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Pitch your startup at TechCrunch Berlin Office Hours, with Mike Butcher
Berlin! TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin will be in December. Disrupt Berlin is where you’ll find the renowned Startup Battlefield competition, hundreds …Read More »
Facebook releases a trio of maps to aid with fighting disease outbreaks
Facebook this morning announced a new initiative focused on using its data and technologies to help nonprofit organizations and universities …Read More »
News Analysis: The Choice in India: ‘Our Trump’ or a Messier Democracy
The results of India’s Parliamentary election will reveal not just a decision on Narendra Modi, but a deeper decision on …Read More »
Google Restricts Huawei’s Access to Android After Trump Order
The move could hamstring the Chinese tech giant if it prevents the firm’s customers from getting the latest versions of …Read More »
Select FCC leaders announce support for T-Mobile, Sprint merger
It’s been more than a year since T-Mobile and Sprint formally announced a merger agreement. This morning, members of FCC …Read More »
Trump’s Huawei ban also causing tech shocks in Europe
The escalating US-China trade war that’s seen Chinese tech giant Huawei slapped on a US trade blacklist is causing ripples …Read More »
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Wholesale importer: Our family business, like others, pays Trump’s tariffs — not China
We are importers of Christmas decorations. The vast majority of the items we import are made in China. China is the only country that can produce…
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Despite Facebook’s struggles, one important contingent remains loyal
The number of small businesses who buy Facebook ads remains unchanged, meaning the company's struggles and the threat of government regulation has not hurt Main Street's…
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Where Trump has support in battle with Fed over rates: The smallest small businesses
The smallest businesses on Main Street are preoccupied with high interest rates they say hold them back, while larger business owners are more focused on the…
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Select FCC leaders announce support for T-Mobile, Sprint merger
It’s been more than a year since T-Mobile and Sprint formally announced a merger agreement. This morning, members of FCC leadership have issued statements voicing their…
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Trump’s Huawei ban also causing tech shocks in Europe
The escalating US-China trade war that’s seen Chinese tech giant Huawei slapped on a US trade blacklist is causing ripples of shock across Europe too, as…
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Amazon Faces Investor Pressure Over Facial Recognition
Shareholders are voting on whether to push the tech giant to examine the human rights and financial risks of the surveillance technology. …
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6 Steps to Building a Successful Online Drop Shipping Business
Want to start a drop shipping business? Here’s how. …
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3 Quick and Easy Website Personalization Tactics to Boost Conversions
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Attention: Social Media Marketing is No Longer Enough for Your Business
You will need more than social media marketing for your business. …
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Attack on Tourist Bus Near Egyptian Pyramids Wounds at Least 14
The blast, close to a giant museum under construction, suggested that militants were seeking to undermine the authority of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. …
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India’s Narendra Modi Appears Headed for Re-election, Exit Polls Show
Mr. Modi, one of India’s most powerful and divisive leaders in decades, seems to have emerged relatively unscathed from complaints about joblessness and distress on farms….
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Austrian President Calls for Elections in September
Alexander Van der Bellen said continuity was essential after the far-right vice chancellor resigned over a video showing him promising favors to a woman who claimed…
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Swiss Vote to Tighten Firearms Laws to Align With E.U. Rules
Swiss voters agreed on Sunday to tighten the country’s gun laws in order to comply with European Union legislation that came into force following terrorist attacks…
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News Analysis: It Was Supposed to Be Australia’s Climate Change Election. What Happened?
On Saturday, in a result that stunned most analysts, voters re-elected the conservative coalition that has long resisted plans to sharply cut down on carbon emissions…
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European Elections Will Be Latest Test of Populist Support
Nationalists all over the Continent are hoping for a surge that will allow them, short of leaving the European Union, to disable its bureaucracy from within….
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3 Quick and Easy Website Personalization Tactics to Boost Conversions
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Boeing Reports Zero New Plane Orders For April Amid 737 Max Troubles
Orders for and deliveries of Boeing jets have plummeted since the planemaker came under scrutiny following two deadly crashes.
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Trendy luggage brand Away packs on $100M, rolls past $1.4B valuation
Away’s new lofty valuation proves how far you can get with excellent branding. …
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Attention: Social Media Marketing is No Longer Enough for Your Business
You will need more than social media marketing for your business. …
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Monster Energy Ousts Executive Nearly 3 Years After Assault Charges
Brent Hamilton was let go after allegedly sending sexually explicit texts to a co-worker. He’s still awaiting trial for allegedly strangling a woman.
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Announcing TechCrunch Sessions: Enterprise this September in San Francisco
Of the many categories in the tech world, none is more ferociously competitive than enterprise. For decades, SAP, Oracle, Adobe, Microsoft, IBM and Salesforce, to name…
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Small business confidence remains high, Main Street sees more good times ahead: CNBC survey
Small business confidence remains high, according to the latest CNBC|SurveyMonkey Small Business Survey. Main Street sees more good times ahead, but a tight job market is…
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This is the top city for small business in the US: Study
Miami is the No. 1 place for small business, according to a Biz2Credit national survey of more than 30,000 businesses released on Tuesday, May 7. The…
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Labor Dept. Says Workers at a Gig Company Are Contractors
The department exempted an unnamed operation from pay standards applied to employees, marking a shift from the Obama administration view. …
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Nearly half a million UK firms in ‘significant financial distress’
New research from British insolvency firm Begbies Traynor revealed that 484,000 U.K. businesses are in "significant financial distress," which is 14% of all the economically active…
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LGBT groups and tech companies warn that a Texas bill could cost the state billions
The LGBTQ community and major employers say a bill passed by the Texas Senate is a license to discriminate, giving professionals the right to turn away…
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NatWest unveils biometric payment system for businesses
Innovation and technology are driving change in the banking sector. …
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A Huge Chinese Video App Is Charging People, Draining Their Batteries, And Exposing Data Without Their Knowledge
VidMate told BuzzFeed News it was investigating the claims, but declined to share basic information about its employees and ownership.View Entire Post › …
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TikTok owner ByteDance’s long-awaited chat app is here
In WeChat -dominated China, there’s no shortage of challengers out there claiming to create an alternative social experience. The latest creation comes from ByteDance, the world’s…
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Mediator: Social Media Pollution, a Huge Problem in the Last Election, Could Be Worse in 2020
As a candidate, Donald Trump promoted a mystery Twitter account that falsely portrayed a protester as an ISIS terrorist. Nothing stops him from doing it again….
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These Johns Hopkins students are slashing breast cancer biopsy costs
Over 2 million women were diagnosed with breast cancer in 2018. And while the diagnosis doesn’t have to be a death sentence for women in countries…
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Game of Thrones petition reaches 1M signatures ahead of finale
Life is short, difficult and, most likely, ultimately meaningless. In this age of immediate fan service, it’s important to remember that you can’t always get what…
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Tech Jobs Lead to the Middle Class. Just Not for the Masses.
The great hope for people without a bachelor’s degree hasn’t yet spread beyond small-scale success stories. …
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My Bank Account Was Frozen for Bitcoin – And It Only Made Me Love Crypto More
The guy who coined the term “hodl” has a real bitcoin story that only made his interest in the technology stronger. …
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Bitcoin and Blockchain: The Tangled History of Two Tech Buzzwords
The word “blockchain” isn’t used in the bitcoin white paper, the document that started it all. So, how did the term take off as a buzzword?…
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Big revenues, huge valuations and major losses: charting the era of the unicorn IPO
Joanna Glasner Contributor More posts by this contributor From lab-grown meat to fermented fungus, here’s what corporate food VCs are serving up A record $2.5B went…
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Startups Weekly: There’s an alternative to raising VC and it’s called revenue-based financing
In this week’s newsletter: Amazon takes a bite of Deliveroo and Away packs on $100M …
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About That Orange B… The History of Bitcoin’s Logos
Can a logo symbolize the ethos of a project? An industry? An entire movement? Bitcoin’s might have come close. …
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7 Potential Changes To The Law That May Affect Your Wallet In 2020
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Short seller says Beyond Meat hype is ‘beyond stupid,’ places bet against the shares
"Most heavily traded retail stock on Robinhood, market cap now bigger than industry," tweeted Andrew Left. …
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Bill Ackman’s comeback is on fire with the hedge fund manager up nearly 40% this year
The net asset value of Pershing Square Holdings rose 36.9% in the first quarter and remains up more than 38% so far this year. …
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Watch out below as Tesla breaks key support, MKM analyst says
Tesla is swerving lower again Friday, and one technical analyst says the stock could have further to fall. …
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JP Morgan buys health-care payments firm InstaMed in bank’s biggest deal since financial crisis
The $500 million-plus deal shows that the nation's largest bank views the fast-changing world of payments as a battleground worthy of aggressive wagers. …
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Hotshot active fund managers will soon have a way to play the ETF game
A new kind of ETF is expected to allow active managers a way to offer their strategies without divulging their intellectual property. …
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Here are the biggest analyst calls of the day: Under Armour, Foot Locker, Apple & more
Here are the biggest calls on Wall Street on Friday …
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Mailchimp expands from email to full marketing platform, says it will make $700M in 2019
Mailchimp, a bootstrapped startup out of Atlanta, Georgia, is known best as a popular tool for organizations to manage their customer-facing email activities — a profitable…
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How to Get Customers to Your Small Business
If you want to get your first customers, you have to be willing to put in the work to get them through the door. …
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Apply These 8 Tips to Improve Your Amazon Marketing Ads
Improve your Amazon marketing with these tips. …
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10 Tips for Driving Real Results with Your Marketing Efforts
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What Does It Take to Sell to the New B2B Buyer?
B2B buyers are becoming more like consumers. Here’s what you need to know to sell to the B2B buyer of today.
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5 of the Hottest Trends in Marketing Right Now, According to Industry Experts
If you don’t stay on top of the latest trends, you risk missing out on serious potential for revenue growth and customer acquisition. Industry leaders share…
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America’s push to upgrade airports gains traction as New Orleans opens new terminal later this year
When the new terminal in New Orleans opens later this year, it will be the latest upgrade and expansion of a U.S. airport, a key part…
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This Movie Theater In Switzerland Is Truly Living In 3019
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SoftBank leads $484 million investment in online travel start-up GetYourGuide
GetYourGuide says it's now worth more than $1 billion but isn't commenting on its exact valuation. …
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Taco Bell is opening a hotel and resort
Taco Bell is opening a brand-themed hotel and resort this summer. …
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US and French firms team up to accelerate the return of supersonic travel
The company confirms its supersonic plane is on track for 2023 and will be U.S. built. …
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25 Restaurants Worth Traveling To Paris For
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‘The Bigoted Bang Theory’: Twitter Roasts Donald Trump With #WhiteHouseSitcoms
“The Blunder Years.”
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Funniest Animal Moments Of 2018
These rebellious animals refused to be tamed. See for yourself.
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Will Ferrell Starring In ‘Narcos’ Is A Real Mind-Blower
The comedy star gets dropped into the action in this Funny Or Die mashup.
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Shawl or Vagina?
This shawl looks a little familiar and a lot NSFW.
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Pee-wee In ‘Halloween’ Is Possibly More Terrifying Than Michael Myers
Instead of hearing heavy breathing in the dark … it’s creepy chuckling.
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“vitaminwater Congratulates Brandon: The Only Recipient Of The 31-Under-31 Award”
Having made a name for himself as a self-employed entrepreneur, Brandon’s Business founder, Brandon, recently gained notoriety
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