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Basketball isn’t the only heat you’ll find in Miami, a city rapidly becoming known for its emerging tech development and investment in the hot crypto sector. It’s why we chose it as the destination for our first TC Sessions: Crypto on November 17. We have an outstanding agenda lined up with leading movers and shakers […]

Meet the young turks of blockchain, DeFi and web3 exhibiting at TC Sessions: Crypto by Lauren Simonds originally published on TechCrunch

Nintendo shared the first trailer for the anticipated “The Super Mario Bros. Movie,” an animated adventure featuring some deeply meme-worthy casting. With Chris Pratt as Mario and Jack Black as Bowser, fans were excited to see just how unhinged this film would be. More than 600,000 viewers tuned into the premiere on Nintendo of America’s […]

The Mario movie trailer is as cursed as we hoped by Amanda Silberling originally published on TechCrunch

Spotify is pulling 11 original podcasts from the platform, which will impact studios Parcast and Gimlet and involve less than 5% layoffs, a source familiar with the matter confirmed to TechCrunch. Spotify will also reassign some staff to other podcasts, we understand. Reached for comment, Spotify said it does not comment publicly on staffing changes. […]

Spotify cancels 11 original podcasts, lays off under 5% of staff by Lauren Forristal originally published on TechCrunch

After Elon Musk agreed to buy Twitter after all, his legal team is now motioning for the court to cancel the upcoming trial with Twitter, slated to begin on October 17. But, as Judge Kathaleen McCormick pointed out yesterday, the trial cannot be called off until both parties agree. So, the trial is still technically […]

Elon Musk moves to kill the upcoming Twitter trial by Amanda Silberling originally published on TechCrunch

Healthcare unicorn Ro is notifying employees of a data exposure involving their personal information after a security contractor “inadvertently” uploaded a spreadsheet of employee data to the internet. In a data breach notice obtained by TechCrunch from an affected employee who received the notice this week, Ro said it discovered that the contractor uploaded the […]

Ro says it ‘inadvertently’ exposed employees’ personal information by Zack Whittaker originally published on TechCrunch

Barring investment in ESG initiatives is not just counterproductive and dangerous — it’s fiscally foolish.

GOP’s war on ESG could come back to bite it by Dominic-Madori Davis originally published on TechCrunch

Atman Capital, a year-old early-stage venture firm partially backed by about 20 founders, is sweetening the deal for these individual limited partners. It promises to give credit to any one of them who refers a successful deal to the venture firm in the form of some carried interest in the firm’s own profits. It’s an […]

A new cross-border VC firm is offering a sweetener to its founder LPs: part of its own profits by Mary Ann Azevedo originally published on TechCrunch