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Social network for motherhood Peanut raises $5M, expands to include women trying to conceive – TechCrunch

Peanut, an app that began its life as a match-maker for finding new mom friends but has since evolved into…

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Fortnite World Cup has handed out $30 million in prizes, and cemented its spot in the culture – TechCrunch

The Fortnite phenomenon — the wildly popular battle royale game from Epic Games — has manifested itself in concerned articles,…

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Congressional testimony reveals some faults in Facebook’s digital currency plans – TechCrunch

As Facebook continues to lay the foundation for getting some of the world’s largest payment processing and technology companies a…

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New Google Area 120 project Shoelace aims to connect people around shared interests – TechCrunch

A new project from Google’s in-house incubator, Area 120, aims to help people find things to do and others who…

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The next phase of WeChat – TechCrunch

Thousands of people gathered Wednesday night in a southern Chinese city for Zhang Xiaolong, Tencent’s low-key executive who built WeChat…

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In brief: Tencent eyes in-car social networking via WeChat

The tech giant wants to transform WeChat into a smart medium for in-car smart interaction. Source link

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Looking back at Google+ – TechCrunch

Google+ is shutting down at last. Google announced today it’s sunsetting its consumer-facing social network due to lack of user…

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Openbook is the latest dream of a digital life beyond Facebook – TechCrunch

As tech’s social giants wrestle with antisocial demons that appear to be both an emergent property of their platform power,…

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Facebook, Google face first GDPR complaints over “forced consent” – TechCrunch

After two years coming down the pipe at tech giants, Europe’s new privacy framework, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR),…

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Cryptocurrency and a stock market boom pushes TradingView to $37 million in new funding – TechCrunch

Fueled by last year’s greed-inducing visions of a crypto-currency boom and a stock market largely untethered from classical economics, TradingView,…