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02:46 For the first time in its over five-decade history, the Consumer Electronics Show or CES, is held virtually this year due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.Although leading Chi
03:33 Lu Weixiong has devoted six years of his life to the hot spring industry, a mainstay of the economy in Guangzhou's Conghua District. As the current president of t
Saline-alkali soil rice harvest at Qingkou Salt Farm, Lianyungang City, Jiangsu Province, China, October 28, 2020. /CFPThe team of renowned Chinese agronomist Yuan Long
Some time ago, I gave up on the idea of finding a thread that connects each story in the weekly Extra Crunch roundup; there are no unified theories of technology news.The stories that left the deepest
“Most people don’t even know that a job in tech sales is even a possibility,” says Shaan Hathiramani, the founder and chief executive of Flockjay, a company offering a tech sales tra
As expected, shares of Poshmark exploded this morning, blasting over 130% higher in afternoon trading from the company’s above-range IPO price of $42. The enormous and noisy debut of Poshmark co
Only a few weeks after its SPAC IPO, Porch today announced that it has made four acquisitions, worth a total of $122 million. The most important here is probably the acquisition of Homeowners of Ameri
Consumer hardware has always been a tough market to crack, but the COVID-19 crisis made it even harder.TechCrunch surveyed five key investors who touch different aspects of the consumer electronics in
03:40 The year 2020 was remarkable for China's bond market, which played a vital role in supporting the recovery across many pandemic-stricken economies and attracted a record foreign
The House of Representatives passed a nonbinding resolution late Tuesday night calling on Vice President Mike Pence and President Donald Trump's Cabinet to invoke the 2
Openbase founder Lior Grossman started his company the way that many founders do — to solve a problem he was having. In this case, it was finding the right open source components to build his so
It’s estimated that there were some 50 billion connected devices globally in 2020, and while that really says a lot about how far we’ve come in tech, for many it also speaks to a big issue
Workers from Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com track sales and trends for Singles Day in the data center control room at the company's headquarters during an organized tour in Beijing, China, Novem
A scientist says the old rules that brought the first wave under control may not be enough for the more transmissible variant.
Context is always important. In the grand scheme of things, I have privilege: I was born a male, in the most powerful country in the world, during the most prosperous time in history, to parents who b
Uber has expanded a program that incentivizes drivers to use all-electric and hybrid vehicles to more than 1,400 cities in North America including Austin, Houston, Miami and New York City as part of