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AdTech startup Tomi raises Seed funding to make real estate ads perform as well as ecommerce a day ago – Industries like real estate, automotive, and financial services have long and offline sales cycles and digital advertising tends not to perform well in these areas. The conversion rates are low and because the real-world assets are offline the temptation of advertisers is to buy leads and clicks,...
Daily Crunch: AWS and Salesforce expand partnership to make cross-platform integrations easier a day ago – Hello friends and welcome to Daily Crunch, bringing you the most important startup, tech and venture capital news in a single package.
You can share tweets directly to Instagram Stories now a day ago – It’s a little thing, but one worth savoring. If you’re tired of your Instagram feed mostly being a chaotic mashup of screencapped tweets and reshared TikToks, well, those things probably aren’t going away but one is about to look a lot better. Twitter just added the capability to share a tweet di...
Bird launches shared e-bikes and opens its app to local shared operators
Nvidia’s Canvas AI painting tool instantly turns blobs into realistic landscapes
NFT marketplace startup Rarible closes $14.2 million Series A
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Deliveroo defeats another workers’ rights challenge in UK courts 8 hours ago – Deliveroo has had another win in the UK courts, beating back an appeal by the IWGB union which has sought for years to challenge the gig platform over couriers’ rights but has continued to fail to overturn the company’s classification of riders as self-employed. The latest appeals court ruling is...
Visa to acquire open banking platform Tink for more than $2 billion 8 hours ago – Visa has announced plans to acquire Tink for €1.8 billion, or $2.15 billion at today’s exchange rate. Tink has been a leading fintech startup in Europe focused on open banking application programming interface (API). Today’s move comes a few months after Visa abandoned its acquisition of Plaid, a...
Taptap Send gets $13.4M for a no-fee money transfer service aimed at price-conscious emerging market users 8 hours ago – Remittances — specifically when people in developed countries send money to family or friends in emerging markets — continues to be a huge lever to help those in more challenging economies survive and improve their lot. Today, a startup that has built a remittance platform that it believes is the...
Andreessen Horowitz triples down on blockchain startups with massive $2.2 billion Crypto Fund III
Firebolt raises $127M more for its new approach to cheaper and more efficient big data analytics
Zero trust unicorn Illumio closes $225M Series F led by Thoma Bravo
Google and India’s Jio Platforms announce budget Android smartphone JioPhone Next
Paid Time Off startup Sorbet reels-in another $15M inside three months
Wise (formerly TransferWise) confirms direct listing on the LSE in early July, reportedly at a $6B-$7B valuation
Apple to drive China revenues with search ad launch

Env0 lands $17M Series A as infrastrucure as code control plane gains traction 6 hours ago – As companies deliver code ever faster, they need tooling to provide some semblance of control and governance over the cloud resources being used to deliver it. Env0, a startup that is helping companies do just that, announced a $17 million Series A today. M12, Microsoft’s Venture Fund, led the ro...

Tonkean raises $50M Series B to accelerate is no-code business automation service 6 hours ago – The business operation automation startup's CEO says the new capital will give it the space it needs to hire and build faster than if it continued to operate from a smaller capital case.

Register to watch a livestream recording of the Equity podcast! 7 hours ago – Throughout its four or so years of life, the Equity podcast crew has had the good fortune to record a few live shows. We sat on the small stage at TechCrunch Disrupt, for example, with Garry Tan one year, and Charles Hudson another. We’ve also ventured to other venues and events with varying leve...

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JW Player raises $100M to build subscriptions and other monetization tools around its video software

Orbion, manufacturer of in-space plasma propulsion systems, raises $20M Series B

Volvo’s flagship electric SUV will come with Luminar’s lidar and software as standard

Accept.inc secures $90M in debt and equity to scale its digital mortgage lending platform

Walmart’s AI is getting smarter about grocery delivery

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Check out the expert speakers joining us on Extra Crunch Live in July 4 hours ago – What are the most important factors when you’re pitching your startup for fundraising? What questions come to the minds of the VCs you’re pitching? How do you get the deal across the finish line? Or choose the right investors for your company to begin with? Extra Crunch Live looks to answer all t...

SPAC charts are exercises in the limits of hype 4 hours ago – Having read more SPAC investor decks in the last twelve months than I’d like to admit to, I thought I was over being irked by their bullishness. Call me conservative, but public companies shouldn’t be full of shit, and companies going public should probably aim for a similar target. That’s why S-...

Android apps are coming to Windows 11 through the Amazon Appstore 4 hours ago – Ecosystems make strange bedfellows. Here’s one of the stranger in recent memory – and one of the most unexpected bits of news from today’s Windows 11 event. Microsoft announced today that it will be making Android apps available on the next major version of its operating system. Chief Product Off...

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Microsoft Teams will be built directly into Windows 11

Microsoft announces Windows 11, generally available by the holidays

Happs raises $4.7 million for a multicast livestream platform creator community

Creator tools startup Spore raises $1M to build closer bonds between influencers and their fans

Sanity raises $39M for its “use-anywhere” approach to content repositories

a16z’s new $2.2B fund won’t just bet on the crypto future,

Instagram may soon let you post from desktop 38 minutes ago – After years of solely focusing on its mobile product, Instagram is at long last thinking about letting users post from their computers. A number of Twitter uses noticed that the test feature had gone live Thursday, and Instagram confirmed the test to TechCrunch. “We know that many people access I...
Psychedelic VR meditation startup Tripp raises $11 million Series A an hour ago – As an increasing number of startups sell investors on mobile apps that help consumers prioritize well-being and mindfulness, other startups are looking for a more immersive take that allow users to fully disconnect from the world around them. Tripp has been building immersive relaxation exercises...
To sustain diversity, investors must tune into their unconscious biases 2 hours ago – Most of the time, investors don’t even know they are acting on these biases. They don’t realize they may have already written you off, which is part of the problem.
An internal code repo used by New York State’s IT office was exposed online
Snap makes a deal with Universal Music Group, adding its catalog to Sounds
5 takeaways from BuzzFeed’s SPAC deck
SmartAsset rethinks financial advisory, and becomes a unicorn in the process
Companies navigate ethical minefield to build proof of vaccination apps
After raising $10M, Ryte launches ‘Carbon KPI’ to measure the CO2 footprint of web sites

4 hours ago – As we become more and more aware of the kind of impact we are having on this planet we call our home, just about everything is having its CO2 impact measured. Who knew, until recently, that streaming Netflix might have a measurable impact on the environment, for instance. But given vast swathes o... ( More deluded fearmongering - as usual )
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Lenovo made a wireless charger for your laptop 14 hours ago – Lenovo has announced a new product called the Go Wireless Charging Kit, which lets you retrofit wireless charging functionality to a wide variety of laptops. It makes use of “Power by Contact” technology from Energy Square, rather than the more common Qi standard. The kit consists of a 3.2mm-thic...

Why the tech antitrust reform bills are struggling to move forward

Google’s security changes will break old Drive and YouTube links

Apple may be looking to make a less expensive big phone in 2022

EA confirms Battlefield 2042 will use bots to help fill its 128-player servers

Logitech’s improved Combo Touch keyboard will be available for the fourth-gen iPad Air in July

The chip shortage will likely get worse before it gets better

John McAfee found dead in Barcelona prison, authorities say

Peacock is finally coming to Fire TV on June 24th

Jerry Seinfeld’s Pop-Tarts obsession is turning into a Netflix

Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2 is surprisingly solid on the Switch 8 hours ago – We’re more than four years into the life of the Nintendo Switch, and yet in some ways the handheld device remains an enigma. Namely: when there’s a port of a big game, you never quite know what to expect. Sometimes you get a welcome surprise like Doom Eternal, other times a mess like Apex Legends...
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Google and Jio collaborate on ‘ultra-affordable’ JioPhone Next
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Rembrandt’s Night Watch uncropped by AI 300 years after it was trimmed
Listen to Spotify on this nostalgic iPod-style web music player
Google will now consider letting your video, music or book app evade its 30 percent cut
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Snap inks deal with Universal Music Group to bring major artists to the platform 5 hours ago – Snapchat Snap wants people to discover and make content with music on Snapchat, and today, it secured a major deal to help it achieve that goal. The company has signed a multiyear partnership with Universal Music Group, the world’s largest record label group, to bring its artists’ tracks...

Microsoft Teams will be directly integrated as part of Windows 11

Microsoft announces Windows 11, with a new design, Start menu, and more

UK carrier EE introduces EU roaming charges following Brexit

Live blog: Microsoft’s Windows 11 event

UK court rules Deliveroo couriers aren’t employees

TCL’s wearable display glasses will go on sale in July starting in Australia

Google delays blocking third-party cookies in Chrome until 2023

Microsoft’s Xbox Series S is available for $10 off at Costco right now

Volvo won’t charge extra for its upcoming electric vehicles w

The Sims is getting an in-game music festival with Simlish songs 3 hours ago – The Sims is the latest game to feature a virtual concert, but this one comes with a twist: some of the songs will be performed in the fictional Simlish language. Today EA announced “Sims Sessions,” described as an in-game music festival that will take place inside The Sims 4 from June 29th to Jul...

How to download a preview of Windows 11

Microsoft kicks Cortana out of the boot experience for Windows 11

Microsoft is changing the Windows 11 minimum requirements

Windows 11 Home will require a Microsoft account and an internet connection at setup

Windows 11’s news feed has built-in tipping to support local content creators

Windows 11 is a free upgrade

Microsoft’s own Windows 11 livestream runs into technical difficulties

Microsoft is bringing Android apps to Windows 11 with Amazon’s Appstore

Microsoft reveals the new Microsoft Store for Windows 11,

Optimum is dramatically reducing cable internet speeds to be better ‘aligned with the industry’ 40 minutes ago – Internet service provider Optimum, owned by Altice USA, is dramatically reducing cable internet speeds for new subscribers starting on July 12th. For some Optimum Online plans, upload speeds will be cut from 35Mbps to as little as 5Mbps, Ars Technica writes. The change impacts new customers sti...

Big Tech edges closer to break up after deeply unhinged markup

Razer Blade 14 review: pint-size power

Satya Nadella’s closing Windows 11 remarks were a direct shot across Apple’s bow

Teamsters pass nationwide Amazon unionization campaign

Here’s everything Microsoft is removing from Windows 11

Microsoft teases new File Explorer for Windows 11

‘The little handheld that could’: examining the Vita’s impact a decade later

Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold 3 and Z Flip 3 revealed in new leak

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