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Gretel announces $12M Series A to make it easier to anonymize data

Computer vision startup Chooch.ai scores $20M Series A

Undock raises $1.6M to help solve your group scheduling nightmares

Harbr raises $38.5M to help enterprises exchange and share big data troves securely

Which emerging technologies are enterprise companies getting serious about in 2020?

Kyklo raises $8.5M to bring electrical distributors online

Twitter labeled 300,000 US election tweets — around 0.2%

Facebook’s Snapchat-like ‘Vanish Mode’ feature arrives on Messenger and Instagram

Mirantis brings extensions to its Lens Kubernetes IDE, launches a new Kubernetes distro

Livestorm raises $30M for its browser-based meeting and webinar platform

Menlo Security announces $100M Series E on $800M valuation

Facebook loses final appeal in defamation takedown case, must remove same and similar hate posts globally

Databricks launches SQL Analytics

Solo.io announces service mesh platform aimed at enterprise customers

mmhmm videochat software is now available to all for Mac

Instagram redesign puts Reels and Shop tabs on the home screen

Twitter brings its Stories feature, Fleets, to Japan

Facebook extends its temporary ban on political ads for another month

Greylock’s Asheem Chandna on ‘shifting left’ in cybersecurity and the future of enterprise startups

Fishtown Analytics raises $29.5M Series B for its data engineering platform

Boostrapped Clearfind wants to cut your software spend, for a small fee

Palo Alto Networks to acquire Expanse in deal worth $800M

Mozart Data lands $4M seed to provide out-of-the-box data stack

SentinelOne, an AI-based endpoint security firm, confirms $267M raise on a $3.1B valuation

IBM CEO Arvind Krishna wants to completely transform his organization

With $29M in funding, Isovalent launches its cloud-native networking and security platform

Explo snags $2.3M seed to help build customer-facing BI dashboards

JumpCloud raises $75M Series E as cloud directory service thrives during pandemic

Qualcomm Ventures invests in four 5G startups

Mirror founder Brynn Putnam on life with Lululemon — and whether or not she sold too soon

Twitter may slow down users’ ability to ‘like’ tweets containing misinformation

Adobe acquires marketing workflow startup Workfront for $1.5B

‘Free speech’ social network Parler tops app store rankings following Biden’s election win

Qumulo update adds NvME caching for more efficient use of flash storage

Cellwize raises $32M to help carriers and their partners adopt and run 5G services

Tim Berners Lee’s startup Inrupt releases Solid privacy platform for enterprises

What we’ve learned about working from home 7 months into the pandemic

Slintel grabs $4.2M seed to grow sales intelligence platform

Steve Bannon’s show pulled off Twitter and YouTube over calls for violence

Facebook takes down ‘Stop the Steal 2020’ group organizing around false claims of election chicanery

TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, is reportedly looking for $2B before its Hong Kong public offering

Vimeo raises $150M, while IAC is ‘contemplating’ a spin-off

TikTok takes down some hashtags related to election misinformation, leaves others

Facebook blocks hashtags for #sharpiegate, #stopthesteal election conspiracies

Ushur raises $25M for its no-code platform to build customer communication flows

Extra Crunch Live: Join Greylock’s Asheem Chandna today at 3pm EST/12pm PST on the future of enterprise and cybersecurity investing

Alibaba passes IBM in cloud infrastructure market with over $2B in revenue

Ayar raises $35M for optical interconnect tech to overcome computing bottlenecks in the CPU

TikTok tests a Learn tab to showcase education and how-to videos

WhatsApp now lets you post ephemeral messages, which disappear after 7 days

Twitter restricts Trump’s tweet claiming that foes would ‘steal’ the election

Facebook and Instagram notifications warn U.S. users there’s no winner yet in Presidential Election

Intel has acquired Cnvrg.io, a platform to manage, build and automate machine learning

How startups can shake up their first idea and still crush the market

Twitter hides Trump tweet attacking Supreme Court’s decision on Pennsylvania ballots

Udacity raises $75M in debt, says its tech education business is profitable after enterprise pivot

What social networks have learned since the 2016 election

AWS launches its next-gen GPU instances

Coupa Software snags Llamasoft for $1.5B to bring together spending and supply chain data

Twilio wraps $3.2B purchase of Segment after warp speed courtship

Email creation startup Stensul raises $16M

Leena AI nabs $8M Series as it expands from chatbots to HR service platform

Twitter explains how it will handle misleading tweets about the US election results

Warren gets $1.4 million to help local cloud infrastructure providers compete against Amazon and other giants

TikTok stars got a judge to block Trump’s TikTok ban

Facebook hits pause on algorithmic recommendations for political and social issue groups

Facebook is limiting distribution of ‘save our children’ hashtag over QAnon ties

Cloud infrastructure revenue grows 33% this quarter to almost $33B

Twitter revenue rises 14%, but user growth fails to impress

Donut launches Watercooler, an easy way to socialize online with coworkers

Intel acquires SigOpt, a specialist in modeling optimization, to boost its AI business

More chip industry action as Marvell is acquiring Inphi for $10B

Twitter’s API access changes are chasing away third-party developers

Redpoint and Sequoia are backing a startup to copy edit your shit code

Sinch announces Conversation API to bring together multiple messaging tools

Microsoft now lets you bring your own data types to Excel

Trump hints at stopping “powerful” big tech in latest ‘get out the vote’ tweet

LinkedIn’s Career Explorer helps you identify new kinds of jobs based on the skills you have

We need new business models to burst old media filter bubbles

True, the social networking app that promises to ‘protect your privacy,’ exposed private messages and user locations

Qualtrics CEO Ryan Smith is buying majority stake in the Utah Jazz for $1.6B

Kandji hauls in $21M Series A as Apple device management flourishes during pandemic

That dreadful VPN might finally be dead thanks to Twingate, a new startup built by Dropbox alums

Enso Security raises $6M for its application security management platform

MachEye raises $4.6M for its business intelligence platform

Daily Crunch: Zoom adds end-to-end encryption to free calls

Instagram extends time limits on live streams to 4 hours, will soon support archiving

Upstream aims to be the new home for your professional social life

Rockset announces $40M Series B as data analytics solution gains momentum

Lightyear scores $3.7M seed to digitize networking infrastructure procurement

Vimeo introduces free video messaging with Vimeo Record

Top Facebook India executive Ankhi Das leaves the company

TikTok partners with Shopify on social commerce

SimilarWeb raises $120M for its AI-based market intelligence platform for sites and apps

AMD grabs Xilinx for $35 billion as chip industry consolidation continues

Face to Face, Tinder’s opt-in video chat feature, is now rolling out globally

Video creation and editing platform InVideo raises $15 million

Former Facebook and Pinterest exec Tim Kendall traces “extractive business models” to VCs

Daily Crunch: Facebook launches cloud gaming service

Decrypted: How Twitter was hacked, GitHub DMCA backfires