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Well that was a crazy week

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.Well

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Does the U.S. see Australia as the Quad 'battlefield' against China?

03:25 American military planners view Australia as a "potential battlefield" as they draw out a "China containment" strategy for the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, or Quad, a China-b

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Slack wants to be more than a text-based messaging platform

Last October as Slack was preparing for its virtual Frontiers conference, the company began thinking about different ways people could communicate on the platform. While it had built its name on being

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The Last of Us Part II wins Game of the Year at Baftas while Hades takes five gongs

Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Sackboy: A Big Adventure and Spider-Man: Miles Morales, also bagged Bafta Games Awards.

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'U.S. has no role in China's domestic matters'

08:25 The U.S. must desist from lecturing China on its domestic matters and negotiate bilateral issues on an equal footing and not from a misplaced belief that Washington is somehow in

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CoScreen launches its screen-sharing product, announces $4.6M in fundraising

This morning CoScreen, a startup that helps teams share screens and collaborate in real-time, formally launched its product to market. It also disclosed that it has raised $4.6 million to date.Unusual

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'Georgia gunman posted his anti-China hate for entire world to see'

05:49 The young American gunman accused in last week's Georgia spa shooting is "a product" of a prolonged and deliberate anti-China racist campaign intensified during the tenure of for

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Gillmor Gang: Grifters Paradise

The other day, I attended a celebration of one of the pioneers of collaboration technology, Ray Ozzie. The father of Lotus Notes, Ozzie left Lotus and his startup firm Iris after a hostile takeover by

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Capitalism and greed gave Britain its vaccine success, PM Johnson says

Capitalism and greed gave Britain its success in vaccinating its population, Prime Minister Boris Johnson told lawmakers in a closed meeting, praising pharmaceutical co

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Salesforce updates includes sales info overlay for Zoom meetings

The pandemic has clearly had an impact on the way we work, and this is especially true for salespeople. Salesforce introduced a number updates to Sales Cloud this morning including Salesforce Meetings

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Capitalism and greed behind UK's vaccine success? UK PM says 'yes'

Capitalism and greed gave Britain its success in vaccinating its population, Prime Minister Boris Johnson told lawmakers in a closed meeting, a remark that could rile up Brussels at a time when Brita

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Is the West's Xinjiang campaign driven by U.S. plans to derail BRI?

20:23 In recent years, some Western governments and media have developed a morbid obsession over China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Earlier this Monday, the U.S., EU, UK and Can

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Our favorite companies from Y Combinator’s W21 Demo Day: Part 1

It’s that time again! Today is Demo Day for Y Combinator’s latest accelerator batch — its largest to date, with more than 300 teams getting a minute each to pitch their companies to an aud

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Facebook’s Clubhouse rival looks a lot like Clubhouse right now

Facebook is building a Clubhouse rival, The New York Times reported in February. But what that product will look like or how it will work have been questions that have remained unanswered. However, ne

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OnePlus 9 arrives, sporting a Hasselblad-branded camera system

Cameras have long been the battleground on which the smartphone wars have been fought. Short of any left-field innovation like folding screens or strange form factors, that looks likely to continue to

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Multinationals call on G7 to coordinate digital policy

Warning that fragmented policies could stifle innovation, a group of 25 major corporations called Monday for the G7 to establish a body to coordinate global rules on digital public policy.The group,

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Daily Crunch: Investors back away from Dispo

Dispo is in the midst of a sexual assault controversy, Zoom introduces an SDK and Android owners will have to continue waiting for Clubhouse access. This is your Daily Crunch for March 22, 2021.The bi