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How China’s Tencent Avoided an Antitrust Push, For Now.
Tencent’s popularity may help it avoid trouble with Beijing. But its vast power could still squelch innovation in the world’s largest online market.
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5 Ways to Get More Out of Android 11
The current version of Google’s mobile operating system includes several features that can make life easier and a bit more whimsical.
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How Khaby Lame Took Over TikTok
A former factory worker in Italy has become the fastest-growing content creator on TikTok.
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Uber and Lyft Surges: What to Know
The companies say they are charging extra because they don’t have enough drivers to match rebounding customer demand.
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A Rural-Urban Broadband Divide, but Not the One You Think Of
Many more people in cities lack broadband access than in rural areas, but lawmakers are primarily focused on extending high-speed access to remote areas.
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In a World Let Loose, Video Game Makers Are ‘Doubling Down’
The companies won big when the pandemic forced people indoors. In a risky bet, they aren’t slowing down even as behaviors shift again.
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SoftBank-backed construction giant Katerra said to be shutting down after raising billions
After burning through more than $2 billion in funding, SoftBank-backed construction startup Katerra has told employees that it will be shutting down operations, according to a report in The Information. Last year, the company claimed it had more than 8,000 employees globally. Menlo Park-based Katerra had already been struggling to [CONTINUE READING]
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Daily Crunch: Wefox CEO says $650M Series C was ‘much more than we wanted to raise initially’
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Hello, and welcome to Daily Crunch for June 1, 2021. We’re back from a long weekend here in the United States, which means that the blog has [CONTINUE READING]
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Cognigy raises $44M to scale its enterprise-focused conversational AI platform
Artificial intelligence is becoming an increasingly common part of how customer service works — a trend that was accelerated in this past year as so many other services went virtual and digital — and today a startup that has built a set of low-code tools to help enterprises integrate more [CONTINUE READING]
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This Week in Apps: Poparazzi hype, Instagram drops Likes, Epic trial adjourns
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes [CONTINUE READING]