TechCrunch

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Hello and welcome back to Equity , TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. The epic carnage surrounding the Chinese government’s clamping down on its tech sector (more here , and here from TechCrunch). Lalamove raised $515 million in a Series E.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

Hello and welcome back to Equity , TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. And what the Indian government is doing to its own technology industry is not encouraging. It’s a great way to start Monday, frankly. You can’t stop deals! raised a $52.5

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2021

Hello and welcome back to Equity , TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. As government, and insurance money can take ages to arrive, the startup could be onto something. and Perimeter wants to take data, and help folks actually know where to go when there is am emergency.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 19, 2020

It now turns out that the workers’ complaints were legitimate: Wistron is admitting as much , and the local government found serious labor violations in its preliminary investigation, according to the South China Morning Post and Reuters. Employees allege they have not been paid properly.

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.orgSource

JUNE 12, 2023

Stories like this are frequent headlines. If you have a data governance strategy in place, an assessment is also an opportunity to ensure that policies and procedures are up-to-date. If you don’t have a governance strategy, developing this document should be a priority. The hack involved 92 percent of LinkedIn accounts.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2021

Hello and welcome back to Equity , TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. The UK government is putting together a venture fund of sorts ? Here’s what we got into this fine Monday morning: Skydio raises $170 million , a huge sum for the drone company.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

But the challenging road required to hit that target inspired the city government to seek out new kinds of partnerships to meet that bold pledge. To remedy that, this initiative blends commercial and government capital, leveraging support from the UN as well as universities, corporations, investors, and development partners.

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Bloomerang

MAY 27, 2021

Reading the headlines it seems that the government has stepped in to help the nonprofits sector survive. Their survey reported that only thirteen percent of charities they contacted had raised twenty percent or more from government pandemic aid during this difficult period. The pain of the pandemic has been crippling to many.

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TechCrunch

JULY 5, 2022

Hello and welcome back to Equity , a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. At the same time, Twitter is pushing back against the Indian government bullying , which is good. Alex and Grace are back to cover the biggest, boldest and baddest technology news.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2022

China’s government decided that such companies had too much influence, and thus needed to be cut down to size. Some recent headlines for flavor: December 2021: A year into China’s tech crackdown, the sky is no longer the limit for China’s Big Tech. And yet it appears that the Chinese government is, at least to some degree!

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Platforms for dentists are booming right now as many governments gradually make it harder to access dentistry via social care, especially in the U.K. Toothfairy headlines. Toothfairy is a U.K. startup that has a variation on this approach. Image Credits: Toothfairy.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 16, 2021

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. Danny and Alex got together late Friday on a Twitter Space to discuss Microsoft’s decision to pull LinkedIn from the Chinese market , a move that lit up headlines around the world.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Hello and welcome back to Equity , TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. And the Chinese government thinks that its country has too many EV companies. And that the reset could land between 5% and 10%, with another 10% of respondents expecting a correction of more than 10%.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

Hello and welcome back to Equity , a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. Every Monday, Grace and Alex scour the news and record notes on what’s going on to kick off the week. This week was Big Tech heavy, as the startup market had a slow start to the week. billion.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

While instant delivery companies generate a ton of headlines from their big funding rounds, Gopuff thinks it isn’t successful because it has raised a lot of money. In addition to heated competition, some local governments have been working on strict new regulations against instant delivery services. its first foray outside of the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

With venture investors committing to funding Black and minority founders, alongside the growing availability of government-backed proposals, such as New Jersey allocating $10 million to a seed fund for Black and Latinx startups , can we expect to see fundamental change? Tap into foreign markets.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 27, 2010

There are roughly thirty social entrepreneurs here at the Forum, headlined by such famous leading SEs as Muhammad Yunus and Fazle Abed of Bangladesh. The room was buzzing with ideas about improving society, and taking advantage of this precious opportunity to interact with the captains of industry and government leaders.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Hello and welcome back to Equity , TechCrunch’s venture-capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. federal government is going after Google on anti-competitive grounds. It’s a big day in tech because the U.S.

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The Verge

JANUARY 7, 2021

The Chinese government has spent years focusing its biggest companies on developing green technology in an attempt to beat other world powers to the punch. Alibaba funded XPeng, an electric vehicle startup that first made headlines by copying Tesla’s designs. At first, they simply placed bets.

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TechCrunch

JULY 11, 2022

Hello and welcome back to Equity , a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. Here’s what we got into: Stocks are off around the world, partially due to government action, partially due to the complex web of negative factors that we’ve discussed for months now.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

His current startup, Captain, advances money to contractors for home repairs following natural disasters, then gets reimbursed by insurance companies or the government. ” Three ways to raise Gray breaks down the methods he used to fundraise into three steps: “People see the headline, ‘$107 million raised.’

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

Hello and welcome back to Equity , TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. And the gaming news underscores that the Chinese state is not too bothered about directly undercutting its private sector to meet government goals. As before, the news is moving stocks.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Monday night, Congress approved an over $2 trillion government spending and coronavirus relief package that included a handful of controversial copyright and trademark measures. The news circulated all across the internet; in a poorly headlined Hollywood Reporter article, tweets, and YouTube videos.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2021

federal government is in a unique position to help realize those rewards. There are so many ways governments can help businesses maximize their data leverage in ways that improve society. They should stop thinking about privacy as compliance and begin thinking of it as a harmonization of the customer relationship.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2023

In other words, the government is stepping up to protect the economy. “We In particular, Circle became the subject of headlines as people discovered that it is one of the most important clients for SVB because of USDC, a popular stablecoin managed by Circle. banking system. USDC is pegged to the U.S. dollar on a 1:1 basis.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Headlines from China concerning its technology market haven’t been kind in recent months. The Chinese technology market has been rocked by a wave of regulatory actions in recent quarters that changed the business landscape amid crackdowns by the country’s government on other areas of national activity. Not that they have been unfair.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2013

That headline isn’t a lawyer joke. That headline isn’t a lawyer joke. Flicker Photo By Mike Willis. And let me say upfront, I respect lawyers and legal issues that nonprofits and foundations have to navigate around social media. What are your best resources, blogs, or other sources for keeping up to date on this topic?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Hello and welcome back to Equity , a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. The SenseTime IPO is on hold after the US government “added SenseTime Group Limited to the Non-SDN Chinese Military-Industrial Complex Companies List,” per the company.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

E]ven though Epic can do so itself in an instant by simply adhering to the contractual terms that have profitably governed its relationship with Apple for years.”. This lawsuit (and the front-page headlines it has generated) appears to be part of a marketing campaign designed to reinvigorate interest in Fortnite.”.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2021

.” To be clear, you can find similar stories in News Break that you’d see in other news apps (there’s a whole section for coronavirus news, for example, and this morning you’ll see plenty of headlines about yesterday’s violent takeover of the U.S. government’s current attempts to ban Chinese companies.

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The Verge

MAY 11, 2021

Bode writes: Government filings had promised the FCC that the deal would “generate economic growth and jobs in the United States.” For some context, when Sprint was given the go-ahead to merge with Nextel in 2005, it made its own claims about how great its merger would be for the economy.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2023

Over the years, 8VC has invested in companies spanning a variety of industries such as logistics, life sciences, healthcare, IT infrastructure, government and defense, financial services, consumer and enterprise. Early last year, he made headlines and ruffled more than a few feathers after his tweets about “woke” tech diversity.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Hello and welcome back to Equity , TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. In India, news is out that a new law could ban Bitcoin (whatever that means), and this morning India forced Twitter to take down some accounts that had been critical of government policy.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

As Fast Company notes , Bitwise made headlines in 2019 when it raised $27 million — one of the largest Series A rounds ever secured by a company with a female Latinx founder. Historically, female founders have received just 12% of venture capital investment for their businesses.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2023

It’s not just that the market in general has corrected, but rather, I think defense tech, specifically as an opportunity, has really [gained traction] among other venture investors, as well as founders [along with a growing] awareness of the importance of defense tech to the government. I guess I have the headline to this story now.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

But in reality, employees often route around these tools, making data governance hard or even impossible. Correction : A previous version of this story used the total funding amount Grip raised in the last nine months in the headline ($25 million), not the $19 million it raised in this Series A.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

A labyrinth of Facebook groups and right-wing media After more than two weeks of chaotic protest, this week, the Canadian government pushed back. And while the convoy itself may soon be broken up by the Canadian government, those online pathways are much stickier. Photo by Steve Russell / Toronto Star via Getty Images.

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