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A look inside the Xinjiang cotton yarn maker accused of 'forced labor'

03:08 Stepping foot into Aksu Huafu Textiles' facility in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, things appear to be business as usual – despite its long-term foreign br

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Perform a quality of earnings analysis to make the most of M&A

As a startup founder, there will be three scenarios in which you’ll need to understand how to properly do a quality of earnings (QofE) if you want to maximize value.The first scenario will be when you

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How Twilio is moving beyond a diversity numbers game toward becoming an anti-racist company

When George Floyd was murdered in May 2020, it set off a firestorm of protests and shed a bright hot spotlight on the issues of racism in America and elsewhere. As a response, many companies gave mess

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Building vulnerability into your workflow

Thanks for reading Startups Weekly. Want the weekly digest in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. I spoke to my editor this week about the usual: upcoming stories, the future of the podcast and t

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What’s after low-code? And, why should you go public?

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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Why Draper Esprit doubled down on its status as a publicly listed VC

We cover a lot of venture capital news here at TechCrunch. New funds, partner changes, the funding rounds themselves — the list is long. Lately, we’ve had to touch on rolling funds, solo G

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Ministry of Defence makes first ever bounty payments to hackers

Just over two dozen security researchers took part in the MoD's first programme which provided them with direct access to its internal systems.

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Tech leaders can be the secret weapon for supercharging ESG goals

Environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors should be key considerations for CTOs and technology leaders scaling next generation companies from day one. Investors are increasingly prioritizing

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Filmmaker hopes for another wild response

The maker of a wildlife series that broke viewing records in China has said the reality of climate change and the pandemic transformed how the follow-up series was made.John Downer is the director of

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Biden orders tough new vaccination rules for federal workers

President Joe Biden has announced sweeping new pandemic requirements aimed at boosting vaccination rates for millions of federal workers and contractors as he lamented

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Nothing Ear (1) review

Carl Pei says he looked around and saw a lot of the same. He’s not alone in that respect. Apple didn’t invent the fully wireless earbud with the first AirPods, but it did provide a kind of inflection

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Hello Divorce raises $2M so that couples can say ‘good-bye’ easier

Divorce is messy and stressful, made even messier and stressful when a couple is unable to go through the legal process because of the cost. Online divorce startup Hello Divorce is developing a platfo

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The MKT1 interview: Growth marketing in 2021, hiring versus outsourcing and more

Emily Kramer and Kathleen Estreich are the founders of of MKT1, a strategic marketing firm that does much more than just marketing. As we mentioned the last time we spoke with the company, it offers a

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Brain Technologies raises $50M+ for the launch of Natural, a natural language search engine and ‘super app’

Voice-based and other personal assistant apps — which use natural language and hefty AI engines in the backend to source information to address your various questions, do your e-commerce bidding

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Cowboy Ventures’ Ted Wang: CEO coaching is ‘about having a second set of eyes’

Earlier this month, Cowboy Ventures’ Ted Wang joined us at TechCrunch Early Stage: Marketing and Fundraising, where he spoke about executive coaching and why he encourages founders in his portfo

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Extra Crunch roundup: Seed-stage basics, SaaS marketing live chat, Zoom’s Five9 buy

A famous poem advises us not to compare ourselves with others, “for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.”The same holds true for startup fundraising; the size of

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Little Spoon scoops up $44M to grow its children’s nutrition delivery service

The quest to disrupt the traditional baby food aisle continues as more of today’s parents seek out nutritional food for their children.One of the startups taking on the $100 billion children’s health