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India's Prime Minister Modi wraps up official visit to United States

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi is winding down his official visit to the United States on Friday, meeting with U.S. and Indian business leaders in Washington D.C.

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APD | Weekly top 10 hot news (June.04- June.10)

Every weekend, Asia Pacific Daily will provide you with a run-down of the latest hot news.This week, the following hot news you should know:Top 1 | China urges U.S. to

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Talking shop with Twitter’s recent head of corp dev — and now VC — Seksom Suriyapa

Seksom Suriyapa was seemingly destined to land at a venture firm. A Stanford Law graduate, he worked at two blue-chip investment banks before joining the cybersecurity company McAfee as a senior corp

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WhatsApp hit with record fine for breaching privacy regulations over how it shares user data

Ireland's privacy watchdog found the company broke rules on transparency about sharing people's data with other Facebook companies. The fine is the biggest ever handed out by the Irish Data Protection Commission, and also the second-highest under EU GDPR rules.

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Offchain Labs raises $120 million to hide Ethereum’s shortcomings with its Arbitrum product

As the broader crypto world enjoys a late summer surge in enthusiasm, more and more blockchain developers who have taken the plunge are bumping into the blaring scaling issues faced by decentralized a

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Apple launches a new iOS app, ‘Siri Speech Study,’ to gather feedback for Siri improvements

Apple recently began a research study designed to collect speech data from study participants. Earlier this month, the company launched a new iOS app called “Siri Speech Study” on the App

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How one founder turned her extensive retail experience into an entirely new kind of shopping

The Yes founder and CEO Julie Bornstein helped some of the world’s biggest and best-loved brands develop industry leading e-commerce operations, and also served as COO at Stitch Fix, arguable on

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Unlikely partners Pelosi and Cheney team up for Jan. 6 probe

When Nancy Pelosi raised a glass to Liz Cheney, it was the most unlikely of toasts.Democratic lawmakers and the Republican congresswoman were gathered in the House spea

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HBO Max to stream free episodes inside Snapchat for co-watching with friends

In a bid to boost sign-ups to its streaming service, HBO Max is partnering with Snap to bring free episodes from its original programing to Snapchat users in the U.S. The episodes will stream via a Sn

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How F1 got the data crunched for its new race car

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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Rivian delays deliveries of R1T, R1S electric vehicles again

Rivian is pushing back deliveries of its long-awaited R1T electric pickup truck and R1S SUV several more months due to delays in production caused by “cascading impacts of the pandemic,” p

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Backed by $5M led by General Catalyst, Evvy launches a vaginal microbiome test to support women’s health research

Another US femtech startup has joined the race to build up data-sets to support research into and understanding of a range of health issues that can affect women.Evvy has today launched an at-home tes

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This limited-edition Super Mario smartwatch will run you $2,150

Those who’ve followed Nintendo with any sort of frequency over the years know the gaming giant has a tendency to be extremely protective with its IP. Ultimately, it’s probably for the best that the ma

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Renegade Partners rolls out its much-anticipated debut fund with $100 million

Renegade Partners — a Bay Area-based venture firm cofounded by veteran VCs Renata Quintini and Roseanne Wincek — is taking the wraps off a $100 million debut venture fund that’s been

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Tokyo Games at risk of more spectator curbs and downgrades

Japan is considering barring all but VIP spectators from the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics, a newspaper said on Tuesday, another downgrade for the Games that h

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Nintendo’s OLED Switch arrives October 8, priced at $350

So much for the big E3 reveal. Weeks after the big gaming show, Nintendo has finally taking the wraps off the latest iteration of its wildly popular hybrid gaming console. The Nintendo Switch (OLED mo

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China: A Week in Photos (June 14-June 20)

Brown giant panda "Qizai" eats bamboo shoots as he lies in his air-conditioned house in Beijing on June 19. / CFPLang Ping's Chinese Volleyball team wraps up a straight