This morning Hopin, a startup that provides online events software, announced that it has closed a $125 million Series B round of capital. The new funds come mere months after Hopin raised a $40 million Series A this summer. According to Hopin CEO Johnny Boufarhat, the new capital was raised at a $2.125 billion valuation, [âŠ] Read more âș
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Alphabetâs X âMoonshot Factoryâ subsidiary has a lot of cutting edge projects in development, so itâs always exciting when one of them gets ready for real-world deployment. On Tuesday, X announced that its âProject Taaraâ high-speed optical wireless broadband endeavor is working with internet provider Econet and its subsidiaries to begin rolling out its tech [âŠ] Read more âș
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Bucking the slowdown in most of the power sector caused by responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, renewable energy actually grew in 2020, and will represent about 90% of the total power capacity added for the year, according to the International Energy Agency. A surge in new projects from China and the US led the charge [âŠ] Read more âș
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Patreon and Acast are teaming up to make it easier for podcasters to publish episodes that are only available to the patrons financially supporting them on Patreon. Most paywall solutions for podcasts are pretty clunky or limited. Thatâs why Acast launched technology last year that allows publishers to release paywalled episodes that listeners can access [âŠ] Read more âș
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Berlin-based micro-mobility startup Tier has raised a significant Series C round of $250 million. SoftBank Vision Fund 2 is leading the round, which proves that the Vision Fund team is still focused on high-risk, high-potential bets. As a reminder, SoftBank has invested in many late-stage funding rounds through its Vision Fund team. Portfolio companies include [âŠ] Read more âș
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Debates over anti-competitive practices amongst Chinaâs internet firms resurface every year in the lead up to Singlesâ Day, a time when online retailers exhaust their resources and deploy sometimes sneaky tactics to attract vendors and shoppers. This year, just a day before the worldâs largest shopping festival was scheduled to fall on November 11, Chinaâs [âŠ] Read more âș
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Apple is organizing its third event in three months today. The company is holding a (virtual) keynote at 10 AM PT (1 PM in New York, 6 PM in London, 7 PM in Paris). And youâll be able to watch the event right here as the company is streaming it live. Apple has already announced [âŠ] Read more âș
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Brynn Putnam has a lot to feel great about. A Harvard grad and former professional ballet dancer who opened the first of what have become three high-intensity fitness studios in New York, she then launched a second business in 2016 when â while pregnant with her son â she was exercising at home and couldnât [âŠ] Read more âș
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Based in Hong Kong, Coherent helps insurance providers go digital. With their services more relevant than ever during the COVID-19 pandemic, the startup announced it has raised $14 million in new funding. The Series A round, led by Cathay Innovation with participation from Franklin Templeton, will be used to grow Coherentâs client base in Asia, [âŠ] Read more âș
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Bill Zhang lowered himself into lunges on a squishy mat as he explained to me the benefits of the full-body training suit he was wearing. We were in his small, modest office in Xili, a university area in Shenzhen thatâs also home to many hardware makers. The connected muscle stimulator attached to the suit, called [âŠ] Read more âș
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As Ant Group seizes the worldâs attention with its record initial public offering, which was abruptly called off by Beijing, investors and analysts are revisiting Tencentâs fintech interests, recognized as Antâs archrival in China. Itâs somewhat complicated to do this, not least because they are sprawled across a number of Tencent properties and, unlike Ant, [âŠ] Read more âș
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Elon Muskâs tunneling and transportation startup The Boring Company is eyeing Austin for its next project based on several new job postings. The Boring Company, which last year landed a deal to construct and operate a âpeople moverâ for the Las Vegas Convention Center, tweeted Monday that is was hiring in Austin. Engineering, accountant and [âŠ] Read more âș
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Sony has announced that it is entering the drone market with a new brand called Airpeak, though the specifics of the drone itself are left something of a mystery. It plans to launch the project next spring. The barebones announcement says only that Sony has been inspired by the ârecent proliferationâ of drones and the [âŠ] Read more âș
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Beyond Meatâs partnership with McDonaldâs to develop the McPlant burger wasnât enough to keep shares from collapsing after the company posted third-quarter earnings that fell far below analystsâ expectations. The big miss sent shares tumbling nearly 29% in after markets closed Monday after reporting it generated $94.4 million in revenues and a loss of 28 [âŠ] Read more âș
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When we recorded this Gillmor Gang, it was Day Four post election, or midweek in counting the late incoming mail and other provisional ballots. We were largely convinced of the Biden victory, but that nagging doubt instilled in us by 2016 still pervaded the Zoom session. Saturdayâs street party felt more like it, and the [âŠ] Read more âș
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Back before just about every major TV network built a streaming app of their own, watching live TV on your smartphone was⊠tricky. One of the first relatively simple options was the Slingbox. Youâd set it up between your cable box and your TV, plug it into your network, and bam: youâre streaming live TV, [âŠ] Read more âș
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We review the iPhone 12 Pro Max and the iPhone 12 mini, Zoom settles with the FTC and Pfizer announces promising results for its COVID-19 vaccine trial. This is your Daily Crunch for November 9, 2020. The big story: Reviewing the biggest and smallest new iPhones TechCrunch Editor in Chief Matthew Panzarino tackled both extremes [âŠ] Read more âș
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Twitter is working to expand the use of its âmisinformationâ labels on misleading tweets. The company has developed a new feature, not yet live, that would pop up a âmisleading informationâ label when a user tries to âLikeâ a tweet thatâs been labeled as misinformation. The feature was discovered by reverse engineer Jane Manchun Wong in [âŠ] Read more âș
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Uber shares surged 7.38% to close at $48.18 following news that a vaccine candidate is 90% effective at preventing COVID-19, and could start coming to market in a matter of months. The announcement by drugmakers Pfizer and BioNTech sparked widespread optimism and helped boost shares across industries that have been weakened by the COVID-19 pandemic, including [âŠ] Read more âș
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NASA has announced 20 new partnerships with commercial space outfits, among them collaborations with SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Rocket Lab. While no money will change hands, NASA will dedicate millions in personnel and other support to these test launches and developing technologies. The partnerships are NASAâs Announcement of Collaboration Opportunity selections for 2020. These agreements [âŠ] Read more âș
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