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• Win The Stock Market With Crowdsourced Advice From New App Robinhood (Techcrunch)
  Most people are too scared to seriously play the stock market. Few amateurs know enough to confidently invest on their own.
• Sunday Security launches cybersecurity for senior execs (Techcrunch)
  Sunday Security, launching with $4M seed round, offers cyber-risk protection for senior executives and other key personnel.
• Fitbit Ionic smartwatches recalled following battery burn reports (Techcrunch)
  Fitbit this morning announced that it is participating in a U.S.
• Disney+ adds a co-watching feature called GroupWatch (Techcrunch)
  Disney+ is the latest streaming service to introduce a way for friends and family to watch movies and TV together while in different locati…
• Stanton's T.90 USB High-Torque Turntable (Techcrunch)
  The new T.90 USB High-Torque Turntable from Stanton certainly isn’t the first we’ve seen for converting your vinyl to digital files on your…
• Apple's services revenue hits a record $19.8B in Q2, reaches 825M paid subscriptions | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  Amid a record-breaking fiscal second quarter, Apple also delivered record-breaking services revenue up 17% year over year to reach $19.8 bi…
• Middle East healthcare platform Vezeeta raises $40M Series D led by Gulf Capital | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  Vezeeta, a healthcare platform operating in the Middle East and Africa, has raised a $40 Million Series D funding round led by UAE-based Gu…
• Crunch Report (Techcrunch)
  Apple releases the new iPhone X and iPhone 8, the latest version of the Apple Watch (Series 3) and Apple TV 4K.
• Thunes pockets $72M at a $900M+ valuation to expand its cross-border, B2B payment platform (Techcrunch)
  Thunes is fintech that built a payments platform for businesses to send money to each other internationally; it has closed its Series C to…
• Google+ Is Walking Dead (Techcrunch)
  Today, Google’s Vic Gundotra announced that he would be leaving the company after eight years.
• Ex-Tesla product exec raises $10 million for his mission to upgrade the lowly fuse box | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  Arch Rao closed the $10.1 million financing round for Span, his company pitching homeowners on an upgrade to the fuse box, in the middle of…
• Tech devices that make for great last-minute gifts for anyone (Techcrunch)
  But it can be hard trying to choose which gift to give. That’s especially true with technology, where products tend to be more functional t…
• TechCrunch, still not dead (Techcrunch)
  You may have seen an article over at Axios today about the rebrand of many of the Verizon Media products under a new Yahoo+ banner.
• Hyundai to open electric vehicle factory in Georgia (Techcrunch)
  Hyundai is the latest automaker to announce plans to open an EV factory in Georgia, the same state where Rivian is preparing to break groun…
• Amazon’s Ring gave a record amount of doorbell footage to the government in 2021 (Techcrunch)
  The doorbell maker said it turned over user content in response to about four out of ten demands it received.
• Mobileye signs driver-assistance deal with Geely, one of China's largest privately held auto makers (Techcrunch)
  Mobileye’s computer vision technology will be used in a new premium electric vehicle called Zero Concept from Geely Auto Group, one of Chin…
• South Korean startup Cochlear.ai raises $2 million Series A to detect the sounds missed by speech (Techcrunch)
  Sit quietly for a moment and pay attention to the different sounds around you.
• United Airlines is making COVID-19 tests available to passengers, powered in part by Color (Techcrunch)
  There’s still no clear path back to any sense of “business-as-usual” as the COVID-19 pandemic continues, but United Airlines is embarking o…
• The 2019 TechCrunch Include Report (Techcrunch)
  It’s no secret that the tech industry is historically white, straight and male.
• Welcome To The Unicorn Club: Learning From Billion-Dollar Startups (Techcrunch)
  Many entrepreneurs, and the venture investors who back them, seek to build billion-dollar companies.
• The sinkhole that saved the internet (Techcrunch)
  Keeping the 'kill switch' alive is the only thing preventing another WannaCry outbreak.
• EvenUp wants to automate personal injury settlements -- to a point (Techcrunch)
  EvenUp, a platform developing AI to automate parts of the personal injury trial process, has raised new capital.
• Robinhood almost imploded during GameStop meme stock chaos (Techcrunch)
  Robinhood was blindsided by the surge in interest from the first big "meme stock" after investors rallied around $GME and sent its price in…
• Google, Toyota Tsusho invest in WhereIsMyTransport to map transport in emerging cities (Techcrunch)
  In emerging markets, up to 80% of the population may have to rely on informally-run public transport to get around.
• Today at Apple Creative Studios will launch in 7 new cities (Techcrunch)
  Apple revealed that it will be expanding its Today at Apple Creative Studios initiative to seven new cities, including Berlin, Miami, Milan…
• Apple reportedly shifting to new keyboard design in 2019/2020 MacBooks (Techcrunch)
  Apple is set to replace the technology underlying the keyboards found in its Mac Book Air and Mac Book Pro computers, according to a new re…
• At One Ventures’ new fund is going after startups out to ‘destroy the industries that are destroying (Techcrunch)
  Ultimately, the firm plans to invest in 100 companies over the next decade.
• Verana Health aims to organize and analyze doctors’ clinical data sets, whether patients like it or (Techcrunch)
  If the two-year old healthcare startup Verana Health has its way it could become the Google for physician generated healthcare data.
• Hoping to be LatAm’s top digital bank for SMBs, Xepelin launches a lending and revenue management (Techcrunch)
  There's another entrant in the startup race to provide financial services to Latin America's small and medium-sized businesses.
• Electric Mercedes G-Class will go the distance with Sila’s energy-dense silicon anodes (Techcrunch)
  Sila says its silicon anode material can boost energy density by 20% to 40% over existing cells.
• Uber hits 1 billion rides in Africa (Techcrunch)
  Uber today announced a significant milestone — it has completed 1 billion rides across all its markets in Africa.
• Here’s All You Need To Know About The iPhone 5: More Cat (Techcrunch)
  All right folks, maybe you've already pre-ordered your iPhone 5. Maybe you're still on the fence about whether to make the upgrade.
• Apple announces new MacBook Pros with a keyboard fix, oh, and more powerful processors (Techcrunch)
  Apple is updating its 15” MacBook Pro with new 8-core and 6-core processors and its 13” MacBook Pro with Touch Bar with 8th-gen quad-core p…
• Curri nabs $42M for its construction-focused last-mile logistics platform | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  Curri, which offers a platform to match construction companies with delivery providers, has raised $42 million in venture capital.
• Logitech’s new Mac-specific mouse and keyboards are the new best choices for Mac input devices (Techcrunch)
  Logitech has released new versions of its MX peripherals in Mac-friendly finishes, as well as a new K380 wireless Bluetooth keyboard design…
• Apple employees are reportedly walking into walls at the company’s fancy new glass office (Techcrunch)
  People in glass offices should probably watch where they’re going.
• It's more than meets the eye with the Montblanc TimeWriter 1 Metamorphosis | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  They do watches as an aside, some sort of weird cross-marketing thing that presumably they'll use to convince watch lovers to go and pick u…
• Gilded Age: Montegiro's Lusso 'luxurious' turntable (Techcrunch)
  Believe it or not, that's a turntable up there.
• Panasonic considers Oklahoma for next EV battery factory (Techcrunch)
  The Inflation Reduction Act passed by Congress should accelerate development of domestic EV industry by providing manufacturers with $40 bi…
• Apple is offering interest-free financing to boost iPhone sales in China (Techcrunch)
  Apple is looking to get over its sales woes in China by offering prospective customers interest-free financing with a little help from Alib…
• Known for 5G mmWave testing solutions, Taiwan's TMYTEK sets its sights on base stations | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  TMYTEK recently raised a Series A+ round of about $10 million for products that make it easier to test 5G millimeter wave equipment.
• 23andMe co-founder's new startup, Precise.ly, brings genomics to India through Narayana partnership (Techcrunch)
  Precise.ly, the new genomics startup launched by 23 and Me co-founder Linda Avey and Aneil Mallavarapu, is taking its spin on direct to con…
• Plenful raises $9M to automate healthcare workflows | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  Plentful, a startup developing a platform to automate healthcare workflows, has emerged from stealth with $9 million in venture funding.
• Altec Lansing will release its first turntable this holiday season for $199 | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  The Stealth is Altec Lansing's first shot at the turntable market.
• Fitbit gets FDA approval for AFib-detecting algorithm (Techcrunch)
  Google confirmed the FDA has approved (photoplethysmography) AFib-detecting algorithm tech for Fitbit.
• The 2019 Mercedes CLA gets a major tech upgrade to make it the 'ultimate wearable' (Techcrunch)
  Mercedes-Benz has often reserved its best tech for its highest-class models — the S Class being the first vehicle to get the latest and gre…
• Stellantis to build new battery plant in Indiana | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  Stellantis and Samsung SDI said on Tuesday they will team up to build a $2.5 billion lithium-ion battery plant in Indiana.
• FEMA just sent a 'Presidential Alert' to millions of U.S. phones (Techcrunch)
  Millions of Americans were sent a “Presidential Alert” to their phones today as a test to simulate a real message from the president in a n…
• Dow Jones said that Google was buying Apple, and the bots bought it (Techcrunch)
  Steve Jobs' will + Dow Jones + Apple Park = Google's buying Apple. I think we finally have algorithmic transparency.