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Skype upgrades its messaging feature with drafts, bookmarks and more

You can now share music from Spotify to Facebook Stories

Marc Benioff will discuss building a socially responsible and successful startup at TechCrunch Disrupt

Instagram may allow creators to syndicate IGTV videos to Facebook

Facebook rolls out new business tools for Messenger, kills the ‘Discover’ tab

Mews grabs $33M Series B to modernize hotel administration

‘Behind the Screen’ illuminates the invisible, indispensable content moderation industry

ReadMe scores $9M Series A to help firms customize API docs

Facebook will require political advertisers provide further credentials, or have their ads paused

YouTube to reduce conspiracy theory recommendations in the UK

ThoughtSpot hauls in $248M Series E on $1.95B valuation

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How to move from VP of Sales to CRO with leading exec recruiter David Ives

SAP covers hot topics at TechCrunch’s Sept. 5 Enterprise show in SF

Kadena brings free private blockchain service to Azure Marketplace

Axonius, a cybersecurity asset management startup, raises $20M in Series B

Sweden’s Hedvig raises $10.4M led by Obvious Ventures to build “nice insurance”

Oracle files new appeal over Pentagon’s $10B JEDI cloud contract RFP process

How to use Amazon and advertising to build a D2C startup

IBM’s quantum-resistant magnetic tape storage is not actually snake oil

Why now is the time to get ready for quantum computing

Facebook succeeds in blocking German FCO’s privacy-minded order against combining user data

VMware is bringing VMs and containers together, taking advantage of Heptio acquisition

Nvidia and VMware team up to make GPU virtualization easier

Google Colab Free GPU Tutorial

How Pivotal got bailed out by fellow Dell family member, VMware

Facebook really doesn’t want you to read these emails

Ping Identity files for $100M IPO on Nasdaq under the ticker ‘Ping’

A simple deep learning model for stock price prediction using TensorFlow

Oracle directors give blessing to shareholder lawsuit against Larry Ellison and Safra Catz

Pew: mobile and social media users in emerging markets have more diverse social networks

Tumblr’s next step forward with Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg

Enterprise software is hot — who would have thought?

Remediant lands $15M Series A to disrupt privileged access security

NASA’s new HPE-built supercomputer will prepare for landing Artemis astronauts on the Moon

Twitter picks up team from narrative app Lightwell in its latest effort to improve conversations

Splunk acquires cloud monitoring service SignalFx for $1.05B

YouTube is closing its private messages feature…and many kids are outraged

Box introduces Box Shield with increased security controls and threat protection

IBM is moving OpenPower Foundation to The Linux Foundation

‘This is Your Life in Silicon Valley’: The League founder and CEO Amanda Bradford on modern dating, and whether Bumble is a ‘real’ startup

H2O.ai announces $72.5M Series D led by Goldman Sachs

Facebook unveils new tools to control how websites share your data for ad-targeting

Reputation.com nabs $30M more to help enterprises manage their profiles online

The five technical challenges Cerebras overcame in building the first trillion transistor chip

Join The New Stack for Pancake & Podcast with Q&A at TC Sessions: Enterprise

Twitter blocks state-controlled media outlets from advertising on its social network

Ally raises $8M Series A for its OKR solution

The five great reasons to attend TechCrunch’s Enterprise show Sept. 5 in SF

Microsoft acquires jClarity, an open source Java performance tuning tool

Simon Data hauls in $30M Series C to continue building customer data platform

Twitter to test a new filter for spam and abuse in the Direct Message inbox

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Twitter leads $100M round in top Indian regional social media platform ShareChat

Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich will join us for TC Sessions: Enterprise on September 5

How Facebook does IT

Alibaba cloud biz is on a run rate over $4B

US legislator, David Cicilline, joins international push to interrogate platform power

What will Tumblr become under the ownership of tech’s only Goldilocks founder?

Instagram says growth hackers are behind spate of fake Stories views

Incorta raises $30M Series C for ETL-free data processing solution

VMware says it’s looking to acquire Pivotal

Every TC Sessions: Enterprise 2019 ticket includes a free pass to Disrupt SF

‘Private’ and ‘hidden’ mean different things to Facebook

Daily Crunch: Final Oculus co-founder departs Facebook

Why chipmaker Broadcom is spending big bucks for aging enterprise software companies

Slack announces new admin features for larger organizations

New Facebook ad units can remind you when a movie comes out

Procore brings 3D construction models to iOS

Facebook’s human-AI blend for audio transcription is now facing privacy scrutiny in Europe

iOS-factor: Best Practices for Building High-Quality iOS Apps

Twitter exec says edit button isn’t ‘anywhere near the top of our priorities’

Twitter tests ways for users to follow and snooze specific topics

Clumio raises $51M to bring enterprise backup into the 21st century

Rimeto lands $10M Series A to modernize the corporate directory

Facebook denies making contradictory claims on Cambridge Analytica and other ‘sketchy’ apps

Daily Crunch: Twitter tests reply subscriptions

PopBase launches its platform for social media stars to share and monetize their work

Polarity raises $8.1M for its AI software that constantly analyzes employee screens and highlights key info

Lucidworks raises $100M to expand in AI-powered search-as-a-service for organizations

Twitter’s latest test lets users subscribe to a tweet’s replies

India’s Reliance Jio inks deal with Microsoft to expand Office 365, Azure to more businesses; unveils broadband, blockchain, and IoT platforms

India’s Reliance Jio inks deal with Microsoft to expand Office 365, Azure to more businesses; unveils broadband, blockchain, and IoT platforms

India’s Meesho raises $125M to expand its social commerce business

Adobe’s Amit Ahuja will be talking customer experience at TechCrunch Sessions: Enterprise

Reports say White House has drafted an order putting the FCC in charge of monitoring social media

Why AI needs more social workers, with Columbia University’s Desmond Patton

Last chance for early-bird tickets to TC Sessions: Enterprise 2019

Preclusio uses machine learning to comply with GDPR, other privacy regulations

Facebook could face billions in potential damages as court rules facial recognition lawsuit can proceed

‘The Operators’: Experts from Airbnb and Carta on building and managing your company’s customer support

Only 24 hours left to save $100 on TC Sessions: Enterprise 2019

Opsani helps optimize cloud applications with AI

Google and Twitter are using AMD’s new EPYC Rome processors in their datacenters

Instagram ad partner secretly sucked up and tracked millions of users’ locations and stories

Learn how enterprise startups win big deals at TechCrunch’s Enterprise show on Sept. 5

Salesforce is acquiring ClickSoftware for $1.35B

With MapR fire sale, Hadoop’s promise has fallen on hard times

Only 48 hours left for early-bird tickets to TC Sessions: Enterprise 2019

In a 130-page court filing, Kik claims the SEC’s lawsuit ‘twists’ the facts about its online token

Ment.io wants to help your team make decisions

Rookout lands $8M Series A to expand debugging platform