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Trillion-dollar horses, surfeit funding rounds and Future’s future

Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s inspired by what the weekday Exchange column digs into, but free, and made for your weekend reading. Want it in

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Realizing the great realization

People walk through the streets of Huntington Beach, California, U.S., July 19, 2020. /CFP Editor's note: Simon Johnson, a former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund, is a profe

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Reflections on the first all-virtual CES

I’ve spent more time than I care to mention over the last several years wondering aloud about the value of in-person trade shows. There’s something seemingly antiquated in the idea of jamming a bunch

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How to make money from others' suffering – an American guide

A group of Trump supporters protest COVID-19 vaccine in front of the Pfizer Head Quarter in New York City, United States, January 13, 2021. /Getty Editor's note: Maitreya Bhakal is an Indian c

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How to make money from others' suffering – an American guide

A group of Trump supporters protest COVID-19 vaccine in front of the Pfizer Head Quarter in New York City, United States, January 13, 2021. /Getty Editor's note: Maitreya Bhakal is an Indian c

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Sony’s PlayStation 5 arrives November 12, priced at $500

If in-person events were still a thing in 2020, there’s a pretty good chance we’d know a lot more about the PlayStation 5 by now. With tech companies setting their own event schedules, how

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It’s not just Airbnb; an IPO expert pushes back against the SPAC frenzy and other new ways to going public

Lise Buyer has been advising startups on how to go public for the last 13 years through her consultancy, Class V Group. She built the business after working as an investment banker, and then as a dire

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Anything less than nationwide vote by mail is electoral sabotage

The global pandemic has cast a light on decades of cumulative efforts to manipulate and suppress voters, showing that the country is completely unprepared for any serious challenge to its elections sy

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LA-based Brainbase raises another $8 million for IP-licensing management

Brainbase, the rights management platform that’s helping Hollywood studios manage the licensing rights to their cultural icons, has picked up another $8 million in financing.Behind every popular

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S. Africa gangsters deliver food in poor Cape Town area amid lockdown

In this May 2, 2020, photo, Preston, a senior leader of the Americans, a criminal gang, says a prayer before he and other gang members deliver food in the Manenberg neighborhood of Cape Town, Sou

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Coronavirus unmasks America's depressing sick leave system

VCG A lot of hand-wringing is taking place in America over the shocking absence of a federal law that guarantees paid family or sick leave.In interim guidelines issued to businesses in the adv

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Will the world heed the coronavirus wake-up call?

Fact: 99 percent of all novel coronavirus cases are in China.Fact: Two percent have been fatal.Fact: 80 percent of cases display mild symptoms.Those figures were extracted from a story on Monday o