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Indonesian D2C insurance marketplace Lifepal raises $9M Series A

Choosing an insurance policy is one of the most complicated financial decisions a person can make. Jakarta-based Lifepal wants to simplify the process for Indonesians with a marketplace that lets user

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Bedrock modernizes seafloor mapping with autonomous sub and cloud-based data

The push for renewable energy has brought offshore wind power to the forefront of many an energy company’s agenda, and that means taking a very close look at the ocean floor where the installati

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Resurrecting the humble business card, why going public is good, BNPL is everywhere at once

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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Medium revamps its Partner Program, launching new eligibility requirements and referral bonuses

Amid a year of editorial pivots and employee exits, Medium announced today that it will make significant changes to its Medium Partner Program, which allows writers on the platform to monetize their c

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Daily Crunch: Apple’s head of Privacy addresses concerns over Messages safety, child abuse detection

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 for August 10, 2021. Today we have

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Wix launches a no-code app builder for $200 per month

This morning, Wix announced a new product for business owners called Branded App by Wix, which allows users to develop native apps without writing code. The publicly-traded company provides tools for

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Graphics: A glance at the world's busiest cargo port in east China

Ningbo-Zhoushan Port at dawn, Zhejiang Province, China, June 8, 2021. /CFP The Port of Ningbo-Zhoushan in east China's Zhejiang Province stands as the world's busiest port in terms of cargo to

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CGTN Explains: Understanding China's carbon market

02:57 After running pilot projects at the local level for over a decade, China officially launched its long-awaited national carbon emissions trading market on Friday.According to China

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Creators can now monetize their expertise on Quora

In May, Yahoo! Answers shut down after helping the internet answer its most burning questions since 2005. But now, Quora, which began as a question-and-answer site but expanded to incorporate blogging

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Financial concierge startup Zeni banks $34M to show SMBs their finances in real time

Zeni, a Palo Alto fintech company providing real-time financial services data to venture-backed startups, raised $34 million in Series B funding led by Elevation Capital.The new investment comes just

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Hope pinned on epic war film lifting China's summer box office

Much hope has been pinned on The Battle at Lake Changjin, the war epic jointly directed by Chen Kaige, Hark Tsui and Dante Lam -- all big names in the Chinese film industry -- of lifting China's s

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Extra Crunch roundup: Square buys Afterpay, paid search basics, career advice for devs

Square paid around a quarter of its present-day value for Afterpay, Alex Wilhelm notes in The Exchange. That seems like a lot. But was it too much?“Afterpay brings global revenues, global users and a

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'Chinese Doctors' climbs to 5th place on yearly box office chart

Chinese Doctors, a cinematic portrayal of China's fight against COVID-19, moved up to fifth place on China's 2021 box office sales chart on Wednesday.Wednesday saw its cumulative ticket sales

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Canada’s startup market booms alongside hot global VC investment

Continuing our global look into the torrid pace of venture capital investment in the second quarter, today we turn to Canada. While many markets have posted impressive results, like the United States

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30th National Book Expo opens in Jinan

The 30th National Book Expo opened on July 15 in Jinan, Shandong province, hosted jointly by the National Press and Publication Administration, Shandong provincial government and Jinan municipal gover

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China's national carbon trading market to start trading on Friday

China's much-awaited nationwide carbon trading market, set to be the largest of its kind in the world, will start trading on Friday.The Shanghai Environment and Energy

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YC-backed Deskimo, an on-demand coworking space app, launches in Singapore and Hong Kong

Arcc, a coworking space in Singapore available for bookings on DeskimoPart of Y Combinator’s current batch, Deskimo wants to make finding coworking spaces easier. Its on-demand booking app is currentl