Tech
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Watch these 6 startups compete in Pitchers & Pitches tomorrow
What do you get when you combine six early-stage startup founders with a panel of top VCs and savvy TechCrunch editors? It’s...
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Facebook touts beefed up hate speech detection ahead of Myanmar election
Facebook has offered a little detail on extra steps it’s taking to improve its ability to detect and remove hate speech and...
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Owl Ventures’ new pair of funds gives edtech a $585 million boost
Edtech just keeps on booming. Today, Owl Ventures, a San Francisco-based education technology fund whose portfolio includes Byju’s, Labster, Masterclass and Quizlet,...
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Facebook threatens to block news sharing in Australia as it lobbies against revenue share law
Adtech giant and self-styled ‘free speech champion’, Facebook, has threatened to pull the plug on the public sharing of news content on...
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Cosmose, a platform that analyzes foot traffic in physical stores, gets $15 million Series A
Cosmose, a platform that tracks foot traffic in brick-and-mortar stores to help companies predict customer behavior, announced today it has raised a...
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741Apple alum’s jobs app for India’s workers secures $8 million
Javed, a middle-aged man, worked as a driver before losing that job earlier this year as coronavirus spread across India, prompting New...
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Gillmor Gang: Platforming
Much was made during the Republican Convention of the lack of a party platform. The media characterized this as a capitulation to...
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Reid Hoffman, Zynga’s Mark Pincus aim to raise $600M for tech-focused SPAC
Reinvent Technology Partners, a new special purpose acquisition company formed by famed investor and serial entrepreneur Reid Hoffman, Zynga founder Mark Pincus...
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Virtual Mobility startup pitch night applications open
TechCrunch is on the hunt to feature 10 early-stage mobility startups at our virtual TC Sessions: Mobility 2020 pitch night. The pitch-off...
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699Dorian raises $3.1M for its no-code, interactive storytelling platform
With Dorian, co-founder and CEO Julia Palatovska said she’s hoping to empower fiction writers and other storytellers to create their own games....