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Robinhood’s stock drops 8% in its first day’s trading 3 days ago – Once the U.S. consumer investing and trading app began to allow investors to trade its shares, they went down sharply, off more than 10% in the first hours of its life as a floating stock.

Horizon Blockchain Games raises $4.5M for its NFT trading card game and wallet 3 days ago – Horizon Blockchain Games is — as the name implies — a company building games on the blockchain, along with tools to help others do the same. The company announced today that it has raised another $4.5 million, bringing its total raised to a little over $13 million. Horizon’s first game is Skyweav...

Biofourmis receives FDA breakthrough device designation for heart failure “digital therapy” 3 days ago – Kuldeep Singh Rajput, the founder of Boston-based Biofourmis, is imagining a future where heart failure patients go home with a prescription, a wearable sensor and an app. Today, a new FDA designation gets the company one step closer to that goal. Founded in 2015, Biofourmis is a digital therape...

Zūm wins $150M from San Francisco schools to modernize and electrify student transport

Microsoft in talks to back India’s Oyo

Livestream e-commerce: Why companies and brands need to tune in

Scarlett Johansson files suit over Disney+ ‘Black Widow’ release

Panic sells 20,000+ Playdate handhelds in under 20 minutes

Fortnite’s mystery ‘superstar’ virtual music tour kicks off next week

Why Latin American venture capital is breaking records this

Platform as a service startup Porter aims to become go-to for deploying, managing cloud-based apps 2 days ago – Any DevOps team can use Porter to manage applications in the cloud, delivering the full flexibility of Kubernetes through a Heroku-like experience.

Gopuff confirms new $1B cash injection at a $15B valuation to expand its instant grocery delivery service 2 days ago – Gopuff said it plans to use the funding to continue expanding in North America, the U.K. and Europe, among other things.

Catch takes hold of $12M to provide benefits that aren’t tied to employers 2 days ago – Catch is working to make sure that every gig worker has the health and retirement benefits they need.

Airtel Africa gets an extra $200M for its mobile money business from QIA

Introducing the Open Cap Table Coalition

Daily Crunch: Scarlett Johansson sues Disney, says streaming release of ‘Black Widow’ breaches contract

Another banner quarter as Chromebook shipments grow 75% YOY

Varda Space Industries closes $42M Series A for off-planet manufacturing

4 key areas SaaS startups must address to scale infrastructure for the enterprise

Pinterest shares drop as company misses on user growth

US government watchdog rejects Blue Origin’s protest over lunar lander contract 2 days ago – The Government Accountability Office said that it was denying both Blue Origin’s protest and a separate challenge filed by Dynetics.
Design expert Scott Tong outlines 4 concepts founders should consider when designing products 2 days ago – At Early Stage 2021, design expert Scott Tong walked us through some of the ways founders should think about design, what design means and the steps that come before focusing on the pixels.
Robinhood’s CFO says it was ready to go public 2 days ago – Robinhood says it went public because it was ready. And our read of the markets is that it's an appealing time for high-growth tech companies with a history of losses to do so. Yet it's underwater.
Last day to snag early-bird passes to TechCrunch Disrupt 2021
White-label SaaS shipping startup Outvio closes $3M round led by Change Ventures
Gillmor Gang: Social climbing
EU hits Amazon with record-breaking $887M GDPR fine over data misuse
Chilean fintech Xepelin secures $230M in debt and equity from Kaszek, high-profile angels
Cheltenham’s GCHQ to get a massive, cyber-oriented tech startup campus right next door
Growth is not enough

Deliveroo could leave Spanish market ahead of on-demand labor reclassification 2 days ago – Deliveroo said it is considering leaving the Spanish market, citing limited market share and a long road of investment with 'highly uncertain long-term potential returns' on the horizon.

For tech firms, the risk of not preparing for leadership changes is huge 2 days ago – A change of command is one of the most delicate moments in the life cycle of any organization. If mishandled, the transition from one CEO to the next can result in massive downsides.

Extra Crunch roundup: Livestream e-commerce, growth marketing interviews, CEO for a day 2 days ago – Thanks very much for reading Extra Crunch this week; have a great weekend.

Kodiak Robotics’ founder says tight focus on autonomous trucks is working

Growth roundup: Investing in community, targeting developers, new marketer recs

Yat thinks emoji ‘identities’ can be a thing, and it has $20M in sales to back it up

Calendly CEO Tope Awotona is joining us at Disrupt 2021

The best way to grow your tech career? Treat it like an app

A Tesla Megapack caught fire at the Victorian Big Battery facility in Australia

Elon Musk calls Apple’s App Store fees ‘a de facto global t

Unicorns are ready for a haircut a day ago – The digitization of your haircut may not have been on your 2020 bucket list, but 2021 has an even more surprising line item: Tech-powered barbershops are now a business proposition valued at nearly a billion dollars. Squire is a back-end barbershop management tool for independent businesses. I fi...

The pandemic effect is slowing a day ago – Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter for your weekend enjoyment.

5 lessons from Duolingo’s bellwether edtech IPO of the year a day ago – Duolingo landed onto the public markets this week, rallying excitement and attention for the edtech sector and its founder cohort. The language learning business’ stock price soared when it began to trade, even after the unicorn raised its IPO price range, and priced above the raised interval. Du...

China roundup: Keep down internet upstarts, cultivate hard tech

This Week in Apps: Instagram restricts teens’ accounts, Elon Musk criticizes App Store fees, Google Play’s new policies

Bring your own environment: The future of work

TuSimple’s self-driving truck network takes shape with Ryder partnership

Pittsburgh Google contractors ratify deal with HCL

Daily Crunch: European privacy regulators fine Amazon $887M over targeted advertising practices

Argo AI can now offer the public rides in its autonomous v

The Verge

Sony’s new PS5 beta update also fixes one of its silliest flaws 3 days ago – Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge The first major system update for Sony’s PlayStation 5 is arriving in beta form today, finally letting you expand the console’s 667GB of usable storage by adding your own PCIe Gen 4 SSD as well as testing new UI options and expanding 3D Audio support. But...

Amazon gives Alexa a new iOS widget and the ability to assign reminders

Amazon’s earnings show why Andy Jassy is now in charge

Why wildfire smoke can be worse than other air pollutants

Joe Biden wants states to pay people $100 to get vaccinated

Uncontrolled firing from Russian module causes brief ‘tug of war’ on International Space Station

Annapurna showed off lots of cool games at its first showcase

Windows 11 now has its first beta release

GarageBand can now help you remix tracks from Lady Gaga and Dua Lipa

Scarlett Johansson is suing Disney over Black Widow’s str

Here’s why Apple says it hates leaks 2 days ago – Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple is a notoriously secretive company, and a cease and desist letter recently acquired by Motherboard sheds new light on exactly why, arguing that leaks harm accessory makers, consumers, and Apple itself. The C&D order reportedly sent to a Ch...
Sgt. Pepper’s to get new Atmos mix because current version ‘doesn’t sound quite right’
AMD’s new Radeon RX 6600 XT offers 1080p RDNA 2 gaming for $379
Dish adds HBO Max and will now offer HBO and Cinemax
Here are the best Amazon Echo deals right now
Verizon’s new hotspot plans are built for your #vanlife dreams
Bungie reveals how Destiny 2 crossplay will and won’t work, and a rough idea when
Snapchat was crashing for a lot of people again
Forza Motorsport 7 will be driving into the sunset in September
Robinhood’s public trading is off to a rocky start

A three-pack of Google Nest Minis is only $64 at eBay right now 2 days ago – Normally $50 a pop, BuyDig is offering a trio of Google Nest Minis for nearly 60 percent off. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Like Amazon’s Echo Dot, the Google Nest Mini is a miniature take on the larger smart speakers that came before it. The compact device doesn’t boast the same sou...

Tesla agrees to pay $1.5 million to settle battery throttling lawsuit

The bad science behind trans healthcare bans

How to use transitions to make your TikTok videos more interesting

Russia blames software glitch for misfired engines that shoved ISS

The Mark Cuban-founded audio app Fireside is asking its own users to invest

Amazon fined record $887 million over EU privacy violations

How Facebook became a lifeline for immigrant bike messengers

The bipartisan infrastructure bill is good for EVs, bad for the climate

Vaccine carrots only got us so far — now, it’s time for sticks

Doubling down on behaviour violating Nuremberg Code

Mastodon now has an official iPhone app 2 days ago – Decentralized social network Mastodon now has an official iPhone app. The nonprofit behind Mastodon launched the app on iOS today, supplementing an existing web version and several third-party apps for iOS, Android, and other platforms. The app is free and offers a similar feature set to Mastodon...

A Tesla Megapack burst into flames at ‘Victorian Big Battery’

Vergecast: this quarter’s earnings for Apple, Samsung, Google, and Microsoft

June heatwave was the ‘most extreme’ on record for North America

‘May be an image’: what it’s like browsing Instagram while blind

Elon Musk calls Apple’s App Store fees a ‘de facto global tax on the Internet’

Elon Musk and Apple deny wild story that he tried to replace Tim Cook

Microsoft is facing a subpoena for millions of documents in Google’s antitrust case

Government denies Blue Origin’s challenge to NASA’s lunar lander program

The special effects behind Loki’s doomed planet of Lament