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Cuban drew comparisons of the up and coming crypto space to the early days of streaming. He claimed that people had to go through a tedious process just to make a 16k stream work and believed that if it didn’t, people would often become a laughing stock for not using a radio

The fund raised will be used for products and platform strengthening and also for international expansion, including the USA

Klarna is expanding into the competitive world of price comparisons, with the launch of a new tool that compares prices across thousands of retailers. The company quietly rolled out the price comparison service in the U.S. a few weeks back, and is now extending this into additional markets in Europe including The U.K. and the […]

A ‘credible alternative to Google and Amazon’: Klarna brings its price comparison tool to Europe by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch

India has lifted the download ban on VLC, more than nine months after it mysteriously blocked the official website of the popular media playback software in the South Asian market. VideoLAN, the popular software’s developer, filed a legal notice last month seeking an explanation from the nation’s IT and Telecom ministries for the block order. […]

India lifts download ban on VLC by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch

The fund raised will be utilized to build a scalable cloud-based software ecosystem for future deployment while distributing a variant of the computer to a sizable number of students on a monthly subscription model

The complexity of streaming data technologies – not just streaming video but any kind of streaming data – has created a headache around dealing with that high speed data processing. Accordingly, companies like Spark, Flink have spring up to address this ksqlDB. Many are either either java-based solutions or SQL-based analytics solutions. However, UK startup […]

Real-time data startup Quix raises a $12.9M Series A round led by MMC Ventures by Mike Butcher originally published on TechCrunch

CZ’s push for self-custody comes at a time when investors are rethinking about the security of the assets amidst the market spiralling out of control

One day in 2020, I published an article about a Chinese hardware maker which would have otherwise been a typical funding story. Instead, I got a complaint from its PR asking me to remove all mentions of “China” from the piece. The startup wanted to be called “American” on the basis of its having a […]

The dilemma of Chinese startups going global by Rita Liao originally published on TechCrunch

We talked with entrepreneur Nolan Church about the layoffs sweeping across the tech workforce — and how to handle them better.

The power pendulum is swinging back to employers, isn’t it? by Natasha Mascarenhas originally published on TechCrunch