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Electronic Arts buys mobile game studio Playdemic for $1.4 billion

Video game giant Electronic Arts is continuing to make MA moves as it looks to bulk up its presence in the mobile gaming world.Fresh off the $2.4 billion acquisition of Glu Mobile this past April, the

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Investors’ thirst for growth could bode well for SentinelOne’s IPO

Turning the page from the early-stage venture capital market to the super late-stage exit market, this morning we’re talking about endpoint security company SentinelOne’s IPO in the contex

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Salesforce, AWS announce extended partnership with further two-way integration

Salesforce and AWS represent the two most successful cloud companies in their respective categories. Over the last few years the two cloud giants have had an evolving partnership. Today they announced

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Extra Crunch roundup: SaaS founder salaries, break-even neobanks, Google Search tips

Usually, a teacher who grades students on a curve is boosting the efforts of those who didn’t perform well on the test. In the case of cloud companies, however, it’s the other way around.As of Q1 2021

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Daily Crunch: Transmit Security’s $543M Series A is one for the record books

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here.Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for June 22, 2021. We have startup

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10 ways founders can manage their mental health while fundraising

Entrepreneurs’ mental health and stress management started to be more widely discussed amid the pandemic, but for many seasoned entrepreneurs, the topic is still taboo. Now that the world seems to be

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How has China coordinated COVID control and economic development?

32. How has China coordinated COVID control and economic development.mp300:00Editor's note: This 100-episode podcast explains how China works. Exploring Xi Jinping Thou

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G2 raises $157M for its software review service

This morning G2, a company that provides an online software review and information database, announced that it has raised a $157 million Series D. Per a release the company shared with TechCrunch in a

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How to land the top spot in Google search with featured snippets in 2021

Search is changing. Most search engines now don’t just bring up a page of 10 search results and two ads at the top when you type in a query. Instead, Google search queries can bring up a whole r

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'Something's out there': UFO researchers welcome release of Pentagon report into 'unidentified aerial phenomena'

The US government taskforce has been investigating sightings between US military personnel and unidentified flying objects.

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Vietnamese financial services app MFast gets $1.5M pre-Series A led by Do Ventures

MFast founders Phan Thanh Long and Phan Thanh VinhMFast, a mobile app that lets Vietnamese users in remote areas access financial services, announced it has raised a $1.5 million pre-Series A today. T

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Shanghai energizes China's film industry

00:36 Shanghai Hi-tech Films and Television City signed deals worth over 20 billion yuan ($3.1 billion) during a press conference on Thursday. The home of over 7,000 fi

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Are China's beloved elephants heading back to ancestral home?

05:41 For the past year, a herd of elephants traveling across China has captured the imagination of the world.But while their day-to-day movements are meticulously trac

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Tiger Global in talks to back BharatPe at $2.5 billion valuation

Indian fintech startup BharatPe is in advanced stages of talks to raise about $250 million in a new financing round led by Tiger Global, two sources familiar with the matter told TechCrunch.The new ro

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Dozens of women sue Pornhub - alleging explicit videos were uploaded without their consent

More than 30 women accuse MindGeek, parent company of Pornhub, of profiting from non-consensual sex videos.

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China reports success in curbing surge in some commodity prices: NDRC

China has achieved preliminary success in curbing a commodity price surge, the country's top economic planner said on Thursday, as market speculation has begun to cool

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Dozens of women sue Pornhub - alleging explicit videos were uploaded without their consent

More than 30 women accuse MindGeek, parent company of Pornhub, of profiting from non-consensual sex videos.