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Daily Crunch: Databricks reaches $38B billion valuation with $1.6B Series H

Daily Crunch: Databricks reaches $38B billion valuation...

Hello friends and welcome to Daily Crunch, bringing you the most important startup,...

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UK-based Heroes raises $200M to buy up more Amazon merchants for its roll-up play

UK-based Heroes raises $200M to buy up more Amazon merchants...

Heroes, one of the new wave of startups aiming to build big e-commerce businesses...

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Octane banks $2M for flexible billing software

Octane banks $2M for flexible billing software

Octane, a metered SaaS billing system, helps vendors create a plan, monitor usage...

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Quip’s new $100M round will usher in more than just clean teeth

Quip’s new $100M round will usher in more than just clean...

Quip is focused on growth, innovation and community building among its over 7.5...

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Lessons from COVID: Flexible funding is a must for alternative lenders

Lessons from COVID: Flexible funding is a must for alternative...

Alternative lending is any lending that occurs outside of a conventional financial...

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You’ll have to tell Instagram your birthday to keep using the app

You’ll have to tell Instagram your birthday to keep using...

Image: InstagramIf you haven’t given Instagram your birthday, it’s about to start...

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North Base Media leads $2.7M pre-Series A funding in digital media startup Vietcetera

North Base Media leads $2.7M pre-Series A funding in digital...

Ho Chi Minh City-based Vietcetera, a digital medial network originally created for...

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Chicago sues DoorDash and Grubhub for ‘unfair and deceptive’ practices

Chicago sues DoorDash and Grubhub for ‘unfair and deceptive’...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeThe city of Chicago has sued food delivery...

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Waymo will stop selling its self-driving LiDAR sensors to other companies

Waymo will stop selling its self-driving LiDAR sensors...

Just months after a CEO shakeup, Waymo is officially halting sales of its custom...

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Cruise is buying solar energy from California farmers to power its electric, self-driving fleet

Cruise is buying solar energy from California farmers to...

Cruise, the self-driving car company under General Motors, has launched a new initiative...

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Romanian marketing expert Robert Katai explains how to get the most out of your content

Romanian marketing expert Robert Katai explains how to...

There's a lot of advice out there on how to grab people's attention, but there's...

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YouTube to roll out Picture-in-Picture viewing for all U.S. iOS users, starting with Premium subscribers

YouTube to roll out Picture-in-Picture viewing for all...

Though YouTube has supported picture-in-picture viewing on Android devices since...

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TSMC is raising chip prices as supply shortages continue

TSMC is raising chip prices as supply shortages continue

Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeTSMC is the biggest chipmaker in the world...

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Acer’s stellar 2-in-1 Chromebook Spin 713 is $200 off at Best Buy

Acer’s stellar 2-in-1 Chromebook Spin 713 is $200 off at...

Photo by Monica Chin / The VergeIf you’re looking for a Chromebook that rises above...

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Most US government agencies are using facial recognition

Most US government agencies are using facial recognition

Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeA new report from the Government Accountability...

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Level AI lands $13M Series A to build conversational intelligence for customer service

Level AI lands $13M Series A to build conversational intelligence...

Level AI, an early stage startup from a former member of the Alexa product team,...