In the friendly face-off between Mark Zuckerberg and Donald Trump, Zuckerberg just blinked. Again. On Thursday, mere hours after the Facebook CEO announced “additional steps” to “fight misinformation” ahead of the U.S. presidential election, Trump used the platform to spread confusion about the U.S. election...
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September 4, 2020 albert
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Given the endless drumbeat of layoff announcements — with deep cuts by Airbnb and Uber garnering much of the industry’s attention this week — it’s reasonable to wonder: what happens to all of the talent that’s being laid off? How does the changing supply and...
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May 9, 2020 albert
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If you want to protect your data from hackers, you should definitely use two-factor authentication, and Google Authenticator is a simple, logical choice. And now, it finally got a feature that makes it easy to move its data from one phone to another. If you’re...
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May 8, 2020 albert
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The coronavirus is bad — really bad — but, experts have said, it is not an existential threat… i.e. not the end of the world. Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, stars of the 2004 zombie-apocalypse comedy Shaun of The Dead, posted a PSA about the...
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March 20, 2020 albert
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Good morning friends, and welcome back to TechCrunch’s Equity Monday, a short-form audio hit to kickstart your week. Regular Equity episodes still drop Friday morning, so if you’ve listened to the show over the years don’t worry — we’re not changing the main show. (Here’s last week’s...
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March 2, 2020 albert
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[Editor’s note: Want to get this weekly review of news that startups can use by email? Just subscribe here.] How well do Robinhood’s financials stack up against incumbent online brokerages? While we wait for the seven-year-old company’s long-planned IPO, Alex Wilhelm examined Morgan Stanley’s big $...
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February 22, 2020 albert
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Hello, and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. Today we’re bringing back an old Equity format: The Shot. No, I haven’t started drinking again. Equity Shots are short takes on breaking news. And no news was...
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February 4, 2019 albert
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Attitudes are changing about data privacy and protection. But organizations are struggling to keep up with changing regulations. IT Business Edge | News, Analysis, and Trends
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October 26, 2018 albert
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When a Twitter user asked Elon Musk if future Teslas would include a “dog mode” to keep car-bound pets safe and cool while their owner was away, he responded with a simple “yes.” Yes — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 20, 2018 SEE ALSO: Elon Musk...
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October 21, 2018 albert
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Omobola Johnson (Image: Flickr/World Economic Forum under a CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 TechCrunch Startup Battlefield is returning to Africa in December, this time in Lagos, Nigeria. We will have a day-long program full of our flagship Battlefield competition highlighting the best startups that Africa has to...
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September 20, 2018 albert
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