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Virtual HQs race to win over a remote-work-fatigued market

In retrospect, 2019 feels like the working world’s last dance with spontaneity. The pre-pandemic past is rife with conferences, running into co-workers and post-work happy hours. Now, as companies suc

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Will Zoom Apps be the next hot startup platform?

When Zoom announced Zapps last month — the name has since been wisely changed to Zoom Apps — VC Twitter immediately began speculating that Zoom could make the leap from successful video c

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Kerry Washington backs jewelry startup Aurate

Actress Kerry Washington has made an investment of undisclosed size in direct-to-consumer jewelry startup Aurate.This isn’t Washington’s first startup investment — she’s also backed

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Houseparty adds ‘Fortnite Mode,’ bringing video chat to the popular game

Epic acquired Houseparty way back in June of last year, following an absolutely massive $1.25 billion raise. It was clear why the Fortnite publisher would be interested in the social video app. After

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MacBook Air M1 review: The right Apple Silicon Mac for most

Reviewing hardware is an act of minutia. Occasionally something new or potentially earth-shattering comes along, but on the whole, it’s about chipping away. Documenting small, gradual changes designed

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Extra Crunch Live: Join Bessemer’s Byron Deeter for a live Q&A today at 12pm PT/3pm ET

Byron Deeter’s portfolio includes Twilio, DocuSign, Box, Canva, Intercom, SendGrid and many more. He is one of the most knowledgeable and experienced SaaS and cloud investors in the biz, which i

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OpenPhone rings up $14 million to put your work phone in an app

Communication tools are evolving quickly. We have all kinds of social media for our personal lives, Slack for chatting with our coworkers, Discord for gaming and other communities, and Zoom and FaceTi

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As COVID surges, what can data tell us about Airbnb’s recovery?

This is The TechCrunch Exchange, a newsletter that goes out on Saturdays, based on the column of the same name. You can sign up for the email here.DoorDash filed to go public on Friday, meaning we’ll

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DoorDash IPO bets that the pandemic has accelerated change

Editor’s note: Get this free weekly recap of TechCrunch news that any startup can use by email every Saturday morning (7 a.m. PT). Subscribe here.DoorDash has become the go-to delivery choice for mill

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This Week in Apps: Conservative apps surge, Instagram redesigned, TikTok gets ghosted

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the TechCrunch series that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they support and the money that flows through it all.The app industry is as hot as ever, with 

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Onfido’s Husayn Kassai steps back, brings in new CEO ahead of a planned IPO

There are big changes today at Onfido, the global identity verification and authentication platform which has rocketed in adoption as so many services become digitized during the pandemic. The company

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This fintech-focused VC firm just closed a $75 million debut fund; backers “came out of the woodwork”

It’s no secret that’s a massive digital transformation happening within financial services companies and amid the growing number of non-financial outfits that are also adding financial pro

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As public investors reprice edtech bets, what’s ahead for the hot startup sector?

Reports on November 9 that a COVID-19 vaccine looks incredibly effective moved the market. Software stocks sold off and long-suffering industries hammered by the pandem

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L’Oréal rolls out a line of ‘virtual makeup’

Selfie filters have improved immensely over the past several years, but companies on the forefront of the tech see plenty of room to grow.The cosmetics world has seen some rapid change in the past se

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Livestorm raises $30M for its browser-based meeting and webinar platform

Video communication startup Livestorm announced today that it has raised $30 million in Series B funding.Co-founder and CEO Gilles Bertaux told me that the company started out with a focus on webinars

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Biden presidency: Make U.S. join the world again

04:08 Joe Biden, projected to become the next U.S. president, will need to roll back many of President Donald Trump's foreign policies to "Make U.S. Join the World Again," according to

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Texas teen wins contest with possible COVID-19 treatment

02:33 While​scientists around the world continue work towardsafe and effective COVID-19 vaccine​s,​others are also focused ondrugs and treatments that could​helptame the disease.And it