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Twitter acquihires team from Reshuffle to work on its API platform

Twitter today is announcing what the company calls a “strategic acquihire” of the API integration platform Reshuffle. The startup’s commercial technology, which allows developers to

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Social shopping-focused Chums announces $3.5M raise ahead of YC Demo Day

With Y Combinator Demo Day kicking off tomorrow morning, startups in the current batch are hurrying to make a little news before they show off their recent growth to investors. The list includes Runwa

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U.S. should cultivate diplomacy by rising above Trump drama

03:50 Drama, drama, drama and more drama, that's all we had, watching what the Trump administration conducted with its foreign policy. Among which, China-U.S. relations went downstream

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Writing helper Copy.ai raises $2.9M in a round led by Craft Ventures

Copy.ai, a startup building AI-powered copywriting tools for business customers, announced a $2.9 million round this morning. The investment was led by Craft Ventures. Other investors took part in the

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Man charged with kidnap and murder of Sarah Everard appears in court

The Metropolitan Police officer charged with kidnapping and murdering 33-year-old Sarah Everard, who vanished from the streets of south London on March 3, appeared in front of a magistrates court on

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Why I’m hitting pause on ARR-focused coverage

As 2021 kicked off, I reformulated a series of posts we published last year focused on startups that had reached the $100 million ARR (annual recurring revenue) mark. In our refreshed effort, we cut t

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Zapier buys no-code-focused Makerpad in its first acquisition

Zapier, a well-known no-code automation tool, has purchased Makerpad, a no-code education service and community. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.TechCrunch has covered Zapier often during its lif

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These sea slugs sever their own heads and regenerate new bodies

Researchers discovered that the heads of young slugs started to feed within just hours of being detached from a body.

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Gillmor Gang: Off The Record

Of all the gin joints etc. etc. Clubhouse continues to confound those who don’t believe in the restorative powers of the Next Big Thing. It doesn’t make sense, they say, that an audio serv

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Parabol raises $8M after reaching 100,000 users of its agile meeting software

This morning Parabol, a startup that provides retrospective meeting software to agile development teams, announced that it has closed an $8 million Series A. Microsoft’s venture capital arm, M12

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Paying $115B for Stripe or $77B for Coinbase might be quite rational

CoinDesk reported yesterday that crypto trading startup Coinbase is being valued at $77 billion on private exchanges. And Forbes reported that Stripe is being valued at $115 billion on secondary marke

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Peak AI nabs $21M for a platform to help non-tech companies make AI-based decisions

One of the biggest challenges for organizations in modern times is deciding where, when, and how to use the advances of technology, when the organizations are not technology companies themselves. Toda

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Tony Florence, the low-flying head of NEA’s tech practice, on the art of building household brands

Tony Florence isn’t as well known to the public as other top investors like Bill Gurley or Marc Andreessen, but he’s someone who founders with SaaS and especially marketplace e-commerce co

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Trump impeachment trial Day 3: Democrats wrap up case for conviction

Democrats wrapped up their case on the third day of the Trump impeachment trial on Thursday, warning that if Senators don't vote to convict the Republican former president they will have "set a terri

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Bumble prices IPO at $43 per share

This afternoon Bumble priced its IPO at $43 per share, ahead its raised IPO range of $37 to $39 per share.After filing to go public in mid-January, and offered up its first price range on February 2nd

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Two $50M-ish ARR companies talk growth and plans for the coming quarters

Lost amongst all the IPO chatter of the mega-unicorns are a crop of companies reaching their stride, often flush with capital, ready with big plans, and still with some time before they go public. Thi

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Qatar 2022 organizers confident event will be played in full stadiums

A computer-generated picture of the Ras Abu Aboud Stadium, a Qatar 2022 World Cup venue in Doha, Qatar. /VCG Photo The Qatari 2022 FIFA World Cup organizers are confident the global competitio