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Apeel bites into another $250M funding round, at a $2B valuation, to accelerate fresh food supply chains

Apeel Sciences, a food system innovation company, is out to prevent food produced globally from ending up in the landfill, especially as pressures from the global pandemic affect the food supply chain

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YouTube upgrades search with chapter previews and better recommendations for translated videos

YouTube announced two feature updates today to make it easier for people to find the content they’re looking for on the platform. This includes visual search features and easier discovery of for

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America's handling of COVID-19 proved unpopular around the world

Over the weekend, the daily case average in the U.S. rose to 120,000, skyrocketing 930 percent since mid-June, federal data showed. /Xinhua Editor's note: Alessandro Golombiewski Teixeira is a

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MOLOCO raises $150M Series C led by Tiger Global at a $1.5B valuation

MOLOCO, an adtech startup that uses machine learning to build mobile campaigns, announced today it has raised $150 million in new Series C funding led by Tiger Global Management, taking its valuation

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Takeovers and Twitter headaches

Hello friends!Lucas is still out for a few more days, so I’m filling in for him again on this week’s Week In Review. To recap: I’m Greg. I started at TC back when deciding who to put

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Daily Crunch: 3 US Senators ask Amazon how biometric payment system will handle customers’ palm prints

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 fo

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Growth tactics that will jump-start your customer base

Five years ago, the playbook for launching a new company involved a tried-and-true list of to-dos. Once you built an awesome product with a catchy name, you’d try to get a feature article on TechCrunc

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Medal.tv, a video clipping service for gamers, enters the livestreaming market with Rawa.tv acquisition

Medal.tv, a short-form video clipping service and social network for gamers, is entering the live streaming market with the acquisition of Rawa.tv, a Twitch rival based in Dubai, which had raised arou

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TikTok to add more privacy protections for teenaged users, limit push notifications

TikTok today becomes the latest tech company to roll out increased protections for minors on its platform in the wake of increased regulatory scrutiny. The company says it will introduce a series of p

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Samsung returns to Wear OS with the Galaxy Watch 4

Samsung’s watches have long been something of an anomaly. While the company embraced Wear OS (then Android Wear) in its earliest days with the massive Gear Live, the company quickly shifted to Tizen,

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Firm that claimed Pfizer vaccine turns people into chimpanzees banned from Facebook

French YouTuber Leo Grasset was among those contacted by Fazze and said he was asked to post a 45 to 60-second video on Instagram, TikTok, or YouTube criticising the mortality rate of Pfizer's COVID vaccine.

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Alibaba fires manager over claims he sexually assaulted employee

The alleged victim posted on social media to say she was forced to drink alcohol by her supervisor before falling asleep and being assaulted.

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FandangoNOW and Vudu merge into a new streaming service with titles to rent, buy or stream free

Last year, movie ticketing and discovery business Fandango, a division of NBCUniversal, bought the on-demand video streaming service Vudu from Walmart, after the retailer had failed to capitalize on t

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YouTube’s $100 million Shorts Fund to challenge TikTok goes live

YouTube earlier this year announced its plans to significantly invest in original creator content for its TikTok competitor, YouTube Shorts, with the introduction of a $100 million YouTube Shorts Fund

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Shares slump in Chinese gaming giants after state media brands them 'electronic drugs'

The criticism has stoked concerns that the online gaming sector will be the next to receive unwanted attention from Beijing's regulators, following a crackdown on tech giants in the country.

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Most sea turtles off Australia's east coast have consumed plastic, study finds

Researchers found plastic in the stomachs of small juvenile turtles along both the east (Pacific) and west (Indian Ocean) coasts of Australia.

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Changsha's Mango TV increases influence on global audiences

02:38 Mango TV – owned by China's Hunan Province TV station – has introduced many hit "made-in-China" variety shows and serials to the world in recent years.Mango TV is