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Affordable student passes available for TC Sessions: SaaS 2021

If you’re a current student or a recent grad with a burning passion for data, software and artificial intelligence, we want you to join us on October 27 for TC Sessions: SaaS 2021. The software-as-a-s

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Majority of Euro 2020 racist abuse came from UK accounts and 99% were not anonymous, says Twitter

Twitter's data stands in contrast to that from the UK Football Policing Unit which said that of 207 social media posts deemed to be criminal, 34 came from accounts in Britain and 123 in other countries.

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FreshBooks reaches $1B+ valuation with $130.75M for its SMB-focused accounting platform

FreshBooks, a Toronto-based cloud accounting software company focused on SMBs, announced today it has secured $80.75 million in a Series E round of funding, as well as $50 million in debt financing.Ex

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Sidelines | Olympics show people the joy of hugging

Sidelines is a column by CGTN's Social Media Desk The moment Italy's Gianmarco Tamberi and Qatar's Mutaz Essa Barshim decided to share the gold medal in the men's high jump at the Tokyo Olympics must

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Ted Cruz Calls Biden's Election COVID 'Superspreader Event' Over Immigration Policy

Texas Senator Ted Cruz is speaking out regarding President Joe Biden's recent comments regarding GOP governors and their handling of COVID-19, saying the president is i

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Growth roundup: Investing in community, targeting developers, new marketer recs

“The best thing a startup can do, and I’m seeing it happen more and more, is investing in community early on,” growth marketing expert Max van den Ingh of Unmuted tells us. “When I w

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Design expert Scott Tong outlines 4 concepts founders should consider when designing products

In the last decade, high-quality design has become a necessity in the software space. Great design is a commodity, not a luxury, and yet, designing beautiful products and finding great designers conti

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Unmuted founder Max van den Ingh on success beyond the metrics

There is no authoritative playbook for marketing these days. Every company must find its own voice, and as it grows and evolves, its marketing needs to evolve as well.Relying on proven tactics and mea

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Drivers for Elon Musk’s Loop get a script about their ‘great leader’

Drivers for Elon Musk’s underground Loop system in Las Vegas have been instructed to bypass passengers’ questions about how long they have been driving for the company, declare ignorance a

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48-hour countdown to early bird savings on passes to TC Disrupt 2021

What’s big enough, bold enough and influential enough to inspire more than 10,000 people around the world to carve out three days from their intensely busy schedules? If you said TechCrunch Disrupt 20

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Climate science report 'critical for success' of COP26: UN

Nearly 200 nations started online negotiations Monday to validate a United Nations (UN) science report that will anchor autumn summits charged with preventing climate catastrophe on a planetary scale

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Robotic AI firm Covariant raises another $80 million

In May of last year, Covariant announced that it had raised a $40 million Series B. It was a health sum of money for the young company, bringing its total funding up to $67 million. Just a little over

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Delegations shine at opening ceremony of Tokyo Olympics

Night view Tokyo. /CFP The opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics was held at the National Stadium in Tokyo, Japan on Friday night.A wooden Olympic logo was unveiled at the ceremony, fitting t

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Pre-orders for Panic’s Playdate handheld will open on July 29th

Playdate, the adorable whimsy-and-nostalgia-box/handheld game system built by Panic (with some help from Teenage Engineering), has taken one more big step toward reality: it has an official pre-order

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Samsung will announce new foldables on August 11

Samsung just sent out invites for its next Unpacked event. There are those companies that like to sneak hints into their invites — and then there’s Samsung. The note leads with the big, bold wor

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Music of the mountain men

Shanren's members come from various ethnic backgrounds. The bassist Sigao Ala (front left) is from the Yi ethnic group; the multi-instrumentalist Fu Te (front right) is from the Bouyei ethnic gro

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Emergence Capital’s Doug Landis explains how to identify (and tell) your startup story

How do you go beyond the names and numbers with your startup pitch deck? For Doug Landis, the answer is one simple compound gerund: storytelling. It’s a word that gets thrown around a lot of late in S