Google Meet will automatically adjust webcam brightness in your browser
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The web version Google Meets can soon detect when someone is underexposed due to bad lighting. Meet will then increase the brightness so it's easier to see yourself and your cohorts on calls.Which VCs are set to make a killing in GitLab’s IPO
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The GitLab debut is set to make a lot of funds material coin.F5 acquires cloud security startup Threat Stack for $68 million
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Applications networking company F5 has announced it’s acquiring Threat Stack, a Boston-based cloud security and compliance startup, for $68 million. The deal, which comes months after F5 bought multi-cloud management startup Volterra for $500 million, seesBzaar bags $4M to enable US retailers to source home, lifestyle products from India
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Bzaar, a business-to-business cross-border marketplace, is connecting retailers with over 50 export-ready manufacturers in India.
Inspiration4’s successful splashdown is just the beginning of private spaceflight for SpaceX
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Just like that, they came back. The Inspiration4 crew made a triumphant splashdown on Saturday evening off the east coast of Florida, marking the close of the first completely private, all-civilian space mission. SpaceX’s Go Searcher recovery ship hauled thFacetune maker Lightricks raises $130 million ahead of M&A plans
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Facetune developer Lightricks, which operates over a dozen subscription-based photo and video editing apps across iOS and Android, now has $130 million in new funding to further grow its business. The company’s newly announced Series D round includes $1The Station: Gogoro scoots into a SPAC, a Rivian milestone and Tesla prepares to unleash FSD beta software
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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 oEquity Monday: A global selloff to kick off Disrupt week
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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 soAnnouncing the Startup Battlefield companies pitching at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021
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Today, TechCrunch is excited to announce the 20 startups pitching on stage in this year’s Startup Battlefield. Selected from the most competitive batch in TC history, selected founders from across the globe will pitch on the virtual stage at TechCrunchAirwallex raises $200M at a $4B valuation to double down on business banking
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Business, now more than ever before, is going digital, and today a startup that’s building a vertically integrated solution to meet business banking needs is announcing a big round of funding to tap into the opportunity. Airwallex — which provideRoku debuts new Streaming Stick 4K bundles, software update with voice and mobile features
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Weeks after Amazon introduced an updated Fire TV lineup that included, for the first time, its own TVs, Roku today is announcing its own competitive products in a race to capture consumers’ attention before the holiday shopping season. Its updates incluFlippa raises $11M to match online asset and business buyers, sellers
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Flippa uses a proprietary business valuation tool and algorithm to match online business owners to qualified buyers.Facebook warned over ‘very small’ indicator LED on smart glasses, as EU DPAs flag privacy concerns
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Facebook’s lead privacy regulator in Europe has raised concerns about a pair of ‘smart’ Ray-Ban sunglasses the tech giant is now selling. The glasses include a face-mounted camera which can be used to take pictures and short videos with a ve9am.health launches with $3.7M to tackle virtual diabetes care
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The virtual diabetes clinic is designed to provide people living with prediabetes and type 2 diabetes access to personalized care and affordable medications from their homes.Eli EVs begins production, European rollout of Eli ZERO, a compact two-seater
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Eli Electric Vehicles, an early stage compact EV manufacturer, announced the start of production on its flagship Eli Zero, a micro “neighborhood electric vehicle” that is built for city commuting. The company plans to roll out small batches of thNetflix and Apple TV+ clean up at the Emmys with ‘The Crown’ and ‘Ted Lasso’
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Netflix has nabbed the most Emmys ever for a single platform with 44 including 11 for The Crown. Apple TV+, meanwhile, took home 10 Emmys including seven for its comedy series Ted Lasso.Amazon bets on Hindi voice shopping to reach wider India
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Speaking of Amazon — which is reportedly conducting an investigation to find whether its lawyers bribed government officials in India — the company announced today it plans to roll out the voice shopping experience feature in the Hindi language iAmazon starts probe over bribe to gov’t officials by its lawyers in India, report says
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Amazon has launched an investigation into the conduct of its legal representatives in India following a complaint from a whistleblower who alleged that one or more of the company’s reps had bribed government officials, Indian news and analysis outlet thFloBiz raises $31 million to scale its neobank for small businesses in India
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FloBiz, an Indian startup that is building a neobank for small- and medium-sized businesses in the South Asian market, said on Monday it has raised $31 million in a new financing round as it works to broaden its product offerings. Sequoia Capital India and ThXata is a database service for serverless apps
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Meet Xata, a startup with a new take on managed databases. The company runs your database for you and turns it into an API so that you can query and update it from your serverless app. Xata has raised a $5 million funding round. Its product is not yet ready fPakistan edtech startup Maqsad gets $2.1M pre-seed to make education more accessible
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Taha Ahmed and Rooshan Aziz left their jobs in strategy consulting and investment banking in London earlier this year in order to found a mobile-only education platform startup, Maqsad, in Pakistan, with a goal “to make education more accessible to 100India’s Cars24, a used-vehicle marketplace, raises $450M at a $1.84B valuation
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The used car market is getting another major infusion of venture capital today, with one of the faster scaling startups out of India picking up a major round of financing to double down on growth: Cars24 — a site and app that sells users cars and used tHow to meet the demand of EV infrastructure and maintain a stable grid
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A combination of a new blueprint for managing energy on the grid plus behavior change is needed.User’s Guide to TechCrunch Disrupt 2021
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TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 approaches in just three days. Here’s your how-to guide for everything you can expect at Disrupt. Although the main show kicks off on Tuesday the 21st, there’ll be some sneak peeks and extras going down on Monday. Make sure to logExecutive coaching for employees is complicated and emotional
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BetterUp, a reskilling and coaching platform for employees before and beyond the C-suite, is getting in touch with its emotions. This week, the richly funded unicorn startup announced a pair of acquisitions in the emotional artificial intelligence and peopleSoftBank’s Marcelo Claure is coming to Disrupt next week
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SoftBank has been on a tear in Latin America. The Japanese investment conglomerate just announced it has launched its second Latin America-focused fund with a $3 billion capital commitment from the company that may grow as the fund explores “options toDivining the real value of my favorite fintech sub-niche
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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.SEC Regional Director Erin Schneider is joining us at Disrupt
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If ever there was a time when working at the Securities and Exchange Commission was a dull affair, that’s no longer true. The federal agency that’s responsible for protecting investors and maintaining fair and orderly functioning of our securitieThis Week in Apps: Apple’s iPhone event, App Annie hit with securities fraud, OpenSea goes mobile
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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 coThe GoPro-ification of the iPhone
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Hello friends, and welcome back to Week in Review! Last week, we talked about some sunglasses from a company that many people do not like very much. This week, we’re talking about Apple and the company 1,600 times smaller than it that’s facing simTips for managing growth across iOS updates
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“I’ve seen startups spend thousands of dollars inefficiently as a result of not having optimal signal in their paid acquisition campaigns. I’ve also spent millions at companies such as Postmates refining our signal to the best possible state,” says grWhat we can learn from edtech startups’ expansion efforts in Europe
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Unlike their neighbors in fintech, it’s assumed that edtech companies need to expand to a number of big markets in order to reach a scale that makes them attractive to VCs.Google abused dominant position of Android in India, antitrust probe finds
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Google has abused the dominant position of Android in India to illegally hurt competitors in the world’s second largest internet market, a two-year antitrust probe by nation’s watchdog has found. The Android-maker reduced device manufacturing firmDaily Crunch: Apple, Google bow to Russian pressure
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Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for Friday, September 17th! What a week, ya’ll. It is now just days before Disrupt, which means the TechCrunch hive is buzzing. I’ll leave it by noting that Reid Hoffman is coming, which is going to be a treat.Longtime VC, and happy Miami resident, David Blumberg has a new $225 million fund
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Blumberg Capital, founded in 1991 by investor David Blumberg, has just closed its fifth early-stage venture fund with $225 million, a vehicle that Blumberg says was oversubscribed — he planned to raise $200 million — and that has already been useLongtime VC, and happy Miami resident, David Blumberg has raised a new $225 million fund
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Blumberg Capital, founded in 1991 by investor David Blumberg, has just closed its fifth early-stage venture fund with $225 million, a vehicle that Blumberg says was oversubscribed — he planned to raise $200 million — and that has already been useZoom looks beyond video conferencing as triple-digit 2020 growth begins to slow
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The company has been undertaking plans over last couple of years to move beyond its core video conferencing market — here's how industry experts see this plan working.
