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No one knows what anything is worth

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. Cli

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Tech It Out: Chinese tech make splashes at first-ever virtual CES

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

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Guangzhou's Conghua, a winter hot spring destination

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

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China to turn 6.7 mln hectares of saline-alkali land into rice paddies

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

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Extra Crunch roundup: antitrust jitters, SPAC odyssey, white-hot IPOs, more

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

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Backed by Marc Benioff, Flockjay pitches its sales training service as an onramp to tech careers

“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

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A theory about the current IPO market

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

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Home services platform Porch acquires four companies

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

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5 consumer hardware VCs share their 2021 investment strategies

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

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China's bond market attracts record foreign inflow in 2020

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

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House passes a resolution calling on Pence to immediately invoke the 25th Amendment and remove Trump from office

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

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Openbase scores $3.6M seed to help developers find open source components

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

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Vdoo raises $25M more to develop its AI-based security for IoT and connected devices

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

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Tech giants' consumer data sharing aimed at containing financial risk

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

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Should social distancing be increased from two to three metres?

A scientist says the old rules that brought the first wave under control may not be enough for the more transmissible variant.

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Equal access to capital and entrepreneurship is the final civil rights movement

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

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Uber expands green rides option to 1,400 cities

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