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Sidelines | Read a 'monstrous classic' on World Book Day

Sidelines is a column by CGTN Social Media DeskI accidentally wandered into a bookstore the other day and decided to buy a book that would promise as little practical help with my daily life as possi

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Ornikar raises $120M as its driving school marketplace goes up a gear with car insurance

A French startup that set out to bring a new approach to driver education and road safety, and then used that foothold to expand into the related area of car insurance, is today announcing a big round

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Germany’s Greens Get an Early Edge in Race to Succeed Merkel

Germany’s Greens are in position to make history, surging past Angela Merkel’s conservative bloc in the race to replace the four-term chancellor after September’s elect

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Apple and Google pressed in antitrust hearing on whether app stores share data with product development teams

In today’s antitrust hearing in the U.S. Senate, Apple and Google representatives were questioned on whether they have a “strict firewall” or other internal policies in place that pr

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Tribal Credit, which provides credit cards to startups in emerging markets, raises $34.3M

The B2B payments space has seen an explosion in demand, and investor interest, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic as businesses try to figure out how to pay each other digitally. The challenges beco

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Remote hiring startup Deel raises $156M at a $1.25B valuation after 20x growth in 2020

Many of the world’s organizations shifted to remote work due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But even as more people are vaccinated and offices are planning re-openings, it’s clear that for some organizatio

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Catch&Release raises $14M to help marketers find and license content from across the web

CatchRelease founder and CEO Analisa Goodin told me that she wants to help brands break free from the limitations of stock photography — and that her startup has raised $14 million in Series A funding

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Thomas Friedman answers who makes the rules of the world

04:59 Editor's note: The world is changing. Thomas Friedman, author of ‘The World is Flat’, is as anxious as everyone else. The past few years have taken a toll on the China-US relatio

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Apple confirms it will allow Parler to return to App Store

Apple will reinstate Parler on its App Store following its multi-month ban, according to a letter Apple has sent to Sen. Mike Lee and Rep. Ken Buck, which was made public this morning via a post on Co

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Why it’s not surprising to see nine-figure AI rounds 

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. If

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Chinese company unveils self-developed CPU architecture

File photo of a Loongson chip. /CFPLoongson Technology, a leading Chinese chip company based in Beijing, unveiled on Thursday its fully self-developed CPU (central proc

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Biden can end the border crisis now, with supply chain expertise

Migrant families recently released from detention arrive at a bus depot in McAllen, Texas, U.S., May 16, 2019. /VCG Editor's note: Cyrus Hadavi is the CEO and Chairman of Adexa. Previously, he

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Level raises $27M from Khosla, Lightspeed ‘to rebuild insurance from the ground up’

Level, a startup that aims to give companies a more flexible way to offer benefits to employees, has raised $27 million in a Series A funding round led by Khosla Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partne

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France outlaws sex with children aged under 15

The hemicycle during the questions to the government session at the National Assembly in Paris amid the coronavirus disease outbreak in France, January 26, 2021. /Reuters The French parliament

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Daily Crunch: Google Earth gets an update

Google Earth gives users a new look at a changing planet, Facebook tests new business discovery features and Autodesk acquires Upchain. This is your Daily Crunch for April 15, 2021.The big story: Goog

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Consumer groups and child development experts petition Facebook to drop ‘Instagram for kids’ plan

A coalition of 35 consumer advocacy groups along with 64 experts in child development have co-signed a letter to Facebook asking the company to reconsider its plans to launch a version of Instagram fo

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Social audio startup Stationhead looks beyond music as it hits 100K monthly active users

When I’ve written about Stationhead in the past, I’ve focused on how the startup aims to recapture bring personality and interactivity of a live radio broadcast to streaming music. But CEO