Challenger banks continue to see huge infusions of cash from investors bullish on the opportunity for smaller and faster-moving tech-based banking startups to woo customers from their larger rivals. In the latest development, UK-based Starling announced that is has closed £272 million ($ 376 million...
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March 8, 2021 albert
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TL;DR: Go from guitar newbie to expert with The Complete 2021 Beginner to Expert Guitar Lessons Bundle, on sale for 98% off. As of March 7, get it for $ 29.99. Whether you used to play the guitar but lost interest or you’ve never touched...
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March 7, 2021 albert
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TL;DR: As of March 6, you can buy gin, vodka, and rum that has been distilled with oranges, fresh orange peel, cocoa powder, and real jaffa cakes. You’ve probably got Mother’s Day locked up. We’re sure you got flowers ready to be delivered, a card bought,...
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March 6, 2021 albert
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The annual meetings of the Chinese parliament and its advisory body are underway in Beijing this week. Top executives from some of China’s largest tech firms are among the thousands of delegates who attend and put forward their opinions. Here is a look at what...
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March 5, 2021 albert
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Instagram mistakenly — and temporarily — hid like counts for a large swathe of users on Tuesday. And people lost their entire minds. The change came with no warning or explanatory blog post, bucking the custom for such significant changes to an app. Instagram users...
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March 3, 2021 albert
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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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