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5 UX design research mistakes you can stop making today

A recent article in Entrepreneur magazine listed “inadequate testing” as the top reason why startups fail. Inadequate testing essentially means inadequate or sub-par user research that lea

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‘Free speech’ social network Parler tops app store rankings following Biden’s election win

Chafing at new misinformation safeguards and a lost election, dejected Trump supporters flocked to the alternative social network Parler over the weekend. Parler’s homepage promises that users c

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Clean tech VC and former politician Steve Westly is betting it all on electrification

A former controller and CFO of the state of California, Steve Westly is passionate about government. The onetime eBay exec and early Tesla board member has also been a proponent of clean energy for r

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Just one week left for early bird passes to TC Sessions: Space 2020

It’s hard to imagine anything more thrilling than turning science fiction into science fact. If you’re forging new frontier technology — or ready to tackle the challenge — than join a growing, global

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Nervous? Here, watch Philadelphia count votes on a live stream, that should help

No matter whom you support for President, it’s a nerve-wracking morning as many states come down to mere tens of thousands of votes. And perhaps no state looms larger than Pennsylvania, where a

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Is Wall Street losing its tech enthusiasm?

This is The TechCrunch Exchange, a newsletter that goes out on Saturdays, based on the column of the same name. You can sign up for the email here.Over the past few months the IPO market made it plain

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Nestlé acquires healthy meal startup Freshly for up to $1.5B

Nestlé USA just announced that it has acquired Freshly for $1.5 billion — $950 million plus potential earnouts of up to $550 million based on future growth.Freshly is a New York City-based startup tha

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Should, or rather can, you go trick-or-treating this year?

02:22 It's nearing that time of year again when things get spooky, carved pumpkins and cobwebs decorate front doors and people dress up in their best Halloween costumes.But with the co

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Face to Face, Tinder’s opt-in video chat feature, is now rolling out globally

Tinder, currently the world’s biggest biggest dating app for people to find matches and connect with them, is expanding another feature today to extend the time people spend in the app, and the

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Erdogan says Macron 'lost his way' after France recalls ambassador

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday, Emmanuel Macron had "lost his way" in his second sharp criticism of the French leader in two days over the treatment of

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Macron, Erdogan clash over Muslim treatment in France

AFP Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday, Emmanuel Macron had "lost his way" in his second sharp criticism of the French leader in two days over the treatment of Muslims.Earlier, E

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How Yext reinvented itself on its way to going public

Last week, Yext CEO Howard Lerman dropped by Extra Crunch Live for a chat about his former startup, pivoting and becoming the CEO of a public company.Yext, which focuses on business information and e

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My first-hand experience of Uygurs in Eastern China

Editor's note: Keith Lamb is a University of Oxford graduate with an MSc degree in Contemporary Chinese Studies. His primary research interests are international relati

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Beam is building a web browser that gathers knowledge from your web activity

Remember Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer? Those applications from the 1990s used emphatic metaphors in their names to talk about a simple task — browsing the web. Today, nobody would say that

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Index nabs $2.6M seed to create BI dashboards without coding

Index founders, Xavier Pladevall and Eduardo Portet, have been friends since they were small children in the Dominican Republic. Both came to college in the U.S., and last year the two decided to laun

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Explainer: How China's digital currency different from e-payments?

China's digital currency has moved steps forward again as 50,000 randomly selected citizens in South China's Shenzhen received a total of 10 million yuan ($1.5 million) worth of digital currency.T

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Suspect provenance of Hunter Biden data cache prompts skepticism and social media bans

A cache of emails and other selected data purportedly from a laptop owned by Hunter Biden were published today by the New York Post. Ordinarily a major leak related to a figure involved in a controver