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A Christian-friendly payments processor spilled 6 million transaction records online

A little-known payments processor, which bills itself as a Christian-friendly company that does “not process credit card transactions for morally objectionable businesses,” left a database

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Modified HoloLens helps teach kids with vision impairment to navigate the social world

Growing up with blindness or low vision can be difficult for kids, not just because they can’t read the same books or play the same games as their sighted peers; Vision is also a big part of soc

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As Bird buys Circ, a rewind of scooter VC, M&A and financial reporting

Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between.While the IPO cycle reprices former unicorns and concern imbues the private market

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Daily Crunch: Facebook expands privacy options

The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe her

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With Tony Fadell’s help, Advano is building battery components to power an electric future

Using scrap silicon as its feedstock, a New Orleans-based company called Advano has raised $18.5 million to manufacture battery components to enable more powerful, smaller, and longer lasting batterie

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Cooks Venture raises $4 million from Golden West Food Group to ramp up distribution

Cooks Venture, the agtech company looking to revolutionize the chicken industry, has today announced the close of a $4 million funding round led by Golden West Food Group.Cooks Venture has been worki

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President Xi welcomes WHO's participation in coronavirus control

00:47 Chinese President Xi Jinping said he welcomes the World Health Organization's (WHO) participation in the prevention and control of the novel coronavirus, saying t

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Persona raises $17.5M for an identify verification platform that goes beyond user IDs and passwords

The proliferation of data breaches based on leaked passwords, and the rising tide of regulation that puts a hard stop on just how much user information can be collected, stored and used by companies h

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WholyMe, which makes natural products for chronic pain, closes Seed round

WholyMe, a London startup that makes and markets ‘natural relief’ products to manage chronic pain, has closed a £500,000 Seed round from investors Financière Saint James, V1 Capital, Guibo

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Equity Monday: A global selloff, MURAL snags $23M, and two unicorns that can’t raise

Good morning friends, and welcome back to TechCrunch’s Equity Monday, a short-form audio hit to kickstart your week. Regular Equity episodes still drop Friday morning, so if you’ve listened to the sho

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Expert says China ready to share experience in towns construction with other countries

China is ready to share its experience in urbanization and towns construction with other countries while it is working to achieve sustainable development, a Chinese urbanization expert said Sunday.

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Currencycloud nabs $80M from Visa, World Bank Group and more for cross-border payment APIs

Sending money from one country to another — either because you are a business paying someone for a service, or a family member working abroad and sending money back home, or something in between

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Turkey's Erdogan visits Algeria to strengthen bilateral cooperation

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday arrived in Algeria for a two-day official visit to boost bilateral cooperation and discuss regional and international i

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Nearly 50 mln USD donated via China Red Cross to curb pneumonia outbreak

As of Saturday, the Red Cross Society of China has received donations of 340 million yuan (about 49 million U.S. dollars) to help fight against the pneumonia outbreak

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Please tax us! Millionaires demand higher taxes to fight inequality

00:47 British actor Simon Pegg is among more than 130 millionaires and billionaires to have signed an open letter demanding the world's richest pay more taxes to tackle global inequali

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One of world's biggest passenger planes completes test flight

It took three attempts to get the 777X off the ground, as the first two planned tests were abandoned owing to high winds.

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Why Brexit will limit UK cities looking to re-brand themselves

03:22 For many cities in the UK, being a member of the European Union has been a godsend. Not because they got cash, but kudos. One in particular: Liverpool in northern England.The Eur