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Equity Monday: India’s digital economy attracts ample attention, three funding rounds, and earnings season

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.This is Equity Monday, our week-starting primer in which we go over the

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US envoy forges ahead with troubled Taliban peace deal

Washington’s envoy to Afghanistan stressed Saturday the economic benefits of the peace deal with the Taliban, forging ahead with an agreement that has run into new poli

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Cape Privacy launches data science collaboration platform with $5.06M seed investment

Cape Privacy emerged from stealth today after spending two years building a platform for data scientists to privately share encrypted data. The startup also announced $2.95 million in new funding and

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Twitch launches its own free broadcasting software for Mac users

Back in November of last year, Twitch rolled out a beta build of Twitch Studio — a free, straightforward broadcasting app meant to be the first step for anyone curious about streaming on the se

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Software will reshape our world in the next decade

As I was wrapping up a Zoom meeting with my business partners, I could hear my son joking with his classmates in his online chemistry class.I have to say this is a very strange time for me: As much as

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Lucid Motors to begin producing Air electric vehicles for customers in early 2021

Lucid Motors will begin producing its luxury electric vehicle for customers at its new Arizona factory in early 2021, about three months later than expected due to a slowdown caused by COVID-19.The

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Barca cruise past Leganes to turn up heat on Real Madrid

Leo Messi of Barcelona celebrates a goal during LaLiga match against Leganes at Camp Nou Stadium in Barcelona, Spain, June 16, 2020. /VCG Lionel Messi was rugby tackled and then scored a penal

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Barca cruise past Leganes to turn up heat on Real Madrid

Leo Messi of Barcelona celebrates a goal during LaLiga match against Leganes at Camp Nou Stadium in Barcelona, Spain, June 16, 2020. /VCG Lionel Messi was rugby tackled and then scored a penal

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Salt Security closes $20M Series A to help protect APIs

Today Salt Security, a startup that helps companies protect APIs, announced that it has closed a $20 million Series A. The Palo Alto-based company secured the new funds from Tenaya Capital, bringing i

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All Facebook users can now access a tool to port data to Google Photos

Facebook’s photo transfer tool is now available globally half a year on from an initial rollout in Europe, the company said today.The data portability feature enables users of the social networ

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DHL acquires stake in Link Commerce developed by MallforAfrica.com

DHL has acquired a minority stake in Link Commerce, a turn-key e-commerce company that grew out of MallforAfrica.com — a Nigerian digital-retail startup.Link Commerce offers a white-label solution fo

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Autonomous retail startup Standard Cognition acquires competitor Checkout Technologies

As cashiers across the country take precautions to limit interactions with customers in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s hard to think of a better time for the rollout of an Amazon Go vi

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Command E raises $4.3 million to build the ultimate cross-app search tool

For the last two years, SF-based Command E has been quietly building a unified desktop search tool that helps uses quickly scour for files and data sources across nearly every app they use.The small s

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U.S. is to blame for tensions with China

Editor's note:Andrew Korybko is a Moscow-based American political analyst. The article reflects the author's opinion, and not necessarily the views of CGTN.CNN published a piece on Thursday about

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‘Thor: Ragnarok’ director Taika Waititi is making a Star Wars movie

Taika Waititi already reinvigorated the Thor franchise. Now he’s looking to do the same for Star Wars.Waititi is probably best-known for directing “Thor: Ragnarok” — easily the best

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'Once Upon a Bite 2' explores global stories behind food

The sequel to the much applauded and ambitious food documentary Once Upon A Bite continues to shine a light on the stories and cultures behind mouthwatering cuisines around the world.The docuseries is

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Precursor Ventures’ Charles Hudson on ‘the conversation no one has during an upmarket’

For pre-seed startups, precarious times are baseline until they secure their first customer, first hire and first check. But no matter how built-in turbulence might be for a pre-seed founder, we’re en