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Extra Crunch Live: Join Roelof Botha for a Q&A today at 2pm ET/11am PT

Sequoia’s Roelof Botha, who runs the firm’s US business, has a portfolio that’s rather impressive.It includes 23andMe, MongoDB, Eventbrite, Evernote, Bird, Square, Tumblr, Unity, You

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Every Mother is a fitness streaming platform for new and expecting mothers

When Allison Rapaport was pregnant for the first time, in 2013, she struggled to find workout classes that didn’t completely go against the advice her OB-GYN gave her.Conflicted on whether to trust on

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Social network for women Peanut raises $12M Series A amid pandemic

Peanut, an app that began as a tool for finding new mom friends, has evolved into a social network now used by 1.6 million women to discuss a range of topics, from pregnancy and parenthood to marriage

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Extra Crunch Live: Join Kirsten Green for a Q&A next Thursday at 8 a.m. ET/11 a.m PST/6 p.m. GMT

Last month, the Extra Crunch Live team hosted conversations with folks from all over the venture community that ranged from the pre-seed world with Charles Hudson to shark territory with Mark Cuban. W

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Firefox gets a better password manager and picture-in-picture support

Mozilla today launched version 76 of its Firefox browser, and with that, it’s launching a couple of new features that you’ll likely notice if you’re already using the open-source br

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Technology and ethics in the coronavirus economy

The last two decades have ushered in significant change and transformation. I believe the 2020s will be dispositive in redefining the pillars of our economy, and COVID-19 magnifies this greatly. As of

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Google Meet shows up in Gmail inboxes, a few years too late

Google Meet — the video call service formerly known as Hangouts Meet, which itself was an offshoot from Hangouts, not to be confused with Google Chat, Duo, Allo, or any of the company’s other c

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Athletes' COVID-19 pandemic training

As the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games have been postponed to July 23 next year, and with gyms shut down as a result of the coronavirus crisis, how are athletes from all around the world get their training

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Warren Buffett has something to say about COVID-19 and economy

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett, chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, talked about coronavirus and the economic outlook, and answered questions from investors at the company's first-ever virtual share

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We need more video games that are social platforms first, games second

During these long, mundane physically-distant days, stretching on into an uncertain future like an ever-lengthening beigeish corridor, it’s impossible not to miss hanging out with friends. Espec

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League of Legends eSports: Chinese mainland welcomes a new champion

Screenshot from Bilibili League of Legends (LOL) eSports team JD Gaming (JDG) has beaten Top Esports (TES) 3:2 to become the Spring season champion in the Chinese mainland region.Match oneTES

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This Week in Apps: Zoom gets busted, TikTok’s new record, contact tracing API launches

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the Extra Crunch 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, wit

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Extra Crunch Live: Join Hunter Walk for a Q&A May 7th at 1 pm ET/10 am PT

We are not slowing down the pace of our Extra Crunch Live discussions.Fresh off our chat with Mark Cuban, we’re already gearing up for next week, which will bring us an investor from Sequoia, an

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During a pandemic, some companies struggle to provide the community they promise

Achieving a sense of community has been the pursuit of businesses trying to attract the experience-over-items millennials and Gen Z who want their consumerism to have a positive impact on the world. “

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Zoom retracts statement that it has 300M daily active users

Zoom is not having a good month. As it scales to meet pandemic demand, it has been beset by security issues, which it has had to explain and fix. Today, The Verge reported that the company just change

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Okta COVID-19 app usage report finds it’s not just collaboration seeing a huge uptick

Okta released a special COVID-19 edition of its app usage report today, and you don’t need a Ph. D. in statistics to guess what they found. Indeed, Zoom surged 110% on the Okta network, leading

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Extra Crunch Live: Join Mark Cuban for our live chat today at 11 am ET/8 am PT

In just a few hours, the TechCrunch crew is chatting with investor and entrepreneur Mark Cuban. Kicking off at 8 am PT, 11 am ET and 3 PM GMT, Jordan Crook and Alex Wilhelm will talk startups and the