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Exclusive interview with Viya: Products are my core competitiveness

03:15 China sits among the most popular markets for online shopping, especially in livestreaming. In an exclusive interview with CGTN, the country's livestream shopping superstar Viya p

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4 lessons I learned about getting into Y Combinator (after 13 applications)

For many founders, Y Combinator is a coveted milestone on the entrepreneurial road. As of January 2021, the accelerator has helped create 60,000 jobs, has 125 companies valued over $150 million, and h

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A cure for range anxiety? Induction charging for electric cars: RAZOR

02:04 By 2040, it's likely that half of the cars on our roads will be electric.One of the drawbacks of today's electric vehicles is that they use several different charging systems. If

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How Robert Reffkin went from being a C-average student to the founder of Compass

In April, real estate tech company Compass forged ahead with its initial public offering and is now valued at nearly $6.4 billion.At that time, TechCrunch Senior Editor Alex Wilhelm caught up with fou

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The Daily Crunch: Chime will stop calling itself a bank to settle complaint by CA regulators

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 friends, welcome to Daily Crunch, where we bring you the day’s

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Someone already turned Apple’s AirTag into a slim, wallet-friendly card

Apple’s new AirTag item trackers are pretty small, but not quite small enough to slip into most wallets without adding an obvious bit of bulk.Fortunately, as one talented AirTag owner has found,

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Radical Ethereum entrepreneurs are redefining what ‘rape kit’ means

Their investors call them disruptive innovators. Detractors like North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein call them “dirty scammers.” But Leda Health co-founders Madison Campbell and Liesel Vaidya t

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The product-led growth behind edtech’s most downloaded app

Duolingo CEO and co-founder Luis von Ahn was tired of the gray and dreary design aesthetic edtech companies used to emulate universities. Instead, he and the company’s early team sought inspiration fr

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Duolingo can’t teach you how to speak a language, but now it wants to try

Duolingo has been wildly successful. It has pulled in 500 million total registered learners, 40 million active users, 1.5 million premium subscribers and $190 million in booked revenues in 2020. It ha

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Green Bay Packers trying hard to soothe Aaron Rodgers

Quarterback Aaron Rodgers of the Green Bay Packers looks on before the National Football Conference (NFC) Championship game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wiscons

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Gr4vy launches Cloud payment orchestration, pulls in $11.1M Series A led by Nyca Partners

Gr4vy, (pronounced ‘gravy’) is a cloud-native payments company with a “payment orchestration platform (POP)” that merges a Cloud platform with payments infrastructure. It’s also announcing a Series A

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Atlassian launches a Jira for every team

Atlassian today announced a new edition of its Jira project management tool, Jira Work Management. The company has long been on a journey of bringing Jira to teams beyond the software development grou

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'It's very scary, things are spiraling out of control'

17:06 India's second wave of COVID-19, which began in March, has escalated rapidly, with daily cases exploding in the past week. It is now the world's worst coronavirus crisis, with mor

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When China's English teaching meets the English-speaking world

Annabelle Liu in 2017. /Annabelle LiuBefore she set off to study at Columbia University in August 2016, Annabelle Liu had worked hard to improve her English. She had ma

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Kry closes $312M Series D after use of its telehealth tools grows 100% yoy

Swedish digital health startup Kry, which offers a telehealth service (and software tools) to connect clinicians with patients for remote consultations, last raised just before the pandemic hit in Wes

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Volunteers emerge from French cave after 40 days underground

00:45 Would you disconnect yourself from the world and retreat to a dark cave for 40 days?In France, 15 people did just that, emerging Saturday, from the scientific experiment, slightly

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Gillmor Gang: FreeCoin

The current rave about newsletters and so-called or social audio is just the latest version of the story of podcasting. Take the idea that podcasting is experiencing a new wave of popularity and scaff