then, Zoox has continued to...
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Facebook introduces a new miniplayer that streams Spotify within the Facebook app
Facebook announced last week an expanded partnership with streaming music service Spotify that would bring a new way to listen to music...
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Thoma Bravo buys cybersecurity vendor Proofpoint for $12.3B in cash
Moree M&A activity is underway in the red-hot field of cybersecurity. In the latest development, private equity giant Thoma Bravo is buying...
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Gillmor Gang: FreeCoin
The current rave about newsletters and so-called or social audio is just the latest version of the story of podcasting. Take the...
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Building a creator-focused OS
Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s broadly based on the daily column that appears on Extra Crunch,...
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624What the MasterClass effect means for edtech
MasterClass, which sells a subscription to celebrity-taught classes, sits on the cusp of entertainment and education. It offers virtual, yet aspirational learning:...
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How one founder partnered with NASA to make tires puncture-proof and more sustainable
This week’s episode of Found features The SMART Tire Company co-founder and CEO Earl Cole, a one-time Survivor champion whose startup is...
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693India orders Twitter to take down tweets critical of its coronavirus handling
Twitter has taken down dozens of tweets in India, some of which were critical of New Delhi’s handling of the coronavirus, to...
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8 investors, founders and execs predict cybersecurity, fintech will take Belfast by storm
Things have been looking up for Belfast since the end of the Troubles. The city has undergone infrastructure improvements over the past...