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BNPL is not a winner-takes-all game
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture-capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. Natasha and Mary Ann took...
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Nigerian one-click checkout platform OurPass raises $1M pre-seed, wants to build ‘Fast for Africa’
We like to buy things online ranging from e-commerce stores to subscription-based sites. However, no one enjoys the hassle when you have...
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486Apple Music is using Shazam to solve the streaming industry’s problem with DJ mixes
Apple Music announced today that it’s created a process to properly identify and compensate all of the individual creators involved in making...
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Epic Games asks Apple to reinstate Fortnite in South Korea after new law
Epic Games has asked Apple to rejoin its Fortnite developer account in South Korea as the U.S. game maker plans to re-release...
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476Snyk snags another $530M as valuation rises to $8.4B
Snyk, the Boston-based late-stage startup that is trying to help developers deliver more secure code, announced another mega-round today. This one was...
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Apple has reportedly appointed wearable chief Kevin Lynch to lead its car division
Apple has reportedly appointed a new executive to lead the development of its secretive self-driving car division. According to Bloomberg, the company...
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455Squad Mobility eyes shared platforms as target for its compact solar electric quadricycle
Squad Mobility’s vision of the perfect urban vehicle is a low-cost EV equipped with solar panels, swappable batteries and enough zip and...
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UK dials up the spin on data reform, claiming ‘simplified’ rules will drive ‘responsible’ data sharing
The U.K. government has announced a consultation on plans to shake up the national data protection regime, as it looks at how...
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Laser-initiated fusion leads the way to safe, affordable clean energy
Siegfried GlenzerContributor Siegfried Glenzer, a recipient of the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award, is a professor and high-energy-density division director at Stanford’s SLAC...
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Open source backend-as-a-service startup Supabase raises $30M
Supabase, the backend-as-a-service startup, announced this week that it raised a $30 million Series A. Supabase is often described as an open...