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Leveling the playing field – TechCrunch

Williesha Morris Contributor Williesha Morris has been a journalist and freelancer off-and-on for over a decade. When she’s not writing,…

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Microsoft’s Reading Progress makes assessing reading levels easier for kids and teachers – TechCrunch

Among the many, many tasks required of grade school teachers is that of gauging each student’s reading level, usually by…

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Sony announces investment and partnership with Discord to bring the chat app to PlayStation – TechCrunch

Sony and Discord have announced a partnership that will integrate the latter’s popular gaming-focused chat app with PlayStation’s own built-in…

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Cloud infrastructure market keeps rolling in Q1 with almost $40B in revenue – TechCrunch

Conventional wisdom over the last year has suggested that the pandemic has driven companies to the cloud much faster than…

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Click Studios asks customers to stop tweeting about its Passwordstate data breach – TechCrunch

Australian security software house Click Studios has told customers not to post emails sent by the company about its data…

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US video game spending increased 30% in Q1 – TechCrunch

Even as signs of life after the pandemic have begun to emerge here in the U.S., increases in video game…

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Alchemy raises $80M at a $505M valuation to be the ‘AWS for blockchain’ – TechCrunch

Blockchain developer platform Alchemy announced today it has raised $80 million in a Series B round of funding led by Coatue…

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Kids-focused fintech Greenlight raises $260M in a16z-led Series D, nearly doubles valuation to $2.3B – TechCrunch

Greenlight, the fintech company that pitches parents on kid-friendly bank accounts, has raised $260 million in a Series D funding…

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What the MasterClass effect means for edtech – TechCrunch

MasterClass, which sells a subscription to celebrity-taught classes, sits on the cusp of entertainment and education. It offers virtual, yet…

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Google’s Anthos multicloud platform gets improved logging, Windows container support and more – TechCrunch

Google today announced a sizable update to its Anthos multicloud platform that lets you build, deploy and manage containerized applications…