Disrupting a sector like Fintech does not happen by accident. It happens by design. Disruption is nearly always an act of intent. You see a valuable established market with dysfunction and you look to improve it. The genesis for disruption is often one unifying goal, and for technology companies, that […]
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Pixels, Palm readers and Pokémon problems
Hello friends! That’s what Lucas always starts off with, right? Lucas is out for a few weeks, so I’ll be handling Week In Review until he’s back. TL;DR on me: I’m Greg, and I’ve been with TechCrunch for a long, long time. I joined around the time Twitter found the […]
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CB Insights: global corporate venture capital-backed funding reached $79B across 2,099 deals in H1 2021, up from $74B in all of 2020; GV had most deals with 64 (Kia Kokalitcheva/Axios)
Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios: CB Insights: global corporate venture capital-backed funding reached $79B across 2,099 deals in H1 2021, up from $74B in all of 2020; GV had most deals with 64 — With everything going up and to the right, it’s only fitting that corporate venture capital investments did […]
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Tips to Improve Your Sleep When Times are Tough
Sleep is a mystifying process of the human body that is far more than the closing of eyelids. Sleep is a state of unconsciousness produced by our body where the brain is at rest. Our quality of life has a deep impact on how we manage to sleep. After getting […]
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This Week in Apps: In-app events hit the App Store, TikTok tries Stories, Apple reveals new child safety plan
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 consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using […]
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China sues Tencent, claiming WeChat’s “youth mode” does not comply with the country’s laws protecting minors (Reuters)
Reuters: China sues Tencent, claiming WeChat’s “youth mode” does not comply with the country’s laws protecting minors — Beijing prosecutors initiated a civil public-interest lawsuit against a Tencent (0700.HK) subsidiary on Friday, saying the “youth mode” on the company’s popular social …
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Vivo V21 5G
The Vivo V21 5G is a mid-range smartphone with a sleek design and an unusual camera focus.
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The Main Reasons Your Conversion Rate is Low
How confident do you feel about your business’s conversion rate? Do you think you’re a high performer, getting more conversions than most of your competitors? Are you lagging behind? Or are you somewhere in the middle? I have to assume you’re an average business since the average business is — […]
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Paragon is working to get its ntfs3 filesystem into the Linux kernel
Torvalds seems bullish on getting Paragon’s project across the line eventually.
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Apple defends its new anti-child-abuse tech against privacy concerns
Apple has boasted a few iconic ads during the company’s 45-year history, from the famous 1984 Super Bowl ad for Macs to the company’s combative 2019 ad campaign promising that “what happens on your iPhone stays on your iPhone.” On Thursday, Apple announced new technologies to detect child sexual abuse […]