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Multiverse virtual worlds will be healthier for society than our current social networks

Notivize makes it easier for non-technical teams to optimize app notifications

Superhuman CEO Rahul Vohra on waitlists, freemium pricing and future products

Facebook Messenger ditches Discover, demotes chat bots

Facebook brings its 3D photos feature to users with single-camera phones

Microsoft’s Cortana drops consumer skills as it refocuses on business users

Teen hit Yolo raises $8M to let you Snapchat anonymously

If virtual worlds are so popular, why don’t we have them yet?

DocuSign acquires Seal Software for $188M to enhance its AI chops

Tinder’s video series ‘Swipe Night’ gets a second season

Google Cloud’s newest data center opens in Salt Lake City

Facebook has paused election reminders in Europe after data watchdog raises transparency concerns

London-based Gyana raises $3.9M for a no-code approach to data science

As Block exits, Salesforce forecasts it will surpass $20B in revenue in FY2021

Twitter opens its ‘Hide Replies’ feature to developers

Storytelling community Wattpad embraces adult content with new personalization tools

Tempo reveals $17M-funded $2000 weight lift training screen

Freshworks acquires AnsweriQ

Twilio 2010 board deck gives peek at now-public company’s early days

How to build neumorphic designs with SwiftUI

Stonly grabs $3.5 million to make customer support more interactive

Salesforce grabs Vlocity for $1.33B, a startup with $1B valuation

Salesforce co-CEO Keith Block steps down

Three-quarters of Americans lack confidence in tech companies’ ability to fight election interference

Facebook’s latest ‘transparency’ tool doesn’t offer much — so we went digging

HP offers its investors billions in shareholder returns to avoid a Xerox tie-up

Games already are social networks

A multiverse, not the metaverse

CircleCI-AWS GovCloud partnership aims to bring modern development to U.S. government

Forensic Architecture redeploys surveillance-state tech to combat state-sponsored violence

Venmo prototypes a debit card for teenagers

Facebook’s Creator Studio gains a mobile companion

Databricks makes bringing data into its ‘lakehouse’ easier

Lightspeed leads Laiye’s $42M round to bet on Chinese enterprise IT

Rallyhood exposed a decade of users’ private data

DSP Concepts raises $14.5M for its Audio Weaver platform

Shopify joins Facebook’s cryptocurrency Libra Association

Daily Crunch: Twitter threads are getting easier

As Morgan Stanley buys ETrade, Robinhood preps social trading

ChartHop grabs $5M seed led by a16z to automate the org chart

Twitter adds a button so you can thread your shower thoughts

Thomas Kurian on his first year as Google Cloud CEO

Google Cloud opens its Seoul region

TikTok introduces parental controls with new ‘Family Safety Mode’ feature, launching first in U.K.

SentinelOne raises $200M at a $1.1B valuation to expand its AI-based endpoint security platform

Google Cloud acquires mainframe migration service Cornerstone

Microsoft Dynamics 365 update is focused on harnessing data

BluBracket scores $6.5M seed to help secure code in distributed environments

Ordway lands $10M Series A to bridge gap between sales and finance

Twitter acquires Stories template maker Chroma Labs

Cloud spending said to top $30B in Q4 as Amazon, Microsoft battle for market share

Secret’s founder returns with anti-loneliness app Ikaria

Dell sells RSA to consortium led by Symphony Technology Group for over $2B

Facebook prototypes tabbed News Feed with Most Recent & Seen

Egnyte unifies its security and productivity tooling into single platform

Facebook asks for a moat of regulations it already meets

Rippling starts billboard battle with Gusto

Facebook pushes EU for dilute and fuzzy Internet content rules

The drunken HQ Trivia finale before it shut down was insane

HQ Trivia shuts down after acquisition falls through

Bloomberg memes push Instagram to require sponsorship disclosure

Alibaba Cloud revenue reaches $1.5B for the quarter on 62% growth rate

Instagram prototypes “Latest Posts” feature

Facebook’s latest experiment is Hobbi, an app to document your personal projects

Tinder tests new social features, including prompts and a ‘Share to Matches’ option

Judge halts Microsoft work on JEDI contract after AWS request

Google closes $2.6B Looker acquisition

Datometry snares $17M Series B to help move data and applications to the cloud

Tozny introduces encrypted identity tool as part of security service platform

Facebook Dating launch blocked in Europe after it fails to show privacy workings

FTC votes to review influencer marketing rules & penalties

Ever Loved’s funeral marketplace undercuts undertakers

Model9 gets $9M Series A to move data between mainframes and cloud

UK names its pick for social media ‘harms’ watchdog

Facebook will pay Reuters to fact-check Deepfakes and more

Good news for enterprise startups: SaaS helped kill the single-vendor stack

Infosys is acquiring Simplus for $250M to grow its Salesforce consulting arm

Tangle EE project joins Eclipse Foundation to bring distributed ledger apps to enterprise

Google backs productivity startup building algorithmic inbox for Slacks, emails and texts

Negotiatus, looking to help businesses optimize purchasing, raises $10 million

Jam lets you safely share streaming app passwords

Fb Workplace co-founder launches downtime fire alarm Kintaba

Elon Musk tweets out #DeleteFacebook, saying ‘it’s lame’

Amazon wants to depose president and secretary of Defense as part of JEDI protest

Xerox sweetens HP offer to $24 per share as take-over drama continues

After $479M round on $12.4B valuation, Snowflake CEO says IPO is next step

Senators attempt to force Twitter to ban Iranian leadership

Instagram prototypes letting IGTV creators monetize with ads

Twitter-backed ShareChat eyes fantasy sports in India

Instagram gives unfollow suggestions in new ‘following categories’

Daily Crunch: LinkedIn is getting a new CEO

Daily Crunch: LinkedIn is getting a new CEO

Forescout to be acquired by a pair of private equity firms for $1.9B

Netskope hauls in another $340M investment on nearly $3B valuation

Facebook’s use of Onavo spyware faces questions in EU antitrust probe — report

Datree announces $8M Series A as it joins Y Combinator

What’s new in Swift 5.2

Google Cloud makes strides but still has a long way to go

Where top VCs are investing in open source and dev tools (Part 2 of 2)

Where top VCs are investing in open source and dev tools (Part 1 of 2)

How Hoop hit #2 with its Tinder for Snapchat

Jeff Weiner will step down as CEO of LinkedIn June 1, product head Ryan Roslansky steps up

Calling all cosmic startups – pitch at TechCrunch’s space event in LA

Aiven raises $40M to democratize access to open source projects through managed cloud services