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Facebook now allows users in the US & Canada to export photos and videos to Google Photos

Facebook is today rolling out a tool that will allow users in the U.S. and Canada to export their Facebook photos and videos to Google Photos. This data portability tool was first introduced in Ireland in December, and has since been made available to other international markets. To use the feature, Facebook users will need […]




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Germany’s testing success looks real — for now

But statistics that show how many days one country is behind another are humbug




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Italy is in more danger than the eurozone knows

It is hard to overstate the turn to Euroscepticism. It will not go away when lockdown ends




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Knowde could make billions building the digital marketplace for the $5 trillion chemicals industry

Ali Amin-Javaheri grew up in the chemicals business. His father had worked for Iran’s state-owned chemical company and when the family fled the country in the nineteen eighties during the Iran-Iraq war, they first settled in Houston where employers welcomed the senior Amin-Jahaveri’s experience. Houston in the 80s was dominated by the petrochemicals industry and […]




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Markets Now - Tuesday 5th May 2020

Last updated 3:00pm BST. Featuring Royal Mail, Flutter, Stagecoach, Hiscox, Capital & Counties, Hammerson, Aston Martin, deep thoughts, kraftliner and Samhällsbyggnadsbolaget.




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Markets Now - Wednesday 6th May 2020

Last updated 2:00pm BST. Featuring ITV, National Express, Hiscox, Hammerson, LondonMetric, Metro Bank and OneSavings.




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Markets Now - Thursday 7th May 2020

Last updated 1:00pm BST. Featuring BT, Vodafone, IAG, Hyve, Tui, Aston Martin and Burberry.




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BT Group: road to nowhere

After suspending dividend, investors will rightly wonder what is the point of owning the telecoms group




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Facebook now allows users in the US & Canada to export photos and videos to Google Photos

Facebook is today rolling out a tool that will allow users in the U.S. and Canada to export their Facebook photos and videos to Google Photos. This data portability tool was first introduced in Ireland in December, and has since been made available to other international markets. To use the feature, Facebook users will need […]




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Tumblr now removes reblogs in violation of its hate-speech policy, not just the original posts

Tumblr is making a change to how it deals with hate speech on its blogging platform. The company announced today it will also remove the reblogs (repostings) from any blogs that were suspended for violating its policies around hate speech. Already, the company says it’s identified nearly 1,000 blogs that were banned for blatant violations […]




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44 million US adults now use ‘borrowed’ accounts to access streaming services

Cutting the cord with cable or satellite TV used to mean a cost savings. But with the growing number of streaming services on the market, many consumers are finding that becoming a cord cutter is just as expensive, if not more so, as being a pay TV customer. As a result, many consumers continue to […]




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Honestly, who’d be a burglar now?

Our streets are almost empty, our houses full of people — and self-employed operators still aren’t covered 




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Longtime VC Todd Chaffee of IVP says late-stage scene is now ‘M&A world’

Todd Chaffee has long been one of the most senior members of the late-stage venture firm Institutional Venture Partners. Chaffee joined IVP in 2000 after logging six years at Visa, and went on to lead rounds in numerous prominent later-stage companies, many (but not all) of which have gone public, including Coinbase, Compass, Klarna, Kayak, […]




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The UK voted for capitalism — now go out and buy it

It’s time for unloved UK equities to take their place in investors’ portfolios




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The world economy is now collapsing

A microbe has overthrown our arrogance and sent global output into a tailspin




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Box is now letting all staff work from home to reduce coronavirus risk

Box has joined a number of tech companies supporting employees to work remotely from home in response  the outbreak of the novel coronavirus. It’s applying the policy to all staff, regardless of location. Late yesterday Box co-founder Aaron Levie tweeted a statement detailing the cloud computing company’s response to COVID-19, the name of the disease caused […]




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LinkedIn has no plans to make COVID-19 related layoffs from now until end of fiscal year

LinkedIn has no plans to make COVID-related layoffs until at least the end of June 2020, the professional network has confirmed to TechCrunch. This announcements comes after Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff’s pledge last month to have no significant layoffs for the next 90 days. Other business leaders such as Bank of America’s CEO Brian Moynihan […]




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Knowde could make billions building the digital marketplace for the $5 trillion chemicals industry

Ali Amin-Javaheri grew up in the chemicals business. His father had worked for Iran’s state-owned chemical company and when the family fled the country in the nineteen eighties during the Iran-Iraq war, they first settled in Houston where employers welcomed the senior Amin-Jahaveri’s experience. Houston in the 80s was dominated by the petrochemicals industry and […]




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It’s the end of globalism as we know it (and I feel fine)

For the most part, its unravelling ought to be of deep concern. But we need a new social compact




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Always detached, UK has now forced a complete break from Brussels

Past prime ministers put head before heart on Europe. Not any more




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Johnson can now redeem his debt to the NHS

Covid-19 and his brush with mortality present the UK prime minister with a unique chance




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Longtime VC Todd Chaffee of IVP says late-stage scene is now ‘M&A world’

Todd Chaffee has long been one of the most senior members of the late-stage venture firm Institutional Venture Partners. Chaffee joined IVP in 2000 after logging six years at Visa, and went on to lead rounds in numerous prominent later-stage companies, many (but not all) of which have gone public, including Coinbase, Compass, Klarna, Kayak, […]




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Is it better to be a private or public company right now?

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. Every week we write this post with some opening line akin to wow, what a week, huh? This is yet another one of those weeks. Perhaps this is just life now, and every week will stretch before us, similar to […]




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What recruiters are saying about the tech job market right now

Given the endless drumbeat of layoff announcements — with deep cuts by Airbnb and Uber garnering much of the industry’s attention this week — it’s reasonable to wonder: what happens to all of the talent that’s being laid off? How does the changing supply and demand balance impact pay? Is anyone safe in this market? […]




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Extra Crunch Live: Join Roelof Botha for a Q&A right now

Sequoia’s Roelof Botha, who runs the firm’s US business, has a portfolio that’s rather impressive. It includes 23andMe, MongoDB, Eventbrite, Evernote, Bird, Square, Tumblr, Unity, YouTube, and Xoom to name just a few. And his perspective on the startup ecosystem as a whole is unique in that Sequoia invests in companies at the very early […]




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DDG Wolff: “The time now is for action rather than reflection”

In remarks delivered to a virtual meeting on 7 May hosted by the Foreign Trade Authority of Saudi Arabia, Deputy Director-General Alan Wolff said governments must step up international cooperation to respond to the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. For the multilateral trading system, this includes addressing measures to deal with the global health emergency, cooperation to support the needed economic recovery, and assuring the system is more resilient and effective in underwriting future global economic growth. DDG Wolff’s remarks are below




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Microsoft’s Visual Studio Online code editor is now Visual Studio Codespaces and gets a price drop

About a year ago, Microsoft launched Visual Studio Online, its online code editor based on the popular Visual Studio Code project. It’s basically a full code editor and hosted environment that lives in your browser. Today, the company announced that it is changing the name of this service to Visual Studio Codespaces. It’s also dropping […]




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Facebook now allows users in the US & Canada to export photos and videos to Google Photos

Facebook is today rolling out a tool that will allow users in the U.S. and Canada to export their Facebook photos and videos to Google Photos. This data portability tool was first introduced in Ireland in December, and has since been made available to other international markets. To use the feature, Facebook users will need […]




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Tumblr now removes reblogs in violation of its hate-speech policy, not just the original posts

Tumblr is making a change to how it deals with hate speech on its blogging platform. The company announced today it will also remove the reblogs (repostings) from any blogs that were suspended for violating its policies around hate speech. Already, the company says it’s identified nearly 1,000 blogs that were banned for blatant violations […]




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Snow’s avatar app Zepeto registers 150M users, eyes China market

Some of you may recall the South Korean app Zepeto that went viral among Gen Z users a year and a half ago. The app, which renders selfies into animated avatars and lets people adorn their computer-generated manifestations with virtual items, appears to have sustained its relevance. It has amassed 150 million registered users, the […]






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Extra Crunch Live: Join Hunter Walk for our live chat right now

Today at 10am PDT, two-thirds of the Equity crew are sitting down with Hunter Walk, a venture capitalist with Homebrew and well-known seed-stage investor. Continuing TechCrunch’s running series of Extra Crunch Live discussions with prominent people in the tech industry, bringing Walk in for a discussion is fitting. Our recent chat with Sequoia Roelof Botha’s […]




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Laid Off? Here Are 8 of the Best Cleaning and House-Maintenance Franchises You Can Buy Now.

The time to start a cleaning company is now.




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The First Question to Ask Yourself If You Want to Be an Entrepreneur but Don't Know Where to Start

And how the answer will help you determine the idea for your new business.



  • Starting a Business

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4 Things You Can Do Right Now to Generate Leads and Sales Online

Some timely advice for restaurants and retailers struggling to stay open during the pandemic.




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3 Ways to Sell Your Services Virtually Right Now With No Upfront Costs

Pivot your offerings and add value now to drum up cash.




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Free Webinar | May 21: Get Your Business Into Recovery Mode Now

Join author Mark W. Johnson as he explores adjacent businesses and capabilities needed to meet the new normal of your business when we get to the other side.



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What I know about women: Actor Tom Cullen, 34, says that men need to stop and listen to them more

Tom Cullen, 34, is a Welsh writer, actor and director who played Viscount Gillingham in Downton Abbey. His directorial debut, the film Pink Wall, is out now.




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How do PSG lineup for Real Madrid now Neymar, Mbappe and Cavani have returned?

When Real Madrid visited PSG in the first game of the Champions League group stage, the French side were supposed to be short in attack but Angel di Maria and Mauro Icardi filled the void superbly.




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Coronavirus: The big money transfers this summer that could now be scuppered

It had promised to be one of the most feverish summer transfer markets in several years, with blockbuster names moving all over the place and sagas galore. But coronavirus changed that.




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Kylie Jenner takes daughter Stormi on first snowboarding trip

It was a big milestone for the mother-daughter duo, as Kylie revealed it was 'Storm's first trip to the snow' in a sweet Instagram set that they took before hitting the slopes to snowboard.




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Kylie Jenner flaunts snow bunny status in a luxe Chanel suit after Stormi's first time snowboarding

The 22-year-old makeup mogul sported a chic Chanel suit with matching gloves after watching her daughter Stormi snowboard with ease for the very first time.




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Sussex Royal hit 11m followers - and are now head to head with Kensington Royal 

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have hit 11 million followers on Instagram, catching up with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge just two days after they were still 100,000 fans behind them.




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Ashley Graham says the 'silver lining' to coronavirus is she now has time to spend with son

The 32-year-old model told Miley Cyrus on her Bright Minded Instagram Live talk show that she feels 'blessed' to be able to spend more time with her two-month-old son Isaac.




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Pitch Perfect co-stars Anna Kendrick and Brittany Snow cheer on Serena Williams at US Open

Kendrick and Snow starred together in the 2012 film Pitch Perfect, which followed a disgraced all-women's collegiate a cappella group as they fought to win nationals and fix their reputations.




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Serena Williams admits she doesn't know how Meghan Markle left Archie at home for trip to New York

Serena Williams, 37, called Meghan Markle, 38, 'amazing' for travelling to New York to support her but admitted she didn't know if she could have left her daughter at Archie's young age.




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Serena Williams cooks in Snow White costume as she cheekily reveals it doesn't fit in TikTok video

Serena Williams returned to TikTok with another video in a Snow White costume, after making her debut on the app talking about her anxiety in a tutu last month.




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HENRY DEEDES: Dominic Raab the grouch is gone... now he's a far springier stand-in

HENRY DEEDES: Dominic Raab's mood, to use a phrase we hear rather a lot from scientists these days, has upticked significantly since we last heard from him.




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Peter Wright was unemployed, living on £14 per week and even quit darts... now he's world champion

JORDAN SEWARD: Peter Wright has been a long, hard road to the top. He finally accomplished his dream by beating van Gerwen 7-3 to win the World Darts Championship