Visa and Kenya’s Safaricom partner on M-Pesa, payments and tech
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Visa just connected to Africa’s most powerful mobile payments network. The global financial services company and Kenyan telecom Safaricom —...
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Google under fire for squeezing travel startups hit by coronavirus refunds
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Google is facing anger from the German startup ecosystem for refusing to restructure ad payments linked to travel and transport bookings that...
Dribbble, a bootstrapped ‘LinkedIn’ for designers, acquires Creative Market, grows to 12M users
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Traditionally dominated by big players like Adobe and Autodesk, the world of design has been flush with a newer wave of startups that are creating...
Facebook now allows users in the U.S. & Canada to export photos and videos to Google Photos
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Facebook is today rolling out a tool that will allow users in the U.S. and Canada to export their Facebook photos and videos to Google Photos....
Early stage investor The Fund expands beyond NYC with new partners in LA and London
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The Fund, an early-stage investment firm with a memorably straightforward name, is looking beyond New York City as it starts investing its...
Here’s what NASA’s Mars helicopter will look like when it makes history with the first extraterrestrial powered flight
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NASA is getting ready to send its next Mars rover to the red planet later this year, and that mission will also carry Ingenuity, a brand new...
Freada Kapor Klein warns of ‘vulture capitalists’ during pandemic
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The tech industry experienced turmoil before during the dot-com bust and again during the 2008 economic downturn. But this time it’s a bit...
Material Bank, a logistics platform for sourcing architectural and design samples, raises $28M
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Material Bank, a logistics platform for the architectural and design industry, has announced the close of a $28 million Series B financing...
FDA-cleared AI-based medical triage tool goes free to help busy radiology diagnostics departments
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Medical startup Nines, which has developed an AI-based triage tool that has received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)...
Okta COVID-19 app usage report finds it’s not just collaboration seeing a huge uptick
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Okta released a special COVID-19 edition of its app usage report today, and you don’t need a Ph. D. in statistics to guess what they found....
7 VCs talk about today’s esports opportunities
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Even before the COVID-19 shutdown, venture funding rounds and total deal volume of VC funding for esports were down noticeably from the year...
VC appetite for AI startups holds up in Q1 despite lackluster exit volume
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Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between.
Today we’re taking our...
Extra Crunch Live: Join Mark Cuban for our live chat today at 11 am ET/8 am PT
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In just a few hours, the TechCrunch crew is chatting with investor and entrepreneur Mark Cuban. Kicking off at 8 am PT, 11 am ET and 3 PM GMT,...
Amazon worker-activists form international organization to demand change in warehouses
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Amazon workers across the world are formalizing their activism with the creation of the Amazon Workers International. Its first action is a...
Microsoft makes it easier to get started with Windows Virtual Desktops
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Microsoft today announced a slew of updates to various parts of its Microsoft 365 ecosystem. A lot of these aren’t all that exciting (though...
With fresh support from its billionaire backers Pivot Bio is ushering in a farming revolution
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In the first decade of the twentieth century two German chemists, Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch, invented fertilizer — the nitrogen compound which...
Twitter Q1: sales up 3% to $808M as it swigs to a loss on COVID-19, mDAUS hit record 166M
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Despite traffic for many online properties being at an all-time high, advertising has fallen off a cliff because of the downturn in consumer...
Google gives $2.3M to 18 news organizations in Asia Pacific
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Google announced today it is providing $2.3 million in funding to 18 news organizations in the Asia Pacific region, the latest in its ongoing...
B2B challenger bank Finom raises $7M Seed from Target Global and General Catalyst
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Just as challenger banks have appeared in the B2C space, so to have B2B startup banks aimed small businesses, among them startups like Qonto...
Biloba lets you chat with a doctor if you have questions about your children
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Meet Biloba, a French startup that wants to leverage tech to make it easier to keep your children healthy. The company recently launched a...
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French startup Lydia is better known as the dominant app for peer-to-peer payments. But the company has been adding more features, such as ...
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Deeploi , a Germany-based startup that is building an IT-as-a-Service platform, today announced that it has raised a €3 million seed funding...
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An Igbo woman stirred up a hornet's nest by accusing all Igbo men of being misogynists who try to control and undermine women (read here...
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