After hours of vigorous, often contentious debate, San Diego County became the first in the United States to declare COVID-19 misinformation "a public health crisis." /Getty Images After hours
Seksom Suriyapa was seemingly destined to land at a venture firm. A Stanford Law graduate, he worked at two blue-chip investment banks before joining the cybersecurity company McAfee as a senior corp
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The world of accessibility has experienced a tipping point thanks to the pandemic, which drove people of all abilities to do more tasks and shopping online.For the last year, the digital world was the
Instagram made headlines (including this one) when product head Adam Mosseri said in June that the app is “no longer just a square photo-sharing app,” since it’s pivoting its focus t
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.Natasha and Alex and Grace and Chris gathered to dig through the week
Back in July, YASA (formerly Yokeless And Segmented Armature), a British electric motor startup with a revolutionary ‘axial-flux’ motor, was acquired by Mercedes-Benz. The acquisition didn
02:49 The latest mobile data technology – 5G – is being rolled out globally. On the 5G map drawn by Ookla, a network speed testing service, 5G network is commercially d
The ongoing fintech revolution continues to level the playing field where legacy companies have historically dominated startups.To compete with retail banks, many newcomers are offering customers cred
A startup called Playbyte wants to become the TikTok for games. The company’s newly launched iOS app offers tools that allow users to make and share simple games on their phone, as well as a ver
TheCut, a technology platform designed to handle back-end operations for barbers, raised $4.5 million in new funding.Nextgen Venture Partners led the round and was joined by Elevate Ventures, Singh Ca
03:34 Editor's note : The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated digital transformation that was already underway. Robin van Puyenbroeck, executive director of the World Tr
In many ways, there has never been a better time to be a venture capitalist. Nearly everyone in the industry is raking in money, either through long-awaited exits or because more capital flooding into
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Cohort analysis is a way of evaluating your business that involves grouping customers into “cohorts” and observing how they behave over time. A commonly used approach is monthly cohort ana
Explosion, a company that has combined an open source machine learning library with a set of commercial developer tools, announced a $6 million Series A today on a $120 million valuation. The round wa
Last week, Kathryn Zealand shared some insight on the eve of Women’s Equality Day. The post highlighted an issue that’s been apparent to everyone in and around the robotics industry: there’s a m