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It’s easier than ever to build a product and sell it around the United States, or the world. But if you want to do so without incurring the wrath of…

Anrok raises $4.3M to solve sales tax for SaaS companies

Because of the pandemic, we’re all a lot more familiar with remote working than we used to be, whether we like it or not. But the remote tools of the…

Could Claap, an asynchronous video meetings platform, end the tyranny of Zoom calls?

European privacy group noyb, which recently kicked off a major campaign targeting rampant abuse of the region’s cookie consent rules, has followed up by publishing a technical proposal for an…

Europe needs to back browser-level controls to fix cookie consent nightmares, says privacy group

Niantic has encouraged the world to roam the streets as Pokémon trainers and wizards… next up? Time to transform and roll out. Eighties mega toy Transformers is the latest IP…

Niantic is working with Hasbro on a Pokémon GO-style Transformers game

Google today announced that it is making Workspace, the service formerly known as G Suite (and with a number of new capabilities), available to everyone, including consumers on free Google…

Google opens Workspace to everyone

As ubiquitous as Google Docs has become in the last year alone, a major criticism often overlooked by the countless workplaces that use it is that it isn’t end-to-end encrypted,…

Google will let enterprises store their Google Workspace encryption keys

Motorway is a U.K. startup that allows professional car dealers to bid in an auction for privately owned cars for sale. The startup has had rapid success by removing a…

Motorway’s auction platform for second-hand cars raises $67.7M Series B led by Index Ventures

Immersive Labs, a platform which teaches cybersecurity skills to corporate employees by using real, up-to-date threat intelligence in a “gamified” way, has closed a $75 million Series C funding round…

Cybersecurity training platform Immersive Labs closes $75M Series C led by Insight Partners

Gillmor Gang: Déjà Vu

4:00 pm PDT • June 13, 2021

The Gang, or a subset, did a Clubhouse, longer than a regular show by a good third. The audio-only structure lacked the visual cues that distinguish between irony and bad…

Gillmor Gang: Déjà Vu

he debate is a reminder that recycling in general is a very messy process. It is chemical-, machine- and energy-intensive.

Nuclear waste recycling is a critical avenue of energy innovation

Where we’ll be next

Blue Origin has its winning bidder for its first ever human spaceflight, and the winner will pay $28 million for the privilege of flying aboard the company’s debut private astronaut…

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin auctions off seat on first human spaceflight for $28M

In a world of talking points and corporate jargon, opinions are refreshing — and Expensify CEO and founder David Barrett is full of them. One of his earliest lessons in…

How many opinions does it take to hit the $100M ARR Club?

Inside Marqeta’s fintech mega-IPO

10:00 am PDT • June 12, 2021

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Inside Marqeta’s fintech mega-IPO

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Apple’s iPadOS 15 breaks the app barrier

The announcement of new iPad software at this year’s WWDC conference had an abnormally large expectation hung on it. The iPad lineup, especially the larger iPad Pro, has kept up an impressively frantic pace of hardware innovation over the past few years. In that same time frame, the software of the iPad, especially its ability…

8:50 am PDT • June 12, 2021
Apple’s iPadOS 15 breaks the app barrier

Apple went big on security and privacy during its Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) keynote this week, showcasing features from on-device Siri audio processing to a new privacy dashboard for iOS…

7 new security features Apple quietly announced at WWDC

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…

This Week in Apps: WWDC 21 highlights, Instagram Creator Week recap, Android 12 beta 2 arrives

The tools and technology to move forward, from machine learning to sensors to nano materials, are more powerful and affordable than ever, allowing for higher ambition and far faster time…

The rapid hard-tech emergence

Edtech giant Byju’s has become the most valuable startup in India after raising about $350 million in a new tranche of investment from UBS Group and Zoom founder Eric Yuan,…

UBS investment makes Byju’s the most valuable startup in India

Sean O’Sullivan, the founder of the global venture outfit SOSV, has slowly but steadily built up a sizable operation over the years. SOSV started off as a family office, investing…

SOSV, the global venture firm, just closed a $100 million fund to back its maturing startups

Electric air mobility is gaining elevation. But there’s going to be some turbulence ahead.

The air taxi market prepares to take flight