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Teresa Phillips Contributor Teresa Phillips is the CEO and co-founder of Spherex, a data and technology company that is pioneering the culturalization of media for international film and television distribution. … Read More

Primer Sazze Partners, a San Jose-based venture capital firm, announced today it has raised its second fund at $127 million (150 billion won) to invest in startups founded by Korean … Read More

Two days ago, Ed Sheeran posted a cryptic Twitter message, hinting at a soon-to-be announced collaboration with Pokémon GO. I’ll be honest: I’m not the biggest Ed Sheeran fan, but … Read More

Like Nio, Chinese electric car maker Xpeng has kickstarted its international expansion. But unlike its rival, which put on a series of splashy campaigns in Norway, Xpeng launched quietly in … Read More

Almost exactly one month ago, we reported that Rippling, a SaaS company that makes employee data the focal point of a sprawling, multi-pronged offering, had raised $250 million in its … Read More

Facebook announced Thursday that it’s running a test to give users a sliver more control over what they see on the platform. Image Credits: Facebook The test will go live … Read More

Watch Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce being showered with Accolades in Florida During the Pocket Rocket Foundation Fundraiser – Caribbean News Home Caribbean Jamaica Watch Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce being showered … Read More

There are 13 surviving copies of the original print of the U.S. Constitution. Today, a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) announced it lost its bid to buy one from art dealer … Read More

Welcome to TechCrunch’s 2021 Holiday Gift Guide! Need help with gift ideas? We’ve got lots of them. We’re just starting to roll out this year’s gift guides, so check back … Read More

Workday announced this afternoon that it intends to acquire VNDLY, a Mason, OH startup that helps companies manage external workforce personnel for $510 million. Workday helps companies manage finance and … Read More

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TechCrunch Live (previously known as Extra Crunch Live) is ending the year strong with a slate of fantastic speakers. We’re speaking to Eugenio Pace from AuthO and Sunil Nagaraj from … Read More

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks to supporters and members of the media after a bill signing Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021, in Brandon, Fla. DeSantis signed a bill that protects employees … Read More

The new economy of space has been made possible by the new generation of launch companies — the old new generation now, actually, as SpaceX and Rocket Lab cement their … Read More

Joann Wu, a longtime LinkedIn executive who spent over a decade at the company working on user experience and product design, is moving to Uber. She will be joining Uber … Read More

Aron Solomon, J.D., is the head of Strategy for Esquire Digital and the editor of Today’s Esquire. He has taught entrepreneurship at McGill University and the University of Pennsylvania, and … Read More

Biliti Electric, a startup founded less than a year ago, wants its electric tuk tuks to become a common sight in densely packed cities in the United States. The three-wheeled, … Read More

Ashish Kakran Contributor Ashish Kakran, principal at Thomvest Ventures, is a product manager/engineer turned investor who enjoys supporting founders with a balance of technical know-how, customer insights, empathy with challenges … Read More

Apple may be sharpening the focus of its long-in-development electric car. Bloomberg sources claim Apple is now shifting its attention to a fully self-driving car, not just a more conventional … Read More

Members of New Immigrant Community Empowerment and the New York Immigration Coalition marching down Manhattan. In an 11-mile march, Caribbean and other immigrant New Yorkers marched from Manhattan to Brooklyn … Read More

Party Round is building software that it hopes will make the process of raising early-stage corporate capital far simpler than it is today. And the company just used its own … Read More

Edmund Bartlett, Jamaica’s Minister of Tourism As Jamaica’s tourism continues its strong rebound, Minister of Tourism Edmund Bartlett, says the sector is projected to surpass pre-pandemic figures by the end … Read More

An electric vehicle is, essentially, just ‘software on wheels’, and requires lots of moving parts, not physical but, of course, virtual. That software needs to continually optimize the performance, efficiency, … Read More

Haiti’s Prime Minister Ariel Henry attends an interview with the Associated Press at his private residence in Port-au-Prince, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021. (AP Photo/Joseph Odelyn) Prime Minister of Haiti, Ariel … Read More

This summer, Netflix launched its own shopping site that allowed fans to purchase apparel, accessories and other lifestyle products from their favorite shows, like “Stranger Things.” Now, Hulu is doing … Read More

FILE – In this Aug. 17, 2021, file photo, nursing coordinator Beth Springer looks into a patient’s room in a COVID-19 ward at the Willis-Knighton Medical Center in Shreveport, La. … Read More

The battle between the appetites of European Union Member States’ governments to retain their citizens’ data — for fuzzy, catch-all ‘security’ purposes — and the region’s top court, the CJEU, … Read More

Earlier this week, reggae star Lila Ike revealed in a series of tweets that she was molested and raped. She further declared that the same thing happened to her mother … Read More

Starbucks has teamed up with Amazon to open a cashierless store in NYC. The new location — at 59th Street between Park & Lexington Avenues — will combine the Starbucks … Read More

Platforms that bring more automation to the working environment, and platforms that are empowering more people to get involved in building tools to help themselves work, have equally seen a … Read More