Apple will now let App Store developers talk to their customers about buying direct
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Apple announced today it has reached a proposed settlement in a lawsuit filed against it by developers in the United States. The agreement, which is still pending court approval, includes a few changes, the biggest one being that developers will be able to sh
Cruise is buying solar energy from California farmers to power its electric, self-driving fleet
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Cruise, the self-driving car company under General Motors, has launched a new initiative called Farm to Fleet that will allow the company to source solar power from farms in California’s Central Valley. The San Francisco Chronicle was the first to reporPolitico sells, Forbes SPACs, and Vice cuts
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The Equity crew felt that there was enough media news out recently that we simply had no choice but to fire up a Twitter Space and have a chat. The above episode is a discussion of a few things, in a loose and relaxed manner, so don’t take any of thDaily Crunch: Copenhagen-based Leapwork lands $62M Series B co-led by KKR and Salesforce Ventures
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Hello friends and welcome to Daily Crunch, bringing you the most important startup, tech and venture capital news in a single package.Twitter starts to roll out paid Ticketed Spaces on iOS
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Twitter announced today that some hosts on Spaces, its live audio feature, will now be able to sell access to Ticketed Spaces. Applications for Ticketed Spaces first opened in June for users who are over 18, hosted three Spaces in the last 30 days, and have aZendesk acquires AI automation startup Cleverly to advance customer service
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Zendesk is looking to grow its customer service capabilities, and today it announced the acquisition of early-stage artificial intelligence startup Cleverly. Financial terms of the deal are not being publicly disclosed at this time and Cleverly has not been eAfter community backlash, Pokémon Go reinstates a COVID safety and accessibility feature
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Pokémon Go announced yesterday that it will permanently keep an in-game feature that made the game easier to play while social distancing. Introduced at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the feature doubled the interaction radius around key augmented realiBoox tablets are welcome options in the growing oversize e-reader niche
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When it comes to e-paper devices, the Kindle is of course the first brand people think of, though I’ve done my best to spread the Kobo and reMarkable gospel as well. Chinese e-reader maker Boox is a relatively new entrant to the space, and its devices aCurio Wellness rebrands retail biz, expands its cannabis retail franchises to new states
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Curio Wellness announced its innovative franchise program in 2020, and today it’s bringing the program across the United States. The company is now accepting franchise applications in ten states, including MD, VA, PA, OH, MO, NJ, FL, MA, MI, and IL. The proNetflix begins testing mobile games in its Android app in Poland
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Netflix today announced it will begin testing mobile games inside its Android app for its members in Poland. At launch, paying subscribers will be able to try out two games, “Stranger Things: 1984” and “Stranger Things 3” — titlePopcorn’s new app brings short-form video to the workplace
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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 of purposes in place of longer emails, texts, Slack messagesRomanian marketing expert Robert Katai explains how to get the most out of your content
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There's a lot of advice out there on how to grab people's attention, but there's one aspect of marketing that Robert Katai thinks isn't talked about as often: maintaining their attention.You can’t hack your YC application, but here’s what to avoid
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Typically, you hear advice focused on ways to improve your YC application so it gets accepted. Here are some tips on what not to do and why so many YC applications get rejected.Facebook will reportedly launch its own advisory group for election policy decisions
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Facebook is looking to create a standalone advisory committee for election-related policy decisions, according to a new report from The New York Times. The company has reportedly approached a number of policy experts and academics it is interested in recruitiTo prevent cyberattacks, the government should limit the scope of a software bill of materials
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There is no reason to disdain the concept of SBOM outright. Indeed, it’s heartening to see the federal government take cybersecurity so seriously.YouTube to roll out Picture-in-Picture viewing for all U.S. iOS users, starting with Premium subscribers
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Though YouTube has supported picture-in-picture viewing on Android devices since 2018, YouTube told TechCrunch today that it plans to launch the feature to all iOS users in the U.S. on both iPhone and iPad. For now, YouTube is inviting Premium subscribers toTesla’s redesigned iPhone app features two new home screen widgets
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Saqib Shah Contributor Saqib Shah is a contributing writer at Engadget. More posts by this contributor A Tesla Megapack caught fire at the Victorian Big Battery facility in Australia Facebook’s next product will be its long-awaited Ray-Ban smart glasseIsrael’s maturing fintech ecosystem may soon create global disruptors
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What is it about Israeli-founded fintech startups that stand out from their scaling neighbors across the pond?We’re focusing on fintech at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021
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Do you dig digital currency? Dream about decentralized finance, need to know NFTs? Maybe you’re just crypto-curious. Heck, check “all of the above” and get ready to focus on fintech at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 on September 21-23. Disrupt is known for briFounders Fund backs Royal, a music marketplace planning to sell song rights as NFTs
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Founders Fund and Paradigm are leading an investment in a platform that’s aiming to wed music rights with NFTs, allowing user to buy shares of songs through the company’s marketplace, earning royalties as the music they’ve invested in gainsJob offer management platform Compa emerges from stealth with $3.9M
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The offer management platform provides “deal desk” software for recruiters to easily manage compensation strategies.Otter.ai expands automatic transcription assistant to Microsoft Teams, Google Meet and Cisco Webex
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AI-powered voice transcription service Otter.ai is expanding its Otter Assistant feature for Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, and Cisco Webex. Otter.ai first released this feature for Zoom users earlier this year in May. With this new integration, Otter AssistanTechstars’ Saba Karim is coming to TechCrunch Disrupt 2021
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Good news, TechCrunch family, Techstars’ Saba Karim is coming to Disrupt (September 21-23) this year. With a great vantage point from his perspective as Global Startup Pipeline Manager at Techstars, Karim will be hosting a session on the Extra Crunch stPlaybook, which aims to be the ‘Dropbox for designers,’ raises $4M in round led by Founders Fund
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When Jessica Ko was head of design at Google and then Opendoor, she realized that her teams spent about 90% of their time digging around Dropbox looking for assets. In many cases, they’d find older versions. Or they couldn’t find what they were looking foGoogle confirms it’s pulling the plug on Streams, its UK clinician support app
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Google is infamous for spinning up products and killing them off, often in very short order. It’s an annoying enough habit when it’s stuff like messaging apps and games. But the tech giant’s ambitions stretch into many domains that touch humAirbnb to allow anyone, not only current hosts, to sign up to house Afghan refugees
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Airbnb announced on Thursday it will allow anyone with available space to sign up to provide housing for Afghan refugees. The new initiative aims to build upon Airbnb’s initial commitment to provide free temporary housing for 20,000 Afghan refugees. The comPicsart raises $130M from SoftBank, becomes unicorn on the back of its visual creator tools
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Picsart COO Tammy Nam said it was now past a $100 million run rate, and that it was worth more than $1 billion after the SoftBank round. That was the extent of our ability to mine her for details.Are B2B SaaS marketers getting it wrong?
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While camouflage might be key to surviving in the wild, in the crowded SaaS marketplace, it’s all about standing out.Simbe’s robots will be deployed across midwestern grocery chain, Schnucks
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St. Louis-based grocery chain Schnucks (one of those “With a name like Smucker’s, it has to be good” situations, one imagines) announced this week that it will be deploying technology from Simbe Robotics across its 111 U.S. locations. The deal comeAI voice, synthetic speech company LOVO gets $4.5M pre-series A funding
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“Voice skins” have become a very popular feature for AI-based voice assistants, to help personalize some of the more anodyne aspects of helpful, yet also kind of bland and robotic, speaking voices you get on services like Alexa. Now a startup that is builBig Tech pledges billions to bolster U.S. cybersecurity defenses
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Tech giants Apple, Google and Microsoft have pledged billions to bolster U.S. cybersecurity following a meeting with President Joe Biden at the White House on Wednesday. The meeting, which also included attendees from the financial and education sectors, waPalantir glitch allegedly granted some FBI staff unauthorized access to a crypto hacker’s data
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A new report claims Peter Thiel's AI company Palantir had a glitch in its software used by the FBI that allowed unauthorized personnel to access private data for more than a year.Lordstown Motors taps former Icahn exec as CEO to put its EV truck ambitions back on track
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Lordstown Motors has hired Daniel A. Ninivaggi, a longtime automotive executive and former head of Carl C. Icahn’s holding company, as CEO and a board member. The appointment follows months of tumult at Lordstown, which became publicly traded via a mergA16Z leads investment in Firemaps, a marketplace for home hardening against wildfires
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Wildfires are burning in countries all around the world. California is dealing with some of the worst wildfires in its history (a superlative that I use essentially every year now) with the Caldor fire and others blazing in the state’s north. Meanwhile, GreTuna raises $3M to address complexity of e-commerce payments in Latin America
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Tuna, which means “fine tune” in Portuguese, is on a mission to «fine tune» the payments space in Latin America.Workera.ai, a precision upskilling platform, taps $16M to close enterprise skills gap
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Finding the right learning platform can be difficult, especially as companies look to upskill and reskill their talent to meet demand.BreezoMeter, which powers air quality in Apple’s Weather app, launches Wildfire Tracker
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BreezoMeter has been on a mission to make environmental health hazards accessible to as many people as possible. Through its air quality index (AQI) calculations, the Israel-based company can now identify the quality of air down to a few meters in dozens of cPorsche expands online marketplace to include US inventory of new cars
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Porsche Cars North America has added its entire U.S. inventory of new cars to its online marketplace as the company seeks to keep up with customer demands and the industry's shift to digital commerce.Point Pickup acquires e-commerce platform GrocerKey for $42M to allow for same-day delivery
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The acquisition of GrocerKey, which brings on board the company’s front-end consumer-facing sales engine and predictive analytics, puts the data and brand recognition back in the retailer’s hands.
