Cisco buys Duo, Brandless raises $240M, and Apple broaches $1T

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week TechCrunch’s Matthew Lynley and Crunchbase News’s Alex Wilhelm were joined by Jyoti Bansal, the founder of AppDynamics and a partner at Unusual Ventures, among other startup work. Our...
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The Apple iPod is one model away from extinction

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The iPod is almost dead.  Apple’s website no longer lists the iPod nano and iPod shuffle, suggesting the smallest music players in the line have finally been discontinued. The only iPod Apple now offers up is the iPod touchMashable has reached out to Apple for...
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