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New grand jury seated for next stage of Trump investigation

New York prosecutors have convened a special grand jury to consider evidence in a criminal investigation into former President Donald Trump’s business dealings, a perso

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Prismic raises $20 million for its headless CMS

Prismic, a company building a content management system, has raised a $20 million Series A funding round. While the startup has been profitable since 2016, it wants to unlock the full potential of its

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Skiff, an end-to-end encrypted alternative to Google Docs, raises $3.7M seed

Imagine if Google Docs was end-to-end encrypted so that not even Google could access your documents. That’s Skiff, in a nutshell.Skiff is a document editor with a similar look and feel to Google

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Microsoft uses GPT-3 to let you code in natural language

Unlike in other years, this year’s Microsoft Build developer conference is not packed with huge surprises — but there’s one announcement that will surely make developers’ ears

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Fireflies.ai raises $14M for its meeting transcription and automation service

The Fireflies.ai project is a good reminder that not every startup project goes from idea to unicorn-status in 48 minutes. Instead, the startup’s CEO Krish Ramineni told TechCrunch about how a p

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Politics and personal time: Making room for both at work

We have a monthly company book club at our company. It’s in the evening and our whole team attends (yes, we’re really into book clubs), so it made sense that a few minutes before our book club on the

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As Zynga impresses, rival mobile-gaming shop Jam City looks to list via SPAC

While it would be nice to write about something other than yet another tech company looking to list via a SPAC, the deals keep dropping, so our more traditional fare of covering startup trends will re

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Bain Capital Ventures raised $1.3 billion to fund young startups, but young VC firms, too

Bain Capital Ventures (BCV), the venture arm of the 37-year-old private equity firm Bain Capital, announced this morning that it has $1.3 billion more smackers to invest across two funds, a $950 milli

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Unbounce snags Snazzy.ai to add automated copywriting to platform

Unbounce, a Vancouver startup best known for helping marketers create automated landing pages, added a new wrinkle this morning when it announced it has acquired Snazzy.ai, an early stage automated co

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Chilean voters choose 155 delegates to draft new document

02:28 This weekend, voters in Chile elect delegates who will write the country's new constitution.It's a milestone election - there will be gender parity among the delegates chosen maki

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Maybe SPACs were a bad idea after all

Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s broadly based on the daily column that appears on Extra Crunch, but free, and made for your weekend reading. Wan

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Daily Crunch: Stripe buys Y Combinator alum Bouncer for undisclosed sum

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.Wrapping the week here at Daily Crunch with a big thanks to Henry fo

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Amazon’s new Echo Buds are a nice upgrade

It’s hard to recall a consumer electronics category that matured quite as quickly as the fully wireless earbuds. Things went from a handful of plucky startups to virtually every hardware manufacturer

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Daily Crunch: The early-stage tech talent crunch is real

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.By now everyone is familiar with the tech world’s talent crunch: Dev

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Duolingo swipes Tinder in a Clash Royale

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, Alex and Danny unpacked Natasha‘s late

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Salesforce is bringing drag and drop interactive components to its low-code toolkit

Low code and no code tools abound these days, as the industry attempts to give non-technical end users the ability to create applications without code (or very little anyway). Salesforce has been a bi

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Which difficulties must China overcome to achieve moderate prosperity?

2-1-22 Which difficulties must China overcome to achieve moderate prosperity.mp300:00Editor's note: This 100-episode podcast explains how China works. Exploring Xi Jinp