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Daily Crunch: FEMA tests national emergency alert system for first time since pandemic began

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here.Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for August 11, 2021. If you are a

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Medium revamps its Partner Program, launching new eligibility requirements and referral bonuses

Amid a year of editorial pivots and employee exits, Medium announced today that it will make significant changes to its Medium Partner Program, which allows writers on the platform to monetize their c

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Creators can now monetize their expertise on Quora

In May, Yahoo! Answers shut down after helping the internet answer its most burning questions since 2005. But now, Quora, which began as a question-and-answer site but expanded to incorporate blogging

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Substack doubles down on uncensored ‘free speech’ with acquisition of Letter

Substack announced last week that it acquired Letter, a platform that encourages written dialogue and debate. The financials of the deal weren’t disclosed, but this acquisition follows Substack&

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Draft.dev CEO Karl Hughes on the importance of using experts in developer marketing

Developers can be a tough crowd. They typically hate being marketed to and are often short on time, which sets a particularly high bar for any content marketing aimed at them.Coming up with relevant c

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Edtech’s venture-backed globalization pauses at China

U.S.-based edtech investors are increasingly going global, but recent regulatory crackdowns in China, which instructed local K-12 tutoring startups to go non-profit, have led to a chill among check-wr

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Writer sheds light on lives of urban women

Whenever a young, female author releases a modern metropolitan fiction, it is often categorized as a work of feminine literature and readers will nearly always speculate on whether or not the plot is

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Facebook onboards another 31 newsletter writers on Bulletin

Late last month, Facebook announced Bulletin, its newsletter platform. Unlike Substack, Medium and other competitors, Bulletin hand-picks its writers to curate a more controlled platform, with stars r

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Hyper is a new fund that offers $300k checks and promise of a media slingshot for founders 

Hyper is a $60M early-stage fund co-founded by Josh Buckley, Product Hunt’s CEO along with writer, founder and designer Dustin Curtis. Two ex-Sequoia operators are part of the team at launch as well.

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Epic TV series chronicles CPC's history

Refinement of Faith, an epic TV series marking the centenary of the Communist Party of China, concluded its first run on July 12, reaching nearly 160 million people across the country, producers said

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Indian storytelling platform Pratilipi raises $48 million led by gaming giant Krafton

Pratilipi, an Indian startup that operates an online storytelling platform to enable writers to share their work in various formats, said on Wednesday it has raised $48 million in a new financing roun

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5 advanced-ish SEO tactics to win in 2021

In nearly every Google algorithm update in recent memory, Google has rewarded old, megatraffic sites, sending their search rankings soaring at the expense of smaller, newer sites. Big sites have incre

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Demand Curve: 10 lies you’ve been told about marketing

The harsh truth: Some of the advice you read about marketing is incorrect.While not always intentionally misleading, you’re often absorbing content written by:Marketers without a breadth of expe

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Facebook’s newsletter platform Bulletin is now live

The cool new thing on Facebook is for Mark Zuckerberg to drop product news in live audio rooms. So today, Zuckerberg took to his brand’s Clubhouse competitor to announce its next new thing: Bull

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Stars including Olivia Colman call for 'gadget tax' to fund the arts

Those behind the proposal say up to £300m a year could be raised from payments of between 1% and 3% of the sales value of gadgets.

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Sci-fi reflects China's progress

Liu Cixin's book The Three-Body Problem was published in 2008 and subsequently won top international honors, such as the Xingyun (Nebula) Awards for Global Chinese Science Fiction and the Hugo Awa

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Daily Crunch: AWS and Salesforce expand partnership to make cross-platform integrations easier

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here.Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for June 23, 2021. The value of le