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Britain says to host 2022 vaccine summit to prepare for future pandemics

Britain said on Friday it would host a summit in 2022 to raise money for vaccine research and development to support an international coalition seeking to speed up the

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In a room with no smart speaker, Alexa can’t hear you scream

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.For this week’s deep dive Natasha and Alex and Danny and Chris dove into

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Britney Spears asks to speak to court handling her conservatorship

Britney Spears is set to personally address the court dealing with her conservatorship.A hearing was set on June 23 for Spears to speak to the court in a rare move by the singer who has mostly kept m

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What can the OKR software sector tell us about startup growth more generally?

In the never-ending stream of venture capital funding rounds, from time to time, a group of startups working on the same problem will raise money nearly in unison. So it was with OKR-focused startups

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Language learning startup Toucan raises $4.5M

Toucan, a startup that helps users learn a new language while they browse the web, is announcing that it has raised an additional $4.5 million in seed funding.As I wrote last fall, the Santa Monica, C

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Teen banking service Step raises $100M Series C, announces Steph Curry’s investment

Step, the digital banking service aimed at teens and endorsed by TikTok star Charli D’Amelio, announced this morning the close of a $100 million round of Series C funding after growing to over 1

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Amazon announces new Fire tablets and kids editions

There’s a bunch of tablet news coming from Amazon this morning. Leading the way is the release of two new 10-inch devices: the Fire HD 10 and Fire HD 10 Plus. The former features a 1080p display

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Mobile bank Current raises $220 million Series D, triples valuation to $2.2B

U.S.-based challenger bank Current, which has now grown to nearly 3 million users, announced this morning it has raised a $220 million round of Series D funding, led by new investor Andreessen Horowit

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Turkey summons US ambassador over genocide announcement

Turkey’s foreign ministry has summoned the U.S. ambassador in Ankara to protest the U.S. decision to mark the deportation and killing of Armenians during the Ottoman Em

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UEFA mulls punishment as Barcelona remain committed to Super League

Lionel Messi shines as Barcelona beat Getafe to climb to third in the La Liga table at Camp Nou in Barcelona, Spain, April 22, 2021. /CFP Amid all the indignation, resentment and hurly-burly s

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E-commerce tracking platform AfterShip raises $66M led by Tiger Global

AfterShip launched in 2012 to help online sellers track packages across different carriers, but since then it has built a suite of data analytics tools covering almost every step of the shopping exper

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SoftBank bets big on a ‘digital Ellis Island’

Welcome Tech, which has built a digital platform aimed at immigrants and their families, has raised $35 million in a Series B funding round co-led by TTV Capital, Owl Ventures and SoftBank Group Corp.

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Venmo adds support for buying, holding and selling cryptocurrencies

Venmo is adding support for cryptocurrency, starting today. The company says it will begin to roll out the ability for Venmo’s more than 70 million users to buy, hold and sell cryptocurrencies d

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WHO warns COVID-19 still an international public health emergency

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus attends a news conference in Geneva, Switzerland, July 3, 2020. /Reuters Director-General of Word Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom warne

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Former French PM: 'There is no future without China'

02:02 For more than five decades, former French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin has witnessed China's tremendous development. As a prominent figure in Europe, Raffarin has long pro

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Knox Financial raises $10M to take the pain out of being a landlord

We’ve all heard the phrase “passive income” to describe how people can make money by owning rental properties. Many Americans would love to passively earn money, but the process of becoming a landlord

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Distance growing between Brussels, London 100 days after Brexit

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