the most ‘compelling emerging market’ may be America, outside of Silicon Valley – TechCrunch
Roughly eight years ago, investors Mark Kvamme and Chris Olsen left Silicon Valley to open a venture firm, Drive Capital, …
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Zipmex, which aspires to build the Asia Pacific region’s largest digital assets exchange, raises $6 million led by Jump Capital – TechCrunch
Zipmex, a digital assets exchange headquartered in Singapore, announced today it has raised $6 million in funding led by Jump …
YouTube and WhatsApp inch closer to half a billion users in India – TechCrunch
WhatsApp has enjoyed unrivaled reach in India for years. By mid-2019, the Facebook-owned app had amassed over 400 million users …
Pollen Robotics’ humanoid robot can be controlled remotely with VR – TechCrunch
Pollen Robotics turned heads at last year’s CES . After all, a humanoid robot will do that on the show …
the 2021 predictions issue, part two – TechCrunch
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Vision Fund backs Chinese fitness app Keep in $360 million round – TechCrunch
As Chinese fitness class provider Keep continues to diversify its offerings to include Peloton-like bikes, health-conscious snacks among other things, …
Indonesian investment platform Ajaib gets $25 million Series A led by Horizons Venture and Alpha JWC – TechCrunch
Ajaib Group, an online investment platform that says it now runs the fifth-largest stock brokerage in Indonesia by number of …
Despite some odd choices, ‘The Undoing’ lays out a satisfying mystery – TechCrunch
The HBO miniseries “The Undoing” wrapped up back in November, but the hosts of the Original Content podcast took advantage …
Lenovo launches AR glasses for enterprise – TechCrunch
Lenovo seems to have gotten the memo that the real money in the augmented reality space is going to be …
Parler reportedly removed posts by Trump affiliate Lin Wood calling for execution of VP Mike Pence – TechCrunch
It seems that even the “free speech” social network Parler has its limits. The social network that has attracted scores …