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Calling Dublin VCs: Be featured in The Great TechCrunch Survey of European VC Nov 13, 2020

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TechCrunch is embarking on a major new project to survey the venture capital investors of Europe, and their cities. Our survey of VCs in Dublin will capture how the city is faring, and what changes are being wrought amongst investors by the coronavirus pandemic. (Please note, if you have filled the survey out already, […]

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Twitter brings its Stories feature, Fleets, to Japan Nov 12, 2020

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Twitter’s own version of Stories, which it calls “Fleets,” have arrived in Japan. The new feature allows users to post ephemeral content that automatically disappears after 24 hours. Though Fleets previously launched in Brazil, India, Italy, and South Korea, Japan is notably Twitter’s second largest market, with some estimated 51.9 million users. It’s also second […]

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Google cuts back on free storage to push users to paid plans Nov 12, 2020

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Come June 1, 2021, Google will change its storage policies for free accounts — and not for the better. Basically, if you’re on a free account and a semi-regular Google Photos user, get ready to pay up next year and subscribe to Google One. Currently, every free Google Account comes with 15 GB of online […]

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SentinelOne, an AI-based endpoint security firm, confirms $267M raise on a $3.1B valuation Nov 11, 2020

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This year, more than ever before because of the Covid-19 pandemic, huge droves of workers and consumers have been turning to the internet to communicate, get things done, and entertain themselves. That has created a huge bonanza for cybercriminals, but also companies that are building tools to combat them. In the latest development, an Israel-hatched, […]

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Apple updates Mac Mini with Apple-designed M1 chip Nov 11, 2020

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In addition to the MacBook Air, Apple also introduced a new Mac Mini. It runs Apple’s first custom chipset specifically designed for Mac computers, the M1. It still features the same familiar design, but it now uses an Arm-based chip. “If you compare a Mac mini to the top-selling desktop in this price range, the […]

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Beyond Meat earnings miss big on declining food service and consumer demand Nov 10, 2020

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Beyond Meat’s partnership with McDonald’s to develop the McPlant burger wasn’t enough to keep shares from collapsing after the company posted third-quarter earnings that fell far below analysts’ expectations. The big miss sent shares tumbling nearly 29% in after markets closed Monday after reporting it generated $94.4 million in revenues and a loss of 28 […]

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What we expect from Apple’s ‘One More Thing’ Mac event Nov 10, 2020

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Macs. Okay, great. We’re done here.

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Tim Berners Lee’s startup Inrupt releases Solid privacy platform for enterprises Nov 09, 2020

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Inrupt, the startup from World Wide Web founder Tim Berners-Lee, announced an enterprise version of the Solid privacy platform today, which allows large organizations and governments to build applications that put users in control of their data. Berners-Lee has always believed that the web should be free and open, but large organizations have grown up […]

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Hands-on with Mophie’s new modular smartphone battery case Nov 09, 2020

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There was some confusion when the Juice Pack Connect was announced last week. I admit I was a bit confused, too. It was, no doubt, the proximity to Apple’s iPhone 12 launch that lead many to (understandably) assume that the new take on Mophie’s case is based on the handset’s new MagSafe tech. While it […]

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DOJ says it seized over $1 billion in bitcoin from the Silk Road drugs marketplace Nov 06, 2020

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Two days ago, about $1 billion worth of bitcoin that had sat dormant since the seizure of the Silk Road marketplace in 2013, one of the biggest underground drug websites on the dark web, suddenly changed hands. Who took it? Mystery over. It was the U.S. government. In a statement Thursday, the Justice Department confirmed […]

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