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China Roundup: Huawei targets cars, ByteDance enters Tencent’s backyard
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. This week, we have several heavy-hitting rumors swirling around, from Huawei’s chips for cars to Tencent’s potential …
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This Week in Apps: App Store outrage, WWDC20 prep, Android subscriptions change
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the Extra Crunch series that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they support and the money that flows through it all. The app industry is as hot as ever, with a record 204 billion downloads and $120 billion in consumer spending in 2019. People are now spe….
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Startup Battlefield bonus: Application deadline extended one week
This one goes out to all the early-stage startup founders. Whether you’re overwhelmed by the state of the world, overworked — or procrastination is simply an intrinsic part of your DNA — it matters not. Here’s reason to smile. We’re giving you an extra week to apply to compete in Startup B…
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Startups Weekly: Which investor wrote the first check?
Which startups investors are actually first to backing the best companies? If you know this information before fundraising, you can avoid pitching investors who were always going to tell you that you're "too early" anyway.
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Original Content podcast: ‘Da 5 Bloods’ provides a brutal look back at the Vietnam War
“Da 5 Bloods,” the new Netflix film co-written and directed by Spike Lee, tells the story of four Black veterans who return to Vietnam decades after the war, in search of hidden gold and the body of their long-dead squad leader. The film seems to straddle several genres, starting out as…
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A reading guide to Reliance Jio, the most important tech company in the world
Over the past few months, COVID-19 has brought much of the fundraising community to a standstill. However, amidst it all India’s hyper0growth telco Reliance Jio Platforms has put its fundraising efforts into full gear. Over the past three months, Jio has raised over $15.5 billion from a cohor…
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Getting construction materials to jobsites faster nets GoFor Industries $9.8 million
GoFor Industries has built a business making sure that construction materials get where they need to go as soon as their customers need them there. It’s a last-mile delivery for construction materials can be hugely important for construction businesses since downtimes can cost money and time…
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Could developing renewable energy micro-grids make Energicity Africa’s utility of the future?
When Nicole Poindexter left the energy efficiency focused startup, Opower a few months after the company’s public offering, she wasn’t sure what would come next. At the time, in 2014, the renewable energy movement in the US still faced considerable opposition. But what Poindexter did se…
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French court slaps down Google’s appeal against $57M GDPR fine
France’s top court for administrative law has dismissed Google’s appeal against a $57M fine issued by the data watchdog last year for not making it clear enough to Android users how it processes their personal information. The State Council issued the decision today, affirming the data …
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