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Macro relaunches its Zoom skin to focus on self-expression and inclusion

Productivity has been a focal point for many enterprise businesses since before the pandemic hit, and even more so since its onset. But Macro founders Ankith Harathi and John Keck are taking a differe

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Digital locker app Movies Anywhere adds AI-powered lists to organize your library

Movies Anywhere, an app that allows you to centralize your digital movie collection from across services, is rolling out a new feature that will help you make better sense of your growing library. The

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Daily Crunch: Internet watchdog Citizen Lab says iPhone spyware dodges Apple’s security measures

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.Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for August 24, 2021. Today’s news

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Fika Ventures nearly triples its assets under management: ‘It’s definitely a crazy time’

Fika Ventures is a five-year-old, LA-based seed-stage fund that has been funding mostly business-to-business startups, as well as fintech companies and a sprinkling of healthcare IT startups — a

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Stewart Butterfield and Bret Taylor are coming to Disrupt

When Salesforce acquired Slack at the end of last year for almost $28 billion, the deal seemed on its face to make sense, given that the coronavirus pandemic accelerated already growing demand for too

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NoRedInk raises $50 million Series B to help students become better writers

“In order to become a better writer, read your written words out loud.”That’s one of the first, and best, writing tips I ever received. I always found the advice ironic because it required me to chang

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Aileen Lee and Guild Education’s Rachel Carlson will share how to get to yes on Extra Crunch Live

Aileen Lee is one of the most prestigious and successful venture capitalists of the past decade. Before starting her own firm in Cowboy Ventures, Lee was a partner at KPCB for more than 12 years. Her

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TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 kicks off in less than a month

We’re less than one month away from kicking off our flagship global event, TechCrunch Disrupt 2021. And we’re feeling the adrenaline rush that can only come when more than 10,000 startup icons, expert

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After testing, Instagram launches ads in the Instagram Shop tab globally

Last year, Instagram unveiled Shops as part of Facebook’s larger pivot toward e-commerce. Shops is front-and-almost-center on the app’s bottom navigation bar, even more readily accessible

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Substack acqui-hires team behind subscription social app Cocoon

Subscription newsletter platform kingpin Substack shared today that they’ve acqui-hired the team behind Cocoon, a subscription social media app built for close friends.We covered the Y Combinato

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Automotive startup Upstream raises $62M Series C to scale cloud-based security

Back in 2015, researchers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek remotely hacked into a Jeep Cherokee driven by a Wired reporter, Andy Greenberg, in an attempt to warn the auto industry of potential pitfall

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testRigor scores $4M seed to turn a list of actions into a QA testing script

Imagine typing out a series of steps in plain English that would reflect a list of actions a human QA tester would undertake to test an app, then turning that list into an automated testing script. Th

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A new NSO zero-click attack evades Apple’s iPhone security protections, says Citizen Lab

A Bahraini human rights activist’s iPhone was silently hacked earlier this year by a powerful spyware sold to nation-states, defeating new security protections that Apple designed to withstand c

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Max Q: Launch industry low-down

Max Q is a weekly newsletter from TechCrunch all about space. Sign up here to receive it weekly on Mondays in your inbox.Another public launch company is coming soon, while a still-private launch had

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U.S. approves Pfizer, booster jab inequality: COVID-19 Daily Bulletin

TOP HEADLINES• The U.S. drug regulator has granted full approval to the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine. While the German-made inoculation has been in use in the U.S. since December after being given emergen

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Afghanistan: postmortem and preview

The biggest fallacy outside inFor Americans, the Afghan mission was doomed from the start. It was a fool's errand to treat Afghanistan as a political laboratory. The co

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Afghanistan: postmortem and preview

The biggest fallacy outside inFor Americans, the Afghan mission was doomed from the start. It was a fool's errand to treat Afghanistan as a political laboratory. The co