Telegram tops 1 billion downloads
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Popular instant messaging app Telegram has joined the elite club of apps that have been downloaded over 1 billion times globally, according to Sensor Tower. The Dubai-headquartered app, which was launched in late 2013, surpassed the milestone on Friday, the mLuminate aims to make hair loss from chemotherapy a thing of the past
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Hair loss resulting from chemotherapy is one of the most recognizable side effects in all of medicine, and for many is an unwanted public announcement of their condition and treatment. Luminate Medical may have a solution in a medical wearable that prevents tHeimdal pulls CO2 and cement-making materials out of seawater using renewable energy
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One of the consequences of rising CO2 levels in our atmosphere is that levels also rise proportionately in the ocean, harming wildlife and changing ecosystems. Heimdal is a startup working to pull that CO2 back out at scale using renewable energy and producin
Elon Musk’s Loop gets Autopilot — and an intruder
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Less than two weeks after its official launch, The Boring Company’s Loop system in Las Vegas had its first security breach. On June 21, the morning of the final day of the International Beauty Show, an “unauthorized vehicle” joined the systeInstagram will require users to provide their birthday
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Instagram will begin prodding users to share their birthday with the service, if they haven’t already done so. The company today announced it will now start popping up a notification that asks you to add your birthday to “personalize your experienApple buys classical music service, Primephonic
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In a bid to expand its classical music offering, Apple today announced that it has Primephonic. The Amsterdam-based service, which launched in 2014, will bring a laser focus on a music genre that’s been sorely lacking in Apple Music’s generalized apprTikTok owner ByteDance buys a top virtual reality hardware startup
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TikTok parent company ByteDance seem to be looking to one-up Facebook anywhere it can. After taking over the mantle of most-downloaded social media app in the world with TikTok, ByteDance is coming for Facebook’s moonshot, buying up its own virtual real5 takeaways from Toast’s S-1 filing
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Startup founders, take a minute to track Toast's revenue growth per category over time. Sometimes diversified offense is functional defense, it turns out.Eight Sleep raises $86M as its smart mattress and ‘sleep fitness’ technology approaches $500M valuation
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The venture world is — quite literally — waking up to the potential of applying artificial intelligence to a wider variety of real-world, consumer-driven problems, and today comes the latest development on that front: Eight Sleep, which makes RRyan Reynolds is coming to Disrupt
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Ryan Reynolds is America’s sweetheart, despite being both Canadian and somewhat irreverent. The actor, producer, screenwriter and entrepreneur has been nominated for a Golden Globe and Grammy for his work on the Deadpool franchise. But it wasn’t jKocomo raises millions to give people a way to co-own a luxury vacation home
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Who doesn’t want a vacation home? Right. That’s what I thought. Kocomo is a Mexico City-based startup that wants to help make that dream a reality. And it’s just closed on a $6 million equity and $50 million debt financing to advance on that goal. The cClay debuts a new tool to help people better manage their business and personal relationships
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A new startup called Clay, backed by $8 million in seed funding, has built a system designed to help you be more thoughtful with the people in your life, which operates somewhat like a personal CRM. With Clay, you build a collection of the people you meet byA majority of tech workers support antitrust legislation enforcement
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The survey asked professionals: Do you believe antitrust legislation should be used to break up Big Tech companies like Amazon and Google?Equity Monday: Y Combinator Demo Day Approaches
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Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This is Equity Monday, our weekly kickoff that tracks the latest private market news, talks about the coming week, digs into soEverything enterprise software and SaaS at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021
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When you hear the word, “enterprise” and you immediately think software instead of Star Trek, you’re going to love this post — and the SaaS and Enterprise-focused knowledge waiting for you at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 on September 21-23. We’ve packedThe Station: Rivian makes its IPO move, Nuro pushes into Nevada and Waymo scales up in SF
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The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive it every weekend in your inbox. Hello readers: Welcome to The Station, your central hub for all past, present and future means oHow one founder turned painful personal experience into the solution for a huge gap in healthcare
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A lot of startup founders think there’s a dire need for their product in the market, but Liya Shuster-Bier knew for sure that there was one, because she’d required it herself prior to building it — yet nothing like it existed. Liya’s compaRussell Westbrook, Chainsmokers join group pouring $13.5M into prebiotic soda brand Poppi
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Poppi is on a mission to lead in the new category of “functional soda” by offering a better-for-you product that also tastes good.Alpaca raises $50M to rapidly scale its API-delivered equities trading business
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The startup has big plans: It is moving into the cryptocurrency market, it announced this morning, and partnering with Plaid to make money transfer easier for investors.Xayn launches a desktop version of its ad-free, privacy-safe search
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Berlin-based Xayn, which as we reported last year is doing ad-free, personalized, privacy-safe search as an alternative to tracking and profiling adtech giants like Google, has expanded its product offering — launching a desktop version (in beta for noThatch using $3M round to put travel creators on the map
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The mobile app provides tools for travel creators to build their own travel-based businesses in order to curate, share and soon sell interactive travel guides and planning services.Flip bags $28M to turn beauty, wellness social commerce on its head
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Flip mixes a live commerce mobile app with real customer reviews to improve the buying experience and opportunity for the creator economy.Ragnarok ransomware gang shuts down and releases its decryption key
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Ragnarok, a ransomware gang operational since 2019 that gained notoriety after launching attacks against unpatched Citrix ADC servers, has shut down and released a free decryption key for its victims. The gang, sometimes referred to as Asnarok, last week replHAAS Alert raises $5M seed round to scale its automotive collision prevention system
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HAAS Alert says it will use the funding to scale sales and outreach efforts and prioritize R&D with vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2X) technology partnerships.China restricts kids’ online gaming to three hours a week
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China’s National Press and Publication Administration has released a notice imposing limits on online gaming for minors. On September 1st, video game companies will have to restrict gaming time to three hours a week — from 8 PM to 9 PM on Friday, SaturdaAstra’s first commercial launch fails to reach orbit
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Astra, now a public company, ran into a problem during its first commercial launch (the mission carried a test payload contracted by the U.S. Space Force as part of its Space Test Program) that meant the rocket never made it to orbit. On Saturday, the rocketOla Electric in talks to raise at over $2.75 billion valuation
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Ola Electric is in advanced talks to raise between $250 million to $500 million in a new financing round as the Indian firm looks to scale its electric vehicle manufacturing business in the South Asian market, according to two sources familiar with the matterOla Electric in talks to raise at over $2.5 billion valuation
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Ola Electric is in advanced talks to raise over $500 million in a new financing round as the Indian firm looks to scale its electric vehicle manufacturing business in the South Asian market, according to two sources familiar with the matter. Falcon Edge CapitNorth Base Media leads $2.7M pre-Series A funding in digital media startup Vietcetera
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Ho Chi Minh City-based Vietcetera, a digital medial network originally created for millennials and Gen-Z, will broaden its target demographic after getting $2.7 million in pre-Series A funding. The capital was raised over two rounds this year, led by media-foKorean 3D spatial data tool startup Urbanbase closes $11.1M Series B+ round
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Urbanbase, a Seoul-based company that develops a 3D spatial data platform for interior planning and design, announced today it has raised $11.1 million (13 billion won) in a Series B+ round as it scales up. This round of funding was led by Hanwha Hotel &China Roundup: Beijing takes aim at algorithm, Xiaomi automates electric cars
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Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch’s China roundup, a digest of recent events shaping the Chinese tech landscape and what they mean to people in the rest of the world. The biggest news of the week again comes from Beijing’s ongoing effort to dampeClubhouse is adding spatial audio effects to make users feel like they’re really in the room
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It’s been a busy summer for Clubhouse. The hit social audio app rolled out new messaging features and an Android app over the last few months and now the company is turning its attention to enhancing its core audio experience. Clubhouse announced Sunday thaMove fast and break Facebook: A bull case for antitrust enforcement
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For so long, Mark Zuckerberg has told us all to move fast and break things. It’s time for him to break Facebook.Diversifying startups and VC power corridors
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Jennifer Fan Contributor Jennifer Fan is an assistant professor of law and director of the Entrepreneurial Law Clinic at the University of Washington School of Law. Startups have a seemingly intractable problem: a lack of diversity. Despite research showing tA new coalition for “Open Cap Table” presents an opportunity for equity transparency
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Yifat Aran Contributor Share on Twitter Dr. Yifat Aran is a visiting scholar at the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, and an Assistant Professor in Haifa University Faculty of Law. She earned her JSD from Stanford Law School where her dissertation focGillmor Gang: Half a Loaf
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When Salesforce announced its streaming platform Salesforce+, the CRM Playaz’ Paul Greenberg and Brent Leary interviewed Colin Fleming, SVP of Global Brand Experiences at the CRM company (disclosure: I work at Salesforce). Later, I asked Brent about hiHow Amazon EC2 grew from a notion into a foundational element of cloud computing
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Fifteen years ago this week on August 25, 2006, AWS turned on the very first beta instance of EC2, its cloud-based virtual computers. Today cloud computing, and more specifically infrastructure as a service, is a staple of how businesses use computing, but aThe remote work argument has already been won by startups
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Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter for your weekend enjoyment.This Week in Apps: Developers sound off on App Store settlement, OnlyFans’ flip-flop, Snap’s new camera
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Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global c
