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LA’s Kickback is a social shopping app that converts users into marketing channels through cash rewards

Frankie Bernstein, the Venice, Calif.-based serial entrepreneur, knows marketing.At his last startup, Markett, Bernstein turned college students into brand ambassadors who were paid by the companies

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How to work out during COVID-19?

02:28 Life has become more sedentary than ever since the coronavirus outbreak. Gyms and dance studios have shut their doors, but it doesn't mean you shouldn't work out.If you've been s

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K4Connect, a startup bringing tech to senior living centers, closes its $21M Series B

K4Connect, a startup focused on bringing new technologies like voice assistance, home automation, digital messaging and more to older adults and those living with disabilities, has closed on $21 milli

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Spotify’s new personalized playlists are designed for your workouts

Spotify is adding to its collection of personalized playlists with a new feature aimed at those who like fresh music for their workouts. But unlike its flagship offering, “Discover Weekly,”

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Virtual technology to push sports industry into the next era

After a shutdown of exactly five months due to the outbreak of COVID-19, the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) restarted on the afternoon of June 20. But, like most of the other recently reboot

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India marks International Yoga Day amid COVID-19

India marked International Yoga Day with low-key events Sunday as the nation battles the new coronavirus. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the crisis had made the ancient practice even more r

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Playbook, a creator platform focused on fitness, raises $3 million in seed

Playbook, aiming to be the Patreon of fitness content, announced the close of a $3 million seed round from several notable angels today. The investor roster includes Giphy founder Alex Chung, StyleSea

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Social media 'not a good substitute' for lockdown loneliness

03:14 COVID-19 has changed the rules on social interaction. The need for physical distancing can leave people feeling isolated, and while we can still keep in touch via online channels

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Wall Street ends higher but indexes see worst week since March selloff

The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is seen in the financial district of lower Manhattan in New York City, New York, U.S., April 13, 2020. /Reuters U.S. stocks ended higher on Friday as bargain

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China Roundup: Mega trade fair goes online, anti-China sentiment hobbles developers

Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch’s China Roundup, a digest of recent events shaping the Chinese tech landscape and what those events mean to people in the rest of the world. This week, we are seei

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Google pulls ‘Remove China Apps’ from Play Store

Remove China Apps, an app that gained popularity in India in recent weeks and did exactly what its name suggests, has been pulled from the Play Store.The top trending app in India, which was downloade

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Peloton’s fitness app finally lands on Apple TV

Since announcing in March that they were extending the free trial of their digital subscription from 30 to 90 days for a short time, Peloton has been rolling out more support for TV screens, adding A

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Tictrac secures $7.5M to expand employee wellbeing platform as WFH baloons

“Employee Wellbeing” SaaS platforms have been around for some time. Both regulation and increasing stress levels and health problems in the workplace have fed the rise of this sector of tech, and with

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Aaron Levie: ‘We have way too many manual processes in businesses’

Box CEO Aaron Levie has been working to change the software world for 15 years, but the pandemic has accelerated the move to cloud services much faster than anyone imagined. As he pointed out yesterda

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Google expands tools to help businesses impacted by COVID-19

Google is rolling out a series of updates aimed at helping local businesses adapt to the COVID-19 pandemic while continuing to serve their customers across Google Maps and Search. Since the outbreak,

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Feature: Silver lining for China's fitness industry amid COVID-19 outbreak

Fitness trainers are teaching citizens at a night sports fair in Suzhou, China. (Xinhua/Han Yuqing) Every cloud has a silver lining for China's fitnessindustry amid COVID-19 pandemic. BEIJING, May

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Silver lining for China's fitness industry amid COVID-19 outbreak

Gyms shut down, sporting fixtures suspended, and owners faced with financial losses. China's fitness industry has taken a huge blow from the COVID-19 outbreak, with people now fighting to get back on