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Amazon to open its first non-Whole Foods grocery store in 2020
Amazon is opening its first non-Whole Foods grocery store in the L.A. neighborhood of Woodland Hills, the retailer today confirmed. The news...
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Salesforce Ventures invested $300M in Automattic while Salesforce was building a CMS
In September, Salesforce Ventures, the venture of arm of Salesforce, announced a hefty $300 million investment in Automattic, the company behind WordPress,...
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OpenText buys data backup firm Carbonite for $1.42B
Carbonite has agreed to a $1.42 billion purchase by OpenText, an enterprise information management giant, ending weeks of speculation about the anticipated...
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Watch live as SpaceX launches 60 Starlink satellites with a thrice-flown Falcon 9 rocket
SpaceX has a big launch coming up this morning from Cape Canaveral in Florida – a Falcon 9 will carry a payload...
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Prosus makes $6.3B hostile bid for Just Eat; Just Eat rejects deal in favor of Takeaway merger
As Amazon-backed Deliveroo expands into click-and-collect and procurement services to grow its footprint with restaurants in Europe, a food fight among three...
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Deliveroo launches food orders for pick up
Don’t Deliveroo . The UK-based on-demand food delivery service has expanded into not actually delivering orders by offering users a pick-up option,...
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A chat about UK deep tech and spin-out success with Octopus Ventures
New research commissioned by UK VC firm Octopus Ventures has put a spotlight on which of the country’s higher education institutions are...
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The post-exponential era of AI and Moore’s Law
My MacBook Pro is three years old, and for the first time in my life, a three-year-old primary computer doesn’t feel like...
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Voi raises another $85M for its European e-scooter service
Voi Technology, the “micro-mobility” startup that operates an e-scooter service in a 38 cities across 10 European countries, has raised an $85...
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China Roundup: facial recognition lawsuit and cashless payments for foreigners
Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch’s China Roundup, a digest of recent events shaping the Chinese tech landscape and what they mean...