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Stand out from the crowd: Apply to TC Top Picks at Disrupt 2020
This is one [expletive deleted] tough time to be an early-stage startup founder. But giving up simply isn’t part of startup DNA....
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Transparent face mask startup inhales $1M seed round
A Swiss startup called HMCARE, spun out of the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, has raised a million Swiss Francs (equivalent to...
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423IBM Cloud suffers prolonged outage
The IBM Cloud is currently suffering a major outage, and with that, multiple services that are hosted on the platform are also...
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864Edtech is surging, and parents have some notes
Unlike most sectors, edtech has been booming over the last few months. Flashcards startup Quizlet is now a unicorn, digital textbook company...
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347Twitter starts putting fact-checking labels on tweets about 5G and COVID-19
Conspiracy theories claiming a connection between 5G technology and the coronavirus have been around since the pandemic’s early days, and apparently they’re...
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Decrypted: DEA spying on protesters, DDoS attacks, Signal downloads spike
This week saw protests spread across the world sparked by the murder of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, killed by a...
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379Daily Crunch: IBM is getting out of facial recognition
IBM’s CEO takes a stand on mass surveillance, Apple may soon make a big chip announcement and Google Maps gets new features...
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Collab Capital launches with a $50 million target and a mission to help Black entrepreneurs
The three founders of Collab Capital, the newly launched Atlanta-based fund with a $50 million target and a mission to help Black...
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Acceleprise announces 26 SaaS startups from its trio of accelerators
The TechCrunch crew has worked to keep tabs on this year’s startup accelerator classes. Conventional wisdom in startup land states that great...
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Propzy, a Vietnamese offline-to-online real estate platform, raises $25 million Series A
Propzy, a Vietnam-based startup that guides consumers through the entire process of a real estate transaction, announced it has raised a $25...