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InsightFinder get $2M seed to automate outage prevention

Daily Crunch: VMware completes Pivotal acquisition

Seed investors favor enterprise over consumer for first time this decade

VMware completes $2.7 billion Pivotal acquisition

Year in review: 2019

Snapchat will launch Bitmoji TV, a personalized cartoon show

Revenue train kept rolling all year long for Salesforce

Public investors loved SaaS stocks in 2019, and startups should be thankful

Fyre Festival meets Mr. Bone Saw

TikTok’s national security scrutiny tightens as U.S. Navy reportedly bans popular social app

F5 acquires Shape Security for $1B

Centaurs, centurions, centipedes: the $100M ARR CLUB

Daily Crunch: Facebook acquires a cloud gaming startup

Subscription-based social network MeWe launches premium features and a business product

Facebook is building an operating system so it can ditch Android

Extra Crunch members get 25% off Otter.ai voice meeting notes

Snackpass snags $21M to let you earn friends free takeout

Three SaaS companies we think will make it to $1B in revenue

Spotify prototypes Tastebuds to revive social music discovery

Tech startups going public raise 3x more today than in 2015

UK’s competition regulator asks for views on breaking up Google

Huckleberry raises $18M to put small business insurance online

SAP spinout Sapphire Ventures raises $1.4B for new investments

Google details its approach to cloud-native security

Odoo grabs $90M to sell more SMEs on its business app suite

Satori Cyber raises $5.25M to help businesses protect their data flows

Instagram hides false content behind warnings, except for politicians

Instagram to now flag potentially offensive captions, in addition to comments

Solve, the startup creating an interactive ‘Law & Order’ for social media, raises $20 million

Cisco acquires ultra-low latency networking specialist Exablaze

OneConnect’s drastic IPO value cut underscores the risk of high-growth, high-burn companies

Grading the final tech IPOs of 2019

Adobe turns it up to 11, surpassing $11B in revenue

Chicago’s Sprout Social prices IPO mid-range at $17 per share, raising $150M

Salesforce promotes Bret Taylor to president and COO

Why Bill.com didn’t pursue a direct listing

DataRobot is acquiring Paxata to add data prep to machine learning platform

Twitter is bringing back Election Labels to identify 2020 U.S. election candidates

Yubo raises $12.3 million for its social app for teens

Facebook Messenger adds Star Wars-themed features and AR effects

Twitter will now preserve JPEG quality for photo uploads on the web

Wotch is building a creator-friendly video platform

Acquia nabs CDP startup AgilOne, which raised $41M

Hyperproof wants to make it easier to comply with GDPR and other regulations

Refocusing on relocation, Jobbatical launches new offices in Spain and Germany

Accel and Index back Tines, as the cybersecurity startup adds another $11M to its Series A

D-Wave partners with NEC to build hybrid HPC and quantum apps

The iPhone’s new parental controls can limit who kids can call, text and FaceTime and when

Microsoft announces public preview of Microsoft Teams for Linux

Facebook’s video calling Portal devices add WhatsApp login, new features and content

Soci raises $12M to help big brands manage local marketing

Soci raises $12M to help big brands manage local marketing

How the founder of Pocketwatch sees the future of children’s entertainment

AWS is sick of waiting for your company to move to the cloud

Snapchat Cameo edits your face into videos

Reddit links UK-US trade talk leak to Russian influence campaign

Canva introduces video editing, has big plans for 2020

Scammers peddling Islamophobic clickbait is business as usual at Facebook

New tweet generator mocks venture capitalists

Daily Crunch: Imgur launches an app for gaming memes

Chirp debuts a faster, feature-filled Twitter app for Apple Watch

Figma launches Auto Layout

Design may be the next entrepreneurial gold rush

300M-user Imgur launches Melee, a gaming meme app

Instagram finally launches 13+ age checkups

Reddit’s monthly active user base grew 30% to reach 430M in 2019

GitGuardian raises $12M to help developers write more secure code and ‘fix’GitHub leaks

AWS launches discounted spot capacity for its Fargate container platform

Instagram still doesn’t age-check kids. That must change.

OrbitsEdge partners with HPE on orbital datacenter computing and analytics

This browser extension unhides Instagram Likes

Verizon and AWS announce 5G Edge computing partnership

AWS announces new enterprise search tool powered by machine learning

AWS’ CodeGuru uses machine learning to automate code reviews

AWS AutoPilot gives you more visible AutoML in SageMaker Studio

AWS speeds up Redshift queries 10x with AQUA

Facebook expands its efforts against ad discrimination

Facebook updates crisis response tools, adds WhatsApp integration

Daily Crunch: Facebook announces photo transfer tool

CircleCI launches improved AWS support

Twitter launches a Privacy Center to centralize its data protection efforts

New Amazon tool simplifies delivery of containerized machine learning models

Facebook launches a photo portability tool, starting in Ireland

European parliament’s NationBuilder contract under investigation by data regulator

Twitter tests new conversation features from twttr prototype, rollout planned for 2020

Twitter to add a way to ‘memorialize’ accounts for deceased users before removing inactive ones

Box looks to balance growth and profitability as it matures

Brexit ad blitz data firm paid by Vote Leave broke privacy laws, watchdogs find

Xerox tells HP it will bring takeover bid directly to shareholders

New Amazon capabilities put machine learning in reach of more developers

Instagram founders join $30M raise for Loom work video messenger

Instagram founders join $30M raise for Loom work video messenger

Coralogix announces $10M Series A to bring more intelligence to logging

Vivun snags $3M seed round to bring order to pre-sales

Inside the Instagram AI that fills Explore with fresh, juicy content

AWS expands its IoT services, brings Alexa to devices with only 1MB of RAM

Save 50% in the Hacking with Swift Black Friday sale

Hulu is down, and nobody’s sure why

Facebook prototypes Favorites for close friends microsharing

Making sense of a multi-cloud, hybrid world at KubeCon

Cloud Foundry’s Kubernetes bet with Project Eirini hits 1.0

Watch Sacha Baron Cohen skewer Zuckerberg’s “twisted logic” on hate speech and fakes

Twitter will finally let you turn on two-factor authentication without giving it a phone number

Linear takes $4.2M led by Sequoia to build a better bug tracker and more

Facebook Dating now integrates with Instagram and Facebook Stories