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How deal terms are changing right now

Trying to raise money for a startup is never a walk in the park. Still, there are good times, there are bad times, and there is right now, a moment of uncertainty unlike anything that most of us have

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Staying safe online while working from home

02:01 As people turn to the program to stay connected and work from home, cybersecurity has become a key concern.At work, employers typically have IT departments or other layers of sec

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Extra Crunch Live: Join Charles Hudson for a look at today’s seed-stage landscape

Earlier this week, we kicked off our Extra Crunch Live series with an interesting chat with Cowboy’s Aileen Lee and Ted Wang. Today, we will be back at 3 p.m. PST/6 p.m. EST/10 p.m. GMT with a n

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Stripe adds card issuing, localized card networks and expanded approvals tool

At a time when more transactions than ever are happening online, payments behemoth Stripe is announcing three new features to continue expanding its reach.The company today announced that it will now

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Otter.ai’s newest feature offers live, interactive transcripts of your Zoom meetings

Real-time voice transcription service Otter.ai is adding new functionality that will aid home school students and work-from-home employees alike. The company today is introducing an integration with Z

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Miro lands $50M Series B for digital whiteboard as demand surges

Miro is a company in the right place at the right time. The makers of a digital whiteboard are seeing usage surge right now as businesses move from the workplace and physical whiteboards. Today, the c

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Heartcore Capital’s ‘Fellowship’ offers pre-seed funding for founders building consumer tech during lockdown

The new “normal” offers new opportunities. That’s the thinking behind a new pre-seed funding program from Heartcore Capital . The European consumer-focused VC usually invests in star

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Spotlight: Two Chinese missions donate medical supplies to support NYC in fight against COVID-19

Two Chinese diplomatic missions, which regard New York City as their homes, on Tuesday donated a batch of medical supplies, including 25,000 N95 masks, to the city to

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Workers return in Denmark and Germany, but it's not business as usual

02:44 European governments are moving to the next phase in fighting this pandemic. But as one Swedish epidemiologist put it to me this week, they may still be in the early stages of a

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Google Meet launches improved Zoom-like tiled layout, low-light mode and more

Google Meet, like all video chat products, is seeing rapid growth in user numbers right now, so it’s no surprise that Google is trying to capitalize on this and is quickly iterating on its prod

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UK lawmakers return to virtual Houses of Parliament

Lawmakers returned to Britain's Houses of Parliament Tuesday for their first day back after an extended holiday enforced by COVID-19. Unlike the usual hustle and bustle atmosphere resembling the

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How social distancing is changing the way people are dating

"We don't know who needs to hear this, but now is NOT the time to go out with your date to a bar," online dating giant OkCupid wrote to its users on social media. "FaceTime, Skype, call, text, messag

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UK parliament set for virtual proceedings amid pandemic

British MPs sat at a safe distance from each other as they approved the virtual meeting of the parliament. /paliamentlive.tv A handful of British Members of Parliament met in the House of Comm

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BoostVC closes $40M fund as revamped ‘sci-fi’ accelerator preps for digital demo day

BoostVC has been an accelerator known for its unconventional bets, it’s chased — and is still chasing — trends like blockchain and AR/VR that other investors have long sworn off. Its

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Disruptor Beam relaunches as gaming infrastructure-maker Beamable

Disruptor Beam, the mobile gaming startup behind Star Trek Timelines, has a new name and a new business. It’s now calling itself Beamable, and it’s selling a set of tools to help game dev

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WhatsApp and WHO launch stickers to help people get through these tough times

WhatsApp is deepening its collaboration with the World Health Organization as people across the globe grapple with the coronavirus pandemic. The Facebook -owned service said today it is attempting to

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Campaign launched to tackle coronavirus fraudsters

As people spend more time at home, fraudsters are increasingly turning to COVID-19-related scams to con their victims.