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No parties allowed at the Airbnb IPO

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast (now on Twitter!), where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.What happens when the entire podcast crew is a bit ti

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Spotlight: Biden takes aim at Trump, vows to salvage U.S. from "darkness"

Photo taken in Arlington, Virginia, the United States on Aug. 20, 2020 shows screens displaying images of former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden speaking in a video feed

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Hours before Biden accepting presidential nomination, Trump slams him in his hometown

Combo photo shows U.S. President Donald Trump (R) and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden attending their respective events on different occasions. (Xinhua) Trump's highly political speech was

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Thai police seek protesters who urged change to monarchy

Thai authorities have issued arrest warrants for six activists who took part in a demonstration at which students issued a 10-point call for reform of the monarchy last

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BlackBerry’s brand switches hands again, set to return as a 5G Android handset

A good brand is hard to kill. Over the past several years, the smartphone space has seen a resurgence of once-mighty mobile brands making a comeback with various degrees of success. HMD’s Nokia phones

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Instagram finds new ad space at the end of your feed with launch of ‘Suggested Posts’ feature

Instagram has found a new place to display ads: at the end of your Feed. The Facebook-owned app in 2018 introduced a feature that will alert users when they’ve scrolled through all the new conte

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Hong Kong’s food e-commerce startup DayDayCook raises $20 million

The food blogging community in China is booming, and many creators have been cashing in big time by touting food products to loyal followers, a business model that has lured investors.This week, Hong

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Piggyback on popular Tweets to get brand awareness

We’ve aggregated many of the world’s best growth marketers into one community. Twice a month, we ask them to share their most effective growth tactics, and we compile them into this Growth Report.This

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TikTok’s big UnitedMasters deal is the way forward for creators looking to secure their bag

TikTok is right in the jaws of a thorny situation with the U.S. Government regarding its ownership, but it’s sending a clear message today that it is not sitting on its heels with big deals. Ye

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U.S. Democratic National Convention kicks off

The almost entirely virtual 2020 U.S. Democratic National Convention (DNC) kicked off on Monday night. During the four-day event, presumptive Democratic presidential n

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Spotlight: U.S. presidential race intensifies as Democratic National Convention kicks off

Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden attends a rally in Philadelphia May 18, 2019. (Xinhua/Liu Jie)The 2020 Democratic National Convention is turned into an almost all-

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Google Blasts Australian Gov't Over Code Forcing Big Tech to Share Profits Earned From Local Media

A major row between a leading US tech firm and Australia has erupted after a new code has been accused of "dramatically" worsening internet search results, it was repor

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TikTok announces a deal with UnitedMasters, its first music distribution partnership

Though TikTok’s future in the U.S. remains uncertain, the company announced this morning its first music distribution partnership, with indie music distributor UnitedMasters. The deal will allow

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Google warns users in Australia free services are at risk if it’s forced to share ad revenue with “big media”

Google has fired a lobbying pot-shot at a looming change to the law in Australia that will force it to share ad revenue with local media businesses whose content its platforms monetize — seekin

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Facebook algorithm 'actively promoting Holocaust denial'

In a number of countries where Holocaust denial is illegal, such as Germany, France and Poland, Facebook does prohibit it.

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Profile: Fishing dream with millions of fans

Wearing a white zip-up sweatshirt and a pair of camouflage galoshes, Chen Feng hauled a shark out of the water and showed it to the camera. "It weighs about 5 kg," sit

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Clearview AI landed a new facial recognition contract with ICE

The controversial facial recognition software maker Clearview AI has a new contract with ICE, the most controversial U.S. government agency. Clearview was already known to work with the branch of Home