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Trump bringing back trusted aide Hope Hicks to White House

Hope Hicks, one of President Donald Trump’s most trusted and longest-serving aides, is returning to the White House as the president works to surround himself with loya

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U.S. Treasury to continue imposing financial sanctions on DPRK

The U.S. Treasury Department will continue imposing financial sanctions on the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), according to the agency's budget request fo

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Shock as UK finance minister Sajid Javid quits amid government reshuffle

The UK's Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sajid Javid, has quit his role after reportedly refusing to sack his advisers.His departure from the second most senior post in go

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Nvidia’s Q4 financials look to brighter skies with strong quarterly revenue growth

Major artificial intelligence and graphics chipmaker Nvidia reported its 2020Q4 financials today (the company’s fiscal quarter ends on January 26th, 2020). The company announced revenues of $3.11 bill

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LinkedIn will sunset Sales Navigator for Gmail, formerly known as Rapportive, on March 20

It’s par for the course that major tech platforms will launch a lot of services, then sunset those that are less popular. But this week comes one that especially smarts (for me and some of my Te

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Unreleased Nintendo PlayStation console goes up for auction

The Nintendo PlayStation was the result of a secret collaboration between the Japanese technology giants in the early 1990s.

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Los Angeles-based ‘deep tech’ investment firm Riot Ventures is raising a $75M fund

Riot Ventures, the Los Angeles-based, early-stage and deep technology investment firm is going out to market to raise a $75 million second fund to finance the development of startups in LA and beyond,

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Portfolio bloat: what’s happening to thousands of startups going nowhere fast

Earlier this week, much was made of the e-commerce business Brandless deciding to shutter its doors. Industry observers found its fate particularly interesting, given that Brandless had opened its sto

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Phone manufacturers eye their next move as 5G goes mainstream

For two years running, Samsung played the same trick and front-loaded its annual event by announcing a new foldable. Last year’s announcement of the Fold was a huge one — the first viable (relatively

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The US is charging Huawei with racketeering

Ratcheting up its pressure campaign against Huawei and its affiliates, the Department of Justice and the FBI announced today that it has brought 16 charges against Huawei in a sprawling case with majo

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Trump administration aims to protect GPS with new exec order

GPS increasingly runs the entire planet. Supply chains, oceanic shipping, port docking, and even our daily movements in cars, on bikes, and walking around cities is dependent on a constellation of sat

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Chinese nuclear reactor design progresses to key assessment phase in UK

Britain's Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) announced Thursday that it has completed Step Three of the Generic Design Assessment (GDA) of the HPR1000, a Chinese nuclear power reactor design, and ta

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Google closes $2.6B Looker acquisition

When Google announced that it was acquiring data analytics startup Looker for $2.6 billion, it was a big deal on a couple of levels. It was a lot of money and it represented the first large deal under

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Uber’s first-ever head of diversity has left the company

Bernard Coleman, Uber’s first-ever head of diversity, has left the company, TechCrunch has learned. His last day was Friday, January 17.“Bernard’s contributions over the years helpe

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Shutterstock founder and CEO Jon Oringer steps down after 16 years

It’s an end of an era, and you might just want to snap a photo and upload it for others to purchase.Jon Oringer, who founded New York City-based Shutterstock in 2003, announced today that he would be

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Tesla is going back to the markets to raise more than $2B through stock offering

Tesla said Thursday it plans to raise more than $2 billion through a common stock offering and will use the funds to strengthen its balance sheet and for general corporate purposes, despite signaling

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Datometry snares $17M Series B to help move data and applications to the cloud

Moving data to the cloud from an on-prem data warehouse like Teradata is a hard problem to solve, especially if you’ve built custom applications that are based on that data. Datometry, a San Fra