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Making a splash in the marketing world

“There are three common blunders that most SaaS marketers make time and again when it comes to clarity and high-converting content,” says Konrad Sanders, founder and CEO of The Creative Copywriter, “1

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Popcorn’s new app brings short-form video to the workplace

A new startup called Popcorn wants to make work communication more fun and personal by offering a way for users to record short video messages, or “pops,” that can be used for any number o

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LOVE unveils a modern video messaging app with a business model that puts users in control

A London-headquartered startup called LOVE, valued at $17 million following its pre-seed funding, aims to redefine how people stay in touch with close family and friends. The company is launching a me

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Fig raises $2.2M to supercharge the terminal

Can an old Terminal learn new tricks? Fig, a company out of Y Combinator’s S20 class, has raised a $2.2M seed round to prove that it can. Their goal: augment (but don’t try to replace) the command lin

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Fitbit adds ECG and stress-level scanning to its Charge fitness tracker

Fitness band market share is undoubtedly contracting, thanks in no small part to the massive popularity of smartwatches. But 13.1 million overall shipments in Q1 2021 is nothing to sneeze at. People a

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Macro relaunches its Zoom skin to focus on self-expression and inclusion

Productivity has been a focal point for many enterprise businesses since before the pandemic hit, and even more so since its onset. But Macro founders Ankith Harathi and John Keck are taking a differe

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NoRedInk raises $50 million Series B to help students become better writers

“In order to become a better writer, read your written words out loud.”That’s one of the first, and best, writing tips I ever received. I always found the advice ironic because it required me to chang

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TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 kicks off in less than a month

We’re less than one month away from kicking off our flagship global event, TechCrunch Disrupt 2021. And we’re feeling the adrenaline rush that can only come when more than 10,000 startup icons, expert

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Pry Financials raises $4.2M to make startup accounting more approachable

Pry Financials wants to make startup finances approachable for its entire team, not just the people in charge of its accounting spreadsheets. The Y Combinator alum announced today it has raised $4.2 m

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Extra Crunch roundup: Corp dev handbook, Chicago startups, Brazil’s e-commerce landscape

If you’re a founder who finds yourself in a meeting with a VC, try to remember two things:You’re the smartest person in the room.Investors are looking for a reason to say “yes.”

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Let’s make a deal: A crash course on corporate development

Wash, rinse, repeat: A startup is founded, first product ships, customers engage, and then a larger company’s corporate development team sends a blind email requesting to “connect and compare notes.”I

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Iranian ambassador: Let science, not politics, speak on coronavirus origin

Wang Guan: U.S. President Joe Biden launched an investigation to probe the origin of coronavirus, particularly to see if it is a leak from China's Wuhan Institute of Vi

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Iranian ambassador: Let science, not politics, speak on coronavirus origin

Wang Guan: U.S. President Joe Biden launched an investigation to probe the origin of coronavirus, particularly to see if it is a leak from China's Wuhan Institute of Vi

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Yik Yak returns from the dead

After meeting an ignominious end in 2017, the anonymous gossip app once popular with college students lives again. Yik Yak returned to the iOS App Store on Monday (sorry, Android users) under new owne

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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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Canadian judge questions arguments for Huawei CFO's extradition

Meng Wanzhou, chief financial officer of Huawei, arrives at B.C. Supreme Court to attend her extradition hearing, in Vancouver, British Columbia, August 11, 2021. /CFP A Canadian judge on Thur

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Airtable makes Bayes its first acquisition to up its data visualization game

Airtable, the makers of the no code relational database, announced its first acquisition today, acquiring Bayes, an early stage visualization startup. The purpose of the purchase is to enhance the dat