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South by Southwest Festival Returns, Virtually

02:43 For nearly 35 years now, the hugely popular South by Southwest festival has celebrated the arts, tech, culture and all things creative in Austin, Texas. This opportunity for sens

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Europe’s rush for a COVID-19 ‘digital pass’ stirs concerns

More details have emerged today about the European Commission’s legislative proposal for a pan-EU ‘digital green pass’ to show verified COVID-19 status. The plan is controversial fro

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From improving cancer treatments to saving the bees, these are the companies in IndieBio’s latest class

Ultra precise cancer therapies! Human-like hair grown from plants! A way to potentially save the bees!The spectrum of companies coming out of IndieBio has always been pretty wild, and its latest batch

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Investors Clara Brenner, Quin Garcia and Rachel Holt are coming to TC Sessions: Mobility 2021

The transportation industry is abuzz with upstarts, legacy automakers, suppliers and tech companies working on automated vehicle technology, digital platforms, electrification and robotics. Then there

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SumUp, which helps businesses take card payments, raises $895M to double down on growth

SumUp, a London-based startup that helps businesses power revenues through card payments — by way of physical readers, online payments and invoices — is itself powering up in a big way. To

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New challenger Ikigai combines digital banking and wealth management

Ikigai, a London fintech founded by former McKinsey partners, thinks there’s room in the crowded challenger market for a new premium offering that combines digital banking with wealth management

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Gumroad wants to make equity crowdfunding mainstream

Gumroad, a startup that helps creators sell their work, is raising $6 million at a $100 million valuation. While $1 million of that total is reserved for AngelList co-founder Naval Ravikant and Baseca

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Netflix gets 35 Oscar nominations, including 10 for ‘Mank’

Netflix’s original films received 35 Oscar nominations this year, once again putting the streaming service ahead of ahead of any other Hollywood studios.“Mank” led the pack with 10 nominations,

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Building code compliance startup UpCodes gets $3.36M in pre-Series A funding

UpCodes, a startup that develops building code compliance tools, announced today it has raised $3.36 million in pre-Series A funding. This brings its total raised so far to $4.15 million. The new fund

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Facebook to label all COVID-19 vaccine posts with pointer to official info

Facebook will soon label all posts discussing the coronavirus vaccination with a pointer to official information about COVID-19, it said today.It also revealed it has implemented some new “tempo

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New York senators urge Cuomo to resign after governor refuses to quit

New York’s two US senators, Chuck Schumer, who is also the Senate majority leader, and Kirsten Gillibrand, joined national and state representatives late Friday afterno

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Summer Meeting: Harry and William Expected to 'Put On United Front' After Oprah Tell-All Drama

The Duke of Sussex revealed during his frank discussion with American talk show host Oprah Winfrey that his relationship with his older brother William was “space” sinc

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Legl gets $7M to help law firms upgrade to digital workflows

B2B SaaS startup Legl has bagged $7M in Series A funding led by Octopus Ventures for its platform for law firms which offers tools to streamline core business processes such as customer onboarding, du

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Daily Crunch: NFT artwork sells for $69M

The artist Beeple scores a huge NFT sale, Twitter Spaces are coming soon and Seth Rogen’s weed startup launches in the U.S. This is your Daily Crunch for March 11, 2021.The big story: NFT artwor

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Everything you missed from TC Sessions: Justice

TechCrunch Sessions: Justice covered a wide variety of topics. From DEI to labor to accessibility, the sessions went deep on the issues that matter most in the tech world.For example, we had an illumi

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Wise’s Taavet Hinrikus and Teleport’s Sten Tamkivi partner in new investment firm — just don’t call it a VC fund

Taavet Hinrikus, the first employee of Skype and co-founder of fintech giant Wise (formerly TransferWise), is teaming up with Teleport co-founder and current Topia CPO Sten Tamkivi to create a new inv

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Rep. Barbara Lee says the pipeline problem is “a total myth”

Rep. Barbara Lee (D-13 California) took time out of her busy schedule this week to join us for TechCrunch Sessions: Justice. During our our wide-ranging discussion, she talked about the issues in tech