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Apple’s StoreKit 2 simplifies App Store subscriptions and refunds by making them accessible inside apps

If you’ve ever bought a subscription inside an iOS app and later decided you wanted to cancel, upgrade or downgrade, or ask for a refund, you may have had trouble figuring out how to go about ma

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Rudy Gobert wins third NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award

Rudy Gobert of the Utah Jazz looks on in practice before Game 1 of the NBA Western Conference semifinals against the Los Angeles Clippers at Vivint Arena in Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S., June 8, 20

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Copa America in another turmoil as Brazil players condemn CONMEBOL

Brazil's Neymar reacts during their South American qualifier for the 2022 World Cup against Paraguay at the Defensores del Chaco Stadium in Asuncion, Paraguay, June 8, 2021. /CFP The Copa Amer

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Blunt message, search for answers mark VP’s 1st foreign trip

Vice President Kamala Harris came to Latin America to deliver a message rather than clinch some kind of concrete deal.She bluntly told migrants not to travel to the Uni

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Join Accel’s Arun Mathew at TechCrunch Disrupt in our debate around alt-financing

TechCrunch Disrupt has a long history of bringing leading venture capitalists to the stage to yammer about their industry. Our impending TC Disrupt conference happening on September 21-23 is no differ

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Carlyle acquires 1E.com, an endpoint and hybrid working specialist, in $270M deal

Remote work was the order of the day for the past 16 months, but as we (fingers crossed) move out of the pandemic, it’s looking like a lot of people may move into a new era of hybrid work: less

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Daily Crunch: Fastly CDN outage briefly takes Twitch, Reddit and Pinterest offline

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.If you want to catch up on why the internet broke today, we have the

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Apple’s new ShazamKit brings audio recognition to apps, including those on Android

Apple in 2018 closed its $400 million acquisition of music recognition app Shazam. Now, it’s bringing Shazam’s audio recognition capabilities to app developers in the form of the new Shaza

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Compose.ai raises $2.1M to help everyone write faster

In today’s GPT-3 world, it’s not uncommon to hear about new software services that deal with text. Compose.ai is one such company, though it built its own language model to help folks writ

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Are we overestimating the ransomware threat?

On Monday afternoon, the U.S. Justice Department said it has seized much of the cryptocurrency ransom that U.S. pipeline operator Colonial Pipeline paid last month to a Russian hacking collective call

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Um, where is the SEC when it comes to SPACs and conflicts of interest?

Today, my colleague Kirsten Korosec reported that the autonomous vehicle startup Aurora is close to finalizing a deal to merge with one of three blank-check companies that have been formed to date by

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3 lessons we learned after raising $6.3M from 50 investors

It was August 2019, and the fundraising process was not going well.My co-founder and I had left our product management jobs at New Relic several months prior, deciding to finally plunge into building

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Google’s Pixel Buds A Series are an exercise in earbud cost cutting

Google does a lot of things well. But hardware strategy has never really been among them. The last several years have seen the company at least finding some consistency with its Pixel and Nest devices

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UK PM Boris Johnson’s Tories guilty of spamming voters

The governing party of the UK has been fined £10k by the national data protection watchdog for sending spam.The Information Commissioner’s (ICO) Office has sanctioned the Conservative Party foll

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Tuesday Capital, formerly Crunchfund, casts a wide net with a fourth, $30 million fund

Tuesday Capital, a 10-year-old seed-stage fund that was founded by longtime VC Patrick Gallagher and TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington, has changed considerably over the years. Arrington now leads

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The exit effect: 4 ways IPOs and acquisitions drive positive change across the global ecosystem

For many VCs, the exit is the endgame; you cash in and move on. But as we know, the startup world is evolving, and that means the impact of investment is no longer limited to how much money is made.As

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Gillmor Gang: Nothing Was Delivered

Somehow it’s Bob Dylan’s 80th birthday this week. Some of you may not think that’s a big deal, but I do. The fact of his talent pretty much drowns out most other ideas of what to wri