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, a lawsuit sparked a debate over the deployment of China’s pervasive facial recognition;...
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November 11, 2019 albert
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We talk a lot about startup ecosystems around these parts, and for good reason. Strong ecosystems have great reservoirs of talent congregated close together, a culture built around helping one another on ambitious projects, and sufficient risk capital to ensure that interesting projects have the...
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November 10, 2019 albert
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The Roku remote is coming to your wrist. The company announced today the launch of an Apple Watch app that lets you control your Roku device, including Roku media players and select Roku TVs, with a tap — just like the Roku mobile app, but...
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November 9, 2019 albert
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A group of South African sailors near the South Pole have had an adorable interaction with a beluga whale, playing fetch with the apparently wild animal as though it were an oversized, wet puppy. The video, posted to Facebook by Alon Kowen, shows the jovial...
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November 8, 2019 albert
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Alphabet’s board of directors has opened an investigation into how executives at the company have handled misconduct claims, CNBC reported earlier today after viewing materials that it says show an independent subcommittee has been formed — and a law firm hired — to look into...
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November 7, 2019 albert
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Chargify, the payment management service owned by Scaleworks, has added revenue forecasting tools to its software as a service offering. The company’s new revenue forecasting tools uses historical data and month-over-month performance pulled from a company’s billing platform. The company says its new tool can cut...
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November 6, 2019 albert
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Facebook’s former head of Global Elections Integrity Ops left after six months on the job — and now she’s speaking out about the problems she faced when trying to fix the company’s political ad problems. In an op-ed in the Washington Post on Monday, Yaël...
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November 4, 2019 albert
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Dell’s innovative design solves some of the major problems with desktop PCs. itbusinessedge RSS Feed
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November 3, 2019 albert
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Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky said Saturday the company will ban “party houses” and take other steps to safeguard hosts and guests after five people died at a Halloween party hosted at California home that was rented on the service. Chesky made the announcement via a...
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November 2, 2019 albert
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Software development companies tackling services for niche industries, like commercial real estate subcontracting, continue to find Los Angeles to be fertile ground for development. The latest company to raise funding from a clutch of investors is BuildOps, which raised $ 5.8 million in seed financing...
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November 2, 2019 albert
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