Elon Musk goes live on Clubhouse, but with the room full, fans stream audio on YouTube

Elon Musk goes live on Clubhouse, but with the room full, fans stream audio on YouTube

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As I write this Elon Musk has joined Clubhouse for his first-ever in-person session and the boundaries of the app have already been tested....

English learning app ELSA lands $15 million Series B for international growth and its B2B platform

English learning app ELSA lands $15 million Series B for international growth and its B2B platform

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Speaking is one of the hardest parts of learning a new language, especially if you don’t have someone to practice with regularly. ELSA is an...

Ben raises $2.5M seed to fix employee benefits for SMEs

Ben raises $2.5M seed to fix employee benefits for SMEs

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Ben, a London-based employee benefits and rewards platform, has raised $2.5 million in funding. The seed round is led by Cherry Ventures, and...

New rule reins in China’s flourishing self-publishing space

New rule reins in China’s flourishing self-publishing space

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Despite China’s history of stringent media control, an industry of uninstitutionalized, individual publishers has managed to flourish on social...

Internet connectivity drops in Myanmar after the military detains Aung San Suu Kyi and other leading politicians

Internet connectivity drops in Myanmar after the military detains Aung San Suu Kyi and other leading politicians

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Access to the internet in Myanmar dropped sharply after the military detained leaders of ruling party National League for Democracy, including...

Human Capital: Alpha Global forms to unite Alphabet workers worldwide

Human Capital: Alpha Global forms to unite Alphabet workers worldwide

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You’ve just landed on the web version of my weekly newsletter, Human Capital. It’s where we look at the recent events of the week pertaining...

Institutional trust is the real meme

Institutional trust is the real meme

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Hello friends, this is Week in Review. Last week, I dove into the AR maneuverings of Apple and Facebook and what that means for the future...

Original Content podcast: Netflix’s ‘White Tiger’ tells a bloody capitalist fable

Original Content podcast: Netflix’s ‘White Tiger’ tells a bloody capitalist fable

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The new Netflix film “The White Tiger” tells the story of Balram, who is born to a poor family in the Indian village of Laxmangarh and escapes...

Stonks, flying burritos and my boss’s boss’s boss’s boss

Stonks, flying burritos and my boss’s boss’s boss’s boss

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Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s broadly based on the daily column that appears on Extra...

Gillmor Gang: Back Then Now

Gillmor Gang: Back Then Now

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Still figuring out what this newsletter is, I’m torn between aggregation and writing. The inputs vary from blog posts, Twitter threads, and...

Reddit co-founder on GameStop: ‘The collective public cannot unsee this’

Reddit co-founder on GameStop: ‘The collective public cannot unsee this’

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When Robinhood, a startup that promises to make finance accessible for all, temporarily limited trading on GameStop, AMC, and other memestocks,...

This Week in Apps: GameStop madness hits trading apps, Apple privacy changes, Clubhouse becomes a unicorn

This Week in Apps: GameStop madness hits trading apps, Apple privacy changes, Clubhouse becomes a unicorn

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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...