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Creative Destruction Lab’s second Super Session is an intense two-day startup testbed – TechCrunch

Canadian startup program Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) escapes succinct description in some ways – it’s an accelerator, to be sure,…

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Korean hotel platform Yanolja raises $180M at a valuation of over $1B – TechCrunch

The travel tech industry has got another unicorn. Following the likes of Airbnb, OYO, Traveloka and Klook, Korea’s Yanolja said…

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AT&T’s WarnerMedia might be punting on its original streaming service plans – TechCrunch

WarnerMedia’s plans for a three-tiered streaming service appear to be influx. The AT&T-owned company is reportedly scrapping that idea and…

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Google offers new treasure trove of air quality data to researchers – TechCrunch

Google has employed its network of street view vehicles to also measure street-level air quality in recent years, through an…

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Key Vision Fund investors are reportedly lukewarm on a second fund – TechCrunch

SoftBank shook up the venture capital world with its unprecedented $100 billion Vision Fund, and the speculation continues around its…

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Google’s Cloud outage is resolved, but it reveals the holes in cloud computing’s atmosphere – TechCrunch

Five hours after Google publicly announced that it was working to resolve an outage in its Cloud computing network that…

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Foxconn halts production lines for Huawei phones, according to reports – TechCrunch

Huawei, the Chinese technology giant whose devices are at the center of a far-reaching trade dispute between the U.S. and…

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China’s largest chipmaker is delisting from the Nasdaq – TechCrunch

The U.S-China trade war is increasingly influencing tech. Huawei has suffered a turbulent past week with key suppliers pausing work…

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Food delivery startup Dahmakan eats up $5M for expansion in Southeast Asia – TechCrunch

It’s harvest season for Southeast Asia’s full-stack food delivery startups. Following on from Singapore’s Grain raising $10 million, so Malaysia-based…

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Ikea invests in Livspace, a one-stop platform for interior design based in India – TechCrunch

Fresh from raising $70 million last year via big names including Goldman Sachs and TPG Growth, Livspace, an India-based startup that…