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Survios Virtual Fact Gaming Demo

AR/VR March 25, 2022

Correct now, virtual reality is pretty stationary: you sit there, place on a headset and are transported to an totally new planet. But with … resource

Bosch to invest another $467 million to boost chipmaking capacity

Automotive October 28, 2021

Gamma brings in $7M to bring the slide deck into the 21st century

SaaS October 28, 2021

Tiger Global in talks to lead over $100M investment in India’s Slice

Finance October 8, 2021

Upmesh wants to build a community-driven discovery app for Southeast Asian live commerce

StartupsOctober 8, 2021

The founders of Upmesh were building a game on top of Twitch’s API when they realized something about another group of livestreamers. Even...

SoftBank-backed Korean edtech startup Riiid acquires Langoo, expands in Japan

EdTechOctober 7, 2021

Riiid, a South Korea-headquartered AI-powered edtech company, acquired its Japanese distribution partner Langoo to expand its Japan footprint. The acquisition comes after the company’s...

8-Bit Capital, co-led by Jonathan Abrams, has closed its first fund with $40 million

TechcrunchOctober 5, 2021

Jonathan Abrams and Kent Lindstrom have partnered on a lot of things over the years. Lindstrom was an advisor and investor at the...

Eight Roads launches its fourth fund: $450M aimed at European/Israeli scale-ups

EnergyOctober 5, 2021

European VC Eight Roads is launching its fourth fund of $450 million for European and Israeli tech companies , aiming for another 15-20...

FoundersHK, created to strengthen Hong Kong’s startup ecosystem, holds its first demo day

TechcrunchOctober 5, 2021

FoundersHK was created to strengthen Hong Kong’s startup community, which has weathered more than two years of political turmoil, along with the COVID-19...

Kobo refreshes e-reader line with Sage and Libra 2, adding Bluetooth and stylus support

TechcrunchOctober 5, 2021

A pair of new e-readers from Kobo iterate on the company’s high-end options, adding Bluetooth audiobook and stylus support to the now familiar...

How to claim a student discount for TechCrunch+

StartupsOctober 4, 2021

Students can get access to TechCrunch+ at a discounted rate of $50/year (plus tax). Here’s how to claim the discount: Use a .edu or...

Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram are slowly returning. Why did they disappear to begin with?

TechcrunchOctober 4, 2021

Facebook’s day-long outage is by far its longest and most extreme in years. At around 9 a.m. PDT on the U.S. West Coast...

Daily Crunch: DNS outage takes down Facebook’s social networks around the globe

TechcrunchOctober 4, 2021

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Max Q: Blue Origin puts safety in the backseat, workers claim

TechcrunchOctober 4, 2021

Hello, readers: Welcome back to Max Q. First, an introduction: I’m Aria Alamalhodaei, the resident space and transportation reporter here at TechCrunch. I’ll...

YouTube making ads on connected TVs more shoppable

TechcrunchOctober 4, 2021

YouTube announced on Monday that it’s expanding video action campaigns (one of Google’s interactive ad types for video) to connected televisions (CTV) to...