Compass, the real-estate brokerage startup backed by roughly $ 1.6 billion in venture funding, filed its S-1 Monday. The move comes just under one year after the New York-based company laid off 15% of its staff as a result of the shifting economic fortunes created...
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March 2, 2021 albert
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As fun as it was to see beautiful famous people all dressed up for a very expensive Zoom meeting, there was no perfectly pandemic-era awards show moment quite like Jason Sudeikis and his tie-dye hoodie. While a couple of celebs copped to making some concessions...
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March 1, 2021 albert
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Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s broadly based on the daily column that appears on Extra Crunch, but free, and made for your weekend reading. Want it in your inbox every Saturday morning? Sign up here. Ready? Let’s talk money,...
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February 28, 2021 albert
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The penultimate episode of WandaVision finally answered one of the series’ longstanding questions by explaining how the Westview hex came into being. The answer was not Mephisto, the Nexus, or Agatha all along: It was Wanda’s unyielding grief manifesting as pure chaos magic. The moments...
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February 27, 2021 albert
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Another major VC firm has closed two major rounds, underscoring the long-term confidence investors continue to have for backing privately held companies in the tech sector. Early-stage VC firm Bessemer Venture Partners announced Thursday the close of two new funds totaling $ 3.3 billion that...
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February 26, 2021 albert
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Application security is essential to keep your customers’ data safe. These best practices can help developers ensure their apps are secure before release. itbusinessedge RSS Feed
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February 25, 2021 albert
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The Facebook-Australia news battle seems to have reached an end, Android gets an update and Lucid Motors is going public via SPAC. This is your Daily Crunch for February 23, 2021. The big story: Facebook brings news sharing back to Australia Last week, Facebook responded...
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February 23, 2021 albert
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WhatsApp confirmed in January that its updated privacy policy will go into effect starting May 15. With only a few months left, the company says its users will lose access to all the features that matter if they don’t agree to it. In an email...
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February 21, 2021 albert
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Meet “Elizabeth Ann.” The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Thursday the successful birth of a cloned black-footed ferret. Scientists cloned Elizabeth Ann from a ferret that died 30 years ago. This cloning, which can understandably sound Sci-Fi, is an innovative conservation effort. The Fish...
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February 20, 2021 albert
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Take that Facebook. A homegrown app from Australia Broadcasting Company (ABC) topped iOS download charts in Australia, outpacing Facebook. That’s important for one big reason: Facebook just banned news from appearing on Australian newsfeeds in response to a law that would require the social giant...
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February 19, 2021 albert
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