July 1, 2018
OpenPhone lets you get a business phone number with an app
Meet OpenPhone, a startup in the current Y Combinator batch. The company has been working on an app to make it easier to get and use a business…
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June 30, 2018
Announcing TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield Latin America in São Paulo on Nov. 8
TechCrunch is excited to announce that the Startup Battlefield Latin America is coming to São Paulo on November 8 this year. This is the first event TechCrunch has…
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Benchmark’s Mitch Lasky will reportedly step down from Snap’s board of directors
Benchmark partner Mitch Lasky, who has served on Snap’s board of directors since December 2012, is not expected to stand for re-election to Snap’s board of directors and will…
Read articleJune 29, 2018
Replacing pills with a Band-Aid? Avro Life Science thinks there’s a patch for that
Shak Lakhani, the 21-year-old chief executive and co-founder of Avro Life Science, started researching biomaterials when he was 15 years old. Every summer and after school the teenager…
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Thousands of cryptocurrency projects are already dead
Two sites that are actively cataloging failed crypto projects, Coinopsy and DeadCoins, have found that over a 1,000 projects have failed so far in 2018. The projects range…
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Leena AI builds HR chatbots to answer policy questions automatically
Say you have a job with a large company and you want to know how much vacation time you have left, or how to add your new baby…
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Apple is rebuilding Maps from the ground up
I’m not sure if you’re aware, but the launch of Apple Maps went poorly. After a rough first impression, an apology from the CEO, several years of patching…
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AT&T’s low-cost TV streaming service WatchTV goes live
AT&T’s newly announced WatchTV, a low-cost live TV streaming service announced in the wake of the AT&T / Time Warner merger, is now up and running. The company…
Read articleJune 29, 2018
India’s Cashify raises $12M for its second-hand smartphone business
Cashify, a company that buys and sells used smartphones, is the latest India startup to raise capital from Chinese investors after it announced a $12 million Series C…
Read articleJune 28, 2018
Instagram Stories now lets its 400M users add soundtracks
The right music can make a boring photo or video epic, so Instagram is equipping users with a way to add popular songs to their Stories. TechCrunch had…
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