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UK resumes privacy oversight of adtech, warns platform audits are coming – TechCrunch 5 min read

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UK resumes privacy oversight of adtech, warns platform audits are coming – TechCrunch

SIMONA JADE 51 years ago

The UK’s info watchdog has restarted an investigation of adtech practices that, since 2018, have been subject to scores of problems throughout Europe beneath the

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Google inks agreement in France on paying publishers for news reuse – TechCrunch 6 min read

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Google inks agreement in France on paying publishers for news reuse – TechCrunch

SIMONA JADE 51 years ago

Google has attained an arrangement with an affiliation of French publishers around how it will be fork out for reuse of snippets of their material.

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HiPeople picks up $3M seed to automate reference checks – TechCrunch 3 min read

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HiPeople picks up $3M seed to automate reference checks – TechCrunch

SIMONA JADE 51 years ago

HiPeople, a HR tech startup based in Berlin that desires to automate the reference examining approach, has lifted $3 million in seed funding. Major the

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PPRO nabs $180M at a $1B+ valuation to bring together the fragmented world of payments – TechCrunch 5 min read

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PPRO nabs $180M at a $1B+ valuation to bring together the fragmented world of payments – TechCrunch

SIMONA JADE 51 years ago

The pandemic has hastened a change of most commerce getting to be e-commerce in the very last yr, and that has introduced a new focus

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Tencent-backed Hike, once India’s answer to WhatsApp, has given up on messaging – TechCrunch 2 min read

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Tencent-backed Hike, once India’s answer to WhatsApp, has given up on messaging – TechCrunch

SIMONA JADE 51 years ago

India’s answer to WhatsApp has entirely moved on from messaging. Hike Messenger, backed by Tencent, Tiger World-wide and SoftBank and valued at $1.4 billion in

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After a record year for Israeli startups, 16 investors tell us what’s next – TechCrunch 48 min read

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After a record year for Israeli startups, 16 investors tell us what’s next – TechCrunch

SIMONA JADE 51 years ago

Israel’s startup ecosystem raised record amounts of funding and produced 19 IPOs in 2020, despite the pandemic. Now tech companies across industries are poised for

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Antitrust jitters, SPAC odyssey, white-hot IPOs, more – TechCrunch 7 min read

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Antitrust jitters, SPAC odyssey, white-hot IPOs, more – TechCrunch

SIMONA JADE 51 years ago

Some time ago, I gave up on the idea of finding a thread that connects each story in the weekly Extra Crunch roundup; there are

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A security researcher commandeered a country’s expired top-level domain to save it from hackers – TechCrunch 4 min read

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A security researcher commandeered a country’s expired top-level domain to save it from hackers – TechCrunch

SIMONA JADE 51 years ago

In mid-October, a minor-recognised but critically essential area title for a person country’s web area began to expire. The area — scpt-community.com — was a

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Can’t figure out how to end your Amazon Prime sub? These complaints could help… – TechCrunch 5 min read

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Can’t figure out how to end your Amazon Prime sub? These complaints could help… – TechCrunch

SIMONA JADE 51 years ago

Amazon’s use of dim designs that include friction to the procedure of terminating a Prime membership is becoming qualified by 16 purchaser legal rights teams

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Rapyd raises $300M on a $2.5B valuation to boost its fintech-as-a-service API – TechCrunch 5 min read

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Rapyd raises $300M on a $2.5B valuation to boost its fintech-as-a-service API – TechCrunch

SIMONA JADE 51 years ago

A wave of organizations — propelled by global Covid-19 pandemic circumstances — are moving their commercial and financial interactions online, and today one of the

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