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Calling Madrid & Barcelona VCs: Be featured in The Great TechCrunch Survey of European VC

TechCrunch is embarking on a major new project to survey the venture capital investors of Europe.Our a href=”https://forms.gle/k4Ji2Ch7zdrn7o2p6”>survey of VCs in Madrid Barcelona will capture

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Belarus President's birthday marked with protests and arrests

Tens of thousands of protesters gathered in central Minsk to mark the third week of protests against disputed Belarus leader Alexander Lukashenko.The Peace March began at 2pm local time on 30 August,

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China vows to further improve Sino-Japanese ties amid Abe's resign

Chinese Foreign Ministry Saturday vowed to work with the Japanese side to promote the sustainable improvement and development of China-Japan relations amid Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's resign

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Seoul upgrades coronavirus rules amid escalation of doctors' strike

The South Korean government ramped up efforts to end a strike by thousands of the country's doctors on Friday, as Seoul took the unprecedented step of restricting eater

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Daily Crunch: TikTok’s CEO resigns

Turmoil continues at TikTok, Salesforce lays off 1,000 people and Warby Parker is now valued at $3 billion. This is your Daily Crunch for August 27, 2020.The big story: TikTok’s CEO resignsKevi

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Calling Warsaw VCs: Be featured in The Great TechCrunch Survey of European VC

TechCrunch is embarking on a major new project to survey the venture capital investors of Europe.Our survey of VCs in Warsaw will capture how the city is faring, and what changes are being wrought amo

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Passion Capital has backed Fronted, the startup that wants to offers loans to cover rent deposits

Fronted, the new London-based startup aiming to make life easier for renters, including lending the cash needed for a deposit, has picked up seed investment from Passion Capital. The investment showed

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TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer resigns after 100 days

Kevin Mayer, the chief executive of TikTok, announced on Wednesday that he is resigning, just over 100 days after the former Disney executive joined the world’s largest short video app in mid-M

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Xi, Putin exchange congratulations at start of China-Russia sci-tech innovation year

BEIJING, Aug. 26 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin exchanged congratulatory letters on Wednesday marking the start of the Year of Scientific and Technologi

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Russia announces free visas for foreign spectators ahead of F1 race

General view of the Chinese Grand Prix in Shanghai, April 14, 2019. /VCG Russia has announced that foreign fans who wish to attend the Russian Grand Prix next month will receive free visas and

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Lionel Messi tells Barcelona he wants to leave

Lionel Messi of Barcelona during the Champions League quarterfinal against Bayern Munich in Lisbon, Portugal, August 14, 2020. /VCG Barcelona legendary forward Lionel Messi faxed the club on T

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Lionel Messi tells Barcelona he wants to leave

Lionel Messi of Barcelona during the Champions League quarterfinal against Bayern Munich in Lisbon, Portugal, August 14, 2020. /VCG Barcelona legendary forward Lionel Messi faxed the club on T

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Vue’s $179 Lite smart glasses have built-in speakers for music and calls

Perhaps some day in the not-so-distant future, we’ll all be wearing smart glasses. Stranger things have happened. And hey, most people were fairly skeptical in the early days of smartwatches. And whil

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UK immersive music startup MelodyVR acquires Napster from RealNetworks for $70M

Napster, the pioneering digital music brand from way back when, is changing hands once more. Today, a UK startup called MelodyVR, which creates immersive live music experiences that you watch either t

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Unpacking the Sumo Logic S-1 filing

Setting our dive into Palantir’s gross margins aside for another day, Sumo Logic filed to go public this morning. The Redwood City-based, former startup raised around $340 million while private,

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Japan mulls relaxing re-entry ban on foreign residents

The Japanese government is planning to relax the strict re-entry ban on foreign residents who were locked out since April as the government attempted to stem the sprea

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WHO: World 'nowhere close' to coronavirus herd immunity

The planet is nowhere close to the amount of COVID-19 immunity needed to induce herd immunity, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday."We need to focus on what we can do now to stop t