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The Great TechCrunch Survey of Europe’s VCs — Be featured in our survey Jul 31, 2020

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TechCrunch is embarking on a major new project to survey the venture capital investors of Europe. â€¨Over the next few weeks, we will be ‘zeroing-in’ on Europe’s major cities, from A-Z, Amsterdam to Zurich, and many points in-between. It’s part ofÂ a broader series of surveysÂ we’re doing to help founders find the right investors.Â Our survey […]

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Google One now offers free phone backups up to 15GB on Android and iOS Jul 30, 2020

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Google One, Google’s subscription program for buying additional storage and live support, is getting an update today that will bring free phone backups for Android and iOS devices to anybody who installs the app — even if they don’t have a paid membership. The catch: While the feature is free, the backups count against your […]

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Amazon’s hardware business doesn’t escape Congressional scrutiny Jul 30, 2020

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While much of today’s Congressional grilling into the anticompetitive practices of the big tech giants focused on their core businesses, Amazon’s hardware also came in for close inspection during the hours-long interrogation. It was a small but significant exchange, because it touched on the breadth of the company’s services and how dominance in one area […]

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Toppr raises $46 million to scale its online learning platform in India Jul 29, 2020

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Toppr, one of the largest online learning startups in India, has secured $46 million in a new financing round as it looks to scale its platform including a new product. Dubai-headquartered investment firm Foundation Holdings led the Mumbai-based seven-year-old startup’s Series D round. Kaizen Private Equity, an existing investor, also participated in the new round, […]

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Alcohol delivery service Drizly confirms data breach Jul 29, 2020

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Online alcohol delivery startup Drizly has told customers that it was hit by a data breach. In an email to customers obtained by TechCrunch, the company said that a hacker “obtained” some customer data. The hacker took customer email addresses, date-of-birth, hashed passwords, and in some cases delivery address, the email read. Drizly did not […]

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Google is building a new private subsea cable between Europe and the U.S. Jul 28, 2020

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Google today announced its plans to build a new subsea cable with landing points in New York in the U.S. and Bude, UK and Bilbao, Spain in Europe. The new cable, named after the pioneering computer scientist Grace Hopper, will join Google’s various other private subsea cables like Curie between the U.S. and South America, […]

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Google will continue to let employees work from home through the end of June 2021 Jul 28, 2020

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Following earlier reporting, Google has confirmed that it will continue to allow employees to work from home through the end of June of next year. The company told TechCrunch that Sundar Pichai announced the plan in an email sent to staff earlier today. “To give employees the ability to plan ahead, we are extending our […]

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Space Force debuts official logo and motto, both reminding you that it’s ‘always above’ Jul 27, 2020

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Earlier this year, the oft-mocked but actually pretty important new branch of the military, the Space Force, revealed an image that was suspiciously reminiscent of Star Trek. Now the Space Force has revealed a new, sharper graphic that is the force’s actual logo — and a motto to go with it: “Semper Supra,” or “always […]

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Instacart blames reused passwords for account hacks, but customers are still without basic two-factor security Jul 27, 2020

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Online shopping service Instacart says reused passwords are to blame for a recent spate of account breaches, which saw personal data belonging to hundreds of thousands of Instacart customers stolen and put up for sale on the dark web. The company published a statement late on Thursday saying its investigation showed that Instacart “was not […]

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Gorilla Glass Victus can survive a two-meter drop and is set to arrive on a Samsung device soon Jul 24, 2020

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You might not know Gorilla Glass by name, but odds are pretty good you own at least one device sporting Corning’s chemically strengthened glass composite. It’s been a ubiquitous feature of consumer products ranging from smartphones to wearables for more than a decade now, courtesy of excellent drop and scratch resistance. All in all, it […]

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